Richard Peterson @genuine_rp@qoto.org
I'm in Chicago.
I like science. I think a mixed economy with strong regulation of activity that affects the environment would be good. Universal healthcare in America should be enacted. Wealthy people can afford to give back to the societies that they profited off of. Activities that are not sustainable should be seen as not sustainable.
Joined Dec 2022
Early speech by Lincoln has striking relevance today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB6rPqD1Mnw
If Elon Musk's sole motivation was "freedom of speech," for $44 billion don't you think he could have built the most amazing platform? No, I think he just wanted to pull the wings off the bird, be the center of attention. What a miserable goal. Money does not equal happiness.
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Reducing a $44bn asset to rubble is a lesson in dictatorship. It is entirely the fault of those charged with regulating online spaces and anti-trust, and definitely the fault of those advocating for a free market approach *just in case* the opposite of that is worse. The blind faith in ‘free markets’, when markets are rigged, partial , enormously favoring of the ruling elites *unless regulated*. Where is the self-reflection among the governance crowd for this complete disaster?
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Splat!
This image acquired on April 10, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows rays of ejecta thrown out by the impact of a meteor.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Instrument: High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)
Mission: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Tags: Mars
More: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24694
#space #NASA #JPL #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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That's the problem, we've been waiting. And waiting. And waiting....
"In September 2021, a conservative watchdog filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics after Ocasio-Cortez attended the Met Gala, suggesting that her presence may have been the result of an impermissible gift."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2022/12/09/checks--imbalances-house-ethics-panel-investigates-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fines-madison-cawthorn
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Germany thwarts anti-democratic threat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Nff05tpI8&t=208s
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So MAGAs are upset because Twitter, under the previous ownership, blocked tweets of the NY Post article about Hunter's laptop? Wow, too bad nobody reads the NY Post!!!
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I couldn't help but feel that #XKCD 1269 was relevant to the #selfhosted #Mastodon #fediverse.
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@JamesGleick Yesterday in a Twitter Spaces conversation, Elon was asked why he bought Twitter.
"My biological neural net concluded it's important to buy Twitter. If Twitter was not bought and steered in a good direction it would be a danger for the future of civilization. And so that's why I bought it."
Just amazing nonsense.
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The End Is Near
NASAs MESSENGER is again sending images back to Earth after the spacecraft emerged from superior solar conjunction, when communication is largely blocked by the Sun. These will be some of our last views of Mercury from MESSENGER.
Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Instrument: Mercury Dual Imaging System - Narrow Angle
Mission: MESSENGER
Tags: Mercury
More: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19424
#astrodon
@MikeTeeVee It's great that some good things are happening, but the problem is with the "everything." "Everything" is on course to turn to shit, and take all the good things with it.
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Politico put it this way:
"The former president and the person that polls show is still the most likely GOP presidential nominee in 2024, today on Truth Social called for the suspension of the Constitution."
This poses a problem for journalists who would cover the 2024 election. By what logic can that coverage proceed?
Neutrality makes sense only within a constitutional order that his candidacy is trying to upend. "Just report the news" pretends this will be a normal campaign.
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Thinking of two very rich people who, each in his own way, trampled into the dirt institutions created by multitudes. It seemed they wanted power and felt their money entitled them to it. But then it turned out what they really wanted was attention; approval; appreciation; esteem. Mainly, attention.
Trump is making a second coup attempt!
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/12/03/trumps-pre-runoff-message-terminate-the-constitution-00072059
I'm in Chicago.
I like science. I think a mixed economy with strong regulation of activity that affects the environment would be good. Universal healthcare in America should be enacted. Wealthy people can afford to give back to the societies that they profited off of. Activities that are not sustainable should be seen as not sustainable.
Joined Dec 2022
