Notices by Max Kennerly (maxkennerly@mstdn.social), page 2

Gotta admit it's pretty funny to see someone plunk down >$15M for deep in-the-money call options on Trump's "DJT" stock at what they thought was a low point and then immediately lose at least a million as the stock dropped another 15%.

"Thank you for contacting me about the tightness in your chest and sharp pain in your left arm. Pee is stored in the balls. Have you tried ivermectin?"

https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-wants-replace-nurses-with-ai-1851347917

We don't need a conspiracy theory for this to be problematic. On the face of it, a Presidential candidate will owe $91.6M to someone—maybe Chubb, maybe a bank that gave him a line of credit to give Chubb, etc—if he loses the appeal, as he likely will. That's a lot of leverage on a President.
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/08/trump-posts-nearly-92m-bond-to-appeal-e-jean-carroll-defamation-damages

Quite the indictment of our financial system that there's nearly $4 billion in capital tied up in a shell company that is going to merge with the money-losing social network run by the insurrectionist conman who keeps racking up hundreds of millions in court judgments against him.

(gift link)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/business/trump-media-digital-world-acquisition-cash.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk0.6qm7.k4vMS2dLR6_8&smid=url-share

Weird how all the "protect the kids" folks who are rabid about banning trans healthcare have absolutely nothing to say about routine brain damage to adolescents who play football. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2814507?utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=020124

What's extra funny here is that, not only was Musk's compensation package 250x the norm and 33x his prior package, but he and Tesla's board made no attempt to avoid a challenge exactly like this. Literally no effort at a fair negotiation. They walked into this.

Delaware Chancery Court Opinion here: https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=359340

So perhaps Boeing makes unsafe planes because of woke DEI or perhaps, just maybe, it's because the last time they killed a bunch of people just five years ago they got away with it and not a single manager or executive responsible was prosecuted? https://fortune.com/2024/01/09/boeing-deferred-prosecution-doj-criminal-charges-737-max-crashes-alaska-airlines/

Alexander Stephens wasn't "found guilty of the crime of insurrection" either but was denied his Senate seat in 1866 precisely because of his involvement in the insurrection. For an insurrectionist like Trump to be elected, something like the Amnesty Act of 1872 is required.

"Courts should stay out of elections!"

That's nice, I'll relay your message to President Gore.

This is why billionaires hate unions. "Tesla hikes wages 10% at Nevada factory as United Auto Workers push to unionize"
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/19/tesla-hikes-wages-at-nevada-gigafactory/

According to LendingTree insurance quote data, "Tesla drivers have the highest accident rate."

"From Nov. 14, 2022, through Nov. 14, 2023, Tesla drivers had 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers. Ram (22.76) and Subaru (20.90) were the only other brands with more than 20.00 accidents per 1,000 drivers. Meanwhile, Pontiac (8.41), Mercury (8.96) and Saturn (9.13) were the only brands with fewer than 10.00 accidents per 1,000 drivers."
https://www.lendingtree.com/insurance/brand-incidents-study/

Again: if Thomas was a judge on any court except SCOTUS, this would be a no-brainer. It's bribery. He and everyone involved, like Harlan Crow, would be indicted.

But we're supposed to pretend it's okay because it's SCOTUS.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-money-complaints-sparked-resignation-fears-scotus

You can say Substack should host Nazis, but don't pretend there's some "free speech" principle to it. Substack has a strict ban on pornography. Welcoming Nazis while banning sex workers isn't a principled stand, it's a choice, an expression that you like the former and dislike the latter.

Look at this garbage from the Texas Supreme Court's abortion order. Pure sophistry. Wholly meaningless drivel because they wanted to force a woman to carry a trisomy 18 pregnancy to term.

https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1457645/230994pc.pdf

Note to journalists: retail companies never said anything like this on investor calls because they'd get sued by shareholders for securities fraud. It was all a PR stunt. Don't listen to the lobbyists, look at the disclosures to investors.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-retail-lobbyists-retract-key-claim-organized-retail-crime-2023-12-06/

Everyone in this article has a penis and most of them are just moneymen so I have fixed the title for NYTimes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/technology/whos-who-modern-artificial-intelligence-movement.html

Conservative men have made themselves unfuckable with their abhorrent views, but somehow this is a problem liberal women should solve by lowering their standards.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/22/marriage-polarization-dating-trump/

The Attorney General of Missouri (a Republican) is "looking into" Media Matters creating three X/Twitter accounts then accurately reporting when X showed ads to offensive content—an abuse of government power that genuinely threatens free speech.

Iran now has >20x as much enriched uranium than it did when Trump cancelled the JCPOA. This outcome is 100% Trump's fault, and the whole Republican party loudly cheered him along as he did it, too, and still believe he was right to help Iran expand its nuclear capabilities in exchange for nothing.

https://www.barrons.com/news/iran-s-enriched-uranium-stockpile-over-22-times-limit-of-2015-deal-iaea-3eda5caa

Hey Americans, feeling politically powerless? You have an election tomorrow. Fascists are targeting those boring state and local positions and using them for everything from abortion restrictions to book bans to criminalizing trans healthcare. It's up to you to stop them.