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I’m selling a thing and I was told Facebook Marketplace is what everyone uses now, so I begrudgingly installed Facebook after more than a decade. This is the worst app I’ve ever used. We need a national deprogramming effort to show people this isn’t what software or human interactions are.

Work quote: "They weaponize collaboration."

Hey All - I have a friend getting a Masters of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Please take his survey and feel free to pass it around. bit.ly/4caY7du

Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib B…

So many media outlets are not permitted to report the truth.

www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/t...

Invited my college age daughter out to Easter dinner. Her grandparents will treat. She replied that she couldn’t make it. She said: “Sunday is 4/20 and I go to Berkeley.”

Anyone have any idea what she might be referring to?

The Netflix Show That Ruined Everyone’s Lives is Back. Not Enough People Know Who Made It. — Slate He's a household name of a very different sort in Britain.

Donald Trump is an “ageing He-Man cosplayer dressed for court appearance.” - Genius from the creator of Black Mirror.

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AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

Media organizations (and spineless law firms) stand your damn ground. This is the way.

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Fairfax Scoop ice cream shop. Passive aggressive much.

Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.

Hey rest of the world, please help save us from this.

www.theverge.com/news/642620/...

The Brits are savage 🔥

The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES.

Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.

Warning. ⚠️ the Internet and social media is going to get worse. Nothing is real. Talk to people and see the world instead. Also, do not put beef tallow on your face.

www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...

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Only Bay Area folks would get this.

I was today years old when I learned that "Contra Costa" County literally translates into "Opposite Coast County."

Too late. There are many people who can't write now.
paulgraham.com/writes.html

I just wrote this note to myself as an action for tomorrow:

F/u w/BI re: QCI mtg

Future anthropologists won't understand.

And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.

As Zelensky personified the ideals we like to think of as American, he exposed for all the world to see: the treasonous cowardly groveling to Russia by Trump, Vance and Rubio.

"When tech titans Andreessen, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg align themselves with Trump’s vision, it reveals at least as much about protecting their fortunes as it does any real political evolution in the Bay Area."

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

As Wall Street Chases Profits, Fire Departments Have Paid the Price Fire engine manufacturing is now largely controlled by three companies. Around the country, prices have soared, and orders can take years to fulfill.

Oligopolies and private equity aren’t good for safety—or much else, for that matter. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

I continue to report on the urgent cybersecurity and privacy issues resulting from DOGE access across the government. If you know something our readers should be aware of, please reach out to me on Signal at joemenn.01. Thank you.

I see you Steven. Let’s connect further in the near future.

You would think that with all his experience Tom Brady would say something actually insightful about this Super Bowl.

French dad joke.

I have Freedom blocker on M-F 8am-5pm. Deleted all social from my phone except BSky. Canceled IG. FB is on hold for now. Might dump it soon. Hard at first but time, focus, presence and life is so much better.

Two Families, and One Moment in Time (Gift Article) Billy Witz, a reporter on the National desk who helped cover the wildfires, reflects on a surprising link between his father and a couple who lost their home in the Eaton fire.

From tragedy and time, an incredible story of serendipity. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt.

We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered.

Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.