This shift enables us to promote critical media literacy that fosters a profound understanding of history, politics, and culture, rather than just discrete skills. It forces us to stop appealing to the moral sensibilities of tech companies whose business models are often aligned with the spread of disinformation and whose political lobbying ensures they remain unregulated. We know that tech companies, like Facebook, have been implicated in electoral interference; yet, we accept their ineffective stopgap measures, such as labeling false information on social media. The solution is not to train users to better survive a broken system, but to reimagine and rebuild it.

@brooklyne.bsky.social makes a compelling case that it's beyond time to focus on corporate accountability, not citizen education, in the fight for a healthier information ecosystem

www.techpolicy.press/its-time-to-...

When I was 17, I opened my first checking account w/a couple hundred bucks. I didn’t meet the min monthly deposit, so they kept charging fees until I owed them money. It stuck with me—I still won’t bank w/BofA.

There’s no upside to this move for anyone who isn’t rich—just cruelty for cruelty’s sake

Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design MSG uses tools like facial recognition on attendees.

That facial recognition system at Madison Square Garden sure has been REALLY great for proving that all the worst predictions and fears us researchers have had about facial recognition were accurate and valid:
www.theverge.com/news/637228/...

For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.

Robert W. McChesney, America’s leading left-wing critic of corporate media, has died After studying the early days of radio, McChesney developed a holistic critique of media structures that exposed how open they were to manipulation by those in power.

"Robert W. McChesney was probably the most prominent academic critic of US media from the left, focused on all the ways our idealized vision of a “free press” was actually hampered by the power of big business, the wealthy, and government" @edwyplenel.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/robe...

Can’t wait!

What is the life hack for getting people to respond to RSVP’s in a timely manner?

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

This will amusingly tell you that you forgot to follow yourself, and also reveal who's blocking you :) But it's super useful as a source of people to follow — and if you select "sort by proportion," it has less seniority bias than starter packs do.

In other news… New Orleans

Spoiler Alert: There is No Soft Life Under Capitalism. A brain dump on the revelation that Nara Smith and her husband are probably Trumpers and the refusal to see influencer escapism as a form of propaganda.

Started a Substack out of sheer rage and frustration that the right has hijacked all the leftist ideals.

Yeah not surprised but certainly ignoring him from here on out

😂😂😂😂

ComEd lured TikTok historian out of safe union job, then fired him. Popular Chicago historian Shermann Dilla Thomas had a six-figure day job at ComEd; then he took the CEO's suggestion and ended up canned.

Sucka s—t

chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

I guess I’m doing BlueSky for real this time

I know I’m old because tonight I got concerned about the welfare of a small child who was out without a jacket

Love love loved the Google Reader era

Participating in my department’s graduation ceremony has been the most joyous thing I’ve done as a professor. All the students excitement, the families… omg the grannies! I spent so much time just walking up to grannies and asking them who they were here for. They were so excited to talk to me