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

Just shockingly, cringe-inducingly spineless

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/04/tech/adl-makes-peace-with-x/index.html

just a reminder that the Nobel Prizes are being announced this week so if you get a phone call from country code +46, don't let it go to voice mail or they'll move along to the next best person.

When a presidential candidate promises you violence if he wins, believe him, and if you give a damn about America, vote against him.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comme

However, I would encourage nonprofits, news orgs and governments to actually delete their accounts on X.

Institutions are conservative and will be the last to go. But it's that institutional conservatism that gives the platform power.

We're entering an election year in the US, and Musk will do everything he can to make the world a darker place.

Withdraw that power from him. Your exit from his platform is _your_ power. You are not "staying and fighting", you are fueling his engine.

So just so I'm clear on this, the Republican House caucus is SUPER MAD at the minority Democrat caucus for not stepping in to prevent them from shooting their own foot off, and therefore, are taking people's offices away.

Do I have that right?

There is no law stating that the Speaker of the House has to be human. Scientists estimate that 20 quadrillion ants live on Earth. One of them has to have the right stuff.

Rudy Giuliani is suing Joe Biden for calling him a “Russian pawn”

In other news, a high ranking FBI Agent told authorities Giuliani was compromised by Russian Intelligence

…in 2019

…it was even brought to the Senate Judiciary committee’s attention.

So, there’s that.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23903968-wed-redact

Every Internet Child Protection bill:

1:"New child safety bill!!"

2: "Wow great! What's in it?"

1: "Well, you have to give your social security number, a picture of the weakest part of your skull, and your home address to Hammers The Clown. You also have to download COVID 19 into your eyeball once per month."

2:"What that sounds terrible what does that have to do with--"

1:"Wow. Ok. HEY EVERYONE THIS GUY HATES CHILDREN!!!!!!!"

#politics #uspolitics #kosa #uspol

Meanwhile, via AOC:

Yes, because strengthening someone who voted to overturn the election, held the entire US economy hostage, launched a baseless impeachment inquiry without a vote, and refuses to honor his word is what is in the best interest of this country.

Do some of you hear yourselves?

🙄👉🏼Andrew Yang:

Why did Dems vote along party lines to oust Kevin McCarthy? Not because they thought it was good for the country but because that’s what they were told to do.

Dear Donald Trump:

The statute of limitations does NOT help you when you keep on defrauding.

As long as the misconduct continues, the clock never even starts. Oops.

xoxo
Tristan Snell
Fmr. NY AAG who prosecuted Trump University

Wow, JVL of The Bulwark hit the nail on the head here about GOP/Democrat asymmetry. 👀

#politics #uspol

Here’s what I want to know: Why did Al Franken and Katie Hill have to resign but Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan are still in Congress?

elon musk and linda yaccarino every time another $8 comes in

@danielnazer it’s more about some in the gop drowning democracy itself.

I’m a cowboy…

On a steel horse I ride…

And I’m wanted…

For unethical horse metallurgical engineering

So, funny story: remember how that Stanford professor described last years' layoffs as a "social contagion" exercise, where CEOs were just doing it because everyone else was doing it?

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

Well, funny story, everyone get your surprised face ready, but it was in fact a coordinated effort spurred by large shareholders and hedge funds to suppress wages:

https://www.teamblind.com/post/How-we-got-here-Some-inside-scoops-from-Microsoft-on-handling-early-days-of-pandemic-to-cutting-over-20K-folks-in-2023-7ndQwLAU

you know sometimes it’s just better to avoid using the latin loanwords

#SBF #FTX #GoingInfinite #MichaelLewis

I would like to nominate Chuck Schumer's law clerk girlfriend for Speaker of the House.

It's been a pretty good day, no one placed a gag order on me or voted to removed me from my position.