mwid.bsky.social

mwid.bsky.social

@mwid.bsky.social

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Replying to @bellack.com

Another important piece from @masnick.com, whose paper "Platforms not Protocols" inspired @bsky.app. "Despotification" is Masnick’s new term for platforms leveraging market concentration, lack of credible exit, and algorithmic recommendations to seize political power.

liberalism.orgEnshittification, Despotification, and the Open InternetIt’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.

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This sort of reaction has to be taken seriously. The Silicon Valley model of what it means to be human - an information conduit in skin with passive pleasure receptors taped on - is bullshit.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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Jason Followell "If 200 people each use their full 3 minutes: It overwhelms the structure (meetings aren’t built for that volume) It forces officials to either: Sit through it (and be accountable), or Cut it off (which exposes limits on public participation)"

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Please help the Lakota youth defend Pe'Sla (near Mt. Rushmore) from graphite/oil extraction! This is a sacred site to them, like Mt. Rushmore was before the faces were carved into it. Prevent history from being destroyed! News channels won't cover it (May 2026)

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Change will be hard. Many corporate Dems and centrists will wet their beds and cry. They will do everything to keep their feathered nest. It's time to clean house and make life uncomfortable for them. It's the only way for us to have a chance. www.axios.com/2026/03/08/d...

axios.comKen Martin's dysfunctional DNC alarms DemocratsDonors, operatives and some DNC members are questioning his leadership, fundraising ability and handling of the party's 2024 election "autopsy."

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The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

Abigail Larson@abigaillarson.com

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

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singhsukhjot Sukhjot Singh "No fancy edit this time, just a continuous smooth flight of this majestic peregrine falcon. I was so lucky to share a few moments with her as she approached head on while patrolling her airspace. Note: Footage shot from the top of a trail with a telephoto lens at 630mm"

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This is 100% accurate Every democratic administration after Carter was treated by Democrats and honestly a lot of voters as "thank God that's over" or "finally things get back to normal" instead of thinking about it like an exterminator figuring out how to keep rats from getting back into the house

Phil Free@philfree.bsky.social

“Democrats frittered away momentum for combating plutocracy through a relentless focus on playing by the old rules of policy debate. The result was a catastrophe out of which almost nothing lasting was achieved.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-r...

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Replying to @brandibuchman.bsky.social

They do not understand how people are radicalized. They do not understand how a hungry, sick, stressed out and increasingly bitter population can turn on them. And we are just a few months in. Let's remember that.

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🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

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My niece (14) texted me late last night saying she's writing a paper on police brutality and asked if I've written anything on the subject that she could cite. Finally, my time to shine.

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Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.

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This is the tweet of 2025. We will return to it again and again.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:

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In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!