Politics are stupid & so am I.
kind of a half-baked thought here but it's a shame criticism as a paid professional discipline has been sidelined by social media because it could point the way forward out of the internet madness-induced problem of writing that's crouched in what the author anticipates a comments section will say
My theory is that a lot of activism-organizing folks have pretty much hunkered down and locked in on managing local community survival stuff. There is such a sustained assault on access to food, childcare, etc on a local level that those fights have occupied us. Which is the assault's purpose
Will BunchAre we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...
The goal is to satisfy the *emotions* behind every information need without providing real information.
Matt SeyboldThe cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.
"you will look and feel great, and all it takes is putting yourself through pain every single day and not eating all of this delicious food" fuck you! this is bullshit!
Snake Oil SalesmanCardio and restrictive dieting being the surefire way to a healthy body are sufficient proof that intelligent design is real, that it was done by a powerful god, and that god despises us.
Good reporting here. Important shit.
Evan GreerNEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.
children these days do not know the horrors of that age, you would have had to hear about Zolland everywhere
Aubrey GilleranI do feel like we've evolved somewhat as a culture because in the '90s or '00s, these two would be a tabloid phenomenon like Brangelia but I think folks mostly are like, "Aw, they're together? Good for them."
this is one of the ways in which I think the modern publishing environment, which requires the vast majority of authors to do all of their own promotional work, has been incredibly damaging "I got canceled on social media" can be a real career-ruining thing! it's not irrational to worry about it!
jawless-fishtheres this one tumblr post ive seen talking about that phenomenon but w fiction writing that I think about often
I reject the premise "the far left hates Disney adults" is equivalent to "the far right hates sexually liberated people." The left can be rude about Disney adults; the right wants to criminalize everything except (a) rich men's pedophilia and (b) sex within marriage for procreation. Not comparable!
dillo (optimizer)disney adults are harder to pull into cults 👍
The KIDS Act is not just some benign form of digital “carding.” If passed, the bouncer at the door is an online entity capturing and storing personal data from users who simply want to access legal, First Amendment-protected content on the internet, EFF’s @irmck.bsky.social wrote for @coindesk.com.
The KIDS Act is way worse than digital carding — it is a mass surveillance systemThe fact that lawmakers are even contemplating a bill that would create a surveillance and censorship regime should be a wake-up call for everyone who values privacy and free expression, argues Electr...www.coindesk.com