Thrilled that @theguardian.com has run this fantastic profile of @gilduran.com and his intrepid reporting on the hard right turn coming out of Silicon Valley-- his forthcoming THE NERD REICH is as gripping and urgent as they come, a staggering piece of writing that puts the bigger picture together

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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Google - a thrice-convicted monopolist - is the gateway to the internet, with more than a 90% search market share that it attained by buying out all its competitors and bribing Apple more than $20b/year not to start a rival search engine: www.democracynow.org/2024/8/6/goo... 3/

Google Is a Monopoly: Judge Rules Against Tech Giant in Landmark Antitrust Case

In the biggest antitrust case in decades, a federal judge ruled Monday that Google illegally maintains a monopoly over the online search industry, using its market dominance to shut out competitors an...

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This man might go to prison for allegedly wiping his phone before DHS officials could search it. No warrant for the phone, no specific claim of what 'evidence' might be on it. But he used a duress/wipe password, leading to the charge Watch more and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmik...

crescendo

WIRED@wired.com · yesterday

In all their years of reporting on energy and the environment, WIRED’s Senior Climate Writer Molly Taft has never seen anything like the type of vitriol leveled at data centers, or the near-religious fury that has built up around their construction.

We've been heads down in the bad news mine all day, so here's something uplifting that is not immigration related, and demonstrates how literally NO ONE wants data centers in their backyard. Calvert County, Maryland is as deep red as they come.

Amazon abandons plans for data center campus at Calvert Cliffs - Maryland Matters

Amazon Web Services is abandoning its plans to develop data centers on the campus of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, a move that comes after fierce voter pushback against hyperscale data cente...

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A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks

Crashing our tax payer rocket into moon for shits and giggles .. Because that’s what they do. Destroy for fun

Oh he’s wrecking the moon now

SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the moon - here's what we know will happen

Space-tracking expert Bill Gray predicts an impact speed of 5,400mph - seven times the speed of sound - near Einstein Crater on the moon's sunlit western limb when it hits.

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Cabinet card from my collection. It doesn’t really look like anyone was enjoying picture day. 

Common it’s Palantir, the all embracing evil eye of PeterT, of course it will.

Glyn Moody@glynmoody.bsky.social · yesterday

NHS England admits its paperwork hid that #Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data - thenextweb.com/news/nhs-eng... just as we warned

I thought it was a battle between Israel aka aipac and common sense.

TPM@talkingpointsmemo.com · yesterday

The increasingly acrimonious Senate primary between Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) and public health official Abdul El-Sayed draws to a close tonight, and with it, the biggest battle yet of the moderates versus progressives proxy war. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/michiga...

Whoever allowed this shitshow to be made into reality should be …… forever.

Glyn Moody@glynmoody.bsky.social · yesterday

Even #deepfake experts can't tell what's real anymore - www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026... "#AI fakes weaponised by propagandists and politicians are increasingly convincing – and harder to spot"

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

This is absolutely beautiful and powerful tribute to the Lorax and I shall write it up with care and love and put it where I will see it first thing, so I will never forget.

Dr. Jack Brown@drjackbrown.bsky.social · yesterday

"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees..."

Exactly. And from a pure business perspective dear Bluesky suits, the conservative bubble doesn’t need more platforms, it’s saturated and if you think Bluesky will benefit from making it yet another nasty mess, you will be yet another footnote of failure.

Secret Agent Number Six@designationsix.bsky.social · yesterday

Why do we need to "address the Liberal bubble on Bluesky" and not the Conservative bubble on TwitterX, Anti-Truth Social, or the news media?

LibraryGram/Library Tok is some of the most ruthless.

Ben Zipperer@benzipperer.org · 2d ago

public libraries ftw

And that is the only reason I am here.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

BREAKING: ​The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.

This is the best, it’s always darkest before dawn, story, I’ve seen for a long time. Made a profound ray of joy inside. Bless her heart. What a brilliant storyteller and a wonderful human.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

Roy DeCarava Harlem, New York, 1950 #roydecarava #photography #nyc

In some cases, secret mega-donors are outspending grassroots campaigns by 10 to 1. That's not a functioning democracy. We need real campaign finance reform, so politicians answer to working people—not special interests.

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Emily Wilson has received a lot of pushback for her review of 'The Odyssey,' but i found it rather cathartic. After all, i've been making similar criticisms of Nolan for years. So, inspired by Wilson, here is a review of 'Oppenheimer.'👇 kalikoba.substack.com/p/i-believe-...

Cat fight. 🤡

The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 3d ago

Laura Loomer has advised JD Vance that he needs to “destroy” Tucker Carlson if he wants to make his presidential dreams a reality.

Unfortunately this Kennedy is the undead Kennedy. He appears to be put all together from griftglue.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

Anxiety

Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.

olivia.science

A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

Exactly

John Lubbock@jwsal.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is good. I’ll always remember my A level Economics teacher, who taught me that some things cannot and should not be run for profit because they are not amenable to marketisation. www.theguardian.com/business/202...