The worst fire disaster at least by property in history and social media is so much more useless than it used to be.

So far, bluesky is a terrible place to get news (as opposed to naked opinions), compared to twitter, need to figure out what's going on...

Another thing that listening to Isaac Meyer does is that it gives me such a strong echo between Imperial Japan's slide into and conduct of the Sino-Japanese War and Israel's current actions in the Levant.

So I was listening to some Isaac Meyer podcasts, and they just feel very relevant to US situation... I found his fascism podcasts pretty interesting--Umberto Eco's checklist is pretty damning for Trump politics. It's pretty obvious that Trump politics is a fascist movement.