Scripting News: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
The coup is over. This time, unlike the last time it was tried, it worked. We're in the post-coup world now. He showed us exactly what he would do if he could and we somehow collectively acted as if he hadn't shown us. Sanewashing was just the tip of the iceberg, you can't blame it on the press, we didn't demand they get their shit together, we didn't try to change the subject so they'd have to tell the real story. We had a lot of tools available to us that we didn't use because we are lazy and selfish. BTW, if you want to follow the power, don't look at what governments do, look at what the other oligarchs do. Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, etc.#
Freaky warning. As easily as Musk can turn off government websites, he can turn off our sites. He could turn off all .com or .org sites. He'll probably do it just that way. Only one domain will work in the future, x.com. Goodbye Google, Amazon, your drug store. Bubye. Not sure if moving your DNS to Europe or Asia will make a difference. He's taking advantage of centralization, and will try to make it more centralized. Totally centralized. A journalist couldn't report this, because what proof do I have? It's because there's a pattern here. And it's pretty obvious the tools he's using. #I was just setting up an account for another Feed Reader experiment on Bluesky and found that they have a Suggested User List that recommended the usual people who get in the way of telling the story that's really happening. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach, really felt it. We went through this with Twitter, it created influencers based on how loyal they were to the people who run Twitter, people who overlooked the obvious flaws in the system. We're living with their influence to this day, they have a million followers, completely manufactored by fealty to the owners. I swear to god these systems have to be publicly owned. The idea of turning to tech insiders to run them has run its course, don't you think. Over on Facebook this morning I saw an old friend with a cute meme that says people should paste swastika stickers on Teslas. That's nice. The reason you can get away with that is that you're attacking innocent people. More of the same. Of course publicly owned now means Musk Owned. See how things have changed, so quickly.#
Jesse Stay who I have known from early blogging days proposes to build the billionaire-proof social network using the AT Protocol. I'm going to help if I can. I'm developing apps that run on AT Proto, so at least I should be able to test my apps with his service. #
I would love to manage individual DNS domains using GitHub. I already have great tools for updating stuff over there. And everything on my current DNS system is manual and laborious. #
What's happening in the US is like when a person who is a lifetime smoker gets cancer and stops smoking. You hope the cancer doesn't kill you, and swear to never smoke again if you're lucky enough to survive it.#We didn't appreciate how good we had it with our representative form of government. We could have stopped the erosion of our power at any time, when our reps would have more or less had to listen. Now, when we start trying to get their attention, which hasn't happened yet, it's going to be a competition between the rule of law, which is undermined, and the forces that would keep our would-be rulers in line if only our reps felt we were behind them, which they justifiably, do not. #
The prognosis isn't good. But we should get our shit together asap because it's our only hope. #
PS: Blaming other people is easy and powerless. Accepting your own responsibility and doing something to change it is powerful.#
Linkblog items for the day.
2017: What if TWTR is bought by a Repub? scripting.com
Elon Musk And His 'Unknown Soldiers' Have The Federal Workforce 'On Edge.' talkingpointsmemo.com
Why is Trump trying to ship US citizens and immigrants to El Salvador? dailykos.com
About 20,000 federal workers accept Trump's buyout offer. axios.com
There's finally some Tesla shareholder momentum to fire Elon Musk. electrek.co
BMI: Top 100 Songs of the 20th Century. bmi.com
Can anyone stop President Musk? theverge.com
Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base. talkingpointsmemo.com
Trump admin sued over DOGE access to Treasury's sensitive data. axios.com
WW III is happening right now on the internet. Musk is aiming at money itself, not any specific country. scripting.com
Trump's moves across the federal government set up a looming legal battle. politico.com
Another in a series of experiments to bring RSS-based content into Bluesky. feediverse.org
RFK Jr. nomination as health secretary approved by key U.S. Senate panel. missouriindependent.com
We didn't appreciate how good we had it with our representative form of government. scripting.com
Purging the Government Could Backfire Spectacularly. theatlantic.com
The Guardian view on Donald Trump's power grab: a coup veiled by chaos. theguardian.com
All the lunacy happening now is just a continuation of Jan 6. It's what would have happened if the attempted coup in 2021 had been successful. And in that sense it was successful. bsky.app
What the Musk is Happening? substack.com
The Sims celebrates its 25th anniversary. bbc.com
A guide to using Signal for government workers. wholelottanothing.org
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