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"His pithy summary of the process - brilliant

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

He Coined the Word That Describes Why the Internet Sucks Right Now. His New Book Could Help Make It Better. His newest book provides ideas for how to de-enshittify the world wide web that’s become our everyday life.

had the great privilege of speaking with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification, how he came to coin the word on @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy, the myriad ways the concept has manifested throughout tech's modern history, and how he maintains hope that we may yet de-enshittify the commons:

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

Ka-ching. Let’s do the math, $3.1 billion to Jared, $2 billion to Trump from the UAE, and a $400 million jet from Qatar(cheapskates). Did I miss anything?

Nice $5.5 billion payday.

Again, Scott Bessent is either dumb as a box of rocks or he is a lying Nazi. Probably both.

NPR or PBS would have covered this. Who is supposed to cover this news?

Whilst the western complicit leaders and Arab leaders who turned their cheeks pat themselves on the back for only doing a bit of a genocide, those returning find a fresh hell awaits them.
How can we ask this man to follow a peace dictated by those that murdered his family?

Remnants of Typhoon Halong bring widespread damage to Western Alaska Dozens of residents were rescued after floodwaters in multiple communities swept homes off their foundations.

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I'm glad the hostages have been returned and many Palestinians have been freed as well. Its a big deal.

But Palestinians are still occupied and this extremist Israeli government has said they're going to take Gaza and everything from the river to the sea.

Just a matter of time this explodes.

All this paid time off has Trump’s Little Johnson worked up from scouring his son’s online porn activity.

Get that perv back to work!

Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical.

Thinking it isn’t, is.

Fuck Christopher Columbus and this bullshit "holiday."

And that's coming from an Italian. He was a piece of shit.

I’m in there.

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

This you?
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See in my opinion Bari really sucks, and is always full of shit, and she is attempting to whitewash a genocide. Free exchange of ideas.

No wonder you praise Bari Weiss.

Neither of you can tell the difference between being criticized and being censored.

This victimhood shtick is tiresome.

Remember when “journalists” weren’t just a bunch of coddled, entitled, overfed trust fund babies who can’t handle even the mildest criticisms of their shitty op-eds?

I dunno, Sally, sites working fine for me!

The Free Press's "report" on the Wash U Transgender Center was picked up by our wonderful AG Andrew Bailey who went after Wash U and essentially forced the clinic to stop care for minors in need.

Wash U's own investigation found the claims were false, the Post Dispatch's reporting found the same.

Homes flooded in Kipnuk

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

Gaza Still Needs You This fight is not over.

Wrote about the temptation to put Gaza on the back burner now that the ceasefire is solidifying—and why we can't let that happen. Gaza still needs you, and me, and everyone to fight until real Palestinian liberation is won. www.discourseblog.com/p/gaza-still...

I love it..💙💙💙

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

"I didn't know the president communicated with his cabinet officers via direct messages, but I bet you every intelligence agency worth its salt in the world already knew that." - @gtconway.bsky.social

Watch the latest George Explains with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social right now

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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Columbus was an asshole even his contemporaries hated, which is hard given how shitty they themselves were

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.