Exxon Mobil predicting ~1.2° C warming by 2023 in ... wait for it .... 1982!

Actual warming: 1.1°C

HT @tsrandall

If you’ve ever said, “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about,” go tell your spouse what you said to your best friend the last time you had a marital spat. Track your time at work in great detail for the next month, down to the minute, and share the results with your boss.

Put a webcam in your bathroom. Post your tax returns online. Tweet your social security number.

#Privacy isn’t just for bad guys.

"Describing [RFK's] views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest. They’re not controversial. They’re false. He’s not spreading controversial views, he’s spreading lies. And so the framing matters enormously, and that’s something that I foresee being a huge, huge issue in the 2024 campaign."

Agreed!

Some key distinctions made by journalist Seth Mnookin in this sharp interview. (He wrote a book about the anti-vaccine movement in 2011.)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-f-kennedy-jr-seth-mnookin-panic-virus-deadly-immunity-interview_n_64c137b7e4b0ad7b75fadc32

#journalism #uspol #science

Ben & Jerry's stops advertising on #twitter.

Glad to see this. At the end of my father's career at Good Humor/Breyer's, the company acquired B&J and he spent some time at their office & plant in Vermont. So I feel some family affection for the company & glad to see them stop paying EM. May many others follow suit.

https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2023/05/ending-paid-twitter-advertising

America is a world leader in allowing private companies to levy taxes on its citizens, including (stay with me here), *a tax on paying your taxes*.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/17/free-as-in-freefile/#tell-me-something-i-dont-know

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A weird thing about being an American who hasn't traveled a lot or lived in another country is the feeling of finding out that things which you've accepted as normal but objectively make no sense are actually not at all the norm.

It's both delightful--this could easily be different!--and discouraging--read on down @pluralistic's thread for more on why it's so hard to file your own taxes:

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110385095727347725

I would like to thank Elon Musk for posting a hateful antisemitic tweet and then defending it like a bratty five year-old, thereby reminding me that my quitting Twitter a few weeks ago was an absolute moral necessity. If I hadn’t done it then I’d have to do it now.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/16/elon-musk-defends-inflammatory-tweets-ill-say-what-i-want.html