Zoe @ekg@librem.one

@ShadowJonathan @Patricia I treat it as an fascist dog whistle, it's useful to call poor people "unrational" if you want to dehumanise them.

@karolherbst people can't afford food, they aren't doing well.

Russian propaganda is designed to look organic, don't be fooled.

@karolherbst A Recommendation

Ryan McBeth @ YouTube has done excellent things about russian propaganda.

@Patricia
This is what the war in Ukraine is about, Russia is one of the last holdouts concerning neoliberal ideals. The the war is Democracy (The west) vs. Neoliberalism (Russia), and neoliberalism is losing.

Russia is very good at propaganda and has done everything in their power to keep neoliberal ideas alive, because they believe they will destroy the west. Witch is true neoliberal ideas if genuinely believed will destroy everything, including Russia.

@Patricia Economics as you know it is. After the 2008 financial crisis actors like The World Bank, IMF, and IBS riped up the textbooks and started anew. Thats why I was malding so hard the other day when you were talking shit about the IMF, they have completely change their tune since the incidents you recalled.

@malwaretech

Pro-life has turned anti-birth not even allowing abortion in cases where the fetus is unavailable and threatens the mothers future fertility is not only evil, but also a betrayal that this has nothing to do with preserving life.

@jwildeboer The funniest and most depressing part about that is that a lot of the debates over using content warnings would be solved by people actually using it as a subject field, which would in turn naturally end up covering the content warning functionality as an incidental side-effect much of the time!

Tell you what, being vocal about Health & Safety has been a very useful filter.

It's the same way being vocal about Codes of Conduct was 10 years ago.

Turns out, if somebody has an allergic reaction to proactive measures to keep a community healthy and safe, then they're probably not safe to have around in the first place.

#HealthAndSafety #Community #OpenSource #FOSS

Ledare: 700 personer om året stressar bokstavligen ihjäl sig – så kan det inte fortsätta -> https://www.dn.se/ledare/700-personer-om-aret-stressar-bokstavligen-ihjal-sig-sa-kan-det-inte-fortsatta/

If the idea of violent protests don't make you at least little scared I wonder how well you know history. At the same time, real change almost never happens without people putting their bodies on the line.

The right understands this far better than your average liberal/moderate. To be a moderate is to trust that existing systems will (mostly) work.

If those system fail? What then? To even consider this is moderate treason.

(Cartoons by Mattie Lubchansky https://thenib.com/author/mattie-lubchansky/ )

Wow - #LK99 not only successfully synthesized, but also showing larger levitation angle at room temperature than original paper, providing further support for the claims of room-temperature #superconductivity.

This is starting to get veeeery exciting!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01516

Yo LK99 is holding up so far
Hype

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

Twitter’s death knell

No lies detected.

It’s probably a good idea to repost this incredibly prophetic cartoon from 2014 at regular intervals because every day I see people who still haven’t fully imbibed its message. Apologies if it’s old hat to you.

The Terrible Sea Lion.

https://wondermark.com/c/1k62/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wondermark#Sea_lioning

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

Hi everyone, And here (it/it's). I have started a petition to get the death of a Jean, a transgender woman, investigated, as well as allegations of systemic mistreatment and discrimination against other transgender patients in Massachusetts's DMH hospitals.

This petition represents 1000's of hours of lived trauma by me and other transgender patients in MA and 1000's of hours of hard work by family, friends, and allies behind the scenes. Signing and sharing is doing A LOT!

The link to the petition is: https://change.org/justiceforjean

Please consider Boosting this toot!

Also please consider *temporarily pinning this toot to your profile for the next two weeks* It can help immensely with visibility.

We are over 200 signatures everyone! Let's shoot for 500 in the next two weeks.

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#justiceforjean
#transactivism
#transjustice
#transrightsarehumanrights

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"We can't increase the number of Black people in tech! It's too difficult!"

"We can't fight the power structures preventing college athletes from getting paid! It's too difficult!"

"We can't reduce the number of people killed by cops! It's too difficult!"

But we're doing all of these things. And we started by ignoring the dudes who said the above things.

The 1st step is "accepting the challenge." People working together can accomplish a lot.