AmberWavesoFlame @AmberWavesofFlame@qoto.org
Twitter refugee still learning all the things. She/her, nerd, ADHD, JD, vaxxed, cat staffmember, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect. Still pulling for those taco trucks on every corner.
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Beinart notes that "there was a remarkably kind of, I would say, condescending and dismissive response to him. So, he was thrown under the bus by leading members of his own Democratic party."
This is true. And it had a lot to do with the fact that Jimmy Carter is a Southerner, a white Southerner who is not easy to pigeonhole as a stereotypical racist bigot, who was dismissed by the "liberal" establishment soley due to his cultural origins.
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Good morning #mosstodon with a bonus #fern in a local storm drain
How businesses manipulate and inflame #culturewars for free #advertising:
No one:
Corporations, Publishers: [discreet changes no one asked for]
No one:
Corporations, Publishers: [outrageous/ridiculous changes no one asked for]
Public: What?! This is an outrage! This is ridiculous! This goes to show how people I don’t like are RUINING EVERYTHING! There goes my childhood! There goes common sense! I’m going to rant about how special the product was the way it WAS!
Public: Wow, yeah, it really was special. Let’s buy it!
Corporations, Publishers: $$$$$
People that have had the same sociopolitical views all their lives, and only associated closely with people who share those views, are so incredibly bad at recognizing #parody. Nobody is as humorless as those who only understand one point of view and are proud of it. Irrespective of how correct their views are, they are fundamentally stunted in their grasp of the human aspect of that issue, and, ultimately, will also be poor advocates of it.
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Study Quantifies Global Impact of Electricity in Dust Storms on Mars
Search over 1,500 astronomy and space news releases at www.stars-n-stuff.com/news-stories
#astronomy #space #science #news #stargazing #Mars
Image: NASA
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Study Quantifies Global Impact of Electricity in Dust Storms on Mars
Search over 1,500 astronomy and space news releases at www.stars-n-stuff.com/news-stories
#astronomy #space #science #news #stargazing #Mars
Image: NASA
Via @pluralistic :
#Facebook updating its messenger app to deliberately drain users’ battery, just as a test.
Employee: um, that could strand people, or even get them killed, are you kidding me? No!
Facebook: such a shame. Please drop your name badge in the box to your left on your way out.
#technology #tech #data #meta #malware
https://doctorow.medium.com/when-facebook-came-for-your-battery-feudal-security-failed-c8c1e3beb279
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The robots aren't taking over. They're not falling in love. They're not feeling. They don't want to be alive. They're not evil masterminds. They create word patterns based off text on the internet. Is what journalists should be saying, not gee-whiz sci-fi LARPing about fancy autocorrect.
A thread worth linking to, from Eric Wemple, with gems from the #defamation #lawsuit of Dominion Voting Systems v Fox News. They’ve each filed motions for summary judgment, and Dominion’s is a 200 page doozy full of internal conversations at #foxnews making it clear they knew the story was garbage but were desperately trying to recover #ratings after their audience reaction to calling Arizona correctly.
https://twitter.com/erikwemple/status/1626372140479004672?s=46&t=9k11UOpm-yBVrk62veV_zQ
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It was long thought #snakes could only feel vibrations through the ground.
New research finds they can not only sense airborne sound, but can likely detect human voices! 🐍👂
Link to ruling here: https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/21/21-30625-CV0.pdf
Link to explainer thread starts here: https://twitter.com/pjaicomo/status/1625669649030430722?s=46&t=ZfJu7cHknKTdLUxX3NQTRg
Via Patrick Jaicomo:
#qualifiedimmunity #QI #unaccountability
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There's a good thread (and blog post) on the Norfolk Southern derailment by @JuliusGoat
https://newsie.social/@JuliusGoat@mastodon.social/109853291596588846
Apparently the braking system was ancient and needed replacing, but the corporations successfully lobbied against a 2015 rule that would have required that the brakes be replaced.
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Today we are spamming the transportation secretary about #norfolksouthern #norfolksoutherndisaster — if you are in the US please join us in this fun activity.
“What are you doing to prevent this from happening again?”
“Will you make a statement on reinstating depreciated safety measures?”
“How can I find out what dangerous trains are in my area?”
Pete Buttigieg
US Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20590
United States
1 (202) 366-4000
8:30am-5:00pm EST
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Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public
People were forced to leave their pets and other animals in the town--where they're now dying en masse.
#Ohio #RailroadWorkers #RailroadStrike #NorfolkSouthern
Reported here:
https://qz.com/norfolk-southern-is-giving-25-000-to-an-ohio-town-wher-1850094599
from twitter:
"five dollars per person for poisoning the air, water, and land of this town. all pets dead, the poisoned water now flowing into the ohio river on its way to the mississippi. five dollars"
https://twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/status/1624215484945076224
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Long thread/9
That's what happened during the #Trump years, when rail lobbyists secured the repeal of a long-overdue, hard-won safety regulation that would have required rail companies to replace the Civil-War-era brakes on their rolling stock with modern #ElectronicallyControlledPneumaticBrakes (#ECP):
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/rail-companies-safety-rules-ohio-derailment-brake-sytems-regulations
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Russia is draining a massive Ukrainian reservoir, endangering a nuclear plant. This imperils land they claim is theirs. #Russia has a rich history of ruining their own land, "we will out die you" seems their doctrine. #Ukraine
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155761686/russia-is-draining-a-massive-ukrainian-reservoir-endangering-a-nuclear-plant
h/t @morgfair
Twitter refugee still learning all the things. She/her, nerd, ADHD, JD, vaxxed, cat staffmember, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect. Still pulling for those taco trucks on every corner.
#JinJiyanAzadi
#SlavaUkraini
#BLM
#NeverTrump
#YIMBY
#Neurodiverse
#ADHD
#law
#gardening
Joined Nov 2022
