Michael Grossman

Co-founder of @Factr, an ethical social network. (Member-driven. Ad-free. Privacy-first.) Recovering magazine maker. (Views are mine. RTs are not endorsements.)

[Michael Grossman @michaelgrossman]

Want to understand the forces working against the internet being the worldwide commons it should be? This @dsearls talk is not new, but it's well worth listening to now and then for its beautifully accessible overview. https://t.co/X8uv7JXuQy

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@ThatEricAlper Not as classic as most of what’s been mentioned here, but worth a listen: Bahamas, "All the Time” https://t.co/SixbpgTxMq

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@IBKing46 @Villapiano41 @Raiders CB Alonzo “Skip” Thomas (aka Dr. Death)

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@CameronGuarigl2 @pjstarlord @MitchellRenz365 Well, THAT escalated quickly. They both talked openly about viscera?! 😱 To each his own, but I definitely didn't see that coming.

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Whoa, wait, WHAT?! God is coming to Rally? And this email contains Einstein’s hot take?! Now THAT is a compelling subject line. Hey, @OnRallyRd please share the open rate on this email, compared to your norms!

[Michael Grossman @michaelgrossman]

This thread is a must-read. And you need to take it one small but horrifying step further: most of your access to information is built on a business model that depends on the practices Reeve describes.

[Robert G. Reeve @RobertGReeve]

I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that.

As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵

[Wendell Potter @wendellpotter]

Lately I’ve noticed some Democratic politicians defending the current healthcare system by saying it preserves “choice” for Americans. As a former health insurance exec who helped draft this talking point, I need to come clean on its back story, and why it's wrong and a trap 1/11

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@TomBenthin @soledadobrien FYI: Not sure which Michael Grossman you intended to accuse, but it wasn't the one you @'ed.

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Hurry on up. It's closer than you think. https://t.co/HlZ21YLeuS

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@betaworkstudios Root of all evil? Best invention ever? Certainly neither.

I'd say the needle is on the positive side, but it's slipping in the wrong direction—and we need to give it a sustained push.

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@helen_phung @davidauerbach @fredbenenson @Roadie Was gonna say. 👍

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@emilynussbaum (Not mine. I always misattributed it to you, @DougBrod, but I think you corrected me that it was Carrie Weiner?)

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@emilynussbaum One of my faves, for a review of "In the Line of Fire," the Clint Eastwood flick where he played a Secret Service agent haunted by his failure to take a bullet for JFK in Dallas: "Knoll Coward"

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@emilynussbaum @TotzkeM Video killed the radio star.

But SEO killed the punster.

😡

[Karrie Jacobs @KarrieUrbanist]

Here's anotherTWA photo from the Feb. 1963 issue of Domus, credited to Eames. It's "la scala centrale." I wonder about that guy in the middle.

My @architectmag story on the TWA hotel:

https://t.co/Xbg7rrWNwK

[Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum]

I realize there's no textual evidence for this, but I think Bran was actually faking all the raven/worging stuff, because the kid's got a real Fyre Festival vibe to him. He's probably off stealing everyone's social security numbers.

[Michael Grossman @michaelgrossman]

@lmatsakis Wouldn't it feel better if ad-free mode were the default, and the $20 was a discount you received for opting INTO ads?