That was you?

Well then, in answer to your last question scrawled in the Kansas City Walmart bathroom, yes, you should definitely get that checked out by a medical professional.

Regardless of her credentials, this was clearly written to cast Newsom in the worst possible light. The article is rife with hyperbole and only targets selected statements in the transcript.

And it’s absolutely misleading to say someone “completely aligns” with someone on an over-arching concept like trans rights when they agree with one subset of the argument.

It was this statement in particular that changed the tone from an opinion piece to a hit piece IMHO:

When Newsom platforms someone like Charlie Kirk, he isn’t fostering a “discussion” on transgender people in sports—he is handing a known hate monger a microphone to denigrate an already vulnerable community. That’s the real objective. Newsom isn’t engaging in open dialogue or debate; he is recalibrating his political stance to make targeting transgender people seem palatable, selling that shift to his base as a strategic necessity. And he’s doing it by giving one of the most notorious anti-LGBTQ+ extremists a seat at the table.

Emphasis mine. Here the author makes the claim that Newsom is deliberately targeting transgender people to score political points - yet he’s not. In the interview, Kirk brought those topics up, and when they came up, Newsom was describing the political landscape, not justifying it.

I mean, hell, go ahead and call Newsom out for the dumb shit he does (and this shit was not bright), but forcing a purity test on the man who made gay marriage legal is counterproductive. Claiming that he’s deliberately trying to target transgender folk is just plain false.

I didn’t say he was right on these issues, and you’re correct in taking issue with him because of it. However, it doesn’t change the fact that the article is a misleading smear piece capitalizing on Newsom’s rather foolish attempt to “cross the aisle” and have Kirk on his show.

I have a lot of problems with Newsom, as I actually alongside his campaign for mayor in the 90s through my volunteer work at Peace Action. I ended up leaving the campaign before he won due to his anti-homeless measure, which (predictably) restricted social services and made the homeless problem worse. It was clear back then he was always going to take the side of the rich in California politics, just as it was clear that he had already been effectively anointed as an upcoming governor by the Pelosi / Feinstein machine.

He’s also kind of a dumbass (this was really clear when he was younger - just look at his taste in women), but smart enough to usually listen to the more intelligent people in the room. This has redeemed him during the governorship to some extent, but he’s definitely made a rightward turn in response to recent events that’s left me less than confident in his leadership ability.

I happen to be a US citizen so I’m unlikely to be a target since the CIA is all about surveillance on outsiders (FBI is domestic)

All of that’s off the table now with Trump in power. It’s more than likely the CIA will be deployed against domestic targets.

Misleading article. The issues where Gavin pointed out alignment were regarding trans athletes in sports, in particular the competitive advantages ftm athletes possess, and whether or not the state should pay for gender reassignment for inmates. Kirk was clearly trying to bait him into an article like this

That being said, Newsom’s responses were tepid at best. However, remember that this is also the man who took the step to legalize gay marriage in California when he was mayor of San Francisco. He’s definitely not perfect, and far too centrist for my tastes, but when the chips are down he generally does the right thing.

Having Charlie Kirk on your first podcast was not one of them, however.

Here’s a link to the podcast. Transcript is available in the drop down.

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Motherfucker, that’s my girlfriend!

In my defense, your honor, I too was misled by the headline, and coupled with my own ignorance, truly thought this was shiny and new.

I throw myself upon the mercy of the court.

We are not reddit

That’s why I’m here ;)

Here’s an article on the integration that goes into decent detail. And here’s the git repo, but you should be able to see via your plugin interface. The developer is very responsive and a great guy.

What I’ve found is that it does enable crossposting, and is a good tool for publishing your content out. Comments do come in if enabled. Subscribing to offsite Mastodon users is very “interesting” however - like being able to see people’s DMs if they’re across servers. There’s also issues with using it with cheaper hosts (Bluehost, I’m looking at you), as certain security settings will disable part or all of the feed.

To me, it feels good to use if your WP has one user publishing content. If you have other users on the site, it could start getting messy on the backend. Incoming spam is also an issue - Jetpack isn’t set up to scan incoming Fediverse content.

I haven’t investigated / tested it yet, but it should be possible. The thing is that Lemmy and Mastodon use different parts of the ActivityPub protocol to publish content, which is why interaction between the two is “interesting”. My guess is that you’ll be able to post and reply to comments and DMs, but it may be difficult to create posts in communities.

Side note, Mbin combines the Mastodon/Lemmy interpretation of ActivityPub protocols pretty well, so it’s possible, but when I last used it was still pretty fragile, and had stability issues. When the project was kbin, it had a real problem during the CSAM attacks on the Fediverse about two years ago, which led to the biggest instances being defederated and the founder eventually having to abandon the project.

It was new to me, and hadn’t seen it posted here - sorry if the language in the headline is misleading. Thanks for the links! I just started researching this after working with some Wordpress -> ActivityPub plugins and was curious if the functionality could extend to BlueSky.

This is a core issue with ActivityPub, one that I noticed myself when I started working with it. Unless a server is setup to keep a user’s private marked posts completely off the ActivityPub feed, they’re accessible within it to any script that ignores the opt-out request.

My personal example was setting up wordpress to interact with a Mastodon instance, and suddenly finding private conversations published from Mastodon to my wordpress site that weren’t visible to me at all on Mastodon.

Needless to say, that gave me pause about building anything with the protocol until I really understand the access control behind publishing, because even instance owners don’t seem to fully grasp it themselves.

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