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  • You’d be forgiven for forgetting that Threads existed. It didn’t appear to get even a fraction of the attention that Bluesky got following the election last year. Probably because if you create an app that forces Instagram influencers to read and write you end up building a community that’s even more braindead and radioactive than Bluesky.

    Ryan Broderick, Garbage Day

    Ouch.

  • Elon and co will just cut. They have a ruthless mindset and they’re enabled and reinforced by a ruthless mindset and, crucially, a mindset that is also cruel and doesn’t care. Also an ideological mindset that just plain doesn’t believe most government services should even exist in the first place.

    Dan Hon, Things that Caught My Attention (s19e10)

  • Humorous meme about HP Lovecraft (boo hiss!) predicting LImp Bizkit

    The Internet isn’t all bad. (Yet.)

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  • As wealth concentrates, political spending capacity increases, which secures policy outcomes that further concentrate wealth, creating a self-reinforcing cycle that undermines democratic equality. The most dramatic acceleration of this trend occurred after Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that opened the doors to unlimited spending on American elections. 

    Doom Loop, Scott Galloway

  • 17. mai er vi så glad i
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  • Photo of Dave Brubeck bearing the caption: "Sorry nerds, 5/4 is Dave Brubeck day"
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  • Svalbalen, Frøya
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  • Sexual desire is fire. Without this fire, our species goes out of business. Unfortunately, we’ve built a fire-retardant generation. Zoomers prefer staying home and scrolling to going out, and when they do venture out they’re less likely to visit a bar, reducing the chances they’ll make a series of bad decisions that might pay off.

    Porn, Scott Galloway