Will Murphy 🌹 @datatitian@social.coop

This is whats on my mind Mastodon. Thanks for asking.

It's tempting to call the closing of the Trump Foundation a "Corporate Death Penalty" because we really want that to exist, but that's wishful thinking.

The Trump Foundation's closure serves the exact purpose it was created for - insulating Trump and his cronies from the legal consequences of actions they took, by pretending a separate corporate entity took them. It's ablative legal protection, and they'll just make more when they need it. They probably already have.

Some more non-euclidean geometry things, and map projection shenanigans. Both of these routes are roughly equivalent right-angle equilateral triangles. Which means the area above the line in the first picture -- Encompassing the old Soviet block, most of China and Alaska, all of Europe, a good portion of Canada, and everything in the arctic -- is the same area as within the triangle in the second picture -- The Indian Ocean and southwest Australia. Both cut out 1/8th of the earth's surface.

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China's Bike-Sharing Disaster https://youtu.be/OXX423ErY1U

Very cool time to take a hostile position on immigration, as a losing Democratic candidate who’s definitely going to try to run again. Love it when this is the kind of person I’m pressured to support while my friends talk endless shit on a p nice Jewish grandpa from Vermont who wanted to do better by everyone.

why #mastodon is defying the "critical mass" https://medium.com/@poshaughnessy/why-mastodon-is-defying-the-critical-mass-de3454109099

(medium article by peter o'shaughnessy)

#Blexit, which was created in 2016 as a campaign to build black-led economic power and cooperative economics following the killing of #PhilandoCastile, and which has been doing incredible work, has been recently co-opted by right-wingers as a campaign against the Democratic party.

If you are on the birdsite and want to help push back, please consider RTing this tweet/thread from co-founder Me'lea: https://twitter.com/meleaofmpls/status/1057610162368925696

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The world is scary.

You have two options.

Look away in silence and wait for it to get so scary that you can't do that anymore because that silence let all choice be removed,
or look at it and tell others what you see and do what you can to stop it from reaching the point where speaking against it is impossible.

There is silent sliding to common oblivion or speaking up to preserve life, others' and yours.
There are literally no other options than silence or life.
You can't do everything, but you certainly can do something. Do that.
Choose life.