Trey Witteried

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

This is SO messed up. 🫥

I had a few messages and tags today asking me to clarify my stance on Israel, which was odd as I've been pretty outspoken against genocide and in full support of Palestinian statehood...

It's pathetic. These people are pretty much knowingly setting themselves up for a lifetime of shame and exile just to make a quick buck.

Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because

a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked

b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books

I hate it. I think I'd rather they just put regular old godawful chemically-derived aspartame in there. I don't understand why people need things to be so sweet. I feel like most of these problems could be solved with real sugar but only 1/4 of the normal amount.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

Still wild to me that so many "savvy" folks on left and right have bought into the idea that online misinformation is overblown and doesn't really matter. From lies about migrants to transgender people to crime to election denial to climate denial, it's literally driving our country's politics.

You know what I could really live without? Any push notification for anything EVER.

Okay, I followed a bunch of people last night who all seemed smart and knowledgeable on a bunch of topics that I'm interested in. I am ready for this website to take off now.

YouTube video by Benn Jordan The Really Dark Truth About Bots

Flashbulb is out there doing god's work. youtu.be/GZ5XN_mJE8Y?...

Today, millions of people woke up to see the problem of a broken information ecosystem that asymmetrically favors anti-democratic & authoritarian emotions, narratives, actors and movements.

Some suggest to fight fire with fire, build a left-leaning influence machine against the rightwing one...

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The only salsa you may ever need:

1 can of el pato jalapeno sauce
1/4 of an onion
1 jalapeno
~1/4 of a lime's juice
A generous fistful of cilantro leaves

Throw it all in a blender and boom ! 💥

Just checking to see if this thing has gotten any good yet.

Experiencing the sudden revelation that unless a major societal shift happens, I will probably have to keep using the kill sticky bookmarklet to tolerate reading anything on the internet for the rest of my life.

Game Introduces Easy Mode Called “I’m 35 and Have One Hour to Play This” Aging gamers were delighted to see that a new video game called Eldric Quest has accessibility features catered specifically to people their age.

Game Introduces Easy Mode Called “I’m 35 and Have One Hour to Play This”

all scorpions are 100% edible if you're not a little bitch

hello sky folk. plz rate my cat.

First bluesky tweet so not sure really what to say other than that I'm amazed that it took me until my late 30s to discover scallion pancakes.