Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

@axios

Fascists: Would you please disseminate some propaganda for us?

Axios: Sure, just give us a written statement, and we'll put it out there verbatim. No need to pay us.

Again.

Say it with me: Everything out of their mouths is a lie and/or projection/confession.

MAGA attorney gets three years after #VoterFraud conviction in #Ohio

"...Santoli illegally cast ballots in both Ohio and Florida, first in the 2020 presidential election, then in the 2022 midterm election.

This comes a week after the attorney, 53-year-old James Saunders, was convicted." https://www.rawstory.com/voter-fraud-maga-attorney/

@JimDrumheller

Did you know, President Carter, now in his last days, home to be with his family as he passes, once personally saved Ottawa from a Nuclear Disaster, at risk, and cost, to his life, suffering from radiation poisoning all his life.

Canada had a Nuclear Accident in the 50s, asked the US for help, Lieutenant Jimmy Carter lead a team out of NY.

The future President Carter, had his team lower him into the reactor.

I have no idea why this isn't widely known

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-accident-1.6293574

“Tell them about the dream, Martin,” gospel singer Mahalia Jackson urged Dr. King, “tell them about the dream.” And #OTD in 1963 he did - setting aside the prepared remarks for the March on Washington, and starting to ad lib a speech that still rings from the “prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire” to “the curvaceous slopes of California” to “every hill and mole hill of Mississippi.” https://theconversation.com/gospel-singer-mahalia-jackson-made-a-suggestion-during-the-1963-march-on-washington-and-it-changed-a-good-speech-to-a-majestic-sermon-on-an-american-dream-212067 @blackmastodon @histodons #histodons

Before you see one media outlet after another repeating lies: "#JoethePlumber" wasn't even a plumber, he just said he was thinking of buying a plumbing business. He was working in telecommunications in 2008. He was utter astroturf https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/joe-plumber-questioned-obamas-tax-policies-2008-campaign-102623244

Louisiana's measles vaccination coverage has dipped below the threshold generally accepted to prevent community transmission. https://t.co/sMgx2PAqdt

Elon Musk, owner of X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, tells people on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to stop calling X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, “X, the platform formerly known as Twitter”

Excuse me?
Google now moderates your saved bookmarks? The hell?

@kevinrns @u0421793 @futurebird @BarrenPlanet @ClimateJenny I really hope we'll one day figure out how pre-cellular life worked.

That has got to be a fascinating tale.

I'd really like to know why some of the most important and influential #infosec conferences have decided that it's totally a-OK to host their event in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, whose leader personally ordered his security staff to detain, and torture to death a US-based reporter who exposed corruption in the kingdom.

If you feel strongly that the #infosec industry should stand by its principles, demand that Informa PLC end the practice of hosting #BlackHat in Saudi Arabia.

Here in the US it's a common belief that technology will save us from #climatechange. What's usually meant by this is a deus ex machina in the form of bazinga-brained tech like fusion/vat-grown meat/direct-air carbon capture. I contend technology has *already* saved us from climate change. We have all the technology we could ever need to solve this crisis. Ship, rail, solar, wind, biofuels, etc. We just aren't building it. It isn't a technological problem.

I should get a medal for the amount of things I grit my teeth hard to not say

There's a real bend in the curve where being famous is more trouble than it is worth, and my experience knowing famous people is that this bend comes a lot sooner than most people think.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/taylor-swift-swarmed-fandom-1234812867/

A few mornings ago, while visiting Pittsburgh, text messages began alerting me of an “active shooter” in the neighborhood I was staying—about a block away—even as sirens filled the air. My body reacted intuitively, as if those bullets spelled out “Tree of Life,” reawakening trauma from not that long ago in this same city.

It didn’t take long for friends to text that in fact, the active shooters were heavily armed cops, swarming the streets around one house, with the aim of evicting—by murder, as it turned out—one man from his decreased brother’s home. That man, William Hardison, had his family’s house stolen out from under him because of some tax issue, despite him going to the city to work out a deal to stave off homelessness.

It took hundreds of cops and SWAT teams from many jurisdictions most of the day to assassinate Mr. Hardison, an older Black man in a neighborhood that’s home to many other Black people of modest or low incomes alongside gentrifying forces increasingly edging them out. My body felt more reverberations of trauma, in solidarity with all of those who had to watch an army of police barricade and fully occupy many blocks around them—grime reapers in blue.

Daily life, in a blink of an eye, become thoroughly unsafe and dangerous because of police. Even the simplest things felt unnerving. For instance, the person lending me their guest room—away from home at work—texted me with fear for their cat. Had I let him outside? “My cat is pretty smart,” they wrote, plainly worried, adding that he’d likely “stay away from gunfire.”

That evening, I was scheduled to do a talk at @the.big.idea.412, hosted by @ratzonpgh. We’d been debating all day, as darkening storm clouds blotted out the sun, whether to cancel. We went ahead. On entering the Big Idea, I heard Mr. Hardison had just been killed, as the space filled up with people and heaviness. “I didn’t know what to do,” said one person. “I only knew I had to come here.”

Together, we processed, said Kaddish, and sang, enacting rituals of resistance within beloved community—not enough to save Mr. Hardison, yet essential to build more scar tissue around our wounded hearts so as to keep fighting.

#FTP

(photo: “Police don’t keep us safe” sticker, as seen on the stolen, surveilled, policed streets of Tio’tia:ke/Montreal in June 2023.)

Proven rapist and accused criminal out on bail in four jurisdictions … also cheats at golf. News at 11. https://apple.news/AeXbIZYkrS2K1AAcvSp7DRA

@vkc I used to have F12 on my keyboard bound to:

killall -9 netscape-navigator

I have a high tolerance for repetition, so I consumed a lot of post-debate discussion among journalists.

I don't recall any that tried to rank the candidates — or moderators — on the quality of their connection to observable reality.

Political realities, yes. Any other kind, no.

#journalism #uspol #science

If you know any Amiga game developers and/or artists that are on Mastdon please let me know. I wouldn't mind a boost either :)
#Amiga #Retrogaming

U​.S. Drug Enforcement Administration sends over $50,000 to a scammer

August 24, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=us-drug-enforcement-administration-scammed