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With Meta out there banging on the "snitches get stitches" drum, seemed like a good time to lay out my best guidance for tech industry employees who feel a need to speak up. Below are a few notes: www.theverge.com/labor/621059...

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

People are having predictable reactions to this piece, which I get, but I actually do think we need to have a collective discussion about epistemic ethics, as it were. She didn't know. Should she have known? Who is responsible for her not knowing? Did she fail or was she failed, or both?

submitted 9 hours ago • 191 comments

Reporters with access to agency heads should absolutely be asking them to own each and every one of these cuts on the record. Because the Senate-confirmed cabinet members are the ones gutting their own departments, right?

submitted 7 hours ago • 43 comments

Love to live in the "Is he lying or can he literally not remember?" era of autocracy.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm stepping on the theme of Chris' book here but, we have an extremely toxic information environment controlled by wealthy oligarchs who have aligned themselves with Trump, the whole point is to manipulate people into making poor decisions. bsky.app/profile/chri...

submitted 7 hours ago • 86 comments

Tweets from a guy bound to get killed by Furiosa.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s easy to see the hypocrisy, but I think the deeper thing to pull out of this is that their protestations of innocence in harm that comes from their own doxxing is a clear lie: they know it’s dangerous when used as a weapon and are scared of anything approaching it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

But this white woman was not disconnected from politics. She was very invested in politics, she paid attention to the campaign and she voted for Trump because she thought it would benefit her personally.

submitted 10 hours ago • 27 comments

I'm sick and tired of pundits who refused to get into any specifics taking the absurd position that any groups "enthusiastically supported" what happened at the border under Biden. It's a ridiculous claim.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Appears doesn't belong in that sentence. His actions SHOW us he's unqualified.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 hours ago • 168 comments

Entirely predictable action by the GOP, which has steadfastly stood for regressive economic policies for decades, but yet for the last decade, ever since the emergence of Trump, has managed to snooker much of the pundit class into thinking it would reverse into a pro-worker party.

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

there really ought to be more discussion about the fact that virtually every promise (or denial) trump made during the campaign was a total lie

submitted 13 hours ago • 475 comments

Listening to the Crimson Tide soundtrack for no reason at all, y'know, no reason. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0_5...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

We can’t fix the huge problems within the Democratic Party and liberalism if we pretend they don’t exist “because the Republicans are worse.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

This is also the legacy of Facebook having poisoned the media and communications ecosystem in Myanmar, first enabling a genocide and now cascading into countless other systemic harms.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

perhaps instead of 734 stories a week about Trump voters in diners we could try 734 stories about federal employees who love their country and were fired for no reason

submitted 22 hours ago • 20 comments

Ford took money from the feds to fight Covid, much of it still unaccounted for. Our schools are in terrible shape, so is our healthcare while he works at getting cheap drinks into our hands. Wonder why that is? And he was glad Trump won. TODAY is the day to #VoteFordOut

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.

submitted 1 day ago • 443 comments

Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters right now that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington. Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.

submitted 1 day ago • 164 comments

Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country." The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

submitted 1 day ago • 751 comments

We. Are all. Going. To die.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

What I’m gonna say here is Lewinsky gets to say what she wants about this. Full stop.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 194 comments

Once again, please immediately stop feeding your cats any raw food— no raw milk, no raw meat. This includes commercial diets, homemade diets, and freeze dried raw treats and meal toppers

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

This ended up being materially incorrect, unfortunately, even though it sounded correct in the moment. Rather than work his way back to the same policies, he bought the government to make the same mistakes at existential scale.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Xtreme cases

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Y’know whats honestly nice abt this. We can make as many jokes abt thirsty folks as we want but he used his statement to say “stop giving your jubblies & personal info to the cops. Who knows what’ll happen to it in their hands” and hes right. That stuff is being screened but ask what becomes of it

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

I encourage Trump and his guys to make this exact case to the American public, it's a winning pitch.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Pretty clear that America's richest people got together in a room some time over the last 5 years & decided that Americans have gotten uppity -- demanding better wages & working conditions, asking for humane corporate policy & an end to racism -- and that they needed to be put in their place.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

hot stove, apply directly to the forehead

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

In therapy this morning I talked about the weight of knowing a tidal wave of suffering is coming. There may be ways to mitigate some of it, but it's coming.

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

It is again stark how diminished Trump is that he’s bringing his billionaire minder into cabinet meetings and having his statements cleaned up in real time by his vice president.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Touching the stove with their whole face.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"Oops, we cancelled Ebola prevention," is not, like, a mistake you just shrug at.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

We are all going to fucking die because of this shit.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Soon-Shiong too, at one time.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

And the social aspect of Substack is almost certainly overrated! The reason people’s newsletters grow is because other authors mention them and link to them. That has nothing to do with the platform! Other platforms (Ghost, Beehiiv, Wordpress, Buttondown, Medium) have better economics, too.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Besides the fact that this is every company, is the expectation here that popular opinion will turn in their favor because the government bought too many licenses for Excel?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

(Not dunking, I have shared this fear) These people exist, but so far there is no evidence that they exist in anything close to the numbers needed too electorally, or even more generically popularly, support a takeover on their own. My deeper fear is, "What do we do with them even if we win?"

With Meta out there banging on the "snitches get stitches" drum, seemed like a good time to lay out my best guidance for tech industry employees who feel a need to speak up. Below are a few notes: www.theverge.com/labor/621059...

People are having predictable reactions to this piece, which I get, but I actually do think we need to have a collective discussion about epistemic ethics, as it were. She didn't know. Should she have known? Who is responsible for her not knowing? Did she fail or was she failed, or both?

Reporters with access to agency heads should absolutely be asking them to own each and every one of these cuts on the record. Because the Senate-confirmed cabinet members are the ones gutting their own departments, right?

Love to live in the "Is he lying or can he literally not remember?" era of autocracy.

I'm stepping on the theme of Chris' book here but, we have an extremely toxic information environment controlled by wealthy oligarchs who have aligned themselves with Trump, the whole point is to manipulate people into making poor decisions. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Tweets from a guy bound to get killed by Furiosa.

It’s easy to see the hypocrisy, but I think the deeper thing to pull out of this is that their protestations of innocence in harm that comes from their own doxxing is a clear lie: they know it’s dangerous when used as a weapon and are scared of anything approaching it.

But this white woman was not disconnected from politics. She was very invested in politics, she paid attention to the campaign and she voted for Trump because she thought it would benefit her personally.

I'm sick and tired of pundits who refused to get into any specifics taking the absurd position that any groups "enthusiastically supported" what happened at the border under Biden. It's a ridiculous claim.

Appears doesn't belong in that sentence. His actions SHOW us he's unqualified.

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Entirely predictable action by the GOP, which has steadfastly stood for regressive economic policies for decades, but yet for the last decade, ever since the emergence of Trump, has managed to snooker much of the pundit class into thinking it would reverse into a pro-worker party.

there really ought to be more discussion about the fact that virtually every promise (or denial) trump made during the campaign was a total lie

Listening to the Crimson Tide soundtrack for no reason at all, y'know, no reason. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0_5...

We can’t fix the huge problems within the Democratic Party and liberalism if we pretend they don’t exist “because the Republicans are worse.”

This is also the legacy of Facebook having poisoned the media and communications ecosystem in Myanmar, first enabling a genocide and now cascading into countless other systemic harms.

perhaps instead of 734 stories a week about Trump voters in diners we could try 734 stories about federal employees who love their country and were fired for no reason

Ford took money from the feds to fight Covid, much of it still unaccounted for. Our schools are in terrible shape, so is our healthcare while he works at getting cheap drinks into our hands. Wonder why that is? And he was glad Trump won. TODAY is the day to #VoteFordOut

said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.

Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters right now that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington. Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.

We. Are all. Going. To die.

What I’m gonna say here is Lewinsky gets to say what she wants about this. Full stop.

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

Once again, please immediately stop feeding your cats any raw food— no raw milk, no raw meat. This includes commercial diets, homemade diets, and freeze dried raw treats and meal toppers

This ended up being materially incorrect, unfortunately, even though it sounded correct in the moment. Rather than work his way back to the same policies, he bought the government to make the same mistakes at existential scale.

Xtreme cases

I encourage Trump and his guys to make this exact case to the American public, it's a winning pitch.

Pretty clear that America's richest people got together in a room some time over the last 5 years & decided that Americans have gotten uppity -- demanding better wages & working conditions, asking for humane corporate policy & an end to racism -- and that they needed to be put in their place.

hot stove, apply directly to the forehead

In therapy this morning I talked about the weight of knowing a tidal wave of suffering is coming. There may be ways to mitigate some of it, but it's coming.

It is again stark how diminished Trump is that he’s bringing his billionaire minder into cabinet meetings and having his statements cleaned up in real time by his vice president.

Touching the stove with their whole face.

"Oops, we cancelled Ebola prevention," is not, like, a mistake you just shrug at.

We are all going to fucking die because of this shit.

Soon-Shiong too, at one time.

And the social aspect of Substack is almost certainly overrated! The reason people’s newsletters grow is because other authors mention them and link to them. That has nothing to do with the platform! Other platforms (Ghost, Beehiiv, Wordpress, Buttondown, Medium) have better economics, too.

Besides the fact that this is every company, is the expectation here that popular opinion will turn in their favor because the government bought too many licenses for Excel?

(Not dunking, I have shared this fear) These people exist, but so far there is no evidence that they exist in anything close to the numbers needed too electorally, or even more generically popularly, support a takeover on their own. My deeper fear is, "What do we do with them even if we win?"

A story that won't make big waves but is a tsunami of scary.

It’s the ACA repeal all over again.