Notices by Cluster Fcku (clusterfcku@mastodon.social)

@br00t4c if this is the new for balanced reporting, perhaps at the next CNN business update, where the market is up and big American names are reporting billion dollar profits, they can show a split screen with scenes of homelessness on the West Coast and black poverty neighborhoods in the south and so on, instead of the usual corporate glass towers. Balanced visuals of capitalism.

@fesshole "Is Your Spouse a Souse?"
Homey, do you ever drink alone?
Do you need a beer to fall asleep?
Do you ever hide beer around the house?
Do you ever drink to escape from reality.
I want you to give up beer for a month. Please, Homey, I know you can do this.
Homer: All right, starting tomorrow no beer for a month.
[sound of a can popping
open]
Marge: What was that noise?
Homer: I was saying, "Psssst, I love you."
-- "Duffless"
https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/9F14.txt

@shaknais @ErikJonker thanks, so in this case the executive had no authority, right? Isn't it that the employee is simply not fired. (I appreciate that the phrase "illegally fired" is used because people sort of get what it is about.) Perhaps comparable to the police telling me I'm fired, although I work for a plumber. I'm trying to understand how this legally works out. An illegal firing to me is when there is no cause, or the employer violates the employment contract/law. No?

@ErikJonker what does "illegaly fired" mean here? No jurisdiction? No notice? ...?

@WarnerCrocker @GottaLaff The perfect time to form an opposition cabinet was November. Then in January, at the commencement of Project 2025. Then in February, at the opening feast for DOGE. And now in March, after the official White House ceremony for the destruction of the Free World order. Clearly the gerontocratic establishment of all stripes has too much vested money & influence to take an activist position for humanity.

@inthehands @pluralistic oooh a new term to call those parachuted consultants and their financiers, including Elon and his barely adolescent tech wreckers: "enshittification ninjas". Because they are good at what they are assigned to do, but work best in the dark without any moral accountability but all loyalty.

@WarnerCrocker read here free without a squeeze page: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvged988377o

@arisummerland @akamran @timixretroplays yeah, i was wondering whether this was indeed about handles, or a conspicuous sampling of fedi willingness or caliper ownership or...

@sjvn the real question is what the color code is in the poop shack

@publicdomainrev in this well written story: “There is nothing to be gained by writing you this letter except, perhaps, to vent my feelings and point out . . . that everything in this world is not what it seems to be.”

@Gargron "put up with it"? I'd go a step further and say it doesn't matter for most. Social media provides the illusion of being heard, and can thus satisfy the narcissism and obsessions of billions.

@rbreich please post the list and political/governmental affiliation of each

@Gargron @micahflee you could view this incident as a PR opportunity, and write about it in the blogosphere, in terms of ethics, capitalism, post-twitterism, enshittification, and all what attracts Target Mastodon users. This would work as a positive story about Mastodon because the user bases are

@aral
It's not clear whether this is happening or just a proposal.

No paywall here: https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone

@WarnerCrocker clusterf**k indeed!