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on a work trip in Greenland and I have been chewing through Tchaikovsky’s collected works, good stuff if you like grand scale sci-fi bsky.app/profile/ztiw...

Nick Horowitz@ztiworoh.bsky.social

I will say, if you want an author who has a stronger writing style but does a lot of great hard sci-fi page turner sort of stuff, I have found that Adrian Tchaikovsky rarely lets me down.

also listening to Careless People by Sarah Wynn-William. man I thought I hated Facebook before, I did not hate it nearly enough

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It's a primary source, if you're into those. I found it a little weird that she never seemed to bring up the xcheck program where six million users (a whole lot of bigots, many reporters found) were exempted from any moderation of any kind.

I hate these evil-doer-turned-"whistleblowers" who spent a whole career pigging out on the lavish wealth and power associated with doing evil, and then as soon as the wind turns, they denounce cashbox all over again, but by ratting out their former colleagues. share.google/5mlez1Zd5Vj3...

share.googleThe “Careless People” Who Make Up Elite InstitutionsSarah Wynn-Williams’ bestseller is a disturbing exposé about the inner workings of Facebook. But Wynn-Williams herself is complicit in the harms she criticizes, and so is her entire class of elite str...

This gross spectacle, similar to the abominable rehabilitation of Liz Cheney, is a well-oiled mechanism designed to allow people to enrich themselves doing evil while innoculating themselves from any possibility of reputational or career damage if ever there is a reckonning. I fucking hate it.

top 5 worst companies in human history bsky.app/profile/will...

Will Oremus@willoremus.com

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...