Notices by John Refior (jrefior@hachyderm.io)

@molly0xfff
Funny.

Well, she ran unopposed in the 2024 primary, she's popular on the left, and MA is a very blue state, so the trajectory is for victory in 2030 as well. It's certainly a much safer bet than "investing" in crypto.

(That said, I was a fan of Warren before her presidential run, but I've been very disappointed by her work in the 2020 - 2024 timespan, so I wish she faced a great Democratic challenger.)

"A judge agreed Friday to postpone Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case until after the November election...

"Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan, who is also weighing a defense request to overturn the verdict on immunity grounds, delayed Trump’s sentencing until Nov. 26, three weeks after the final votes are cast in the presidential election.

"..the #election will be decided without voters knowing if the Republican nominee is going to jail."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-sentencing-delay-postponed-election-be5a6fd3481055187543236c8dd3b045
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#BadNews #law #crime

“In Georgia, Black students like Byrd make up slightly more than one-third of the population. But they account for the majority of students who receive punishments that remove them from the classroom, including suspension, expulsion and being transferred to an alternative school.

“pursuing racial justice mean[s] addressing disparate outcomes for Black youth that begin in the classroom, often through harsh discipline and underinvestment in low-income schools.”
https://apnews.com/article/d099aab519ff743dc2be04c6b6132144

"The Democratic National Convention begins Monday in Chicago, with roughly 50,000 people expected to arrive in the Windy City. That includes thousands of anti-war activists who plan to demonstrate near the United Center.

"President Joe Biden is the headline speaker for the first evening. Later this week, Vice President Kamala Harris will officially accept the party’s nomination."
https://apnews.com/live/updates-democratic-national-convention-harris-walz
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#democrats #convention #DNC2024

How many of the top news stories this summer will global warming be responsible for?
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#globalwarming #climatechange

@thomasfuchs
For eating raw: Mutsu aka Crispin
best with peanut butter or almond butter

For baking and cooking: of course Cortland is the best, because it's the only apple that actually melts under heat

If getting your news from TikTok is better than getting your news from Facebook, it's mostly a matter of degree.

"users on TikTok have been falsely suggesting [that Trump] has already been found not guilty.. These videos are the latest example of TikTok users earning engagement from misinformation and harmful content."
https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktok-spreading-false-posts-suggesting-trump-was-already-found-not-guilty-ny-trial
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#SocialMedia #misinformation #news #ignorance #TikTok #Facebook

This is in the inbox of a lot of low-income people:

“The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that the ACP is ending and April 2024 will be the last month you receive your full ACP discount.”
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#inequality #ACP #digitaldivide #broadband #uscongress #biden #fcc

Good thing a woman was flying the plane that busted a big hole three miles up. The plane landed safely and no one was seriously harmed. Who knows what might have happened with an emotional man at the stick
https://apnews.com/hear-how-a-pilot-calmly-led-her-alaska-airlines-flight-to-safety-during-an-emergency-0000018ce047dbeeafade4ff94770000

@thomasfuchs
Is that still regional or worldwide?
https://apnews.com/article/x-twitter-musk-paid-subscription-spam-0cb87465f38676282bbc5dd3a9672ca6

I wish @pluralistic and others had chosen a name that wasn't a swear word for poop.

I'm not going to talk with my mother, sister, and nephew about "enshittification" over dinner.

I'm glad to see Wikipedia lists #PlatformDecay as an alternative. Can we use that instead? Or come up with something better if you like
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#NamingThings #words #WordsMatter #ImEating #gross

"Since the start of the pandemic, fewer people are walking to get around. The 100 most populated metro areas in the U.S. saw a decline in #walking of at least 20% between 2019 and 2022, according to a recent report. But even with this decline, #pedestrian deaths have skyrocketed to the highest they’ve been in over 40 years."

Reasons include working from home, getting packages and food delivered, and fear of getting hit and killed.
https://www.marketplace.org/2023/11/14/fewer-americans-are-walking-these-days-what-gives/
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#SUVs #trucks #fear #intimidation

"More than 750 journalists and business-side staffers at The #WashingtonPost walked off the job today...

"The newspaper's acting CEO, Patty Stonesifer, announced plans in October to cut 240 jobs, about 10% of the workforce

"Union members say specific areas have been disproportionately targeted for buyouts, including metro news, copy editors and the audio team.

"'What they're doing is really going to decimate the local news desk'"
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/07/1217690720/washington-post-workers-strike
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#media #journalism #WaPo

Not sure how much rogue states (Russia), criminals (in Russia), and cryptocurrency (implied money laundering and currency for criminal activity, so kinda back to criminals) have to do with capitalism, but they sure do suck

@selzero
Ok. More expansive definition of capitalism than most I've seen (especially by including criminal activity).

Gets harder for me to think of places/times/things that haven't been dominated by capitalism, by that definition. Are there any you like to point to?

E.g. in Communist Russia, much of the economy ran on the black market, so maybe that was capitalism by your definition too?

Turns out all the stories about a rise in #retail theft were #misinformation intentionally sowed by a retail #lobbying firm whose own data showed it wasn’t true + retail CEOs.

“I heard a #Walgreens executive walk back the company’s claims that shoplifting had gotten out of hand..Walgreens tried to use shoplifting as the reason behind their decision to close 5 stores in San Francisco in 2021..we know that these stores were planned closures"
https://www.marketplace.org/2023/09/11/is-retail-theft-really-rising/
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#corporations #media

@thomasfuchs got mine today too

@thomasfuchs
Are you currently in the parking lot begging strangers for donations of milk, bread, and eggs?

🥛🍞🥚

@thomasfuchs
marketing by the white supremacists who signed the Harpers letter

@malwaretech
In the US, 85+% of the explanation for that is racism. Anything that helps the lower class could help a black person, so the "working class conservative" wants it eliminated, as it could upset the racial caste system that keeps them, in their minds, above black people.

If you need evidence, just look to the history of US domestic policy the last ~80 years. (E.g. what happened with Johnson's Great Society, https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/26595572-american-maelstrom)
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#racism #uspolitics #inequality #history