Notices by Joey de Villa 🪗 (accordionguy@mastodon.cloud)

(1 of 4) In the latest installment of “Notes for the Kakistocracy”:

📺 Last Week Tonight on Facebook and Content Moderation: If you haven’t yet watched this Last Week Tonight piece, watch it now. Note that at the end of the segment, John Oliver shows you how to make yourself less valuable (and less profitable) for Facebook.

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📺 History professor Timothy Snyder has been studying European tyrants throughout history and has derived 20 lessons that are applicable in the U.S. under Trump. Here’s the first one, and it’s key: Do not obey in advance.plenty of historical precedents.

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📺 The National Lawyers Guild of Detroit and Michigan remind you: “Shut the f**k up!”: There’s a reason why the first line of Miranda is “You have the right to remain silent.”

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📺 Adam Conover reminds us that if you want to see change in this country from its current state of ass-clownery (and remember, it hasn’t even been two months since the inauguration — image the damage MAGA can do over a year), it requires organizing and taking action, and there are plenty of historical precedents.

All here at this link:
https://www.joeydevilla.com/2025/03/01/notes-for-the-kakistocracy-2025-03-01-facebook-and-content-moderation-shut-the-fk-up-do-not-obey-in-advance-and-no-one-is-coming-to-save-us/

In case you missed it — my weekly “picdump,” a collection of pictures, photos, memes, and other pictorial goodies I’ve accumulated or were sent to me over the week. There are about 100 this week, and here’s a sample.

https://www.joeydevilla.com/2024/12/08/sunday-picdump-for-december-8-2024/

Wednesday, August 7, 1991. Now THAT was a concert!

Check out the post, which includes a list of major hits of our Gen X youth that HADN’T come out yet, but would over the following months...

https://www.joeydevilla.com/2024/09/10/lollapalooza-1991-now-that-was-a-concert/

Florida’s bad plan for development in state parks:

https://www.joeydevilla.com/2024/08/26/floridas-bad-plan-for-development-in-state-parks/