davidrboone.bsky.social
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Everything Trump Touches Dies:
www.npr.org/2018/08/07/6...
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Tried it and, gotta say, not that impressed. $5 shipping? Didn't count on that. Still cheaper than Costco, but not as convenient. It's a trade-off.
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I'm on Blue Sky because Facebook suspended my account without explanation.
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Safe to say, Musk's Creepy Kids regard him with awe, and that makes them uppermost and first among his victims, primed and ready to terrorize whomever he points them at. It's tempting for me to pity them, in that context, but reality admonishes us that pity would be wasted.
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"There's a name for this tactic: the librarian Fobazi Ettarh calls it 'vocational awe'. That's where an appeal to a sense of mission and pride is used to motivate workers to work for longer hours and worse pay."
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"Google promised them they would 'organize the world's information and make it useful.' Facebook promised them they would 'make the world more open and connected.'"
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"Faced with a tight labor market, and the ability to turn every hour of tech worker overtime into gold, tech bosses pulled out all the stops to motivate that workforce. They appealed to workers' sense of mission, convinced them they were holy warriors, ushering in a new digital age."
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To be somewhat fair, I don't think I ever heard Donald Trump say, "Let's help small businesses grow." 'Course, if he did, it would have been just another one of his numberless daily lies.
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Yeah, that'll happen all right.
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The complacent, compliant and cooperative press--still free, but preferring to sacrifice its freedom for whatever it thinks its obedience earns it--is a defining feature of the slide down into authoritarianism of the United States.
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"President Donald Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders."
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Yeah, I'm a Director Bong fan, but this looks like it might not be so good.
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Vlad, great to see you on social and congrats on "Contradictions"!