« It’s a real thing. »
On entend moins la menace d’annexation ces jours; probablement que Trump se la ferme pour essayer d’éviter d’augmenter le soutien pour Carney. Elle n’en est pas moins réelle.
« It’s a real thing. »
On entend moins la menace d’annexation ces jours; probablement que Trump se la ferme pour essayer d’éviter d’augmenter le soutien pour Carney. Elle n’en est pas moins réelle.
All elections are important, but this one feels particularly crucial.
Voter turnout is traditionally higher among right-wing voters, and even at that it tends to be pretty abysmally low overall.
Make sure you’re registered to vote, and then get yourself to a polling station.
☑️✊🏼
My friend Christopher DiRaddo does so much good work for writers and literature, and this latest bullshit application of a bullshit law is yet another example of small-minded politics intended to control, exclude, and divide.
We want—and we need—a thriving and diverse artistic community.
This interview came and went with the first snowflakes.
The book ends at Trump’s first term but Blais doesn’t rest in the facile opposition of hope/ fear or struggle/oppression.
It is a reminder, to extend from CS Lewis, that we are a soul that has a body; we are a soul that has a community.
Tits up.
23.01.2025 03:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The story of my edited life: Stet the comma splice pls.
18.01.2025 17:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very telling that a pending ceasefire means increasing violence meted out upon Gaza.
16.01.2025 12:01 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Health care should never, ever be at all subject to profit. Private care should simply not exist.
10.12.2024 08:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Two more of these and some wigs and makeup and we’re full-on in The Hunger Games.
20.11.2024 12:38 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I hear you. Welcome and pleased to meet you and don’t we all just wish we were at a kitchen party.
20.11.2024 12:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, that’s depressing af.
20.11.2024 12:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A post by graphic designer Joe Cardillo, whose bio identifies him as “Fighting disinformation, coaching leaders, doing what needs to be done” that reads as follows: Many people are making the leap from Twitter/X to Bluesky – even though the design & experience are currently better, I won't be signing up... I worked in/around VC-backed startups for 10 years, mainly within two-sided marketplace platforms, but I certainly got a good look at how social media & big tech operate, including working for a founder who had previously scaled FB adtech There are two huge red flags with Bluesky: 1) They recently raised a venture round – modern venture capitalists invest for one of two reasons: either they want a big return ($15M > $150M considered acceptable, but $1.5B+ is the goal), or they want a place where they can influence/control larger narratives for their personal, political, or financial gain (e.g. Marc Andreessen and a16z investing in Clubhouse and then being featured as "top recommended accounts"). 2) The VCs in Bluesky have ties to far-right authoritarians and cryptocurrency influencers – two of the key investors, Bart and Brad Stephens of Blockchain Capital, co-founded their firm with Brock Pierce, who worked directly with Steve Bannon While Bluesky is built on a better concept – decentralized social media and open protocols – there is little reason to believe them when they say they are focused on how "technology should serve the user, not the reverse." Ultimately, all startups have to answer the question, "Who is your customer," and in this case, it's pretty clear that already powerful people in the cryptocurrency & VC are the main focus.
Oh… *sound of a balloon deflating as it zips around the room, albeit somewhat tentatively, as if reluctant to let quite all the hope seep out.*
What do we think of this?
www.linkedin.com/posts/joecar...
Well hello, wholesome.
17.11.2024 13:02 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
