What's New with Mastodon (and ActivityPub)
It is a new year and 6 months after the launch of Threads. It seems like a good time to take a look at the landscape for the “short message socials”.The NumbersGiven its huge Instragram base, Threads...
View ArticleDid Willis shoot herself in the foot?
I am surprised there is nothing posted on Kos about the charges raised against Willis and her lead prosecutor. See www.atlantanewsfirst.com/…The claims:Willis has been having an affair with the lead...
View ArticleIgnore the pollsters. Ignore the pundits. They know nothing.
In election season, you can tell exactly what is going on by following one simple rule.Forget the pollsters. They haven’t produced reliable results for almost a full generation.Ignore the pundits....
View ArticleA window into the modern mind: "I'm quitting Youtube" youtubes
OK. This diary has nothing to do with politics, or does it? As a semi-professional musician, I follow the Youtube channel of guitarist/producer Rick Beato. He is a very accomplished musician with...
View ArticleSoros to control Audacy?
I am surprised this has received little (no?) attention on DK. It is being reported that Soros is purchasing a big block of Audacy’s bankruptcy debt. The reorganization plan is being reworked to give...
View ArticleWhat Can a Convicted Felon NOT Do? Let us make a list.
Yes, we are all processing. We are all trying to come to grips with the probabilities of incarceration. While I think Trump is a danger to society, a career criminal, highly likely to commit more...
View ArticleDuring election season, Ignore what they say. Watch what they do.
The TimelineWe are entering the main election season now. We have our candidate. She has started to establish the main scaffolding for her campaign (“The prosecutor versus the criminal” and the...
View ArticlePoll: Trump would have been better off today if ____?
Ok, obviously Trump would be in a better place today if:He was not a lifelong criminalHis only passion in life was not named “Donald”He hadn’t stolen classified documents and traded them for money,...
View ArticleLet's have some fun down the final stretch
I went to lunch today at a little restaurant in a cheesy strip mall. As usual, I was wearing one of my “Childless Cat Daddy” shirts. It is sort of secret code. The MAGA people are clueless. They...
View ArticleThe End of Polling
Can we all finally agree that there is absolutely no science behind modern day polling? It is all crap, at least when trying to predict specific outcomes. It is pseodo-science that never had any...
View ArticleWe Need to Understand What Persuades People
I guess this is yet another “what went wrong” column. In all the discussions I have seen so far, there is little recognition of what I consider the very post important factor in this loss. And it...
View ArticleA simple solution for the H-1B problem
Most of the problems we face as a nation could have simple solutions, it not for artificial barriers erected by those who stand to make billions of dollars from a perverse, distorted system.I’ll keep...
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