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[jayden @mensweear]

“you are not progressive enough for this” might’ve been charlottes biggest gag ever like. she’s right

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

There you have it. Anthropic's CEO said it: The murder of more than 100 schoolgirls in Minab targeted by Anthropic's CLAUDE "is a use case that doesn't even violate our red lines." Time to rise up against these technofeudal war criminals.

[Jeffrey K 🍉 @JayFreaKay]

Wacha wachawi waiitwe wachawi 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[kenn @HelloKennedi]

I get so confused when boy moms say shit like “I wouldn’t know what to do with a girl.” Bitch, you are a girl. How would you not know what to do with one????

[Sugabelly 🌕 @sugabelly]

They are raping their house-help, I hope that helps.

Sex with a person who cannot say no because you are their employer and can stop their source of income, and you are their only housing in a city far away from home is RAPE‼️‼️‼️

[girl lurking in your theory seminar @novemberviolet1]

@bodenlosig causality is reverse, maybe?
- TT > use all cognitive energy on publication hamster wheel > less leftover cognitive energy to, say, read thomas mann
- Half-employed > cognitive energy reserves largely intact > channel into intellectually demanding highbrow "leisure" activities

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

Here’s why so much of today’s entertainment feels mediocre.

For most of Hollywood’s Golden Age, the major studios owned the theaters. That system ended in 1948 with the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Paramount Pictures. The Paramount Decrees forced the Big Five studios to divest their theater chains and banned practices like block booking. The result? Studios no longer had a guaranteed screen for every film they made. If a movie was bad, theater owners simply wouldn’t book it. Survival required quality—studios had to compete on merit.

The same logic held through the home-video and television eras. Studios made the discs, but they didn’t own Target, Best Buy, or Blockbuster. Networks made shows, but every program lived or died by Nielsen ratings and advertiser dollars. There was friction, transparency, and real risk.

Then streaming arrived.

In 2020, a federal judge officially terminated the Paramount Decrees, declaring them obsolete in a world dominated by Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, and the rest. The irony is brutal: streaming has recreated vertical integration on steroids. The same companies now control production and the only theaters that matter—their own apps. Unlike the old studio-owned cinema chains, these platforms don’t have to disclose viewership numbers because the business model is subscription-based, not per-ticket or ad-supported. Metrics are secret. Accountability is gone.

Because every subscriber dollar flows into the same corporate pool regardless of what is watched, the streamers have zero financial incentive to pay market rates—or any real money at all—for outside independent films and series. Why license an indie movie for $10–20 million when you can spend that and more on an in-house project that keeps 100 % of the upside, strengthens your IP library, and is guaranteed top-of-app promotion? Independents are now forced to sell their work for flat, often insultingly low fees (or give it away entirely for “exposure”) because the platform already has a full slate of self-produced content it will always prioritize. The gate is not just closed, the gatekeeper owns the only road.

With no obligation to report performance, studios face zero external pressure to justify budgets. They can greenlight endless in-house projects that are guaranteed distribution, while acquiring outside films or series for pennies on the dollar—if they bother at all. Independent producers are left begging for scraps or shut out entirely.

This is monopoly power the 1948 Court never imagined: total control of both creation and exhibition, insulated from market feedback. When studios and theaters were forcibly separated, independent cinema flourished because talent and good ideas could still find an audience. Today a handful of tech-entertainment giants own the entire pipeline in a way even the old moguls couldn’t dream off.

Monopolies aren't capitalist. We prevent them to open real competition, innovation, quality, and the occasional movie that wasn't filtered through a Teslabot in Netflix's HR wearing an Apple Vision Pro.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

The teenager bagging groceries today asked if I wanted my bread on top.

I said yes.

He nodded seriously and said, "Good call. Structural integrity is everything."

Then he arranged my bags like he was building a cathedral.

His coworker laughed at him.

But my bread arrived home unpunched, my tomatoes unbrushed.

Sometimes the people who care too much about small things are exactly who we need.

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

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[Vionna @Kurlycheeks]

Unless you have your own farm with your own organic manure. Fruits and veggies being sold are so full of pesticides and chemicals You still have chances of getting sick even when you eat healthy. Also protein and iron from meat is very important. Everything has its benefits.

[✨Flambo in Wonderland✨ 🇰🇪 @kookycuckoo]

@AIRTEL_KE Kindly check dm

[✨Flambo in Wonderland✨ 🇰🇪 @kookycuckoo]

@AIRTEL_KE @iattumikk Same issue kindly check DM

[Alliance Girls' High School Alumnae Association @AGHSAlumni]

July 7 Update, Next Steps
Confidential support email: [email protected]
For alumnae volunteers:
https://t.co/GzOVzZ3gzU

[Dr. Strange @Imonaar]

📌

[Christine Mungai @chris_mungai]

For years, whispers have circulated at my alma mater, Alliance Girls High School, about a teacher who allegedly blurred boundaries with his students. Now, after 4 years of reporting - and a legal battle to silence it - this investigation is finally public.
https://t.co/r15tY3YvXC

[Christine Mungai @chris_mungai]

Part II of our investigation is out: Ex-AGHS student Mo Mwangi shares a deeply documented account, with texts, journals, evidence. It reveals not just abuse disguised as mentorship, but a collapse of trust across every layer of her life.

https://t.co/SaGz1n5wsO

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

All Kenyan professionals should take a long hard look at themselves and see how clueless they were when the economy started being smashed by neoliberal programs.

Theology was the first to be smashed with prosperity gospel in the 1990s.

Then lecturers were the next in the 2000s with the talk of market driven courses and consultancies for NGOs. Ask a Kenyan lecturer about neoliberalism and if they don't know, don't look surprised.

Then doctors were smashed in 2017. Because they considered themselves the best and brightest, they refused to listen when we told them that they had to also see themselves as workers.

Teachers were next. The war on teachers started in 2010 when Muigai and donors experimented with untrained teachers, but the final blow came when KNUT was crushed and Sossion forced to leave. Competency was designed to create a hierarchy in teaching and relegate new teachers to thankless jobs in JSS.

By the time the Finance Bill came last year, there was no social space to speak out against austerity. The youth were left exposed and forced to fight Goliath with stones.

It's been a 30 year decline and we didn't see it because we believed the lie that thinking is not for Africans. Journalists were the biggest culprit after politicians in entrenching that lie.

[little drama boy @ojimmycee]

Algo said, "Hold my beer."

[Dr. Njoki Ngumi @njokingumi]

"Jidishi" is a very elegant and euphemistic way to say "go fuck yourself"

Much simpler and clearer than the English. Wondering where quasicolonial ideas of sounding intellectual during insults are coming from when the world of the insult generally is deep and wide