I've promised my younger son that if the US win the world cup, I will get us a second dog and name it Mauricio Poochettino.

This, exactly. Leadership & charisma matter (for good or ill)

Platformocracy news round-up: lawsuits, social media bans, and a curious launch from Google blurs the line between Search and YouTube. Highlights on-thread, details at the link.

Okay, this is kind of fun. Be nice if there was a way to auto post it or use the action intent link to share the text version easily hankgreen.com/fourbythree

Democratic voters prefer politicians who are ready, willing and able to fight. Where incumbents fail that test, voters will look to replace them with politicians who will actually fight. That's it. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

for just $100k/day I can offer you more top-tier political insights like "it is useful to visibly stand for something" and "reform is mostly the result of the tories imploding; you should ignore them and instead be more alarmed at your base leaving for the greens"

"Trust and Safety with Chinese Characteristics." Platform policies have more in common with Chinese dynasties than Western democracy. Not rule OF law, but rule BY law, “under which government officials apply formal, written, perhaps detailed rules but are not themselves bound by those rules.” 1/6

'40% of the peak demand. And the build time was mere months. Given the rising demand in the whole country, only solar (18 months) and battery (12) can meet it in time. The "never solar" states are going to have a hard time as their pride proves to be costly' viaa Jonathan Hall

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

It looks like W Identity, the part of @wsocial.eu that checks your papers before you go in, has a very basic XSS on its admin backend, found hours after launch. This seems almost too predictable... Cyberfriends, any thoughts on how bad? 23.social/@kantorkel/1...

The evidence I saw in Australia was that harassment levels were roughly stable post ban. Now if the major harm the UK wants it to prevent is that no person under 18 but ever sees nudity online - that’s… also a possible goal. My preference is to destroy things like sexortion networks.

Also it's clear now the UK's response to the teething problems with the Australia ban was not "the whole concept was the problem," its response is "Australia isn't enforcing hard enough, so we'll nerd harder with compliance" which in this case means all users being facial scanned + IDs etc.

Teaching a generation that they are powerless online primes them to obey authoritarians in real life. I've summarized the first year of my newsletter, Platformocracy, about platform power and how to win back our rights. This is the perfect place to start, or to share with friends. 1/10

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

🚨Open Social Web people - you should know about new project released today - Encrypted Spaces. The privacy and security of @signal.org , but for collaboration and community. Congrats to everyone involved. @wired.com coverage:

if youre not on the race riot app you are living in a bubble, you have to contribute financially and provide free labor to the race riot generator or else you are in a bubble

This is phenomenal. The venn diagram of soccer fan and musicals fan may be small, but I'm in it. www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

This is just the best.

Hard to say what’s worse - doing this out of ignorance of the damage to privacy, or doing it on purpose because of the damage to privacy.

If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

My free weekly newsletter, Platformocracy, is one year old! My core premise: Internet platforms have become our unelected governments. They should be subject to the laws of the communities they serve, not the will of their owners. 1/3

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

Nice to see @oversightboard.bsky.social saying the same thing I've been writing about for months in Platformocracy: online platforms need to bring due process to account terminations. techcrunch.com/2026/06/04/m...

This is a basic problem with governance. We have smart and capable people willing to do hard boring work, and then another group of very dumb, very loud people who think they should run everything and are generally more willing to fight about it.

I was told it would be leopards eating people’s faces, not worms eating cow’s faces. This is why people don’t trust politicians any more.

We're going to be releasing v1 of Coop, the review tool by @roost.tools, very soon. We're also going to hold a livestream talking about the new features and featuring some appearances from folks building on and using Coop! Sign up here: roost.tools/coop#livestr...

Our community is about two simple ideas 1. The internet should serve people, not platforms. 2. We have the tools to build that internet today. We're gathering and building on the Atmosphere because it provides a pragmatic pathway to a public interest internet.

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@repsherrill.bsky.social @mikiesherrill.bsky.social @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social really??

I wish we could talk seriously about wealth inequality & the US economy without ignoring that 90% of Americans have what would have been the world's most powerful computer c.2000 in their pocket & things like "life expectancy in 1850s England was ~40 years & GDP per capita was ~$5000 in today's $"

You know you've screwed up when ICE is thanking you. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social @repsherrill.bsky.social @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social

After having seen STAR WARS 500 times as a kid, I remember having my mind blown learning that the entire "the death star is about to blow up the rebel base as its being attacked" beat of the ending was invented in the editing room using outtakes and ADR. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

PLATFORMOCRACY THIS WEEK: Practical exit part 2: groups and identity. Last week I proposed that we require social platforms make it easier to bring your social graph with you when you leave. This week: can we move entire groups, and is decentralized identity a better solution? Read all about it!

Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

My second recent podcast guest spot has released. I spoke with Michael Oliver Weinberg, host of the Improving Alpha podcast, about the impact of the Platformocracy on business outcomes & investing. A novel angle on the topics I cover in my newsletter. Give it a listen! www.vidrio.com/blog/improvi...

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

This is good. Another book to add to the ever expanding reading list.

To be clear, it is vey very good that we had the last generation of privacy and surveillance activism, and it's time for a new generation that starts from the position of everything we've seen happen in the last 15 years instead of where we thought the problems were going to be 35+ years ago.

It’s time for regulators to require social graph portability. We’ve had mobile phone number portability for twenty years. We now have proven technology (OAuth) to help move your network in a secure and privacy-preserving way. There's no legitimate reason for big platforms to resist this. 1/4

I did a podcast. Thanks @robleathern.bsky.social for having me on Won't Fix!

this is it, this is the take. inventing sources is not new! expecting not to be called out on it is the new part