Woozle Hypertwin (political) @woozle@mammouth.cafe

The latest weekly omgwtf collection from @browneyedgirl65@octodon.social https://medium.com/@browneyedgirl65 :/authoritarianism-june-10-16-bf092d9cc2da

@dredmorbius re https://plus.google.com/+TreyHarris/posts/haZrvwVkidc -- I do indeed find this interesting, and I wish I had time to read it properly (not to mention all the G+ comments)... but not today.

I did get my truth-mapper demo partly working again today, tho: https://iseeamess.com/wiki/Exhibits/debate

From the previous link, this link: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/21/goldman-sachs-the-fiscal-outlook-for-the-us-is-not-good.html

We knew this would be coming.

We're so unprepared for it.

We're more prepared than we were a year ago, but still.

Fecking moneylords. >.<

For those who just want to know the worst without having to deal with mainstream media on its own terms, here's @browneyedgirl 's latest update on Medium: https://medium.com/@browneyedgirl65/authoritarianism-may-20-26-c828c3b6b68c

Currently having a fairly civil debate with someone who has bought into the idea that the US cutting taxes on big business helps the economy because it encourages more business to locate here.

Pretty sure this argument for trickle-down economics has been soundly refuted, but I'm looking for something more solid than what I've been able to come up with.

@skk How is mammouth.cafe hosted? Are you using a Masto-hosting service, or do you run it on your own server?

toot.cat has been moved to its new home, and SSL should be fixed sometime in the next 24 hours. I'm getting experienced help with it because the cert setup isn't standard and I don't know nginx very well.

Just so everyone knows -- toot.cat's SSL cert expired this morning, making it difficult to connect to at all (the only activity I've seen there since then has been me (@woozle) and @Harena, whose Pale Moon I jimmied to allow her back in) and probably breaking federation as well.

Inquiries have been made. Will escalate further if no news by this evening (EST).

@dredmorbius Just responding to the first sentence of the quote -- https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/hpvw7DGEQtH

I'd say that stupidity causes harm *primarily* when it is being used as a tool by malice.

I can elaborate if needed.

@dredmorbius Can you recommend one of those for me to read first, in order to get the best overview?

@dredmorbius https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/fQLuzvRXkZ6 -- sources? Credibility assessment? (The inflection points are all "model", not "actual data"...)

Oh hey, it's back.

Wonder what happened.