Idk man, have you seen real life these days? Bc it’s a lot like this.
From: @carnage4life
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/110641188563024395
Oh is there a kerfuffle on another web site today? #twitter
Happy Enshitification Day! 💥
July 1, 2023: Reddit cuts off API access, Twitter requires login, Youtube may ban ab-blockers, Meta and Google block news in Canada...
A half-year since Cory Doctorow's seminal thesis on #enshitification, how corporate platforms die (https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys), and every corporate site seems hell bend on their own destruction.
Celebrate Enshitification Day by going to [instance address]/about, find the donations link, and make your contribution to open social media!
The visiting team's fans went to their rented homes, which were located in the blocks surrounding the stadium.
And the home team’s fan—who knew they were the home team because they owned both the stadium and the visiting teams’ homes—drove to their own houses, many miles away.
And they slept well, knowing that after a brief and disturbing outbreak of discriminatory bias against them, justice on the Court Supreme had been restored.
/end
For the second year in a row, Neil Gorsuch just straight up made shit up in a majority opinion favoring the Christian Right.
Like, it's not just that he made up law. He made up fake factual claims.
In 2012, I graduated from Fordham Law School with $180,000 is student loan debt.
I’ve been paying loans for 11 years. Even paid two of them off completely.
In 2023, my balance is $206,000. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1674797787563847680
Person walks into a Gender Studies class, asks what the class is about and when informed, they attack the professor with a knife.
https://bird.makeup/users/RohanMaitzen/statuses/1674190518756990980
🎵It’s not the full moon
That delights me
That arraigns and indicts me
Oh no,
It’s just the allegations of youuu🎵 #trump #trumpindictment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/28/trump-gop-2024-desantis/
Trolls win by making the difference between lies and truth seem like a matter of opinion.
Don't take the debate bait!
Engaging someone with zero credibility or validity only helps them to gain status and spread lies. By trying to negate their false ideas, you'll end up activating them. More at FrameLab: https://framelab.substack.com/p/why-its-silly-to-debate-robert-f
HOLY SHIT. @wsj is reporting that ~80% of the ads @youtube serves across the web have violated their own terms of service — and are therefore subject to refunds.
This is...a devastatingly huge deal. @googleads is about to be out billions of $$.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-violated-its-standards-in-ad-deals-research-finds-3e24e041
Today is the day the #supremecourt finally became president.
Shocked! Shocked, I tell you.
From: @ruha9
https://bird.makeup/users/ruha9/statuses/1673262460667609090
One of our most cherished researchers @citizenlab - @nouraaljizawi - has been subjected to horrible mistreatment by Cdn authorities over her immigration status
🇨🇦 talks loud about welcoming refugees; the reality is different. Shame on @citimmcanada
This sure does look bad. Protests that it shouldn’t have been released seem lame and deflective. Great chance for my party to put the truth and the law above itself.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/22/hunter-biden-whistleblower-transcript-garland/
Even if it impoverished *everybody*, 1) the alternative is planetary collapse, and 2) the existing system impoverishes nearly everybody. But no, tossing fossil fuels would only mildly de-rich the richest among us, which we treat like the worst possible outcome.
From: @CelloMomOnCars
https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/110590385751398975
Reasonably happy almost all the time, somehow. Extremely lucky father & husband; 20+ year software veteran / exec now studying the software industry as Ph.D @York University Science and Technology Studies. Blog at https://sakhavi.wordpress.com