This is high art

It takes an exile from Putin’s Russia, writing about the theories of an exile from Orban’s Hungary, to cut through the noise about Trump’s America, from which we have nowhere left to run. Gift link to M. Gessen in NYT: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

Journalism is really thriving under the business model of “private capital takes over, the new bosses pay themselves whatever money is on hand, and then they announce oh jeez this place is broke we gotta shut it down“

I went to the other place & brought this back for u 😘

The morning paper, January 5, 2024:

here it is. i really enjoyed writing this and i hope you enjoy reading it!
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If you run into someone who thinks slavery wasn't the cause of the Civil War, here are secession declarations of Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia. All cite slavery in the 1st or 2nd sentence.

It's really amazing how quickly all the search engines have been poisoned by AI-generated garbage "articles." Is there any engine that has a reliable filter?

In other news, I hate greedy, stupid tech-bros so very much.