Not much to see here, just Mark Zuckerberg making sure that Stephen Miller, of all people, greenlights Facebook's new hiring policies. Gift link to this excellent NYT piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

It's so weird that in the end Twitter became state media

Passively compounding wealth creates more inequality than anything else IMO. If the stock market didn’t exist, Elon Musk would be just a generationally wealthy dudebro, maybe a co investor in his brother Kimbal’s restaurant

in retrospect, one of the funniest headlines of all time

As @peterpomerantsev says, the time for rebuilding better social media is NOW: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

Many are fleeing major platforms for services like this one. I have an essay on two great books (by @paulgowder.bsky.social + @ntnsndr.in) that offer historically-rooted visions for democratic, social networks that we need to consider in the era of Bluesky and beyond... jacobin.com/2024/12/inte...

Posting here for the first time to share my reaction to Meta's autocratic turn, for @techpolicypress.bsky.social