Musk here is using the Tucker Carlson technique of “just asking questions”. An answer is easily found. “Robinson” (not his real name) is in jail for 18 months because he committed crimes, admitted to them in court, and was found guilty of them in a court of law. Hardly tyranny. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/28/tommy-robinson-admits-contempt-of-court-over-false-claims-about-refugee

You are 100% correct to worry about this, of course. That said, I don’t see something more than 3.6M people (half the registered voters of Michigan to just pick that one state as an example) seeing themselves disenfranchised like in your scenario being silent about it and calmly waiting for the courts. I guess I’m saying the perpetrators of such a scheme would have more to worry about than just losing a court case.

On a side note, its interesting that in Michigan it appears that as of today 41% of registered voters have already voted.
https://www.michigan.gov/sos/elections/election-results-and-data/voter-participation-dashboard

I found this document which lists all of the timeline for Michigan certification: https://campaignlegal.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/Michigan Guide - Final.pdf (apparently this has been on a lot of folks’ radar for awhile :)

that document makes it clear that in Michigan at least certification is a mandatory duty in both the constitution and by state law.

Yes, good points. I posted the comment originally because it is alarming.

The Constitution only grants the President the power to pardon federal crimes. I found a nice article with the history and status of the cases against the bad actors in the last attempt here: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/where-the-fake-electors-cases-stand-in-state-court

It would be worth looking into which states have wording in their Constitutions that include “shall certify” which would make the stalling tactic a crime.

Also, anyone who voted in a state whose electors were not sent on time would have a valid civil rights case against that state’s officials and they would all have standing because they were personally harmed. The number of potential lawsuits would be overwhelming and perhaps ruinous to anyone found guilty. Not sure that fear of that would be enough to stop them, but also they have to worry about losing their next election (though if it worked they might hope to be rewarded by the winning administration).

Thanks bot. Its a post by Robert Reich on his substack. Maybe not a “news outlet” but direct from someone who is constantly interviewed and in the news. His CV is rather lengthy so I will just link to a wikipedia article about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reich

Article didn’t link to the website they set up but yup, pretty much checks out https://progress2028.com/ for those that didn’t read the article, none of these are actual Harris policies.

Weirdo to join Weird party. News at 11.

There is a setting now (in all types of client I think) to log out when you close down the browser. Your comment makes me realize that I probably want to NOT set that on at least one machine. I set that on the machines that are out and about.

For the server I’ve used gogs for many years. It was easy to set up and has a web interface. What client you use is really up to you with git.

https://gogs.io/

you mentioned you’ve used joplin. All my notes are in markdown and I’ve been using Obsidian instead. Obsidian includes support for mermaid and can render (relatively simple) flowcharts.

https://obsidian.md/ https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/flowchart.html

I’m not sure about the current state of the science but there were a bunch of studies that showed that first contact with Europeans had transmitted smallpox as early as 1520 which over the next couple hundred years wiped out maybe 50% or more of the native population in advance of colonization such that later arriving Europeans had the mistaken impression that the continent had always been largely empty when some estimates put the native population pre-colonization at 120 million or more.

There’s a quite famous sunken bed in the Beatles’ movie HELP! It was in John’s area: https://filmandfurniture.com/2016/09/beatles-help/

Just watched https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/plastic-wars/?

More info: https://artvee.com/dl/zillah-lee-hawker/

Yeah because its just Chromium which isn’t an awful open source browser developed and maintained by Google.

KnowYourMeme has some basic info https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/eacc-effective-accelerationism

I never stopped using RSS but its always been an additional source not the sole source of info for me. A lot of folks I’ve followed on various social media or who write for online mags have a personal site where they post long-form stuff. RSS is great if you want to just get a list of those authors latest posts and you don’t want to sort through thousands of other stories to find them.

Personally I like using the Livemarks add-on in Firefox because I’m already in the browser anyway and I can manage those bookmarks using the standard bookmarks manager to keep them in any organizational structure I find convenient. Here’s the github page but you can search for it in Firefox Add-ons as well: https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/

In a 2019 hearing scrutinizing the merger, Legere told the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology that after combining with Sprint, T-Mobile would have thousands more employees than the stand-alone firms combined in its first year.

“By 2024 we will have 11,000 more employees,” Legere said, according to a transcript of the hearing.

“Our critics are wrong about the impact on jobs,” Legere added, responding to a skeptical analysis from the Communications Workers of America labor union. “I have looked at their arguments and supposed analyses and they do not make sense. They ignore the facts. They don’t account for any areas where jobs will grow, like network integration or new customer call care centers.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/t-mobile-job-cuts-sprint-merger-dcdcf73d