Notices by Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)

@Alice But "AI!!! AI!!! AI!!!"

@dansinker It took an assassination to make the pay lip service. It will still take a full revolution to make change.

Q: How did they get a picture of my house?

A: With Google Street View and real estate sites, it’s not difficult to find a photo of someone’s house if you have their address. Data breaches are also common and scammers likely obtained multiple lists with the personal info of millions of people. (4/7)

Today's Low Quality Ad is for Youth To The People Vitamin C Face Serum. It's a lot like the Super Soldier Syrum that Captain America took. You know, if instead of super strength he got super nice skin. I'm not sure if it would have made him as effective at pummeling Nazis though.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08WCRLVTV?ref=t_ac_view_request_product_image&campaignId=amzn1.campaign.FDJIGQN1KN6V&linkCode=tr1&tag=connorstone06-20&linkId=amzn1.campaign.FDJIGQN1KN6V_1734122402829

A *hole* lot of love went into our book nook. Books and games were contributed by our team - things we want to share with the rest of our community. And the beautiful dolls house belonged to Dr Alex's beloved Nanny, who fiercely loved to read. We hope you enjoy this new feature as much as we do!

@davidgerard Sign me up!!!

*shrugs*

Bluesky is literally what would happen if all the people you hated having to interact with at a mandatory company Christmas Party got together and formed their own message forum.

I am totally fine if they don't have anything nice to say about the Fedi because that tells me the Fedi is doing something right.

Some of you haven't absorbed the most important life lesson of all: not everyone is going to like you, and if those people who don't suck monkey ass that's probably a good thing.

@gleick It seems wrong because it /is/ wrong. It's also circular: Because the press largely ignored these problems the voters were underinformed. But boy, were they in the know about Biden's age.

https://www.offmessage.net/p/new-health-care-populism

@RnDanger https://www.bennetyee.org/http_webster.cgi?isindex=datum&method=exact

I really don't like eating tiny pastries with coffee, I want fried rice goddamit

"So-and-so needs to be taught a lesson." --- Any Rando, copping out on standing up to fascists

Sock-puppeting: "To be is to be perceived."

I, we, they do this boosting, posting, tweeting, tooting, micro-blogging, blogging, vanity self-publishing to be perceived. A click, a "like," a "visitor to a web page" is a small indicator of having been perceived, thus having been, however insignificantly or insubstantially. These things make us ever so slightly less invisible.

Still, most systems exploit this drive for venal and draconian purposes: Corporate consumerism.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/

@TCatInReality @alexproe @GottaLaff I’ blue to the bone and and I’ve voted in every election since I was 18. I think I’m beginning to under stand why people don’t vote. Nothing really changes. If the Dems are in control, the GOP blocks any initiative. A real budget hasn’t been passed in over a decade. The two-tier justice system is becoming more and more evident ever day. When someone is murdered in cold blood in broad daylight, the country cheers for the killer. I could go on and on. The bottom line is “why vote” when nothing changes except for the worse?

How did we ever fall for the slippery slope from unbridled vanity self-publishing to blogging to micro-blogging to tweets and toots and boosts and posts? How did I come to identify myself as someone who "needs to" or "should" do any of those things? What in the world was I, were, we thinking? And why am I perpetuating that folly with this post?

So, fresh on the heals of last week's news that #Bluesky is considering targeted advertisements and more VC investment, today we learn that they have a paid subscription model in the works.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/09/bluesky-teases-paid-subscription-bluesky-in-new-mockup/

This should not come as a surprise to anyone. Bluesky is burning through money, and their only options at this point are monetizing their user base through ads, subscriptions and data harvesting, and/or more outside investment. Probably they'll need all these enshitifying tactics.

@mastodonmigration hahahahahahaha

Now we have the evidence, Wray failed; his response to J6, protected & enabled Trump.

Missteps may have hampered preparations for the attack on the US Capitol that day. DHS didn't declare Jan6 a natsec event, which meant -the FBI played only a supporting role in preparing for the day.

Report found: FBI failed to properly canvass its 55 field offices for information that their confidential human sources may have provided...

#USPol #Wray #FBI #NationalSecurity #Jan6 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/12/12/jan-6-fbi-report/

It wasn't Wray who was dragging the FBI into the pol fray. Trump deemed Wray a deep state enemy for, among other things, permitting the FBI’s search of MAL *became part of the classified-docs case against him.

He decided (decades of precedent of keeping: FBI independent of pol influence) be damned—he’d fire Wray- replace him with Patel. Wray couldn’t stop him from defenestrating him for Patel *could've forced Trump to fire him.

Wray protected him, esp. after J6.

#USPol https://www.thebulwark.com/p/chris-wrays-pre-surrender

“Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI informant charged with lying about President Joe #Biden and his son #HunterBiden's business dealings, has reached a plea deal with prosecutors from special counsel David Weiss' office, according to court filing Thursday.”

https://abcnews.link/pxQ9wqE