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*molybdenum blue* is haunting us for some reason. it's on our mind.
molybdenum has complex chemistry in solution—a trait shared with tungsten and vanadium and other transition metals that form complicated "polyoxometalate" structures. we don't really know much about these things, personally! we've barely scratched the surface of a huge field.
we're puzzled as to why we can't seem to stop thinking about molybdenum blue and wondering if we should inquire into making some molybdenum blue nanoparticles for...some purpose or other.

now, cohost [dot] org, a cheerful newer social medium, has turned itself blue for 1 April.
and we just watched an episode of #KamenRider Kuuga in which he acquires a new blue form! so blue is on our mind for a couple reasons...but why molybdenum blue? there's other blues. Prussian blue, cobalt blue, the S₃⁻ blue of lapis lazuli, blue copper things, even YInMn blue.
would you believe that I only *just* realized that "Mo" also matches my own name? ~Mona

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Apr 3
I'm awaiting an event in the near future; I'm not quite sure how it's going to play out, or how quickly. but I suspect that the fiasco of @elonmusk's ownership and right-wing politicization of @Twitter will mark the end of a global illusion, perpetuated on the Internet.

(cont'd)
the illusion was that the #Internet was somehow equivalent to #democracy itself. merely being on the Internet, in this social illusion, was like participating in democracy. the idea was that "everyone" had a voice of equal weight and importance to every other voice.

(cont'd)
nobody bought into that illusion, or put more energy into sustaining it, harder than @jack Dorsey and @Twitter.

it's a lie. access to the #Internet is a matter of money, just like everything else in this authoritarian, capitalist society. the rich get *more Internet*.

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Apr 3
one of the sillier manifestations of right-wing ideology in this era of electronic mass communication—which seems to have dissolved all political discourse into a soup of memes and buzzwords—is the oxymoronic "anarchocapitalism", or #AnCap. it's big with computer geeks.

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surely a large fraction of the @elonmusk / @mtaibbi / @ShellenbergerMD right-wing Twitter clique—which attracts mostly people who enjoy the luxury of "passive income" through non-productive means, like management or cryptocurrency—fancy themselves "anarchocapitalist".

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why not? the average @elonmusk / @mtaibbi fan has a purely emotional and aesthetic appreciation of political and economic terminology. they don't think of "anarchism" as a body of political theory, but as a mood or a pose—being rebellious, breaking all the rules, etc.

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Apr 3
a quick comment on @Twitter / @TwitterDev and how @elonmusk's control of these entities now means that we can't trust "engagement" statistics from Twitter any more.

it's widely grasped that Musk's loyalists are doing whatever they can to maximize their visibility here.

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that's also meant that @elonmusk's instructing @Twitter / @TwitterDev staff to suppress *critics* of Musk and his right-wing #Twitter regime—it's to be noted that fierce independent champion of #FreeSpeech, @mtaibbi, has no opinion about Musk's Twitter censorship.

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most likely @mtaibbi knows that he *benefits* from @elonmusk's dictatorial meddlings with @Twitter and #Twitter visibility, so of course he's not going to complain about it—when pressed, he'll probably claim that it's Elon Musk's right to rule Twitter dictatorially.

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Apr 3
there's a curious phenomenon that's been broadly encouraged and rewarded by corporate media. @mtaibbi (who is very much "corporate media", even though his special grift requires him to pretend he's not corporate) has given us a particular good example of the phenomenon.

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but Matt Taibbi is far from the only example of this phenomenon: the journalist or writer or other designated expert who *refuses to discuss their own work*. @mtaibbi refuses to answer questions on his work (unless they're questions from within his ideological bubble).

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it's a strange business, because it's like @mtaibbi is treating *his own writing* as though it were coming from an outside source—as though he were Daniel Ellsberg turning over the "Pentagon Papers" to the @nytimes and Neil Sheehan (peace be on him; he died in 2021.)

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Apr 3
ah yes, I was going to say more about The Fear™, which is so difficult to discuss. discussing #fear in general is tough; the social taboos of Western culture and Western discourse forbid open discussion of fear. hardline Christianity is largely to blame; fear is useful to them.
fear is the chief weapon of Christian fanatics—e.g. @MattWalshBlog, @laurenboebert, @PastorMark, even mild-mannered @DouthatNYT—and they've good reason: they themselves are afraid. it's likely that they're at least partly afraid of *themselves*; they feel they need a tight leash.
that's the general effect of fear on the human psyche—limitation. your fears determine your boundaries and the range of your likely actions.

extremist Christians believe they've solved the problem of fear, through unwavering faith in...well, something. they have faith, though.
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a mystery has been solved, something lingering from our past: Chara's elder sibling, Frisk, who was very unhappy and given to disappearing from home (in San Diego) on long drives into the hinterland, once went as far as Vegas. when Chara was younger, it seemed...incongruous.
Frisk was never interested in anything that Vegas has to offer, and they weren't good in crowds—so why did they go? eventually it became clear, though: Frisk had a much keener interest in journalism than Chara, and it seems they wanted to see the "Fear and Loathing" for themself.
Chara has never been to Vegas, though they've at least been to Reno.

it's hard not to feel a bit like a time-traveller when trying to unearth old family memories—almost like Johnny-Depp-as-Raoul-Duke glimpsing the much older real-life Hunter S. Thompson, in The Matrix. Image
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