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@duolingoverde.bsky.social your forced upgrades make me want to quit the app. I really don't want to subscribe to Max, or even try it. but do you give me a way to say no? No. (iOS app on iPad)
Jamais holding a copy of his book
It’s out!
Google Earth is surfacing its 3D timelapse feature. These animations use satellite data to show how an area has changed from a higher vantage point. You could find the average surface temperature or tree canopy coverage in a given area. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
And now they're all sold out.
Is it impossible to source these ethically in quantity? Seems like a great way to raise funds for Bluesky.
Bill Atkinson, one of the most quietly revolutionary minds in computing, has passed away. His creations — QuickDraw, MacPaint, and especially HyperCard — transformed not just the Mac, but how I thought about computing. A thread 🧵… 1/9
As someone who got to know a LOT of so-called conservative legal intellectuals, there are a bunch of people who claimed that they were just against tyranny and big government who are extremely silent in the moment.
Big Journalism is still doing stenography instead of showing the reality of the Trump regime's headlong race into fascism.
At TechDirt, @mmasnick shows how journalism could work if it located a spine.
www.techdirt.com/202...
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Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings.
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved.
* very unconstitutional
Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.
Perhaps Trump is secretly a degrowther.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social and I walking into a PACKED house at UAW Region 1 here in Warren, MI! Republican Rep. John James refuses to hold a Townhall, so we did it for him!
Dear Secretary Rubio,
Hi, Tufts professor here. As someone who was on campus during the time in question, your claims about what Rumeysa Ozturk did bear no resemblance to reality. So did you just revoke her visa because she co-authored an anodyne op-ed that never mentioned Hamas?
Sincerely,
DWD
TIL about Two-Eyed Seeing, a way of blending Indigenous and Western perspectives: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Eye...
It looks and sounds different too: less “centering” of “intersectionality” and more economic populist working-class anger at the rich. Which could bode very well for its growth and success. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
Himes: "As far as I can tell, we're now on team Kremlin ... the president's chief Russia negotiator, Steve Witkoff, is repeating Russian talking points and participating in a mad cap Signal chat about an attack on Yemen while inside Russia."
Yesterday I fell down a rabbit hole the size and shape of @j3rry.bsky.social Contrarian series of posts. Two resonating most by feathering into my existing work: John Taylor Gatto (jerrymichalski.medium.com/contrarian-j...) and Christopher Alexander (jerrymichalski.medium.com/contrarian-c...) posts
IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It's about $200 million per year for libraries and $50 million for museums. Not a lot for the federal budget, but a huge piece of the culture and knowledge system - which is why MAGA is eliminating it.
They're moving to classify constitutionally protected speech as terrorism. This is a five alarm fire.
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/b...
My last DM exchange with Randi Zuckerberg, sister of Mark.
As my friend @mrak.org likes to say, "May the bridges I burn light the way forward."
NEWS: I invite you to join my bid to purchase the FBI headquarters and turn it into half batting cages, half office space that we just lease back to the FBI at exorbitant rates ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/i-would-li...
NPR News: NEWS Musk's team takes control of key systems at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau FEBRUARY 7, 2025 • 9:05 PM ET By Bobby Allyn, Laurel Wamsley, Chris Arnold Representatives of Elon Musk's cost-cutting team have entered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and gained access to internal computer systems that manage the agency's human resources, procurement, and finance systems, according to a source familiar with the group's actions who was not authorized to speak publicly. They have also taken control of the bureau's social media accounts, locking out career staff. In recent weeks, Musk has been hammering the CFPB, the watchdog agency that oversees consumer finance. In late November, he wrote on his site X: "Delete CFPB." On Friday, Musk posted: "CFPB RIP," though it is not clear there have been any reductions or changes to the agency's staff yet.
Calling DOGE is a “cost-cutting team” is like calling the guillotine a “weight loss device.”
Why is anyone still playing along with this charade?
10. But I came to see that those of us who do not subscribe to Musk’s grim project are being used as groundbait: stimulating the feeding frenzy of 15-minute, 24-hour hate that now powers X. Brute force – the unmediated power of money – has beaten humanity, intelligence, humour and democracy.
