this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week."

the biggest tech companies in the world are endorsing a new bill that would shove AI onto kids in school www.404media.co/literacy-in-...

To quote the great John Legend: "My brother, you have to keep reading. What happened next?"

to be clear, "help me write" actually means "write this for me" you can't write if you don't practice writing do the math

these companies aren’t even pretending to care about children’s well-being, or humanity’s, and very wealthy people are telling you it’ll probably be fine 👍

you don't need a study to know this is bad for kids. that's why school admins have zero excuses for signing these deals

The metaphors are, yet again, getting a little heavy-handed.

"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars."

In a royal address to a joint session of Congress marking the 250th anniversary of America’s independence from Britain, King Charles III is expected to say that the war has never ended and order the King’s Guards accompanying him to seize the rebel Congress.

HAPPENING NOW: in their largest gathering ever, survivor parents & advocates are taking the #BigTechonTrial docs to the lawmakers who’ve refused to listen. It’s time to choose: are you with families or Big Tech?

“When Vice President JD Vance was campaigning for Viktor Orbán earlier this month, he was also campaigning to preserve the Hungarian funding for the New Right organizations that would support his own future political ambitions” Makes sense of that grotesque debacle providencemag.com/2026/04/the-...

The thing where voters don't believe republican policies could be as evil as they are apparently extends to the republicans actually in charge of the government just mindlessly implementing them

In the end, though, what made the verdict remarkable was the relative ordinariness of Kaley’s story..The jury award was a spur to understand a life recognizably shaped by social-media algorithms, in ways that were perhaps near-impossible to resist, as a serious injury to an entire generation.

dad: so whats the deal with the war me: *speaks for 5 min* dad: wow that is an impressive analysis me: thanks I took it from a person I follow online who is a subject matter expert dad: oh whats their name me: They are a cartoon dog wearing underwear as a face mask called Piss Prevail On Earth

After Trump wrote, in reference to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” the entirety of the House Democratic leadership issued this joint statement:

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It’s pretty interesting to compare Easter messages from political leaders and then consider which ones the media treats as being out of the mainstream or dangerous

How dare these people call themselves followers of Christ? He wakes up on Easter morning and posts the F-bomb and war crimes? Imagine their outrage if any Democrat ever posted this insanity? How dare he ever call anyone else deranged?

"Here is my message, coming from a transgender woman who grew up with and was badly harmed by exploitative social media: Do not let Big Tech hide itself behind a rainbow flag. The truth is, queer people are the ones these platforms fail first and protect last." thehill.com/opinion/tech...

We all know this is fascism.

89% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators 23% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

See the evidence for yourself: techoversight.org/bigtechontr...

Internal Google research also showed teens were harmed, with "prolonged unintentional use" displacing "valuable activities like time with friends or sleep."

A 2012 YouTube document admitted the company was not measuring user well-being effectively and described its goal as "viewer addiction." The plaintiff’s lawyers described YouTube as a “digital casino.”

Meta targeted kids in schools, tracked "total teen time spent," prioritized teen growth, built high school directories, and activated "school blasts" to increase engagement on specific campuses. techoversight.org/2025/11/22/...

Instagram developed an explicit internal business strategy to addict multiple generations of American families to its platform, deliberately using teenagers as the gateway to recruit parents, younger siblings, and grandparents.

During Mark Zuckerberg’s court testimony, plaintiff’s attorney Mark Lanier showed the jury an email in which Zuckerberg set a 2016 company goal of increasing users' time spent on the platform by 12%, directly contradicting his 2024 congressional testimony.

The trials have already produced an unprecedented public record of damning internal company documents. One Meta employee wrote "oh my gosh yall IG is a drug." Another responded: "Lol, I mean, all social media. We're basically pushers."

This trial was proof that if you put CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg on the stand before a judge and jury of their peers, the tech industry’s wanton disregard for people will be on full display. techoversight.org/bigtechontr...

These products were purposefully designed to harm, addict millions of young people, and lead to lifelong mental health consequences. That ends now. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-n...

HISTORIC VERDICT: “The era of Big Tech invincibility is over – this ruling is an earthquake that shakes Big Tech’s predatory business model to its core." -- @sachalouise.bsky.social techoversight.org/2026/03/25/...

the era of Big Tech invincibility is over. we fucking won. on everything.

idk how you can believe the WH cares about protecting kids online when Trump appoints Zuckerberg to a council of advisors less than 24 hrs after Meta was found guilty of not protecting kids from sexual predators online x.com/WHOSTP47/sta...

You know, once a jury has made its decision you are extremely justified in dropping the "allegedly"

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

I think we're going win, but I want to win hard enough that we start paying artists to paint murals in post offices again. (This time the post offices are also banks.)

a formative crush. devastated people.com/nicholas-bre...

many people are calling this AI amnesty "States should not be permitted to penalize AI developers for a third party’s unlawful conduct involving their models." www.foxnews.com/politics/whi...

now THIS is some fucking activism lol

Like all the other things they bring up, shoveling snow in NYC is not covered in the 24th amendment, the right to vote without cost is.

my kid came home from kindergarten today and announced she was setting a trap to catch a leprechaun. apparently other kids at school always end up with candy and treats in their annual leprechaun traps, so she’s pretty stoked to see what she gets. I am begging other parents to fucking cool it

Watching guys like Joe Kent abandon Trump because of Iran is good. But we should be clear it's good in a "our enemies are splitting into factions and fighting one another" sense not in a "our enemies are coming to our side and joining us" sense because that latter thing is not what's happening.

Unprecedented corruption. Literally asking for billions of dollars.

as we await the jury's decision now, we put together the takeaways from the last few weeks of the social media addiction trials. take a look 👀 ⤵️

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The only topics surveyed in the new NBC News poll that were less popular than AI? The Democratic Party and Iran www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... by @allansmith.bsky.social

I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But... ...maybe there wasn't much planning?

Last month, Zuckerberg’s entourage wore Meta glasses into the courthouse where Zuck was testifying for addicting kids to social media and had to be told TWICE by the judge to take them off.