Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

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Via Rocky Mountain Views:

Dear Voters,

Republicans are telling people that Kamala #Harris is coming for your plastic straws and gas stoves.

We are telling you that Trump and the Republicans are coming for your Social Security and Medicare.

Please, put things into perspective.

Fox News Cuts Off Kamala's Speech Because Of Course They Did https://crooksandliars.com/2024/07/Fox-cuts-off-Harris?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I find the investment people have (on both sides) in the narrative of whether Trump was hit by shrapnel or grazed directly by a bullet to be incredibly silly.

Being shot at is terrifying. Being injured by shrapnel can be at least as injurious as being grazed by a bullet. Don’t shoot at people.

Whatever happened, Trump was fortunate to not have been seriously injured, and he remains as terrible a choice for president as ever.

Over the course of a single decade, the Republican Party has gone from keeping its racism behind closed doors to shouting it from the rooftops.

They don't even pretend anymore.

Make no mistake; the President of the United States calling for Supreme Court reform in an Oval Office address is a big deal.

It's time to unpack the court.

BREAKING!

The Antifa Turtle on #Twitter shared a Twitter API okta leak that shows there is a list of "protected accounts", all of them right wing, who are allowed to break #X Terms Of Services without consequence and includes a list of whitelisted slurs they are allowed to use.

The whistle-blowing Twitter account was suspended by mods shortly after.

#elonmusk #freespeech #whistleblower #leak @UnicornRiot @freedomofpress @OffTheHook

USA ELECTIONS 2024

The Prosecutor VS
The Convicted Felon

The stakes are high; will the voters let former Attorney General Kamala Harris save western democracy or will Convicted Felon Donald Trump usher in Authoritarian rule and the end of Ukraine as he embraces Vladimir Putin?
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #Trump #Harris

The Secret Service advised Trump not to hold outdoor rallies BEFORE the Butler shooting.

But indoor venues are impossible to book when you have a years-long history of not paying them.

https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/trumps-campaign-still-owes-el-paso-over-500k-for-2019-rally-other-cities-also-unpaid

OK folks, we need to stop assuming #Mastodon is the entire #Fediverse and expecting its idiosyncrasies to be mandated on everyone else.

There's no such thing as a "CW" in #ActivityPub. A Note can have a summary and a content and if Mastodon wants to display the summary and hide the content that's its problem. There are so many examples of this. Please stop screaming at people just because you think they've failed some kind of Mastodon purity test on an ActivityPub network when they're following the rules of their instance.

I've invented a new feature for car stereos to improve convenience and safety! I'm willing to license it to auto and car stereo makers for a very low per-unit royalty.
Instead of having to navigate through menus or use a touchscreen to select one of your favorite radio/satellite stations, the stereo will have a plurality of PHYSICAL BUTTONS, each of which, upon being pressed, tunes to a user-selected station.
In the preferred embodiment, there will be six such buttons in a horizontal row.

When Hillary Clinton was the nominee, she was called "Hillary” by fans, opponents, and media alike. I was told “that's because 'Clinton' means 'Bill' in people's heads," and I didn't entirely agree, but OK.

Now Kamala Harris is the presumptive nominee, and she's "Kamala,” not "Harris.” There is no other President Harris.

Trump isn't "Donald," Biden isn't "Joe,” Obama wasn't "Barrack.” In 2016, it was possible that this wasn't gendered. But I can’t buy that anymore.

News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions [SATIRE] https://www.theonion.com/news-happening-faster-than-man-can-generate-uninformed-1851601466

Breaking: Trump refuses to accept the results of the presidential withdrawal, will continue to campaign against Biden.

Know what I really like about this whole new Harris for Prez thing?

It's taken Trump out of the spotlight, and will today too. And hopefully for awhile, since she still has to announce her veep pick.

Nice bonus.

"Now the Republicans are the ones saddled with a candidate who can’t make a clear argument or finish a sentence"
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-looks-older-and-more-deranged/679186/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK30QMG1fywUquOuGp_YU0tp4

"The cloud is many things, but most of all, it's a trap." Cory Doctorow, @pluralistic

Software As A Service is another way of saying #enshittification -- Data stored in the cloud is data that has yet to be stolen.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/22/degoogled/#kafka-as-a-service

@pteryx @pluralistic

I have co-member on a committee I serve on who's trying to set up the org's digitized "bible" on Google docs—fine so far. Except what happens when Google randomly decides to shut down its "Folders" feature for some arbitrary reason?

“The cloud is many things, but most of all, it's a trap.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/22/degoogled/ ht @spinbackwards @mhkohne