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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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The Antitrust Case Against Airbnb www.thesling.org/the-antitrus...
Airbnb inflicts tremendous costs on society. The short-term rental platform keeps rents artificially high by converting capacity for long-term (e.g., monthly or annual) rentals into short-term (e.g., daily) rentals.
Airbnb inflicts tremendous costs on society. The short-term rental platform keeps rents artificially high by converting capacity for long-term (e.g., monthly or annual) rentals into short-term (e.g., daily) rentals.
The Antitrust Case Against Airbnb - The Sling
Airbnb isn’t just facilitating a data exchange; it is incentivizing or coercing homesharers on its platform to participate in a common pricing scheme. A coercion-based approach to enforcement should o...
www.thesling.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The Antitrust Case Against Airbnb www.thesling.org/the-antitrus...
Airbnb inflicts tremendous costs on society. The short-term rental platform keeps rents artificially high by converting capacity for long-term (e.g., monthly or annual) rentals into short-term (e.g., daily) rentals.
Airbnb inflicts tremendous costs on society. The short-term rental platform keeps rents artificially high by converting capacity for long-term (e.g., monthly or annual) rentals into short-term (e.g., daily) rentals.
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
archive.ph/QuejC
Good quote at the end from big Z
“What I’ve seen in my work is, it’s not tenant versus homeowner.” The affordability crisis is, rather, “tenant and homeowner versus financial speculator and investment bank portfolio”
Good quote at the end from big Z
“What I’ve seen in my work is, it’s not tenant versus homeowner.” The affordability crisis is, rather, “tenant and homeowner versus financial speculator and investment bank portfolio”
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
archive.ph/QuejC
Good quote at the end from big Z
“What I’ve seen in my work is, it’s not tenant versus homeowner.” The affordability crisis is, rather, “tenant and homeowner versus financial speculator and investment bank portfolio”
Good quote at the end from big Z
“What I’ve seen in my work is, it’s not tenant versus homeowner.” The affordability crisis is, rather, “tenant and homeowner versus financial speculator and investment bank portfolio”
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The Palestinian groups’ YouTube channels hosted hours of footage documenting and highlighting alleged Israeli government violations of international law in both Gaza and the West Bank. interc.pt/4oUJNer
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Palestinian groups’ YouTube channels hosted hours of footage documenting and highlighting alleged Israeli government violations of international law in both Gaza and the West Bank. interc.pt/4oUJNer
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wrote about the return of the Glasshole and luxury surveillance in the age of fascism for @theverge.com
ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫
ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫
Privacy laws can’t keep up with ‘luxury surveillance’
“It’s not clear to me that a small red light would be sufficient notification in some states for someone to consent to being recorded.”
www.theverge.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
wrote about the return of the Glasshole and luxury surveillance in the age of fascism for @theverge.com
ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫
ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫
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If you're going to write headlines like this, why even have newspapers?
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
October 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
If you're going to write headlines like this, why even have newspapers?
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Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.
A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.
Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.
A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.
Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.
October 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.
A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.
Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.
A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.
Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.
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bring on the wider turn against US tech and social media
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
bring on the wider turn against US tech and social media
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The District is not going to make serious progress on environmental justice or health justice without directly confronting air pollution from cars. And relying on EV transitions alone is not going to do the trick.
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The District is not going to make serious progress on environmental justice or health justice without directly confronting air pollution from cars. And relying on EV transitions alone is not going to do the trick.
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As I understand it, one of the points of allowing the government to place reasonable limits on free expression is precisely because we recognize hate speech limits the free expression of the groups targeted by it.
September 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
As I understand it, one of the points of allowing the government to place reasonable limits on free expression is precisely because we recognize hate speech limits the free expression of the groups targeted by it.
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They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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Five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza were civilians as of May, according to Israel's own military intelligence.
"In Gaza we are talking about a campaign of targeted assassinations, really, rather than battles, and they are carried out with no concern for civilians.”
"In Gaza we are talking about a campaign of targeted assassinations, really, rather than battles, and they are carried out with no concern for civilians.”
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza were civilians as of May, according to Israel's own military intelligence.
"In Gaza we are talking about a campaign of targeted assassinations, really, rather than battles, and they are carried out with no concern for civilians.”
"In Gaza we are talking about a campaign of targeted assassinations, really, rather than battles, and they are carried out with no concern for civilians.”
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Trying to think of other revolutionary products that consumers repeatedly had to be tricked into paying for rather than ones that consumers loved and demanded
Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
July 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Trying to think of other revolutionary products that consumers repeatedly had to be tricked into paying for rather than ones that consumers loved and demanded
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The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.
June 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.
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the author of this piece once mocked something i wrote because i began a sentence with “and”
This may be the worst writing to appear in a national publication since the 1890s
July 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
the author of this piece once mocked something i wrote because i began a sentence with “and”
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When the AI bubble pops people will try and do the “how could we have known?” And the answer is “if you thought about the economics of generative AI or actually talked to people using it.” Everything I report is public. I am a dumbass. I have listened to the same metal song 8 times in a row tonight.
July 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
When the AI bubble pops people will try and do the “how could we have known?” And the answer is “if you thought about the economics of generative AI or actually talked to people using it.” Everything I report is public. I am a dumbass. I have listened to the same metal song 8 times in a row tonight.
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the thing about layoffs of this scale is that so much is happening it involves days and days of discovering fresh horrors
July 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
the thing about layoffs of this scale is that so much is happening it involves days and days of discovering fresh horrors
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This is effectively the only data this article uses to make this claim - statements by tech companies
July 6, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This is effectively the only data this article uses to make this claim - statements by tech companies
from @climatebrad.hillheat.com
> The simple tell of whether a forward-looking political framework is a grift is whether it grapples honestly with climate change or not. On that, effective abundance fails utterly. prospect.org/culture/book...
> The simple tell of whether a forward-looking political framework is a grift is whether it grapples honestly with climate change or not. On that, effective abundance fails utterly. prospect.org/culture/book...
An Abundance of Credulity
They want abundance. But they ignore who profits most from scarcity.
link.mail.beehiiv.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
from @climatebrad.hillheat.com
> The simple tell of whether a forward-looking political framework is a grift is whether it grapples honestly with climate change or not. On that, effective abundance fails utterly. prospect.org/culture/book...
> The simple tell of whether a forward-looking political framework is a grift is whether it grapples honestly with climate change or not. On that, effective abundance fails utterly. prospect.org/culture/book...
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I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.
June 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.
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at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans
June 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans