Notices by Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social), page 9

Ya’ll don’t have to worry about Florida anymore. It’s so far under water, all the political turds will soon be floating on the surface and you can scoop them all up at once and dispose of them in a sanitary manner.

Does the Chevron ruling come down this week, too? They are going to bury it beneath all the outrage about Mifepristone and the immunity ruling. It’s bigger than every other ruling thus far, including Dobbs. If they rule as expected, we will never recover. The administrative state will be overruled by their judges. Precisely what they were put there for in the first place. All the morality stuff was a always smokescreen. This has been the conservative holy grail for over 50 years.

Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison. But he only served 9 months due to a sympathetic judiciary and massive public outcry from his political supporters. If that sounds uncomfortably familiar, it should.

Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

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💯 And if we build tools ALL journalists and information specialists need and should use, those who don’t show up to use them will come to look increasingly irrelevant. Stay the course, folks. We know what the alternative to Open Social looks like.

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I’m not leaving Twitter. There’s no point to that without some large and formidable push to dump it. That won’t happen now. But I spend minimal time there, preferring the conversation on OS (Open Social). It lets me continue to remind people there that there is a richer and healthier social experience to be discovered.

We are at war. We’ve been at war. And we’re losing.

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat | The New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash

Ugh, I’m counting the seconds until the Trump campaign and Fox News learns that May 30th was also the day that Joan of Arc was executed. Wait for it.

Can’t say I don’t try. I wish more hadn’t given up trying to tell this story. It’s not too late. Our social media crisis isn’t going away.

“SNAPPED” The Biden-Harris ad that Robert De Niro made, and which is WHY he was in NYC at the Trump trial in the first place. YouTube, Google and most searches have buried it.

Please watch and pass it on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiwJ3kTMX60&t=1s

Some Nazi wannabe on FoxNews said the “babes love him.”

Sure. What woman outside of Paulding County, GA, could possibly resist that churnin’ urn of burnin’ chunk…er… funk?

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Not thrilled with how Biden is handling the crisis in the Middle East? Think you might not vote for him in “protest.” Well…

PLEASE CONSIDER THE FUCKING ALTERNATIVE (while you still can)⏵

“Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators.”

Gift article: https://wapo.st/4bywzh1

Well sure. They are masters of their universe and have no time for that nonsense. They know that women would just want things to work right, be fair and inclusive, and care about user’s needs, feelings and other poorly-monetized concerns.

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@gwaldby @kcarruthers No, they merely say they are “neutral.” Like most right-wing operations, core premises are often just lies. Maintaining plausible neutrality is how they are able to influence whenever they know who is likely to be reading a given piece of content. And like the equally right-wing Real Clear Politics, their site has many missions, and often try to nudge certain races, issues and GOP priorities.

Not many are aware that Ballotpedia is a classic example of tools that can make change. Not always good change. Unknown to most, it was an initiative of a super-conservative organization with extremist roots. They wanted to weaponize politics to benefit the far right, but were constantly working with bad legislative information. So they created this site to gather the info. Beware. It can still skew hard right when you least expect it.

@tchambers If most fediverse-interested users have a Threads account, how do fedi admins attract enough users to support them ? Someone needs to study this, because if I am right, we’re just trading one centralized model for another centralized model that can be followed from users on decentralized servers. I’m not sure what that’s going to look like a year from now. Are people really going to support servers just for their moderation? I strongly doubt it.

@tchambers Maybe, but it would be weird for desktop to flatline while mobile did not ( regardless of the percentage using either). I suppose it’s possible, but I can’t imagine what might explain the disparity.

@tchambers@indieweb.social @Tchambers Thanks. That seems to confirm those saying that Threads growth has “flat-lined,” not just recently, but since December. But even more concerning is that we know many Twitter elites have moved there in only last 6 months, so even they had marginal impact. If accurate, this is good or bad news, depending on one’s goals or perspective.

@Tchambers Is there any real evidence that Threads is growing much beyond its Instagram starter-set and the initial surge (and converting some to Fedi accounts). I’m not seeing much evidence of it in feeds I watch carefully, but I’m not aware of many reliable data sources.

Good afternoon. How goes the march toward fascism? Are we there yet?