Notices by George Station (harmonygritz@mastodon.social)

@dangillmor We may be in for a wave of increased justice-system abuse, and this deserves more attention, but why call convict leasing new?

@br00t4c Let's just go with a big ol' "Yes" in that case.

Is anyone really in doubt about their intent on this one...

@paninid

It's also painful to watch when Democrats, who have already failed to heed Lakoff, repeatedly fall for Frank Luntz's usage as designed for the GOP.

Which means that the GOP just keeps on driving the political narrative on issue after issue.

#protests #activism

(Secondhand #GiftLink reminding me to keep reading Zeynep in any medium, including the New York Times.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/opinion/campus-protest-police-violence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE0.mebH.xgzQczZU_0k4&smid=url-share

#HolidayMusic #ChristmasSongs

Sharing this #XKCD for the exceedingly accurate rollover.

https://xkcd.com/988/

@Gargron @taylorlorenz

"If they [convo improvement features] prove successful, we’ll be bringing them to the experience on the web as well."

As a middling new presence, I'm hoping the data supports keeping the first feature (Reply thoughtfully) but not the second (Hey, you're replying to an older post).

I was reminded once not to tag you into a thread, which was annoying but valid. But if I'm replying to an old post, its because I deliberately dug it up. So I don't need that extra step.

@publicdomainrev This post reminds me that #Paleofuture was one of my favorite hashtags EVER, on several media including blogs and Google+. (Yes, it's been a while.)

@Adam_Cadmon1 What I'm seeing & hearing (US) is that it translates to fear at local level. Local pro-Palestinian marches, posters & flyers, etc. put them in immediate fear of their personal safety. They have never had this vocal & visible challenge from large numbers. They may also feel betrayed by media and friends saying Israel/Netanyahu are wrong on flattening Gaza.

I don't argue that they aren't feeling the emotions. I believe them. I doubt that folks I know will publicly condemn Netanyahu.

@dajb @dnorman On a broader note, Doug, your social dot coop peers who commented on this gave me some other trails to follow—kind of like the "old days" of social media sharing. Not that I should be surprised.

One led to an article on MSG, and another led to a transcript on Superintelligence. Both were fine rabbit holes (in the early sense of fascinating deeper dives, before the paranoiac kind of rabbit hole we worry about nowadays).