Mona
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On Linux forums I, a woman, would get ignored and disrespected. These days I ask my question, then switch to a fake account to give a completely wrong answer, then switch back again to thank them and praise their Linux knowledge. The experts show up right away. Sorted.
A hell of a graphic from the Economic Policy Institute
Strongly-worded letters alone ain't gonna do it.
1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
An alternate version of this graph sorted by total funding changes rather than percentages is revealing
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last yr.They're dismantling (what remains of) the social safety net and replacing it with a dragnet instead.
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Using "liberal" to mean "cowardly and reactionary" is a way a tiny fraction, say, the 5% of furthest left people in the U.S., guarantee they sound unintelligible to the 95% of everyone else.
I could watch this stuff all day. The people, yes! youtu.be/xUTsnnLIVA0?...
Trump TOWN HALL Ends in SUDDEN DISASTER Tonight: "HOLY SH*T!"
YouTube video by Pro-Democracy Network
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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2y ago"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks" www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
Smell test passed Not to say the merger should be allowed (it should not) but WSJ gonna WSJ 🙃 www.wsj.com/business/med...
Exclusive | X Hinted at Possible Deal Trouble in Talks With Ad Giant to Increase Spending
Interpublic Group recently signed an advertising agreement with the social-media platform; other agencies are also in negotiations.
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News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · last yr.Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
404media.co
Governance and cybersecurity models generally assume the agency leader isn’t leading the cyberattack
I wrote about Gannett’s plan to kill off one of the last pieces of American legacy media to resist financialization: The Associated Press. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/wall-stree...
Wall Street declares war on the Associated Press
Gannett and Reuters come for one of the final corners for legacy media that had resisted the financialization of journalism.
mattdpearce.substack.com
