autobiography as much as politics, @phillmv is amazing and i’m delighted to learn so much about them. http://okayfail.com/2025/i-met-pg-once.html
Trump wants TikTok to become state-owned media! https://journa.host/@w7voa/113855771597485176
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nobody is really happy to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed tonight.
“Americans who voted for Trump because of the putatively high price of eggs [have] now precipitated a political crisis in Scandinavia.” @anneapplebaum https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/01/trump-greenland-crisis-denmark-europe/681371/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-Fo9dEMl2OnGCN0ZRdSEeg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share ht @SharonK #PatrickChivanec
unsurprisingly i guess, my sense is Redbook is shaping its algorithm to present China as great, Chinese people as welcoming, the US as a bit of a catastrophe morally and economically, but good Americans as welcome, especially those who express gratitude for hospitality, refugees from more than TikTok.
Wikipedia (which ironically, early on, was warned against in schools as an unreliable source) is one of the last bastions of high quality information. But that quality is based on requiring citations to reliable sources, traditionally including "well-established news outlets". 1/
Can outlets that openly placate Trump by e.g. forfeiting winnable lawsuits remain reliable sources to Wikipedia? How reliable will Wikipedia remain if the sources from which its articles are constructed bend to curry favor and escape threats of the new administration? 2/
Partisans of all stripes edit Wikipedia tendentiously, but its reliability is sustained be editors removing poorly sourced information. Partisans of the fascist right may have new support from, say, the Washington Post or ABC or CBS as their practices bend to the new, um, business reality. /fin
When the Supreme Corruption narrowed the definition of bribery to the most explicit quid-pro-quos, did you think eventually people wouldn't be driving truckloads of cash through the space they opened?
Can media who play these games credibly do "news"?
"It's a win-win-win. Ron DeSantis gets something to brag about; Republican business owners aren't much affected; and undocumented workers are even more scared and docile. What's not to like?" #KevinDrum on Florida's immigration dickishness https://jabberwocking.com/florida-cracked-down-on-illegal-immigrants-heres-a-progress-report/
someone asked on redbook about Americans’ view of Elon Musk (and his mom), and it’s fun to see the infosphere clash, the Americans mostly dissing him while Chinese people note that he is widely admired there. http://xhslink.com/a/8xIo5fp1I343
what if China does to the next American election what Elon Musk did to the last one?
i love it when i click on a thing and get a message like the thing you clicked on does not exist. like what does existence even mean?
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in magic, words structure reality, so the easiest thing to transform a chemist into is a chemise.
it’s touching to see Donald Trump make such an effort to prove Gary Gensler right.
if a President issues a shitcoin, even though it may bear all the hallmarks of a classic pump and dump, one must consider the possibility it’s intended as a durable means of deniable bribery.
so many people into eugenics wouldn't make their own cut.
"Multimember proportional elections can be implemented at the state level without going through the federal government." @sjshancoxli https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-of-democratic-governance/
[Zuckerberg] “not only did his big set of moderation changes to please Trump, but did so only after he was told by the incoming administration to act. Even worse, he reportedly made sure to share his plans with top Trump aides to get their approval first.” @mmasnick https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/17/as-zuckerberg-goes-around-whining-about-biden-he-made-sure-to-first-get-his-new-approach-approved-by-trump/
cynicism is not a sufficient epistemology.
don’t initial here for ordinary matters.
a digital signature pad labeled “FOR EPIC USE ONLY”