Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

As someone who spent a large portion of '98 and '99 making sure shit didn't break on Y2K, I'd like to extend a very heartfelt FUCK YOU to HBO for greenlighting a piece of shit documentary that suggests that effort wasn't necessary.

A Quebec man who posted conspiracy theories online that forest fires were being deliberately set by the government to trick people into believing in #ClimateChange has pleaded guilty to starting 14 fires himself that forced hundreds of people from their homes.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/quebec-man-who-blamed-wildfires-on-government-pleads-guilty-to-setting-14-fires/article_bd630c03-e083-5174-8fd9-ead0586c7925.html

@anneapplebaum

It sends the media narrative that Republicans adore being ruled by corporate shills, evangelical bigots, and the publicly corrupt.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4243138-why-republicans-in-congress-arent-condemning-corrupt-politicians/

Still marvelous to think that 110,000 people voted in the Iowa Republican caucus, yet it will be interpreted as sending a significant message about America. That's less than a third of the population of Bydgoszcz. (if your response is "where?" then you are making my point)

You know what would be nice?

An "open firmware" project, where people produce and share FOSS firmware for common household devices, replacing the manufacturer's firmware with a decrapified version.

A smart TV? Reflash it with FOSS firmware, which removes tracking, calls to the manufacturer's servers, and any Internet-connected services that you don't want?

A printer? It's now yours. No ink subscription, or need for an app to print remotely.

And so on.

A man can dream, eh.

Whoah. It was cold enough here in #Alberta that #propane condensed in a wine glass. 🤯​

#PolarVortex #abwx

"A wildly successful, illegal 3-day strike by the Andover Education Association in November has reverberated statewide for educators in Massachusetts.

The lowest-paid instructional assistants got a 60 percent wage jump immediately. Classroom aides on the higher end of the scale got a 37 percent increase.

Members won paid family medical leave, an extra personal day, fewer staff meetings, and the extension of lunch and recess times for elementary students." #Labor

https://labornotes.org/2024/01/massachusetts-teachers-illegal-strike-wave-rolls

The World: Oh my god the internet is a wide-open firehose of incoherent misinformation! The only silver lining is that the amount of bullshit is limited by how much content the human population can produce.

Artificial intelligence: HEY EVERYBODY GUESS WHAT

I really like the Amazon Prime Video feature where it blocks 1/4 of the screen with an unclosable ‘watch next episode’ window that opens 15 minutes before the current episode has finished.

Welcome to the rest of your life.

"Looks like you're using an ad-blocker"

Looks like you're trying to install 52 trackers on my computer.

@GottaLaff

There are a number of ways to covertly support a war. The USA is expert at it.

https://www.wionews.com/world/ukraine-attacks-russian-targets-with-missile-system-covertly-given-by-the-us-648172

If Charlie Wilson could do it for expelling Russia from Afghanistan, so can Democrats for expelling Putin from Ukraine.

The Russian-funded Republicans like Speaker Mike Johnson can be thwarted.
Konstantin Nikolaev, Mikhail Yuriev and Andrey Kunatbaev cannot be allowed to steer US foreign policy to Ukraine.

Russian State TV Pundit Warns Life 'Keeps Getting Worse' Amid Ukraine War
#AureFreePress #News #Ukraine #Russia #Putin

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-pundit-warns-life-keeps-getting-worse-amid-ukraine-war-1860571

Dressed in my survival gear and about to head out into the -42° cold here on Hoth to complete my scheduled Monday reconnaissance..

What? It's Sunday? That was close. 😬

with the state gaming industry reporting that number of injured dogs included 218 dogs who suffered broken bones and four greyhounds who later were killed.

But now, a federal bill could end gruesome greyhound racing for good. HR 3894, the Greyhound Protection Act, would amend the federal Animal Welfare Act to ban greyhound racing and remote gambling on the dogs.

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The first comment on this post includes this nugget: "I feel like most big tech companies have just become the equivalent of drug dealers, just trying to hijack our brain's evolutionary attention mechanisms to addict us."

Seems about right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38983067

#BigTech #Apple #Google #Facebook #Microsoft

This book is a the Bible for New Apostolic Reformation leaders. It explains that Dominionism is important because they will control the wealth and distribute it to whom they deem worthy.
Do you understand now why the New Apostolic Reformation is funded by the super wealthy?