Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

I miss Microsoft being the most evil tech company

Elon Musk is a lesson in the dangers of unchecked corporate leaders

When rich people convince themselves that they’re rich because they’re smart – instead of lucky and ruthless – they misapply their talents to areas beyond their expertise

Elon Musk is not the most reckless, destructive or dangerous corporate leader in world history. But he just might be the most reckless, destructive and dangerous corporate leader at this moment.

#musk #X #twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/12/elon-musk-spacex-twitter-x-russia-ukraine

Rep. Scott Perry Yells At Reporter Who Asks To See Actual Evidence Against Biden https://www.politicususa.com/2023/09/12/scott-perry-reporter-biden-impeachment.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #leftistnews #news #VSN

“I am alarmed by recent reports of social media platforms, like Meta’s, amplifying Russian disinformation that have already resulted in the undermining of local mayoral elections in Slovakia. The same forces are mobilizing to undermine Slovakia’s September 30 general elections on a massive scale with much larger consequences.” - Sen. Menendez in letter to Zuckerberg https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_meta_re_slovak_elections.pdf

Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding an investigation into SpaceX after Elon Musk acknowledged he had blocked Ukraine from extending the private Starlink satellite network for an attack on Russian warships near the Crimean coast

“The Congress needs to investigate what’s happened here and whether we have adequate tools to make sure foreign policy is conducted by the government and not by one billionaire,” the Massachusetts Democrat said Monday at the Capitol.
#AureFreePress #Musk #Mastodon

These damn people are just corrupt to the core.

MAGA mayoral candidate busted for lifting social media — and claiming them as supporters without consent - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/maga-candidate-identity-theft/

Shameful.
https://www.wionews.com/videos/spacex-refused-govt-request-to-activate-starlink-to-sink-russian-fleet-elon-musk-633666

Elon Musk is a rare evil. A really big one. I don't think we've fully recognized how bad yet.

West Virginia politicians make moves to deny healthcare to its prisoners but instead offer quasi-voluntary sterilization in exchange for shortended sentences https://boltsmag.org/west-virginia-jails-and-prisons-health-care/ #appalachia #eugenics #prison #jail #abolition #fascism #healthcare

When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, I watched Star Trek: The Next Generation. I soaked up the vibes of a high-tech, utopian future. I internalized the trajectory we were on was good, that we had reached the End of History. There might be a few bumps on the road, but the direction was inevitable and the destination was inexorable.

It turns out that the fastest a human being has ever traveled was 39,897 kilometers per hour. That was the crew of the Apollo 10 mission returning to earth. That happened on 26 May, 1969.

Fifty-four years ago. We peaked more than half a century ago.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Declares 'States Should Consider Seceding'

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-declares-states-should-consider-seceding-on-9-11-anniversary/

@imstilljeremy @dukepaaron

No, Jeremy.

Cynthia McKinney was the Green Party's presidential nominee. The Green Party owns her. This is what the Green Party is.

Facts: The #GreenParty knowingly helped put a white supremacist in the White House in 2016, and they're trying to do it again in 2024.

#USPol #CornelWest #whitesupremacists

Took off from Oakland, California, US. Will be returning to OAK, Metropolitan Oakland International Airport.

G.O.P. Candidates Must Pledge to Go to Prison for Trump to Qualify for Next Debate https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/gop-candidates-must-pledge-to-go-to-prison-for-trump-to-qualify-for-next-debate

I just found out one of my friends that I've known since middle school passed and I am not ok.

“Just because I am helping Vladimir Putin by saving his Black Sea Fleet from drone attacks, so Putin can kill more Ukrainians, people suddenly think I am the bad guy. It is all very unfair.”

🎻 🎵🎶

#CzarLink🇷🇺

As I told Nicolle Wallace, I'm worried because the attacks on democracy are getting worse, Donald Trump has gotten more desperate, our election systems are weaker, and I fear Trump and the GOP have more in store for us.

How the Right Retired “Negrophile”—and Substituted “Woke”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/negrophilia-woke-right-conservative-desantis/

A Meta spokesperson acknowledged that Threads was intentionally blocking the search terms (“covid” and “long covid,”), and said that other terms were being blocked, but declined to provide a list of those. A search by The Post discovered that the words “sex,” “nude,” “gore,” “porn,” “coronavirus,” “vaccines” and “vaccination” are also among blocked words.

#Meta #Covid

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/11/threads-covid-coronavirus-searches-blocked/