Jen G
@jenga9701.bsky.social
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You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.
May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.
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This my friends is called engagement farming, and you're going to be seeing a lot of it. The best ways to clock it:
1. Posts about something that's already widely reported
2. Aims to leverage despair, rage and/or anxiety for an emotional response
3. Offers no actual insights or analysis
Look out!
1. Posts about something that's already widely reported
2. Aims to leverage despair, rage and/or anxiety for an emotional response
3. Offers no actual insights or analysis
Look out!
January 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This my friends is called engagement farming, and you're going to be seeing a lot of it. The best ways to clock it:
1. Posts about something that's already widely reported
2. Aims to leverage despair, rage and/or anxiety for an emotional response
3. Offers no actual insights or analysis
Look out!
1. Posts about something that's already widely reported
2. Aims to leverage despair, rage and/or anxiety for an emotional response
3. Offers no actual insights or analysis
Look out!
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Top-notch photography is often about choosing the right angle and perspective.
this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer
January 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Top-notch photography is often about choosing the right angle and perspective.
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The rhetorical move here provides a template for responding to Trumpian nonsense in the years to come:
"Trump's a corrupt fascist, & the way fascism works is by feeding you bullshit to distract you from its crimes, failures, & corruption. This [latest Trump 'controversy'] is that sort of bullshit"
"Trump's a corrupt fascist, & the way fascism works is by feeding you bullshit to distract you from its crimes, failures, & corruption. This [latest Trump 'controversy'] is that sort of bullshit"
Braedon: I come from a nation that believed in fascist ideology for a while. And we don’t want to go to that again. We are close to it because people want to simplify complex problems. The essence of fascism is to simplify complex problems and feed people who don't have time to read some bullshit.
January 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The rhetorical move here provides a template for responding to Trumpian nonsense in the years to come:
"Trump's a corrupt fascist, & the way fascism works is by feeding you bullshit to distract you from its crimes, failures, & corruption. This [latest Trump 'controversy'] is that sort of bullshit"
"Trump's a corrupt fascist, & the way fascism works is by feeding you bullshit to distract you from its crimes, failures, & corruption. This [latest Trump 'controversy'] is that sort of bullshit"
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Valuable reasoning here. Worth adding: when Musk and Trump make government fail, they will then try to blame and punish chosen enemies.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Dismantling the Systems That Keep Us Safe. All Americans Will Suffer.
Eviscerating modern state institutions almost always clears a path for a different political order, built on loyalties and connections to the ruler.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Valuable reasoning here. Worth adding: when Musk and Trump make government fail, they will then try to blame and punish chosen enemies.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...
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Such a good post today from @simonwdc.bsky.social. It is worth your time to watch the video from last night's subscriber briefing as well. If you are going to read one newsletter, this should be the one.
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/raising-ou...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/raising-ou...
Raising Our Game, Building The Next Thing, Going 24/7/365 - A New Video And Post On The Path Forward
New Notes On "What Happened And What Comes Next"
www.hopiumchronicles.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Such a good post today from @simonwdc.bsky.social. It is worth your time to watch the video from last night's subscriber briefing as well. If you are going to read one newsletter, this should be the one.
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/raising-ou...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/raising-ou...
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Meta will also now allow users to refer to “transgender or non-binary people as ‘it,’” as well as allowing “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation.”
Meta quietly updated its hateful conduct policy to allow users to refer to "women as household objects or property" among other offensive language.
Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines | CNN Business
Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updat...
www.cnn.com
January 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Meta will also now allow users to refer to “transgender or non-binary people as ‘it,’” as well as allowing “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation.”
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1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
10 corporations that kept their promises after January 6, 2021
After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their po...
popular.info
January 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
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The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, says Russia has learned how to influence elections through new technologies.
Russia has learned how to influence elections, EU’s top diplomat warns
Kaja Kallas says today’s methods for evaluating the fairness of elections are outdated.
www.politico.eu
December 10, 2024 at 10:38 PM
The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, says Russia has learned how to influence elections through new technologies.
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Here's my best effort to work out why Bluesky blew up over the weekend. Much more than Threads, it's a network that knows what it's *for* www.platformer.news/bluesky-post...
November 19, 2024 at 1:15 AM
Here's my best effort to work out why Bluesky blew up over the weekend. Much more than Threads, it's a network that knows what it's *for* www.platformer.news/bluesky-post...
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"While it's an independent agency overseen by Congress, Trump has made clear he would like to bring [FCC] under tighter White House control and use it to punish TV networks that have fact-checked him or otherwise covered him in a way that sparks his ire."
www.npr.org
November 18, 2024 at 1:10 AM
"While it's an independent agency overseen by Congress, Trump has made clear he would like to bring [FCC] under tighter White House control and use it to punish TV networks that have fact-checked him or otherwise covered him in a way that sparks his ire."