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Willow ᓚᘏᗢ's avatar Willow ᓚᘏᗢ @willowashmaple.bsky.social
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Manually typing "ATDT 206..."

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Bloomberg's avatar Bloomberg @bloomberg.com
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🎙 NEW: China’s Luckin Coffee is the nation’s top coffee retailer, overtaking even Starbucks. But just a few years ago, it filed for bankruptcy.

How did it manage the turnaround? Listen to the Big Take Asia podcast ⬇ link.podtrac.com/73kxj8my

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David Slack's avatar David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social
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This is still up on a wall in Hilo, HI. Never give up!

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Electronic Frontier Foundation's avatar Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org
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Cory Doctorow coined the term “enshittification:” a pattern in which online platforms trap us, then treat us more and more like commodities. He joins this season's final “How to Fix the Internet” episode to talk about breaking out of the downward spiral.

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Claire Willett's avatar Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social
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“softened language” = we started to realize this shit was polling badly so we are going to return to doing it quietly instead of loudly in the hopes that you forget

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Willow ᓚᘏᗢ's avatar Willow ᓚᘏᗢ @willowashmaple.bsky.social
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This is such an absurd crap. What's next, lock up Martinellis and Welch's (yes Welch's was originally sold as a NA wine alternative)? Paternalism is bad regardless of where that's coming from, and the government and politicians should better stay out of this.
www.npr.org/2024/07/08/n...

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Pavel's avatar Pavel @spavel.bsky.social
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.

AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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the purpose of a system is not what IT SAYS IT DOES or what you want it to do but what it actually does.

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Ian's avatar Ian @ianagp.bsky.social
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A lot of people have advice on doomerism, nihilism and optimism. I'll say this: let it radicalize you. Your anger is a gift, feel it the way you want to feel it.

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Willow ᓚᘏᗢ's avatar Willow ᓚᘏᗢ @willowashmaple.bsky.social
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"It’s hard to worry about social justice when all I am worried about is my experience of God, my feeling the Spirit present in me, or my evolution to the next level of consciousness. If I believe that reality is consciousness then it’s easy to say that what I am not aware of doesn’t exist."

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Axle's avatar Axle @armpit.bsky.social
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Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what

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Electronic Frontier Foundation's avatar Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org
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Requiring people to prove they are adults before accessing social media could block millions of Americans from accessing lawful speech.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation's avatar Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org
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Section 5 of the FTC Act lets the agency clobber "deceptive acts" by companies. What could be more deceptive than replacing a human rep with a chatbot that can't stop "hallucinating" (AKA "lying")?

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Willow ᓚᘏᗢ's avatar Willow ᓚᘏᗢ @willowashmaple.bsky.social
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GEO mostly runs ICE detention centers and a handful of state prisons. Most houseless folks end up in county jails on misdemeanor charges. So I doubt there's a direct connection, but investors often trade stocks not always based on reason.

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legal cat 🐾's avatar legal cat 🐾 @legalcat.bsky.social
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GEO Group is one of the biggest private prison companies in America and I just find it convenient that their stocks jumped 14% since homelessness was criminalized this week. Anyone taken a peek at SCOTUS’ investment portfolios lately?

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Willow ᓚᘏᗢ's avatar Willow ᓚᘏᗢ @willowashmaple.bsky.social
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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Galbraith

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kilgore trout's avatar kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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something I really enjoy about living through the junktech era is every day I get to log in and watch a heated competition between the worst products you’ve ever imagined to see who can embarrass themselves the most

t.co/ddXrEDWhu9

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Electronic Frontier Foundation's avatar Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org
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“This (Cellebrite phone hacking) extraction process is routine and used on countless devices for minor offenses... This level of easy access has grave impacts on our privacy and civil liberties," EFF’s @legind.bsky.social told @reason.com.

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Willow ᓚᘏᗢ's avatar Willow ᓚᘏᗢ @willowashmaple.bsky.social
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More importantly: Carceral feminism is 💩💩💩

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Willow ᓚᘏᗢ's avatar Willow ᓚᘏᗢ @willowashmaple.bsky.social
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Whenever I encounter one of those "Keep Prisons Single Sex" (Terfs) I notice that they never seem to critique this U.S. practice of allowing men to work in women's prisons as guards or any other roles directly interacting with female prisoners. But it's all transes fault, amirite? Priorities!

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)'s avatar Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone
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i love that we went from telling my generation not to use wikipedia because it wasn't reliable to telling people to use chatgpt

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