Notices by Megan Lynch (she/her) (meganl@mas.to)

@Tarnport The thing is...if it hadn't been for their evil profiteering what we would have is the more diverse economy they squashed. So much of what they have was invented elsewhere and acquired and/or stolen. We don't need giant tech corporations. We could have had something better if antitrust enforcement had been on them from the start.

@skinnylatte I wish the entry went into what happened to her Sikkimese citizenship.The US didn't reinstate her citizenship. And Sikkim was assimilated into India so was she automatically granted Indian citizenship or is she just a US permanent resident with no passport, I wonder.

Spain and Gibraltar remove border fence in a historic EU-UK treaty

"Thousands of people who travel every day between the southern tip of Spain and the British territory of Gibraltar will no longer have to cross a physical border beginning Wednesday after a border fence was fully removed, allowing a new freedom of movement under a historic European Union-U.K. treaty that came after years of post-Brexit wrangling."

Wow. That is the first time I've heard a Gibraltar English accent and it really is a 50-50 mix between a Spanish accent and British one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_jNNu6CYtk #UK #EU #Spain

@skinnylatte Are there dishes you would have at breakfast but not the other meals?

Foreign nationals among victims as Spain battles one of its deadliest wildfires | DW News

I've been made fun of online for trying to learn emergency prep info for being in another country. There's such a terrible tendency to not want to think that anything bad could ever happen and it keeps people from thinking through emergency plans and preparing as best they can in good times.

This is an area of language lessons and travel vlogging that really needs to be addressed, IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QCe-qS6tDE
#ClimateChange #Fire #Spain #EmergencyPreparedness

Former Fred's Appliance spokeswoman sues company, media agency over use of AI likeness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzkNwx8RLI0

#FuckAI #Acting #Advertising

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116882174630299627

I wish we could hold all the regulators and pols that let Musk get away with things one after the other for decades accountable.

These jerks were testing boundaries - what can we get away with? Public beta test of auto-pilot cars? No problem. Proposing "innovative" car tunnels simply to take money away from funding public transit? Sure.

Every thing this feckless fuck has done has been acting as if he were a state unto himself while the people the public entrusted to protect the public interest sold us out.

#Fascism #Techbros #Corruption

@skinnylatte Well, it is an AI conference, right? 😉

The person who wrote the headline understood the assignment.

#Connecticut #Porcupine #Journalism

@aral So is the legislation all written by lobbyists, kind of as has developed in the US with shitty groups like ALEC just providing pre-written legislation to the legislators they buy?

My initial response to critiques of insults like “idiot” and “moron” or “insane” were that they were not being used literally and everyone knew that. Which is sort of besides the point - *why* is being likened to someone who’s disabled an insult is more the point. Why is it that people who do evil things are supposed to be more insulted by being likened to disabled people than by the evil deeds they do tarring them with an ignominy far more insulting?

(3/10) #Ableism #Fascism #Language

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-sinister-history-of-the-word-moron-explained

This is the reason I don’t remember the user names of many of the folks on Twitter who changed my mind about ableist language and other things that are shifts I’ve made in the last 15 years or so. I wish I *could* remember and namecheck them to thank them. (2/10) #Ableism #Fascism #Language

🧵 When you hear something you know is going to change everything for you, you probably remember who it is that said it. But when someone plants a seed that ends up sprouting months later, especially when you initially reacted negatively to the idea, you may not remember who said it. (1/10) #Ableism #Fascism #Language

Something the use of ableist insults “moron” or “insane” does is reinforce the framing that good = abled/smart/sane and evil = disabled/moron/insane. This is not only reinforcing an ableist worldview but it’s not at all accurate. Any one of us can point to someone who may be intelligent, clever, and an abusive asshole all at the same time. Many of them are promoted upwards in whatever corporate workplace or educational or governmental institution we’re in. (6/10) #Ableism #Fascism #Language

There are times where they use those terms as if what was wrong with these rulers was that they weren’t “smart enough”. No, that’s not what’s wrong with evil people. It’s not as if all they’re missing is education and they’re suddenly good guys.

Examining the ableist insults and framings I was taught to use has made me have to think about the differences between IQ (eugenics measure), intelligence, cleverness, and wisdom as concepts. (5/10) #Ableism #Fascism #Language

The journey I’ve made (and am still making) in trying to change what I use as an insult and the metaphors I use has made me really think hard about this. So even now, I’m listening to a podcast episode about revolutions (and monarchy, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, and fascism) where all three abled white dude hosts use words like “idiot” and “moron” to describe some rulers. (4/10) #Ableism #Fascism #Language

Outrage in Albania over Kushner-Trump $1.6bn luxury resort | The Latest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSm6zdFKzTc #Albania #USpol #Corruption #Environment

LIVE | Dita 7 “O sot, o kurrë”! Shqiptarët në revoltë, sot protesta më e madhe për largimin e Ramës

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs0GGZ8HIzM #Albania #USpol #Corruption #Environment #Protest

Wow, even TLDR are covering #Albania now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWa-aKVUmkE

#Albania #USpol #Corruption #Environment #Europe

DW Documentary from 2 years ago helps give some context to the environmental issues posed by the Kushner development deal and the construction of the Vlorë airport to fuel it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCnaXOhNPu8 #Albania #Corruption #USpol #Environment