Danny Goossen

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Electronics and FOSS enthusiast loves building and hacking things for fun while using my professional technical business management expertise into to ERP implementations with ODOO.

'How delightful. The MAGA and Measles ship is in town.’

Overhead at the harbour as a group of cruise ship passengers passed by, cameras and tourist brochures in hand, speaking loudly with American accents.

Wat Tang Sai Temple in Ban Krut, Thailand
Β© Ratnakorn Piyasirisorost/Getty Images
#Thailand #photography
Whoah! This doesn't seem right. Is it legal? All of Social Security Administration's public communications will be moved exclusively to X, Musk's private social media company.
Users will be able to view the communications without an account, but will not have access to any other functions.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-social-security-administration
#socialsecurityadministration
#x
'Welcome to the Oligarchy Era': Social Security Administration Switches Communications to Musk's X | Common Dreams

The Trump administration is facing backlash for cutting Social Security communications staff and shifting from press releases to Elon Musk's X platform.

Common Dreams
Are we moving towards the end of the US dollar as global reserve currency? I have a gut feeling that indeed we are. That a lot of trust has been destroyed this week and that trust will not simply return. And that causes real anxiety for me. While we theoretically know alternative solutions to a single reserve currency could look like (BANCOR, the Keynes version, not that cryptoshit that tried to profit of the name), the IMF and World Bank have published papers on the question, but no answer 1/5
On Tuesday night, Judge Susan Crawford was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court by a decisive 10-point margin, a rebuke of Elon Musk, who spent $20 million in an attempt to buy the seat. And that's just the beginning. For more progressive victories, don't miss this edition of the Week In Wins. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progressive-wins-april-6
Good News For Progressive Views The Week Of 3/28-4/3

What a week!

The Big Picture
@ScienceDesk Don’t worry, all those tornadoes are going to disappear after NOAA is shut down…
Zuck decides independent fact-checkers are eating into the bottom line (not that he's pointing that out) & so he's decided the best way to profit from his user base is to put them to work, force them to correct each other and do it for FREE! At Meta, you're not just the product, you're the workforce
I don't know who made this, but I salute them 😘

Shortly after horrific car attack in Germany, Musk re-affirms his support for #AfD, the closest thing to a nazi-like party with popular support Germany has had since the end of Adolf Hitler's regime of mass extermination and oppression.

The suspected attacker is a disturbed anti-Islamist extremist who promoted conspiratorial far-right content, including by AfD and Musk himself.

This is how fascism works: whip up fear, hatred, confusion -- and within the confusion, present one path forward.

X.com is a key weapon in Musk's arsenal as he seeks to transform every Western democracy into white supremacist authoritarianism.

It's the machine where the hatred, fear and confusion that fascism thrives on gets whipped up and amplified every day. And one person has ultimate control over the machine: Elon Musk.

Much of German civil society has realized this danger and countless organizations have exited X. Unfortunately, far too many orgs still legitimize it with their presence.