@EU_Commission

The oil industry and its financiers are prepared to end democracy and fry the planet, and are spending accordingly on despots & disinformation.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/202311donald-trump-dictator-on-day-one

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-oil-gas-industry-political-donations-environment-drilling-2024-campaign-2023-11

https://www.livewiremarkets.com/wires/the-oil-markets-are-starting-to-price-in-a-trump-presidency-even-if-the-media-are-in-denial

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/The-Oil-And-Gas-Workers-Association-Endorses-Trump-For-2024-Vote.html

https://flvoicenews.com/trump-vows-to-be-a-day-one-only-dictator-for-the-border-and-oil-drilling-after-that-im-not/

@Gargron

Twitter is engaging in a malign influence campaign describing this common phenomenon as a sign that Mastodon isn't a success.

Federated social media is far superior.

On Twitter the number of mute/blocks required to manage bots, trolls, sock puppets, bigots & fascists per day was a huge waste of time. You spent more time on that activity than actually reading or writing tweets.

Curating followers who were coat tailing or functioned to launch mobbings or brigading was tedious too.

@workingclasshistory

Kyle Rittenhouse is still gobsmacked that people hold him in contempt.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kyle-rittenhouse-broke-net-worth-b2453651.html

https://www.distractify.com/p/ann-coulter-kyle-rittenhouse

Kyle gets a taste of his own medicine.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/maga-trolls-kyle-rittenhouse-trump-1235073356/

It's a grift. Threaten to withhold an endorsement until the money arrives, then do a u-turn.
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-kyle-rittenhouse-vote-trump-second-amendment-1933839

@workingclasshistory

The war on "government for the people by the people" has international financial support from billionaires.

Funding Qrazies to erode democracy is what Musk does.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/argentinas-populist-president-meets-billionaire-elon-musk-texas-109183554

@workingclasshistory

The war on "government for the people by the people" has international financial support from billionaires.

Funding Qrazies to erode democracy is what Musk does.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/argentinas-populist-president-meets-billionaire-elon-musk-texas-109183554

@workingclasshistory

The war on "government for the people by the people" has international financial support from billionaires.

Funding Qrazies to erode democracy is what Musk does.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/argentinas-populist-president-meets-billionaire-elon-musk-texas-109183554

@EU_Commission

That's what the fossil fuel industry fears most, irrelevance & obsolescence.

You can't enrich yourself when people don't buy your planet frying product anymore.

No wonder the industry funds fascist movements, $3 billion dollars a day in profit is a lot to forfeit.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/revealed-oil-sectors-staggering-profits-last-50-years

@workingclasshistory

The UK forced Ireland to export its grain during the Irish potato famine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1997/09/27/the-irish-famine-complicity-in-murder/5a155118-3620-4145-951e-0dc46933b84a/

It was not the only planned famine conducted by the UK.

Famine and forced migration for an indentured labor supply to tea plantations in Assam was just one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876%E2%80%931878
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India

Stalin learned how planned famines can be utilized.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

So did the Chinese
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War

@EU_Commission

Ukraine will get its territory back, all of it, including Crimea, Donbas and Sevastopol.

Putin will stand trial for war crimes.

Russian oligarchs' assets will be sold to pay for the defense of Ukraine & rebuild Ukraine.

Putin's enablers in the West will face sanctions, lawsuits, and prosecutions.
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-politics/ap-us-announces-charges-against-russian-businessmen-and-their-facilitators-in-a-message-to-putin/

https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-sanctions-eu-putin-interview-1867655

@EU_Commission

Does anyone really need an internet-enabled dishwasher, that uses 3 Gb of data a day and consumes more electricity than an older version?

Why is a manufacturer of dishwashers suddenly in the data brokerage business?

@dansup

Thanks!

I was wondering how to thwart Threads subsuming Mastodon.

Blocking the domain of an anti-democracy movement is a good start.

@dansup @pixelfed

Not interested in Threads accounts joining Mastodon.

@EU_Commission

It is time to evolve international law about transnational air pollution

Ecocide doesn't begin to describe it.

Legal precedents do exist
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_Smelter_dispute

#KochNetwork may have purchased a US Supreme Court to thwart climate action, but there are still state lawsuits
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/business/california-oil-lawsuit-newsom.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/16/1199974919/california-oil-lawsuit-climate-change

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/california-sues-oil-companies-for-exacerbating-climate-change

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianpalmer/2023/09/26/california-lawsuit-oil-companies-global-warming-climate-change-deception-what-the-jury-needs-to-know-part-1/

@EU_Commission

The oil industry and its financiers are prepared to end democracy and fry the planet, and are spending accordingly on despots & disinformation.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/202311donald-trump-dictator-on-day-one

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-oil-gas-industry-political-donations-environment-drilling-2024-campaign-2023-11

https://www.livewiremarkets.com/wires/the-oil-markets-are-starting-to-price-in-a-trump-presidency-even-if-the-media-are-in-denial

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/The-Oil-And-Gas-Workers-Association-Endorses-Trump-For-2024-Vote.html

https://flvoicenews.com/trump-vows-to-be-a-day-one-only-dictator-for-the-border-and-oil-drilling-after-that-im-not/

@feditips

Blocking & muting accounts with few posts and few followers is a harassment-prevention strategy that is a holdover from Twitter.

It works to thwart coat-tailing, sock puppets, swarming, advertisers, and targeted harassment campaigns.

@EU_Commission

When do the oil companies who funded climate denial and thwarted progress on pollution controls for 50 years, get held accountable?

Hawaii, Canada, Spain, and Greece burns while politicians don't want to upset those who bribed them using campaign donations.

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/03/21/the-dirty-dozen-the-biggest-nonprofit-funders-of-climate-denial/

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/fighting-climate-chaos/climate-deniers/koch-industries/#:~:text=Koch%20Family%20Foundations%20have%20spent,solutions%2C%20from%201997%2D2018.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/04/climate-sceptic-thinktank-received-funding-from-fossil-fuel-interests

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-the-money-behind-the-climate-denial-movement-180948204/

@EU_Commission

Caution trying to develop laws for an ever evolving technology.

The versions of applied statistics that is most worrisome are ones being used for:
1. Climate denialism
2. Voter suppression & election interference
3. Civil rights rollbacks
4. Wage suppression & monopsony
5. Cyberwarfare
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/climate-misinformation-social-media-undermining-climate-action

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-ai-puts-elections-risk-and-needed-safeguards

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-misinformation-deepfakes-2024-election-trump-59fb51002661ac5290089060b3ae39a0

https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/insights/good-bad-ugly-uses-machine-learning-election-campaigns

https://www.brookings.edu/research/malevolent-soft-power-ai-and-the-threat-to-democracy/

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/4/6/17204808/wages-employers-workers-monopsony-growth-stagnation-inequality

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/opinion/antitrust-workers-employers.html

@EU_Commission

1. Ukraine will regain its territory, all of it, including Crimea & Donbas.

2. The lease for the Sevastopol naval base will be canceled

3. Putin's regime will stand trial for war crimes

4. Russian oligarchs' assets will be sold to rebuild Ukraine

5. Putin's enablers & financiers will be investigated for sanctions-busting

6. Children will be repatriated to Ukraine

Ukraine needs to win, or no democracy is safe from the moneyed oil interests funding attacks on democracy

@EU_Commission

Accelerating the transition to renewables will save democracy from subversion by moneyed oil interests.

@EU_Commission

Brexit is still the largest act of self-harm imposed on the UK that was orchestrated with Russian disinformation.