It's wild to me that the big national orgs who fought so hard against the Medicaid cuts mostly just…left up their now long-outdated calls to action against the bill that passed in July. Now that congressional dems are kinda doing something, it's mostly radio silence. Did everyone ragequit? WYD?
I think my amateur guess was basically right, here. It's a game of chicken, played by awful people who want to terrify us and just don't care who gets hurt along the way. [thehill.com/homenews/555...](https://thehill.com/homenews/5553762-shutdown-firings-trump-cdc-hhs/ ) RE:
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Erin Kissane (@kissane.myatproto.social)
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I think my amateur guess was basically right, here. It's a game of chicken, played by awful people who want to terrify us and just don't care who gets hurt along the way. [thehill.com/homenews/555...](https://thehill.com/homenews/5553762-shutdown-firings-trump-cdc-hhs/ ) RE:
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Erin Kissane (@kissane.myatproto.social)
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Just verifying, this is such a perfect small wonder. RE:
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Glenn Fleishman (@glennf.com)
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Is anyone using a desktop app that combines ATProto + fedi feeds? (Openvibe looks like the way on mobile, but I am trying not to look at the feeds on my phone.)
Anyway the reason I came here to talk about info overload x channel proliferation instead of yelling into a tree is that I suspect that widespread feelings of precarity + low trust + responsibility-without-control can push a populace toward simplistic solutions that are also very bad.
I think we got ourselves into this state as a society by believing in the tool-sellers’ promises and now they are pushing a way to make the chaos more unaccountable and less connected to our actual desires (AI) as a solution to the problem they made RE:
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Nshrubs (@nshrubs.bsky.social)
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I’ve been feeling grim about my apparent inability to manage dozens and dozens of comms channels by ~building more and better toolchains~ or w/e and idk I woke up at 5am 100% certain that this is actually all a weird lie 🀷🏻 RE:
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Erin Kissane (@kissane.myatproto.social)
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I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.
I am going to keep from losing my mind by remembering that a.) they lose a lot of cases and b.) this is probably in large part a game of chicken over the budget, albeit one escalated by very powerful sociopaths. RE:
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Erin Kissane (@kissane.myatproto.social)
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