Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

R code by Adam Bonica showing his analysis that only 1.6% of more than $600 million raised by Democratic political spam texts actually went to candidates! #RStats 👀👀
https://github.com/abonica/Mothership-Strategies-FEC-Analysis/blob/main/mothership_complete_api_analysis.R
His blog post: https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation https://www.threads.com/@rickhasen1/post/DM6S6oqSsEE

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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use #RSS.

https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/

You should be using RSS.

Molly White has a good intro: Far from being the new hotness attracting glitzy feature stories in tech media or billions in venture funding, RSS has been around for 25 years. [...] Many, if not most, websites publish an RSS...
https://jwz.org/b/yksN

BOOK PROJECT: History of Economic Thought
One project I might spend a solid month on this fall is to try turn my history of economic thought lecture notes into a ms. for a relevant “history of economic thought” book—that is, a book that starts with (a) the need, if we are to be prosperous, to both have and coördinate a societal division of labor at scale, (b) the value of the market system as a way of achieving that coördination, and (c ) all the things that…
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/book-project-history-of-economic
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I was using mastodon before it was cool.

Narrator: that's currently.

I don't want to brag, but somebody got first place in the Stardew Valley Fair today, and it wasn't Pierre. 💅🏼

“Bruno Latour, Designer” by Cameron Tonkinwise
https://buttondown.com/otherworlds/archive/ow-10-bruno-latour-designer-by-cameron-tonkinwise/

#Design #ANT

How bachata rose from Dominican Republic’s brothels and shantytowns to become a global sensation https://theconversation.com/how-bachata-rose-from-dominican-republics-brothels-and-shantytowns-to-become-a-global-sensation-260886

This is Checkmate, painted in 1799 painting by German artist Friedrich Moritz August Retzsch. It is often thought to represent Man losing their souls to Satan, but Chess Master Paul Morphy noticed there is still a winning move. The Angel's very pointed look makes more sense; there is still a way out, a bit of hope.

The Gift of Life

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

The most amazing cave- videos.trom.tf/w/hNQGWL9YRHyQ2…

The Cave of Nerja, in southern Spain, is absolutely enormous and was inhabited by humans thousands of years ago. Explorers have found cave paintings, human bones, and evidence of cave hyenas living in the cave around the same time as humans. The Nerja Cave also holds the largest stalactite in the world, measuring around 32 meters.

This was such an amazing experience for us, it is hard to show the immensity and uniqueness of this cave in a video or photos. We were also able to get in there for free as they give free tickets away every weekday at 9:30am. cuevadenerja.es/en/

Meanwhile, desktop Linux has a 20% market share here in Norway! 🇳🇴

#Norway #Linux #MarketShare #Windows #OSX #MacOS #ChromeOS

If there's anything that illustrated the hollowness of the Democratic Party as an effective opposition for me, it's this.

Yesterday, I watched a video of a sitting US Senator being thrown to the ground and cuffed by fed goons for asking questions of the fed official he has direct oversight authority over.

Within minutes, I'd gotten DOZENS of texts from Dems and Dem orgs asking for $5-$50 to "fight fascism."

That's it. "Are you terrified that your country is slipping into fascism? Pay me."

Pentagon City mall, shot and chaser