2022/12/13

Tuesday, December 13, 2022 (#347)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday 2022-11-14 Revealed: secret courts that allow energy firms to sue for billions accused of ‘bias’ as governments exit (h/t) «A secret court system that allows fossil fuel investors to sue governments for vast amounts of money has been accused of institutional bias, self-regulation issues and perceived conflicts of interest, as the drumbeat of EU countries leaving threatens to turn into a samba march.» 2022-11-20 Two new movies, ‘Till’ and ‘U.S. and the Holocaust,’ help us connect the dots between Jim Crow and fascism (via) by Soraya Nadia McDonald: Fascism is just Jim Crow with a foreign accent. 2022-12-09 newsie.social/@rvawonk: more about fascist plans to disrupt the power grid 2022-12-09 Why The Computer Company Raspberry Pi’s New Hire Caused A Social Media Firestorm chaos.social/@jonty «I did not see "Raspberry Pi co-founder becomes ridiculous conspiracy theorist" coming but here we are. / You did some bad PR, then handled it incredibly badly when everyone called you on it. That's it. Stop trying to blame everyone but yourselves.» 2022-12-10 Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises by Maggie Astor 2022-12-13 tech.lgbt/@jessdkant «eah, just to be crystal clear on this, on behalf of #Trans people working in #TransHealth everywhere: one of the reasons we feel constantly under attack is the NYT editorial board. I'm glad they ran this story, but nothing grinds my gears more than when centrist media outlets who have previously traded trans lives for clicks publish "why is this happening?" think pieces, as if it's some unanswerable question.» 2022-12-11 Elon Musk suggests Dr. Fauci should be prosecuted and mocks gender pronouns in controversial tweet — the latest in a series of statements fueling right-wing viewpoints 2022-12-11 Donald Trump Says He Turned Down Russian Swap Deal for Paul Whelan 2022-12-12 twitter.com/avidhalaby (nitter.net, archive.org): Twitter tech fail, prelon 2022-12-12 Is America Blind to Trump’s Genocide?: That was when they switched to the "get back to work" narrative and cancelled any plans to provide PPE. 2022-12-12 Mark Meadows Exchanged Texts With 34 Members Of Congress About Plans To Overturn The 2020 Election «The Messages Included Battle Cries, Crackpot Legal Theories, And ‘Invoking Marshall Law!!’» 2022-12-12 The Pandemic and War — Not Government Spending — Caused Inflation, According to Nobel Prize Winner «A new paper by Ira Regmi and Joseph Stiglitz has huge implications for everything about who holds power in American life.» Formally stating the obvious, but every bit helps. «Faithful consumers of America’s elite media — TV news, the New York Times, the Washington Post — generally get the impression that everyone in the U.S. is on the same team.» Where in the world do they get that idea from? «This is absolutely false. The people at America’s commanding heights do not want this at all.» ... «they prefer to have less money with more relative power.» Or, as I've been saying for a decade or more, they'd rather be emperor of a dungheap than an equal in paradise. 2022-12-14 This “inflation” is different (h/t) by Cory Doctorow 2022-12-12 Hundreds of Oath Keepers Have Worked for DHS, Leaked List Shows US/gov/DHS 2022-12-13 Trans Man Harassed, Dehumanized in Right Wing Press After Sharing Surgical Horror Story Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher author says «Predictably, the mainstream media has ignored the story while the right wing had run with it, dehumanizing, misgendering, and distorting Rylan's story in the process.» 2022-12-12 White House calls Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Jan 6 comments a ‘slap in the face’ of law enforcement 2022-12-12 mastodon.online/@joshuatopolsky: Twitter is now automatically marking Mastodon links with a warning. 2022-12-12 mas.to/@TimH It's not even just links to posts on Mastodon instances or use of the #mastodon keyword; it's using the word "mastodon" in any context. (So much for "free speech absolutism", yet again.) 2022-12-13 Twitter ditches Trust and Safety Council as Musk tweets fuel harassment 2022-12-13 Goldman Sachs Sees Gold Outperforming Bitcoin in the Longer Term