Lunatech

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Have moved to @Lunatech, please feel free to follow me there.
LunatechJan 18, 2023

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Just in case you did not receive the toot I sent from qoto.org - Instead of posting primarily here on @Lunatech I will instead be posting at @Lunatech so if you want to follow my toots please add that account to your follow list. qoto.org has many options that most other Mastodon servers don't, such as longer toot lengths, but the big one for me is I will actually be able to see a list of the #hashtags I follow, which is currently not possible on techhub.social or most other #Mastodon servers. Also I believe it is possible to do quote toots there, which I realize is a polarizing feature among some long time Mastodon users.

LunatechJan 18, 2023
Dan GillmorJan 18, 2023
The Twitter API lockout of third-party apps is only the latest reminder of centralization's most important rule: The platform owner has the right to capriciously wreck the businesses of people who accepted the platform's invitation to run a business on the platform.
LunatechJan 18, 2023
Tony StarkJan 17, 2023

The billionaires who run the Republican Party are so fundamentally opposed to the ideas of basic taxation, regulation, equality, and democracy that they thought it was no problem filling the party up with crackpots and crank candidates doing their 0.1% bidding by constantly whipping the GOP masses into an incoherent delirium.

So much for “Republicans” being interested in the republic. You'd think they’d want a little competence in government rather than it being reduced to a Lord of the Flies GOP dumpster fire. Even just for business purposes.

Unfortunately, for the billionaires who run the GOP, no amount of tax cuts and drowning the government in their bathtubs of greed and buckets of unhinged ideas is enough. So QAnon it is. And it’s uniquely awful in the U.S.

Moderate Republicans? Try and find one in this mess.

Conspiratorial Thinking Is an American Disease-
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/conspiratorial-thinking-polarization-america-united-kingdom/672726/

Conspiratorial Thinking Is an American Disease

In the past decade, conspiratorial thinking has shifted from a worrying factor in Republican politics to a defining feature.

The Atlantic
LunatechJan 18, 2023
Show threadSteve RogersJan 17, 2023
@TonyStark CPAC has actual Nazis. That ought to end the "GOP has lots of moderates" debate.
LunatechJan 18, 2023
Show threadIamSheilaat91Jan 17, 2023
@TonyStark We'll know when they ban polio vaccines in schools: when we see DeSantis and other GOP politicians investing in iron lungs.
LunatechJan 18, 2023
Robert ReichJan 18, 2023

RT @[email protected]

Do I have this right: Republicans added ~$7 trillion to the national debt under Trump, but now they want to make cuts to Social Security and Medicare before raising the debt ceiling?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1614820819753992192

Robert Reich on Twitter

“Do I have this right: Republicans added ~$7 trillion to the national debt under Trump, but now they want to make cuts to Social Security and Medicare before raising the debt ceiling?”

Twitter
LunatechJan 18, 2023
Maynard G.KrebbsJan 18, 2023
@angiebaby @stopgopfox @just_alex @MJ @GreenFire @BenCisco @TonyStark
To me the Lincoln Project is like Dr. Frankenstein who wanted to destroy the monster when he saw what he had created. Or as my father was fond of saying "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
LunatechJan 18, 2023
Dan GillmorJan 18, 2023
From all available information outside of Twitter, this is yet another lie from Musk's birdsite -- a claim that "longstanding API" rules (of which now-stymied developers are unaware) are the reason for breaking the third-party apps that made Twitter easier -- and better.
LunatechJan 18, 2023
Melanie SillJan 17, 2023

Jill Lepore in The New Yorker, “What the Jan. 6 Report is Missing.”

“Nor does it inquire into the consequences of an educated national elite of politicians, journalists, and academics increasingly living their lives in a Met Gala to Davos to White House Correspondents Dinner world, or the degree to which so many of them appear to have so wholly given themselves over to Twitter — knowing the world through it, reporting from it, being ruled by it.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/what-the-january-6th-report-is-missing

#journalism #Jan6

LunatechJan 18, 2023
Robert ReichJan 17, 2023

MAGA radicals are refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless Biden agrees to devastating cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

I was involved in a similar fight over the debt ceiling twenty-eight years ago, which holds some lessons for what happens now. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/back-to-another-horrible-hellish

Back to another horrible, hellish, horrendous, totally absurd battle over the debt ceiling

Friends, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen just announced that the federal government will hit the limit on total federal debt on January 19, just two days from now. After that, the Treasury Department will be forced to take “extraordinary measures” to avoid defaulting on the debt, which would likely trigger a global financial crisis.

Robert Reich