@RealSeattleNice hey, I love the pod! In your most recent episode discussing the results of the general, the word “mandate” was getting a lot of use. Maybe it’s because the ballots weren’t completely counted, but does lower turnout and fairly thin margins really mean a mandate?
Elon Musk's Twitter just suspended the account of antifascist researcher @chadloder likely to suppress reporting on right-wing extremists. As I reported, Loder's painstaking research identifying a Proud Boy who attacked police on Jan 6 was cited by the DOJ https://t.co/TagSTpsNkT
@candidklamp I’m not thrilled by the “hey, this site was bought by a huge dick, let’s all pile into another one and hope that doesn’t happen again” pattern.
Then again I hit a 10MB attachment limit on Mastodon that kept me from posting a picture, maybe a traffic issue?
I actually think you can explain a lot of the reactionary turn among VC types and their railing against the “laptop class” in these terms: they have to deal with a workforce that has relatively high amount of leverage over them and knows it, and they fucking hate it.
@JadedSketch I only just learned about it on an episode of Know Your Enemy about Aurthur W Hunt III a couple days ago. Why did none of my Catholic Social Teaching classes cover this!