Greg Spradlin @spradlig@qoto.org

I built an open source RSS reader with "AI magic" and an algorithmically-driven news feed to avoid big tech surveillance. https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/rss-reader/ You should check it out and tell all your friends. #AI #RSS #News #OpenSource #SuffolkRSSalgo

An ongoing anti-democracy insurrection.

If you haven't yet listened the Rachel Maddow's segment from last night please do: https://youtu.be/CqassXP6HAU?si=ACSa-DpN2OCrkwkH

Maddow correctly frames the issue as defense of democracy, and reminds us the insurrection in this country is in full swing. Powerful billionaires and the GOP are at this very moment actively engaged a well coordinated broad based effort to elect a criminal insurrectionist, put an end to democracy, and transform the US into a fascist kleptocracy.

"As with Boeing in the late 1990s, Apple is financializing; it now spends twice as much on stock buybacks as it does on R&D, and that’s because it faces no meaningful competition that forces it to innovate. For sure, Apple has fantastic development capacity, as illustrated by the Vision Pro, but it increasingly degrades the quality of its own flagship product - the iPhone - for the purpose of maintaining its market power." @matthewstoller https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-the-apple-antitrust-suit-matters

Someone made a comment, and I'd like to address it for everyone.

The comment:

"Addressing outrage surely must be exhausting and you've provided tools and resources to help us. But there's plenty of stuff that flies above the heads of us laypeople that isn't hair-on-fire panic that I turn to you for understanding."

I do not believe the news is "above the heads of laypeople."

I think the laypeople are being confused and made to believe it is over their heads.

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Kansas Republicans call for resignations after attendees at a party fundraiser took turns taking a bat to strike an effigy of President Biden. https://www.kake.com/story/50551360/donors-at-kansas-republican-fundraiser-take-turns-swinging-bat-at-president-biden-effigy

🏆🏆🏆Kimmel to Trump:

“Isn’t it past your jail time?” #Oscars2024 #Oscars

Happy Apple Vision Pro preorder day!

My native app isn’t done yet, but it'll be there when it's ready.

In the meantime, enjoy my iPad app on visionOS, which works well!

A bipartisan map in #Michigan that will give Blacks more voting power in #Detroit in state legislative elections has been approved by a bipartisan commission tasked to do so. The next step is for the courts to approve the new maps. https://michiganadvance.com/2024/02/28/michigan-redistricting-commission-finalizes-revised-state-house-voting-map/

As long as I live, I will never forgive Mitch McConnell for both causing irreparable damage to the Supreme Court of the United States, and not voting to convict Donald Trump.

Numerous people, including Fani Willis, one of #Trump's prosecutors, have been forced to go into hiding because of the rampant mob violence that Donald Trump is fomenting. If you're on the bird site, you need to get off now. This will only get worse as the election approaches. https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/02/24/bookman-threats-of-violence-poisoning-american-politics-damaging-democracy/

Fascinating to see the Times slowly trying to come to grips with the way they’ve been played by Moscow.

It takes them seven paragraphs to get to the fact that the allegations against Biden were (passive voice) “made up.”

Not till paragraph twelve does the real protagonist appear: Russian intelligence. It’s a Russian disinformation operation. Let’s see if we can say that out loud. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/111984017335877297

#SpecialCounsel #Hur #RobertHur #smear #hitjob #darkbrandon #BeauBiden #JoeBidenIsYourPresident #exonerated

Google has just unveiled a game-changing AI upgrade for Android. But it has a darker side. Google’s AI will start to read and analyze your private messages, going back forever.

#privacy

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/01/27/new-details-free-ai-upgrade-for-google-and-samsung-android-users-leaks/?sh=6db5d56b8eaf

One cool thing is how, within 6 months of Trump becoming President, DC & Maryland sued because he was obviously breaching the Constitution and then the federal courts sandbagged the case for four years then dismissed it as moot when he left office.

House Oversight Dems just reported, based on *partial* records, Trump accepted at least $7.8 million in foreign government payments while President.

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2024-01-04.COA%20DEMS%20-%20Mazars%20Report.pdf