@admitsWrongIfProven i don’t see a lot of hope or virtue in plutocratic charity.
“I can imagine being powerful without losing my sense of what's right. I think that many well-meaning folks, technologists or otherwise, feel that way. But that is precisely the mistake: power does not corrupt moral fibre, power corrupts intelligence. The greater the power differential the lesser the access one has to others' realities. The more powerful you are the harder it is for feedback to reach you and force you to adjust, whether you seek it or not.” @robin https://berjon.com/ethicswishing/
@Arianity (i thought the content of the speech was very, very good, beyond the throat-clearing and Trump flattery to justify the fact of the speech itself.)
Elon Musk has promised to donate $45 million per month to a pro-Trump super-PAC. He is also working to have the Supreme Coup declare the NLRB unconstitutional. https://onlabor.org/tracking-attacks-on-the-nlrb-spacex-tries-its-luck-again/
Meanwhile, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien gives a barnburner of a speech at the Republican National Convention, extolling in sometimes very personal terms the necessity and value of labor unions, skewering tech firms including Amazon, Uber, and Lyft. (But no Musk firm was directly named.)
Weird times.
@nick_evans (my native city!)
@guncelawits excellent! to eat accompanied by Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray soda.
@LouisIngenthron @darwinwoodka i’ve got to try it…
@lmorchard ding ding ding!
@darwinwoodka obviously you are not from this city!
this ice cream shop could only be in one city.
Photo of toppings available on an ice cream shop menu: Banana, Brownie, Butterfinger, Caramel, Chocolate Sauce, Chocolate Chips, Cinnamon, Cookie Dough, Fudge, Graham Cracker, Gummy Bears, Heath, M&M, Oreos, Marshmallows, Marshmallow Sauce, Old Bay, Peanut Butter Cups, Peanut Butter, Peanuts, Pretzel, Sweetened Strawberry/Pineapple
from an excellent analysis by @AshaRangappa https://asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-bloodless-coup-has-startedwith
Text: The worst part of this case is that it becomes obvious that there was a moderate position that the justices could have taken that would have achieved the majority's purported goals. The Court could have simply said that any official act - even one in the outer perimeter of the president's duties - has presumptive immunity. That presumption can be rebutted if the government shows that the action was taken with a corrupt motive or for personal gain. That would have discouraged politically motivated prosecutions, reinforced the rule of law, and helped protect the executive branch. It also would have preserved the difference between lawful and unlawful acts.
@realcaseyrollins most of them now identify as ex-GOP i think.
in the most amusing timeline, it turns out he was radicalized by ex-Bush-Administration Never Trumpers.
you can love the human without admiring the candidate.
is it fair to define a subgenre of pop music that includes only Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond?
yesterday wasn’t a bad day to die of natural causes at age 96.
“Russian Government Forces Apple to Remove Dozens of VPN Apps From the App Store” @nickheer https://pxlnv.com/linklog/russia-vpn-app-store/
pokemon go is a psychotomimetic.
might Congress actually rouse itself to put the rogue Supreme Court in its place? via @ddayen https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5354