Notices by bhaugen (bhaugen@social.coop), page 3

But I most definitely not be campaigning for a neoliberal unilateralist, either. That world is almost gone; it ends when Joe Biden boards Marine One back to Delaware. I am not willing to fight for it in order to hold off the MAGA horde any more. I want to put my energy, time and money into what comes next.

I am not sorry that the Biden Administration is over. It meant starvation and death from above for millions of people.

And I think I'm going to let that go. I don't give a fuck about how the normal chain of command at the FBI is supposed to be run. I am not going to fight for the filibuster. I am not going to hit the streets in defense of the General Accounting Office.

@dansup

It is kinda sad and frustrating I can say fullheartedly as former multi-year facilitator of SocialHub. People like to discuss their own project, yet in general not help doing the chores to maintain a community. It gave me more nuanced idea of what a useful concept of "community" is and what not. For AS/AP fedi to work a "commons" must collaborate, consisting of many independent initiatives (who may have their own community) and also include fedizen participation in the broadest sense.

I'm so glad that hearing is over. Not sure I can watch another one.

This was so fucking alarming, I'm devastated, terrified for the US.

These guys are NUTS, and they're in power.

Dems and Americans in general better wise up fast and do everything they can to stop them.

Brilliance already exists. People are #AGI and they are treated like dirt. That's why #AI is a folly.

fuck me, how long will this banging our heads against a brick wall go on for

even people in the imperial core must see now that it's socialism or barbarism now lads

like we gotta get organised

it's either co-ops, union, federations, communes, direct democracy, commons, revolutionary parties, etc or we're fucked

there is no viable alternative that isn't really bad

> Was it sexist to propose that Darwin's greater male variability hypothesis might explain some variation in human performance? Sexist enough to get Larry Summers pushed out as president of Harvard, apparently.

oh my god

> And yet it does seem plausible that greater male variability explains some of the variation in human performance. So which should prevail, comfort or truth?

what the fuck

Finally broke down and got on Discord. It's every bit as trash I as I remembered, and I feel vaguely gross ethically, but I've just got to keep remembering that you have to meet the community where it's at and I can't selfishly expect the community to change just for me. The work of organizing is more important than my dislike of the tools that don't match our values.

That being said, I will be limiting my use to #IWW business only and will *not* be joining "just for fun" discord servers.

Runciman and Lewis note that in the book the film is based on, what Project Mayhem conspire to blow up is not the offices of credit card companies - a trope borrowed years later by Mr Robot - but a more typically right-wing target.

The filmmaker's choice to make that change, I believe, was to hammer home the point I made above. That this cult of power, and the loyalty to a charismatic troublemaker, can build around any political movement, across the political spectrum.

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do not know where people got i’d be celebrating rich people losing everything in these fires. maybe you haven’t gotten the point of my talking about surviving hurricanes in the past, but losing everything to a storm of water is super traumatic; CAN’T IMAGINE FIRE.

i have a lifetime of PTSD and being homeless by weather disasters and then years later by poverty have fucked me up.

homelessness is homelessness. no matter how much money you may have, you can’t buy back your lifetime of mementos…

if you haven’t read @kissane’s latest, this is an especially good time to do so https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

"It’s a telltale sign of technofascism when our communication systems are disrupted by changes in political power after every election. Protection for vulnerable groups online continues to depend on the political ambitions of the CEO or owner of social media platforms.

This is further proof that social media is not a free speech machine. Never was."

~ Joan Donovan

#Trump #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #billionaires #EconomicElites #SocialMedia #technofascism
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/10/meta-factchecking-donald-trump

"Humanity already has the technology to quickly transition away from fossil fuels; solar has been the cheapest way to produce electricity for half a decade now. But ultra-wealthy people are blocking the transition."

#Trump #ElonMusk #billionaires #EconomicElites #ClimateChange #environment #ecology #GlobalWarming #OilandGas
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"Planetary overheating is really just the most geophysical symptom of extractive colonial capitalism – 'billionairism' – a system designed to pump wealth from the poor to the rich, creating billionaires, the healthcare crisis, the housing crisis, genocide, hierarchies like racism and patriarchy, and a great deal of suffering."

~ Peter Kalmus

#Trump #ElonMusk #billionaires #EconomicElites #ClimateChange #environment #ecology #GlobalWarming #OilandGas
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/10/meta-factchecking-donald-trump

@leahstokes.bsky.social
That is amazing! I looked it up and found this story that says it is becoming an opera composed and performed by a couple of my favorite musicians:
https://www.wusf.org/2023-07-14/octavia-butler-wrote-a-parable-that-became-a-prophecy-now-its-also-an-opera

"The justices on the Supreme Court must know that they will be called upon this week to rule on an appeal from defendant Trump. Given that knowledge, it is shocking that Justice Alito spoke to Trump by telephone on Tuesday of this week….

The contact between Trump and Alito was unseemly and likely unethical."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Alito #JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #corruption #immunity #RuleofLaw
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-los-angeles-firestorm

"Alito either believes we are idiots and don’t understand the corrupt nature of the call, or Alito doesn’t care what we think. My money is on the latter.

Alito is out of control and is giving the 'judicial middle finger' to the American public and to the feckless John Roberts who has lost all control over the Court."

#Trump #Alito #JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #corruption #immunity #RuleofLaw
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"They can take off the 'wigs with a million curls' of corporate social responsibility, ditch the 'highest heeled boots' of social media press releases oozing with their predictable faux expressions of 'deep concern,' and become nakedly self-serving plutocrats—just what they always were."

#Trump #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #JeffBezos #TimCook #EconomicElites #TechBros #SuperRich #autocracy #plutocracy
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"So grotesque is this enthusiasm that the Trump inauguration fund has already broken records, reportedly raising $170 million. Now, even those who are giving a million bucks are being turned down for VIP access since the events are so oversubscribed. When the incoming leader signals a politics of patronage, corruption, and retribution, the kings of capitalism take note."

#Trump #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #JeffBezos #TimCook #EconomicElites #TechBros #SuperRich #autocracy #plutocracy
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