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molly.wiki
“The true solution, perhaps, is more solidarity and more sincerity.”
Because guess what — what people are hurting for right now is actual, real sincerity. Everybody feels like something is wrong. The products they use every day are increasingly-broken, pumped full of generative AI features that literally get in the way of what they’re trying to do, which already was made more difficult because companies like Meta and Google intentionally make their products harder to use as a means of making more money. And, let’s be clear, people are well aware of the billions in profits that these companies make at the customer’s expense. They feel talked down to, tricked, conned, abused and abandoned, both parties’ representatives operating in terms almost as selfish as the markets that they also profit from. They read articles that blandly report illegal or fantastical things as permissible and rational and think, for a second, “am I wrong? Is this really the case? This doesn’t feel the case?” while somebody tells them that despite the fact that they have less money and said money doesn’t go as far, they’re actually experiencing the highest standard of living in history. Ultimately, regular people are repeatedly made to feel like they don’t matter. Their products are overstuffed with confusing menus, random microtransactions, the websites they read full of advertisements disguised as stories and actual advertisements built to trick them, their social networks intentionally separating them from the things they want to see. And when you feel like you don’t matter, you look to other human beings, and other human beings are terrified of sincerity. They’re terrified of saying they’re scared, they’re angry, they’re sad, they’re lonely, they’re hurting, they’re constantly on a fucking tightrope, every day feels like something weird or bad is going to happen either on the news (which for no reason other than it helps rich people constantly tries to scare them that AI will take their jobs), and they just want someone to talk to, but everybody else is fucking unwilling to let their guard down after a decade-plus of media that valorized snark and sarcasm, because the lesson they learned about being emotionally honest was that it’s weird or they’re too much or it’s feminine for guys or it’s too feminine for women. Objective reporting is necessary — crucial, in fact! — to democracy, but said objectivity cannot come at the cost of context, and every time it does so, the reader is failed and the truth is suffocated. And I don’t believe objective reporting should be separated from actual commentary. In fact, if someone is a reporter on a particular beat, their opinion is likely significantly more-informed than that of someone “objective” and “outside of the coverage,” based on stuff like “domain expertise.” The true solution, perhaps, is more solidarity and more sincerity. It’s media outlets that back up their workers, with editorial missions that aggressively fight those who would con their readers or abuse their writers, focusing on the incentives and power of those they’re discussing rather than whether or not “the markets” agree with their sentiment.
June 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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jules.su
fuck maga fuck ice fuck nazis fuck cops

but I repeat myself
May 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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edzitron.com
The Shift Could Eye-Scanning Crypto Orbs Save Us From a Bot Apocalypse? Nope! But I'm gonna write 1000 words anyway.
May 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
alexbuck.bsky.social
@nytimes.com why did you use chatGPT for a clue in this morning's mini crossword? I'm not comfortable with AI in something I actively pay for a human to make.
April 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
alexbuck.bsky.social
Dumb people are too confident. Bring back calling someone a fucking dunce.
April 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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nickcharles.bsky.social
Thread:

You don’t think you, a citizen, can be caught up in the admin’s grabbing of people? They don’t care about mistakenly taking a legal immigrant or returning them. No? Not you? Even in error?

Here’s a “fun” story that happened to me recently.

A former federal law enforcement officer.
April 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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themoulinrogue.bsky.social
No Czars.
No Caesars.
No Kings.
February 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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mikedrucker.bsky.social
If the Democratic Party was a soccer team, they’d kick the ball into their own net because it’s more attainable and tell everyone it’s a good compromise
January 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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edzitron.com
Ah man that fucking sucks lol
willbunch.bsky.social Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Jan 18
I literally felt sick to my stomach reading this
January 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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themorrancave.bsky.social
Inside the State Dept., senior political appointees repeatedly disregarded their own experts on Israel's human rights violations.

These officials cracked down on leaks by threatening criminal investigations and classifying material critical of Israel.

New, @propublica.org
A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Departme...
www.propublica.org
January 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
alexbuck.bsky.social
Do I hate Mondays or do I hate capitalism?
September 11, 2023 at 3:28 PM
alexbuck.bsky.social
Anyone else sometimes think about answering a spam email just to have someone to talk to?
August 31, 2023 at 9:56 PM
alexbuck.bsky.social
Wondering where it all went wrong and I didn't wind up in the Shadow Wizard Money Gang
August 24, 2023 at 10:27 PM
alexbuck.bsky.social
Not feeling very fly like a G6 lately.
August 21, 2023 at 7:20 PM