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Hard Fork got my top spot. @kevinroose.com @caseynewton.bsky.social do I get a hat now? 🤩 More in my #SpotifyWrapped.
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Conway: This is a criminal government. Unless you are willing to say that, you’re basically fighting on their terms. They get to lie, and they win that battle because people say, “We shouldn’t use that kind of language.”

But you get to use that language when it’s fucking true.

bring 👏 shame 👏 back 👏

The move toward settlements and licensing agreements, distasteful as it no doubt seems to many artists, represents a safer path. And so long as artists can opt out of their work being included, the most obvious direct harm to individuals can be avoided. Still, you can probably imagine what lesson the tech industry will take from this development. Just as Google learned with books, or YouTube did with Viacom, it rarely pays to ask for permission — and forgiveness often comes more cheaply than you would guess.

Record labels had the chance to stand up for copyright against AI scrapers — but now they're folding www.platformer.news/suno-warner-...

Oh look! The antivaxxers we’ve been fighting!

Nice to put some faces on the multiple accounts that go after us.

#antivaxxers

Here in GEORGIA 14TH DISTRICT, I am ecstatic at the news of MJT resignation.
I am supporting her
QUALIFIED OPPONENT
BRIGADIER GENERAL SHAWN HARRIS RETIRED!!!
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Yeah, it feels whiplashy, but if you zoom out its very on-brand for his politics. If a guy who literally called you a fascist is politely in your office talking “shared priorities” thats gold. It signals to supporters and media that: “See? I can work with my critics. How fascist can I really be?”

Folks, I don’t know how it’s possible, but it gets funnier.

"You can spend about $40 per employee per year of increased ventilation costs and that will give you $7,000 of gained employee productivity per person, almost a 200 to 1 gain."

ABC “News” Is Fake News ABC “News” is not journalism — it’s a Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network. The network’s longstanding commitment to hoaxes,

This is some Viktor Orban shit, folks.

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Layer on things like the Pentagon’s new rules restricting reporters from using “unauthorized” but unclassified material, and you get a broad pattern of trying to punish journalism structurally. For any other presidency, any one of the last week’s incidents would have been a defining scandal.

A Government of cowards.

Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.

They can't get away with this.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

"Quiet, piggy!"

carl sagan and a committee of scholars spent about a year curating audio & visual content to represent the best of humanity for voyager’s golden record, but i’m sure your usb stick with 4000 computer-generated entries on “why ephebophilia is based, actually” will be cool too

Chicago moms and teachers created a “walking school bus” to safely escort kids to school to support parents afraid to leave their homes.

❤️‍🩹 🚌 ❤️‍🩹

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

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#quietquietpiggy

What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management Grab your umbrella and your tights.

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

THE MAINSTREAM JEWISH COMMUNAL DEVIL'S BARGAIN WITH WHITE SUPREMACY HURTS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AND AS MAGA HAS MADE CLEAR IT ALWAYS BACKFIRES

Solidarity is the only way home

has always been

collective liberation or bust loves

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Deepfake scams of all sort, big problem.

This illustrates how hard it is to figure it out.

Anyway, pausing for a bit helps a lot.

Please share.

#take9 #CyberCivilDefense

pausetake9.org

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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
― Albert Camus

Platformer’s coverage by @caseynewton.bsky.social on Meta’s post-2024 enforcement is worth a read

And yes, I know our history does not give a lot of reasons for optimism.

But just accepting that guarantees nothing better will happen.

Things DO sometimes improve, but they only do when ppl reject pessimism and push for that better outcome.

And lose a lot! But all the wins come from trying.

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

large 20-foot tall concrete lined sewer tunnel. in the distance three people stand with head lamps on their hard hats, looking toward the camera as they stand in ankle-deep water.

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

Damn. I missed Josh Shapiro tearing JD Vance a new one yesterday

If we don't test for COVID, then there's no COVID! If there's no flights, then there's no late flights! Brilliant!

The Lenape people were the first to inhabit Manhattan, which they called Manaháhtaan. They lived in the region for centuries before European arrival, relying on farming, hunting, fishing, and gathering for sustenance. Apparently, they voted for Mamdani.