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I feel like we should be using the term “robber baron” more. From Wikipedia:“By the late 19th century, the term was typically applied...

I feel like we should be using the term “robber baron” more. From Wikipedia:

“By the late 19th century, the term was typically applied to businessmen who used exploitative practices to amass their wealth. Those practices included unfettered consumption and destruction of natural resources, influencing high levels of government, wage slavery, squashing competition by acquiring their competitors to create monopolies and/or trusts that control the market, and schemes to sell stock at inflated prices to unsuspecting investors.”

That sounds like some people I know…

#USPol #RobberBaron

This is what “running the country like a business” looks like#USPol

This is what “running the country like a business” looks like

#USPol

I keep seeing Substack links come across my timeline. Do people not know they host Nazis, or do they not care?...

I keep seeing Substack links come across my timeline. Do people not know they host Nazis, or do they not care?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/substack-nazi-content-policies-controversy/

https://inkstickmedia.com/how-deep-does-substacks-far-right-problem-run-really/

#substack

#ImpeachElon

#ImpeachElon

Let’s be clear about some things:The United States should be regarded as a rogue nation at this point. The only goal is more power and...

Let’s be clear about some things:

The United States should be regarded as a rogue nation at this point. The only goal is more power and wealth for Donald Trump.

He’s a bully, and he has two of the biggest sticks in the world: the US military and the US economy. Using them as weapons is going to damage them.

The job and funding cuts combined with the tariffs and unpredictability seem likely to cause a recession.

The pogrom against trans people has started in the form of rule changes that outlaw their existence.

The pogrom against non-white people has started in the form of immigration raids, and the preparation of Guantánamo Bay to become a concentration camp. We all know this is about race, not citizenship.

“Pogrom” is a strong word, but, I fear, the correct one.

#uspol #transphobia #racism

I think there’s nearly zero overlap between people who follow me and people who follow my bot @GreatOldBot But I finally got it posting...

I think there’s nearly zero overlap between people who follow me and people who follow my bot @GreatOldBot

But I finally got it posting again after the botsin.space shutdown

I mean, I’m all for people being able to afford these and spreading the costs around, but don’t sell this as cracking down on...

I mean, I’m all for people being able to afford these and spreading the costs around, but don’t sell this as cracking down on profiteering

“Out of pocket”? How much is insurance paying on top of that 600% profit? Is this just hiding the costs that we’ll pay in increased...

“Out of pocket”? How much is insurance paying on top of that 600% profit? Is this just hiding the costs that we’ll pay in increased premiums and tax dollars instead?

https://www.threads.net/@potus/post/C5T_aCfgeoD

Back in the bad old days of the web, JavaScript was introduced, and one of the things it could do was pop up new windows. Advertisers loved...

Back in the bad old days of the web, JavaScript was introduced, and one of the things it could do was pop up new windows. Advertisers loved this, and, of course, users universally hated it. It was so obnoxious, it became a browser feature to block these

Eventually, the technology advanced to the point that we can make pop up “windows” in CSS and JavaScript alone, and they’re back to being one of the worst things about the web.

Dear media companies,No, I don’t want to install your appNo, I don’t want to sign up for your email newsletterNo, I don’t want to...

Dear media companies,

No, I don’t want to install your app
No, I don’t want to sign up for your email newsletter
No, I don’t want to disable my ad blocker and be tracked across web sites
No, I don’t want to sign in with Google
No, I don’t want to watch a video about something else over the article I clicked on

Please stop asking,
Thanks

@GreatOldBot I just did another update adding: *The Lurking Fear*, *The Shunned House,* and *The Silver Key*I've also updated the bot to...

@GreatOldBot I just did another update adding: *The Lurking Fear*, *The Shunned House,* and *The Silver Key*

I've also updated the bot to only have a 50% chance of posting every hour, so it will post less often

Text is sourced from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=lovecraft&submit_search=Go%21

I've added *The Colour Out of Space* and *The Dunwich Horror* to @GreatOldBot #Lovecraft #HPLovecraft #Cthulhu #CthulhuMythos

I've added *The Colour Out of Space* and *The Dunwich Horror* to @GreatOldBot

#Lovecraft #HPLovecraft #Cthulhu #CthulhuMythos

Oops, hehhttps://botsin.space/@GreatOldBot/110629107933934871I left the “illustrations” in on purpose, I just didn’t think about how I...

Oops, heh

https://botsin.space/@GreatOldBot/110629107933934871

I left the “illustrations” in on purpose, I just didn’t think about how I formatted the input text would combine them with the next lines 😆

This is how software développement goes…

My #Lovecraft bot seems to be working: @GreatOldBot Follow if you like that sort of thing 😉I’ll add some more books to the mix...

My #Lovecraft bot seems to be working: @GreatOldBot

Follow if you like that sort of thing 😉

I’ll add some more books to the mix soon

#HPLovecraft #Cthulhu #bot

It's fair to say it was partly inspired by @mobydick

It's fair to say it was partly inspired by @mobydick

I made a bot that posts random lines from H.P. Lovecraft novels: @GreatOldBot It currently has *At the Mountains of Madness* and *The Call...

I made a bot that posts random lines from H.P. Lovecraft novels: @GreatOldBot

It currently has *At the Mountains of Madness* and *The Call of Cthulhu*

I had been kind of thinking of making a bot, but this particular one came about though a misunderstanding 😆

A friend thought I was suggesting I was going to make it, and thought it was a great idea. I hadn't been suggesting that, but I decided to do it anyway, because it sounded like a pretty simple (to my skill set) bot to start off with. I'll likely add some more texts soon.

#bot #Lovecraft #HPLovecraft

You can run the Snowflake proxy as a browser extension, you’ll also be helping people in other censored countriesThe Snowflake proxy just...

You can run the Snowflake proxy as a browser extension, you’ll also be helping people in other censored countries

The Snowflake proxy just connects them to Tor, so you won’t get in trouble if someone uses your proxy for evil

https://mastodon.social/@ggus/110600001188634459

Hmm, guess I should get a better preview image too 😆This is what it looks like, at least for me 😆 It should work fine on your phone...

Hmm, guess I should get a better preview image too 😆

This is what it looks like, at least for me 😆 It should work fine on your phone too

I've been pretty quiet lately because I've been working on a thing. That thing is here: https://tools.mallard.social/I had trouble...

I've been pretty quiet lately because I've been working on a thing. That thing is here: https://tools.mallard.social/

I had trouble finding my own posts, and was curious which ones were most popular. I didn't find anything out there that solved my problem, so I made my own

So, this loads a list of your own posts. It excludes replies by default, but you can include them, and limit it to posts with media. Only images are displayed for now, and only the first if there are more than one. You can search the content of the posts.

It's far from perfect and not what I'd call "done," but it seems to be useful. Things like loading more than 40 posts are on the to-do list... and I'm just remembering I meant to make the link to the post more prominent than the tiny date, another to-do 😆

The source code is here: https://gitlab.com/stevenmcdonald/mallard if you want to see how it works or help me with my mediocre web design 😆

Hi 👋 I'm working on a thing, and I need an image on my timeline, so here's a deep zoom somewhere in the Mandelbrot set that I...

Hi 👋 I'm working on a thing, and I need an image on my timeline, so here's a deep zoom somewhere in the Mandelbrot set that I generated a while back

More about the thing later 😉

#fractal #Mandelbrot