journalism is important, and it is accordingly important that the news is not controlled by billionaires.

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for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades

🚨BREAKING: The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) says it is “deeply alarmed” about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule created to carry out President Donald Trump’s plans for restricting mail-in voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Statement on passage of the Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act from @fightforthefuture.org TL;DR this is a good bill that bans the sale of cell phone location data and lets you sue Big Tech. AND there's room for improvement in conference committee. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-06...

Washington Examiner joins the censorship chorus, and believes they will be greeted as liberators. "All pornography must be made illegal ... we must free people from partaking in it at all."

BREAKING: the Massachusetts House just passed one of the best data privacy bills in the country. It includes a total ban on the sale of precise location data and includes a private right of action allowing people to sue Big Tech over data abuses. HUGE WIN! But there’s more work to do 🧵

AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…

"But, two years since its launch, the site has around just 10% of X’s estimated global users." This is presented as a failure. At 2yo, having 10% of the users of its biggest rival, which is 20yo, is a failure. No tech is allowed to just be a success, it has to be a blockbuster or it doesn't count.

Pro tip: Firefox now includes a built-in VPN with location selection. You can mask your IP address and reduce tracking at the network level, not just on sites.

I'm telling you: if you like someone's book or article, straight up email them that. It'll make their day. There are not enough compliments in academia.

I know this is a jokey take, but for the audience the answer is their job is not to do journalism nor to explain events or speculate on reality These columnists are well employed manufacturing consent and obfuscating for power. If you are confused and complacent, the well paid job is done.

Never gets old. J-school essay topic: Is there any performance test for essentially life-tenure columnists? A limit on how many big calls you can get totally wrong, before they say: Hey, buddy, how about taking a step back for a while. Maybe a few reported pieces? Where you go out and ask around?

Happy pride peeps o7

A better world is possible

It’s mind boggling to me that the U.S. congress just lets him keep on criming.

I'm old enough to remember January 9, 2026. You'll never guess what happened next. (Nothing. Nothing happened next.)

The fact that some 80 year old pedophile who lives in a Florida brothel can single handedly cripple the world economy, trigger a global war, trash the White House, and grift people out of billions is insane if you think about it… So, what do you think about Trump?!

"a goofy movie": a humble title. why it's not even necessarily "the" goofy movie. we simply, respectfully offer you this story for your consideration "doug's 1st movie": the hubris of icarus. the unbridled audacity to imply that this is only the 1st chapter of the Doug Cinematic Universe. pathetic

I love how AMC trailers are now 1. Trailers 2. Ad for Amazon 3. More trailers 4. AMC ad telling you you’re at a movie 5. AMC ad reminding you that you’re at a movie 6. 5-sec cut of Nicole Kidman reminding you you’re at the movies 7. TURN OFF YOUR PHONE 8. Did you know you’re at the movies

Just a reminder that immigrants inside Delaney Hall are on their ninth day of a hunger and labor strike in protest of inhumane conditions and this was Governor Sherrill’s response last night:

Marilou & I are deeply saddened by the loss of our lifelong friend, Marcia. Not just a gifted, innovative artist, she also happened to be a genuinely nice person. Smart, funny, & just plain fun to be around. Thankfully, her memory lives on and we will never stop missing her. shorturl.at/wx6BV

European alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office launches on 9 June: free, open source and online, using existing building blocks. An important step in freeing ourselves from US control. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...

Right? How is it news every time these compulsive liars lie? Bullshit to be on the front page manipulating the markets

This “calorie standard” language is sinister as fuck. Basically we’re feeding them enough to stay alive but nothing more.

zohran mamdani announced a plan to seize properties from bad landlords and private equity if tenents suffer from neglect and i genuinely do not think i’ve seen rightwing circles this mad in reaction to anything i’ve ever seen before lol

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

ICE hasn’t gone away. It’s still the largest most heavily funded (un)law enforcement agency in the world. If currently they’re not making headlines it’s because they’re being trained to be more lethal and under control. They’re an occupying force.

I'm engaged in a research project. I'm about 18 months in and I just read yesterday that at its peak the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense sold/distributed 140,000 copies of its newspaper a week...

Talked with the incredible Marisa Kabas pretty much immediately after our charges were dropped about our case, how emotionally and financially traumatizing this process was, and how we need to change the culture in our legal system.

By the way, if you want a great feminist read, I cannot recommend When Women Were Dragons enough. The premise is that at some point in the 50’s, a bunch of women turned into dragons and then went wherever they wanted. It’s queer inclusive, not gender essentialist, and changed my brain chemistry.

This is one of the reasons “we can’t run AOC” makes zero sense. The gop accused Bill Clinton of being a secret communist! They said Obamacare was socialism! The underlying policy just doesn’t matter, they’ll always make this attack. So why don’t we run someone who believes in things?

No it the fuck was not.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

Random opinion: The primary purpose of AI, instead of the genuinely revolutionary like medical/scientific image analysis, has become the replacement of human labour in order to lower costs. It's being driven by shareholder greed We should tax the use of AI to fund a universal basic income

The core problem with "surveillance pricing" isn't the pricing, it's the *surveillance*, and the way to fix this is to ban most forms of data collection. There's simply no good reason to allow companies to build highly detailed dossiers full of our personal information.

Still remember the crushing moment as a young researcher when I realised that proving something through evidence had damn near no impact on social policy unless it was politically useful to believe it.

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

genuine question are you smoking crack?

excuse me lol kotaku.com/pokemon-team...

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

These data centers do not produce jobs. These centers raise electricity rates and create electric shortages. These centers use tens of millions of gallons of water and discharge toxic water, causing environmental pollution and noise pollution. Why are they getting billion-dollar tax breaks???

It was not that long ago when government agencies had their own websites - and actually updated them. It is high time governments returned to controlling their own online presence instead of handing it over to genocidal maniacs like Elon Musk.

On Reddit, Orange County residents are very justifiably angry that local authorities are posting vital evacuation information on X and Instagram…which both require accounts if you want to be able to view videos easily and completely. How many people use neither? This has got to stop.

Our English patch for Kowloon's Gate, the surrealist Asian-gothic cyberpunk PS1 adventure game arrives June 9th.

Libs are really like, "Barney Frank was right. He's been advocating for an incremental approach to transgender rights for several decades now, dating all the way back to when transgender people had more rights."

Incredible