Alec Mento

Alec Mento

@amento.bsky.social

Author of *This Used to Be the Future* and the three *Penny Rants* books. If you don't use power, you ain't got power.

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A boycott of Everything Ellison would be relatively easy. Hell, I watch old *Star Trek* episodes more than anything else.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

News just broke that Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in the Ellison family's Skydance, which owns CBS and CNN. Anoher step toward right-wing "media capture," as I wrote about recently in my Stop the Presses newsletter.

I've seen lots of ads for Republican candidates this cycle, and not one has identified the candidate as a Republican. That's a tell.

Don't "reach out" to Republicans unless you're about to slap them upside their damn heads. #turnyourback

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What a surprise to hear that Meta rigs the game for right-wingers! Meta won’t learn a damn thing until we all quit Facebook.

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

I hate touchscreens. Tech bros would call me subhuman for that, but they can go fuck themselves with a million sharpened broomsticks.

Tonight I began unsubscribing from all the good government organizations I've received emails from for over 20 years. That sentence probably doesn't communicate how sad I feel about that.