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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Why I quit Spotify after a decade: #music #Spotify #DYI #BigStream Thank you @lizpelly.bsky.social for wiping away the mind control and writing your strong book, Mood Machine. Support musicians and musician-friendly policies.

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Pax is amazing. Shoutout to them and all the Wikipedia editors doing fantastic work in LGBT topic areas, particularly when it comes to fighting anti-trans disinformation.

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A hip stretch to help you stay sane: defector.com/a-hip-stretc...

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Great words from Lina Khan. #tech

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p.s. if you enjoyed my article, please employ me. or recommend me to your friends who are hiring. i have 15 years of experience in media and i’m very good at Words, and many other things too. please help me feed my family (a cat with very expensive dietary restrictions) 🙏🥲

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Librarians now have to handle AI Slop. Librarians, the great navigators of information, should be given help in taking on gen-AI’s ability to create infinite low-information texts/materials. Good work @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social @404media.co #information #AISlop #libraries

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Make @kffhealthnews.bsky.social swoon by sending us your sweetest “health policy valentines.” Submit your poem by 11:59 p.m. ET on Sunday, Feb. 9, and we’ll share or favorites on social media on Valentine's Day. Include your handle and let us know if it’s OK to give you a shoutout.

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Everybody thinks it’s gonna be later, and it’s gonna be somebody else. But it’s not. It’s now, and it’s you.

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I was going to post something else this week, but the structural inability of global corporations to govern platforms seems inescapably relevant. www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

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I second this statement — @lizpelly.bsky.social has written a staggering work that calls for the rejection of the data life — don’t let a big corporation mind control how you learn, engage, and support music. Pay artists, live music, rebuild the context. Lean out and live.

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Good to see @healthjournalism.org speaking up about the removal of data from health agencies.

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if anyone heard chappell call for a liveable wage for performing musical artists and songwriters at the grammys and thought “what is the best organization i could support that’s fighting for that” that organization is called @umaw.bsky.social

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Great stuff: “That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.”

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Great read: spikeartmagazine.com/articles/lib...

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Yeaaaa - a must read for our times.

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Great piece on North Dakota and the lies and danger of carbon capture: By the enigmatic Taylor Brorby. #climatechange #environment #NorthDakota

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If you missed the book launch of Mood Machine by @lizpelly.bsky.social earlier this month, you can read our conversation from the event here, thanks again to @thebaffler.com for the honor of hosting this talk

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NEW: Tesla claims to acquire around 13 percent of its nickel ore from Indonesia. However, Elon Musk's company has not yet followed up on a previous promise to establish mining-free areas that protect uncontacted Indigenous peoples from losing their way of life. (via @insideclimatenews.org)

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Bluesky 💕 science. This resonates. AcademicTwitrer was a great community and resource, once. Scholars have gone to LinkedIn, Threads, Mastodon, and a lot have cone to 🦋 🚀 A place where linking to actual (scientific) content is not deprioritized 👏🏼 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Thank you @metrauxjulia.bsky.social and @sfdirewolf.bsky.social for sharing. This is appalling, yet somehow not surprising. The fight has begun. Leaning on this community as we cross share information and resources. Thank you all!

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Worth resharing this today, WIRED’s guide to protecting yourself from government surveillance

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✨ Bluesky search tips and tricks Add `from:me` to find your own posts Add `to:me` to find replies/posts that mention you Add `since:YYYY-MM-DD` and/or `until:YYYY-MM-DD` to specify a date range Add `domain:theonion.com` to find posts linking to The Onion See more at bsky.social/about/blog/0...

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This is some George Washington stuff right here. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Yes

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Free social media: freeourfeeds.com

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I wrote a longer thing about how ridiculous the NY Post is for calling fact checking "censorship," and how the NY Post is just as guilty of exactly what it's angry about regarding fact checkers. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/13/n...

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The NPR Music newsletter is not really on the web but I made this special URL so you could read my essay this week -- your knowing about Liz Pelly's new book MOOD MACHINE means that much to me shorturl.at/7rPz8 @lizpelly.bsky.social

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In the run-up to "Mood Machine's" release date, Liz Pelly said she's often asked by readers what alternatives she proposes in terms of digital music discovery. But Pelly said she'd much rather talk about the other way to discover music: real frickin' life! hellgatenyc.com/liz-pelly-sp...

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NEW: In an apparent overture to the incoming Trump administration, Meta announced sweeping changes to its content moderation, including no more fact-checkers and a move to Texas. Note that in previous years, Meta said it would limit political news.

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How far would you go to change your body? Fascinating read into the plastic surgery industry in rich countries: #medsky #plasticsurgery www.economist.com/briefing/202...

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If I kept this in drafts until next week, I would just keep adding things until it grew to the size of the earth, so here it is: "Social constructs" and cis feminism's enduring failure to adequately reckon with transmasculinity: jude-doyle.ghost.io/terfs-trans-...

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EXCLUSIVE from @thexylom.com: the first of many MARTA Stadler CQ400 trainsets has arrived at College Park's South Yard. The new electric, open gangway trains are projected to take millions of Atlantans off the highway and contribute to city climate targets

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Live ones go in paper bags, dead ones in the freezer: the volunteers saving birds that fly into windows

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Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

submitted 60 days ago • 89 comments

If anyone feels pushed by the need of "branding," author Charlie Jane Anders has provided a counter advice for this. Give it a read! buttondown.com/charliejane/... #writingcommunity #artists

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for the @studyhall.bsky.social podcast I spoke to @samleecole.bsky.social of @404media.co about worker-owned media, AI, tradwives, and more! https://open.spotify.com/episode/39d37CxXaK9AfvahVN8YOP?si=8nqv0VjiQ6CtjBLvc5OURQ

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"Across 25.3 million miles, Waymo was involved in nine property damage claims and two bodily injury claims. The average human driving a similar distance would be expected to have 78 property damage and 26 bodily injury claims, the company says." www.theverge.com/2024/12/19/2...

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Excellent writing and reporting @juliekliegman.com

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Wishing for a Mastodon plushie this Christmas? 🎄 We’re giving away one for free to a random person who boosts and favorites this post! Winner will be announced on December 25th. If you’d like to support our server and projects like these, donations are […] [Original post on mastodon.de]

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Yep

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For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week harpers.org/archive/2025...

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