Notices by AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)

Guardian: Far-right militia targets US military over baseless hurricane ‘weather weapon’ claims

"...A vigilante militia notorious for its patrols on America’s border with Mexico has threatened to take on the US military in recent weeks, with its founder baselessly claiming that Hurricane Helene was deliberately caused by a government energy weapon that needs to be destroyed, according to private and public Telegram chats...."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/19/far-right-militia-targets-military-weather-manipulation #conspiracies #weather #terror

@Lazarou Yep, that does seem to be the method here.

@RunRichRun @Lazarou It's definitely not good. The only question is if they consume each other first in infighting before causing massive impacts to the public.

@Lazarou @RunRichRun Social media disinformation is surprisingly effective, combined with Fox propaganda, etc. What a terrible way for all this stuff to unravel.

CEOs lining up to tell people how happy they are about the incoming administration because they will roll back consumer protections, tells you all you need to know about those CEOs.

Investors: "The stock market is completely rational, it's a perfect market!"

Gizmodo: "Investors Appear to Think Bluesky Crypto Firm Is the Bluesky Social Network ... "
(ps. it's not the same company, and some penny stock promoter is making bank this week)

https://gizmodo.com/investors-appear-to-think-bluesky-crypto-firm-is-the-bluesky-social-network-2000527227

#investing

"Come to the dark side, load Linux" we say.

Consumers: "No, no, we prefer the adware loaded OS, really. We only trust large corporations, Microsoft loves us. Please give us AI, and I like the advertising in my Start Menu. It will even be better occupying my screen! How dare you suggest a non-corporate OS!!"

#Microsoft #Windows #FOSS #Linux

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/microsoft-pushes-full-screen-ads-for-copilot-pcs-on-windows-10-users/

@pettyranch Hmm, my sad and lonely avocado tends to lose leaves, water/heat stress?

Hmm, so many possible future fashion wardrobes, now that we've decided on "let's go with the apocalypse" future. 🤔 #fashion

Interesting, there's a carrot cartel in the US.

Forbes:
"At least 60% of those carrots are produced by just two companies, Bolthouse and Grimmway, both of which were acquired by buyout firms, in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

“There’s only two sources,” Adam Waglay, cofounder and co-CEO of Bolthouse owner Butterfly Equity, told Forbes. “We joke around — it’s kind of like the OPEC of carrots.”

Cartels are less funny for neighbors of the two producers in Southern California’s Cuyama Valley, who are calling for a boycott of Big Carrot..."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2023/11/21/inside-the-two-companies-that-dominate-the-us-carrot-crop/

#carrot #cartel #monopoly

Neatened up the garden. Picked up a lot of bits of suff everywhere. Big downside of the experimentation with hydroponics is: PLASTICS, PLASTIC EVERYWHERE. (the reason for the attempt is 1. better yields with a fraction of the water 2. gopher proof 3. attempt to try to make the garden less subject to wild weather extremes. and 4. learning something new).

Although it eliminates the issues I had with gophers, it does not fix the issues with squirrels and rats. Productivity on tomatoes is superior, for sure. (or was, last year -- this year's productivity was marred by weather and squirrels) #gardening

First step, fitting the head. Impossible tight fit,so wood needs to be removed with a blade and rasp. #hammer #restoration

New hammer handle arrived! #tool #restoration

Fitted tight and wooden wedge placed. I ended up hammering in some extra wedge there on that empty spot afterwards. #hammer #restoration #skullhammer

Took off a lot of wood. A little sloppy. Will refinish this later with boiled linseed oil. #Hammer #restoration #skullhammer

Okay, who figured out how to give the NPS permission to post on Bluesky directly? Also the CPSC. 🤔

There's some route into getting those approvals to happen that I am unaware of (Facebook/Threads was grandfathered in). They've been unwilling to do so for the Fediverse. Although... given who is going to be running .gov, maybe no loss.

Deleting all your Tweets does NOT, in fact, delete that data from Twitter's servers, at least based on my "download of archive" of my account after deleting all my tweets. 🙄 #Twitter

BlueSky's investors most certainly would take a big payoff from Musk to sell, as long as they got a quick big profit. 🙄

@Fanua A wee bit nontrivial, but if you're into the technical stuff https://github.com/lucahammer/tweetXer/tree/66d0a0f188afb72e445c5157670d604b25f962c3

@EricFielding @max_in_somer @raymondjohnson They actually have TWO major freeways between those two cities. Looks like Houston 😬