Notices by myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win), page 18

I'm thinking more about the psychology of how this works. Because from the outside it's easy to point and laugh "how do you keep falling for this?"

But thinking that something terrible could happen, The End Is Near is terrifying. So, you and your closest friends and family all go through this traumatic experience together. The relief of it not happening brings you closer

As does the pointing an laughing.

I think some leading know this.

Starting today I'm going to become more aggressive about supporting independent media and journalism.

I'm not wealthy enough to make a big difference on my own but I think this is something that could have an impact if enough people with a little handful of disposable income and deep concerns about the state of journalism took on as a more serious value.

Are you paying Disney every month? youTube? Think about the impact of that going to a 20-something journalist instead.

Here is an expose about some of the snake oil salespersons at the heart of MAHA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2lh-r7poLo

I know it’s to keep away bots but I like to imagine they had to do this to keep ants from editing their own pages.

Are you struggling to buy your favorite headache pills, lotions, makeup or other shelf-stable goods while avoiding using amazon? For some brands it might seem like the only option if you only look at the first three pages of a search. But nearly always the manufacturer will sell to you directly— although their pages are buried. I almost thought ebay was my only option— (items on ebay are often expired)

Nope! The manufacturer will ship to me and it’s a few cents less than amazon. (not much less)

There is something delightful about just buying things from whoever made them directly. It’s more fun in person— but no one is selling my favorite brand of migraine pills at the farmer’s market. And I know the brand that works and will throw a fit if I can’t have it. Amazon has cornered this kind of online purchase and driven all alternatives to obscurity. Don’t bother with walmart they are under some kind of corporate shipping warfare the product may not arrive. (and walmart isn’t great either)

incompitant!!

Jimmy Kimmel is taco bell mild sauce political commentary and jokes, I suppose he should head on down to Austin and demand the stage. he has earned it far more than many there who only had a mean essay written about them.

Recent changes in the boundaries of acceptable public speech have a lot of people talking about the first amendment. I think this is a mistake.

Free speech absolutism isn’t a real thing. With very rare exceptions, everyone has limits. You would not have a kindergarten teacher who swore like a sailor.

The problem isn’t “free speech” nor is it hypocrisy: it’s that some on the right are trying to change the boundaries in radical harmful ways.

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Part of this is about retribution. People on the right have seething with anger for years as they watched people lose their job for saying racist, homophobic, sexist or otherwise bigoted things. They have never felt this was reasonable and now to slander the Trump regime by questioning the sincerity of its mourning is the new n-word.

I think back on people who lost their jobs for not supporting the Iraq war in the early days after 9/11.

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If you think caring about a particular trans person means someone can't be a groyper you haven't interacted with any.

post spoilers for reality without warning

@bri_seven

It is a real question. There isn't much a person can do if they are facing fabricated evidence from the government. We've seen this most often from individual police or police departments, and some people have been exonerated after evidence planting became too obvious. (caught on camera for example)

But what about planting digital evidence? That would be harder to contest. I think backup snapshots might be the only option.

@bri_seven

If I were a high profile person who might be targeted for political reasons I would think about these questions.

Being just a little paranoid and not at all high profile I'm thinking about them anyways.

Another overlapping perspective. There is an AI bubble. The "High Yield" video makes these data centers sound inevitable and unstoppable. But, what if all of this infrastructure isn't really producing any value? Or enough value?

OpenAI has only a handful of customers and most of them are using it to do their homework for them. We discussed "Vibe Coding" last week and no one can agree on if it saves any time or not.

Ed Zitro makes the case for the bubble on MR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wStScmT748

Here is a good overview on trends in datacenters. (Did you know they are planning on firing up 3 mile island again? Truly, we live in a 1970s revival)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhqoTku-HAA

i am the goblin who eats the homework feed me! nom nom nom

It's literally the candles budget meme.

"Can someone who is good with understanding violence please help? My country is dying.

USA Budget

Food 400
Transportation 50
Guns 900000"

"Have fewer guns."

"NO."

Elon Musk doesn't really have an authentic national identity he is willing to embrace due to his racism.

To be South African? Awkward, complicated. One would need to recognize the past and help be a part of building a multi-ethnic future. To be American? He will always be an immigrant.

He's not "English" either.

Maybe that's why he's latched on to whiteness?

It never occurred to me that when I'm pointing out the factual information about who these shooters were it might sound more like a conspiracy theory.

There are a handful of people who have some conspiracy theories about the assassination attempts being "faked." There isn't any evidence to support this.

A disillusion "super-fan" can be a terrifying thing. Kirk's death falls into a parallel lane. He was ... to the shooter *not right wing enough*