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Fmr SFBA resident (worked at the Roxie 5+ years), now living in Iowa. Moved back for family reasons. I’m a gay artist/designer/educator working as a silkscreen t-shirt printer. Interests: art, graphic novels, plants, food, baking, music, travel, languages, literature, journalism, politics (left, queer, non-dogmatic), technology. MFA in Electronic Arts with a focus on rhetoric and propaganda.
En/Sp/Fr/中文 Toast, because my sense of humor is so dry I could dessicate a melon.

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Nonilex, to Law
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9 #witnesses in the #criminal cases against #Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, & a grant of shares & cash from Trump’s media co.

If any benefits were intended to #influence #testimony, that could be a #crime.

by Robert Faturechi, Justin Elliott & Alex Mierjeski

#WitnessTampering #MobTactics #law #FeloniousTrump #TrumpIsAFelon #NationalSecurity #BidenHarris2024
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits

toast,
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@Nonilex @carstenfranke see also: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/doj-says-epoch-times-is-an-epic-money-laundering-operation.html

toast, to iowa
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https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/gannetts-central-role-in-the-death #gannett #desmoinesregister #iowa #usnewsmedia

jeffjarvis, to random
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You don't speak for me or for America, New York Times. Lord, the hubris of the gray lady. You act as if the dark force over us is ennui. No, damnit, it is fascism. Cover that.

toast,
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@jeffjarvis the New York Times is failing us

toast, to random
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This is apt #gop #republicans #putin #grassley #jimjordan #jamescomer #jamescomerisarussianasset

politicscurator, to nuclear

Getting some of the badges out from the archives of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament today to show someone. Here's a thread of some of my favourite ones:

#badges #CND #CampaignForNuclearDisarmament #nuclear #antinuclear #activism #campaigning #history #histodons #archives #disarmament #libraries @histodons

toast,
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@histodons @politicscurator I used to canvas for the nuclear freeze in Wisconsin in the late 80s. Met a few couples so freaked out by the prospect of nuclear war that they had themselves sterilized.

TonyStark, to random
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“If reelected, Donald Trump doesn’t just want to ‘surveil, miseducate, and repress’ LGBTQ children. ‘He wants to interfere in the private lives of millions of adults, revoking freedoms that any pluralistic society should protect,’ Spencer Kornhaber writes.”

This isn’t something to mess around with. Joe Biden may or may not be your favorite person, but he isn’t this.

Trump’s Plan to Police Gender-
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/trump-lgbtq-transgender-community-protections/676139/

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@MollyNYC @TonyStark I cannot understand why the Democratic response to this spate of anti-trans legislation has been so weak. They just need to point out Republicans won’t be happy until genital inspection of children is common place in school sports. It’s perverse, and it’s going to be used a lot more on girls of color as a shaming tactic. It’s a boon for men who would SA children.

shoq, to random
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Yes, you could once reach the end of the Internet. It was a very small place then. But if felt quite immense to us at the time.

https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

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@shoq I remember when Wired or Mondo 2000 published a foldout map of the web in the mid 90s. It’s so bizarre to me that we used to be able to fit the Internet on a piece of paper

jeffjarvis, to random
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"But it would have been nice if Isaacson had pushed him to answer a basic question: What on earth does any of it even mean?"
I am eager to search the text of Isaacson's Musk biography to find any references to longtermism & TESCREAL, the noxious faux philosophies that govern much of what he does. The review I await is from @xriskology & @timnitGebru.

Elon Musk Wants to Save Humanity. The Only Problem: People.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/books/review/elon-musk-walter-isaacson.html?smid=tw-share

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@timnitGebru @xriskology @jeffjarvis the US media looooves to promote charlatans

jeffjarvis, to random
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It's bad enough that Morning Joe has Christie on every other day, now they're airing his campaign commercial for free. Stop.

toast,
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@jeffjarvis It’s a tell that political pragmatism matters more than integrity to the Morning Joe team. I remember a few years back when they excoriated Christie for using his position as Governor to punish political enemies.

tzimmer_history, to random
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The New York Times’ flagship “liberal” podcast presenting rightwing hack Ben Domenech as a conservative voice worth taking seriously is… not exactly surprising, but certainly a devastating indictment of the mainstream political media and its conception of “the discourse.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/podcasts/transcript-jane-coaston-interviews-ben-domenech.html

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@tzimmer_history why does the GOP never mention media bias within the context of Fox news? It’s obvious the whole point is to disadvantage Democrats, not that the GOP truly cares about fairness. The media consistently fails to point this out.

jeffjarvis, to random
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One might think this would force journalists to focus on what's wrong with journalism and its product, news. But...

Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/01/news-avoid-depressing/

toast,
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@jeffjarvis there’s a large difference between journalism and the American media obsession with scandal, gossip and product placement which we erroneously call “news”. Real journalism requires an investment in reporters and time. Media companies have no interest in this.

toast, to intel
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/07/intel-executive-actively-responsible-for-driving-anti-lgbtq-agenda-in-africa-say-campaigners #intel #bigotry #uganda #kenya #lgbtq

shoq, to random
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I suppose we'd all like to think these absurd SCOTUS decisions will translate to votes 19 months from now. If they don't, what seems like a fascist problem now, will feel downright quaint compared to the fascist problem we're heading toward.

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@shoq Congress needs to mandate justices wear white robes next session

glennf, to random
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These Supreme Court decisions are the garbage last breaths of a dissolving order that has to turn to repressive action that can't be appealed because it's lost control of society. Under a 5-4 liberal majority, it'll all be reversed in a few years.

toast,
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@glennf Congress needs to mandate they wear white robes next term

iMike, to random

It's not about a web designer. It's about the small rural town who has one grocery store that can now just ban gays or whoever else they disagree with.

toast,
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@iMike this is going to result in fire fighters refusing to put out fires at houses with Pride flags. It affirms bigotry.

toast, to LGBTQ
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The Supreme Court is an absolutely fucked and corrupted institution. The plaintiff didn’t even have standing. This was a made-up case. #extremecourt #gayrights #fuckthescotus #institutionalbigotry #lgbtq

shoq, to random
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WELL! I guess we don't have to wonder what @KeithOlbermann is discussing on #Countdown this morning, eh?

Who saw this coming—except almost everyone? Now if only we had enough culture left to cancel David Zaslav and John Malone.

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@HarveyEsq @shoq the real problem I had with CNN’s drastic turn to the right is that it laid bare any pretense CNN had to respecting the truth. If a news organization is so flippantly able to alter the slant of their news, what did they actually believe to begin with? #cnn #Licht

glennf, to random
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How is AI detection going to work when we can’t even filter out spam 95% of the time?

toast,
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@glennf The AI will be writing the spam, leaving spammers free to do other scams!

jeffjarvis, to random
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Hertz, yet again, proves to be such an awful company.
Hertz apologizes after refusing rental car to Puerto Rican customer https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/15/hertz-apologizes-puerto-rican-customer-new-orleans?CMP=share_btn_tw

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@jeffjarvis It’s not just Hertz. I had friends visiting from PR years ago and we went to a local casino, but they wouldn’t accept a PR ID as proof of age.

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