Periodically Google lets us know it is a violation of their policies (their ads business manages the ads on GovTrack) to display ads on our bill pages that have the text of bills in Congress that would ban assault weapons.

Every algorithm is political. If you think an algorithm isn't political, it's probably because you're on the side the algorithm benefits.

For the past 6 hours, there’s been 2,000+ Mastodon account creations per hour.

This hasn’t happened since December 2022.

@mmasnick predicted that Elon Musk’s new Twitter Blue policies would result in another Mastodon migration, and it looks like he’s right.

Once Twitter effectively becomes “pay to play”, Mastodon suddenly becomes more appealing.

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110102918619817258

@fediversenews

So, the ChatGPT business model is going to be about selling tools that can detect its own output.

In terms of knowledge, veracity and the entire concept of truth, they’ve built a robot that is going to shit everywhere, and then sell you a dowsing rod that might let you navigate that shit without stepping in it. I’m sure the first time you use it, it will be very affordable.

It’s amazing how many people are lining up to be 10x or 100x shit-producers.

If anyone tries to tell you that cancel culture is a real thing, remind them that in 2022 admitted sexual predator Louis CK won the Grammy award for best comedy album and in 2023 it went to proud transphobe and antisemite Dave Chapelle.

Cancelling isn’t and never has been real.

Answering this in public:

Their endgame is preserving capitalism, for perhaps three more generations, in the face of quite literally, the end of the world.

The planet is boiling; capitalism goes or we do. The capitalists have made their choice, but they are quite aware that seven billion lemmings are not going to vote the preservation of a wealthy ruling class ahead of pure survival.

Ergo, you must not be allowed to choose. Hence, fascism.

Is it nuts? Absolutely. But LOOK AT OUR RICH PPL?

Over 100 billion people have lived on our planet.

Just 622 have been to space.

Just 12 have set foot on another celestial object, our barren moon.

Not a single human has been to another planet.

We know of no other planet that can sustain human life.

Why is it so damn hard to get people to care about protecting the only home we've ever had and the only place we can live?

#climatechange

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oceans-break-record-for-highest-temperatures-four-years-in-a-row-180981455/

Trump Org CFO Weisselberg is being sentenced to 5 months jail for massive tax fraud, of which he'll serve ~100 days on Rikers.

Kalief Browder suffered in Rikers for 700 days in solitary confinement on the false accusation he stole a backpack, then died by suicide.

Two Americas. And a reminder that a system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect, and that a system will always protect those it was never meant to fail.