Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Congress sent $600 million to Jackson to help fix its water system. Some are warning that new legislation could funnel the money out of the city.

https://www.propublica.org/article/jackson-mississippi-water-system-state-takeover

@ProPublica @msfreepress

Without a free #Twitter API, do folks think projects will pivot to using #Selenium?

Open source software sometimes languishes, and occasionally goes into a coma, but it never dies as long as the code still exists in the open. There’s always a glimmer of hope it can wake from the coma.

Proprietary software doesn’t just die… it gets killed. It gets murdered. Typically by people who never even use it. It gets destroyed by management and “decision makers” at the top who only look at bottom lines.

#openSource #software #freeSoftware

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

Pharma buys off Congress. No action on drug prices.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

#cartoonist Clay Jones
#AfricanAmericanStudies #AAStudies #AA #history #BlackHistoryMonth #Florida #DeSantis #Floriduh #DeSatan #RevisionistHistory #GubernamentalGaslighting
#culturewars #WhiteWashing #politics #editorialcartoons #cartoon

It's depressing how much Twitter's remaining users are willing to put up with instead of just moving to an open platform not subject to the whims of a capricious autocrat. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/5/23586577/elon-musk-bots-good-content-twitters-api-free

@beckymsm @freemo you’re free to do so. Just don’t be surprised when you have trouble convincing ppl to vote Democrat. Maybe the Dems should focus less on how they can spin “business as usual” to appeal to millennials and zoomers, and focus more on actually sticking up for working people and marginalized people.

#cartoonist Joe Heller
#ChineseSpyBalloon #Chinesesurveillanceballoon #chineseweatherballoon #TikTok #spyware #politics #editorialcartoons #cartoon

Just the facts, ma`am...

#OpenAI launched a tool to ID AI-generated text. BUT it will yield a false positives and negatives. "In one example, given the first lines of the Book of Genesis, the software concluded that it was likely to be AI-generated. God, the first AI. "

A #trust tech designed to make another trust tech trustworthy turns out to be untrustworthy crating distrust in both itself & its target. but that's good. anything which make people distrust AI is fundamentally good.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/chatgpt-ai-detector-machine-learning-technology-bureaucracy/672927/

Nothing like some gud'ol disciplining of women.
AKA abuse.
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Male #Christian blogger who promotes physically 'correcting' wives shares the rights he believes women should have

#abuse #Christianity #religion #women #misogyny

When Republicans are in power, they rack up giant deficits, mainly by cutting taxes on corporations and the wealthy.

Then when Democrats take the reins, Republicans blame them for being big spenders.

It’s always the same story.

@e_urq there is a lot to say on this topic from the perspective of genovide studies, but I would suggest people start here, with this open access article by Leah Owens on using genocide studies to understand transphobic rhetoric and political movements. She identifies, in part, that these movements fit every criteria except configuring trans people as an imminent national security threat.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2129000

David Kurtz reports that the lazy, biased “Democrats in disarray” meme has now gotten so much ridicule that journalists are shifting to a new meme: “Democrats worry …”

What that vague concept really means is anyone's guess.

And anyone else notice that even when the Republicans actually ARE in disarray, there's never any sneering in the media about that. What's that about, I wonder?

#Democrats #Republicans #media #journalism

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/democrats-worry-is-the-new-democrats-in-disarray

Instead of begging a sociopath CEO to please, please, please let them keep using his increasingly terrible website for research and other activities, these orgs and people should be organizing to move what they do to the open web. https://independenttechresearch.org/letter-twitter-api-access-threatens-public-interest-research/