Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Code Club Electronics 16 https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/code-club-electronics-16

https://chng.it/YgFVF5KsWm here’s a link to a petition which is supported by local people and is against the planting of conifers on good farm land in our area of South West Wales. Two farms have been bought up already for this use which is for the imaginary carbon offset trade and will affect local employment, language, biodiversity. 🙄#ffs #cymru #ClimateCrisis

The hardest part about refuting Y2K disinfo is how many problems were fixed quietly, in part to mitigate risk of ligitation (negligence, etc.). People have stories they can't tell.

At this point, I think enough years have passed that a formal amnesty - to encourage companies to disclose just how bad some of the problems were - would be in our historical best interest.

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:

1. Break up corporate monopolies

2. Continue building union power

3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics

Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

@w7voa

Just another quality, non-deplorable tRump supporter.

BREAKING: Gunman shoots his way into Colorado Supreme Court building, where justices recently ordered Trump off the ballot.

On Substack’s Nazi Problem, and Ours
 
Happy New Year! We are off to a depressing start with a reflection on how to navigate the moral quandaries of social media extremism and tech bro idiocy – and a plea to my readers to stick with me through it all.
 
New piece:

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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/on-substacks-nazi-problem-and-ours

Protest sign reads: My grandpa didn't survive Auschwitz to bomb Gaza. #gaza #Israel #freepalestine

Why won’t UK politicians address the biggest part of tax evasion in the UK, which is caused by the absue of limited liability companies due to poor state regulation? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/01/02/why-wont-uk-politicians-address-the-biggest-part-of-tax-evasion-in-the-uk-which-is-caused-by-the-absue-of-limited-liability-companies-due-to-poor-state-regulation/. HMRC has got new powers to find petty tax cheats on eBay as from today - whilst ignoring the massive problem that its failure to properly tax fraudulent limited companies has created. The effective regulation of companies in this country is long overdue. So why will no politician talk about this?

This is a plastic confetti found in the small condo courtyard. Several years ago, here lived a young family, and their kids used a bunch of these confetti by their front door, which got blown around. I’ve picked up all that I could find to properly discard. I can’t believe I still found one today.

Please, don’t ever buy/use plastic confetti. Please think of the consequences, however minute. Thank you.

#plastic #pollution #PSA

Studies on the illusory truth effect have shown that you can make people believe some outrageous things, like elephants are faster than cheetahs, simply by repeating it enough times. This work builds off the Asch conformity experiments, where participants agreed with wrong answers a majority of the time. Repetition and peer pressure can do horrible things.

Maybe you remember a couple of years ago, when millions of people were yelling about schools offering students litter boxes if they identified as cats. Nobody really believed it, but they had no trouble acting like they did. It wasn't about litter boxes. It was about attacking public education.

That's a good example.

There's a reason why corporations invest billions in advertising and messaging. They know they have to vary their repetition across a range of contexts to get everyone to believe... anything. That's also why billionaires and rich families have gobbled up newspapers, and why they also fund "independent journalists" to go around touting their message. It's about surrounding people with improvisations on the same lie from a hundred angles.

It's All About Repetition, Repetition, Repetition: How Lies Work https://www.okdoomer.io/how-lies-work/

There's two main approaches to life:

1. "I don't understand something but I'm willing to learn and the most important thing is respect and tolerance."

2. "I don't understand something but it's most important the world conform to my dim understanding, and I don't care who I harm to make that happen"

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #trans