Lee Busch

There is a perfectly legal way to shake down corporations and the wealthy. It's called taxes. We could try that instead...

We fought WW2 against fascism.
Logically and semantically, if you’re against ANTIFA, then you’re pro fascism.
And that’s anti-American.

Before AI takes my job, it'd be nice for it to figure out how to block spam texts.

Universities are job creators. If you want to tax them, then tax those other 'job creators' who've been busy laying people off...

Today I remembered chain letters. Like, postal letters you had to forward on to burden your friends with, or else suffer bad luck. Please don't tell Zuck about this, or he'll try turning it into a forced-engagement feature...

Urgent: Take Action to Protect Public Services Photo by Katie Rodriguez on Unsplash I have something you can do in five minutes or less that can help salvage the integrity of the federal civil service,...

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE! Have you taken three minutes to save the political independence of the civil service? It’s easy! Here’s how you can do it:

news.chanda.science/archive/urge...

He may not be sure, but the constitution is

Hint: If you decide you're healthy, that's narcissism. ;-)

New hack reported to me: X (Twitter)
Congrats Elon for your amazing track record respecting the little people.

2/2 One thing I told her — which had nothing to do with her actual career questions — was about the value of time. Time is the most valuable resource you've got — spend it well.

What would your advice to the current college graduates be?

1/2 Just had a lovely mentoring call with a new graduate of my alma mater. I think she will do well (no thanks to me). For whatever reason, I've gotten more mentoring requests through the alumni network, and It's been nice helping this new generation...

Go to Project2025.observer (yes, that's a website URL)
It's tracking implementation of the Project 2025 blueprint.

4/4 Capitalism hoards resources, it does not distribute them. Anyone wishing the government to be more capitalistic will be in for a rude awakening.

3/4 To measure the government by capitalist P&L principles is to fundamentally miss the point. Capitalism does not exist to protect the public health, promote peace, or further a country’s influence.

2/4 However, capitalism is an economic — not a governmental — system of private ownership of the means of production. It concentrates power, and operates for profit, not for the public good.

1/4 Capitalism thrives under a democracy. But a democracy is not meant to be subservient to capitalism. 

Democracy is a system of government where power is vested in the people and is meant to protect and defend the people, promote welfare and ensure our freedoms...

Opinion | It May Not Be Brainwashing, but It’s Not Democracy, Either (Gift Article) How the federal government became “an outdated software system that must be replaced.”

The thought recently occurred that we live in a 'capitalism' and not a democracy. The distinction can be hard to comprehend if you've not taken civics (and gutting education will ensure no one ever does...) This article covers some of what I've been worrying over.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

Remember as Twitter goes down today, that US cyber-security is being dismantled. So current or future outages may be from state actors, not internal incompetence.

Twitter goes down and I see celebration, not concern, like in the old days.

And yes, I fully realize AI is coming for my job(s), and that intellectual property is property.

A large book-piracy site points out that countries without copyright concerns have huge advantages in training their AI LLMs

annas-archive.org/blog/ai-copy...

Yes, copyright law protects original authors. But moreso, large corporations. So now what, if the dinosaurs don't evolve?

Cory Doctorow is expanding our vocabulary.
New term: the enshittocene
(the period of time ruled by enshittification)

I noted today ALL the headlines were screaming “disaster”. It’s algorithms optimizing for stridency, for clicks. So our thinking becomes extreme too.
We're marinating in an algorithmically-intensified stew, forgetting what is real and human. Everything is demonized, dehumanized, disconnected.

This is next-level insanity.

Press Release from Election Truth Alliance titled "Vote-Counting Computers": Data Analysts Recommend Investigation into 2024 Pennsylvania Election Results

Our data analysts recommend we #AuditPA with #PAperBallots.

Help support our mission to #VerifyTheVote because #TruthMatters.

Read more here:
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I remember thinking how terrible it was that oligarchs were taking over, and nothing could stop them because they were in cahoots with the top guy in government.

This was Russia though.

Sooo... That didn't take long.

Doomscrolling has taken on a whole new meaning.

Time is the most important commodity.
Without it, nothing else has value.

Darn, I'm missing out on the best day all year to shop in stores.

Ha! If it was, it looks like they’d all be crashing and exploding.