STRIKES WORK!vote like your right to #unionize depends on it, because it doesBoeing workers vote to end $9.6B strike, nabbing 43% wage increase over 4 years - Ars Technicahttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/boeing-workers-vote-to-end-9-6b-strike-nabbing-43-wage-increase-over-4-years/#ElectionDay #UnionStrong

who needs a little boop in the snoot? you do! #joyscrolling

tomorrow should be #CatsOfMastodon #DogsOfMastodon #MooDeng #FionaHippo and all cute animals, furry, feathered and otherwise, all day long on the timeline.

in a weird way, am actually relieved that FINALLY people can see and understand what i have been seeing and sounding the alarm about for almost 30 years now. it's true: we aren't going back. too many of us remember the days of neighbors raped by their husbands, of aunties dead of back alley abortions, of cousins left to die of AIDS or killed in prison for a dime bag.i remember when mami finally was able to have her own bank account. she was so proud she had her own checks. 🧵

EARLY VOTINGENDS TODAYIN NEW YORKTuesday is the general election. if you find that you are not on the voting rolls, ―purging does happen here in New York― you are supposed to be given a provisional ballot AND a voting registration card. this happened to me a few elections ago. the process is seamless and you still get your vote scanned.

WINDOWS IS BEING PRIMED AS A DATA FIREHOSE FOR CHATGPTSatya Nadella is even more evil than prime Bill Gates. Windows will mine computers for data to feed ChatGPT. it is already doing that with Microsoft Office, aren't they?it should be obvious given how Microsoft is gambling 15 BILLION IN EQUITY on OpenAi. if OpenAi loses money, they'll lose money. Windows computers' are now colonial outposts for MS techbros looking to devour everything you've created using their OS & MS Office

it blows my mind people are not even discussing the obvious consequence of the #AI'fication of American capitalist-driven business making: if you give up your corporate secrets to the few companies running the AI scam, you are abdicating your right to - corporate secrets- intellectual property- copyrightthis, btw, is why going 100% to the cloud would end up destroying so many businesses: Bezos OWNS your secrets.you may or may not still have a right to trademarking but that's about it.

the amount of porn i have had to block from the #Halloween hashtag has been absolutely staggering.

@moss Yay! They have been so good to me over the years, including 2020 when everyone was imploding. I’m not loyal to companies, generally, but I have had all good experiences there!

@blogdiva My pet peeve is when a news outlet reroutes you to their localized site according to your system language and then not even have the translation of the piece you intended to read.Mera . . . 🤬🤬🤬

@drukac @blogdiva if not outright supressed by authoritarians like Franco and his descendants!(said in the stern voice of my Valencian Republican Grandfather!)

ABOUT GEORGE W. BUSHDubya's grandda, Prescott, most likely bought his way out of a life in prison when his bank was closed down by FDR because he was the main banker to the Nazis. this from the Guardian, back in 2004:"How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar?til=truethe Senator for Connecticut got away with it and that ushered the era of USA nazis hiding in plain sight, in and outside the government.The Bushes are literal architects of American #Fascism

oh, so finally the white liberals are getting shadow-banned on Xitter, 5 years after a certain pesky wise blatina called them out for do it to her but nobody gave a shit 🧐 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/29/elon-musk-x-republican-democrat-twitter-electionh/thttps://mas.to/@gleick/113391876379193683PREVIOUSLYhttps://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/110865922091438623https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111592902407168789https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111728495050796462https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111971499948942544https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112895652886988657https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112095712467540867#censorship #techbros #fascism

well, well, well… look what i found going back to 2015the RACE FOR 2016 is doing a heckuva job with the headline: my comment: https://x.com/blogdiva/status/1294141746637451264"this made me go into my archives; because it is the height [of] white supremacist madness that US media did not take this man seriously in 2015. this CNN chyron from August 2015 says:❝ Trump: End Birthright Citizenship ❞

@[email protected] I was thinking about this more ... Harris had just rolled out her "Puerto Rico Opportunity Economy Task Force” earlier in the day, and Bad Bunny had that post with the video and talking points up soooo fast after the "comedian's" racist comments. So, was he already lined up to endorse, and just tweaked it slightly to include "that's how they talk about us"? And for that matter, as my partner pointed out, the Harris campaign knew the rally was yesterday, and they knew who was speaking ... if that's the kind of "joke" the "comedian" regularly makes, did they time things with her outreach yesterday so that they were ready to take advantage of it?

oh. so today was #Trump's Nazi party at Madison Square Garden? so here is, once again, A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN, the award winning documentary about the 1939 event and how Jewish anarchists and their #antifa allies stormed the garden in protest. https://vimeo.com/237489146#antifa #AmericanFascism

so how are #Bezos and his #techbros mafia planning to steal the #ElectoralCollege for Trump?this is what Robert Kagan is saying: Bezos is so confident Trump will win it's why he had to kill the Harris endorsement. the only way Bezos and his #techbros mafia can steal the Electoral College is by buying up 270 electors willing to go against the EC voting mandates of their states, if need be. so how exactly is that happening NOW?https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-washington-post-editor-robert-kagan-this-is-a-straight-jeff-bezos-donald-trump-quid-pro-quo/#USpol #2024Elections

@blogdiva to my everlasting shame, I was around when that culture was forming up. I was not expecting what they became. Cut myself off from the orange hellsite just before sama (Altman) took it on as a project. And now I am an activist for housing as a human right.Wanting clear air and clean water for all is apparently a radical demand rather than basic hygiene.I don't get it, if a government cannot take on the care and welfare of its constituents; then it deserves to be replaced with one that does take responsibility for the well being of the humans in it's care.

@blogdiva Lastly, for my true nerds, this is a good breakdown of the issues with visualizing covid data by date of report vs other ways, focusing on deaths data: https://covidtracking.com/analysis-updates/is-there-a-right-way-to-chart-covid-19-deaths-over-timeWith cases, it's much better to report by date of specimen, BUT it's so irresponsible not to visually mark the most recent data—which will always look better than it is because it's incomplete—as useless/misleading in any visualizations you produce. We saw this exact thing used for disinfo in the US.

@[email protected] like the ones that did the Valkyrie plot? Alright, that, I mean...