Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

@brooklynmarie The degree to which prestigious, very much "arrived" men CONTINUE STEALING from women, even when it produces truly marginal benefits for them personally, but proper credit would literally make a women's career, is FLABBERGASTING. Larry Tribe did it to me back around 2018. I could barely believe it was happening.

So this is something cool: When I worked for Snopes, my former boss, David Mikkelson, took his ex-wife's byline off every single story and told everybody it was some sort of "WordPress migration error" (which was bullshit.) Now that he's been revealed as a serial plagiarist, Snopes appears to be trying to restore some balance to the universe by restoring Barbara's byline. I strongly approve:

https://www.snopes.com/author/barbara-mikkelson/

Also, in case you missed it, here's a story about David's plagiarism. I spent years trying to get people to pay attention to it, as I was one of the people he was stealing shit from. Turned out it was waaaaaaaay worse than even I knew. He tried it when I worked there, I told him off, he said he didn't know any better and wouldn't do it again, and I guess he just never stopped. Awful person. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/snopes-cofounder-plagiarism-mikkelson

Justin Baragona writes,

"Former Twitter officials revealed on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump not only received preferential treatment for years, but he also directly requested the site remove tweets that he didn’t like. At the same time, they also noted that President Joe Biden hadn’t contacted Twitter to take down any tweets or censor content."

#Trump #Twitter

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-twitter-officials-confirm-to-congress-that-trump-not-biden-tried-to-censor-tweets

Ward Sutton #newyorkercartoons
#USPolitics #Floriduh #DesantisBookBan

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"Woman brought gun into polling place because Black volunteers 'scared' her by handing out water"

https://www.rawstory.com/woman-says-she-brought-gun-to-into-polling-place-because-black-volunteers-intimidated-her-by-handing-out-water/?utm_source=push_notifications

Twitter says its free APIs will work until February 13, when it launches a low-usage plan for $100/month and a limited free plan, and deprecates its Premium API (@twitterdev)

https://twitter.com/twitterdev/status/1623467615539859456
http://www.techmeme.com/230208/p47#a230208p47

President Biden played the Republican House Caucus for the fools they are at Biden's State of the Union address last night and it worked brilliantly!

In front of the world, the GOP disrespected the United States of America and its traditions!
#Biden #USA

To be sure, the Republicans are on record stating they want to increase the age to collect Social Security AND want to change the funding parameters - both being a CUT to our seniors!

https://www.mediaite.com/news/cnns-chris-wallace-roasts-republicans-for-heckling-biden-at-sotu-they-literally-played-into-his-hands/

'Elect a clown - expect a circus': Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed on social media following bizarre SOTU antics, as critics brand her a 'dollar store Cruella de Vil'

Even Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was unable to control the stupidity that is the House Republican Caucus

Like a parent to his overstimulated two year old, Mccarthy's attempts to Sssssshhhh his caucus fell on deaf ears.
#BREAKING #Biden #USA

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11727167/Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-slammed-following-embarrassing-State-Union-antics.html

Outsult
Noun
1. An insult applied by someone that actually reflects badly on them, outing them in some way.

My favourite recent outsult was being called a "thesaurus trying to impress people by looking intelligent" because I know what words like "hyperbole" and "sardonic" mean.

No, little dude, this is actually just how I talk because I'm well read and literate. Good to know where YOUR bar is, though.

7 abortion providers are ready to switch to misoprostol-only medication abortions if a judge bans the main abortion pill, mifepristone, nationwide. That ruling could happen as soon as this Friday.

Pretty much everything that Team "you're overreacting" insisted would never happen after Dobbs is, in fact, happening. It's almost as if they were not arguing in good faith this whole time.

https://jezebel.com/mifepristone-ban-misoprostol-only-abortions-in-the-us-1850083070

Unsolvable problem in the US that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world, and that's anywhere, not Somalia, nor Syria, not even North Korea:
- School shootings

Dear New York Times,
Forcing women to give birth against their will is “big government.” Protecting an 88-year-old program like Social Security isn’t. Whether you agree with Biden on the fine points, it’s obvious that he’s trying to save rational, democratic government from the ongoing fascist assault. That’s why it’s so disheartening to see the Times adopt the cynical framing of the fascists, as this headline does.

Prior to 1982, stock buybacks were considered stock manipulation. It was Reagan's SEC that opened the floodgates to their abuse.

Stock buybacks don’t create more jobs. They don't increase wages. They don’t grow the economy.

They do one thing: Make corporate execs richer.

gotta hand it to elon he's done more to help people get over their twitter addictions than anyone

NPR bears great responsibility for pushing the US into autocracy.

NPR has been unable to accurately convey, without bothsidesism, the dangers we face.

The effect is that NPR listeners are falsely reassured—they don't learn about how dangerous the moment is, how extreme conservatives have become. Because NPR doesn't state that clearly.

Related: A lot of NPR's income today comes from corporate ads.

@shoq #sotu
https://elk.zone/mastodon.social/@shoq/109829663312375828

Setting Up A Headless #Linux Server Using #Debian
https://www.tecmint.com/setup-headless-linux-server/

I haven't tweeted in month.