Greg Spradlin @spradlig@qoto.org

Enough already! So tired of these stories about Dem voters wanting a younger candidate. The reality check:
“Any discussion of an alternative is little more than a fantasy, they say, since challenging Mr. Biden would not only appear disloyal but would also most likely fail — and potentially weaken the president’s general-election standing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/17/us/politics/biden-democrats-voter-concerns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I find it fascinating that the sorts of intellectual elites who used to talk about how terrible Facebook is for democracy over content moderation policies and how they’d never use it again are on Twitter/X day in & day out where far more deplorable things happen every day.

https://theconnector.substack.com/p/finishing-with-twitterx

On the heels of strikes leading to pilots & UPS workers winning significant pay raises and WGA/SAG still on strike to do the same, for the first time in 88 years, auto workers across all big 3 US automakers are on strike.

Their demands include a 40% pay raise, 4 day work weeks and the return of pensions.

The trend of workers fighting back after decades of shareholders eating first is accelerating.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-gm-stellantis-uaw-workers-indefinite-strike-2023-9?trk=storyline-feed_main-feed-storyline-activity-card_feed-article-content

As Florida reports more new #COVID19 hospitalizations than any other state, #GOP sociopath #RonDeSantis demands more sickness and death as surely as if he wrapped his cold, creepy hands around the throats of his constituents and started squeezing. https://wapo.st/3LltbuZ

If websites were honest.

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

Workers: DO NOT OVERWORK YOURSELF to avoid getting laid off.

- You’re damaging your life and health.
- Your employer doesn’t actually notice (no, really, they don’t.)
- Your behavior enables future mismanagement of resources.
- When layoffs come, you’re gonna get laid off anyway.

Remember that a company’s job is to extract maximum work from you for minimum pay, so your job is to extract maximum pay for minimum work. Somewhere in the middle, both parties find an equilibrium that they agree on. Do not voluntarily modify your side of the bargain to your detriment.

#FridayDevAdvice

Why is everyone talking about the fediverse? Mashable's Christianna Silva explains the reason behind Meta's interest, the future of social media and how that will change the way online creators reach their audiences.

https://flip.it/uLc6Sx

#Fediverse #Threads #Mastodon

To disable Google Chrome's "advanced" ad tracking, why not give Firefox a try?

#mtbos anybody remember how to find the nifty @geogebra animation of the positive/negative number line showing it as a mirror image by radiating the number line 'round?

AI is the cryptocurrency of education.

How “the richest man in the world who holds a commanding position in near-earth-orbit space delivery, electronic cars and global communications spent the weekend churning up hate against Jews as the source of his financial losses.”

Josh Marshall and TPM

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/newsletter/vol-2-no-67-elon-musks-excellent-adventure-with-anti-semites-over-labor-day-weekend

Your Twitter/X account is a microphone connected to a mixer controlled by a fascist. You can speak all you want. The fascist controls your volume and can mute you whenever he wants. And you might not even know you’ve been muted because you can still hear yourself in your headphones.

It’s not called resistance when your volume knob is in someone else’s hand.

#twitter #x #algorithmicTimeline #elonMusk #fascism

It's appalling that journalists and their news organizations never stand back in self-reflection to ask why the public is ill-informed on a topic when it is the supposed job of news to inform them. Why is the public ill-informed about the economy? It ain't Biden's fault, folks.

Framing authority George Lakoff @georgelakoff yesterday quoted the brilliant Eric Blair's @protecttruth article:

Twitter is being used by a billionaire to shift public opinion. Time to go elsewhere >>> https://deepnarrative.substack.com/p/twitter-is-being-used-by-a-billionaire

"Twitter is now a danger to American democracy. The only effective solution now is to move to new platforms. There are other social media platforms... we can build them up to support honest debate and provide some replacements to Twitter."

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#twittermigration

I’ve been extremely disappointed but not surprised that so many brands continue to spend money advertising on a site that then pays a portion of that money out to anti-semites, hate mongers and accused sex traffickers like Andrew Tate.

Apple who is glad to take a moral stand against ads is now happy to literally put money in the pockets of virulent anti-semites to sell products. So much for those high ethical standards around human rights, I guess.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/05/betteridge-apple-twitter

The work day after a teach-in opposing arming campus #police, the GW provost tells professors to speak only through official channels. A year ago, he defended employing Justice Thomas as an adjunct because "we steadfastly support the robust exchange of ideas.” But he would like #faculty opponents of putting more guns on campus to kindly keep quiet unless we’re asked to speak. #teaching

BIG WIN: New York's Governor Kathy Hochul just announced they will be sending free N95/KN95 masks and #COVID tests to schools.

Thank you to COVID Advocacy NY and all the groups and advocates who have been pushing. Keep going: We need a free mask and test program for all New Yorkers!

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/academic-year-begins-governor-hochul-makes-covid-19-tests-and-masks-available-schools-keep-new

Our next meeting is Thurs., Sep. 14 at 4662 S. Clyde Morris Blvd., Port Orange. Doors open 6:30 p.m., meeting begins at 7:00. The guest speaker is community activist Terri Sharp.

#portorange #ponceinlet #wilburbythesea #volusiacounty #volusiademocrats #floridademocrats
#voteblue #gotv #takebackfl #takebackflorida #activism #inclusion #freedom