Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

This is a soviet-style demoralization / media exploitation operation.

These work by muddying the waters of public discussion so as to make it harder for the public to know or reach consensus views on anything.

Here, it allows them to simulteniously be interfering and not-interfering, depending on your personal priors, and as a way to discredit researchers engaged in it.

Not useful directly in its own right, but these create the conditions for long-term public fissures for later exploitation.

blue state pols and people are accused of not caring about people in red states and being condescending. but it's those state's own pols who refuse to help the people there! https://www.editorialboard.com/republicans-dont-serve-their-states-they-immiserate-them/

so I wrote about the ongoing opposition to the Child Tax Credit from red state senators like the GOP and Manchin—which is especially infuriating since the CTC should disproportionately benefit red states, where child poverty is worst. https://www.editorialboard.com/republicans-dont-serve-their-states-they-immiserate-them/

Corporate profits only accounted for roughly 11% of price growth from 1979 to 2019.

Today, record corporate profits account for 53.9% of price increases.

Folks, corporate greed is driving inflation, not workers asking for better wages.

I see Elon still hasn't responded to his poll...

@Porpentina2017 Whoever they end up with, the infighting is something to see.

If anyone wants to see what a total inability to govern looks like, then the Republican Party is the one to watch.

Enjoy, Kevin.

Being new on an app is how my mom probably feels using her iPhone every single day.

A Judge has ordered MAGA Kari Lake to pay $150K in legal fees for spurious litigation after she lost the AZ Governors race.

MAGA Madison Cawthorne is being sued by his former lawyers for $200K in unpaid legal fees.

MAGA Trump tried to pay $2M in legal fees with a horse. A Horse!🤦🏽‍♂️

You ever notice how the party of “law and order, “fiscal conservatism,” and “personal responsibility” is anything but?🙄

Maxwell and everyone else assumed that electromagnetic waves, like all other waves known at the time, required a medium. They called it the "luminiferous aether." Maxwell's equations would only be valid in the rest frame of this aether.

Of course, no one could come up with an experiment that directly sampled the aether. You couldn't bottle it, isolate it in a lab, or explain why planets didn't slow down from drag as they sloshed through it.

But it must be there! Waves require a medium. Right?

Hi newbies!

You haven't been here long and you're quickly discovering that all of this isn't half as complicated as you thought it would be, right?

Congratulations!

You're doing a GREAT job!

Today let's try to remember to boost often, and engage with more people. (it's the secret to success on Mastodon)

Also let's try to remember to put alt text in all of the pics and videos that you post today ok? There are people who depend on that to enjoy this space with us.

I'm so proud of you.

STARTING SOON: A hearing is being held on motions to dismiss Kari Lake's lawsuit challenging her loss in the Arizona governor’s race. Follow for live updates.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-gubernatorial-election-contest/

What kind of cruel joke is this?
#NotFunny

Naps are the snack version of sleep

@Rasta And support your local online journalists too!

I’ve only been on my position since mid August and I’m getting a 5% merit increase for 2023!

Things I've learned about Mastodon this week:

1. Photo captions are read by screenreaders for people who have impaired vision. The more descriptive you make them, the more people can appreciate your post.

2. Hashtags should be "camel style" which means you capitalize each word in the tag - this enables screen readers to identify different words in the tag,

3. Reblogging boosts posts and favourites do not.

4. Hashtags are way more important here than on the birdsite.

#FediTip

My kid’s teacher made toys for her class based on their drawings.
Pay teachers more

A good night for astrophotography. (At least, I think it was. I haven't processed everything yet.) This is the globular cluster M15. I found out on Saturday that there's a tiny planetary nebula buried in here. I was able to use a more professional image to locate *where* in here. But I still can't see it. But it's a beautiful cluster anyway.

This holiday season, remember you have something Elon Musk will never have, people who love you for who you are and not your money.

LOGGING ON