Notices by Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)

@bruces

I'm an ex-physicist and IMO you want a burner phone that looks exactly a generic burner phone. Any souped-up one would draw more attention which would be bad

@Gargron

How does this affect subtoots? That's a case where you are responding to text content created by others but purposefully not attributing it. Do you have to be careful to paraphrase it?

When the USSR fell, there were a whole lot of people on old age pensions that quickly become worth very little or unreliable. Lots of them died, part of what happens when an empire falls.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

Columbia University is union busting as well as having its students disappeared

#academia #colombia

https://uaw.org/in-shocking-move-columbia-university-fires-union-president-one-day-before-contract-negotiations-begin-in-further-crackdown-on-free-speech/

@clarity

To each their own etc. Since we get cataclysms and malignant architecture in reality I'd rather more of the experience that reality can never bring

@clarity

Dream flying can be one of the greatest joys but it exists in different varieties: the version that takes concentration or, worse, a feeling of physical effort (as if pedaling a bicycle etc.) is not worth it. Need some sort of dream therapist to encourage unconscious processes to dream the good kind.

I knew that I was not going to like the reason for this "elbows up" thing when I finally heard what it was. Yes, the US trying to absorb or conquer your country is best thought of as a game.

https://ohai.social/@MeanwhileinCanada/114139328189051458

@CedarTea

I can accept it as a part of Canadian culture which I do not understand, but even rhetorically this is comparing a potentially deadly serious conflict to one of the rituals of a hockey game. Sure you don't precisely break someone's nose in order to win, but it's a recognized and traditional part of the game.

The guy disappeared at the instigation of Columbia University literally had his lawyer on the phone, the lawyer was saying something to the cops, and the cops just hung up on the lawyer. Legality isn't going save anyone.

I hope that Trump somehow finds even more than $400 million to remove from Columbia University's funding. Let the fascists fight each other.

There is nothing more tiresome than a post where someone announces that they aren't surprised. OK I'm going to do it anyways. So CA gov Gavin Newsom is complete agreement with Charlie Kirk on "trans issues".

Come on this is California. Have people not learned anything about California yet? It's a state that all of our more ideological Nazis came from. They just rejected ending prison slavery by popular referendum!

A couple of days back I posted

"Stop creating international conferences that meet in the US.

This goes beyond conference policies. Some of your attendees will not be able to get into the US and some of those that do risk arrest."

Many people said that the current risk of arrest was low for people in "safe" categories. I sort of agreed but emphasized that the future risk wasn't. Well the future is already here.

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/02/28/german-tourist-held-indefinitely-in-san-diego-area-immigrant-detention-facility

@bruces

The whole algorithm vs not thing is so misdirected. "Show posts in order of when they arrived" is an algorithm. You can also view Mastodon through some other algorithm if you get one of the interfaces to it that does that. It's something people talk about instead of power, control etc.

OK, what is this American Iron Front organization pushing?

* US flag on site
* fashy vibes site design
* Popular Front against fascism, 50/50/1 movement
* "significant overlap in both ideology and policy between the fascist movements of the West and the ‘red nationalism’ currently pervasive throughout much of the East and Global South"
* pro "pragmatism" against "purity tests"

It's like a tankie and a Blue MAGA got together and worked out a joint statement.

https://www.ironfrontusa.org/about-us

Why does social justice talk still refer back to the Book of Amos?

Because books about morality that tell people that they are good are bullshit. If society is in a bad situation then most of the people who you are addressing are going to be bad people.

The Book of Amos also adds that the crash when it comes is going to hurt both the innocent and guilty alike -- perhaps the innocent even more.

Fascists glory in their supposed badness: "I'm an edgelord, I'm powerful, I'm going to do sadistic things because it's fun" etc. OK, they've said who they are, now people can fight them.

Liberals say that they're good and that the US is good or at least that its ideals are good. Then they do all the same things, but with a disapproving look on their faces so you'll know they're good.

Probably the best way to envision US liberals as part of the left for purposes of finding them tolerable is to imagine that they are new Marxists high on shrooms and the 18th Brum. They really have it in for lumpenproles. Gay people, criminals, non respectable people with questionable means of support and of dubious origin, all those are imagined tools of their enemies.

Me: Time to do this! Left / liberal cooperation!

Democrats (official): sends out a Valentine's Day card showing Trump and Musk shamefully in gay love with each other

Me: OMG no. Maybe there's someone less official--

Liberal media analyst: NYT won't report on how crazy what Trump is saying is! It's sanewashing!

Me: Oh JFC. Must be someone--

Blue MAGA: Trump is a criminal -- a felon!

Me: 8% of the adults in the US are felons! 33% of Black adults!

Argentina is as far as I know unique in having elected an anarcho-capitalist leader, I wonder how that's going.

(How does one know that anarcho-capitalists are not anarchists? Lots of ways. But one of them is that there will not be a President Anarchist.)

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/114027830134298393

In order to view this job as good, you have to view what the state generally does as good, at least enough so that your limited ability to choose projects puts you on the side of the angels (although one of your helpful co-workers is of course going to do them.) Is what the US state is doing generally good?

We have the largest carceral system in the world. We have an advanced military logistics system that we used to commit genocide.

The article says that Marcotte views what he was doing as "putting rectangles on screens". OK -- for what purpose? 18F is a part of GSA that acts as a sort of internal contractor to other parts of the government on tech issues. What are the other parts of the government doing? Is the rectangle a drone targeting rectangle that gets smaller as the pictured person on the screen gets closer?

But people at 18F have some ability to choose projects. No drone chasing -- as an individual.