The treehouse design didn't work out well, either.

ok I need naming suggestions for the bluesky effect where a platform's hostility to a part of its userbase only makes that part stronger.

For example the "AI Hater" label has created a cultural touchstone of *good people*

Asking AI to design my new playground hasn't started off too well.

Borrowed this from someone on a different platform.
Can you afford to vote Reform?

🚨 NEW POLL - a majority back Scottish independence!

🔵 Yes: 53%
🔴 No: 47%

Scotland's future must be in Scotland's hands.

The past week of MAGA regret is what happens when an entire nation of people suddenly runs face first into the reality that they have allowed themselves to be in a parasocial relationship with a violent, deranged, narcissistic sociopath who no longer requires their support in order to retain power, and can therefore be discarded like the trash he has always viewed them.

The pundits are going crazy trying to figure out "why now?" What makes his current batshit deranged mania a step too far for his supporters? What's different about the recent sociopathic attacks on the Pope versus his sociopathic attacks on women and children? What's so different about the recent deranged AI photo he posted of himself as Jesus Christ versus the deranged AI photos he posted of the Obamas as monkeys? What's so damn different about the violent debacle in the Strait of Hormuz versus the violent debacle over the ICE murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good?

Let me answer that for you. What's different is it's happening TO THEM now. Trump's deranged, narcissistic violence is finally, and in measurable ways, HARMING THEM. That isn't a change in Trump. That's not a sign of disease, or onset of dementia. The only thing that's changed is the fact that Donald Trump, violent, deranged narcissistic sociopath that he's always been, no longer requires the support of his base to stay in power. And that makes them disposable.

Israeli-born Holocaust historian Omer Bartov (author of numerous books on the subject, and the famous 2025 essay in the New York Times "I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It") recently published "What went wrong in Israel?"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/omer-bartov-israel-zionism-genocide
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a detailed account of how Israel was transformed from a hopeful nation that in its founding document promised "complete equality of social and political rights to all its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex" into one intent on what he bluntly terms "settler colonialism and ethno-nationalism".
[…]
western imperial powers unleashed a settler-colonial project that aimed from its inception to "eliminate, uproot, murder the Palestinians"
[…]
the charge of antisemitism has grown hollow, Bartov said, due to its flagrant "weaponization" as "a tool to shut people up" as the state wreaks destruction on its neighbors. "Having claimed to be the definitive answer to antisemitism," he writes in What Went Wrong?, "Israel is now the best excuse for antisemites everywhere, a nation whose addiction to violence and oppression, reliance on great powers and financial clout, and constant harping on the horrors of the Holocaust as an excuse for untethered violence against Palestinians are making even some of its erstwhile supporters shrink from it in discomfort, or horror and disgust."
[…]
Bartov's new book is coming out in "nine or 10" languages, he said, but Hebrew is not among them. Though he offered to translate it himself, he says even left-leaning Israeli publishers took a pass.
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#politics #genocide #gaza #palestine #israel

Well, no barking then? Whining?
#dogs #dogsofmastodon #Humor

The scores of big-name journalists (and their bosses) who flock to the White House Correspondents dinner -- where Trump is the INVITED guest -- are the undeniable proof that Big Journalism has become fundamentally amoral and corrupt.

We have to rebuild our honorable craft, from the ground up.

@dangillmor@mastodon.social

My opinions about Palantir were first formed in 2013 during a recruiting process. We got to the job offer part. I wasn't particularly interested based on my interactions with the interviewets and the job description they gave during the process. Get to the compensation part and they wanted to offer $30k less than I was currently making and would have meant both more work and significant travel. I told them how far apart we were just from what my current compensation was. "We can't offer you that: that's more than the CEO makes" ... Utterly ignoring that the CEO was already quite wealthy and sitting on a massive block of pre-IPO shares (and there was lots of rumbling about how he was already collateralizing them).

Recruiters get annoyed at candidates that know nothing about the company they're interviewing with. They also get annoyed when you do "too much" research.


At any rate, everything about the interview process was icky. Everything in the news since has just further soured an already low opinion.

Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. It is vital that the general public understand the danger -- and then work to root it out of our lives.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-palantir/?ref=the-nerd-reich-newsletter

RE: https://chaosfem.tw/@CharlotteEowyn/116444269258781816

🔥🔥🔥 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaall of this 🔥🔥🔥

Listen, I have a Framework. It's a great laptop—maybe the best I've ever had. But I can't support a company that funds, in any form, an actual real-life Nazi like DHH. I also need them to, y'know, take ownership of the massive misstep doing so is/was.

RE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116444748462138719

I know exactly what the asshole yoof will do to elderlies with cybertails and it's not funny.

Yeah, well, gravity is just, like, your opinion, man

RE: https://chaosfem.tw/@EmilyGB2023/116444340432842266

This is merely proof that the shitposters on Reddit have discovered industrial-strength laxatives.

I hear Cook is going to issue pardons to the design team on his last day.

If you are appointing people to a position that needs security vetting, it is not sufficient to somehow *fail to find out* they didn't pass vetting, it is absolutely your responsibility to *confirm* that they did.

It cannot work any other way. Every job you ever get requiring a background check will involve forms and paperwork. There'll be a box on a form that needs filled in and signed off by someone before your contract goes out.

It's impossible that Keir Starmer doesn't know this.