James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@social.cleverlibre.org

Phosphates on Enceladus could mean sub-surface oceans teeming with aliens - Scientists find last missing precondition for life on Saturnian moon Scientists analyzing... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/06/14/phosphates_on_enceladus/

I wonder what percentage of kids who played football regret their decision to play football... They got permanently injured, brain damaged, hell, a couple kids every year die from playing football. In the interest of protecting kids, we should ban all football until you turn 18, get letters from 3 therapists, and have specific insurance coverage additions to cover any injuries you have. Also, your coach should be legally liable for any damages or regret you have from playing football.

(This is an analogy about trans kids btw)

Content farms have basically eaten the first two to three pages of a typical Google search.

This morning I was trying to find information about the relative safety of different space heater designs, and 95% of the results were long, rambly bullshit posts written by Jim Smith the Extremely Real Engineer Man for AllAboutSpaceHeaters.com and filled with Amazon affiliate links.

Wow, AI is going great. I can't wait to see how this amazing technology will help humanity next.

The fact DOJ prosecuted more than 1,000 MAGA terrorists for committing Trump's Jan 6 attack has apparently made them think twice about committing violence for Trump given no attacks after his arrests. Prosecution equals deterrence. This is why Trump must be charged for Jan 6.

Staying up too late drawing a hamster.

#doodlezone #illustration #mastoArt #LineaSketch

@shoq I feel like maybe 10% of my tweets were ever read by more than a handful of people (even pre-Musk).

If I ever check my Twitter feed (which is almost never nowadays) it is the same people with largish follower counts saying the same stuff... most of them only got that many followers by being in the right place at the right time, not because they say anything particularly interesting.

Mastodon is not perfect, but at least it feels like people are genuinely trying to connect here.

Cryptocurrency was literally criminals saying "You should put your money in the Criminal Bank, we pay great interest" and then coming back later and saying "Oh no, criminals have robbed the Criminal Bank, how could this have happened?"

Via Victor Shi:

Oh wow. Jake Tapper just directed CNN control room to get rid of #Trump's visit to cafe after arraignment: "I don't need to see any more of that. He's trying to turn it into a spectacle..Enough of that. We've seen it already." This is good. More plz.

AND Nicolle Wallace also did same on MSNBC. This is good & media should do this from now on. Don't give Trump attention he desperately craves & wants. There are much better things to show than Trump trying to celebrate this moment

Want to read something that is SO difficult that even high-ranking Republicans and Fox "News" pundits cannot grasp it?

It's about how the DOJ pulled its punches on Trump.

https://jabberwocking.com/the-department-of-justice-went-easy-on-trump/

#trump #trumpIndictment #GOP #willfulStupidity #actualStupidity

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@gemelliz Trying to remember what Doug's platform ever was, other than vague "efficiencies". And yet he was elected twice.

"Doug Ford has enough power right now, and electing his friends would only give him more.
Ford is intimidated by Olivia Chow. She’ll do what’s best for #Toronto and not what’s best for Premier Ford and his rich buddies."

@merry123459 #VoteTO #topoli #onpoli #dofo #developers

"Climate change? Let's cross that bridge when we've gone past it."
- every major government.

SCIENCE FACT: All the lost hours from Daylight Savings get added to Keith Richard’s lifespan. Good!

If you take a social media sabbatical, don’t announce it. Just make your last post something fun like “I wonder if there’s a bear in this cave?”

Mike Pence’s presidential announcement got 5 retweets.

Can this picture of my dog’s butt beat that?

Reminder: @elonmusk could decide that bonding with some of the worst scumbags in the world, and meddling with global affairs, just isn't worth losing more billions over. He can donate Twitter to the @Wikimedia foundation, take a big tax write-off, and go off and populate Mars.