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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Timely:

https://www.popehat.com/p/and-yet-it-moves

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sereeena@infosec.exchange ("serena 🌙") wrote:

apropos of nothing, BWB has kindly let me publish the full text of my 2020 essay on the spread of online fascism: https://serena.nz/writing/bwb-chapter-9/

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

danherbert ("Dan Herbert") wrote:

@timnitGebru As is common, The Onion predicted this pretty accurately. https://youtu.be/qBYmyYK4Kcg

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Rather than strengthening the democratic immune system, each infection with Trumpism comes with increased risk of Long Trump.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Vercel account deleted.

I even have some active projects there, but I don't care. I'd rather rebuild them from scratch than support people who support fascists.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

404media@flipboard.com ("404 Media") wrote:

Voted in America? This Site Doxed You
https://www.404media.co/voted-in-america-this-site-doxed-you/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into 404 Media @404-media-404media

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

jakelazaroff ("jake lazaroff") wrote:

great time to replace vercel with a hosting provider whose CEO won’t applaud fascists

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• Screenshot of a tweet from Guillermo Rauch: “Congrats President Trump 🇺🇸 Excited about the impact &, prediction markets, citizen journalism, podcasts, and the open web played in fostering democracy and a free media. It's a new world.”

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

We all receive information with drastically different levels of quality and trustworthiness.

A handful of billionaires control the flow of the world's information.

If we are to survive the next decade, those two facts need to be at the forefront of our activism.

I can't think of a better community to lead that initiative than right here on the Fediverse. We understand the tech that delivers info and the politics that drives it.

We must reach out to those who lack this specific knowledge.

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PixelRobot@paquita.masto.host wrote:

Democracy Dies in Big Opportunities for Capitalists

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• Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos en X Big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th President on an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory. No nation has bigger opportunities. Wishing @realDonaldTrump all success in leading and uniting the America we all love. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Coping.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/06/the-little-things-we-can-do/

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• baby steps (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I don't know about you, but I can calm myself by contemplating venomous spiders, and how even when tiny they can bring the mighty down low.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/06/we-all-need-a-pretty-little-spider-to-brighten-up-our-day/

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• black widow (remote)

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joelanman@hachyderm.io ("Joe Lanman") wrote:

yuck
https://x.com/rauchg/status/1854206133776388461

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

some sobering shifts

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/politics/2020-2016-exit-polls-2024-dg/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“America knew that he was a convicted criminal, serial liar and racist demagogue who four years ago attempted to overthrow the government. It voted for him anyway.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/how-trump-won-us-election-president

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

with Trump willing to abrogate our NATO obligations, I fear Putin’s War in Ukraine may become a general European war. with Trump willing to give Netanyahu anything asked for, I fear a spreading of war in the Middle East. with Trump willing to abandon our commitments to RoK, I fear Kim may decide to try to do what his father & grandfather failed to accomplish: unite the two Koreas by force of arms.

these are going to be very dangerous times.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

California votes no to end slavery. It wasn't even close.

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• Ballot measures • California From The Associated Press (AP) California Over 50% of the vote needed to pass. California Proposition 6. Prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude. This proposed amendment to California's constitution would bar slavery in any form and repeal a current provision allowing involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime. 51% reporting No 54.9%, 4,997,513 Yes 45.1%, 4,105,482

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I used to think the US has won the Cold War, but they've got a Russian puppet as a president, and the USSR is reunifying.

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DarthPutinKGB@mastodon.world ("Darth Putin") wrote:

Conquering GOP was much easier than conquering Ukraine.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

the cemetery is good for deer

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

startled a young whitetailed buck with tiny horns

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

We have to face the fact that we are a garbage country.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/06/i-grieve-for-my-country/

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• candle dying (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yup, @CARROT is correct

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• 3553446a2bb2a4ab.mp4 (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

like the NYTimes audio commentator just pointed out: we can no longer pretend that Trump is an aberration, a deviation from the American political norm. Trump has demonstrated that he *represents* the current American political norm.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I weep for the future of Ukraine & the possibility of peace in Europe

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mxbck@front-end.social ("Max Böck") wrote:

This, except they picked diarrhea

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

control of the House, Senate, & Supreme Court means a President untrammeled with checks & balances

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

my country is in deep trouble. my fellow citizens apparently want leadership based on chaos & division.

four generations of my family have taken that same oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; [to] bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and [to] obey the orders of the President of the United States”. however, none of us has ever had to face orders from a President who *is* an enemy of our Constitution. 💦

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ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

— You choose Trump.
— I never supported Trump
— You are active on Twitter/X, which is a way to support his platform.
— I wanted to convince people there!
— With skewed algorithms? Seriously? Who are you kidding?
— I couldn’t leave, all my community was there.
— That’s what I said: not decreasing your followers count was more important than protecting democracy. You made that choice.

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bert_hubert@fosstodon.org ("bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺") wrote:

Thank you Mastodon and the Fediverse for being an example of communicating without billionaires and US venture capitalists calling the shots. We're going to need more of this.