I want better đşđ¸ policy debate; stronger political center. Interests: economy - esp anti-monopoly, healthcare, pro-democracy - đŚ curious. Really appreciate meditation đ§đťââď¸, health, beauty, good đ˝ & đˇ.
I HAVE A DREAM: of healthier iSpaces. Mastodon is part of manifesting that dream. May the citizens of the đşđ¸ rise up and disrupt enshittification.
More about healthy iSpaces - BBC's Rethink: Is the internet getting worse? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022z9r
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March Job Gains Mask a Volatile Labor Market as Iran War Chaos Mounts:
Always a good update on jobs report 𧾠from https://www.epi.org 's
@elisegould.bsky.social :
Today's jobs report came in stronger than expected with an increase of 178,000 to payroll employment. However, much of the gain was a bounce back to February declines (now a loss of 133,000 jobs). As a result, average monthly growth the last two months was only 22,500 jobs.
https://bsky.app/profile/elisegould.bsky.social/post/3milqkqzndk2e
"If the president meant to be reassuring, however, he missed the mark. The reality, as best we can tell, is that Trump fully expected the Iranian regime to collapse in a matter of days or weeks, and he is now flummoxed to find out that a major war is a lot more complicated than heâor Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsethârealized." "He was... low energyâmumbling & lapsing into the repetitive phrases that come out when heâs riffing"
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tanyatussing/116307518411349143
âThey explore how Twitterâs core featuresâmany invented by usersâreshaped media and politics while also enabling new forms of harassment, misinformation, and attention hijacking.â
All aboard, Trump leads US to the #19thcentury on the #RegressiveExpress - #tarriffs #wars & #worker insecurity
More from @rbreich about the Regressive Express :
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/honestly-now-whos-better-at-the-economy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tanyatussing/116307518411349143
âThey explore how Twitterâs core featuresâmany invented by usersâreshaped media and politics while also enabling new forms of harassment, misinformation, and attention hijacking.â
"Goldman reflects candidly on the companyâs key inflection pointsâfrom early free-speech-maximalist decisions and underinvestment in trust and safety to Twitterâs role in events like the Arab Spring and the election of Donald Trump. The discussion culminates in Twitterâs Elon Musk era, where its logic of attention has been weaponized more explicitly."
Ultimately, Goldman & colleagues built...
a tool w outsize cultural influence thatâs broken brains & amplified some of societyâs worst impulses."
#CharlieWarzel & #JasonGoldman âŚ
* âtrace the history of Twitter from its hackathon foundings to Muskâs takeover.
* âWhat made Twitter special,
* âits original sin,
* âGoldman and the foundersâ biggest and most costly mistakes, and
* âwhy the platform, 20 years later, is still alive.â
Don Curren đ¨đŚđşđŚ
