A PSA: do NOT download the White House app. It is doing something very weird with the sandbox permissions you give it. Which I’m not sure yet, but is likely against every service term and developer agreement on earth. I downloaded it so you don’t have to onto an air gapped old iPad. It is phoning home, asking for way too much personal data, and attempting to bypass location services permissions. Aside from the propaganda, it’s a security nightmare.
and y’all need to STOP treating kalshi and polymarket as if they’re The News. they are BETTING platforms, and treating them as if they’re AP or reuters (who they steal their “reporting” from) lends them legitimacy that they did not earn and do not deserve.
I’m still remembering the few people on the left who insisted to me in 2024 that Trump would somehow be better for Gaza, and less pro-Israel, pro-genocide, than Biden/Harris.
Sigh.
All of Ed Sheeran’s openers have now withdrawn from the Looper Tour. Please realize how big this is. This is what unity looks like. Billionaires are terrified of people realizing how strong they can be when we come together for a cause. Continue speaking out. Support the new artists that are deciding to put their careers at risk to take this stance.
What am I to do when a business wants me, a human, to buy their product, but it doesn’t see enough value in humans to make, advertise, or sell it? What does that say about the value of the product? What does that say about how the business sees me, and about the business itself?
the kids are risk averse because they live under a surveillance state we did not and one single mistake will follow you for life and everyone will find out
Colbert interviews James Talarico. CBS won’t air it.
Kimmel interviews James Talarico. ABC won’t air it.
Both end up on YouTube amid FCC equal-time pressure.
When broadcasters fear government consequences for airing political interviews, PAY ATTENTION.
You don’t have to become China or Russia overnight.
The warning signs come first.
I really don't want to harp on this person but I really need my English teacher friends to hammer home to their students the idea that you are the Reader, a particular and vital role in the literary world, and not the Author nor the Characters.