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hrenderMar 4, 2023
ImpoliticsMar 3, 2023

Ron DeSantis has announced his appointees to a new board overseeing Disney World:

Cruella de Vil
Scar
The Evil Queen from Snow White
Scrooge McDuck

DeSantis praised Mr. McDuck for "a proven record of reigning in expenses," while Miss de Vil was cited for her work with animals.

hrenderFeb 11, 2023
ryan cooperFeb 10, 2023
"American conservative politics is ... about creating a list of enemies, and fantasizing about all the things that might justifiably be done to them, and building the necessary fortifications; about turning on the TV and never turning it off." https://defector.com/the-man-who-invented-himself
The Man Who Invented Himself | Defector

George Santos stands out as a liar and a crook even by the standards of a broken political moment. And yet he seems to be right where he belongs.

hrenderFeb 11, 2023
Show threadryan cooperFeb 10, 2023
man he's good
hrenderFeb 11, 2023
ryan cooperFeb 10, 2023
manufacturing employment is at its highest level since late 2008 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP
All Employees, Manufacturing

Graph and download economic data for All Employees, Manufacturing (MANEMP) from Jan 1939 to Jan 2023 about headline figure, establishment survey, employment, manufacturing, and USA.

hrenderFeb 3, 2023
William VambenepeFeb 3, 2023
Like @mmasnick wrote (https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/03/elon-musk-is-running-scared-from-mastodon-cuts-off-the-best-tool-for-finding-your-twitter-followers-there/) Movetodon seems gone but Debirdify (https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/) still works. I just added another batch of 46 people I used to follow on Twitter who seem to have recently joined Mastodon (welcome!). With the free API going away, this is likely to be my last batch of automated import.
Elon Musk Is Running Scared From Mastodon; Cuts Off The Best Tool For Finding Your Twitter Followers There

People keep claiming that Mastodon isn’t scaring Elon Musk, but it’s pretty clear that he’s worried about the exodus of people from Twitter. With his bizarrely short-sighted decis…

Techdirt
hrenderJan 24, 2023
Mike Masnick ✅Jan 24, 2023

Following on @pluralistic's brilliant article about the "enshittification" process of companies, I added in something that I thought was missing from Cory's analysis: the role of "The Friedman Doctrine" that the only thing companies should work for are maximizing profits for shareholders... and highlighting how that leaves out not just other stakeholders, but the important variable of "over what time frame."

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/24/how-the-friedman-doctrine-leads-to-the-enshittification-of-all-things/

How The Friedman Doctrine Leads To The Enshittification Of All Things

We recently wrote about Cory Doctorow’s great article on how the “enshittification” of social media (mainly Facebook and Twitter) was helping to lower the “switching costs&#…

Techdirt
hrenderJan 24, 2023
BalticonJan 24, 2023

John @scalzi, novelist & internet personality, is the 2023 winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award.

This award is bestowed for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space. It will be presented at #Balticon2023

hrenderJan 20, 2023
Jacob T. LevyJan 19, 2023

RIP Jonathan Raban.

I really loved _Coasting_.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/18/jonathan-raban-travel-writer-and-novelist-dies-aged-80

Jonathan Raban, travel writer and novelist, dies aged 80

The British author, who lived in the US, blended memoir and travelogue in books that were often inspired by the sea

The Guardian
hrenderJan 17, 2023
emptywheelJan 17, 2023

This, from the long, must-read Verge article on the Birdsite, may explain why Twitter Files went so hard after Yoel Roth: He warned them that Elmo's Blue Check would lead to fakes like the Eli Lilly prank.

So Roth will spend the next year fighting off the House Oversight Committee (now stashed with insurrectionists) rather than talking to Eli Lilly's lawyers.

https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji

Extremely Hardcore

Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the social media site against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use the reach of its platform for their own ends, and then one made himself the CEO.

The Verge
hrenderJan 17, 2023
Casey NewtonJan 17, 2023
On the cover of New York magazine this week: the Goons' first 90 days running Twitter. By @zoeschiffer, me and @alexeheath https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji
Extremely Hardcore

Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the social media site against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use the reach of its platform for their own ends, and then one made himself the CEO.

The Verge