so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.

They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say

New special coverage at @globalvoices.org to celebrate the Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples! globalvoices.org/special/day-...

A few months from now, as it bends back toward the dirt, this statue will embody the time-honored Confederate tradition of being humiliated over and over again.

live your life so the pierogi guy doesn't hate you

The introduction of age-verification in the UK this weekend appears to be an unmitigated disaster. Anyone accessing socials now has to upload ID, scan their face or otherwise verify. The outrage is widespread and everyone is just finding workarounds. The government has gone into defense.

Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

The important thing to understand about the current state of affairs is that Andreessen hired a partner at the most influential VC firm in the tech industry solely on the basis that the man strangled a Black man to death in my neighborhood.

Stoked for this!

It is a crafty move, indeed, to threaten tariffs on a country with which we run a trade **surplus**.

Yet another corporate giant vaporizing its commitments and normalizing the notion that rights are purely transactional. No one should remain silent about this. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

How it started How softly it twinkled How it's going

The evil that men do lives after them

Is there a point at which the National Review and similar beacons of enlightenment realize their desperation is actually strengthening Zohran's aura of inevitability? They truly have nothing beyond the existential fear of a progressive champion ushering in a new generation of leaders.

What's the winning strategy: (A) Get behind newness, freshness, optimistic energy, and *normalize it* or (B) Hide in the hallways, simmering in apocalyptic prophecies Can someone help solve this mind-bending puzzle? www.axios.com/2025/06/26/d...

Visualizing the still-gaping maw of moral bankruptcy.

Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow

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dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

Come to think of it, Sweet Baby Raytheon was a pretty obvious entry for the 2025 bingo card. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Lyrics from Starset to go with this revealing long read by @billyperrigo.bsky.social: Lay your heart into my perfect machine I will use it to protect you from me time.com/7288387/sam-...

Let's play a round of "Spot the Material Risk"! 🤔 "Anti-DEI" shareholder proposals have ALREADY hit an all-time high in 2025. 🤔 Target's stock has lost a third of its value over the past year. 🤔 Costco's reached new heights ever since its shareholders entombed the "anti-DEI" crusade in January.

ok I feel completely insane asking this but like weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"

Centimillionaires and billionaires calling for austerity on little girls' dolls: 2. Centimillionaires and billionaires calling for austerity on big boys' megayachts: 0.

*sigh* Time to dust off the old gem.

As someone who’s worked on consumer tech privacy for years, DEFAULTS MATTER! This keeps happening because Venmo lets it.

Lmao how does this keep happening

It's simple: There is a trade deficit in the migration of fentanyl and this is why person woman man camera TV.

Democracy is burning, and we need sites like Bluesky more than ever. And Senator Durbin wants to repeal 230, which would massively stifle the ability of sites like Bluesky to exist, while massively empowering X and Meta. Why? It seems that someone in his office doesn't understand 230.

Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?

💥 UPDATE: Apple shareholders voted today by a margin of about 98-2 percent to uphold diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) — @droste.bsky.social reports. Costco shareholders voted by the same margin on an identical anti-DEI proposal brought by the same shareholder activist group, NCPPR, last month

2024 was the worst year for internet shutdowns, with governments imposing at least 296 outages in 54 countries. Ramsha Jahangir (@ramshajahangir.bsky.social) at Tech Policy Press on the key findings from Access Now's new report launched at #RightsCon:

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I love it when technical bugs are thematically consistent.

The golden age of Big Tech impunity is upon us. With laws, rules, and government protections imploding left and right, we should all be considering what new roles *we* can play in holding companies to account.

Literally interview anyone else about Elon Musk. Anyone! Swisher was dragged kicking and screaming into the view that "Elon Musk has very complicated politics" in like 2023, and up to that point spent her career worshipping the "move fast and break stuff" shit she now says is core to SV fascism.

Seems quaint these days to think back to 15 years ago when sociologists were asking us why we were studying tech and power

But Her Emails (Are Now on Sauron's Private Server)

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...