Mastodon is financed by crowdfunding instead of venture capital not because we don't know that venture capital exists, not because we don't have bills to pay, and not because venture capital isn't willing to give money to new social media platforms. VCs don't want a sustainable business, they want a big exit. Every VC-backed business is on a timer to deliver or die.

American conservatism is the idea that the state delivering free lunches to your school kids is an overreach, but the state burning your kid's school books is just fine.

🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, in 2023, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into the apartment windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off the US EPA, who sent their env cops to raid Apple's plant in Aug of 2023. The US EPA finally released the report of their enforcement inspections & sent me a copy on Friday. 💀 ⬇️

It's pretty remarkable how much Elon's Twitter takeover is a textbook fascist takeover: leftists immediately purged, censorship regime imposed behind the scenes, secret police rooting out enemies, right wing terrorism supported by the state, etc and how uncannily similar the mainstream liberal response of pretending nothing is wrong is, even with *very low* costs of walking out the door and refusing to collaborate.

Don't make me tap the sign

#ChatGPT to write a Linux kernel module keylogger, and a PHP C&C server. But the on-the-fly translation of code implementation excerpts from assembly 8051, to assembly x86, to C, to Cobol - is impressive. Less impressive when it creates a defence plan against a tank battalion assuming access to Molotov cocktails and shovels only.

Please enjoy this AI-generated portrayal of Krampus and Santa Claus in a passionate, manly embrace. This is the energy we need to carry us into the holidays.