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

Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk👍

“#Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a "utopian socialist." He lies about being a "free speech absolutist." He lies about which companies he founded”

“Once you start unpacking #Tesla’s balance sheets, you start to realize how much the company depends on government subsidies and tax-breaks, combined with selling carbon credits that make huge, planet-destroying SUVs possible, under the pretense that this is somehow good for the environment”

@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

I simply do not have the lung capacity for the amount of deep sighing required right now.

"Silicon Valley ideology says safeguarding intelligence in the future is more important than its systems systematically crushing and killing black and brown people right now. Long-termism grabs attention back from people being harmed, who were beginning to make too much noise."

- @mariafarrell
https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/15/silicon-valleys-worldview-is-not-just-an-ideology-its-a-personality-disorder/

#Longtermism

"Silicon Valley’s most famous funders and CEOs veer strongly into sociopathy, narcissism, and abiding Daddy issues. They are thin-skinned, vicious, gormless. Now middle-aged men, their emotional development ended when they made their first hundred million."

- @mariafarrell

https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/15/silicon-valleys-worldview-is-not-just-an-ideology-its-a-personality-disorder/

Ha! Did buyers actually order this thing with this knowledge?
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sue-cybertruck-buyers-they-resell-in-first-year-2023-11
#Xitter #Fascism

I am on the side of humanity. I refuse to allow the propaganda from both sides of this war take my humanity away. I stand for peace. I do not know how to get there except that the 1st & necessary step is to acknowledge & hear each others pain. #israel #IsraelPalestineconflict #IsraelGazawar

From Nick Anderson
"Score a win for corruption. Senate Democrats on Thursday backed down from their plan to subpoena Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow in their probe of Supreme Court ethics. Senate Republicans had promised to turn the hearing into a "shit show" if the Democrats issued the subpoenas, and threatened retribution if/when they win the majority. Don't they do that anyway? The decision to back down was a mistake."

@samlitzinger

"Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget, as he did in his first term to spend more on a border wall than Congress had authorized."

Again and again, the Republican Party weakens America's defenses, putting us all in danger, just to fire up its white supremacist base with performative acts of hatred.

For a variety of reasons, we are in far more danger than Israel was. We are heading for far worse bloodshed.

#Trump Echoes #Hitler. Courtesy: @KBAndersen
#BlackMastodon

I know the odds are low, but the fediverse has come through for me in amazing and unexpected ways before.

For those who don't know me, I'm a 29-year-old support engineer and FOSS enthusiast, who is currently in kidney failure.

If you live in North Carolina or can travel to Duke Hospital, and would be willing to consider donating your kidney, please call 1-800-249-5864 and let them know you want to inquire about donating to Timothy Dyer (my legal name).

Thank you! (Boosts appreciated)

So that’s how libraries are born ✨

by @nathanwpyle #books 📚

YeahNO, Trump…

VOTE. #VOTE!!! Okay? Thanks.

Via Brian Tyler Cohen:

#Trump is saying here that if he were president, he would run again for an unconstitutional THIRD term and arrest anyone who challenges him.

In favor of a ceasefire:

Democratic voters 80%
House Democrats 8%

Republican voters 56%
House Republicans 0%

All voters 66%
All House members 4%

Tomorrow is Veterans Day.
My husband wasn't afflicted with bone spurs, so he went to Vietnam, as did many people his age. He was in the Army.
I remember when I realized his experience of going to war as a young man would shape our future together if I stayed around. Out of the blue, he had started talking about his combat experiences, so I listened. The things I've heard would curl your hair.
For those who are familiar with that time and conflict, he was at Hamburger Hill.
He came home with many commendations,
and two bronze stars. In addition, he had part of his spine fused, ringing in his ears and multiple cancers and a multitude of other related maladies that came along a little later.
He says it is just part of life.
His life.
Tomorrow, I will give a veteran a hug.

Didn't believe this was a thing until I actually saw it myself.

I bank at a small, local credit union. I recently cleared my autocomplete settings so plugged their name into #Google to get back to their homepage.

The Sponsored result IS NOT my bank's website. But is skinned the same. 100% a #phishing site served as a Google ad above the legitimate business website.

This is a major problem, my friends.

"In a statement, [#FEC Commissioner Ellen] Weintraub revealed that there are at least 58 instances where the Federal Election Commission heard allegations against #Trump. In at least 28 of those, staff at the Office of General Counsel determined that a #criminal investigation was warranted—all of which went overlooked by Republican commissioners"

My paper on formatting new #ColecoAdam Digital Data Packs (without a donor tape), is now complete, and can be read at the #InternetArchive.
https://archive.org/details/formatting-digital-data-packs #retrocomputing #colecovision