Mason
@mweintraub.bsky.social
Digital nonprofit person, soccer fan, book reader. they/them
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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
Totally agree
one of my deepest held beliefs is that whenever somebody says “oh that’s a great question” in response to a question it is a guarantee that the person has been asked a fairly mediocre or even bad question
March 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Totally agree
“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others.”
In which I try to put it all together.
The Hidden Motive Behind Trump’s Attack on Trans People www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
The Hidden Motive Behind Trump’s Attack on Trans People www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others.”
Deeply thoughtful piece by Caitlin Dewey (whose Links I Would Gchat You if We Were Friends is a mainstay in my own media diet)
"Seek out content with a clear beginning and end, something you can pick up and put down at will."
"Seek out content with a clear beginning and end, something you can pick up and put down at will."
How to stay sane *AND* informed
One counterintuitive trick for getting your news diet in order
open.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Deeply thoughtful piece by Caitlin Dewey (whose Links I Would Gchat You if We Were Friends is a mainstay in my own media diet)
"Seek out content with a clear beginning and end, something you can pick up and put down at will."
"Seek out content with a clear beginning and end, something you can pick up and put down at will."
The saddest.
On a disconcerting day, this is perhaps the saddest thing. I recently interviewed her about her illness and more and she was and will always be an inspiration to me and so many others: 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...
Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died
Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.
19thnews.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The saddest.
The profiles of these kids are sweeter than a Tagalong.
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The profiles of these kids are sweeter than a Tagalong.
Here for it.
The way I see it: a number of us will have to commit more firmly than ever to basic elements of humanity and collective progress.
We have fear based, authoritarian powers ascending, aided and abetted by an information system that has people siloed and disconnected from each other.
We have fear based, authoritarian powers ascending, aided and abetted by an information system that has people siloed and disconnected from each other.
January 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Here for it.
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Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!)
Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...
As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...
As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby
app.watchduty.org
January 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!)
Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...
As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...
As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
Yes, make it happen!
Bluesky has rebuilt the Twitter of 2011. Keep going. Time to rebuild Blogspot and Google Reader. Web 1.0 fundamentalists unite!
November 21, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Yes, make it happen!
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Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. glaad.org/tdor-memoriam/
November 20, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. glaad.org/tdor-memoriam/