@dsdamato

“After spending most of the 2024 campaign blaming Democrats for inflation and insisting that tariffs don’t increase prices, Donald Trump and his allies have a new economic message: High prices are good.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-tariffs-high-prices/682057/

Breonna Taylor was senselessly gunned down in her own home by Louisville police five years ago this morning.

“I think you’ve had enough, sir.”

‘the VW [Volkswagen] Group stored sensitive information for 800,000 electric vehicles from various brands on a poorly secured Amazon cloud—essentially leaving the digital door wide open for anyone to waltz in. And not just briefly, but for months on end. The breach impacts fully electric models across Audi, VW, Seat, and Skoda brands, affecting vehicles not just in Germany but throughout Europe and other parts of the world.’ https://databreaches.net/2024/12/27/massive-vw-group-data-leak-exposed-800000-ev-owners-movements-from-homes-to-brothels/ #privacy #security #surveillance #cybersecurity

This newspaper would like to offer our sincerest apologies to Mr. McEldroon, his lovely wife Peggy, and their beautiful children, Michael and Sally. We recently visited them at their home, located at 18 Maplewood Lane, to express our regrets personally.

New, by me: U.S. government officials say the China-backed hackers, dubbed Salt Typhoon, are still lurking in the networks of some of America's largest phone and internet companies, weeks after the hacks were initially disclosed.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/03/us-says-chinese-hackers-are-still-lurking-in-american-phone-networks/

Yes. He's a crank
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/11/rfk-jr-hhs-sanewashing/680663/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-z8QcWNs4NTh20aH6uhb2U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Eric Mack on 50 years of Robert Nozick’s “Anarchy, State, and Utopia”

https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-daily-podcast/anarchy-state-utopia-50
@cob #philosophy #libertarian

This is a bad idea. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/politics/rfk-trump-control-hhs-usda/index.html

Ten days before the election, take the time to listen to my five part podcast,, Autocracy in America. It describes the autocratic behaviors already visible in America - which we still have the power to stop.
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/autocracy-in-america/

RIP Phil Lesh.

Coming soon... the most fun card game you could ever imagine. One Billion Users. A card game about building your own social media network.

Can you do a better job than the billionaires in charge?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mmasnick/one-billion-users-the-social-media-card-game

@aaronrosspowell @arossp :batman:

just because you aren't on X anymore doesn't mean that it isn't shaping the reality of the far right. from @Noupside

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/rumors-x-twitter-musk/680219/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3y-aDgCNw7R-gBYPDA5570Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-lai-libel-ta-kung-pao-defamation-ee8da914157cd8b7820bc88c1edf8ce3

"The beneficiaries of artificial #scarcity are…your friends and #neighbors, your parents and relatives, the 65% of Americans who own their own home and expect the equity value of that real estate to increase, forever, guaranteed, faster than inflation or wages." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/its-not-the-one-percent-its-your-neighbors/

- Nature: Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07942-8
- Study: Conservative users' misinformation sharing drives higher suspension rates, not platform bias https://phys.org/news/2024-10-users-misinformation-higher-suspension-platform.html

“J.D. Vance Blamed Immigrants for the Housing Crisis. Corporate Greed Is the Real Culprit.”

Neither of these are primarily responsible for the #housing crisis!

RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/113239050356433831