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While the Trump administration is suppressing all signs of gender and diversity, the Swedish Armed Forces are running full-page ads celebrating International Women’s Day. “In our world, everyone’s effort is of equal worth.”

Y'all really need to leave twitter bullshit on twitter. Let that place fuckin die out and take it's black hole, void of evil energy with it. JFC.

Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

without section 230, you could have a world where bluesky is liable for me calling this man a clueless, tech illiterate, fascist enabling motherfucker

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

Your daily respite from the horrors: www.theguardian.com/games/2025/m...

the people who believe putin would stop with ukraine are the same people who think rich people in government can't be corrupted because they don't need more money

The crypto bros and MAGAs have this fascinatingly naive idea that the rules of US society that allow rich people to wander around freely and unharmed will be maintained if 98% of Americans suddenly can’t reliably afford food. They have not hardened their security profiles nearly enough for this.

The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.

The so-called “New Right” movement believes that men feel “lost” if they don’t have a project that involves violence, competition, and going to war. How pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/o...

The time has nearly come, Tenno! Learn the future of the past when Devstream 185 kicks off TODAY at 2 p.m. ET on twitch.tv/warframe!

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If you are a liberal in deep blue territory, one thing you could try doing right now is figuring out how to replace your Democratic member of Congress next year. With very few exceptions, the typical safe seat Dem is not meeting the moment. Find someone who will and help them.

Here's me. 'Nazi oligarchs have seized treasury control of an authoritarian White House and everyone seems kinda chill about it'

The U.S. government has put up a submission form for reporting schools who teach kids about “DEI.” It accepts file uploads. Internet, you know what to do enddei.ed.gov

On Thursday, an attorney for the brothers implied that Trump helped lift the travel restrictions on them. "I don't know how it came to this," DeSantis told the press. "We were not notified." www.jezebel.com/awkward-ron-...

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

The White House denied reporters from Reuters and other news organizations access to President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting in keeping with the administration’s new policy regarding media coverage reut.rs/3CXAw31

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just boycott these motherfuckers, you’re not doing anything useful showing up there every day

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

What’s happening now is part of a plan to end democracy: “It is clear that Thiel sees corporations as the governments of the future and capitalists such as himself as the kings, and it is also clear that this is a shockingly common view in Thiel’s cohort.” thebaffler.com/latest/mouth...

My condolences to everyone who will be laid off when this fails. Or when it succeeds. Or when it's uncertain how things went.

Imagine the NYT covering the fall of Rome: "Fiery Emperor Nero wages war on urban development"

This game has 200K concurrent players on Steam alone right now. Absolutely unreal for this to happen to a team that made such a hit.

Marvel Rivals is currently among the top 5 games in US weekly active users across PS5, XBS and Steam, according to Circana's Player Engagement Tracker. It has been a massive hit, and one of the few games that has been able to break through the live service wall. I dunno, folks. I just don't know.

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It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

A thing I wish I could teach people is that the vast majority of very rich people are deeply stupid. They did not get where they are because of ingenuity or talent. They got there because of compound interest on hereditary wealth and being tax cheats.

As someone who quit smoking cold turkey back when I worked in restaurants, leaving the “big 3” social media’s + TikTok has a similar freeing vibe. Next step is to help lead the example showing you can succeed in your careers without them. Our content and communities made them, not the vice-versa

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

smdh white folks always stealing shit that black folks did first

We as an industry need to take a hard look in the mirror. Yes, young people think they’re invincible. But after 15 years in tech I can say without a doubt that “move fast and break things” has had horrific consequences on accountability.

Great news, I just got contacted by a Nigerian prince, he's going to plug in and help upgrade my bank account

Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Friends: I do not want to see any kvetching about people on the left who didn't vote for Harris. Those mistakes didn't decide this. White supremacists & whoever else wouldn't vote for a Black woman did this. Misogynoir. The enemy is WHITE SUPREMACY and FASCISM. Solidarity time. Now. Shore up.

"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

the press will call some guy a “controversial conservative journalist” and he’s the senior editor of “phrenology quarterly, an aryan brotherhood publication”

How do we help organizations like @official-aias.bsky.social and @officialgdc.bsky.social leave twitter? They want to support their members but staying there empowers and normalizes musk’s grab not just for US power but world power.

Wretched stuff, what utter cowardice

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

Two heroes with more guts than any GOP senator. www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.