Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@social.cleverlibre.org

Shout out to all the people who were unpopular in school but went to therapy instead of spending $44bn on a social media platform to force everyone to read their garbage posts

Really wild to lay off 8,000 people then go on a press tour about how you took a 10-day vacation and turned off your devices so you couldn't see the mean things people were saying about you. https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-benioff-10-day-digital-detox-after-layoffs-report-2023-2?utm_source=reddit.com

Truly, reality is even more pathetic than the theories we come up with as a joke. The billionaire threw a toddler tantrum because the president of the United States got more engagement than he did. And he even deleted the tweet that started this with, I can only assume, tears of impotent rage in his little eyes.

This might genuinely be the most pathetic thing I have ever seen.

The problem with capitalism is how it distorts the natural balance of Fucking Around & Finding Out by creating a class that is allowed nearly infinite fuckery with zero finding out

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter

https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/

#scale #federation

77.7% of Black students borrow.

50% default within 12 years.

No one cares.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/black-white-disparity-in-student-loan-debt-more-than-triples-after-graduation/

Much of the $1.6 trillion debt is held by Black students. Yes, I said trillion. With a "T." And yes, I said "debt held by Black kids," who are hired less and paid less.

The unspoken part of the US student loan forgiveness "debate," is racists thinking "I am fundamentally opposed to anything that would lower the suffering of Black people or prevent the siphoning of their wealth."

The Supreme Court “is not an infallible institution whose decisions should be accepted without question. It is not a debating club that is just trying its best to figure out what the law is. And, most importantly, it is not a body that should be placed beyond public scrutiny.”

Exceptionally good piece from @chrisgeidner on how we should handle #SCOTUS #history #histodons

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-think-s-special-s-not-rcna68567

The bots speak for all of us

Prior to 1982, stock buybacks were considered stock manipulation. It was Reagan's SEC that opened the floodgates to their abuse.

Stock buybacks don’t create more jobs. They don't increase wages. They don’t grow the economy.

They do one thing: Make corporate execs richer.

You can still post on Twitter by scheduling posts. So any tweet you see on the platform is created by a bot or scheduled, not in real time. Elon Musk said he was going to go to war with the bots on Twitter, and the bots won.

With the states enacting laws that will effectively ban kids from the Internet,

and the anti-kids-online rhetoric we're likely to hear during tonight's #sotu2023,

I wanted to share the many ways the Internet has crucially shaped my life as a digital native. 🧵

...

I grew up online.

I do not know a world before or without the Internet.

Q: Why are homeless people so rare in Madrid and so common in San Francisco when here GDP per capita is half?

A: Racism.

Of the homeless folk in the USA, 45% have mental health challenges and 40% are Black, even though only 13% of the pop is Black. In SF, less than 5% of the population is Black, but 37% of the homeless population is Black.

In the 80s, when Reagan killed mental health facility funding and Black homelessness exploded, no one cared. 🤷🏿‍♂️