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Hamilton Nolan: "It is impossible not to marvel at the utter moral depravity of two highly credentialed and educated professionals desperately debasing themselves in order to compete for the David Duke vote. A total absence of any standards that might prevent them from doing any grotesque act that might gain them an advantage in their horrifying careers. A case study in how not to live."

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/unions-or-david-duke?publication_id=1536173&post_id=193346524&isFreemail=false&r=kte6&triedRedirect=true

Unions, or David Duke?

Two basic paths for American politics.

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gregg r 1d ago

Cory Doctorow 1d ago

What industry calls "personalized pricing" is really *surveillance* pricing: using digital tools' flexibility to change the price for each user, and using surveillance data to guess the worst price you'll accept:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/#veena-dubal

gregg r 1d ago

A.R. Moxon 1d ago

Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem. Republicans are a Nazi problem.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6a2sk5sg5rk634qz6hjgmezc/post/3mioqrkzbws2o

gregg r 1d ago

Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️1d ago

Astronaut Victor Glover’s Easter interview from Artemis II: “You have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist in together. I think as we go into Easter Sunday thinking about all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not, this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing. And that we've got to get through this together.”

gregg r 1d ago

A calm morning on Lake Sammamish, WA

#photography #SilentSunday

gregg r 2d ago

Have I missed anything?

gregg r 3d ago

Cory Doctorow 3d ago

Crises precipitate change. That's no reason to induce a crisis, but you'd be a fool to let a crisis go to waste. Donald Trump is the greatest crisis of our young century, and the EU looks set to squander the opportunity, to its own terrible detriment.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/04/digital-subjugation/#greenlands-next

gregg r 3d ago

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gregg r 4d ago

Catherynne M. Valente 6d ago

From my new piece concerning the Anthropic settlement:

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-money-the-anthropic-settlement

gregg r 5d ago

Cory Doctorow 5d ago

Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586778

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/02/limited-monopoly/#petardism