Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

I simply do not have the lung capacity for the amount of deep sighing required right now.

"Silicon Valley ideology says safeguarding intelligence in the future is more important than its systems systematically crushing and killing black and brown people right now. Long-termism grabs attention back from people being harmed, who were beginning to make too much noise."

- @mariafarrell
https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/15/silicon-valleys-worldview-is-not-just-an-ideology-its-a-personality-disorder/

#Longtermism

"Silicon Valley’s most famous funders and CEOs veer strongly into sociopathy, narcissism, and abiding Daddy issues. They are thin-skinned, vicious, gormless. Now middle-aged men, their emotional development ended when they made their first hundred million."

- @mariafarrell

https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/15/silicon-valleys-worldview-is-not-just-an-ideology-its-a-personality-disorder/

Ha! Did buyers actually order this thing with this knowledge?
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sue-cybertruck-buyers-they-resell-in-first-year-2023-11
#Xitter #Fascism

I am on the side of humanity. I refuse to allow the propaganda from both sides of this war take my humanity away. I stand for peace. I do not know how to get there except that the 1st & necessary step is to acknowledge & hear each others pain. #israel #IsraelPalestineconflict #IsraelGazawar

From Nick Anderson
"Score a win for corruption. Senate Democrats on Thursday backed down from their plan to subpoena Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow in their probe of Supreme Court ethics. Senate Republicans had promised to turn the hearing into a "shit show" if the Democrats issued the subpoenas, and threatened retribution if/when they win the majority. Don't they do that anyway? The decision to back down was a mistake."

#Trump Echoes #Hitler. Courtesy: @KBAndersen
#BlackMastodon

I know the odds are low, but the fediverse has come through for me in amazing and unexpected ways before.

For those who don't know me, I'm a 29-year-old support engineer and FOSS enthusiast, who is currently in kidney failure.

If you live in North Carolina or can travel to Duke Hospital, and would be willing to consider donating your kidney, please call 1-800-249-5864 and let them know you want to inquire about donating to Timothy Dyer (my legal name).

Thank you! (Boosts appreciated)

So that’s how libraries are born ✨

by @nathanwpyle #books 📚

YeahNO, Trump…

VOTE. #VOTE!!! Okay? Thanks.

Via Brian Tyler Cohen:

#Trump is saying here that if he were president, he would run again for an unconstitutional THIRD term and arrest anyone who challenges him.

In favor of a ceasefire:

Democratic voters 80%
House Democrats 8%

Republican voters 56%
House Republicans 0%

All voters 66%
All House members 4%

Didn't believe this was a thing until I actually saw it myself.

I bank at a small, local credit union. I recently cleared my autocomplete settings so plugged their name into #Google to get back to their homepage.

The Sponsored result IS NOT my bank's website. But is skinned the same. 100% a #phishing site served as a Google ad above the legitimate business website.

This is a major problem, my friends.

"In a statement, [#FEC Commissioner Ellen] Weintraub revealed that there are at least 58 instances where the Federal Election Commission heard allegations against #Trump. In at least 28 of those, staff at the Office of General Counsel determined that a #criminal investigation was warranted—all of which went overlooked by Republican commissioners"

My paper on formatting new #ColecoAdam Digital Data Packs (without a donor tape), is now complete, and can be read at the #InternetArchive.
https://archive.org/details/formatting-digital-data-packs #retrocomputing #colecovision

"Putin still believes that time is on his side. If he can’t win on the battlefield, he will wait for the democratic world to splinter, and he will encourage that splintering. He will wait for the Ukrainians to grow tired, and he will try to make that happen too. He will wait for Donald Trump to win the 2024 U.S. presidential election, and he will do anything he can to help that happen too."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/us-ukraine-support-putin-defeat/675953/

West Virginia when Joe Manchin became a senator:
- 48th in income
- 50th in education
- 50th in health care
- 43rd in infrastructure

West Virginia today after 13 years of Manchin:
- 49th in income
- 47th in education
- 50th in health care
- 50th in infrastructure