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I'm a newsletter (and sometimes other stuff) about the internet (and sometimes other stuff)
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Here's @tchotchke.bsky.social on the never-ending discourse over delivery apps. www.garbageday.email/p/drowning-i...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

You can say that laws don’t matter in Trump’s America anymore, but if you honestly do think that, well, you’ve already lost the game. www.garbageday.email/p/you-can-ne...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

“Replacing the institutions that managed our democracy are platforms and, within those platforms, personalities.” And, last year … Trump finally fully embraced the new digital influence machine in a way he never had before.” — @garbageday.email www.garbageday.email/p/you-can-ne...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

A fake picture of a Lamborghini stunting in front of the LA wildfires was one of the biggest pictures on Reddit last month. Which makes sense because every major platform has decided that entertaining slop is better for engagement than lifesaving information. www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-w...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Multiple former employees of a venture capital firm called Human Capital are now helping Elon Musk dismantle the goverment. www.garbageday.email/p/musk-s-sup...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

According to contractors and staffers at federally-funded healthcare agencies, the CDC has a deadline of 5 PM today to remove "all references to gender ideology" from cdc.gov or the site will be taken down. They've told not to communicate about this in writing. www.garbageday.email/p/the-scramb...

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

The gooneral, explained www.garbageday.email/p/yeah-it-s-...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Like many Americans, I spent yesterday trying to process the new reality we’ve suddenly found ourselves in. One where I am aware that *something* is happening, but I am largely unable to actually figure out the specifics. And corporate media is not helping. www.garbageday.email/p/yeah-it-s-...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t really have any qualms about calling Musk a fascist, but he’s also, like most fascists, an egomaniac who uses identitarian politics as a cover for much more personal and petty impulses. www.garbageday.email/p/the-ai-guy...

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

CONFIRMED: Federal Employees Are Receiving Suspicious “TEST” Emails, Likely Connected To Musk’s DOGE. www.garbageday.email/p/the-ai-guy... (If you have a tip for Garbage Day, you can reach us on Signal at ryanbroderick.69420, happy to keep things anonymous or off the record.)

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

I lived bitch

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

This week's Panic World features @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We talk all about the long, dumb road that brought us to this month's not-quite TikTok ban. You can listen to it anywhere you get your podcasts. You can also click here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

There is too much going on! And we'll be using our Friday issues to round up as much of it as we can. Welcome to the first week of the rest of our miserable lives. www.garbageday.email/p/live-by-th...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Hi Bluesky

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