There are some eye-opening anecdotes in this story. I knew private Signal chats were big, but the bit about the Harpers Letter people is hilarious. When it came out, I had called out how some in the group were using others as human shields, and that seems clear from this... RE:
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So basically, there was a Signal chat with tech folks and some Harpers Letter writers, and the Harpers folk were chased out when Andreessen realize...
It will be a minor note in the history of all this but the utter inability of Schumer to understand what's happening and to respond appropriately is historically bad in its own way RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Schumer on the Democratic response to Trump's shakedown of Harvard: "We sent him a very strong letter just the other day asking eight very strong q...
Listen to Anil. Screaming about how tech is evil doesn't help. Making sure that the tech is used properly with the control in the hands of people to empower themselves, rather than at the whims of billionaires enriching themselves is important. RE:
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Anil Dash (@anildash.com)
This is true, but the larger scam pattern (web3/metaverse/crypto/etc) is what many of us are trying to give voice to β€” folks have to recognize th...
Someone give this man a dollar. [youtu.be/MTvsJUPNy6Y?...]( ) RE:
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Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.online)
I’ll bet you a dollar this was in a car ad from the 80’s and it’s just rattling around in his head [contains quote post or other embedded co...
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Thank you to the (nameless) person who shared with me [@prozdishere.bsky.social](
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I'm a voice actor. Represented by CAA. prozdkp@gmail.com
 )'s video that is now my favorite short clip to explain social media content moderation issues. People and their stupid opinions. Every time. [www.youtube.com/shorts/oDQk6...]( ) [opinions on the internet]( )
By the way, I've created a "tech policy" custom feed using [@surf.social](
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A new wave in social media, created by Flipboard. 🌊 Join the beta: https://waitlist.surf.social/
 ), and apparently you can now pull those out of Surf and make them Bluesky custom feeds (in Surf they also include content from other platforms, but in bsky, it's all bsky content). [bsky.app/profile/did:...](
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A feed about tech policy pulled from a variety of sources and created by Mike Masnick of Techdirt.com. Created with surf.social
Kind of incredible that it's judge Doughty who is speaking up about this also. Doughty is one of that group of Trump judges often willing to give the MAGA world everything they want. He issued the crazy July 4th ruling that banned the federal gov't from talking to ANY social media company. RE:
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NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no mea...
Every day, every hour, the terrible stories get worse and worse. RE:
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Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no mea...
I have way too many tabs open and it's time to start closing a bunch, but I know I'm going to rediscover things I had planned to write about a week ago, and then not close the tab and say "gosh, I should really write that."