Notices by Grassroots Joe (joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social)

@MoiraEve

There's no privatizing Amtrak. There's only stealing the DC to Boston corridor. Everything else would wither and die. A terrible outcome for all concerned.

This is the worst possible path for any putative Democratic leader to tread.
It's the same doomed logic behind Congresscritters who supported & voted for the horrendous Laken Riley Act.

You can NEVER do regressive-right "better" than the actual regressive-right. Why the f*ck would you want to try?

The winning path forward is the Freedom Over Fascism toolkit path.
The 1st step in the toolkit framework?
State your values, and stick to them.
If you don't, you're toast.

https://www.theframelab.org/why-gavin-newsoms-maga-play-is-a-losing-game-for-democrats-2/

@realTuckFrumper

"People born between 1994 and 2013 who take all vaccines recommended by the CDC will suffer 322 million fewer illnesses, 21 million fewer hospitalizations and 732,000 fewer premature deaths. This saves $295 billion in direct medical costs and $1.38 trillion in other costs to society. The CDC report was issued before the COVID-19 pandemic, which would have made the case for vaccinations even stronger."

@indivisibleteam

I trust no one is missing Rocketman's dripping antisemitism.

He is a Nazi and he is taking action every day to destroy this country.

I hope everyone is taking whatever actions you can to resist and oppose.

If you don't know what to do, reach out to your local Indivisible group for direction.

Go to https://indivisible.org/groups to find groups near you.

Pictures of Saturday's protest at the West Chester, PA Tesla showroom.

If you want to know what actual weaponization of the Justice Department really looks like, here you go.

Trump’s DOJ Threatens Dem Congressman Who Shared “Elon Musk Dick Pic” | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/191787/trump-doj-threatens-democratic-congressman-garcia-elon-musk-dick-pic

@Devilstower was my absolute go to journalist to stay up to date and understand what was going on with Putin's criminal invasion of Ukraine, day after day, month after month for well over a year.

Ukraine update: Trump and Putin negotiate the destruction of the West
Trump has no interest in peace and even less in a fair solution that recognizes Russia as an illegal aggressor. Not only does Trump view Putin as his greatest ally, he sees the invasion of Ukraine as a gift.
https://www.unchartedblue.com/ukraine-update-trump-and-putin-negotiate-the-destruction-of-the-west/

@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.)