SpinozasHeresy @SpinozasHeresy@qoto.org

@gratefuldread

Great film! Thanks for the heads up!

I watch way too much cable news and I’m tired of the way an interviewer will say something like “what’s your reaction to President Biden’s…” when they could make it simple and just say “give me your best 30 second sound bite that best condenses your party’s daily talking points AND satisfies your base regarding President Biden’s…” Much more honest.

OK, so honestly, I kind of mostly loathe Lawrence O’Donnell, but I caught his MSNBC segment last night talking about “semantic infiltration”. Went down an internet rabbit hole and found a fascinating WaPo editorial from 1978. Not so sure about what it concludes but worth a look.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/11/21/distortions-of-political-language/47d51dc5-cff4-4424-84ea-1931a216ab96/

@conradhackett

Wow! Atheists are considered slightly more favorable than evangelicals and Mormons. That saying some thing!

@WayneSmith@toot.community

Time to switch to unleaded.

It’s always fascinating the way the popular media concern themselves with how 30% of the population is going to react if Donald Trump is indicted. Instead of reporting on the concern, I prefer two simple words. Fuck them.

Cathie Wood has “opinions” about the SVB and how regulators should have been more focused on the “traditional banking system” and less on the “decentralized, yada yada, (insert endless stream of crypto-catch phrase)”. Elon agrees and makes unlettered comparison to 1929.

What Cathie does NOT disclose is that she has been buying up Coinbase and now defunct Silvergate Bank and other questionable crypto assets portending to be snapping up “bargains”. Greasy grifty pump and dump shill, that one.

https://www.thestreet.com/personalities/elon-musk-reacts-to-cathie-woods-bold-tweet

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/11/22/cathie-woods-ark-buys-60-million-in-bitcoin-crypto-stocks-after-ftx-collapse-even-as-analysts-fear-contagion-risk/amp/

@GottaLaff

of course, if the child used abortion pills, all five of the adults would be charged with murder.

Am I getting this right?

In Texas, you can be held accountable for “murder” for procuring abortifacients for a pregnant woman but you can’t be held accountable for murder if you provide an AR-15 and seven, 30 round clips* to the Uvalde school shooter?

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robb_Elementary_School_shooting

@ewdocparris

Reminds me of aunt Mae and her messy berry pies.

@TonyStark

Can you pinpoint for me this idyllic time when we had a decent society? My advanced years, perhaps, have clouded my memory.

@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social

Because, sadly, they want the ruling class to give them the order to do so. That’s why they’re the ruling class.

Woke Joe v Sleeping DeSantis

@shoq

I have created a bunch of lists (i.e. Artists, journalists, news organizations etc) in my profile.

I would like it if there were a way for a user to reflect a category or set of categories in their public profile. For example, an artist could click an “artist” box in in their profile same with journalists, news orgs, etc. This way they show up automatically in a pre-defined list. It takes a lot of time to curate lists and this helps new users with immediate procurement, also helps users to be self serving syndicators.

A new user should be able to log in, categorize their profile, and quickly create a bunch of categories of interest. Once that’s done they should be able to turn on an algorithm that either automatically develops their information stream for them or gives them tools to procure their own stream.

Features could include things like only procuring 30 items per hour or other iterations of time and information.

@Mjo321@mstdn.social

this is how we do it!!

@natematias

So they can predict an individual’s product purchasing behavior with laser precision, but they can’t predict that an individual is going to become radicalized and turn into a Nazi? Sounds specious to say the least. In the end, waving a flag with a swastika is no different than purchasing lite beer. Different products being sold, same techniques to drive the purchase.

@Readsalot

Have him dress in pink camouflage and give him something very phallic as a magic wand.

@godpod

Um, Catholic priests?

Remember in 2008 when millions were losing their houses and millionaires and billionaires swooped in to buy up all the foreclosures at bargain basement prices? Same thing is going to happen with all of the start ups that are going to go under because of SVB. All the intellectual property will be purchased and exploited by fuckers like Elon Musk, Peter Theil and the whole parade of sociopaths.

Look everyone! Squirrel!

@JenWojcik

Ashton Kutcher should have been nominated for supporting actor. Great performance.