Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Turn Meta [Back] into a Pogrom Machine - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/30/mark-zuckerberg-agrees-to-turn-meta-back-into-a-pogrom-machine/
Mark Zuckerberg's $25 million agreement to lose to Trump in a lawsuit over Facebook's efforts to halt Trump's ongoing insurrection in 2021 is more than a bribe.
It's also a soft commitment that the next time Trump uses Meta to incite violence, Meta won't stop him
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WDJT-TV fired its meteorologist Sam Kuffel for having the audacity to call Musk's Nazi salute a Nazi salute
Never seen a newsroom where the meteorologist is the only one with the spirit of a journalist.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/22/cbs-58s-sam-kuffel-is-out-after-criticizing-elon-musk-arm-gesture/77883983007/
The "news" site is here: https://www.cbs58.com/
And it has a tip line
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Ordered some stuff from a trusted forum link that seemed like a great deal. Site on Shopify
The post got shut down later and comments stopped over fraud concerns.
But the order is apparently in transit
Will find out Thursday if I fell for a scam or not
Expecting a bag o trash to be delivered
Oddly this is a nice diversion
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11 years ago Klint Finley laid out how neo-reactionary thought was taking hold in Silicon Valley
"many professionals, rather than admit to their role in gentrification, wealth disparity and job displacement, are casting themselves as victims. "
It remains an an amazing primer
Better than that horseshit NYT interview of "intellectual" Curtis Yarvin
https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/
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Seems odd to me that BGR of all things is the only media outlet to clock that the longest and biggest cheerleader of a TikTok ban is Brendan Carr, the MAGAist FCC commissioner who Trump chose to be FCC chair
https://bgr.com/business/tiktoks-wild-ride-how-the-hottest-social-media-app-found-itself-on-the-brink-of-a-us-ban/
Carr went on a whole-ass press tour in Nov, again talking about shutting TikTok down. It's his crusade.
I don't know why every telecom/tech policy reporter isn't hounding Carr to get the inevitable and embarrassing ass-kissing retreat on record
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Bay Area folks: If you want to donate to help L.A. fire victims, there's an awesome coalition of Bay Area groups collecting donations and driving them to L.A.
Donate stuff : http://bit.ly/bay-2-la
Volunteer: http://bit.ly/bay2la-volunteers
And the quiet heroes behind much of this are CHC, a clean air mutual aid collective that punches SO FAR above its weight without media attention: https://chuffed.org/project/common-humanity-collective-fundraising-2024
You want $ to go to substance, not flash, this is a great choice
[#]BayArea #Oakland #sanfran
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The FCC is ordering big ISPs to secure their networks and says it can do that because ISPs are telecoms
I think the ISPs should sue, challenging the FCC's authority.
A federal court striking down net neutrality, just ruled that ISPs aren't telecoms and that's the best reading of the statute
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fcc-orders-telecoms-to-secure-their-networks-after-salt-tyhpoon-hacks/
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$30M to do some weird anti-enshitifacation fork on Bluesky?
BlueSky's first and only VC round was a $12m investment
For $30M you can BUY a controlling stake in Bluesky
This is Silicon Valley finance 101
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Jill Biden is speaking at a JP Morgan/United Healthcare conference in San Francisco
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/protesters-rally-during-san-francisco-healthcare-conference/
And Dems wondering why they lose elections
JFC, read the room
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All that hue and cry over a BlueSky fund.
At $30m you could be the majority investor (or buy out the current crypto crew investors). You could make it a user-owned co-op or force an exit to community.
$30M to make a fork as a cudgel vs bad behavior seems under-theorized.
If you can't decentralize the tech, decentralize the ownership and get rid of VC incentives
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10 years ago, a person brilliantly robbed a bank dressed as Santa during SantaCon in San Francisco
He hasn't been caught
A local news station did a followup this week:
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/10-years-later-where-is-the-san-francisco-santacon-bank-bandit/
But it neglected to mention the statute of limitations for bank robbery is 10 years.
Santa is free, bb!
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Living in the Ministry for the Future timeline but for healthcare
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Officer Obie wasn't wrong #thanksgiving
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When I first clicked NYT story about Trump picking let-COVID-rip Jay Bhattacharya to head NIH, I got this error.
He advocated widespread infections to create herd immunity (lol on the idea one COVID infection prevents another)
This asshole said at worst 40k Americans would die. 1.2M+ died so far. COVID kills and incapacitates thousands of Americans monthly.
But as w/ fracking, Dems can't dispute this choice since Biden's CDC embraced the idea COVID is over and everything is just fine.
Oops
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404 on why the work matters:
“[W]e cannot set the bar for our success at the systemic saving of democracy. Instead, we have found that our work can and does make incremental positive change at the local, state, and federal level, and that, over time, these small improvements become increasingly important.”
https://www.404media.co/why-the-work-still-matters-under-trump/
Support indie media. Preferably those not using tech that platforms Nazis and makes oligarchs richer.
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Feeling a bit paralyzed?
Buying yourself some fingerless gloves is one place to start
https://www.ryansingel.net/dress-your-hands-for-the-end-times-or-the-best-fingerless-gloves-for-most-people-end-time-aristocrats-and-serious-survivors/
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Getting the blog back together
You live in the end times. Accept it. Start acting like it. Start dressing your hands for it.
AKA Dress your hands for the end times, or the best fingerless gloves for most people, end-time aristocrats, and serious survivors
https://www.ryansingel.net/dress-your-hands-for-the-end-times-or-the-best-fingerless-gloves-for-most-people-end-time-aristocrats-and-serious-survivors/
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Turns out my smart home automations fail the time change test
I mean time zones are hard but they aren't that hard
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Election palate cleanser: I love it when Scout's inner wolf comes out. Only caught the last bit on camera tho #pupparade #dogsofmastodon
Volume up for full effect
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Yet more #Substack walled garden fuckery
I got an offer from Substack saying I'd get $7 - which was a month free subscription to a publication I'm signed up to.
The catch? You can only redeem the offer by downloading Substack's app. There's, of course, no technical reason a free month has to happen in the app, it's just that Substack is now building itself up at the expense of publications on Substack.
Substack pubishers are now just lead gen machines for Substack
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