Notices by Extinction Studies (aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social)

Doing what a President says is a norm. Honoring their power is a norm. Choosing to not indict a sitting President is a norm.

Trump ate norms for breakfast last time. Let's eat his norms now. Tell all your friends. Tell the government.

Journalism isn't a relay race. It's not a game of telephone either.

It's about investigation and connecting dots. It's about following the money and winnowing truth from propaganda. Questioning power, not cozying up to it.

Know your metaphors.

#journalism

@WarnerCrocker Yeah, when are we going to do something about it? That's really the question. What's the appropriate and good thing to do? As a country, and as people?

@pluralistic

Of the four Nebraska reps, I know one (or knew), and know who the chair is. Ron Kaminski, not so much. Seems like an operator.

@atomicpoet

The economics will hopefully collapse a lot of these ventures before they do too much harm. Energy costs will have to be realized eventually, for instance. But the costs to the job market may bankrupt so many white collar workers that combined with all the stupidity Trump wants to do, the whole economic system may collapse.

@liztai

For me, I would just ask myself whether I'm more of a cheese tart or more of a scone. But that's what passes for self-awareness in my house.

I appreciate
Each attempt to make better
What's already fucked.

#haiku

@d2718 @pluralistic The industry i work in is aggressively getting bezzled into AI and pitching it to employees as an opportunity to learn new skills. AI to insurance employees is however a black box still; we don't have any windows into what they're implementing and what skills they'll care enough to help us learn, let alone how we'll be able to comply with laws or how our customers will be impacted.

@cstross

Balkanization, with 3-4 nuclear armed regional superstates. Which isn't better, but maybe the most likely. Have you read Christopher Brown's novels? Could be something like that too.

@film_girl @phaedral
Our work was not sufficiently helpful for the voters we knew needed to vote, and wasn't even relevant to the folks watching corporate media.

And the Dems didn't reach the pain that corporate America and it's subsidies continues to inflict.

The WSJ is owned by Murdoch.

The WaPo by Bezos.

The NYT, by Carlos Slim (30%).

The LA Times by Patrick Soon-Shiong.

These are some of our most prominent newspapers owned by billionaires. And if you think this is bad, you shouldn't look into television. No you should not.

@jeffowski

I'm opposed to poly- anything but not for religious reasons.

#3goodthings
1. I don't see ads on social media, except on YT and Tumblr, because I jumped out of Meta a few years back. Even Instagram. YT I mostly download.
2. I don't see ads on TV because I don't watch it unless I visit someone who leaves it on. At home I only watch #physicalmedia.
3. Actions still have consequences, but being slightly out of touch commercially is a feature not a bug. People who force feed themselves live ads are not like me. Never were.

So if you're looking for somewhere to distribute your Milton and Helene debris, may I suggest a Trump golf course?

It's not about me.
It's not about you either
So get over us.

#haiku

So in the news today, 40 trillion gallons of water fell, a Ukrainian river was killed, an Atlanta chemical plant burned, and a plastic plant's employees were killed among 128 known dead due to Helene.

War, accident, and natural disaster, all due to human negligence over 200 years of greed in the form of capitalism. And nowhere except in the Ukraine story are the deaths of nonhumans, of nature, discussed except obliquely.

Species and habitat loss is more important than we realize.

The Living Landscape has been wiped out to a large extent, eroding the region's ecological value to us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHV73ZLR_8

@tristansnell

America should brick each and every weapon Israel has been given.

@hacks4pancakes Nobody is listening to consumers anymore.

I'm for radical approaches to save innocent and well meaning people, animals, and ecosystems.

There are people I follow here because they make me uncomfortable and challenged.

There are people I follow despite same, because I want to be an ally, and learn new things.

There are people I follow because I trust their opinions and positions although we don't agree on everything.

If you're not in one of those buckets, don't worry, I have more buckets.

But if you're offensive, on a bunch of issues, I will cover the bucket and may dump it in the trash bin.