The Five Stages of Indictment Response:

1. Anger
2. Denial
3. ALL-CAPS SOCIAL MEDIA
4. Ketchup
5. Fundraising

#Trump #indictment #USPolitics

Without googling it, can you name another person who has been charged with 78 or more felonies? #trivia

Bernie Madoff was charged with 11.

John Gotti was charged with 13.

Al Capone was charged with 23.

@isaaccp @futurebird From Slate: In 2013 the lead designer of SimCity was asked what, in his team’s measurements of real-world cities, produced the biggest surprise. “Parking lots,” he responded. “We were originally just going to model real cities, but we quickly realized there were way too many parking lots in the real world and that our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.

https://slate.com/business/2023/05/parking-spots-cities-paved-paradise-cars.html

@tess

Good call! As Catherynne Valente @catvalente says in her great essay, Mark F***king Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend (https://catvalente.substack.com/p/mark-fking-zuckerberg-is-not-your):

"Stop calling him Zuck. I swear to god I haven’t seen his full name in two weeks. He is not your friend. He is not anyone’s friend. We are not going to memory-hole the last decade of Facebook actively strangling any brain in reach with a series of ever-more-laser-targeted tentacles."

#Threads #Meta #Zuckerberg #Musk

I learned about @AbandonedAmerica from a mention on a Jethro Tull podcast, and I keep coming across interesting folks from various other circles who are plugged into Matthew Christopher's work.

Some folks are just a good follow, and double as magnets for other interesting/thoughtful folks.