@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-21 00:30:40
'They're Getting Tender About a Church Service': Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Defends Left-Wing Agitators Who Stormed Minnesota Church (Chuck Ross/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/theyre-getting-tender-about-a-church-service-minnesota-ag-keith-ellison-defends-left-wing-agitators-who-stormed-minnesota-church/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p122#a260120p122
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-12-20 23:22:58
So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-10-21 06:48:31
As soon as you saw the name 'Tony Blair' on it you knew it would be as corrupt and abusive as fuck. And of course you were right.
My heart bleeds for #Gaza. This 'peace plan' is an epic, dystopian betrayal.
#GazaPeace
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-12-20 12:00:19
"EU carmakers to comply with 90% emissions reduction by 2035 as full combustion engine ban scrapped"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Cars
@nohillside@smnn.ch2025-12-19 17:52:15
As I said a few weeks ago: #Apple doesn’t have a problems with #ads as long as they are in charge. For users it‘s just more #enshittification.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 04:29:06
The U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor.
A livestreamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota -- one of the protest’s organizers -- shows a group of people interrupting services at the Cities Church in St. Paul by chanting
“ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good.”
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-19 23:19:31
McCarthy likens play to cork about to pop off bottle https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47027997/vikings-jj-mccarthy-amid-pursuit-consistency-uses-analogy-cork-come-bottle
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-10-21 11:16:44
The Driver's Show
No Stig. No Schtick. Just two guys talking about what they know and love – cars...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-drive-show/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-21 17:30:44
The Trump administration has ordered federal employees not to share photos of the East Wing of the White House being demolished to make way for the president’s $250 million vanity project.
“As construction proceeds on the White House grounds, employees should refrain from taking and sharing photographs of the grounds, to include the East Wing, without prior approval from the Office of Public Affairs,” a Treasury official wrote.
Crews began tearing down the East Wing’s covered ent…
