Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Can’t overstate how dangerous it is that vaccine denial has completely captured one of the two major parties. We’re an election or two from unraveling one of humanity’s greatest achievements. The potential long tail damage is millions of preventable deaths. Just absolutely bonkers.

The only thing that makes UDP jokes bettter than TCP jokes is that when you don't laugh at a UDP joke the person doesn't tell it again.

Citizenship cannot save you from fascism https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/citizenship-fascism/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

This is rather sure sign that our faith in a President following the laws is not grounded in reality.

TFG will violate every law, and his people will as well. They have learned they are largely immune, protected by potential pardons and commutations, and that any action by courts will be at least years away. And SCOTUS added to the mess by making the President a King with royal immunity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/31/trump-transition-process-jan6-president/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

What kind of a world do we live in where ballot boxes have to have internal fire suppressant?
https://floss.social/@downey/113387281091862923

5yo noticing a Cyber Truck for the first time (and without me ever voicing my own opinion):

“Dad, look at that icky cardboard car.” 🤣

#CyberTruck #parenting

If he wins, Trump advisors want security clearances issued without FBI vetting

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/politics/trump-security-clearances-fbi.html

A body at rust stays at rust.
– Newton's First Law of Car Repair

Trump recently said that "I have no cognitive."

That seems correct.

Elon Musk – Yes, That Guy – Was An Illegal Immigrant In U.S. https://crooksandliars.com/2024/10/elon-musk-yes-guy-was-illegal-immigrant-us?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I told people this was the goal and they didn't believe me. They told me I was wrong.

No, I am not.
The #auspol govt is demanding that #socialmedia companies prove we are adults.
Well, you know how they do that, right? ID.

They are most likely going to use third party services to demand your ID, pair it with a facial scan and then link that to a fingerprint of your device.

Given the reach of social media companies that means you are trackable everywhere.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/10/14/teen-social-media-ban-national-age-verification/

McDonald's would never have let Trump near the fryer if they had known about his hideous and crippling foot bone spur.

Heavily increased police surveillance “starts to impede on our ability to act freely as law-abiding humans, even if we are not doing anything wrong," EFF’s Beryl Lipton told WZTV FOX 17 News in Nashville.
https://fox17.com/fox-17-investigates/investigation-metro-police-push-for-access-to-private-cameras-and-fusus-technology

He is old.
He is weird.
He is vulgar.
He is unwell.
He is violent.
He is hateful.
He is extreme.
He is confused.
He is disgusting.
He is controlled by billionaires.
He is controlled by foreign powers.

He is unfit to be President of the United States of America.

@heidilifeldman His continued public decline also tells us he doesn't have any trusted friends who can take him aside and stop him.

Corporations are not sentient entities. They are contracts. They do not "do" things. They do not make decisions. Executives do.

When corporate activity breaks a law or harms people, it means the executives decided to do that.

When a corporation has been fined for something, what you are witnessing is the executives being let off the hook for what they did. Perhaps the prosecutor/regulator wants to keep get big money from corporations after leaving government.

#corruption #corporations

Trump's Brain Is Broken And JD Vance Is The Real Candidate https://crooksandliars.com/2024/10/trumps-brain-broken?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The Patriot Act Remains a Threat to Our Movements 23 Years Later https://truthout.org/articles/the-patriot-act-remains-a-threat-to-our-movements-23-years-later/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

A friend shared this thought with me, and, to be honest, I find it a little depressing.