Notices by anandamide (anandamide@dataare.cool)

Sorry but this is too good to leave on Bluesky

"The (Democratic) party itself has become a loosely affiliated group of ultra-wealthy individuals and highly compensated consultants put in charge of defending the interests of the socially-conscious wing of the ruling class without ever endangering their bottom line"

https://www.reallyveryhuman.com/out-w-the-old/

"Electoral common sense for left-leaning voters has always been that it's far better to hold your nose and vote for a spineless centrist than to abstain and pave the way for a grasping fascist, but that only works if the centrist wins. If the old school approach can't meet the crucial moment we're at, if all holding our noses did was put us one step closer to a situation we can't vote our way out of, then that approach has to go"

Oh god this is so believable. AI bros and Business Leaders have no interest in softer sciences, so they've Dunning-Krugered themselves into believing their googly-eyed autocomplete is a real boy

From https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

"Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars"

It's great to see someone FINALLY mention the magnetosphere issue, in the very first sentence no less, but this article rips into the idea so much more thoroughly than that, and with admirable gusto.

#skeptic #musk #mars

https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars

[Places hand to earpiece]

"...and we're getting news that TERFs are now Transvestigating Andrew Tate"

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andrew-tate-transgender-conspiracy-theory/

#Rust is woke now

Doing A Thing and I'm wondering what queer sex-positive spaces I know on mastodon (other than woof.group).

1 - any advice gratefully received, but mainly

2 - OMG I love the federated system. It was so befuddling at first and now here I am thinking of all the different hamlets on #Mastodon, from the giant cities like .social, the communities like kinky.business, the little commune I currently live in. For all the mess and the drama, it's adorable, it's human scale. I love it. I love you, Mastoo

The socialist anarchists I follow on BlueSky doing the Lord's work

This was requested as a UK version of the attached, which tbh is pure genius

omg

I need you to see this