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The American people want change. But that doesn’t mean they want reckless change and breaking things without a plan.
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Sen. Slotkin on the Daily Show: "The American people want change. They don't want reckless change"
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May 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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inmywoodshop.bsky.social
You know what would be great? If we flipped the narrative that the Left isn’t patriotic.

You don’t become enraged about something you don’t care about.

I’m pretty sick of the Right having a language monopoly on “love for America.”
May 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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evystadium.bsky.social
some of the top comments to our story about amazon ending this privacy feature was “okay who cares im just asking alexa for a timer for my muffins” but here’s why it’s not just about ya muffins…
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Mar 27
"Hey Alexa, are you recording this?"

Yes, the answer is yes. Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant."

@couts.bsky.social on why you should care.

Read more: www.wired.com/story/everyt...
March 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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wbm312.bsky.social
This whole thread is why I’ve felt burdened by the tech I use in my daily life and not enabled and excited by it.

Modern tech is hostile to its users.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Feb 11
Newsletter: The tech industry has turned on the consumer, using abusive, manipulative software as a means of extracting wealth from every corner of our lives. Both society and the tech media must fight back, as I believe many of us deeply love our tech.

www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
What We're Fighting For
Soundtrack: Bad Religion — The Resist Stance A great deal of what I write feels like narrating the end of the world — watching as the growth-at-all-costs, hyper-financialized Rot Economy seemingly ta...
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February 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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edzitron.com
The result of most software being outright exploitative is that every single experience is trying to make us do stuff to grow engagement metrics and revenue. It's everywhere, harming and manipulating people in everything from dating to job-seeking.
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quote: It's digital tinnitus. It's the pop-up from a shopping app that you downloaded to make one purchase, or the deceptive notification from Instagram that you have "new views" that doesn't actually lead anywhere. It is the autoplaying video advertisement on your film review website. It is the repeated request for you to log back into a newspaper website that you logged into yesterday because everyone must pay and nothing must get through. It is the hundredth Black Friday sale you got from a company that you swear you unsubscribed from eight times, and perhaps even did, but there's no real way to keep track. It's the third time this year you've had to make a new password because another data breach happened and the company didn't bother to encrypt it. All of these annoying little examples are inherently hostile toward the user, and they're a direct result of a tech industry oriented around growth driven by the pernicious and aggressive poison of growth-focused software. The Rot Economy has changed the incentives of everything you see and do on the computer — the websites you read that inexplicably recommend laptops that are actively_painful to use because of the affiliate revenue they drive to the website (with this intent driven by management rather than the writers themselves), Instagram swapping the location of your notification and message buttons, discounts on stores that require both your email and phone number, social networks that put things in the way of you trying to find the people and things you actually log on to see — all ways in which software is used to extract from, trick you mislead and control you. Note, when I say "control" I don't mean that these companies have the ability to subconsciously manipulate you and your desires, so much as they have spent decades finding new ways to gaslight and bully you into doing things they'd like. Everybody knows that Instagram sucks, and it sucks because there's things that you actually want to do on Instagram that Meta has hidden behind hundreds of little user interface changes optimized to increase your time on the app and thus the amount of money you make them.
February 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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wbm312.bsky.social
Interesting almost all the state-wide banned books are written by women authors.
January 22, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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sheril.bsky.social
That time in 2009 when Donald Trump took out a full-page NYT ad with other business leaders calling on President Obama for aggressive climate action:

“If we fail to act now, it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic & irreversible consequences for humanity & our planet.”
January 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM