Can you tell me how to find a user’s wallet address to send them zaps?
Crap! How do I find your zap wallet address?
Just filled up some sats. Hope you don’t mind being my gunny pig. Here you go!⚡️
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#[0] and his followers: Matt Taibbi recently posted a job on his substack which I think is only visible to his. The truly qualified candidates are here. Hopefully he won’t mind me sharing this post given what is at stake.) Below is a direct quote from his post on feb 11th he put out to his audience. IMO, because he is of GenX age with journalistic integrity matched only by Greenwald, he probably needs more help than described.
Taibbi: “I started working on the #TwitterFiles months ago in the hope of answering a question about whether or not the government was teaming up with private platforms to censor political content. The answer quickly proved a decisive yes, but I’ve since run into a larger, more troubling problem that’s going to require many more person-hours and digging to understand.
For a one-time project we’re aiming to publish in March, Racket needs a hand. We’re looking for the following:
— a reporter or academic with experience researching government contracts, and/or the funding of NGOs or academic research institutions
— an infographics designer, preferably with experience in areas like ecosystem mapping
Though we already have an excellent FOIA writer, experience in that area could be a plus. If you have other skills in mining publicly available information, you could be a fit for the project. Applicants should write to racketnews@protonmail.com. This is not volunteer work — we pay — but it is temporary.
What’s the job? Assignments will vary, and you’d be working under an editor (not me), but roughly: we’re trying to map a new wing of the U.S. government’s propaganda apparatus that popped into view thanks to the Twitter Files. State-directed censorship is scary, but the more disturbing activity we’re seeing inside companies like Twitter involves what you might call “offensive” information operations, a type of aggressive official messaging that all governments practice but is supposed to be restricted by law in the United States.
For decades, our government at least loosely complied with legislation like the Smith-Mundt Act, which prohibits aiming at the domestic population any official propaganda “intended for foreign audiences.” However, gloves came off in recent years.
In a remarkably short time since the end of the Obama presidency, the U.S. government has funded an elaborate network of NGOs and think-tanks whose researchers call themselves independent “disinformation experts.” They describe their posture as defensive — merely “tracking” or “countering” foreign disinformation — but in truth they aggressively court both the domestic news media and platforms like Twitter, often becoming both the sources for news stories and/or the referring authorities for censorship requests.
The end result has been relentless censorship of, and mountains of (often deceptive) state-sponsored propaganda about, legitimate American political activity. In the Twitter Files we see correspondence from state agencies and state-sponsored research entities describing everything from support of the Free Palestine movement to opposition to vaccine passports as illicit foreign propaganda. Some of this messaging devolves into outright smear campaigns, with efforts to denounce the organic #WalkAway hashtag as a Russian “psychological operation” serving as a particularly lurid example. The Hamilton 68 story (about which more is coming) hints at this dynamic. ..”end quote.
Taibbi’s explanation goes on to highlight reasons why the story is important, and why it is important to get right. I can post the rest of it if anyone interested requests it.
#[3] This is my first day on this platform, and my first meaningful post in several years. I hope #[4] ‘s followers can read about the job opportunity. Please comment if I’ve reached anyone.