Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC.

Since details of the smear campaign broke, initially in a big feature in The New York Times, then subsequently in dozens of articles on major news sites, not one outlet has used the word misogyny. www.usermag.co/p/blake-live...

Google Photos just reminded me that six years ago today, I was in Rwanda (because I’m nosey). I wanted to see what the hype was all about. When I was leaving, one of my uncles said, “When you get back, write about it.” Maybe I will.

“Crushed” is doing a lot here.

We’ve no choice but to vote these people out. justnanaama.com/2024/11/dont...

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état

Ah, the perks of being a bumbling president: a statue in a country you don’t even like, a top honor from your real homeland, and all the luxuries that come with tanking the economy you’re supposed to lead. Now that's living the high life.

Taylor Lorenz with a rather important article on how liberals have fallen for election fraud conspiracies that are every bit as unhinged as conservatives ones from 2020: www.usermag.co/p/metas-thre...

There is a long history of giving bogus interpretations of events in the US. Think of how gun violence is interpreted as a mental health crisis. The civil rights mov't was interpreted as communist uprising, not uprising against racial segregation. Now we're being told the election was about jobs.

Me: Can’t bear global politics right now, so let me face politics at home. Politicians at home:

If there is plantain on the menu, I’m getting some.

The very real violence of fascists should vastly outweigh the hypothetical concerns about limiting Nazi speech. I wrote about it, and about why the founders of Substack are so very wrong. www.jphilll.com/p/substack-b...

This is unconscionable.

The road traveled…

When I saw that Elon Musk’s brother, Grover Norquist, and the lawyer who successfully defend Nestle in a child slavery case before the Supreme Court were all at Burning Man I came to one conclusion: You can’t be cool and be a capitalist.

Honest reviews

My goodness these people have totally wrecked the economy. How???

i said goodbye to Shuhada’ Sadaqat / Sinéad O’Connor, and wrote about her impact and her convictions. In America’s rush to simplify and commodify her, by throwing it back in their faces, O’Connor could stay chaotic; deeply funny; unabashedly serious; mercurial; uncompromising to her values.

For a lot of us, losing Twitter isn’t really about losing ties to the company itself. It’s losing 10+ years of real, asynchronous communities, professional development, the ability to get gigs and clients, the ability to promo/share your art on an extremely broad scale. The loss of that has impact.

“A new cohort of politicians, bred by the same venal class they're impatient to replace, is waiting for hammer-in-hand for their turn to drive the last nail through the coffin that is Ghana.”

JUST IN: Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of the bankrupt Celsius crypto lending company, has been arrested. The company has also agreed to a $4.7 billion settlement with government regulators.

The billionaire secret ingredient to success: stealing from workers Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/07/12/twitter-and-elon-musk-face-500-million-lawsuit-for-allegedly-reusing-severance-for-fired-employees/

The Ghana Earnings and Savings Survey (GESS 1) revealed that 55% of respondents earned less than GHS5,000 (~$430) each month. The full report is worth reading https://www.ceditalk.com/2023/06/half-of-respondents-have-savings-below-10000-cedis-ghana-earnings-and-savings-survey/

Headaches are terrible events.

I can finally share I am an investor in Bluesky 🚀 Super excited to be joining this journey of a true public conversation, and it's open developer platform. https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/bluesky-announces-its-8m-seed-round-first-paid-service-custom-domains/

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Still thinking about the details of the sexual misconduct story involving Tanzania and UK’s David Adjaye. Too many layers to unpack, from rape to intimidation to abuse of power. Hard to believe someone in his position would do something so vile in era.

“Radiology equipment across the hospitals broke down frequently and downtimes were very high. Radiographers/radiologists across the hospitals were provided with poor/inadequate post-installation training, and maintenance contracts/agreements were unavailable. “

Climate change is disproportionately harming the child laborers. Maybe we should just tear this all down and start over

It’s all so hilarious.

For six months Elon’s just been like workers? Engineers? Twitter doesn’t need that! Shockingly it turns out workers were making the thing work all along

A prof and two students were stabbed during a philosophy of gender class. A guy came into the class, asked what it was about, and attacked them. I'm trying to come up with words for how terrifying and absolutely unsurprising this violence is

I keep forgetting about this sane, no drama app.

Out this week

It shouldn’t always be about productivity and efficiency. For some, work is a way of life. I can see a future where office workers install malware to destroy the AI brought in to replace them.

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The wildfire smoke in NYC has gotten really intense today. You smell it every breath you take

A view.

Twitter is still suppressing Substack links but I’d love for you all to check out my newsletter, it’s free to subscribe and comes out weekly!

Many of my daydreams involve thinking up solutions to our problems as a country. It's as if one of the running themes in my dreams are "What would I do differently if I was president." I'm always content with letting my mind wander as far as possible.

“Many Ghanaians believed that in voting out Mahama after one term in 2016, they were turning the page on the corruption and mismanagement that they associated with his presidency. Instead, what they got from Akufo-Addo was more corruption and mismanagement, worsened by impunity and aloofness.”

I've been working on this story for several months, and it's finally here The self-destructive gospel of the Passport Bros https://phillewis.substack.com/p/passport-bros-travel-abroad-gospel-women

The fact that “fascists shouldn’t feel safe” is considered a ‘radical’ position is an alarming indictment of liberalism. People whose politics is the harm and death and genocide of non-white straight Christian men should not be welcome in our society. That should not be controversial.

if papers wrote about daniel penny the way they have written about jordan neely this headline would read “unemployed college dropout says he would kill on subway again” https://t.co/ukbB2b16jW