White women are about to be the latest to learn that when you support fascists because "they'll go after other people and improve things for me", "other people" always shifts to include you eventually
(Tweet by Trump's new Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs)
An unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine
Identifying the lackeys: illegal
After years of the crypto industry claiming to fight for liberty, privacy, and free and open information and tech, I'm very excited for our new "pro-crypto Congress" to get to work protecting access to medical care (including reproductive and gender-affirming care), data privacy, press freedom, freedom of expression, net neutrality, and the right to private and secure communications.
I assume they will also quickly and vocally oppose mass detentions, mass surveillance, book banning and related censorship, attempts to roll back human rights, and attempts to target and retaliate against individuals and organizations based on ideological disagreements.
What could contribute more to government efficiency than by securing lucrative contracts for your crypto donors to implement inefficient technology that is uniquely suited to solving problems you don’t have?
Crypto executive order establishes a digital assets working group to recommend regulatory changes and "evaluate the potential creation" of a digital asset stockpile, prohibits the development of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), and revokes Biden's crypto EO.
My immediate thoughts: this is mostly symbolic. The revocation of the previous EO doesn't do much (because the prev EO didn't do much), and although a lot of people have blustered about banning the creation of a CBDC, no US entity ever really pursued creating one.
somewhere, someone is trying to dig through my years of wikipedia editing history to prove my sinister influence, only to be driven mad by having to paw through reams of edits on things like figuring out how we should spell the name of Michael Keaton’s character in Beetlejuice
for those who believe nothing can get better: you don't have to get in the way of those who do
land of the free
The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.
This sequence of tweets is beyond parody
