2022/11/23

Wednesday, November 23, 2022 (#327)

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 2022-11-22 Billionaires Provided 15 Percent of Funding for the Midterms ...even though They represent 0.0002% of the population. 2022-11-23 6 people and the gunman are dead in a shooting at a Walmart in Virginia 2022-11-22 Supreme Court allows release of Trump's tax returns to House Democrats 2022-11-22 Georgia deputies arrested in beating of Black inmate that 'shocked the conscience,' officials say 2022-11-22 Marjorie Taylor Greene calls gay Democrat a “groomer” in wake of LGBTQ club shooting: because of course she's pathologically incapable of being a decent human being 2022-11-22 GLAAD Report: Drag events faced at least 124 protests and significant threats in 2022 2022-11-21 California Republican who voted to impeach Trump wins reelection 2022-11-22 QAnon Fan Charged for Threats to Kill FBI Director, Calif. Congressman 2022-11-22 Facing opposition, controversial homeless ordinance pulled from OKC City Council «After hours of discussion and public comments today, a proposed Oklahoma City ordinance that would have allowed police to cite and arrest homeless people in camps around the city was withdrawn by its lead author.» Yeah, no, just don't do that. 2022-11-21 Elon wyd (via, via): post by a former Elon Musk underling at SpaceX, giving some insight into Musk's "success" there. 2022-11-23 social.wake.st/@liaizon: CEO of Flickr is considering joining the ActivityPub fediverse 2022-11-23 Media Misled on Issues Important to Midterm Voters (via): analysis of key information overlooked by media forecasts of the election results 2022-11-23 Elon Admits His Content Moderation Council Was Always A Sham To Keep Advertisers On The Site «Indeed, part of the reason those same folks got so excited about Musk taking over, was that they believed (falsely) that he was going to get rid of all the moderation and so they’d be “freed.” Instead, what they have is exactly what they falsely feared was happening before: an impulsive, moody, vindictive billionaire, enforcing his own personal views on moderation. It’s deeply ironic, but his supporters will never recognize that Musk is doing exactly what they falsely believed Dorsey was doing before.»