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"No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” ― Edward R. Murrow
January 4, 2026 at 8:11 PM
"No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” ― Edward R. Murrow
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Tech bros really can't understand why we're hostile to technology that a) is frequently confidently wrong and b) threatens to ruin our already terrible lives
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Tech bros really can't understand why we're hostile to technology that a) is frequently confidently wrong and b) threatens to ruin our already terrible lives
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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bluesky got me hooked by showing me posts by people I like and follow on purpose
October 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
bluesky got me hooked by showing me posts by people I like and follow on purpose
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Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.
September 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.
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“Life is short. And there are much more pressing–and actually interesting–questions than ‘Are you less human than me?’”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
May 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“Life is short. And there are much more pressing–and actually interesting–questions than ‘Are you less human than me?’”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Personally if I ran a social media website where people had hundreds of "friends" and found a study that showed people actually only have 3 friends, I would consider myself a colossal failure and keep that to myself
I read a fascinating statistic that Americans have less than 3 friends so I wanted to improve that using my website that connects people all over the globe. We're gonna add robots.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Personally if I ran a social media website where people had hundreds of "friends" and found a study that showed people actually only have 3 friends, I would consider myself a colossal failure and keep that to myself
I read a fascinating statistic that Americans have less than 3 friends so I wanted to improve that using my website that connects people all over the globe. We're gonna add robots.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I read a fascinating statistic that Americans have less than 3 friends so I wanted to improve that using my website that connects people all over the globe. We're gonna add robots.
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Unsurprising considering our entire administration and their Silicon Valley sugar daddies are friendless.
Every relationship in these people's lives are transactional.
And it's much easier to Manosphere brainwash people when you keep them away from actual friends.
Every relationship in these people's lives are transactional.
And it's much easier to Manosphere brainwash people when you keep them away from actual friends.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Unsurprising considering our entire administration and their Silicon Valley sugar daddies are friendless.
Every relationship in these people's lives are transactional.
And it's much easier to Manosphere brainwash people when you keep them away from actual friends.
Every relationship in these people's lives are transactional.
And it's much easier to Manosphere brainwash people when you keep them away from actual friends.
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In the 90s, I genuinely thought the Internet would cure loneliness. But it turns out that for me anyway the Internet addresses loneliness the way alcohol addresses anxiety.
April 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
In the 90s, I genuinely thought the Internet would cure loneliness. But it turns out that for me anyway the Internet addresses loneliness the way alcohol addresses anxiety.
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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There is an entire political movement that believes the statement “if you work full-time in America, you should be able to pay your bills and have a savings account with your paycheck” is radical.
We must come to an agreement that it’s not radical to demand that.
We must come to an agreement that it’s not radical to demand that.
April 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
There is an entire political movement that believes the statement “if you work full-time in America, you should be able to pay your bills and have a savings account with your paycheck” is radical.
We must come to an agreement that it’s not radical to demand that.
We must come to an agreement that it’s not radical to demand that.
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Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.
April 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.
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My secular partner is about to learn what 'culturally Catholic' means real hard. Aw. What a legend
April 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
My secular partner is about to learn what 'culturally Catholic' means real hard. Aw. What a legend
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This is why I still think that the internet, not the issues, are the root cause of this culture war. People (including journalists…who are people) imagine the loudest, angriest positions as default positions because those are the ones that get eyeballs in an ultra-competitive attention economy.
“Supporters of inclusion view those who hesitate or have questions as bigots.” that’s not fucking true. we keep explaining how transition and athletics works BECAUSE we believe people who don’t know will mostly come around once they do know! if we thought they were all bigots we wouldn’t try!!
NYT actually published this sentence, which asks us to take baseless moral panic bullshit seriously as a reasonable position.
Supporters of the Holocaust considered Jews to be subhuman saboteurs of German society, too. So fucking what??
Supporters of the Holocaust considered Jews to be subhuman saboteurs of German society, too. So fucking what??
April 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is why I still think that the internet, not the issues, are the root cause of this culture war. People (including journalists…who are people) imagine the loudest, angriest positions as default positions because those are the ones that get eyeballs in an ultra-competitive attention economy.
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The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships.
The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”
The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”
April 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships.
The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”
The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”
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This has been my personal philosophy going on nigh 25 years now.
There is one, and only one, reason to have children.
You want children.
And if you want to be a parent, there should be many ways open to you so that you can become a parent.
There is one, and only one, reason to have children.
You want children.
And if you want to be a parent, there should be many ways open to you so that you can become a parent.
the only people who should have kids are the people who want to have kids and people who want to have kids should be able to have kids next question i am so tired of this disk horse
April 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This has been my personal philosophy going on nigh 25 years now.
There is one, and only one, reason to have children.
You want children.
And if you want to be a parent, there should be many ways open to you so that you can become a parent.
There is one, and only one, reason to have children.
You want children.
And if you want to be a parent, there should be many ways open to you so that you can become a parent.
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Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
April 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
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The best part about visiting the US - which I'm no longer doing - is visiting museums and parks. It will take decades (or more) for the US to recover from this massacre.
April 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The best part about visiting the US - which I'm no longer doing - is visiting museums and parks. It will take decades (or more) for the US to recover from this massacre.
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My question is why we aren’t all just not shopping at any of these - target, Amazon, etc for the rest of forever. I do not miss any of them. I love the “small” folks I’ve found to replace them. Discomfort is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. I won’t be back.
March 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My question is why we aren’t all just not shopping at any of these - target, Amazon, etc for the rest of forever. I do not miss any of them. I love the “small” folks I’ve found to replace them. Discomfort is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. I won’t be back.
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One cool thing about the United States is that there are more people whose job is to deny healthcare coverage without having any medical background than there are people to provide healthcare coverage and they’ve somehow convinced people that the doctors are where the monetary waste is happening
#medsky if an insurer is making a “determination if something is medically necessary”, how is it not a medical decision and therefore practicing medicine?
March 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
One cool thing about the United States is that there are more people whose job is to deny healthcare coverage without having any medical background than there are people to provide healthcare coverage and they’ve somehow convinced people that the doctors are where the monetary waste is happening
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So, I guess Taylor Swift really was propping up the US economy?
March 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
So, I guess Taylor Swift really was propping up the US economy?