Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

If we attend business school, we learn all about disintermediation:

"Disintermediation is the process of cutting out one or more middlemen from a transaction, supply chain, or decision-making process."

MBAs love disintermediation, because it's often the key to making a value chain more efficient for everyone except the intermediaries.

Writers, I beg of you. Disintermediate your value chain: Publish on platforms that don't try to harvest your readers.

So #Israel is condemning its own people and children to poverty in the name of settling a score. It turns out that Netanyahu is killing off even more of his own people than #Hamas did on October 7th. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skalv8tvjl #Gaza

If we end vaccines we can let our body's immune system do what it does best, quickly succumbing to the same infections that have killed our ancestors for thousands of years.

Good morning, happy Monday! One more week of work for me, then off for a week for Christmas <3 Can't wait to visit NY again!

Mayor Eric Adams was denied public matching funds for his re-election bid amid concerns about his fund-raising practices — NYT

Like me, I bet a lot of you have been thinking that Social Security is running a deficit. Not so! Social Security contributes *nothing* to our national debt, either. In fact, the fund has a $2.5 TRILLION SURPLUS. Joy Ann Reid provides a great explanation in case you can spare a few min:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYQ1CHkp/

Congress has been taking from Social Security over time, essentially b/c the PENTAGON and literal HANDOUTS TO THE RICH are putting us into debt. Social Security has nothing to do w/ it

Holy shit.

The Russian gov send in an abuse request for the @Bellingcat to be removed from mstdn.social

I am not gonna comply, and have replied to Hetzner

No way I'm gonna let the evils of the gremlin dictate stuff on anything I host

UPDATE: Hetzner ignores their requests and we're in the clear: https://mstdn.social/@stux/113662573364116275

@tdwllms1 @light @mfennvt @Danetteb @GottaLaff

Republicans & Russians push antivaxxer disinformation because pandemics destabilize societies

Iran, China, & North Korea also want to put the US & NATO to rest, just like the British Empire was retired post-WW2

Mass death events roil the markets & provide distraction. While the USA is focused on domestic issues, the news cycle ignores global events

Pandemics are very useful to the GOP's megadonors monetizing the end

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics_and_pandemics

Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/16/most-iphone-owners-see-little-to-no-value-in-apple-intelligence-so-far/ The novelty of these LLM features tends to wear off after the first few days when you realize that most of them do not offer significant productivity benefits. Yet, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others co going batshit crazy with LLM, even though they often provide inaccurate info. Now every data is sent to these companies, creating privacy nightmare.

On Saturday, in #NewMexico, a 16 year old boy has been accused of murdering four of his family members before he called police to confess the crime. The NRA owns this. #GunControlNow https://news.yahoo.com/news/16-old-accused-killing-four-134315139.html

Annnnnd it worked on just enough dumbasses.
#FuckMAGA

This fossilized skull may look like the head of an actual dragon, but it's as real as they come. It belongs to *Dracorex hogwartsia*, an armored dinosaur from the Upper Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous period.

The skull's striking resemblance to a mythical dragon has captured the imagination of many, but it's a genuine fossil from an extraordinary prehistoric creature.

@Dr_TheHistories #dinosaurs #dragons #fossils

Well, I’ve set myself up to produce a magnificent #introduction, so here goes.

My name is Simon.

I have lived in the north of Norway since 1992.

I am a teacher in middle school.

I translate Norwegian and other Scandinavian folklore.

I have published several collections of this material, including the first ever English edition of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe in its entirety.

I have a Website, and various other social media accounts from which I point back to my Website.

Mastodon is the site on which I am social (to the extent that I ever am).

(I only post/ boost images that include alt-text.)

Website: https://norwegianfolktales.net

More about me, and where I link back to my Website: https://norwegianfolktales.net/personal/simon-roy-hughes

#Migration #NewInstance

So to sum up:

Trump wants to have a TV star lead the military, so the US cannot defend itself effectively, and he wants a guy to lead the FBI, who wants to dismantle the FBI. While the guy Trump wants to lead the Health Service is a conspiracy theorist, who wants to let polio loose on the population again to satisfy his conspiracy theory about vaccines.

This is the most dangerous national experiment in my lifetime.

I have to say... Why exactly do millions of people believe this story?? 😂

#atheist #atheism

@randahl

He’s doing exactly what Putin wants him to do: destroy America from within. Not just her systems, but her people as well. 💔

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, where his apparatchiks are pushing for end of car-crash reporting. Guess who'd benefit, and who hates that rule? Yes, Elon Musk.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-transition-recommends-scrapping-car-crash-reporting-requirement-opposed-by-2024-12-13/