jake :)

Two salient facts about Facebook replacing its fact-checking program with community notes:

(1) community notes are cheaper.
(2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble.

The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.

“I started building social media to give people a voice.” - Mark Zuckerberg, 2025

Babe no, you built Facebook to rate the hotness of girls at Harvard because your girlfriend dumped you. ❤️

Zuck is citing an explicitly political justification to require large numbers of workers to relocate to a state where abortion and youth gender affirming care are illegal. That’s quite a statement on who belongs on your trust and safety team.

big year ahead

So the top priority of the new congress is to bully maybe like 20 specific children... cool.

If the law had gone into effect Jan 1 as scheduled, Tennessee could have begun ARRESTING website owners who did not adequately* surveil visitors.

FSC sued ... and got it blocked. So proud to be part of this fight. ✊

*require new ID upload / face scan / background check EVERY 60 MINUTES.

The Internet Archive is fighting the digital dark ages — that also means saving the GIF pandas From dancing pandas to under construction signs, early internet GIFs tell us something critical about digital preservation — and why the Internet Archive's fight against vanishing culture matters more...

Why is @jdshadel.bsky.social working to save animated GIFs? www.esckey.co/internet-arc... #VanishingCulture

What the 'I Slept With 100 Men in One Day' Doc Gets Right About Sex Work A clip of OnlyFans performer Lily Phillips breaking down in a YouTube doc is getting attention — but the full documentary is much more revealing.

“When anti-porn feminists and conservative Christians are both chomping at the bit to shut our industry down, we are loathe to be honest when we have a bad day on the job, fearing that this information will be used as ammunition”

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

I love the drone panic because its a reminder that despite all our technology and societal advancement we're never more than one unanswered question from reverting to peasants worried we'll make the stars mad

YouTube video by 60 Minutes Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes

I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.

Almost ready to start writing - just need to quickly read everything that has ever been, or will ever be, documented about this topic

the carrier baggu theory of fiction

So glad to see Fox News and LibsofTikTok condemning violence against healthcare CEOs. As we all know, the only acceptable calls for violence are against random gay teachers and trans people.

I feel like we all just picked Bluesky and didn’t even give MILF Messenger a chance

I feel more tumblr than twitter on here

Hercules and Diomedes, from a 16th-century original at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy; one of six marble statues representing "The Labours of Hercules" by Vincenzo de’ Rossi. Allegedly from the crowd Diomedes heard a man yell “Grab his dick and twist it!”

“Invalid Handle”

A sign reading “no clothing allowed in the library.”

“keep the horny off this app”

how about stop showing up and hating on the sex workers here that were amongst the first to join the app, actually.
set your muted words and moderation preferences so you don’t see what you don’t want to but don’t try to bully them off bluesky

Does anyone know if we had homework today?