Jason Etheridge @jasonetheridge@qoto.org

"The fates of Republicans and Democrats began to diverge markedly after the introduction of vaccines in April of 2021. Between March 2020 and March 2021, excess death rates for Republicans were 1.6 percentage points higher than for Democrats. After April 2021, the gap widened to 10.6 percentage points."

But does it account for there being more old Republicans than Democrats?

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/once-covid-vaccines-were-introduced-more-republicans-died-than-democrats

If you can't tell the difference between the two political parties after the last decade, you really have no place opining on politics. Or probably anything else of importance, honestly.

It me.

First, let's narrow down a few where the words are so close we shouldn't include both in the big competition.

Which word better describes the 2022 zeitgeist?

Which word better describes the 2022 zeitgeist?

Which word better describes the 2022 zeitgeist?

If you see this toot (yeah this one right here), can you boost it for me? It will help my new server federate with the wider Mastodon network. 🚀 🙏

The man who thinks the left are bad because they might voice opinions that might result in a lot of dead people is all wound up and set to flood Twitter with nazis and antivaxxers next week.
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596428695090044928

Here's David Carroll @profcarroll on Content Warnings (CW) at Mastodon.

"Another way I like to think about this feature is as Consent Widgets, where instead of trying to trigger people on their timelines and getting rewarded for that, you erect some friction akin to a subject line, creating a layer of inferred consent in the timeline experience. A Consent Widget asks, would you consent to opening up my post about an intense topic?"

https://techpolicy.press/how-to-open-an-outpost-in-social-media-exile

#contentwarnings

One of the more entertaining delusions being thrown around by the Elon sycophants is this weird idea that Elon has gotten rid of all the bad engineers and is left with the cream of the crop. In reality, the good engineers had offers in their mailbox before Elon’s first day, and happily took them once Elon made it clear that his vision of Twitter was a train wreck.

What Elon has left are mostly engineers who CAN’T jump (such as those on visas).

'Move fast and break things' might work for websites, but this is not acceptable for the physical world. More SW screw-ups by Tesla. Fr-agile?
“Due to a software error, the tail lamps on one or both sides may not illuminate as intended” https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/25/tesla-recalls-more-than-15000-australian-electric-vehicles-over-faulty-tail-lights

It is both sad and pathetic how many crypto advocates are desperate to declare and prove that FTX is somehow unusual and not merely the most ambitious con of the entire scamtastic crypto sector.

Sure, you've probably made some purchase decisions you regret, but have you ever just set fire to 44 billion dollars? No? Why would anyone?

Ah right. Well, when you purchase a company - for 'da lulz' or some other reason, you pick up a whole bunch of things as part of the package deal. Let's take a quick gander at what Elon paid money for - and then take a look at how he's systematically destroying each one.

The Intellectu
http://www.zenofdesign.com/4652-2/
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Thank you everyone for the outpouring at bringing attention to my blog post about mastodon. Thanks to everyone up voting the thread is one of the most up voted threads on r/mastodon every, and all in only an hour!

At this rate im glad people are becoming aware of the issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/z3dr87/jeffrey_phillips_freeman_eugen_rochko_ceo_of/

#mastodon #fediblock #mastoadmin #LGBTQ #nazi #joinmasoton #eugen

Does your ISP offer IPv6?

boost for visibility, thanks

To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same. Add #introductions to the post.

#Photography
#Astrophotography
#Netherlands
#utrecht
#QuantumPhysics
#Philosophy
#Science
#Nature
#SCUBA
#Chemistry
#occult
#Biology
#bioalgorithms
#Programming
#ClassicalLiberal

Birdapp sources: I’m about to be off for six weeks, but before that, I’d be interested in writing more on Musk’s content moderation claims, particularly around his claim that he’ll be “deboosting” and “demonitizing” accounts engaged in hate & extremism. This is obviously not true for obvious reasons, but if anyone has some actual or technical knowledge that might help me put a better story together & feels like talking to a reporter, anonymity is offered. Signal me: 469-387-1810.

Mike Pence is considering running for president, and considering that Donald Trump is the great litmus test for the GOP, it's hard to tell who he's supposed to appeal to. We're talking about a man who enabled Trump for 4 years, 'betrayed' him by not (unconstitutionally) flipping the election, but did it quietly when being loud was what anti-Trumpers called for. Who, exactly, is Mike Pence's base drawing from? Other than 'Mother', of course.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-pence-beefs-up-political-staff-2024/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=190817594

Twitter’s Theoretical “Pivot to Video”
There is no more cursed phrase in Web dev than 'pivot to video' and so OF COURSE this is where Elon and his dipshitosphere of incompetent yes men are thinking of pushing Twitter.

Don't get me wrong. It is the absolute height of macabre hilarity watching Elon squirm like an epileptic, drunken orangutan in quicksand as he tries to find some sort of viable busi
https://www.zenofdesign.com/twitters-theoretical-pivot-to-video/
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