We now need accountability frameworks for the equity stake chosen in private, the research priority set by fiat, the visa rule implemented without consultation.
Seeing clearly is where that work begins.
REMINDER that @annaleen.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social and yours truly are going to be together doing events for WE WILL RISE AGAIN next month in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Frankfurt. I am so looking forward to it!!!
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Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post โ including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East โ based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
Absorb this. A piece of unregulated gambling tech credibly alleged to enable money laundering and insider trading is monetizing war and reducing the value of human lives to a bet.
Hard to expect governments that have merged with big business to investigate. So others must step up.
Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense
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Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes โI love struggling, it makes me feel aliveโ is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
"Natalia Bonannoโs family owns 200 apartment units"
Hey @nytimes.com, not every grifter needs a glow up profile.
๐จ๐ฆPM Carney: "Diversification internationally is not just economic prudence; itโs a material foundation for honest foreign policy, because countries earn the right to principled stands by reducing their vulnerability to retaliation." (๐งต5/6)
this became very clear to me in the interview I did for this piece. Nat Raymond, who designed satellite observation to predict atrocities, concluded "โdocumentation is no substitute for political will.โ" The satellite system predicted accurately; the international community failed to act on it.
Breaking News The E.P.A. will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like โtoo on the nose, dial it backโ
Kambria Dumesnil delivered food to see how algorithms really run gig work and found hidden rules, stress, and a constant risk of deactivation. With state rules still lagging behind, gig workers need transparency, fair pay, and real oversight, she argues.
* contorted
What's shocking here is not the rank impunity of tech companies basking in the glow of total deregulation.
What's shocking is how quickly the Overton window has shifted toward a cynical dystopia in which every moment of reality can be exploited and controted via utterly compromised gambling dens.
So many rhetorical contortions from the head of the Kennedy Center in this @pbsnews.org interview, but my least favorite part is when he ignores @amnanawaz.bsky.social's question, tries to "educate" her on the arts, and pretends corporate donations are all about sincere support for the arts.
My wife and I went out to lunch today.
My wife: "What is the quality that makes you want to be friends with someone, TK?"
Me: "Kindness. It's always been kindness. If I see someone acting kind to others, I want to be friends with them."
Eliciting transparency is not the golden key to the land of total accountability. But it sure makes it easier to track erosion of existing progress and efforts to *conceal* information.
Any one of these reports could become the soil that channels new life into a movement.
Merriam-Websterโs human editors have chosen โslopโ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
still mad about this. The workers in the original photo were almost invisible as skyscrapers transformed cities; the photo foregrounded them while showing the scale of that change through their experience, so much more direct than standing at the window of a completed one. Meanwhile, *gestures dispa
Can we still call it a "fall from grace" if the starting altitude is zero?
Three jeers for the Party of States' Rights! ๐
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imagine investing in public media and ensuring that media literacy (and spotting unreliable narrators) was integral in primary school education
Finding collective ways to stay true to our values, to speak up for people with less privilege, to maintain and sharpen our vigilance -- finding ways *not to submit* -- that is the challenge we have to meet right now.
Extraordinary times. There's endless pressure to submit and retreat -- from standing by human rights, from pushing for accountability, from keeping a semblance of civility in online spaces. The dwindling funding for this work is dwarfed by concentrated power and its downright comical valuations.
Quite a thing to emerge from an end-of-week writing spree and learn about:
1. new policies targeting people in my community as enemies of the state,
2. another colossal corporate mashup further consolidating the tech and media landscape,
3. the Cocomelon Peace Prize.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
