Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

I make no comment about the journalist but...what an odd job title from the BBC: "disinformation & social media". What does it say to lump the two together? How does it devalue public discourse on social media? Is there a disinformation & Murdoch media beat? A disinformation & politicians' beat?

Do you also watch the intro for every #HBO #Succession episode all the way through or are you a monster?

Does anyone else have a problem with the banks that are “too big to fail” scooping up smaller banks which do fail, at rock-bottom bargain prices?

#Banking #FirstRepublic #JPmorganchase #FDIC

Easy to miss in Mastodon's latest update, but the most-requested features are indeed coming "soon:"

"...quote posts, improved content and profile search, and groups. We’re also continuously working on improving content and profile discovery, onboarding, and of course our extensive set of moderation tools, as well as removing friction from decentralized features. Keep a lookout for these updates soon."

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/

@spreadmastodon @fediversenews

I think if Bluesky had launched in November, I would have been curious. But I've been here for 5 months now and there's been a noticeable change in my physical well-being, including a drop in blood pressure.

The idea of a recreated twitter experience (with all the drama and mess) holds much less appeal for me now that my body's self-regulation is more stable.

May a thousand platforms bloom or whatever, I just hope there isn't a mass migration away from here. I'd be sad to lose this place.

Republicans are coming after a Nebraska state senator who stands against antri-trans legislation

The complaint against Sen. Megan Hunt states she could benefit financially from the failure of LB 574

A measure that bans gender-affirming care for those under 19

…Her child is trans. That’s the “financial benefit”

Maybe we should take a look at the stock purchases, kickbacks and rubles the republicans have?

GOP Glass houses.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=49961

when the photo caption is itself a work of art

@chrismessina isn’t this just essentially Mechanical Turk ?

This picture is going to be printed in history books as a turning-point for transgender people in the US. The open question is, which direction will the turn be in?

I don't know, and I don't have ideas for what I can do, but we are on the cusp of big, scary changes that will affect everyone, not just trans people, not just minorities.

If you were waiting for a call to action, here it is. They just banned her from the MT House using the rules of decorum. What better metaphor for where we are?

One Day Astronauts Will Be Breathing Oxygen Made from Rocks

When there's a permanent station on the Moon, astronauts will need a way to replenish their oxygen supply. Fortunately, there's an almost infinite amount of oxygen in the surrounding regolith, locked up with other elements like iron, aluminum, and silicon. NASA demonstrated that they could harvest oxygen from lunar regolith using the Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration device. Although it's relatively straightforward to do this with chemistry, the NASA instrument mimics the vacuum conditions of space, using the kind of power that would be available to future lunar explorers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/12zjj6k/nasa_successfully_extracts_oxygen_from_lunar_soil/

How the hell is he still around?
DeJoy says USPS will keep raising prices, follow abortion pill rulings https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/26/usps-dejoy-prices-abortion/

helpful future tip! you can identify actual smart people because they're usually humbled by the knowledge they've acquired and will be first in line to admit when they don't know something

there's some exceptions to this when sociopathy gets involved, but I've generally found it to be true