Notices by 𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤 (andytiedye@sfba.social)

@atomicpoet We need events if we are ever to replace Facebook. I know it is being worked on, and there is a test server somewhere, but it needs to be more widely deployed.

Bypassing Amazon has saved me a few hundred dollars this year.

It's What I call "Amazonless Prime Day".

Find a deal on the Amazon site, then go to the manufacturer's own site and find the same deal, with a coupon to sweeten it further.

@leighms @davidaugust

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚’𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝­𝐬𝐞𝐭

𝖲𝗂𝗆𝗈𝗇 𝖪𝗎𝗉𝖾𝗋 𝖥𝗂𝗇𝖺𝗇𝖼𝗂𝖺𝗅 𝖳𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌

Elon Musk lived in apartheid South Africa until he was 17. David Sacks, the ven­ture cap­it­al­ist who has become a fun­draiser for Don­ald Trump and a troll of Ukraine, left aged five, and grew up in a South African dia­spora fam­ily in Ten­nessee. Peter Thiel spent years of child­hood in South Africa and Nam­i­bia, where his father was involved in uranium min­ing as part of the apartheid regime’s clandes­tine drive to acquire nuc­lear weapons. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African soft­ware developer and tech journ­al­ist liv­ing near Johan­nes­burg, has been iden­ti­fied by two teams of forensic lin­guists as the ori­gin­ator of the QAnon con­spir­acy, which helped shape Trump’s Maga move­ment. (Furber denies being “Q”.)

(GIFT LINK)
https://ft.pressreader.com/article/282355455139348

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @joeinwynnewood

Who is the "AIAN" group that is even higher?

@mekkaokereke

The camps will consist of a bunch of tents in the middle of the desert. They can erect them faster than we can organize any action to stop them.

Ultimately, the only way to fight this will be to hide those who they would send to the camps and help them to flee the country (just as that was the only effective way to resist the Nazis in Germany when they were in power).

If you ARE one of those they would send to the camps (and I think many of us are) get your passport if you don't already have one!
 
@dalias

@benroyce @aral The Fediverse is designed to be a decentralized replacement for Twitter. It lacks many of the features of Facebook, such as events and invitations thereto.

@Wileymiller @MugsysRapSheet @PandaChronicle @GottaLaff The "Trump-and-Dump" (to coin a phrase) will come as a COMPETE surprise to his fans, some of whom invested their meager life savings. Hopefully that will turn them into not-fans on Election Day.

@GottaLaff @Yup_Its_Holly I'm beginning to see why you didn't wait until after the election to flee.
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-08-28-election-story-nobody-talks-about-neiwert-qa/

How to break up with your X

Katie Martin, Financial Times:

It is time to con­jure up men­tal images of vast herds bar­rel­ling across the dusty savan­nah and to pro­claim, in your best whis­pery David Atten­bor­ough impres­sion, that we are wit­ness­ing one of nature’s truly great and most majestic spec­tacles: a mass migra­tion.

I can­not claim to under­stand the rain­fall sig­nals that prompt a mil­lion Ser­en­geti wilde­beest to aban­don one graz­ing pas­ture and head to the next...But when it comes to the fresh wave of X users hop­ping over to rival net­works such as Bluesky, the trig­ger to move on is quite straight­for­ward.

The drip, drip of cas­ual racism, edge lord bigotry, bad-faith polem­ics, dog whistles, crass dis­in­form­a­tion, dodgy porn­bots, cyn­ical grift­ing, tin hat con­spir­acies and tire­some crypto bol­locks became too much for some users of the site formerly known as Twit­ter fairly soon after Musk bought it in Octo­ber 2022, later chan­ging its name to X.

https://ft.pressreader.com/article/281947433167138

@rbreich
Martin Wolf at the Financial Times:

...The ques­tion arises: are the olig­archs who are try­ing to make Trump pres­id­ent and JD Vance vice-pres­id­ent, the lat­ter a man who has declared he would not have cer­ti­fied that elec­tion, about to learn what it means to have a tyr­ant as pres­id­ent? Yes, someone who attempts a coup against the elect­oral pro­cess — the very heart of demo­cracy — is a would-be tyr­ant. So is someone who may fill his gov­ern­ment with people per­son­ally loyal to him. Nobody then can truly be safe, except loy­al­ists and syco­phants....

The plu­to­crats who sup­port Trump may remain safer than Berezovsky. But can they really be as free as they want? Yes, a fur­ther erosion of demo­cracy might pro­tect them from inter­fer­ence by the elec­ted politi­cians they detest. But the men they put in power, in their stead, have a tend­ency to turn them­selves into abso­lute rulers. Nobody can then be truly safe.

https://ft.pressreader.com/article/281814289130125

@Ralph058 @Dave_Goldsmith @Tharpa @Urban_Hermit @glennsills @cynblogger @Nazani @stevebenen a bit more than a useful idiot, I'm afraid.

His whole "organization" has been funded out of Russia for years. His own kids admitted as much.

@Dave_Goldsmith @Tharpa @Urban_Hermit @glennsills @cynblogger @Nazani @stevebenen Videos of the don(ald)'s latest rally featured the audience yawning, getting up and leaving....

@Dave_Goldsmith @Tharpa @Urban_Hermit @glennsills @cynblogger @Nazani @stevebenen We may well end up sending him to Russia as part of a future prisoner exchange. That is what usually happens to captured Russian assets.

@Ralph058 @Dave_Goldsmith @Tharpa @Urban_Hermit @glennsills @cynblogger @Nazani @stevebenen
I'm sure he has given Putin some of the secret documents he has been hoarding, but he hasn't given him everything, yet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/politics/cia-informants-killed-captured.html

@Ralph058 @Dave_Goldsmith @Tharpa @Urban_Hermit @glennsills @cynblogger @Nazani @stevebenen Some of the documents identified agents. By the time the FBI raided, it was already too late for them, as the agents had been caught or killed. We can reasonably assume that this is not a coincidence.

@tessarakt @Ralph058 @Dave_Goldsmith @Urban_Hermit @glennsills @cynblogger @Nazani @stevebenen We are not technically at war. A charge of treason is only possible for acts committed when we are at war. The Espionage Act, on the other hand....

@knittingknots2 Women are fleeing the red states. So are OB/Gyns and other doctors. All because of abortion bans.

@JdeB The parts of Project 2025 relating to reproduction strongly resemble Decree 770 in Romania under the Communists.

@ATLeagle @mekkaokereke @tob Manchin and Sinema made those impossible.

@mekkaokereke @tob @ATLeagle What can be done about it? The courts are no help anymore. My friends who live and teach school there are despairing and talking about moving.