"There’s a term for a hostile takeover of a government – whether it’s bloodless or by military force.
That term, friend, is coup. ...
It is a five alarm fire – a rolling constitutional crisis billionaire power grab coupled with the largest cyber data breach in history.
And yes, it is a coup."
~ Michele Hornish
forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2…
Boys More Likely Than Girls To Negotiate For Bigger Rewards, Study Finds
A new set of studies reveals that boys begin asking for more than girls in negotiations as early as elementary school.Kim Elsesser (Forbes)
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I didn't have egg heists on my 2025 bingo card but it's obvious in retrospect.
100K eggs stolen from East Coast supplier - oregonlive.com
oregonlive.com/business/2025/0…
100K eggs stolen from East Coast supplier
The eggs taken from the back of a distribution trailer in Pennsylvania are worth about $40,000.Jenna Wise | jwise@pennlive.com (oregonlive)
Giant Omelette
The Giant Omelette is a daily that sits atop the Tyrannian Plateau and is watched over by a Lupe named Sabre-X. You can take home a free piece once per day.Contributors to Neopets Wiki (Fandom, Inc.)
"Musk’s total idiocy is structural: it goes back to the very origin of the Greek term idiotes, a person who cannot understand the shared political life of the city. These people cannot understand that their wealth and power are not their sovereign creations but the shared product of the wider state and society that supports and sustains them."
Apple Announces 'Invites' App, Raises AppleCare+ Subscription Prices For iPhone - Slashdot
Apple has announced Apple Invites, a new iPhone app designed to help you manage your social life. Engadget reports: The idea behind Apple Invites is that you can create and share custom invitations for any event or occasion.apple.slashdot.org
Wired: “mastodon” is not capitalized because it’s become a generic term like “aspirin”.
Inspired: “mastodon” is not capitalized because while it’s trademarked, we are all too slack to bother with the Shift key.
There are two surprising canyons on the Moon, measuring hundreds of kilometers long and even deeper than the Grand Canyon on Earth. While Earth's canyons can form through water erosion, that's not possible on the Moon. Instead, scientists think that they were caused by a giant impact on the Moon 3.81 billion years ago, cracking open the landscape in less than 10 minutes. The debris blanket covers part of the south polar region where Artemis missions are headed.
nature.com/articles/s41467-024…
Grand canyons on the Moon - Nature Communications
The Schrödinger impact event carved two canyons on the moon comparable in size to the Grand Canyon of North America.Nature
if you're responsible for a FOSS project, it's now time to consider how you can run your project without relying on the US.
like, using GitHub is fine. Continue using it - I do, too, and there's a lot of value of having projects centralized in one place.
but you **need** to make sure you have a contingency plan. is your repo with all branches and metadata backed up somewhere else? do you own your project's website, discussion forums, or something else that allows you to point your users and contributors to a new place if you need to?
can you continue work on your project if US-big-tech decides your very existence is no longer allowed?
now is the time to take inventory and build backups.
“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn’t trust the evidence of one’s eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.”
— Edward Said, ‘Orientalism Once More’
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
Press and hold [B] to hug this stuffed animal.
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5 February 1890 | A Polish Jew, Tobias Ablöser, was born in Nowy Sącz. A non-commissioned officer.
In #Auschwitz from 15 December 1941.
No. 24496
He perished in the camp on 26 February 1942.
Big crowds outside the Treasury department, protesting the government-systems takeover by Musk and his twentysomething software lackeys
Mallory's Musings & Mischief hat dies geteilt.
slate.com/news-and-politics/20…
Elon Musk’s Power Grab Is Lawless, Dangerous, and—Yes—a Coup
What do we call it when the president is too lazy to gut the government himself, and gives away his power to a zealous and unaccountable friend?Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)
Yeah... About that. I can't "see the photo below."
I don't give traffic to Elmo via embedded tweets. I also don't expose my browser to advertising cancer.
Be better, Mr. Takei.
Zehn Tote nach Schießerei: Traumatische Stunden in Schweden
Es waren Stunden der Ungewissheit und Angst, bis in Schweden das schreckliche Ausmaß der Schüsse klar wurde: Mindestens zehn Tote. Menschen verharrten am und um den Tatort in Panik, bangten um ihr Leben. Von J. Wäschenbach.
"Er habe nach ersten Erkenntnissen keine Verbindungen zu kriminellen Banden. Auch ein Terrormotiv vermutet die Polizei nicht."
Das soll wohl auf schwedisch "kein Migrationshintergrund" heißen.
Google Removes Pledge To Not Use AI For Weapons From Website - Slashdot
Google has updated its public AI principles page to remove a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance. TechCrunch reports: Asked for comment, the company pointed TechCrunch to a new blog post on "responsible AI.tech.slashdot.org
Felix 🇺🇦🚴♂️🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇲🇽🇵🇦 🇪🇺 hat dies geteilt.
Agenda Setting
Das Phänomen, dass ein Thema binnen kürzester Frist durch einen oder wenige auf die TO gesetzt werden kann, es unwidersprochen als wichtigstes Thema betrachtet wird und alle sich ausschließlich zu dem Thema äußern, als sei es wirklich relevant und existent.
Wie funktionieren die Mechanismen?
Welche Interessengruppen nutzen sie?
Welche Intention steht dahinter?
But this is interesting in that this one has actually responded to some evidence. 🤔
Sure, there's a "chemicals aren't real" person for every realisation, but it's interesting to see.
Billions on security systems, and they just let these bozos walk in just because their boss is rich? Musk is not exempt. Neither is trump for that matter. The rest of the world sitting here scratching our heads, like wth is going on? Does trump think we're supposed to take him seriously after this? After threatening tariffs, threatening to annex Mexico, Canada and Greenland, and maybe Gaza now too. Good spot for another trump hotel and casino complex.
Is there a BDSM group that includes sex robots and robot handlers? Because I think that’s the group I’m in.
I’m not into a dom who wants to control what I do, how I act, what I say. But most of dom seems to be that. I don’t want a dom that wants to make me think or act a certain way.
What I want is a dom who decides WHEN I can think. I want someone to be able to flip a switch on the back of my neck and say “no more thinking, toy.”
I want a dom who will just randomly shut my brain off and switch me into Fucktoy mode at random times. Who will just turn off all cognitive processes and say “you’re a dumb slut now” and like make my brain go bye bye.
Are robot handler dommes a thing?
➡️ t-online.de/nachrichten/auslan…
USA: Wie Trump mit Musk eine Verfassungskrise provoziert
Elon Musk bringt das Chaos in die US-Hauptstadt. In einer beispiellosen Machtdemonstration hebelt der Tech-Milliardär als offizieller Trump-Berater die US-Behörden aus. Ist das der Beginn einer Verfassungskrise?Bastian Brauns (t-online)
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➡️ de.investing.com/news/politics…
In a tribunal for Putin they'll pave,
For the invasion in Ukraine he gave,
The EU takes a stand,
Justice will be planned,
Hope for peace, to the victims, we wave.
#GuardianLimerick #Russia #Ukraine #Europe
theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…
Foundations laid for tribunal to try Putin for Ukraine invasion, EU says
Tribunal’s creation was first proposed days after the full-scale invasion, but for nearly three years, lawyers have struggled to find the right courtroomJennifer Rankin (The Guardian)
Da einer meiner Söhne gerade im Referendariat zum Lehrer ist, bewegt mich das Thema ganz besonders u. ich habe mal rumgefragt: An KEINER der Schulen, von denen ich #Lehrer*innen oder Schüler*innen kenne, sind Amokläufe noch ein Thema, das präventiv besprochen wird. Weder wird im Lehrer*innenzimmer ein Wort über Ursachen u. Schutzmaßnahmen im Falle des Falles verloren, noch redet man mit den Kindern und Jugendlichen drüber. Finde ich nicht gut.
Wie sind Eure Erfahrungen?
Uff heute, bzw. mittlerweile gestern, um 06:00 aufstehen hat mich sehr aus der Spur geworfen. Nach dem ich wider zuhause war gegen 14:00 war ich dann zu nichts mehr zu gebrauchen den rest des Tages.
Bin irgendwann in der Zeit danach eingeschlafen und um 21:30 wieder aufgewacht nachdem ich sehr wirres zeug geträumt hab.
Von #GildaSahebi @gilda_sahebi@instagram.com und #FrauengegenMerz @frauen.gegen.merz@instagram.com
Dass die #AfD so stark ist, liegt nicht an ihr. Sondern an den anderen.
#noAfD #fckAfD #Sonntagsfrage #Bundestagswahl #Merz #autoritäreKräfte #Demokratie
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Gilda Sahebi on Instagram: "Dass die AfD so stark ist, liegt nicht an ihr. Sondern an den anderen."
21K likes, 522 comments - gilda_sahebi on January 12, 2025: "Dass die AfD so stark ist, liegt nicht an ihr. Sondern an den anderen.".Instagram
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Russian Fake News – ‘Transgender Blackhawk Pilot Caused Washington Crash’
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
In the EU, they're stirring commotion
For Putin's Ukraine invasion
A tribunal in sight
To make sure things are right
For justice, they'll set in motion
#GuardianLimerick #Russia #Ukraine #Europe
theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…
Foundations laid for tribunal to try Putin for Ukraine invasion, EU says
Tribunal’s creation was first proposed days after the full-scale invasion, but for nearly three years, lawyers have struggled to find the right courtroomJennifer Rankin (The Guardian)
William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"That’s not hyperbole, and I don’t say it lightly. But to fight what’s before us we need to come to terms with where we are, and act accordingly."
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.…
February 3, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"The world’s richest man is trying to seize control of the American government to advance his own far-right agenda, and he’s doing so in blatant violation of the Constitution. Somehow, it’s an under-reported story."
~ Stephen Robinson
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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President-unelect Musk pushes US democracy to the brink
Stephen Robinson (Public Notice)William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"He’s sidestepping an already friendly Congress, indicating that he wishes to elevate himself above the existing branches of government. American voters didn’t elect Musk, but he’s playing a key role in dismantling our institutions and oversight of the executive branch.:
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"It appears that that is actually Musk’s mandate: Make deep cuts to offset the money lost by the tax cuts. This way Trump doesn’t have to rely on Congress to make cuts, though that is its job. The Constitution gave power of the purse to Congress, not the president."
~ Dan Rather
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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Doing Trump’s Dirty Work
Dan Rather (Steady)William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"The extent of Musk’s informal control is staggering. His companies—Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter)—have long been intertwined with government contracts and subsidies. But Musk has moved from being a corporate beneficiary to an unelected autocrat. Since Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, Musk has taken over key government functions, including direct control over the Treasury’s payment system."
~ Andy Craig
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy
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theunpopulist.net/p/elon-musk-…
Elon Musk Has Appointed Himself Dictator of America
Andy Craig (The UnPopulist)William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"What Musk is doing bears all the hallmarks of a coup d'état, even above and beyond Trump’s broader assault on the Constitution. ...
The most alarming part of this power grab is that it lacks even the pretense of lawfulness. If the constitutional system functioned as designed, this could not happen."
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"Musk’s moves represent an unprecedented effort to expand the power of the executive branch with little regard for laws or procedures – an effort Donald Trump foreshadowed during his successful 2024 campaign. Musk, the world’s richest man, has tens of billions of dollars in government contracts, and now, access to the innermost workings of the federal government."
~ CNN
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/mu…
William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"If DOGE and the executive can take out an entire agency without Congress weighing in, they can essentially do anything.
So far, Republicans in Congress are signaling they have no issues simply giving up their power here."
~ David Pepper
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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davidpepper.substack.com/p/sto…
Stopping the (DOGE Data) Steal
PepperspectivesWilliam Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"If the Chinese hacked the U.S. government the way private citizen Elon has, it would be a major act of cyber warfare. And since Elon is a government contractor, he's now in a position to make policy calls that benefit his own companies and hurt his competitors—following the Russian oligarch model. We are in a completely lawless realm, and this is likely to continue until he is stopped."
~ Anne Applebaum'
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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thebulwark.com/p/anne-applebau…
Anne Applebaum: Outside the Rule of Law
Tim Miller (The Bulwark)William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the goon squad they have unleashed on Washington DC, are engaging in an illegal, unconstitutional, treasonous act of war. An unelected group of elites has assumed power, relegated the Congress to a meaningless Duma, and is chopping limbs off the government to ensure their own status as trillionaires — while consigning the rest of the nation to being Les Misérables."
~ Jim Stewartson
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #SuperRich
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mind-war.com/p/sanewashing-a-n…
Sanewashing a Nazi Takeover
Jim Stewartson (MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy)William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"Musk, the world’s richest man, is sweeping through the federal government as a singular force, creating major upheaval as he looks to put an ideological stamp on the bureaucracy and rid the system of those who he and the president deride as 'the deep state.'"
~ New York Times
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/poli…
Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies
Jonathan Swan (The New York Times)William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"The rapid moves by Mr. Musk, who has a multitude of financial interests before the government, have represented an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual."
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"There is no precedent for a government official to have Mr. Musk’s scale of conflicts of interest, which include domestic holdings and foreign connections such as business relationships in China. And there is no precedent for someone who is not a full-time employee to have such ability to reshape the federal work force."
#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"Meanwhile, people who seem to answer to [Stephen] Miller — people like Acting DC US Attorney Ed Martin, one of three January 6 insurrectionists salted through government so far — appear to be working for Elon, not Trump."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Musk #Trump #StephenMiller #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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emptywheel.net/2025/02/04/step…
Stephen Miller Claimed Elon Musk Was the One Elected in November - emptywheel
emptywheelWilliam Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"The constitutional question of whether the president can delegate authority to a billionaire campaign donor to shut down federal agencies is not one Republicans are very interested in answering. Understanding the manner in which it is happening is also not a priority for them."
~ Joe Perticone
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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thebulwark.com/p/musks-usaid-s…
Musk’s USAID Shutdown: ‘This Is What the Beginning of Dictatorship Looks Like’
Joe Perticone (The Bulwark)William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"The mainstream media has been weirdly quiet about this, though the Wall Street Journal blandly notes that there are 'Many Legal Questions Surrounding Musk’s DOGE Efforts.' YA DON’T SAY."
~ Marcie Jones
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich
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wonkette.com/p/hey-anybody-goi…
Hey, Anybody Going To Stop Elon Musk Before He And His Nerd Squad Break Everything?
Marcie Jones (Wonkette)William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"Apart from independent commentators on BlueSky, Substack, and YouTube, no one in the mainstream press has called Trump's actions a 'coup.'”
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #media
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roberthubbell.substack.com/p/t…
The resistance begins to coalesce.
Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"Most of the manly warriors working so hard to seize and alter, without any official or Congressional oversight, the national payment system (no, their access is not 'read-only') and fire federal bureaucrats imagine themselves members of a master race. Judging by the company they keep, many of these men do not have your or my best interests at heart."
~ Nina Burleigh
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #TechBros #broligarchy
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americanfreakshow.news/p/muske…
Musketeers in the Machine
Nina Burleigh (American Freakshow)William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"Apparently, at least one of these young men is working as a volunteer. According to social media reactions, Edward Coristine is a 19-year-old Canadian who calls himself 'Big Balls,' and he's the biggest source of everyone's face palming and worrying about our future."
~ Andrew J. Stillman
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #TechBros #broligarchy
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pride.com/politics/big-balls-e…
Elon Musk acolytes seize the Treasury & social media reacts
Andrew J. Stillman (Gay Pride - LGBT and Queer Voices)William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"One of Elon Musk’s handpicked operatives for his fake “Department of Government Efficiency” has been given complete access to critical payment systems at the Department of the Treasury, despite being only 25 years old."
~ Hafiz Rashid
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #TechBros #broligarchy
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newrepublic.com/post/191117/el…
25-Year-Old Elon Musk Crony Has Total Control Over Treasury Payments
The New RepublicWilliam Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"Marko Elez, whose total work experience consists of working for Musk’s companies SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter), has administrator privileges on systems that are responsible for 95 percent of payments made by the U.S. government including Social Security checks, tax refunds, and virtually all contract payments, Wired reports."
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #TechBros #broligarchy
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William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"Nothing is free in America, unless you’re a billionaire with access to a transactionally criminal President.
In America, it’s always good to be part of the broligarchy."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #TechBros #broligarchy
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thelefthook.substack.com/p/wel…
Welcome to the United States of ‘Broligarchy, Inc.’
THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)William Lindsey
Als Antwort auf William Lindsey • • •"So much damage — to U.S. credibility, to the Constitution and the rule of law, and possibly even to the very functioning of the government. And Trump only took power 2 weeks ago."
~ Paul Krugman
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #TechBros #broligarchy
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paulkrugman.substack.com/p/wha…
What the Musk is Happening?
Paul Krugman