Vote now, or walk the plank!

IT'S DEBUNKED, which is also what JD calls a threesome

Nobody wants to read all 900 pages of Trump’s Project 2025 — so we did.

Here’s everything you need to know about the playbook for MAGA extremism, who’s behind it, and how to fight back: http://majorityovermaga.org/project2025

As far as I can tell, the Republican party has devolved into a cabal of rich gangsters whose political affinities lie east of the EU. Every vote, every action, is to harm America and Americans. That we have an underclass of ignorant subversives eager to vote, and publicly display their allegiance to, a man with no allegiance, loyalty, or even common decency towards them, speaks to how well the rotting Rush Limbaugh and the fascistic Murdoch television empire have brainwashed absolute fools.

@breadguyyy

there are unfortunately utter morons on the far left that are effectively motivated to not vote/ vote 3rd party on exactly the sort of toxic idealism you peddle. which may be your goal, as maga/ russian agent provocateur, or you are just genuinely toxic on the topic organically. who knows. who cares. it's bs, and i'm calling you out on it

litigating kamala's past, while remaining quiet on trump's past, on topics you know trump is infinitely worse, can only serve one purpose, today

I just biked past a group bike ride that was loudly playing the Kingdom of Zeal theme from Chrono Trigger so I yelled “Fuck yeah, Chrono Trigger!!” (as one does) and not one of them seemed to react or know what I was talking about 😂

A trillion is hard to wrap your head around!

A million seconds was 11 days ago.

A billion seconds ago was 1993.

A trillion seconds ago? 29,600 B.C.

Wild, true story from the security awareness and training company KnowBe4 that details how they inadvertently hired a North Korean hacker who was posing as a Western tech worker.

Kudos to them for publishing this. If it can happen to a security awareness company, it can happen to anyone (full disclosure: they've been an advertiser on my site for ages).

https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us

Ian Muir explains the context for the Crowdstrike Microsoft disaster.

Source unknown

Right now the billionaire fascist owners of the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN and (of course) Twitter/X are knocked on their heels. Their plan to destroy Biden worked too well and Harris is their worst nightmare result. But they won't stay down for long. Already we see Harris traffic on X getting manipulated, and the NY Times thinks pivoting to 'Dem Chaos' may work.

Folks, Mastodon is more important than ever today. While tiny, open social media is a counterbalance to corporate media. Onward!

Checked in on Neil Gaiman's and Amanda Palmer's Instagram. They're posting through it and hoping you forget. Don't forget. And if you haven't already, get the whole story, either from me https://write.as/brendanhalpin/neil-gaiman-podcast-wrapup-and-reflections or the podcast https://www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/master-the-allegations-against-neil-gaiman/ or somewhere else. Don't let them memory hole this.

More reports of Musk ratfuckery:

https://newrepublic.com/post/184097/trump-elon-musk-causing-kamala-harris-problems

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/kamala-twitter-account-follow-limit-elon-musk/

Some perspective for computer professionals annoyed by reporting that blames Friday's CrowdStrike update outage on a "Microsoft update": remember that they also get details like this wrong routinely on topics you aren't already fluent in

May you live in interesting times (derogatory)

@BrianEnigma I don't think she'll be eligible until she's eligible to be president (she won't turn 35 until october)

Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools

Researchers use technique to quantify eyeball reflections that often reveal deepfake images.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/astronomers-discover-technique-to-spot-ai-fakes-using-galaxy-measurement-tools/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The single best thing that Harris could do right now is:

Challenge Trump to a push-ups competition

Pulling up something I wrote in 2020, reasons to be optimistic about Harris as a choice, _even_ given her background.

I'm not saying you have to like her, I'm not saying you have to trust her—I certainly don't—but let's make sure that we are being honest when talking about her.

* She introduced the Gay and Trans Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2018, which would have banned the "gay and trans panic defenses" nationwide. She had started pushing for this issue while DA.

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This is somewhat to be expected, but you would only know about this if you're actually engaged with TikTok, the bleeding edge culture laboratory carefully maintained by an opaque algorithm, and with the dying gasps of Twitter

The MOMENT maneuvering on behalf of Harris began, something strange happened among both leftists AND young people

It was as if everyone kind of looked at each other, grinned, shrugged, and said “why not? this could ACTUALLY work”

Despair was replaced by possibility.

@AlisonW

Biden posted this link and asked people to show support for Kamala.

I showed my support.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/social-bfp-july-2024-v2

Trump is now the oldest POTUS candidate ever nominated by a major party.

He has repeatedly confused Biden with Obama and Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. He fell asleep at his criminal trial.

Will the media scrutinize his age & mental decline with the fervor it focused on Biden?

Oldest. Nominee. Ever.

If this doesn’t energize the party, literally nothing will. We need to be running this ad non-stop on every available screen in the country.

#usPol #harris

she can talk! she can stay awake! she’s the right woman for the job!

Harris beating Trump will be the greatest poetic justice the world has ever known.

Make it so.

#Harris2024

remember the best number of points of failure for global infrastructure is: one

Remember! Restart your computer 15 to 20 times.
#crowdstrike

#CrowdStrike #Azure

#CrowdStrike

Crowdstrike ad aged like milk.

#crowdstrike #agedlikemilk

Trump shooter used Android phone from Samsung; cracked by Cellebrite in 40 minutes https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/18/trump-shooter-android-phone-cellebrite/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Poll after poll finds majorities want #Trump to withdraw. That info's in the 14th or 15th graph of every write up of a poll showing that Biden's unpopular.

Trump's unfavorables, 54%, are 2 pts better than Biden's 56% in 538's avg.

Most people wanting the convicted felon not to run just isn't a story for some reason. Shit like his "black outreach" gets more coverage.

But people are still in denial about the media's role in this mess.

#Biden
#media
#election2024

I used Github for the development of Glittermitten Grove (because I wanted to figure out how to use git) and Frog Fractions Game of the Decade Edition (because I was entrenched). Now I have three choices:

- Keep paying Github forever to keep my repos private.
- Learn how to export an LFS repo.
- Announce that I'm open-sourcing the Frog Fractions series in order to save $9/month.

P.S. I learned *nothing* about git until I started using it on a project with 5+ programmers on it.

it me

Turns out President Biden is an FDR-type Democrat. Who knew? He’s the most progressive president since at least LBJ if not FDR. He was pushed to this point by Black women, Black activists and other activists. This is his base. He knows it. The elites know it and they are PANICKED

All this for a lark.

One of the great mistakes that people like Andreessen, Thiel et al make is thinking you can buy off the far right. Pay them some campaign money, they won’t bother you. That’s because they don’t understand that the far right is driven by ideology, not money. Put them into power, and they will eventually destroy you. Even being inside the tent won’t help – ask the ghost of Ernst Rohm whether identifying with the far right will save you.

It mildly terrifies me that a lot of things we think are natural are just things that were invented by American advertising agencies in the 40s and 50s

The nuclear family, diamond engagement rings, owning a motor car, etc are all works of fiction that we have subsumed into being part of our culture, instead of it being astroturfed by a bunch of skilled marketers