Notices by Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social), page 4

Even if Harris wins in a landslide, it’s not going to do much to reduce the rising tide of Dunning-Kruger specimens now polluting the American gene pool. These MAGA cultists are everywhere, and they’ve been programmed by conservative oligarchs to seek political success at the local level. Win or lose in November, we need to stay very afraid.

DNC convention lineup and speakers: What you need to know : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/18/nx-s1-5078651/dnc-convention-harris-walz-speakers-schedule

The fish rots from the head. And the head is the Murdoch family. We stop them, or they stop the world. Ignore that advice at our peril.

“Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america

When when we warned that staying on Twitter was a very bad idea, not many seem to care. Do they now?

“Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. See what he plans for America.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america

If anyone knows of a matrix client that I don’t know about (Element, Cinny, Fluffy. Schildichat). I failed to ask that question about other things in the past and new stuff went unknown to me for too long. I know about Commune app, and it has great promise, but it’s not ready for prime time.

Just wow.

I don’t understand why a case can’t be made that this is racketeering at best, and sedition at worst, all thinly cloaked in politics. I just don’t.

Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought talks Trump in secret video

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/15/politics/russ-vought-project-2025-trump-secret-recording-invs/index.html

It’s just a matter of time before candidates sit down with robot interviewers. I can’t imagine them doing a worse job than Jake Tapper or Katy Tur, and they might be a good deal better.

Welp, I watched none of it, but judging from this smoke blown, it must have been a doozy of a train wreck.

It wasn’t journalists, tech bros, and influencers who made the Internet a thing. It was librarians, scientists, educators, and programmers.

A group portrait of what Republicans consider “the will of the people.” I have never seen Democrats spend much money to teach voters otherwise.

Twitter wasn’t all that, even before Musk gutted it. And Threads is not a big step up from that. Social media needs reinventing. This model has been with us for 17 years. We need a laboratory for new ideas and user experiences.

That’s only going to happen in the fediverse. Where once, no one had an internet address, the same will be true of fedi IDs. Sooner than later, I hope.

LISTEN: the esteemed journalist, @dangillmor has started a blog to distribute articles for this ongoing war to protect our democracies. Please read, but also share this post (or the blog directly). We’re all stakeholders in this crisis.

Blog: https://cornerstone.ghost.io/essentials-august-9-2024/

@Kathleenparker should be run out of the opinion business on a rail. A barbed rail. And her publisher should be ashamed, once again.

Between Trump’s crashing helicopter, and RFK Jr. leaving dead bears in a park, I am starting to think it’s just not safe to leave the house with so many world-class knuckleheads running around. Can we mass deport them?

It’s happening. Trust me.

https://mastodon.social/@petergleick@fediscience.org/112916284912421315

Trump is trying to figure out how to get back on TV, while his campaign is terrified that he might succeed. They’ve got it hard enough, right now.

They are #BallsToTheWalz terrified.

The #fediverse is one killer app away from most of the planet getting at least one fediverse account. We have to be ready for the future when it arrives, or it’s #TwitterMigration drama all over again.

Note to self: remember I said this. I mean it.

If you’re watching MediaMatter’s President, Angelo Carusone (@go_angelo) on @msnbc explain just what the Trump plan really is, here’s something you may not know. Angelo was warning about Trump way back in 2010. He was the first to tell me Trump was planning to run for President. Trump sued him. Unsuccessfully.