Notices by BobDevney (bobdevney@wandering.shop)

How can we make this, from @frog, famous?

"My standard for consent: pretend the thing I'm consenting to is being physically done by a person.

"It'd be super weird if I bought a used car & they asked me if they could follow me around.

"It'd be super weird for a stranger to ask to follow me around writing down the things I put in my grocery cart.

"If I called a taxi, it'd be super weird if the driver asked to look through my phone contacts & copy them down."

#Computer #Surveillance #Crime

Bone-chilling stuff via @ddayen at @theprospect

@Lurkle points us to the receipts in this incredibly scathing takedown of the 5-alarm fire cryptocurrency bill — & of the frankly traitorous Senate Democrats taking big money from crypto & ready to join all the crooked Republicans cramming it through.

Gillibrand; then Gallego, Slotkin, Schiff, Fetterman, Warner. & Alsobrooks, Rochester, Kim, maybe Schumer.

GOT to read this one to believe it.

https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-10-some-democrats-endorse-bill-allowing-elon-musk-create-own-currency/

#Politics #Crypto #Treason

More bricks in the wall, from yesterday—another superb post by historian Heather Cox Richardson:

"[On Friday] federal prosecutors were withdrawn from a criminal investigation of Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) for election fraud; Ogles recently filed a House resolution to enable Trump to run for a third term and another supporting Trump’s designs on Greenland."

"…[M]ore than two thirds of Trump’s executive orders mirror Project 2025."

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1-2025

#USPolitics #Republicans #Coup

@kims

We might make up one possibility derived from the Greek word "plektes." [Pronounced "PLAKE-tace."] Apparently it means a violent person or bully; from a Greek verb meaning "to strike."

So: plektestocracy? [PLAKE-tess-TOKH-ruh-see]

#Politics #Word #Etymology

"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich."

— Attributed to food policy expert and poverty fighter Martin M. McLaughlin (1918-2007), Overseas Development Council, June 1980.

#Quotes #Poverty #Inequality

It is predictable that he will give free rein to the oligarchs to generate the social & digital bases of a politics of us & them. It is predictable that he will seek to remain in power until death. It is predictable that he will use deportations to divide us, to accustom us to violence, to make accomplices of us. It is predictable that he will create a cult of the martyrs of January 6th. It is predictable that he will coöperate with similarly minded rulers abroad. — T Snyder
#USPolitics #Future

This E Mystal piece on the US Supreme Court's murder of "Chevron" is nuclear 🌪️⚡ 🔥:

"That is a naked power grab that places the court ahead of literal experts chosen by the president, who is the one elected official we all get to vote for. Who do you think has a 'special competence' in resolving what the word 'clean' means in the context of the 'Clean Water' or 'Clean Air' act—experts at the EPA or justices on Harlan Crow’s yacht?"

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/chevron-deference-supreme-court-power-grab/

#USPolitics #SupremeCourt #ElieMystal

Wow.

Check out this amazing stat on car crash prevention in the local paper (here in southeast New England, USA) re adjusting school start times so teenagers don't get up at 6:00 a.m.:

"A study…at the University of Minnesota in 2014 found that in Teton County, Wyoming, crashes involving students 16 to 18 years old…reduced by 70% when they changed their school start time from 7:35 a.m. to 8:55 a.m., the most drastic change among schools involved in the study."

#School #HighwaySafety #Sleep