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And this comes from being so clueless, tech companies can impress you with gimmicks while they get easy access to citizen data, destroy privacy and steal customer information from your businesses only to build competition services that crowd them out. It’s a crisis but you have to understand to see.

I think it’s a reflection of how backwards our tech public policy skills and thinking have fallen. There’s no revolving door between private and public sector anymore, so those with the experience never move into public policy setting. That plus old or inexperienced parliamentarians.

She escaped her abuser. But not before he buried her in debt. This is how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse.

“I have never done more suicide assessments than when I’ve run credit reports with clients and found coerced debt or identity theft.”

@katieherchenroeder.bsky.social digs into a widespread and rarely talked about form of debt: coerced debt.

NYU graduate Logan Rozos is facing criticism after condemning the atrocities committed in Palestine during his commencement speech. #gaza #palestine #israel #nyu #nyugallatin TikTok video by Daily Mail

This is the kid who NYU is considering withholding graduation from for speaking out against Gaza. This speech. Ask yourself why. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj5mEgHo/

‘Power and simplicity: South African photographer wins Deutsche Börse prize Lindokuhle Sobekwa praised for work exploring the loss of his half-sister in the wider context of post-apartheid life

"His photographs are often hazy, evanescent light fading like memories, the camera trying to clutch and fix the image before it is gone for ever." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

It's interesting that Paradise, Severance, and Silo are hit shows about a group of people trapped in a controlled environment by a group of rich people who are lying to them about the basic structure of their reality.

Probably says a lot about where we're at as a people!

Thank God!

lsoing my mind rn

Tesla stock is pumped every Friday on options expiration like clockwork. Tesla is a complexly manipulated stock there can be no doubt $tsla $tslaq

Pope Leo XIV Echoes Francis in His First Mass, Aligning Himself With ‘Ordinary People’

At Pope Leo XIV's first Mass as leader on Friday, he pledged to align himself with “ordinary people” and not with the rich and powerful. Many see the first American pope as a continuation of his predecessor, Pope Francis, in his advocacy of the poor, migrants and a more open church.

I think a big part of the pushback against GLP-1 meds, despite the strong science, is because wellness industry folks are losing a lot of clients.

That Slender Wonder programme they sold in Joburg with the HGC injections cost way more than Ozempic.

That image isn’t giving me hope.

Newark Airport Has Another Radar Outage

Breaking News: An air traffic control facility at Newark Airport suffered another radar outage, the latest disruption at one of the nation’s busiest airports.

This administration takes antisemitism seriously. That's why we removed The Diary of Ann Frank from all federal libraries.

This won’t last long but WHAT?!

Pope Leo XIV has seen the movie #Conclave

He watched it right before the actual conclave

(via NBC News)

Can't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed

There it is…

‘Gloves were off’: PAC facilitates ‘robust’ ANC-Afrikaner exchange | News24 The hush-hush four-hour marathon meeting between the ANC and Afrikaner Leadership Network at a hotel in Sandton has been at least four weeks in the making, and the PAC finally convinced the organisati...

Worrying the extent to which Afriforum and its offshoots get treated as "representatives" of Afrikaners when they are in fact a particular ideological grouping, not even cultural. South Africa is diverse, and noone should hijack a whole ethnicity for political goals

www.news24.com/politics/glo...

i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers

good to see, more of this from everyone please

Steve Carell has to do so much acting to hide just how hot he is, but as he gets older, his acting is increasingly not good enough to misdirect us.

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

The Guardian has an 'explainer' about the India-Pakistan conflict that manages to avoid stating that the border between the countries was originally drawn by an Englishman who had never been to India and signed off on in a hurry by Lord Mountbatten because he had to get back to Britain for a party.

Qaanitah Hunter | The uncomfortable truth about the fight against redress | News24 If you read between the lines of the DA’s employment equity court case - which may be good for the ultimate certainty about employment quotas and their constitutionality - it is about milking the curr...

🔒If you read between the lines of the DA's employment equity court case, it is about milking the current depressed economic environment to build the case against transformation, writes Qaanitah Hunter www.news24.com/opinions/col...

A better way to think about tech's hold on modern parenting Apps and influencers offer to ease burdens. But a closer look at the darker origins of that promise can help caregivers navigate what’s real.

To parent today is to encounter an endless firehose of marketing, data, tech optimization, and pastel branding.

But rather than set fire to the machines, @amandahess.bsky.social's new memoir offers a refreshing approach to processing this digital behavior. The result is a gentle revolution.

Ok, that’s good. I know the app is trying to protect me, but I’m not that unfit. ☺️

This is a lewk!