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ajc418

@ajc418@mastodon.me.uk

I immigrated to the UK two decades ago to join British academia but fled from that job after calling out bullies, narcissists, and other disturbed characters. I have since found other interests in STEAM, hackspace, maker movement, electronic music, and kinetic art.

I still call out bullies and narcissists but now in the political sphere, especially those who conned the population to vote for Brexit and other right-wing fascist policies

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ajc418, to random
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This American, Evan Edinger, does a far superior job than British news orgs of explaining everything the Tory party has done to make the UK housing situation even worse than it was 14 years ago
https://youtu.be/y6ADuQOXMmA

ajc418, to politics
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Note how the the Brexit-voting lady exporting dinosaur models to the EU, doesn't outright say it was wrong to leave the EU -- she might have second thoughts if she were to vote on it today, is the most she'd admit to.
https://youtu.be/x-7rDYo3FR4
And that is why reversing Brexit will not be a vote winner this election. People realise has been a failure but struggle to connect the reality with their vote for Leave which they still view in emotional identity terms

ajc418,
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Liz Webster () notices that same disconnect I picked up on in the FT video
https://youtu.be/2NogsEzkFnM
This is why a majority recognising that has failed does not automatically imply there is a majority in favour of rejoining the

Theblueone, (edited ) to random
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I’m 56 years old. Which means I’m about to endure my fourth cycle of twenty-something year old dudes discovering the weight room and Ayn Rand shit like they’ve just unlocked Enlightenment itself and by god I’m fucking so tired of it. And now they have podcasts.

ajc418,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Theblueone
It doesn't help that college textbooks still perpetuate a myth about how money is made.

https://positivemoney.org/2014/03/bank-england-dismisses-money-multiplier-theory/

The myth that fractional reserve banking creates the money supply and is somehow the root of what is wrong with fiat currencies, became my gateway drug into the deep libertarian rabbit hole of goldbugs, crypto, Ayn Rand, von Mises, gun owners, climate science denialism, and Bilderberg conspiracy nuts.

molly0xfff, to cryptocurrency
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SBF is front page news, even on Wikipedia. Fun fact: I uploaded that photo!

ajc418,
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@mxtthxw @EFreethought @skrrp @molly0xfff
According to Coffeezilla's coverage of the crypto VC space, my understanding of the VC strategy is to get in early on a crypto token launch, and when the token price gets pumped up by the sponsored influencer campaign, they dump the token before the rugpull, long before whatever business with which the token was associated collapses.

I wonder who will be covering the class action lawsuit against FTX influencers
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/16/finance-youtubers-sued-over-promotion-of-ftx/

majorlinux, to twitter
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Yet another temper tantrum for the world's richest baby.

To skirt responsiblity, Musk threatens to remove Twitter from EU - Desk Chair Analysts

https://dcanalysts.net/to-skirt-responsiblity-musk-threatens-to-remove-twitter-from-eu/

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@majorlinux @JamesHMcLaren

But think of all the money it would save by leaving the EU

That worked out so well for the
https://youtu.be/9IURUP7jM2A

JamesGleick, to random
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As Jamelle Bouie explains, and as we will see again in a few hours, the GOP is driving itself on a “downward spiral of dysfunction, with each version of itself more chaotic and deviant than the last.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/opinion/jim-jordan-house-speaker.html?unlocked_article_code=uN4nu90ueaYKMuqDhoE7oXd74HlbHhoWmH56MWcsu_mel50GjrOfDMu9qbGCOsZKXOeOPXC2AhdREckL6UFcQIezi2beeNLbJirEclpwMhQoJ9DZeoniylJdOR0BcR3rNxvgsBX-GLtIEImOvkL5V2N39ddl5DzcJFehgSZGDaUrYWL7uFJibwGRm1ULHGSvl1Pd1OzVdt9QBeyDr0eVrKlxjUC0y2LsWw_lHZfIaIhJTQ-vZY357nciu4JjBzIwLi2ajtdTSCFMLAHKfejCzANk4YK8m3cRagdgI3MF9ahsinyNjRvUGe4fM3PwvtAkOWaqFxS3KvLLMSLACug&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

ajc418,
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@JamesGleick
So the is on a parallel path to the then

brianklaas, to random
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I just passed my “Life in the UK” test, paving the way for UK citizenship, in which I was asked about Jesus and one question was factually wrong…so it prompted me to write about the test and my observations of actual life in the UK after 12 years here. https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/my-life-in-the-uk-test-and-a-great

ajc418,
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@brianklaas
That test has changed quite a bit since I took it 15 years ago. Back then they specifically excluded questions on British history but also did not update the answers to reflect recent changes in law so the questions were in effect about very recent history - e.g. legal age for purchasing tobacco changed in 2007

ajc418,
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@brianklaas
Yeah about those bathroom switched
https://youtu.be/qYRJe-R9UZo

Trouble is British bathrooms have shrunk a lot over the years. To fit in extra bedrooms so that property developers can continue to inflate house prices, the bathroom is now so small there is just a small patch of wall where a regulation switch can be placed

craiggrannell, to random
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Guardian: Mysterious ‘skin-like’ golden orb found on ocean floor off Alaska coast

“I just hope when we poke it, something doesn’t decide to come out,” one scientist said. “It’s like the beginning of a horror movie.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/07/mysterious-skin-like-golden-orb-found-on-ocean-floor-off-alaska-coast

ajc418,
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@craiggrannell
https://youtu.be/2EB6TdpKdxk

MattBinder, to random
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Twitter announced it will put labels on tweets that spread election misinformation...

which is exactly what the old Twitter did that many Musk fans hated

but Musk fans are once again acting like it's a genius new idea

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ajc418,
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@MattBinder
Because this time Musk fans know that their guy will now be determining what constitutes "misinformation".

Expect it will be according to the narcissists playbook -- accusing the fact checkers who are attempting to point out election lies as being the ones spreading misinformation

And thus allowing those who are gaslighting the public to claim they're the real victims of falsehoods spread by "woke" establishment elites

Radical_EgoCom, to random

I don't know what comic this panel is from, but it speaks the truth about U.S foreign policy

ajc418,
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@Radical_EgoCom
Doom quoting Noam Chomsky
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dooms-day-has-come-lets-read-marvels-doctor-doom.46067/page-30

Popehat, to random

Jesus, can you imagine? And some people want me to go back.

ajc418,
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@joostdh @Popehat
I speculated that blocking would be a privilege for X premium members only, or become fee based, or become tiered -- you can pay to override someone's block, unless they pay for a super-block, and so on

craiggrannell, to random
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New post on my own blog (I know!):

Threads and Mastodon are not doomed. What is: an expectation they can replace Twitter

https://reverttosaved.com/2023/08/18/threads-and-mastodon-are-not-doomed/

This digs into my thoughts on the media’s ‘failure’ narrative re Threads – and also Mastodon, and also how people are struggling to come to terms with losing audiences and follows they’ve built over the years.

ajc418,
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@craiggrannell
Yup. Twitter is dead now. Nothing will take its place.

It is just as @pluralistic said would happen in the end of Fiddler on the Roof

https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-leave-dying-social-media-platforms-9fc550fe5abf

The Twitter community fractured and ultimately fled to different platforms

craiggrannell, to random
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One deeply weird thing today at London Aquarium (which was otherwise fab): the polar adventure section has big signs that use all sorts of non-English characters for English letters. So the D is instead Ð (an Icelandic ‘eth’, pronounced ‘th’). Graphic designers: please don’t do this.

ajc418,
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@craiggrannell
Are they taking inspiration from the designers of the Wonton (Chop Suey) font?
https://youtu.be/YP9gEeVQZ2U

JohnShirley2023, to random
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Evangelicals Are Now Rejecting JESUS as TOO LIBERAL (not a joke! Not The Onion!)

"Multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount and...'Where did you get those liberal talking points?'"

"When the pastor would say, 'I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ' ... The response would be, 'Yes, but that doesn't work anymore.' "When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, we're in a crisis."
https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706

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@NormanDunbar @_L1vY_ @quoidian @JohnShirley2023
Just ask Jesus, I mean, Jack Black and Neil Patrick Harris
https://youtu.be/B_hyT7_Bx9o

ajc418,
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@NormanDunbar @cbehopkins @_L1vY_ @quoidian @JohnShirley2023
Nail polish is sufficient to set them off apparently
https://www.foxnews.com/us/j-crew-ad-showing-boy-with-pink-nail-polish-sparks-debate-on-gender-identity

garius, to random
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Still one of the greatest paragraphs of all time.

ajc418,
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@thepoliticalcat @garius

If it weren't for sentences like that one being hoovered up by AI companies to train their Large Language Models, ChatGPT would not be able to infer that the brother of a lion would necessarily also be a lion

SeanJones, to random
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2063 Mars (Muskbase Alpha)

Announcement:

Verified colonists are limited to 6000 breaths a day.

Unverified colonists are limited to 600 breaths a day.

ajc418,
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@garthderby @SeanJones
Not allowed to turn left

Left is too woke

ajc418,
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@retrohondajunki @garthderby @SeanJones
See also UPS navigation algorithm
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/16/world/ups-trucks-no-left-turns/index.html

gwynnion, to random
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So Oceangate and the US Navy both recorded the sound of the Titan sub imploding on Sunday.

The company was also aware all electronics on the sub failed simultaneously. James Cameron of all people stated the obvious: that means the vehicle was destroyed instantly.

Hmm.

The media, of course, has been spinning this incident as a race against time when everybody involved knew they were dead from the start.

ajc418,
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@frankie @Eka_FOOF_A @gwynnion
Regret minimization decision by the company:

  1. Reveal evidence that sub imploded. Sub turns up intact few days later. Billionaire boss is pissed by bad press and fires the whole team

  2. Hide evidence of implosion and string along media for days. Sub debris discovered. Billionaire boss ain't coming back

Which would you choose?

mattround, to random
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The level of GET BACK TO THE OFFICE desperation in the right-wing press is hilarious, and you won't be surprised to hear that this one is content marketing by an office furniture firm

ajc418,
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@Lazarou @mattround
A bit like their writers

Carl_Zimmer, to random
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Now India is cutting the periodic table from science classes. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01770-y

ajc418,
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@olavf @KatM @ashwinm @Carl_Zimmer
The British ain't so welcoming of foreigners either. We held a referendum a few years ago that made that quite clear, and a couple years later voted into power those who preferred to give more immigration freedoms to Australians than to Indians
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/no-free-movement-visa-offers-for-indians-in-trade-agreement-uk-3714918

And who think stopping small boats crossing the Channel is more important than the cost of living and paying NHS staff a fair wage

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/podcast-borders-belonging/migrant-global-britain-brexit-governance/

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