Trump’s Maga faithful want to get even. They have nothing left to lose

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/04/20/maga-county-trump-us-economy-tariffs-west-virginia/

With friends like these...
https://calgaryherald.com/news/braid-smiths-cosy-ties-in-u-s-wrecked-poilievre-campaign-opening

Obama has nothing to say about what Trump is doing, but he did post his NCAA bracket.

Biden has nothing to say about what Trump is doing, but he found time to post about St. Patrick's Day.

Harris has nothing to say about what Trump is doing, but she tweeted to celebrate International Women's Day.

It's not just Schumer. Dems have no idea how to mount a meaningful resistance. It's just BAU with them while the US descends into a Constitutional crisis. Hand the keys of the party to AOC, please!

my lawyer told me not to say “guillotine” on the record anymore. fine. the new vibe is “the tall french goodbye”

They're so innovative that they need the government to have tarrifs on GPUs to attempt to curb their competitors and help them steal all the data in the world.

https://www.theverge.com/news/630079/openai-google-copyright-fair-use-exception

Get rid of anti-circumvention laws

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/08/turnabout/#is-fair-play

The Guardian notices that parents are teaching their gen-Alpha kids to use and understand AI. Which is why parents LOVE Chatterbox! https://hellochatterbox.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/01/parents-children-artificial-intelligence

⚠️ New legal analysis by The Citizen Lab’s Cynthia Khoo and Kate Robertson warns of the constitutional dangers posed by the Canada-U.S. #CLOUDAct.

If signed, the agreement would extend the reach of U.S. law enforcement into Canada’s digital terrain to an unprecedented extent.

Read it here: https://citizenlab.ca/2025/02/canada-us-cross-border-surveillance-cloud-act/

Imagine if employees at every federal agency did these pranks with the same theme (but different video) all the time? It wouldn't take long for Trump to get mad and take Elmo down a peg a two.

The smilodon kitten that came through the prototype voidgate in the basement has been growing fast. My initial decree that “she’s gotta go back to her mama” ran up against the fact that since the gate was /malfunctioning/ at the time, we can’t be sure of the origin coordinates. A long night swearing at the oscilloscope and trying both my spare Russian-surplus flux capacitors convinced me that a return trip is just not gonna happen, unless the box of FCs I ordered from AliExpress turn out to have closer tolerance than these cold war relics. Look, I’m a responsible mad scientist, i’m not going to drop a kitten into a random date in the Pleistocene without her mama.

“She’s gotta stay in the basement”, I told the Kid, “and keep the door shut”. Which explains why I’m looking at a saber toothed catling stretched out on the living room sofa with our two tabbies nestled into her belly fur, and her head on the Kid’s lap.

“Comfy?” I ask in my best mumsarcasm voice.

“We’re watching squirrel tube.” the Voice bounced off the Kid, “hey Mum, did they have squirrels in the wotchucallit plasticine age?

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

#Tesla Factory In #California #Pollutes So Much It Is Second Only To An Oil Refining Company
Did Elon #Musk ever actually care about the #environment, or was it just a scam to make people like him? https://jalopnik.com/tesla-factory-in-california-pollutes-so-much-it-is-seco-1851708615

🤷‍♂️

“A brand new Cybertruck owner from Canada says his truck bricked itself as he was trying to defrost it. After the truck died in less than 24 hours, the Cybertruck owner says he went from being “In love to heartbroken on the same day.””

#EV #Tesla #Cybertruck

https://www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-cybertruck-immediately-dies-canadian-winter-owner-bricks-truck-trying-use-defroster

The bad news about bird flu keeps trickling out while we continue to shrug off the accumulating risks. Are we sleepwalking toward another pandemic? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-are-we-sleepwalking-toward-another-pandemic/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links

@sarahmiller_22747 @pluralistic
There is under the bus history.
Kowtowing? Not sure. 'To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war'. Please note that Alberta is culturally more accepting of the US than the rest of Canada. The Canadian opposition leader, likely PM to be, was raised there. Not sure he will stand up to Trump.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/does-mexico-throw-canada-under-the-bus-1.4807073

One more that I couldn't fit on the first toot - a dragonfly this time

Can I sign up for four years?
Real-Life Human Hibernation
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/real-life-human-hibernation-AXj2mn0OReugnTTXm806DQ

It sure does.
#ItsTheFuckingGuns

Margaret Atwood https://open.substack.com/pub/margaretatwood/p/the-pythia-blathers-on?r=1vl0f3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

AI is dumber than you think https://www.computerworld.com/article/3603636/ai-is-dumber-than-you-think.html

@film_girl Those women are fierce. They sacrificed too much.
The universe is a better place with you advocating, podcasting and posting on social media rather than suffering the agony of CTE.