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@softtail65.bsky.social Thanks for adding me to your list. I broke 6k.

We're living in Potterville.

@tchambers Hey, I just heard you on Marketplace!

Yes, only ordinary people can save us, but the opportunity is not distributed evenly. A few of us can refuse to participate, to bomb boats, to kidnap and mistreat people, to destroy public property, to misdirect money. You few have to refuse.

If the Tesla coupe is a roadster, Is the cybertruck a dumpster?

I don't know why so many people have just now noticed 47's treason, but hey, welcome to the fight.

Sliding ever so smoothly into Gomorrah, where anything that opposes the instant gratification of billionaires, and their total control over our lives is defined as evil. Humanity apparently is the antichrist

We are living through what I would call the great unlearning, and therefore the death of expertise. @pluralistic summarizes this political and economic dimension in another scorcher. We are not training juniors anymore, we are substituting them with AI. Those students now in school will be […]

Legally insane means not knowing right from wrong. It doesn't mean being an epic asshole. It doesn't mean having a sadistic streak. It doesn't mean compulsive lying. 47 knows right from wrong. He just doesn't care. That makes him competent to stand trial.

American workers need to remember that we're currently around 400% as productive as our parents' generation. We're working the same or sometimes more hours and we're not making ends meet. Employers could have doubled our income or halved our hours while still making double the money. Instead […]

Some of us in San Francisco first heard of the Network State and related tech cults from Emily Mills. She documented how these ideas had infused our local politics. It sounded odd at first, but her work sparked mine. On Tuesday, we're onstage together in SF. Tix here: semaphore.thd.org/954-2/

Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”

@ai6yr.bsky.social Question: two houses are around 100 yards apart and can see each other down the street. Is there any kind of lower tech communication device that would reach that far just for inside those two houses? Would a walk talkie go that far?

If they don't spend money, it's because they don't want to. When they want to spend, they can always find the money.

The Dresser #FurnitureMovies #HashTagGames

All Quiet on the Western Breakfront #FurnitureMovies #HashTagGames

#vote

I'm not a religious person, but if there were such a thing as the Antichrist, he would do what Trump does every day. Destroying our beautiful planet and the lives of its people for the sake of A. profit and B. a vengeful urge to destroy what other people love. So yes, demonic is the right word.

When you think that there ought to be laws against things you see happening.... There probably are. The laws just are not being enforced. We expect enforcement to be discretionary in the interest of justice, but we don't have good mechanisms to challenge the decision not to enforce a law.

Not following anyone? The new :pixelfed: app will suggest followers for you to follow, with a better explanation.

Looking forward to reading The Nuance Drought by Natasha Devon, which is out on Thursday. She's a force for good. It's about how living in a world of binary choices and polarising narratives affects communities, society, our physical and mental health. Crucial stuff. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Destroying US is the point Breaking our relationships Scaring people away Running up huge debt Creating poor morale in the military Using up stored reserves Squandering our natural resources

I would love to see members of congress commit to coming after those who help 47 do illegal things. ESPECIALLY those who "buy" or damage public property. Tell them that property will be reclaimed, and they will have to pay to fix anything they changed. @elizabethwarren89.bsky.social

Anybody running for national office can make big points by promising to undo these illegal land transactions. Any buyer/lessee will not come out well. From: @cookiesinheaven https://m.ai6yr.org/@cookiesinheaven/117173490438457232

What terrible thing are they doing to us now, because today's distraction was a doozy.

Without destroying them! From: @internetarchive https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/117158143212849382

https://youtu.be/locKEKxG3os?is=BcSRQ1iCBAAoq7nG This is incredibly interesting and accessible. AI can "get creative to solve a problem" which sounds like thinking. It is taught that ends justify means. It is influenced by what it sees other AI agents doing. 😬

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a regulatory agency whose leader was chosen by Donald Trump, granted preliminary approval on Friday to World Liberty Financial’s application for a federal bank charter. World Liberty Financial is a crypto venture launched in 2024 by the president’s […]

I think we should look at Scott Bessent's FinCEN decision as akin to Todd Blanche's bid to immunize Trump and the failsons. Even just Trump Org has hundreds of beneficial orgs. Imagine how many the crypto corruption has? Now, poof! All gone. www.fincen.gov/news/news-re...

@upine.bsky.social I do research that overlaps yours, so I'm passing on these resources I discovered recently. If you give me more specifics, I may have more for you. Distractionindex.org https://substack.com/@thebirddegree?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5perfz

Companies in a variety of industries are making big plays to extricate themselves from liabilities large and small, mostly large. They want us to talk about how to do it, but we must maintain that it may not be done. Public policy prohibits laying off responsibility.

US postwar boom happened because, among other things, Europeans fled here during the war. US was physically and politically safe with opportunities abounding. There are many ways to destroy a country, and this regime seems to know all of them. From: @luckytran […]

Marijuana is legal in CA and I support that (I don't use it). However, I would like to be able to test whether someone is impaired due to marijuana. MJ can be detected in the body weeks after use, so that kind of test is useless. Is there a solution to this problem?

You can read the #column in the #NYT if you have a subscription, but I don't think you need to to get my gist. #politics #labels #DemocraticSocialists #Democrats #Republicans #Conservative #Liberal #nuance #CriticalThinking #NewsMedia

One of the most reliable indicators of whether trading in a stock will increase is if it appears in the news. It doesn't matter why. Maybe the CEO married a celebrity. But that's why 47 name dropping companies is so consequential. He has the reach to be heard, plus he has a cult following.

Does anyone know what happened to The Distraction Index aka @sgharlow ? The account stopped posting a few weeks ago, and the site distractionindex.org had its news entries deleted. The bones of the site are still there.

Somewhere, someone is working on a book on the decline and fall of the Reagan empire.

My, this is a long and accurate list of corrupt capture. It will be a great reference point when the gavels start falling. From: @ThomHartmann https://mstdn.social/@ThomHartmann/116958274685180684

If you've asked yourself, what can *I* do, here's a concrete answer. Disable the surveillance apparatus in your own community and cut off the data the regimes relies on to track not only immigrants but women crossing state lines for abortion care. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Radical thought for the day: What if our charities joined forces and worked collaboratively to tackle the real world issue; dismantling capitalism? This is the top 10 charities in the UK by revenue (note; the top charity is £1.4 billion+). Charities (by […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Publicly owned essential services. From: @MatWright https://mastodon.social/@MatWright/116882615173988184

"Six days earlier, Governor Greg Abbott appointed Don Huffines as Texas Comptroller... Huffines is the man who owns #JeffreyEpstein ’s Zorro Ranch. He’s now going to run the finances of the state of #Texas. This is what #Republican policy, masquerading as […] [Original post on newsie.social]

Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for […]

Hey my design peeps: I have two windows that face front with semi sheers bunched up on a tension rod. I used to love how much light it let in, but now my daughter is bothered by too much light. What can I put over the window under the curtains to reduce light? It faces front, so it should look […]

Even dogs are ready for the big beautiful obituary. From: @ShibaEveryHour https://mas.to/@ShibaEveryHour/116858765778479266

On Memory #ForgottenABook#HashTagGames

Masterclass. Never accept their premise, never have their argument - force your own. Give people a clear origin story for their pain and concrete reason to believe you are the one to address it.

A few years back Morgan Stanley bought out ETrade. In the process they converted my mother's trust account into a personal account with no beneficiaries. If she had died at any time in between there would have been a giant legal shitshow. Its been temporarily mitigated, and we'll get it […]