Shoq

THIS IS #CCD (Creative Commerce Disruption) and the kind of mass protests we can and should be doing day until the chaos gets too expensive for conservative oligarchs, pols, and shareholders to tolerate.

I wonder if @catturd2 speaks Russian as well as he speaks moron?

I’m all for a national strike action, but not for some fanciful wish list. It should focus on essential reforms needed to restore us to a functioning democracy. And it should be as ideologically-agnostic as possible.

Something like this (if not exactly this):

They left out the partridge, the pear tree, the kitchen sink, and just about everything I really care about. This is not a serious effort. It will vanish without a trace.

I remember when Dana Perino was the worst @Pressec, ever. Then came Sarah Huckabee, who was far worse. And then Kayleigh McEnany felt like GOP had finally hit rock bottom, until Karoline Leavitt punched right through it.

Not a day goes by that I don’t marvel at the missed opportunities of social media. When was the last time you saw any innovation in this space? Keep in mind, this tech was mundane when invented (more by accident than insight).

@shoq I learned portions of this from Dr. Demento decades ago as part of his intro to playing Mbube.

I don’t know if she’s an evangelist for hire, but her writing is clear-headed about AI fears, both real and misguided. AI tech is here. It’s up to we humans to decide how we apply it.

Ten Most Common AI Fears, and Why They’re Misleading | Pinar Demirdag […]

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Like most of you, I’d heard this tune since I was a child, but I had no idea that it had such an interesting backstory. And what a shock to learn that a black musician got screwed! Imagine that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_Sleeps_Tonight

I keep getting comments about my idea to rebrand “Democratic Socialism” as the “Modern Democracy Movement (MDM).” If for no other reason, than it provides an opportunity to do what DSA has never done very well. Explain it to people lacking the education to easily understand it, or who quickly […]

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See my previous post. I live in Florida, once a paragon of blue government, now a MAGAterian shit-show. Florida Wildlife and Fisheries has been gutted by Republicans, and my red county leaves animal control to the police. The big tragedy of […]

For those asking about my turtle friend, I found this guy in my area. He came quickly and said “he” was definitely feeling poorly. He took him to his refuge for some antibiotics and TLC. Joe has a great brand and a better mission.

https://joerassicpark.org/

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I have heard that argument for most of my life. It’s still preposterous to me. The word is just as unpopular in much of the world as it was then. Did you want to save a country, or a word? Forced rationalizations aside, it does absolutely […]

Color me shoqqed. Shoqqed, I tell ya!

Supreme Court [Sam Alito] blocks order that found Texas congressional map is likely racially biased/

https://www.wral.com/news/ap/c1bbf-supreme-court-blocks-order-that-found-texas-congressional-map-is-likely-racially-biased/

Only a handful of super-wealthy, from the Gilded Age, right up until the 1980s-ish. Then KABOOM. Now we have thousands of billionaires. And their needs and wants are not like yours.

Simple as that. Democrats have decades of experience showing no common sense whatever. If we’re serious about saving ourselves, we need to find some. Dumping an infamously toxic label is a pretty easy place to start.

I appreciate it when ChatGPT’s chat models are honest with me. Even if I want to strangle every product manager in the fucking company every time it happens.

appreciate commentary. Our educational systems are teaching none of the above anymore. And we’re feeling the effects of it socially, politically, and economically.

There’s going to be a reckoning after the collapse of the American Empire. A few rapidly aging readers of the New Yorker will be […]

“American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.”

Remember when bloggers made headlines? Today there are thousands more podcasters and influencers than there ever were serious bloggers, yet they have little discernable impact on news or narratives. As aways, there are a few exceptions.

But it’s not really […]

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“You have no privacy. Get over it.” — Scott McNealy, 1999.

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/fbi-signal-group-chat-immigration?CMP=share_btn_url

Those who predicted commercial interests would destroy computing were correct. Most dev has been about business apps and mobile for decades. And the tools suck. Lack of standards— which only served biz interests— still makes everything miserable. Especially web browsers and Android.

Cheney served as Halliburton CEO until 2000, and continued to receive deferred compensation and held stock options after becoming Vice-President. (Wikipedia) Halliburton’s subsidiary, KBR Inc. (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root), received large no-bid or sole-source contracts for Iraq war/ reconstruction tasks. (CorpWatch) “I’d do it [torture] again in a minute.” — Dick Cheney (New Yorker)

Only in America would a scoundrel who profited from a war he co-created, and torture he condoned, would lie in state and be portrayed by the media as a great patriot. Fuck Dick Cheney and anyone apologizing for him.

WTF? Only a Republican would mutilate themselves for a political stunt. #GOPersAreAllSickFucks

▶ Natalie Greene, 26, allegedly paid a body modification artist to scar her, before pretending to be assaulted in a politically-motivated crime […]

Does anyone have a working theory for wide Threads randomly posts someone I follow in my activity stream ? Each day there’s 2 or 3 who pop up for particular reason. When I want to see followers, there’s I have a feed for that. Activity isn’t one of them.

I’m not on Threads all that much but I’m starting to see the Right wing troll assaults that people have been talking about. My timeline as an increasingly steady flow of really stupid people lately. The X-factor at work. Again.

Anyone have a degree in soft shells? This monster must weigh 30 lbs and has been in my carport for like 90 minutes. It’s done nothing but turn around once. But it is inching closer to a plate of water. How do you know if it’s sick, thirsty, dying, or just slumming?

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And too weak and lacking in leadership to rise up against any of it. No matter what label you use, American liberals, academics, pundits and NGO leaders are the weakest population of threatened people in history. They do nothing but […]

Every few years, a few people decide who the most talked about influencers are going to be. And for a year or two they’re everywhere, until they get replaced by the next crop, and the next, and the next. And almost none of them say anything very different than the crop before them. So it goes.

I’ve been watching this social media shit show for years. You know who “liberal influencers” influence? Other liberal influencers. And usually the same ones who influenced them a day or two earlier. And since we have no informed commentary about commentary anymore, none of this circle jerk ever […]

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Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter whether they get caught doing it or not. What matters is whether enough people believe that it matters whether they were caught doing it.