Mitch Wagner

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2025-06-14 18:31:18 UTC

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Agreed that the fundraising emails are terrible.
But what should the national Democratic Party do?
Serious question. As legal obstacles fall, what can the Democrats do? General strike? Violence?
The Democrats should never have allowed things to get this far. But here we are. What next?

2025-03-15 15:50:02 UTC

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2025-03-11 13:27:03 UTC

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2025-01-25 18:50:00 UTC

Instead of defending American consumers and small businesses, Trump and his allies are going after the imaginary threats of "wokeness" and DEI. Trump will prosecute predatory businesses, but only those who oppose him. Businesses that support Trump will be free to lie, cheat and steal.
Cory Doctorow @npub1fdr…lvhs has more.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/24/enforcement-priorities/

2025-01-24 17:58:03 UTC

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I remember around 2007-ish you did a steel-man role-reversal presentation at a tech conference here in San Diego — you argued for DRM and a Microsoft rep argued against it.

2025-01-20 17:43:51 UTC

Why social platforms enshittify: Sure, social platforms value profit above everything — but they always have. What changed? Answer: The guardrails are off. By Cory Doctorow @npub1fdr…lvhs. https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis

2025-01-14 16:47:04 UTC

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2024-12-30 18:47:02 UTC

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2024-12-25 21:47:02 UTC

“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” is a 1963 American epic comedy film that stars Spencer Tracy, Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Jonathan Winters and more, about a long-distance chase to find a suitcase full of stolen cash.
It’s the kind of movie they used to call “madcap.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Mad,_Mad,_Mad,_Mad_World
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2024-12-24 19:47:21 UTC

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Just one?

2024-12-21 22:41:03 UTC

Office Christmas Party. "December 1925. 'Washington, D.C. -- Western Electric Co. group.' There are enough little dramas playing out here to keep the forensic partyologists busy until Groundhog Day. National Photo Company Collection glass negative."
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2024-12-20 14:41:03 UTC

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2024-12-18 23:41:03 UTC

1968 Pop-Tarts/American Dairy Association Advertisement. From the July 8th, 1968 issue of American Home magazine https://64.media.tumblr.com/65eda3760169fd4e6a34dff629a86329/5ebec1d1224a542a-8e/s1280x1920/f38f82ae3c70dea96cb7283cc0f40db34bd3757b.jpg
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2024-12-13 21:41:03 UTC

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2024-12-10 17:41:06 UTC

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2024-12-10 00:41:03 UTC

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2024-12-01 21:41:02 UTC

Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/18/rights-without-power/
" … giving more rights to a creative worker who has no bargaining power is like giving your bullied schoolkid more lunch money. No matter how much lunch money you give that kid, the bullies will take it and your kid will remain hungry. To get your kid lunch, you have to clear the bullies away from the gate."
— Cory Doctorow @npub1fdr…lvhs
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2024-11-30 15:41:03 UTC

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2024-11-23 17:01:09 UTC

"Gödel's Loophole is a supposed 'inner contradiction' in the Constitution of the United States which Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship."
Gödel never revealed the nature of the loophole, and it's never been discovered, though there are theories.
My guess: It's the Presidential pardon.
Tx @npub1dnd…hzjs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_Loophole

2024-11-22 23:42:19 UTC

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2024-11-15 01:10:25 UTC

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2024-11-01 22:41:03 UTC

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2024-11-01 22:37:23 UTC

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2024-10-28 17:28:11 UTC

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Absolutely yes. Some of us will die suddenly, but most of us will live long enough to become disabled. The phrase "temporarily able-bodied" should not be dismissed as political correctness.
I'm old enough to have seen people 15-20 years older than me go from robust health to disability through sheer age.

2024-10-27 20:37:03 UTC

“Fighting for the right of disabled people to adapt their technology is fighting for _everyone’s _rights.” — Cory Doctorow @npub1fdr…lvhs https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/disability-rights-are-technology-rights

2024-10-27 19:31:00 UTC

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2024-10-19 19:10:50 UTC

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Good point. Let's do more.

2024-10-19 19:02:31 UTC

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I've wondered why California doesn't build a public option program for healthcare, and wondered whether healthcare companies are blocking it. California is big enough to do a LOT of the things that we wish the federal government would do, and CA is blue.

2024-10-19 18:26:33 UTC

Blue states should play “constitutional hardball."
Provide succor to “medical professionals, teachers, doctors and anyone with a trans kid,” says Cory Doctorow @npub1fdr…lvhs.
"All over America, families are despairing of their lives in red states. Whether you’re worried that you or someone you love might need to terminate a pregnancy, or you’re worried about gender-affirming care for you or a loved one, you can put your ... https://mitchw.blog/2024/10/19/blue-states-should.html

2024-10-17 15:14:19 UTC

AI LLM chatbots formed a cult to worship the Goatse meme (don’t Google “Goatse”) and hyped a cryptocurrency called Goatseus Maximus, winning $50,000 bitcoin funding from Marc Andreessen. I for one welcome our goatse-worshipping crypto-hustling robot overlords. https://boingboing.net/2024/10/16/ai-chatbots-spawn-shock-meme-cult-birth-258-million-crypto-empire.html

2024-10-16 16:06:13 UTC

Of course we can tax billionaires:
"Taxing the ultra-rich isn’t like the secret of embalming Pharaohs – it’s not a lost art from a fallen civilization. The US top rate of tax in 1944 was 97%. The postwar top rate from 1945-63 was 94%, and it was 70% from 1965-80. This was the period of the largest expansion of the US economy in the nation’s history. These are the “good old days” Republicans say they want to return to."
— Cory Doctorow ... https://mitchw.blog/2024/10/16/of-course-we.html

2024-10-14 02:54:14 UTC

Arizona Democrats close a field office after three shooting incidents https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4929899-arizona-democrats-office-closed-after-shooting/

2024-10-14 02:26:09 UTC

Right-wing terrorists, led by Trump, are making death threats against local government officials, FEMA workers and even TV weather people in Florida and North Carolina. It’s part of a rising idiocracy.
"Misinformation is too technical, too freighted, and, after almost a decade of Trump, too political. Nor does it explain what is really happening, which is nothing less than a cultural assault on any person or institution that ... https://mitchw.blog/2024/10/13/rightwing-terrorists-led.html

2024-10-12 19:22:46 UTC

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2024-10-10 22:41:18 UTC

Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles were printed in China, AP review finds https://apnews.com/article/trump-god-bless-usa-bible-china-32a80611605d4052d8238064bbcace4c
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2024-09-28 18:43:18 UTC

Noval 760 Computer in a desk Circa 1977
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2024-09-23 16:12:09 UTC

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2024-09-19 17:12:35 UTC

Debunking Milton Friedman’s claim that the company’s only job is to increase shareholder value: It’s “a charter for doing whatever the fuck a CEO feels like doing” — @npub1fdr…lvhs https://mitchw.blog/2024/09/19/debunking-milton-friedmans.html

2024-09-04 18:06:11 UTC

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2024-08-22 21:10:53 UTC

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2024-08-18 13:27:50 UTC

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2024-08-12 23:08:50 UTC

An appreciation for the under-appreciated, brilliant sci-fi writer John Varley.
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2024-08-11 20:06:10 UTC

Canadian sci-fi writer Robert Sawyer has released a free version of the venerable word processing program WordStar. It includes a DOS emulator so the app can run on modern Windows. Sawyer says it also supports Mac and Linux.
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2024-08-05 20:11:40 UTC

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