Notices by Shoq 🌿 (shoq@mastodon.social)

“Wait, YOUR chair? Are you being serious right now?”

Awesome. Just the narrative we needed going into what could be the last election of this failing democracy.

Trump and Republicans return to communist attacks against Democrats ahead of the midterm elections… labeling them communists.

https://abcnews.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-republicans-return-communist-attacks-democrats-ahead-midterm-134402950

shift, Gingrich bypassed senior committee chairs to centralize absolute power within the Speaker’s office and shortened the congressional work week to prevent lawmakers from building cross-party relationships in D.C.

He also masterfully leveraged cable television, using empty late-night House floor sessions to beam fiery, partisan speeches directly to C-SPAN viewers.

While this revolutionary strategy successfully ended 40 years of Democratic House control, it ultimately dismantled the old …

I (and many) would argue that it started six years earlier in 1994 when Newt Gingrich decided to blow up The Congress.

Before 1994, Congress operated on a deeply ingrained culture of compromise and collegiality, but Newt Gingrich permanently altered that landscape with his “Contract with America.” He nationalized local House races into a unified referendum against Democrats and weaponized constant conflict, choosing total confrontation over traditional legislative negotiation.

To cement this …

To understand the death of American political comity, look at the bridge between Reagan and Gingrich. Reagan established the right-wing drive to centralize control, but Gingrich, with the help of the new Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh, took that ideological framework and turned it into an all-out cultural assault on America. He didn’t just break congressional precedent—he broke the nation’s capacity for shared truth. By replacing collegiality with systemic hostility, he ensured that polarization …

SCORE! I just got $6.34 via Zelle for a “Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation Settlement.” Take THAT Fuckerberg!

(FYI: To my knowledge I never gave Facebook any access to my Zelle account. Hmmm.)

The only thing this reflecting pool story is missing is some Trump appointee—or George Santos—marketing 2”x2” chunks of the pool liner or $1000 each. MAGA so loves any Trump memorabilia. They’d pay twice that for his semen stains.

Once a day I look at Twitter and I honestly don’t know how humanity is going to survive. It’s a moron contagion that Elon Musk is cultivating globally. And it’s not all bots,

So this big celebration is only going to be available to Paramount subscribers. Isn’t that grifty? If I were a betting man I’d wager as many as three dozen people are gonna watch this thing tonight. Maybe more. All of them named Biff, Bunny or Bubba.

https://bsky.app/messages/3mo3vt74nml25

Last month, Forbes, put it this way about #Spacex.

I don’t leap to conspiracy theories, but these Trump assassination attempts have seemed sketchier and sketchier.

And now this.

It’s just not hard to dupe some people. The Soviets did it for decades.

https://stzl.ink/nuplo6

PLEASE PAY ATTENTION. AI can be constrained. But to even get started, we need to first agree on some concepts and language.

“Open Source Initiative Helps G7 Deliver Vision On AI Openness”

On May 29, 2026 in Paris, G7 Digital and Technology ministers approved a “Vision on AI openness opportunities and shared language”.

https://opensource.org/blog/open-source-initiative-helps-g7-deliver-vision-on-ai-openness…¶

WHY THIS MATTERS ⏵

For years, AI companies have played games with the word “open.”

Some release their model weights (the giant sets of numbers …

Liberals seem to think it doesn’t matter that this noise goes out to 10s of millions. It does matter, and we’re making a grave mistake not calling it out out forcefully so people understand this noise is designed to keep them out of the system so they can be further abused by it.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@shoq/116692925510761897

Thanks to the great @tchambers for posting this G7 story. It’s the best AI news I’ve heard all year.

The nastiest, meanest, and most hypocritical creeps I’ve ever known almost always wore faith like a costume. I don’t think all believers are bad people, but I do think most bad people are—or pretend to be—true believers.

https://stzl.ink/dvu1bc

The projection memes are running wild on Shitter today. The click bait whores from eastern Europe are working overtime on memorial day. If we don’t find a solution to this problem, serious government may never be possible again

\THE WRECKING BALL SWINGS ON.

US green card applicants will now have to return to home countries to apply, DHS says

Change criticized by advocates marks the latest significant move by the Trump administration on immigration policy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/22/green-card-applicants-trump-administration

We don’t have a government anymore. It’s more like a junior high school comedy revue. Except that it’s never funny.

Trump: US to send 5,000 more troops to Poland

https://archive.ph/sPwNz

Epstein’s Assistant Names Three New Abusers in Harrowing Testimony

House Oversight Chair James Comer said Sarah Kellen’s revelation was “what we’ve been waiting for.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/210831/epstein-assistant-names-new-abusers-james-comer

“Revolt” Uh huh

Republican revolt over Trump ‘weaponization’ fund stalls ICE funding vote

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/republicans-flee-washington-after-flap-trumps-weaponization-fund-ballroom-2026-05-21/