Support to undo Brexit hits new heights

Some seven years after the UK voted to leave the European Union, #Brexit is now largely seen as a failure. An increase in red-tape and logistical issues as a result of divorcing from the trading bloc have contributed to a downturn in our economic performance.

Those who promised us ‘sunlit uplands’ have suddenly gone very quiet

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/brexit-opinion-poll-will-uk-rejoin-eu-when-is-march-to-rejoin-354483/

via @scalzi:

“Twitter was a place, with people…Musk took a city with thriving neighborhoods and decided to run a fucking interstate through the most interesting parts of it, and the interstate doesn’t actually go anywhere good; it just runs from Bitcoin Town to Fascistburg”

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

One of Big Journalism's saddest traits is choosing to be helpless in the face of challenges with ready solutions. Two examples:

1) Political coverage still obsesses on falsely balanced issues and horse races, and continues to normalize extremism, even when our democracy is at stake.

2) Journalists stay on Twitter, or X or whatever, even though the person controlling it uses the site to amplify extremists, including enemies of democracy (and journalism).

The (few) exceptions prove the rule.

Hard at work.

My @smh @theage cartoon.

"I decided not to follow anyone. And so, for the last couple days, I have only been seeing the raw machinery of Threads. Its algorithm is just blasting me with random posts and, every so often, it tries to show me more of a particular user I click on or spend too long reading in the feed.

"My verdict: Threads sucks shit. It has no purpose. It is for no one. It launched as a content graveyard and will assuredly only become more of one over time."

https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-algorithmic-anti-culture-of-scale