ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

#GeorgeSantos, a former call center employee falling behind on his rent, lent his campaign a staggering $705,000.

Where did all that money come from? The Ethics Committee MUST start investigating immediately.

About damn time:

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/12/22/west-point-is-removing-confederate-symbols-from-campus/

tiny holiday project: I made a little site to show/hide boosts for the people you follow on Mastodon, using the Mastodon API https://manage-boosts.jvns.ca/

I'm not really taking feature requests but I found it helpful so I'm sharing in case other folks do as well

the code is here: https://github.com/jvns/manage-boosts

@KimCrayton1 @QasimRashid @mekkaokereke On a similar note I remember Kara Swisher (I think) talking about how she didn't like the term "unconscious bias" because after the first dozen or so times it's been pointed out to a person, just how unconscious is it really?

Wayback Machine is useful to journalists. Very. But we need to archive. Very.

"Past statements of Mr. Santos are relatively clear however: An archived version of Mr. Santos’s former campaign website preserved by the Wayback Machine says that he “began working at Citigroup as an associate and quickly advanced to become an associate asset manager in the real asset division of the firm.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/nyregion/george-santos-interview.html

(don't mean to be partisan, just timely)

Please donate.
https://archive.org/donate

Cathay Williams was the first African-American woman to enlist in the army. She became a Buffalo Soldier, by disguising herself as a man. She called herself William Cathay and was deemed fit for duty. When she was wounded and sickened from diabetes and could no longer work she applied for disability. The doctor found her out and she was denied disability...because she was a woman.

@shoq most on Musk timeline are Musk fanboys. I'm unsure on how many bots and trolls from other govt.

Now that the man I had dinner with is passed out from carb overload, I'm stepping up to my soapbox:

Sorry, but the ACA fixed very little and was never meant to be an endgame. People are still going bankrupt from medical debt. Many people still can't afford to go to the doctor, even with insurance, due to outrageous deductibles.

Medical care is still a privilege in the US and not the right that it should be. We tend to fight for things, make a little progress, then move on.

Keep fighting.

at this rate, @mmasnick may become twitter CEO by default since it appears he's the only one rational enough to give it life saving advice.

👇
Elon Musk Claims He’s Not Worried About The FTC; He Should Be
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/26/elon-musk-claims-hes-not-worried-about-the-ftc-he-should-be/

It honestly still blows my mind today that Santa isn’t Asian. I remember seeing him during in the internment camps, and dude was def Japanese.

For more of my story, catch me live and on stage in London Jan-Apr in Allegiance:
https://AllegianceMusical.com

People/Society: How are you cynical & positive at the same time?
Me: How does nature operate? With adapting to unexpected conditions, when conditions are through no fault of their own.
People/Society: How do you keep believing anything you do, will make any difference?
Me: I never know. All I know is, I gotta try to do something & that means a lot. We've saved hundreds of hectares in past. I can't give up.
People/society: Why?
Me: I don't break lifetime promises. This is the hill I'll die on.

A wild story with copyright and academic publishing implications: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html

The folks of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are in real trouble. We can help.

https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/thousands-trapped-on-pine-ridge-burn-clothes-for-warmth-in-wake-of-storm/article_94206351-fe7c-5c97-8370-83be18af81a8.html

Friends Of Pine Ridge and First Families Now are providing supplies and heating to the affected families.

If you can afford it, you can donate here:
https://www.1stfamiliesnow.org/donate

And for everyone who boosts this post, I'll add another dollar to my next donation. So, uh, go wild.

This year:
Nobody freezes.
Nobody starves.
Nobody goes it alone.

Donate to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation families.
#StormElliott #PineRidge #NativeAmerica #NativeAmericans
https://friendsofpineridgereservation.org/organizations/organizations-firstfamiliesnow/

Twitter was a shithole before Elon Musk. Twitter is a shithole during Elon Musk. And Twitter will be shithole after Elon Musk.

The goal of the fediverse has not been (nor should it be) to recreate some version or other of a shithole.

It can be (and is) so much more.

#fediverse #twitter #elonMusk #mastodon

Ubuntu's owner, Canonical, to go public (see cite below). apparently not to raise money, so why? so shareholders can get money out? but then it can be purchased by another company.

So much of the open world, depends on ubuntu....

What do you think?

"The head of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, claims it recorded a profit of US$175 million (A$237.7 million) in 2021 and is likely to undertake an IPO in 2023."

https://itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/canonical-may-go-public-in-2023,-claims-us$175m-profit-last-year.html

Parents sacrificing their children’s health to the false god of Republican ideology. A special place in hell for these parents.

“Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/26/vaccine-hesitancy-measles-chickenpox-polio-flu/

no regrets

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/style/twitter-elon-musk-sasha-solomon.html