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David Bowman

@dlbowman76.com

Listen to more classical music. For every like, I shall recommend a good recording.

(I'm going to regret this, aren't I?)

April 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM

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Gandalf the Curmudgeon

@420gandalf.bsky.social

For Reals

January 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

everything is Dead Internet now

January 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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Casey Newton

@caseynewton.bsky.social

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

January 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM

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Mia Farrow

@miafarrow.bsky.social

The population of Plains, Georgia is 573. Jimmy Carter knew his neighbors and they turned out to bid him a final farewell. 🇺🇸

January 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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BrooklynDad_Defiant!

@mmpadellan.bsky.social

TAX. THE. CHURCH.

January 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM

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Fionna O’Leary

@fascinatorfun.bsky.social

Goldman Sachs analysts : The money men saying the quiet part out loud

Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.

Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model

www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...