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I lead technology at ProPublica, write speculative fiction, and blog every day at https://werd.io.
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WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT
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2. Here's the clickthru rates for the first 5 months of 2025 on all 5 platforms, based on Dem fundraising link clicks & donations per 1K followers.
Bluesky & other platforms have kicked Twitter's ass on a per-follower basis in clickthru rates all 5 months.
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But what's the path? This seems politically impossible in the US. Yet so many other nations have managed it. People tend to love their healthcare in countries that have it. Here it's smeared as "socialized" as if that's a bad thing. So much lobbying; so many entrenched interests.
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The only thing that will really work is something that looks a lot more like universal healthcare, with far lower costs both to buy in and at the point of use. That doesn't mean eliminating private healthcare but it does mean raising the baseline for everyone so everyone ca always get care.
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I think there's a lot of scope to have a productive discussion about healthcare in particular. It might not seem like it, but the current system and its costs underpin so much of the distrust and right-wing polarization we're seeing. ACA was a step but still unaffordable to many. What's next?
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I've had some outrageous experiences supporting my parent in other hospitals here. Some good, too, but honestly many of them could have been an episode of John Oliver. So much reform is needed.
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I deeply hope Americans win, and not the regime.
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We're still at the foothills of how authoritarian it could really get.
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I’m very envious of your pace. Some great books in there!
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We need to be a society based on rule of law not rule of laws. That is to say, underlying principles that ensure safety and wellbeing for all, with a strong safety net and ensuring civil liberties, not upkeep of individual legislation regardless of whether it is right or not.
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Oh, no. Doing nothing sucks in the face of fascism. You resist and resist hard.
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If we're just talking about doing the exact same things but for people *we* don't like, what are we even standing for?
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There’s one after security. I know it well.
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Huge advertisement for going back right there.
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TechCrunch is also covering the story. Side note: has there ever been an open social web tool that isn't itself a network that has received so much launch coverage? techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/i...
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The point is not that one protocol will win - it's that the open social web as a *whole* is an empowering movement that should be about people, not protocols. Bounce lets you move easily between platforms. That's a big deal.
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I feel justified in avoiding HOAs like plague!
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I wouldn’t dream of it tbqh
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This is such a dumb reason to not use a browser, but it seems like you can't toggle the vertical tab bar easily? Neither Firefox nor Vivaldi handles it in quite the way I'd like, but Vivaldi seems to just keep it permanently open. I guess I could write some custom CSS, but blah.
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I have - I'm running it in another window right now - but it's just not quite there in the very specific fluid ways I need it to be. I should try Vivaldi again.