Jasmine

Meme showing screenshots from Star Wars where Padme says “so this is how liberty dies” and instead of saying “with thunderous applause” it says “with a coup by a fake government agency named after a meme run by the most divorced man alive and his troop of incel twinks”

04.02.2025 23:05 — 👍 13459    🔁 3485    💬 62    📌 64

Five Ways R.F.K. Jr. Could Undermine Lifesaving Childhood Vaccines If he is confirmed as H.H.S. secretary, the longtime vaccine critic would be in a position to change the government’s immunization recommendations and delay the development of new vaccines.

A good analysis of the ways that RFK could undermine vaccines (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/h...

One I’d never thought of before is weakening legal protections for vaccine makers

lawsuits, even/particularly frivolous ones, could make them decide hey, this business ain’t worth it

19.11.2024 12:38 — 👍 147    🔁 65    💬 6    📌 7

The resistance will mostly look like ordinary people's noncompliance, and this example is--well deep bow to the superintendents.....

17.11.2024 13:33 — 👍 3165    🔁 752    💬 50    📌 49

Glad you made the jump! You don’t know me (I was a nobody on Twitter) but you followed me after I complimented your jumpsuit one time. 😂

12.11.2024 04:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

your own iPhone. The dominant social media platform form for news, Twitter, was purchased and turned into a right-wing mobilization engine for an emotionally unstable federal contractor. Meta, under Mark Zuckerberg, has driven its monopolistic social media platforms as far away from hard news as possible, to the point of explicit hostility. I am genuinely unsure if Google cares whether we live in a democracy or not as long as the feds let them keep spamming Al slop about glue pizza to keep OpenAI away from its Search monopoly. TikTok is a casino whose amazing success at circulating mindless content may come at the expense of "sleep, and eating, and moving around the room, and looking at someone in the eyes" according to one of its own executives. These are

one of its own executives. These are gigantic companies with far larger consumer audiences than any traditional media company that was covering the election, and some of these platforms are taking on the characteristics of becoming publishers themselves in terms of shaping content decisions and producing content of their own via AI. There are too many billionaires and CEOs in charge of too few information chokepoints, which are powered by too much surveillance over too many users who have too few viable alternatives. Given that America is apparently going to be perfectly happy to elect strongman federal executives from here on out, pursuing decentralization and good-old-fashioned competition in the Brandeisian vein, rather than a corporatist monopolization and fusion with potentially fashy federal regulators, seems to be the democratically healthier path forward.

The information economy is rotten from top to bottom. Lessons from Trump’s election about media policy:

mattdpearce.substack.com/p/lessons-on...

07.11.2024 13:01 — 👍 485    🔁 142    💬 20    📌 16

I did this last year! I kept up with it for most of the year and found so many good recipes.

27.01.2024 01:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Photo of volunteers at the 8th Annual Bull City Foodraiser taking a break for a photo. Behind them are several hundred bags of groceries, with dozens of boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios in the background. In the foreground are dozens of cans of canned chicken and canned tuna.

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Friends: I need your help to spread the word about our annual Foodraiser, happening in just two weeks! 😱

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20.11.2023 03:40 — 👍 231    🔁 251    💬 30    📌 70

Every time you mention a book idea I want to shoot it directly into my veins. 😩

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