Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

Thanks to the Biden/Harris Administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Wisconsin has been awarded an $8 million grant to expand broadband access to hundreds of people on their reservation as part of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program.

If you think this isn’t important infrastructure, I guess go back to dial up.

#Wisconsin Broadband Infrastructure Deployment Program - Center for American Progress:
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/wisconsin-broadband-infrastructure-deployment-program/

In a misguided effort to be "unbiased," most news media have stopped calling Trump's Big Lie about the 2020 election what it is. Instead they're using terms like "false statements" or "claims without evidence."

Memo to the media: Calling out lies isn't "biased." It's your job.

“We need every voter. I don't care about you. I just want your vote. I don't care."- #Trump, Las Vegas, Sunday, 9 June 2024.

“The press will take that & say, ‘he said a horrible thing.’”

Nah, just an honest thing, for once.

#Vote #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024

IN HIS OWN WORDS: Alito Endorses Returning 'Our Country To Godliness'

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/secret-recording-reveals-alito-being-ahole?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=89541

Apple keeps touting its supposed privacy advancements, while they keep bending over to please the Communist Chinese government.

So Elon Musk needs 46 billion dollars to stay motivated.

Maybe Tesla should ask employees whether they prefer:

A. Give Musk 46 billion and he stays

B. Musk leaves and everyone gets a $340,000 raise.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/tesla-chair-says-elon-musk-needs-46-billion-pay-plan-to-stay-motivated/

One day I hope to be rich enough to profoundly misunderstand the science fiction of my youth.

addendum:

*required* viewing for all Americans

for everyone in the world

made by the US Army War Department at the end of WWII, imagining a discussion between an American who almost gets seduced by a fascist street preacher, and a Hungarian immigrant who tells him this is how Hitler started, in detail

at the greatest moment of historical clarity, an inspired piece of propaganda about how #fascism rises

"Don't be a sucker"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4

Jeff Tiedrich. The week in STUPID.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/this-week-in-stupid-june-8-edition?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

@SETIEric

it's emotion driven social media psyop

much of them are straight up MAGA agent provocateur and russian troll farm driving this

and also, of course, those western fools who lack thinking skills being used as useful fools, to help bring trump back to the white house if they don't vote, and make palestinian lives much worse

but they don't think

they don't see them not voting is the whole point

Trump said "finish the problem" about Gaza in March. He would greenlight #Netanyahu for #Israel to unleash genocide on #Palestinians

So you're asserting your single-issue concern as more important than other issues, and you're even wrong on that one issue

Biden sucks, but Trump and Biden are the only two who have a chance of winning. Again: #strategy, not #passion

#Emotional manipulation is how #geopolitical #trollfarm moves to topple #American #democracy, those #trolls are here on #Mastodon

No.

“On November 11, the foreign ministry launched a campaign under the hashtag # BelieveIsraeliWomen.

They didn’t mean ‘believe Israeli women’. They meant ‘believe Israel’.”
https://www.thetimes.com/magazines/the-times-magazine/article/israel-hamas-rape-investigation-evidence-october-7-6kzphszsj

@futurebird Assuming Tesla has sold 6 million vehicles in total (the exact number is probably lower, but not far off) that bonus is equivalent to almost $10k for every vehicle they've ever sold.

That's on top of his existing compensation. Even if one were to argue it was "deserved", I don't see how that works out financially. The company's revenue has been slowing down; that kind of compensation bump seems irresponsible just looking at the business side of things.

Found free-with-free-account-sign-up access to my Time Magazine interview where I talk about prejudicial bias in GPTs, LLMs, and other "AI" systems, in case that's a thing that interests you:
https://www.zinio.com/article/time-magazine/time-artificial-intelligence-i632691/bias-in-the-system-a94903

Maria Bartiromo Pushes Debunked Trump Juror 'Cousin' Conspiracy Theory

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/maria-bartiromo-pushes-debunked-trump?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=89490

just realizing I don't listen to NPR anymore on the weekend mornings. used to be I could listen to them all day every day, until one day I stopped listening except for a token update in the morning and afternoon. and now I have rid myself of even their token updates. a sad loss, less sad now than it might have been earlier in life. but now NPR is gone from my life. good bye. I will always cherish the memories before 2000. thank you my old pre-2000 NPR. hope your descendants survive and recover.

What if the real social network was the friends we made along the way?

@aaron.rupar Time interviewed both Trump and Biden and dumbed down their questions for...Trump.