SlowSpeedChase @SlowSpeedChase@qoto.org
Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2023: $248,800,000,000
Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2023: $160,900,000,000
Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2023: $105,200,000,000
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2023: $7.25
Three words: tax the rich.
US political journalists have been failing an essential duty -- to understand that bias in favor of democracy (and what democracy protects, including freedom of speech) should be a baseline condition for coverage.
Read the latest Trump indictment. It simplifies things even further.
If Trump and the Republican party he owns take full power next year, our democracy is done. It is truly that simple.
That is the context for 2024. Please, journalists, make that relentlessly clear.
Stop referring to Fascism as 'culture wars'.
Sycophancy to Billionaires is antithetical to Humanity's survival.
Happy Enshitification Day! 💥
July 1, 2023: Reddit cuts off API access, Twitter requires login, Youtube may ban ab-blockers, Meta and Google block news in Canada...
A half-year since Cory Doctorow's seminal thesis on #enshitification, how corporate platforms die (https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys), and every corporate site seems hell bend on their own destruction.
Celebrate Enshitification Day by going to [instance address]/about, find the donations link, and make your contribution to open social media!
Tommy Tuberville, Brett Farve, and Herschel Walker are just three reasons why Americans should never equate sport accomplishments with anything other than sports accomplishments.
I'm dealing with my dying mother's financials. After years of giving her money every month for food and utilities, I've just discovered she's been donating thousands of dollars each year to a few viable charities and even more GOP PACs that she believed were charities helping veterans and young people in need. She's a Democrat. She had no idea what she was giving her money to and now I'm having to undo all of those automated debits. Check on your elder parents. Someone is probably scamming them.
I wish more people understood that "I want the computer to generate a natural language text that sounds like a plausible answer to a question about x" and "I want the computer to answer a question about x" are two very different problems.
We do not check the refrigerator multiple times to see if different food has magically appeared.
We check the fridge multiple times to see if our standards have lowered to the point where we’ll eat what’s there.
Stop using the term, "Culture Wars". This nomenclature is overt propaganda. We're in the midst of a Democracy vs. Fascism war — nothing less.
The never-ending “Background Items Added" pop-up for an item I already disabled or already know about is the most annoying part of Ventura after the new System Settings design.
Hope is not a strategy. There is every reason to think this situation will spiral out of hand over the next few months unless people take the threat seriously.
https://apnews.com/article/united-states-government-us-department-of-the-treasury-janet-yellen-business-cf6cf1dcfc3d0d81fb5a20f8ad442f7a
Here’s the thing — If you HAVE to drive a lot, or even just WANT to drive a lot, it’s in your best interest for public transit, walking & biking to be as attractive as possible to EVERYONE else because they have safe and comfortable infrastructure networks. The more people who choose NOT to drive, the less space, public money, etc it takes to move everyone.
If everybody drives, nobody moves. Including you.
#cities #mobility #cars #bikes #transit #urbanism #transportation #cityplanning
Everything looks like a nail to the world’s biggest tool.
