Everyone talks about “both sidesism” now. Yet @npub1f7tg...0ml8 and his blog and podcast that spent over 13 years defining and promoting the term still struggles to find a major audience, while hundreds of unremarkable left-of-center podcasts and Substacks flood multiple zones, competing for our limited attention spans. I know it rankles him, but it personally skeeves me as well. A lot. Source: @npub12qzr...efxl

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Bell Canada's finest modem was 1 year and done. Waiting for a new one. "1 to 2 days." Uh huh. Mobile hotspot to the rescue.

All those years interning for Rube Goldberg and he paid off for me.

Greetings from the North Channel of Lake Huron (N. Ontario) where the weather is picturesquely perfect and entirely smoke-free. For now. What have I missed? (Please be as brief as possible, but skip nothing pertinent to any new indictments of Trump, or any co-conspirators named Rudy or Roger.)

I've always said that the counter offensive begins by denying benefits to students from states that want to live in the second century. It's too bad that some have to suffer, but it's that greater good for the greater number thing. Better the children of the zealots, than the children are everyone else. "College Board advises Florida schools to not offer AP Psychology after state says lessons about gender identity and sexuality would violate state law" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/us/florida-ap-psychology-college-board

YouTube is putting these context panels on @AriMelber's clips. I don't mind, but I'd sure like to see it on some less reliable sources too.

Rumors of a slam dunk have passed. I think it's safe to say that the game is now officially on.

Gizmodo

Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users

Two separate data analysis firms say the Twitter killer from Instagram has unraveled even as Meta has rushed to add highly requested features.

I'm in an emergency room in Sault Saint Marie Michigan. They just drained my bladder shortly before it burst, after a rather panicky hour drive from the island. They suspect a blood clot from my bladder cancer surgery 3 weeks ago. Waiting for the ER doctor now. Every time Trump is in the news something bad happens.

I can’t speak for you, but I watch a LOT of the media’s political coverage from multiple venues. In over 3 years of their helping the GOP to fetishize the term, I have yet to see a reporter asking a Republican on National TV if they understand the history and meaning of the word “woke.” We’ve just accepted this media malpractice as the status quo. It’s pathetic. Especially since it’s now so obvious that these power-craving Republican scoundrels are destroying our planet along with democracy.

More journalistic malpractice. @CNN's fascist footstool Manu Raju gives Jim Jordan and 2 other Republicans an opportunity to say "evidence is piling up" for a Biden impeachment. But he never asks "what evidence?" It just floors me that we sit passively for these daily assaults on democracy, decency, and decorum, by an entire political party/cult. And every day I look for single tweet toot, skeet, or stack about WTF we might do about it, besides shouting "just vote" into the void. #crickets

We’ll need super majorities to legally stop these monstrous Republicans from dismantling America even further.. But does legal even mean anything to these people anymore? It wouldn’t seem so. “New Florida standards teach that Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills.”

NBC News

New Florida standards teach that Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills

The standards, which were blasted by a statewide teachers' union as a "step backward," were approved Wednesday by the State Board of Education.

I have to leave the house now. I’m leaving laughing. Source: @npub1qzsy...9002

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The murderous Republican party strikes again: A 16-year-old poultry worker has died due to a plant accident in Mississippi. That we have allowed conservative legislatures to bring back child labor, with minimal public comment from a complicit media is absolutely disgusting. But once again, we will just take the easy route and blame politicians for things getting this bad. We the public let it get this bad. We need to stop making excuses for us. We get the government we deserve.

Trump’s white house nemesis, Miles Taylor (aka “Anonymous”) has really refined his message. He was brilliant on Morning Joe, saying, ironically, that the path forward is urging more conservatives to drop their anonymity and openly thrash Trump and Trumpism, as Grift Christie is now doing. But pardon my broken record, but nothing will change until someone spends some money to promote these messages aggressively to world contingent on performative digital politics. One book isn’t … 1/2

I swear, before this Trump saga is over, we're going to learn that Lindsey Graham, Jim Jordan, Ron Johnson, and the rest of the blow job glee club were all blackmailed by Trump. Effectively. And the MAGA response to that will be "What about Hunter's laptop—or Benghazi?"

I hope you dumped your crypto before "Easy Money" dropped today. Because it's gonna get ugly. Excellent news.

Good morning. Today is the soft launch of the new, rebranded release of Calckey, the ActivityPub community software for choosy fediversians. Coming to a download server near you :)

I forget who it was ,but someone voiced a similar take almost 2 months ago. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the Facebook prevailed not because it had particularly good moderation, but that it had any at all to cope with a massive, global user based? The problem with takes like this is that they assume Blue Sky is determined to follow previous paths. Unfortunately, that’s probably exactly what they’ll do. Source: @npub1a24y...dkqm

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Casey Newton (@caseynewton@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Wrote about the racist user names on Bluesky and how it reveals one of Bluesky's core challenges: building world-class content m...

I’ve been suffering from a painful big toe joint since I got a joint implant 3 years ago. I get steroid injections 3 times a year. My surgeon decided to only see surgery patients, so he hands me off to Nishit, a 35 year old surgeon who says “I want you to try these. Other patients swear by them.” NOW they tell me (15 visits later). Fuck. They work brilliantly. If your toe needs to flex less too, try it. Worth every penny.

It's fun to root for the underdog. Even if he's a snarling mutt who should be put d… away as soon as humanly possible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/18/desantis-new-hampshire-poll/