Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Kevin McCarthy just officially put COVID conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Greene was previously banned from Twitter for spreading COVID disinformation and continues to spread lies about the pandemic to this day.

The new 256GB Mac mini with M2 and 512GB 14-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro have slower SSD speeds than previous M1 models because they have fewer NAND chips (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/24/m2-mac-mini-256gb-slower-ssd/
http://www.techmeme.com/230124/p34#a230124p34

Those who follow the NY Times' relentlessly woeful political reporting are used to case studies in normalizing extremists and false balance. They are surely unsurprised to learn that the author of this "analysis" (read: opinion) is one of the orgs' most reliable normalizers and false balancers. Most of this piece does the latter, with some hedge language proving the writer knows better.

Parts of the state don't have access to clean drinking #water but of course #Mississippi has money for #surveillance in schools & colleges https://reason.com/2023/01/19/mississippi-bill-would-mandate-surveillance-cameras-in-schools-and-colleges/

BREAKING: #GeorgeSantos finally admits the 500K loan to his campaign was NOT a personal loan.

Santos has all but admitted to breaking campaign finance law. RESIGN.

Republicans want to throw women, doctors, and pharmacists in jail for the crime of letting women control their own bodies.
https://www.startribune.com/south-dakota-gov-noem-threatens-charges-for-abortion-pills/600246087/

@atomicpoet @ivory I prefer my apps #opensource..

If Republicans actually gave a crap about controlling the debt, they’d repeal the Trump tax cuts or pass taxes on the rich. But we all know this isn’t about that. This is a backdoor ploy to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare. We cannot let them get away with this.

If you'd like to learn more about the benefits of ranked choice voting, be sure to check out @fairvote@twitter.com. Their resources were incredibly helpful to our team during the production of this video. https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/ranked-choice-voting/

If you're still using the birdsite, are you comfortable that Musk and his minions can go into GodMode and impersonate you in your account? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/24/whistleblower-twtter-ftc-settlement/

New blog post on LaunchDaemons replacing loginhooks for #macOS #Ventura #macadmin #blog https://rustyisageek.blogspot.com/2023/01/good-bye-loginhooks-hello-launchdaemons.html

"If Twitter isn’t going to ban bad actors, then we want them to tweak the platform to emphasize factual accuracy, quality, and reliability. Yay Elon! Except for one small problem: It was Twitter’s Community Note which was misleading." https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/musk-twitter-garbage-in-garbage-out

The Atlanta-area district attorney investigating Donald #Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 #election indicated today that decisions on whether to seek the indictment of the former #president or his associates were “imminent.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/24/decisions-are-imminent-georgia-prosecutor-nears-charging-decisions-in-trump-probe-00079283?cid=mas

Even if Google's intentions are entirely honorable -- not something you can take for granted anymore, sorry to say -- the plan to block even sideloads of certain apps is a betrayal of longstanding promises. https://9to5google.com/2023/01/23/android-14-block-install-outdated-apps/

Why not let people vote for the candidates they actually like, instead of forcing them to vote against candidates they hate?

Ranked choice voting is the answer.

Can we reinvestigate serial sexual predator and purjurer #BrettKavanaugh?