Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

I was looking over bank statements from 2021 and kept coming across monthly $500 deposits and it took me a moment to realize I'd completely memory-holed that the government briefly sent every parent money for their kids and we could still do that but instead literally nobody talks about it or even remembers.

Wow, read this! [Gift article link.]

"If we can build an organizing network through doctors’ unions, then proposals to demand universal health care through use of collective civil disobedience via physicians’ control over health care documentation and billing, for example, could move from visions to genuinely actionable plans."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/opinion/doctors-universal-health-care.html?unlocked_article_code=DKE7UpfjLnndMdaF9jzZD5pfzr6PGoEq45ymfnnotRUJIHoAMAhIsGVIBj9AT307OtNfZAkbWaCv99JE4MHLHicGBWdXyb-80Db0wF7JNeaK-rU20BKPVvpLUuVigZE0XzHam6WHkTHkoQ_Q18J-PgPxySmsyXYBTvJuiLluv0NopueO-AVvXhNsjjNznO4lRSX490aa77LA7958uOR_VWKYT4TNTzHWoI8nNPhLu_Y59DbE72RrcxKvJ0MjjgGLbhf7sWymYfM1QFfEjEuLj8DSH3dyJpmTGA-i36BdCAGYjYTvnExHI9DI-hkqMZJ4uRihz2Xt8U0t18mtMSOmXLhHH9h-UyI&smid=share-url

#LGBTQ, etc.

The Republicans use culture war propaganda as a distraction.

Without health insurance, most people would be bankrupt with a single hospitalization.

But that’s what Republicans want. One party is out to help most people. The other is dead set against them.

Opinion When Republicans rant about ‘socialism,’ remember the Affordable Care Act-
https://wapo.st/3l9cXuD

#drawing @humor #cartoon #philosophy #advice #achievement

#Meta ’s Gruesome Content Broke Him. Now He Wants It to Pay

A Kenyan #moderator sued the company for work-related #PTSD. Next week, a new ruling on his case could signal a global reckoning for Big Tech #outsourcing.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-kenya-lawsuit-outsourcing-content-moderation/

#facebook fires worker who refused to do 'negative testing': 'worker claims in lawsuit

“I said to the manager, ‘This can harm somebody,’ and she said by harming a few we can help the greater masses,” said Hayward, 33, who claims in a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit that he was fired in November for refusing to participate in negative testing
#negativetesting #lawsuit

https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/facebook-fires-worker-who-refused-to-do-negative-testing-awsuit/

Teachers in 1930s Germany hid books to avoid being arrested.

Teachers in republican Florida are hiding books to avoid being arrested.

Any questions?

-- Jeff Tiedrich

"Elon, I showed my bad posts to everyone and barely anyone liked them!"

"For some unknown reason nobody likes any of the weird freaks I keep shoving into everyone's timeline!"

I do have to give elon credit, making the tweet view metrics public is starting to cause a lot of petty people who are addicted to validation either feeling bad about it or pointing fingers at elon because these numbers can't possibly be right everyone loves my posts

Matt Walsh's filthy pedo face popping up in my feed like the hobo from Mulholland Drive

Lol "Trending to breakeven" aka "even if i cherrypick a bunch of extremely favourable data points and ignore all surrounding data, the best picture I can fabricate is we'll stop losing money at some undefined point in the future, maybe"

Then again he probably didn't actually bother to do even that and is just lying so that he keeps his story straight to anyone still funneling money to him

CBS News pressed Sen. Ted Cruz on why he's running for reelection after he introduced a bill limiting senators to 2 terms in office: 'Why aren't you holding yourself to that standard?'

https://www.businessinsider.com/cruz-seeks-third-senate-term-backs-two-term-constitutional-amendment-2023-2

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), who has been passing out assault rifle lapel pins to his colleagues this week, cowers in terror behind an officer at the U.S. Capitol during the insurrection Jan. 6, 2021. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-andrew-clyde-assault-rifle-pins-house_n_63defb68e4b01e928871b032

In #siliconflatirons the TX and FL social media laws are described as "blatantly unconstitutional". A better phrasing would add "according to all mainstream and/or cogent interpretations of precedent".

If SCOTUS says anyway "nope, these are cool" - and they can - we will have entered a difficult place. We'll have to accept that outcome, because short of constitutional amendment, we have no tools for challenging that. The legacy / legitimacy of the court will be further undermined.

I feel like part of why the right is so susceptible to moral panics about “the libs are coming for your X” is that they very much do want to come for other people’s X and assume everyone must work that way.

They want to come for your social safety net, your gender affirming care, your right to not be discriminated against in the workplace, your reproductive rights, your diet, your media, your non-conservative Christian religion or lack thereof, your identity.

Here are some of the reasons Joshua Meyers wants to build new scholarly institutions.

For more details on this go here:

https://let-me-think.org/index.html

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Rubio: "#China is sending a message that the US can’t even do anything about a balloon flying over their airspace.”

Pres. #Biden did do something. He SHOT IT DOWN.

Senator, any word on the 3 #ChineseSpyBalloons that the #Trump administration neither publicly disclosed nor shot down?

Inside the small liberal arts college that Florida Gov. Ron #DeSantis wants to take over and create a state-funded headquarters for Christo-fascism using #Florida tax dollars.
#Christofascism #FloridaFascism #DeSantisDestroysFL

https://t.co/FUl99CJb44

Btw if mastodon makes you nervous cause there's a lot of etiquette that seems expected of you, don't worry. Just ignore the mastodon cops. I do and nobody complains, and if they did I'd just block em

Post what you want when you want how you want. Make shitposts, post your terrible jokes, post 30 times a day about the project you're working on, post stream of consciousness. If people don't like it they can unfollow or mute or block, but in my experience nobody cares and the mastodon cops are just buttmad that there's more people on here now and they can't control the tone of every conversation anymore

‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on ​protesters

There was an unprecedented wave of arrests of reporters at Just Stop Oil actions.

One police chief seemed to imply that this was not an accident, saying that reporters were “part of the problem” and they should not give protesters “the oxygen of publicity”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/05/protest-laws-state-police-crackdown-uk-activists-prison?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other