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Joe No Se @desmoq

Delete Twitter and Musk. Move to Mastodon! @ildiavolorosso@sfba.social

Joined August 2009
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Please, for the love of all that is holy and sacred, stop embedding auto generated transcripts in videos. Let the closed captioning available on almost all platforms do the good work of handling accessibility.
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#understaffing is a tax imposed on consumers by corporations. It’s a choice, and it only happens when we allow corporations to accumulate too much power.
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The real moral hazard in the US Economy lies in things like this: rewarding management of a failed airline with bonus payments. usaherald.com/spirit-airline…

Spirit Airlines Bankruptcy Sparks Outrage as Unions Condemn Executive Bonus Plan While Thousands...

By Samuel López | USA Herald As thousands of former Spirit Airlines employees struggle to rebuild their lives after devastating layoffs, a new battle has erupted inside the airline's bankruptcy...

usaherald.com
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After legalizing raw milk… eater.com/2016/3/9/11186922/…

After Legalizing Raw Milk, Legislators Fall Ill From Drinking Raw Milk

Uh oh

eater.com
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It’s amusing when a billionaire’s own mouthpiece covers the literal smoke-filled room he was in, plotting to kill a tax on billionaires, without a hint of irony. sfstandard.com/2026/06/13/bi…

Group chats and infighting: Inside tech elites’ madcap war against the billionaire tax

A who’s who of tech elites brainstormed strategies to fight the billionaire tax on a private Signal chat — then set out separately to destroy it.

sfstandard.com
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Vegetation Management Plans help reduce wildfire intensity and spread. Great example from the recent Turkey Fire in Calaveras and Amador counties. mymotherlode.com/news/local/…

Fuel Reduction Project Helped Slow Turkey Fire - myMotherLode.com

CAL Fire and the East Bay Municipal Utilities District (EBMUD) are highlighting how a recent vegetation management project in the South Shore Camanche area helped in the suppression of the Turkey...

mymotherlode.com
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AI Economics, by McSweeneys. mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-e…

AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

mcsweeneys.net
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Seen in Noe Valley. San Francisco is still a great town.
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Joe No Se retweeted
Graham Platner for Senate
@grahamformaine
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The only thing the DC establishment can agree on is a love of Jeffrey Epstein — and a hatred of me. Together, we will take back our government from the Epstein class. WATCH: Our new TV ad
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This says everything about our nation’s priorities.
Zephyr Teachout 🇺🇸
@ZephyrTeachout
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The tech lords are crazy rulers
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If Hungary can launch a wealth tax and directly confront the oligarchs who supported Orbán... theguardian.com/world/2026/j…

Orbán’s oligarchs on edge as Hungary poised to launch wealth tax

New PM Péter Magyar calls policy a sign of ‘social justice’ after years of political loyalty being rewarded with economic opportunity

theguardian.com
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Great. Now I'm spending undue hours this week trying to determine my retirement accounts' exposure to this crap. Thanks, neoliberalism. thebignewsletter.com/p/monop…

Monopoly Round-Up: After SpaceX Goes Public, Does the Stock Market Finally Fall?

Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO is a very scary moment for the stock market. And AI is getting repriced in an ugly way as corporate America finally has to start paying for the tools.

thebignewsletter.com
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I get that it's a single issue organization, but this is where my longtime financial support for the SF Bicycle Coalition ends.
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"even under an extreme scenario in which every billionaire permanently severed ties with the state overnight, it would take 25 years for the lost income tax revenue to equal the $100 billion windfall California would receive" finance.yahoo.com/economy/po…

Even if every California billionaire left tomorrow, it would take 25 years for the state to lose as...

The Golden State might be able to stomach more ultra-wealthy departures than first feared.

finance.yahoo.com
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1.6% nominal GDP growth, corporate profits at record highs, labor share at record lows. This is the expected result of the neoliberal economy we've allowed politicians to construct over the last 50 years. wsj.com/economy/q1-gross-dom…

U.S. GDP Growth Revised Lower for First Quarter

The number was lowered from the initial reported pace of 2%.

wsj.com
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This should be dense, market-rate housing. Carve it up into apartments and let the market rent it out. Abundance!
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The core challenge facing American society today is to reorient politicians' focus from self-promotion to self-preservation.
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This is my new favorite AI tool. Boomer mode is especially insightful. slopy.ai/

Slopy.ai — The World's Most Advanced™ AI Assistant

Ask anything. Receive gloriously terrible AI responses. Confidently wrong facts, fake citations, corporate buzzwords, and 5 distinct personas of stupidity. 100% SLOP™

slopy.ai
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Americans: “You’ll take my firearms from my cold, dead hands.” Also Americans: ruralradio.com/kozy/news/dog…

Dog Shoots Passerby at Scottsbluff Gas Station

Shortly after noon on Saturday, officers with the Scottsbluff Police Department responded to Short Stop, located at 2002 Avenue I, after receiving a report that an individual had been shot by a BB...

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