Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2023: $248,800,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2023: $160,900,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2023: $105,200,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2023: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

US political journalists have been failing an essential duty -- to understand that bias in favor of democracy (and what democracy protects, including freedom of speech) should be a baseline condition for coverage.

Read the latest Trump indictment. It simplifies things even further.

If Trump and the Republican party he owns take full power next year, our democracy is done. It is truly that simple.

That is the context for 2024. Please, journalists, make that relentlessly clear.

Stop referring to Fascism as 'culture wars'.

Sycophancy to Billionaires is antithetical to Humanity's survival.

Happy Enshitification Day! 💥

July 1, 2023: Reddit cuts off API access, Twitter requires login, Youtube may ban ab-blockers, Meta and Google block news in Canada...

A half-year since Cory Doctorow's seminal thesis on #enshitification, how corporate platforms die (pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/pot), and every corporate site seems hell bend on their own destruction.

Celebrate Enshitification Day by going to [instance address]/about, find the donations link, and make your contribution to open social media!

@viticci thanks for this! I’m visiting Sardinia (also the beach) and was so confused!

Tommy Tuberville, Brett Farve, and Herschel Walker are just three reasons why Americans should never equate sport accomplishments with anything other than sports accomplishments.

@brianschatz has the CBO done an analysis on what it costs to means test SNAP? My understanding is that it’s generally cheaper for the taxpayer to just provide the benefit instead of testing for requirements.

@marcoarment but don’t worry, they offer a savings account now 😒

I wish more people understood that "I want the computer to generate a natural language text that sounds like a plausible answer to a question about x" and "I want the computer to answer a question about x" are two very different problems.

@NiaMolinari you have such an interesting perspective and backstory. Thanks Greg for the great new person to follow!

We do not check the refrigerator multiple times to see if different food has magically appeared.

We check the fridge multiple times to see if our standards have lowered to the point where we’ll eat what’s there.

Stop using the term, "Culture Wars". This nomenclature is overt propaganda. We're in the midst of a Democracy vs. Fascism war — nothing less.

The never-ending “Background Items Added" pop-up for an item I already disabled or already know about is the most annoying part of Ventura after the new System Settings design.

@RADC since all the oligarchs serve at the pleasure of Putin, that gives Putin leverage over Musk. It helps explain Musk’s earlier stance on Ukraine too.

Here’s the thing — If you HAVE to drive a lot, or even just WANT to drive a lot, it’s in your best interest for public transit, walking & biking to be as attractive as possible to EVERYONE else because they have safe and comfortable infrastructure networks. The more people who choose NOT to drive, the less space, public money, etc it takes to move everyone.

If everybody drives, nobody moves. Including you.
#cities #mobility #cars #bikes #transit #urbanism #transportation #cityplanning

@wiverson I ran into this issue personally; unplugging all my home hubs (Apple Tv, HomePod), updating devices, and a reboot made all well again

Everything looks like a nail to the world’s biggest tool.

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