Dan Ancona

@danancona@opalstack.social
318 Followers
556 Following
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Standing athwart history yelling hey, can we please get moving again. Former techie, occasional novelist, now building systems for research, persuasion, and creating award winning ads. Listening + art + science.
Personal Sitehttps://danancona.com/
Dan AnconaOct 8, 2024
Dare ObasanjoOct 8, 2024

I just deleted my Twitter account.

I saw a viral pro-H*tler tweet on my timeline with 66,000 likes and 9.5 million views. That was enough for me to ensure my posts don’t contribute any value to that garbage dump.

Dan AnconaAug 22, 2023
Show threadJamison FoserAug 22, 2023
If I’d suggested telling America that Bob Dole liked dogs and ice cream and cool cars and wore aviators my boss woulda thrown a stapler at my head
Dan AnconaAug 22, 2023

Was in a focus group yesterday with swing/noncollege women under 30. Tons of cynicism, anti-government, anti-everything, both sides, all politicians are crooks, etcetc.

Then came across this in an old deck -

"The people in Washington don't understand places like this. People like us, they're suffering while people in Washington are making profits. I think they're looking up for themselves and that's it.”

and it’s a DEM ad!! We just need to stop punching ourselves.

https://host2.adimpact.com/admo/viewer/4805968

Places Like This

Warnock for GA Senate started airing this Positive ad about Warnock for GA Senate on 12/07/20 in the GA Senate Special 2020 General Runoff election.

Dan AnconaAug 8, 2023
Dr. Alexandre Santerne 🌍Aug 8, 2023

In case you missed this chart, it shows the predicted increase of #CO2 and #temperature in the #atmosphere (black lines) compared to current observations (red & blue lines).

The prediction was made back in 1982 by ExxonMobil in private documents.

They knew since 1970s that #FossilFuels would lead to #ClimateChange with "dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050.”

Did they care ? Obviously no !

#Climate #climatecrisis

Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063

Dan AnconaAug 5, 2023
Jen SorensenAug 5, 2023

Latest comic: Tech billionaires just want to save humanity!

#tech #inequality #economy #philanthropy

Dan AnconaJul 31, 2023
Show threadTwitter Death CultJul 31, 2023

Already deleted, but mirrored forever

https://twitter.com/RobDenBleyker/status/1686101153589698561

Tweet / Twitter

Twitter
Dan AnconaJul 31, 2023
BBC Radio 4Jul 31, 2023
Hello everyone! 👋 We've joined the fediverse as part of an experiment with our friends from BBC Research & Development. Read more about it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

BBC R&D
Dan AnconaJul 31, 2023
Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧Jul 31, 2023

Hey, if you're in Washington state, please call Senator Cantwell's office. According to this article (paywall-free link), Cantwell is one of the people pushing hardest for KOSA, which Republicans have admitted will be used to drive LGBTQIA+ content off the internet. (Everyone else, also please call your Senators!)

https://wapo.st/44OTpNZ

Privacy debate takes center stage in kids’ online safety legislation

A Senate panel advanced two bills on Thursday, but they’ve gotten pushback from privacy advocates.

The Washington Post
Dan AnconaJul 30, 2023
Bread and CircusesJul 29, 2023

At least three groups — "Fridays for Future", "Fight Fossil Fuels", and "End Fossil Fuels USA" — are joining together to organize mass climate protests and strikes in September.

Here is part of their message...
__________________________

Our world is in crisis. Extreme weather caused by the climate emergency is wreaking havoc in our communities and ecosystems across the globe, causing social insecurity and harm to people.

The biggest cause of this crisis is fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas.

The fossil fuel industry is driving a predatory and destructive economic system that harms people and the planet, fuelling climate break down.

Fossil fuels are bad for the climate, for ecosystems, for our people, for our health, for our democracies, and for our economies.

The science is clear: what the world needs now is a rapid and just transition to an energy and economic system that is efficient, fair, and universal. A system based on clean energy sources and produced with respect for nature and the sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples.

This September, as world leaders discuss climate action at the United Nations in New York, people on every continent will join the largest-ever globally coordinated action and together WE WILL end fossil fuels.

The climate crisis is escalating but so is the global movement for climate justice. We need all hands on deck to win this fight.
__________________________

LEARN MORE --

✊ https://fightfossilfuels.net/

✊ https://fridaysforfutureusa.org/sept-15/

✊ https://www.endfossilfuels.us/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction

Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels – September 2023

This September, people on every continent will join the largest-ever globally coordinated action to demand that governments end fossil fuels. Join us.

Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels
Dan AnconaJul 20, 2023

They've spent $1B/yr trying to convince people to be economically conservative and only got it to 61-39. And this is with VERY friendly question wording.

Right wing donors should ask for a refund of their money.

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Dr. Alexandre Santerne 🌍Aug 8, 2023

In case you missed this chart, it shows the predicted increase of #CO2 and #temperature in the #atmosphere (black lines) compared to current observations (red & blue lines).

The prediction was made back in 1982 by ExxonMobil in private documents.

They knew since 1970s that #FossilFuels would lead to #ClimateChange with "dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050.”

Did they care ? Obviously no !

#Climate #climatecrisis

Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063

Show threadΩ 🌍 Gus PoseyAug 8, 2023
@AlexSanterne Bastards.
Show threadKastanjaAug 9, 2023
@Gustodon @AlexSanterne Capitalists.
Show threadeagerpebbleAug 8, 2023
@AlexSanterne l'd feel a lot better about this if the tobacco industry didn't exist anymore. Still, it's damning evidence that they did this with full awareness of the consequences, just like the tobacco companies.
Show threadVaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Aug 8, 2023
@AlexSanterne we did a whole video on this a while back (so YT only, not on PeerTube) https://youtu.be/yO7KviuUh0Y
Climate Change Debate is Toxic: Let's listen to the oil companies.

YouTube
Show threadDeweyAug 9, 2023
@AlexSanterne they cared. They dumped a ton of money into lies. They created whole departments just to propagate lies. That's caring. Just not the caring any sane human would want.
Show threadgmokeAug 9, 2023
@AlexSanterne What jumps out at me is that
their projections are a little bit
WORSE
than the observations
so from their perspective
fossil fools could see this
as a win
"We looked at the projections
& actually bent the curve down
at least a little."
Show threadNicole ParsonsAug 9, 2023

@AlexSanterne

It's not the crime, it's the cover up.

Oil billionaires are facing a future onslaught of class action lawsuits, just like Big Tobacco.

No matter how many Republicans they buy.
No matter how many Supreme Court Justices they corrupt.
No matter how many congressional election deniers they fund.
No matter how they subvert elections with Putin.
No matter how many coups they orchestrate.

Show threadKo van HuisstedenAug 9, 2023
@AlexSanterne not better than drugsdealers
Show threadSimon BrookeAug 9, 2023

@AlexSanterne And this is exactly why all present and past #ExxonMobil executives should be arrested and prosecuted by a new #Nuremberg process for #ClimateGenocide.

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2023-05-22-Climate-Change-as-Crime/

Climate Change as Crime

Is consciously contributing to climate change tantamount to genocide? I think it is.

The Fool on the Hill
Show threadOblomovAug 9, 2023
@AlexSanterne I wouldn't be surprised if the small discrepancies we're seeing are due to the very limited effort that has gone into reducing emissions in the last decades, which ultimately is even more damning because it would imply that if these hadn't been curbed by corporate interests we could have done so much better.
Show threadtroutishAug 9, 2023
@AlexSanterne this only looks to go up to 2019 ish?
Show threadComm Radio Environment NetworkAug 9, 2023
@AlexSanterne btw I have discovered that there are lot of hashtags that are being suppressed on the bird site. #Exxonknew is one of them. The others relate to Shell and also Ecocide. By suppressed, I mean that when you go to post and write the hashtag, none of these hashtags appear in the drop down menu of options to pick. Something dodgy going on with the algorithms there I swear.
Show threadOnePlanet 💖🇺🇸 🌎Aug 9, 2023

@AlexSanterne

I remember the chart well, and news of the discovery of the chart.
From that day forward, I became obsessed with knowing WHO PAID for studies (and the interpretation of its results)

Show threadDisco3000Aug 9, 2023
@AlexSanterne rip their asses open in trails 😒
Show threadBrownian_motionAug 9, 2023

@AlexSanterne And they are still making record profits at the world's expense. Thank you for posting.

https://astrodon.social/@AlexSanterne/110855943293143855
#climatechange #freeenterprise isn't, #capitalism won't solve this.

Dr. Alexandre Santerne 🌍 (@AlexSanterne@astrodon.social)

Attached: 1 image In cased you missed this chart, it shows the predicted increase of #CO2 and #temperature in the #atmosphere (black lines) compared to current observations (red & blue lines). The prediction was made back in 1982 by ExxonMobil in private documents. They knew since 1970s that #FossilFuels would lead to #ClimateChange with "dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050.” Did they care ? Obviously no ! #Climate #climatecrisis Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063

Astrodon - The Astro Community
Show threadPepijn SchmitzAug 10, 2023
@AlexSanterne Let's not forget that the fossil fuel companies keep digging up fossil fuels because WE keep asking for it. It would be hypocritical to solely blame the fossil fuel companies for fulfilling a demand that we keep creating, by wanting to fly and drive everywhere, go on wasteful holidays, throw away a quarter of our food, cool and heat our badly insulated homes, use things made of plastic, etc. etc.. The change has to come from us; our actions and who we vote for.
Show threadsilentashesAug 11, 2023

@AlexSanterne

> “Did they care ? Obviously no !”

On the contrary:

I think this fits perfectly within the
“tear it down, in order to build it better”
mindset.

I don’t think this was simple greed.

Didn’t it come out that at least 20 years ago,
various dark-groups
had been building ginormous underground-cities
?

Please, if anyone has a source on this, LMK.

Show threadLes capsules du prof LutzAug 13, 2023
@AlexSanterne ⬆️ #TheyKnew also my own collection of links https://pinboard.in/u:lutzray/t:theyknew/
Pinboard: bookmarks for lutzray tagged 'theyknew'