Notices by Grassroots Joe (joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social)

@davidaugust @pkrugman

"But don’t despair. We are in the middle of an attempted autogolpe. It hasn’t succeeded so far. In fact, I’d say tentatively that the autogolpistas are having a harder time than they expected. America’s oligarchs may mostly have preemptively surrendered to the new regime, but many of the rest of us have not."

We sure as shit are going to fight these criminals. All of us across the great diversity of America.

@GottaLaff

This is an opportunity to laugh at The Criminal's incompetence and weakness.

He blustered at and threatened our two biggest trading partners who did not blink so he backed down.

He is weak and inept.

"“The U.S. is in full retreat from the world,” [Sen. Murphy] wrote, and there is “[n]o good reason for it. The immediate consequences of this are cataclysmic. Malnourished babies who depend on U.S. aid will die. Anti-terrorism programs will shut down and our most deadly enemies will get stronger."

The American Century ended on January 20, 2025.

February 1, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1-2025

@Eetschrijver @jaykuo

I hope everyone will call their Senators and tell them they very much care.

Hegseth is wildly unqualified to be SecDef and any Senator who votes for him will be doing grave damage to the security of America and in so doing will be violating their oath of office.

@jubei @cellularmoose @mastodonmigration @pluralistic

I don't know that this very long and technical thread addresses the interoperability question, but it definitely talks about At vs activitypub.

Perhaps more importantly, it talks at length about the degree to which Bsky is not distributed and as likely as not never will be. Not because it's not technically feasible, but because implementing the full stack costs way too much money.

https://social.coop/@cwebber/113527462572885698

@joborg @jubei @cellularmoose @mastodonmigration @cwebber

Re: as in Mastodon

So IOW recreate ActivityPub (AP) in the middle of the rest of the Bluesky stack which seems a bit silly when AP already exists and is quite successfully deployed (as Christine notes someplace in her posts).

@joborg @jubei @cellularmoose @mastodonmigration @cwebber

Re: better protocol

I don't know that this is true. There's nothing Bluesky has done that a few million dollars dropped in Eugene Rochko's lap couldn't get done for Mastodon.

The primary difference is Eugene won't give up some measure of control to VCs in return for their money.

The money being raised by this effort very arguably would be much better spent on enhancing the Fediverse.

@joborg @jubei @cellularmoose @mastodonmigration @cwebber

There's no question Mastodon can scale. The ability is fundamental to the AP protocol. No 1 server needs to scale. The load can be distributed across many dozens of servers; spinning up new ones can be done very quickly.

If people moved to Mastodon en mass, movement organizations would spin up servers using their brand and host their members, once again spreading the load.

Sure improving conditions is great, if Bsky allows it.

"That's an aspect of this that I haven't heard many people mention: moving your company to Texas in 2024 and 2025 is a pretty brazenly misogynistic move, in that you're demanding the women of your company move to a state in which their lives will be put at greater risk in comparison to the company's men."

Zuckerberg's plan to move Meta employees to Texas isn't just toadying—he's also a vapid, misogynistic creep
https://www.unchartedblue.com/zuckerbergs-plan-to-move-meta-employees-to-texas-isnt-just-toadying-hes-also-a-vapid-misogynistic-creep/

This is a great episode of Volts that talks about the various market and regulatory environments that make enshittification possible, the growing promise of the right to repair movement, and has a nice Easter egg of sorts at 1:27:30 as well.

@mastodonmigration
@drvolts

Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech?
https://www.volts.wtf/p/can-we-avoid-the-enshittification

@mekkaokereke @dgoldsmith @dansup @mastodonmigration

Starter pack 1st approximation, who does @[trusted account] follow?

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

Let's not be capitulating to this South African racist before he's actually tried to do any of what he's talked about.

He may currently be the biggest billionaire around, but he's not the only billionaire whispering in The Criminal's ear.

@lowqualityfacts

I waited until I was a teen. Certainly seems to have worked as I topped out at 5"4'...

(Though it was probably the copious amounts of second hand smoke from my mom's pack & a half habit.)

@tinydoctor

Needless to say, the cancelation of my NYT subscription looks better every day.

If you are not already aware of ballot curing efforts in PA to try and get Bob Casey across the finish line as well as possibly other down ballot candidates, here are the two Mobilize links for curing activity; go to https://www.mobilize.us/2024pavictory/?tag_ids=25416 for available canvasses and to https://www.mobilize.us/2024pavictory/event/742453/ for state-wide virtual phone banks.

The deadline for voters to cure their ballots is 5pm tomorrow, Tuesday, 11/12/2024.

If you can help out, God bless you.

A 🧵
I penned the following in reply to an email earlier today from Markos at DailyKos.com about our need to keep fighting. I expect I'll be repeating it a lot in the coming days and weeks:

FWIW, I believe there were 4 major contributors to yesterday’s debacle:
1. The RW echo chamber that has poisoned the minds of 30-40% of the country.

/1

2. The for-profit (and big non-profit) media that failed yet again to report the truth day-in and day-out making it possible for more than ½ of the voting public to believe lies about the current state of America, that inflation is not going up, crime is not going up, undocumented immigrants are neither a serious threat to nor damaging their well-being, and the US economy is not a basket case.

/2

3. The top echelon of the Democratic Party yet again thinking that there are more voters in the middle than in our base, spending far too much time & money chasing the smaller piece of the pie and alienating the larger well of base voters by failing to relentlessly standing up for all of our values.
4. Most importantly, that we do not speak with one voice from one hymnal and that ASO Communications/The Research Collaborative/Way to Win/We Make the Future must be the authors of that hymnal.
/3

If we all were to employ the race-class-gender narrative and the messaging framework built on it in our every day discourse, in framing every important issue so that the majority of Americans come to believe in their gut that it is the oligarchs, not the “others” among us who are wholly responsible for our not having what we deserve and could have.

/4

Not until we change the narrative of who is to blame and how they are dividing us to keep us from coming together to create a government and society that works for us and not the reactionary, regressive-right elites will we have a fighting chance at building the country we all deserve.

/end