I’ll take shitstorm for $100, Alex.

Elections are still coming. “Inflation” hasn’t been tamed. We’re also waiting for the next pandemic. Planetary thermal events are in progress. Mega drought in the American Southwest threatens to cripple hydroelectric power generation and agriculture for millions.

Normal? That’s just what they want you to think.

Arkansas, where transparency goes to die. Apparently.

Fun fact: “obsfurcate” is used in the article. It is not recognized as a word by any dictionary consulted.

WTG TechCrunch.

Nope.

Engagement numbers help the IPO, this in turn would put more $$ in u/spez pocket and that I will not support.

You’re lucky if the communities you have followed survived intact or unaffected. The tenor of my feed was changing for the worse before the API protests. When I left, after? It was a shithole.

Sure, there are communities that I miss, that are absent, or have weak, or hard to find presences. But the solution isn’t to go lurk and buff those engagement metrics, in my somewhat Reddit hostile opinion.

Back of a church.

Fuck Meta and Mark.

Archive link https://archive.ph/kAVbV

kbin.social to start with, posted in random, now another kbin. is being used, but I didn’t note the suffix.

“You won’t find it in the dictionary”. No shit.

Climate crisis? I have people manage! ~ middle management everywhere

Squeeze the subscribers wallets! Squeeze!

Thank the party of trickle down for the bulk of that.

With a side of hallucinations.

There goes the Texas grid, for damn sure.

Clarkesworld Magazine and anything from Skyboat Media.

Kate Baker narrates the former, Stephen Rudniki a lot of the latter’s content and both deliver sonorous, resonant readings that are easy to nod off with.

Along the same lines, but not a podcast, McFadden narrates a docuseries on all things Trek, “The Center seat”, on Amazon currently.

Somebody had to get the ball rolling; since on this side of the pond trolling the opposition, glad handing donors and energizing our base takes precedence over existential threats of any kind.

Credit card for the rewards, paid monthly. Keep cash for tipping and small stuff.

It all comes down to greed and enshitification in the end.

55” infotainment screen, in a fucking vehicle? That’s what I have in my living room. 🤯