After processing some shock/anxiety around the current state of….things, I’ve started writing again, over on Substack. I’ll be posting regular posts there under “Dispatches from Insanitus.” Here’s the latest post, if you’re interested. Free to subscribe.
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
Democracies stand with Ukraine.
It's the Musk Effect. Someone who sounds like a genius until he starts talking about something you're knowledgeable about, and you realize he's saying the dumbest shit ever.
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
Please read this thread.
Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
Hello fellow folks trying out Bluesky and other platforms so we can get off Meta! So is Feeds basically the equivalent of Groups on FB? I have some Groups whose community I deeply value and trying to figure out where to find that vibe/migrate groups to.
Dave wrote Facebook’s first content moderation rules and is the least hysterical person I know. If he says Meta’s changes are politically designed to accommodate Trump, believe him. 👇🏻
And here we are.