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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If you want a small government, you need small corporations - need to block the anticompetitive mergers and predatory conduct that lets companies grow so large that they can fit their regulators into the little change pocket in their blue-jeans.
https://doctorow.medium.com/small-government-fd5870a9462e
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uspol, fox, media
Maybe I’ve overlooked analysis on this, but it seems like media commentators and the center-left press are missing something critical about the revelations of Fox News’s duplicity, which is that a ton (most, I suspect) of GOP viewers already believe that this is how all mainstream media works.
They already believe that all big media orgs intentionally distort the truth. Nearly half of Republican viewers don’t even trust the Weather Channel.
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Nothing will make me close your website faster than finding I have to watch a fucking video to find something out
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I made my first long form comic in years! It's not all that long, but it's more than one panel. cw:snake
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Click through to see Jacqui Heinrich's "crime" and you will see what I mean.
https://twitter.com/jacquiheinrich/status/1327354119439470592?s=46&t=nr4aN_Oyhjkkw-TifvNatA
It is a very careful, limited statement. Mild pushback. But Tucker Carlson felt panic over it, and demanded her head.
This kind of behavior exposes a weakness for Fox.
Keepers of a resentment machine— for that is what Fox is — may suddenly find the resentment coming straight for them. 5/
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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.
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
