The #enshittification of frequent flier programs – Delta establishes what is essentially a caste system for elite status, place it out of reach for many more/most users, and if you want to keep trying, you'll have to book all travel through Delta sites https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/09/15/delta-changes-miles-lounges-status-hackers/
Also, the original account is now in doubt, at minimum he has to clarify which thing happened - did Musk not turn something on (a more passive act, even if the result is the same), or turn something off?
The letter "X" is interesting; Musk's juvenile fixation on the letter "X" somehow sucks all the interestingness out
https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-mysterious-allure-of-a-moguls-favorite-letter-bf48e11a
Used an app to generate Mastodon follow recommendations based on your social graph. The vast majority of recommendations were for inactive accounts. Some were never active – created last November but not used; many stopped posting about 3 months ago (presumably returning to Twitter/X or going elsewhere).
nostr:npub1lea7fgga3mvxtamdzlga88ry2mukp4al4dqnqjarydp463ma6wnqd4zztp It's absurd - they didn't publish anything, and even alerted the police themselves of the situation, according to the Reflector piece. Raises the issue of whether this is some kind of coordinated plot against the paper, and whether the PD itself might end up in legal trouble.
Clarence Thomas's benefactor leaves a gap wide enough to drive a $267,230 RV through in his explanation that this was just a friendly loan
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html
It's easy to see how the pattern of thinking Thomas followed here, given his childhood poverty, that having arrived at the pinnacle of the legal profession/conservative movement, he can do what he wants, and deserves all of it, and all his friends on the right believe it's just how things work, and should work. Another example (like Trump's co-conspirators) of how the conservative movement has corrupted the legal profession.
Clarence Thomas's benefactor leaves a gap wide enough to drive a $267,230 RV through in his explanation that this was just a friendly loan
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html
Maybe the default situation for the U.S. is, "there is not going to be a unifying figure" rather than the other way around
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/05/us-lacks-unifying-figure/
Interesting that Eastman and others backing the Trump insurrection are all charged up about the unique dangers of this historical moment from the left, which they say justify overthrowing the government – and among the worst offenses they can come up are some nonexistent regulations of stoves or chairs https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eastman-reiterates-support-for-full-insurrection
If this is *the* existential threat to everything that is America, wouldn't the time to act have been in the 1960s-70s, the golden age of regulatory expansion - seat belts, Endangered Species Act, OSHA founded, etc.?
Interesting that Eastman and others backing the Trump insurrection are all charged up about the unique dangers of this historical moment from the left, which they say justify overthrowing the government – and among the worst offenses they can come up are some nonexistent regulations of stoves or chairs https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eastman-reiterates-support-for-full-insurrection
In China, floodwaters were diverted to less-populated areas to save Beijing – reminiscent of in infamous incident from a century ago during the Mississippi River flood of 1927, when New Orleans plutocrats arranged to blow up a levee to flood rural areas downriver to spare the city. (Memories of this incident also fueled rumors that levees were purposely blown up during Hurricane Katrina to flood predominantly Black neighborhoods)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-66391331
