Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Iraq war vet Kris Goldsmith believes “patriot” and “anti-fascist” should be synonymous and he’s turning that belief into action with the new Task Force Butler. The nonprofit’s tagline gets right to the point: “We are American veterans who hunt neo-Nazis.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nazi-hunter-fascism-antifa-veteran-1234672732/

Rep. Nancy Mace has done this performance every week with the media, framing herself as a reasonable center and getting all the press... and then she votes with the rest of them every single time.

Mace did it this week with Omar, on the Foreign Affairs Committee I wonder what next weeks performance will be, and how Our Failed Political Press ™ will fall for her again?

@mmasnick $100 A MONTH for API access?! He needs to just be honest: "I over paid for this toy, pay it off for me!"

Republican attorneys are warning the major pharmacies about the potential legal dangers of dispensing prescription abortion pills.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3adg95/republicans-abortion-pills-cvs
#News #Mifepristone #abortion #abortionpill #texas #ALABAMA #OHIO #Republicans #Walgreens #cvs #pharmacies

Yikes, very scary eye drop disease!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/extremely-drug-resistant-germ-found-in-eye-drops-infects-55-in-12-states-1-dead/

#health

Unreal. Apparently Elon Musk is shutting down Twitter API to stop folks from using tools like this move over to Mastodon. https://www.movetodon.org/

The insecurities Elon is showing is a giveaway to what kind of echochamber he is looking to build and indicative of someone who has no interest in building a free, fair, and just society.

Yet more things to consider when you decide how much you want to engage on that site. #TwitterMigration

::: WINE 8.1 🍷

Wine - enables Linux users to play e.g. games made only for MS Windows.

Wine 8.0 was released a few days back & indeed Wine 8.1 is already out now!

Wine 8.1 ups the default setting to "Windows 10" now (as new Wine prefixes are created).

Previously Wine defaulted on "Windows 7" (which is of course still there to choose) - the gaming itself happens 100% on Linux nevertheless

Valve (/w its Proton tech on Steam) highly utilize Wine to make more and more people say "BYE BYE, WINDOWS" 👋

=> https://www.winehq.org//announce/8.1

#Wine #Linux #gaming #software #Windows #compatibility #OpenSource #Proton #deleteWindows

Owning a valuable piece of land should ensure generational wealth. But for many Black families, it spelled doom, as a white family would want that land, and they would get it, with the help of corrupt bankers and land assessors.

https://eji.org/news/one-million-black-families-have-lost-their-farms/

I like the term "lost their farms." It makes it sound like they put it down somewhere, and simply forgot where it is.

The Justice Department has expanded their probe of Rep. George Santos to include his role in a dying dog GoFundMe scheme. The case involves a disabled veteran who alleges Santos raised $3,000 for his dog's life-saving surgery — then kept the money.

This article from @ProPublica is a long read, but completely worth it. It pulls back the curtain of what happens behind the scenes at health insurance companies. It is frightening, frustrating, and incredibly accurate. https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis

2 years of Biden and Democrats-

The American Rescue Plan.

Infrastructure Law.

The CHIPS Act.

The PACT Act.

Inflation Reduction Act - including addressing Rx drug pricing and the single largest investment in climate and energy in American history.

Gun safety legislation.

Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

Juneteenth National Independence Day Act.

Good jobs numbers.

Low unemployment.

Rejoined the Paris Climate Accords.

NATO strengthened.

Support for Ukraine.

College debt relief.

Diverse, fair justices appointed to federal courts and the Supreme Court.

And a lot more.
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A few weeks of Republicans:

Op-Ed: House Republicans' first order of business: Balloon the $31-trillion national debt-
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-01-10/house-republicans-budget-plan-deficit-national-debt

After a flip-flop-filled struggle, the House GOP passed its first major test: booting progressive Ilhan #Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, a prized committee spot and one she personally holds dear.

#Republican leaders, who worked for over a week to secure the votes to pass the resolution, cited Omar's past comments about Israel as a reason for ousting her.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/02/house-gop-ilhan-omar-00080771?cid=post

In #macOS Ventura, there is a range of problems impacting the reliability and usefulness of #notifications. The problems are the biggest sign yet that macOS notifications need a complete overhaul and rethink. https://tchlp.com/40r4kfi

The worst thing about having your password stolen is having to rename the dog.

A #Jan6 defendant who sprayed chemicals at 15 police officers gave a tearful apology in court yesterday before a judge handed him a 68-month sentence.

The defendant, Daniel Caldwell — a #Marine veteran — said he was “ashamed” and “embarrassed” for his conduct.

Caldwell's sentence is one of the stiffest Jan. 6 sentences handed down to date.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/01/jan-6-defendant-sentenced-00080732?cid=mas

FBI agents are investigating Rep. George #Santos’ role in an alleged GoFundMe scheme involving a disabled U.S. Navy veteran’s dying service dog.

Former service member Richard Osthoff gave #FBI agents text messages from 2016 with Santos, who he says used his plight to raise $3,000 for life-saving surgery for the pit bull mix, Sapphire — then ghosted with the funds, as first reported by Patch.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/01/feds-probing-santos-service-dog-charity-scheme-00080706?cid=mas

Children killed annually by mass education of Black history: 0

Children killed annually by mass book reading: 0

Children killed annually by drag shows: 0

Children killed annually by mass shootings & firearms: 4400

GOP: The only way to protect our kids is ban history, ban books, ban drag, and arm more kids with guns.

Playing around with OpenAI GPT-3 to write code and let me tell you, I don’t have to learn Bach scripting anymore!!!!

💻 🤖 #OpenAi #GTP3 #Bash #BashScript #lazy

And here's an incredible piece from Futurism yesterday with Slack messages of Red Ventures employees scheming to hide their use of AI from Google out of terror that their pages will be downranked and the house of cards will collapse https://futurism.com/leaked-messages-cnet-red-ventures-ai

@stopgopfox My experience as a Minister is that the conservative right wing Evangelical leadership really is this cynical. They are interested in power and money, and Christian is a brand that sells. God doesn’t enter into it.

Followers are a different story. They’re drawn in as they are deeply self righteous and want a power structure that validates their racist, white supremacist, xenophobic, homophobic and misogynistic beliefs. Leadership says God is hateful: they eat it up.