dyedgrey @dyedgrey@qoto.org

I'm old enough to remember when Yahoo! Groups unceremoniously nuked every single LGBT mailing list overnight, leaving people completely untethered from communities they had relied on and loved. When that happened, we got angry at Yahoo!. And yet when people flee from Twitter, anger is directed at those "defectors". Twitter is not a country, and we were not its citizens. It is a corporation. If Twitter is driving people away, it's Twitter's fault. It's not our job to fix it. #noxp

Infographic found on Twitter. Maybe Scotland should join in?

Say it with me: To control inflation, we must take aim at corporate profits, not working people.

@Az_ Not only profit but a lot of silicon valley thinks we can tech our way out of climate change.(and of course with profits) Tech will help but it won't be our savior. We have to rethink the industrial revolution mind set.

Its that tree in a lake again, this happens to be my favorite shot of it, out of many. It just connects with me and with what Wanaka is all about.

I stood in the freezing lake for hours and ended up buying dry pair of cheap shoes afterwards.

A pretty quiet morning here that day just me and a couple of friends.

#photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #longexposure #NewZealand #PhotoMonday

The mari of winter

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz calls out Central Banks looking to cause recession and hurting marginalized people by raising interest rates. ↘️

"[T]he appropriate response to increased prices resulting from undue market power is better antitrust enforcement, and the way to respond to poor households’ higher rents is to encourage investment in new housing, whereas higher interest rates do the opposite." #Fediverse https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/09/raising-interest-rates-inflation-central-banks-recession

@TomSullivan @dcjohnson I have always considered Libertarians to be more problematic than the Republicans. They are utterly devoted to keeping government wed to only one side of our human nature. We are a species made of greed and empathy. Both are needed. But we have created a construct in capitalism devoted to only one side of our nature. And those that want to incorporate it in our government send us down a perilous path.

About the #Fauci hate & anti-vax stuff,

It is essential to the libertarian/oligarch project to discredit the idea that government can make people's lives better. Even public health.

As more people reject govt/democracy, privatization & oligarch/corporate rule gets easier.

For more on this -- the anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-public-health propaganda is organized and funded.

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/22/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/

#Musk #Fauci #oligarchs #libertarians #democracy #antivax

So Elon just launched a million idiots after Fauci. He just turned the Corporation he swore would be a place of fairness into a hate machine aimed right at an individual. This may turn very ugly.

#Elon #Fauci #Hatred

I was today years old when I discovered the la command is a default alias for ls -A in some distros.

#InfoSec is a never ending learning, no one should feel bad for not knowing something

Perhaps the lesson is do not placate bad faith liars and propagandists intent on going harm to some.
By some I mean any subset not you yourself or those with whom you identify. When you placate and coddle and prioritize the harmful machine it will eventually come for you.

The corporate group that writes a large number of Republican bills in state legislatures - ALEC - is working on bills that would use the power of state governments to eliminate boycotts.

The initial bill was literally named the “Eliminate Political Boycotts Act.”

This is the definition of using the power of government to restrict free speech and free association.

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/12/09/alec-doubles-down-on-punishing-esg-firms/

#Firefly

It is estimated that at least 40,000 people are in American prisons for marijuana possession.

https://www.lastprisonerproject.org/cannabis-prisoner-scale

#prisonReform #BrittneyGriner

Barbara Jordan (1936-1996), a civil rights leader and attorney, became the first African American elected to the Texas senate in 1966, and the first woman and first African American elected to Congress from Texas in 1972. A tireless champion for minorities and the underrepresented. Although she never explicitly acknowledged her sexual orientation publicly, she was open about her life partner of nearly 30 years, Nancy Earl. #BlackFriday #LGBTQ

Anyway: