Notices by Greengordon (greengordon@spore.social)

@selzero

This could have been an alternate title for my book!

"you are not going crazy. Everyone else is"

The actual title: You're Not Crazy, the World Is.

Where the #US is/going:

"Lakoff noting that in modern history, far-right authoritarian regimes institutionalize male authority through a family-like hierarchy: women are subservient to men and both obey the nation’s metaphorical “strict father”. In the home, paternal authority and maternal subservience prime children for a wider social order, teaching them to see women’s submission as stability, and to accept fear and conformity as the price of belonging."

#fascism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/21/fascism-women-homemaker-trad-wife

@Heribert @chris

I’ll be blocking Heribert. Calling a genocide what it is, is not antisemitism.

"Well, your antisemitism makes *you* a horrible human being. Antisemitism is no opinion, it‘s a crime. From a rotten individual as yourself you accusation is more of a compliment than the insult you intend. There is no genocide in Gaza."

@pluralistic

Much more honest way to frame #AI

"AI is only secondarily a technological phenomenon; it is primarily a financial phenomenon, hundreds of billions of dollars in investment capital in search of a return.

"The return on that capital only comes from one place: workers' wages."

Yet another ‘gift’ from the oil industry, the scumbags who will just keep taking and taking until everything collapses. OilCo CEOs are sociopaths, or sure are acting like it.

"The world is in a “plastics crisis”, it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at least $1.5tn (£1.1tn) a year in health-related damages.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/03/world-in-15tn-plastics-crisis-hitting-health-from-infancy-to-old-age-report-warns

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

@raymondpert

What a transparently obvious bullshit excuse. He couldn’t even be bothered to come up with something halfway plausible.

Now: Why did he tariff Canada but give Mexico 90 days? I think he still wants to take Canada and is putting on economic pressure.

"Canada has failed to co-operate in curbing the ongoing flood of fentanyl and other illicit drugs”

#cdnpoli #Canada

@pluralistic

I keep waiting for the wheels to come off...

"Musk is no Technoking, but he's a strong contender for Enshittification King: a guy who taps the capital markets and Uncle Sucker for funds he can use to subsidize the initial rollouts of his stupid ideas, in the hopes of becoming so indispensable that he later can squeeze both business customers and end users for ever-larger sums to keep the illusion afloat (think of the junk fees he's piled onto Twitter users and publishers).

Internet search question:

A number of people I follow on Mastodon, including some high profile ones like @pluralistic , recommend Kagi as a search engine. Most of these same folks are not keen on #AI.

But Kagi builds AI right in, I don't even know if it can be turned off. What am I missing?

"Generative AI on the other hand can automatically process and analyze information to answer questions like the one above, thus giving users exactly what they want."

#kagi

@Free_Press

Smart politics.

"Why it matters: It's the second time this week Democrats have forced their GOP colleagues to choose between loyalty to President Trump and a MAGA base that is furious at his administration"

#uspol

@darnell

Is the US really part of #NATO any more? The Americans have cut off arms to #Ukraine and Trump has said he'll defend who he feels like. On top of that, Trump is clearly Putin’s poodle.

My prediction is that the US will nuke somebody, thus opening the door for other countries, eg Israel and Russia to also do so.

"I doubt #Putin would risk a nuclear war by attacking a #NATO member state as long as the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 remains a part of the alliance."

On Trump and other autocrats:

"Personality cult canons present the leader as a unique being who can guide the nation to a better future based on his superior instincts and wisdom: he can see this new reality and the nation’s potential long before others do. This visionary quality means that everything they do must be received as beautiful and perfect and totally successful."

https://open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/when-autocrats-go-to-war-where-delusions?r=50n99m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

@RickiTarr

The sad and scary thing is that #MAGA scum think being a Nazi is a good thing.

"Every time I meet a MAGA, they're a Nazi."

@StephanieMoore

"A Tesla Full Self-Driving vehicle drives down the road, past a stationary school bus with stop signs, and runs over a child-sized dummy during an anti-Tesla demonstration in Mueller Thursday, June 12, 2025."

#Tesla #teslatakedown

Who in their right mind wants to fly on a #Boeing aircraft these days, with the American government essentially accepting bribes to let them keep flying?

"Last month, Boeing agreed to pay $1.1bn (£812m) in a deal with the US Department of Justice to avoid prosecution over the two crashes that together killed 346 people – a deal that lawyers for some of the victims’ families called “morally repugnant”

#capitalism

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/12/air-india-first-crash-of-boeing-787-model-comes-weeks-after-1bn-dollar-737-max-payout?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Phase 2 of the US coup now underway.

"Far from ending its work, DOGE is expanding, and its lawless actions are being institutionalized as a second phase of action begins. DOGE and Project 2025’s own armies of democratic destruction will work together under Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought’s guide. Some say DOGE was a failure; I say it has been all too successful."

#uspol #authoritarianism #DOGE

https://open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/the-whole-government-is-doge-now

@tk @dgar @MAJ1

"The far-right takeover of the United States government and the series of extraordinary actions of the second Trump administration amount to a ‘shock and awe’ display of power. These actions do not really manifest strength, but signify major systemic ruptures that are the precursor to collapse."

#uspol

@ilumium

Trump just did to the US tech industry what he did to the US defense industry: killed any future foreign business and set in motion its permanent decline. Nobody will buy US tech now.

"#Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor."

#uspol #EU #microsoft

@noelreports

Who will EVER buy US military gear now? It’s not actually yours, as clearly the Americans retain ownership rights and they may or may not let you use it.

"M1A1 Abrams tanks promised to Ukraine as part of Australia’s $245M aid package have not yet left the country, ABC reports. Delays are due to the Trump administration halting military aid approvals.”

#uspol #Ukraine #Australia

@_L1vY_

To be honest, Trump just ripped the mask off and is allowing a lot of really shitty people to show who they are.

"Still completely gutted and dumbfounded that as a country we no longer have any allies. Just 🫰 like that. Practically overnight, that hideous fool sabotaged us for decades."

@theteapixie @thepoliticalcat

Sadly, it's legit. Here's another lady who was arrested and jailed for driving in he US with a Canadian license.

#cdnpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-woman-arrested-jailed-in-u-s-for-driving-with-a-canadian-licence-1.4648561