ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

RANDOM REMINDER

there is no "left of center" in a country where the elites have coalesced around two parties and now one of said parties has openly embraced fascism.

you are either fascist or antifascist. there are no moderates or centrists in that political equation.

Drugs are cheap, government-granted patent monopolies make them expensive Drug companies DO NOT want a free market https://cepr.net/in-a-free-market-drugs-are-cheap-government-granted-patent-monopolies-make-them-expensive/

I remember when the mushroom people were angry about something like this a few weeks ago. Someone had published "books" on amazon that claimed to be edible mushroom identification guides.

And they were AI garbage. Garbage that could get people very dead.

Since English is my first language the bad writing gives some of it away (but not always) but please don't think that people being tricked by this ocean of meaningless garbage isn't a real threat.

We've made the internet useless.

"I guess it is a bit like begging. I am debasing myself for this, for him, for my cunt."

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NEW research: https://sparktoro.com/blog/who-sends-traffic-on-the-web-and-how-much-new-research-from-datos-sparktoro/

The wait's over. Thanks to the amazing team at https://datos.live, we can finally answer questions about:
- Who sends traffic to the open web (besides Google)?
- How much? Does it go to the long tail, or just the top few sites?
- What's changing?

If this research is valuable to you, I'd truly appreciate amplification (the reach is how I'll justify getting to do more studies like this!)

My dearest Bryce,

I can. And I do. And I will continue to do so. I will use whatever tools exist today however I please to try and bring about the better world I want to live in tomorrow. Now kindly take your fascist “love it or leave it” demagoguery, shove it up your ass, and fuck off out of my mentions. https://infosec.exchange/@NationMeta/112077178052261355

How Big Pharma is fighting Biden’s program to lower seniors’ drug costs https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/11/pharma-drug-priding-biden-negotiations/

How the Osage Nation helped Martin Scorsese make ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ more authentic

From the White savior narrative at the heart of “Dances With Wolves” to the Indigenous stereotypes in “The Last of the Mohicans,” Hollywood doesn’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to portrayals of Native Americans.

#Oscars #KillersOfTheFlowerMoon #Osage #Native #Indigenous
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/21/entertainment/killers-of-the-flower-moon-osage-nation-cec/index.html

Why the US needs strong privacy laws, part M of N.
https://press.coop/@nytimes/112076512091315409

Trump’s freewheeling speeches offer a dark vision of a second term https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/11/trump-campaign-speech-anatomy/ donny darko is at it again ~ just sayin'

we're seeing bro levels at about 74%

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There is nothing wrong with outrage based on facts.

Outrage about the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade may will probably keep Biden in the White House.

But manufactured outrage to fuel a for-profit industry is not good for anyone.

It is not good for democracy.

It is not good for the victims.

It is not good for the people trying to put out forest fires of misinformation with a squirt gun of facts.

https://terikanefield.com/invented-narratives-and-the-outrage-industry/

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@glyph I had a lot of people ask for a clock, but they're a bunch of trouble to build out of atoms, so I decided to learn how to write code for the iPhone and built an app. I got it approved by the App Store and now you can get a software-only, free, no ads, no tracking version of the Solar Metric Clock so you always know where the sun is.

https://www.olsons.net/projects/multiclock

House Speaker Johnson reveals at SOTU that he didn't even bother to read the bi-partisan border bill before declaring it dead?
"As House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) shook his head in apparent disagreement, Senator James Lankford (R-OK), a staunch conservative who negotiated the bill, nodded, saying, 'That’s true.'"

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-7-2024?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#SOTU #Biden #Democracy

"the Nazi party rose to power in the wake of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that carried a long tail of disability and illness. In 2020, CNN noted that, “the relative impact of the flu was correlated to strength in support for Nazism.” Further, disabled people were the first targets of the mass execution campaigns of the Nazis. Public propaganda labeled disabled people “useless eaters” (which sounds more and more familiar these days), and the eugenicist murders of disabled people led to

Not all software should need access the internet. It’s okay to provide service offline. In many cases, it’s even better. Unplug it 📴