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Mark Andersson
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Retired bookbinder living outside Tucson. Reads, walks the dogs, tries not to overreact to things outside my control. Somewhat successfully. Seattle sports fan.
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It's funny to me that the only thing Elon Musk hasn't been able to copy from the German Nazis is making reliable cars.
February 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Also essential are Victor Klemperer’s diaries. Every one on the planet should read them.
rachelbitecofer.bsky.social Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · Jan 20
After Trump tried to illegally stay in power in 2020 I started studying WWII and the Third Reich aggressively.

Here is my reading list, most of which was done via audible because I'm old and going blindish.

189 titles + 👇

(I hope you'll tune in for This is America tomorrow) tinyurl.com/u3b79b4y
January 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Researching and reporting my story about how truly horrible Facebook has become genuinely rattled me, and changed how I looked at the internet permanently. It's important to understand how messed up they are.

www.wheresyoured.at/killingfaceb...
Yet Zuckerberg could not perpetuate these disgusting acts without the help of people like Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz, who saw to it that Meta shut down CrowdTangle, a public insights tool from Meta that allowed researchers to easily analyze what was happening on Facebook. Horwitz reports in Broken Code that Facebook — led by Alex Schultz — killed CrowdTangle because reporter Kevin Roose kept posting a list of Facebook’s most-engaged-with content, and that Facebook was dominated with right wing lunacy and misinformation like “Plandemic,” a COVID conspiracy film that Joel Kaplan, head of Meta’s public policy team, initially blocked the health team from removing until Roose reported that it was Facebook’s number one post. Just to be abundantly clear, the Head of Public Policy at Facebook deliberately allowed the spread of COVID conspiracies, and would have continued to do so if a reporter hadn’t used a Facebook tool to show how popular they were, which resulted in Facebook choosing to kill the tool that allowed the reporter to find out.
November 28, 2024 at 1:44 AM