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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026

A statement from WIRED leadership.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google were found liable and must pay damages to a 20-year-old woman who alleged that her addiction to the companies’ social media platforms caused her to suffer a mental health crisis, a jury said."

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Meta, Google Found Liable in Social Media Addiction Case

Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google were found liable and must pay damages to a 20-year-old woman who alleged that her addiction to the companies’ social media platforms caused her to suffe...

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Jury holds Meta and Google liable for role in young woman's mental health issues The jury also decided that their actions should trigger punitive damages - there will be a separate phase of the trial where the jury will decide what amount of damages are appropriate www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

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Jury holds Meta and Google liable for role in young woman's mental health issues

The verdict marks the end of the first-ever jury trial over whether tech giants should be held accountable for social media addiction. It may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Meta and YouTube found negligent in LA social media trial

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

@nauerbach.com Thoughts on Chambliss NFL draft stock after this game?

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

@nauerbach.com Pula was right... The refs just want to be on TV

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

It's always the threat that that might leave...

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

What if AI isn't leading us to utopia or Skynet—but instead is amplifying the extraction in our current economy? From a circular investing bubble, the hollowing out of bullshit jobs, to AI slop we are just amplifying the same playbook. www.delta-fund.org/ai-as-accele...

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AI as Accelerant: Amplifying Extraction, Not Escaping It

Forget utopia or Skynet. AI isn't a revolution. It's a powerful accelerant for the extractive capitalism already breaking our world.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The devil is always in the details. This detail is a little devil. This "board of peace" will likely sell off Gaza assets to wealthy developers for cheap. Or something else that doesn't benefit Palestinians. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Trump and Netanyahu hold press conference to announce plan to ‘end Gaza conflict’ – live

Hamas still must agree to proposal; Trump hosted phone call between US, Israel and Qatar during which Netanyahu ‘expressed deep regret’ for attacking Doha

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

If you want to know one source for where the drive to violence is coming from, look no further than Jesse Watters. He might as well give the next shooter a gun.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

In "End Times", Peter Turchin speaks of the rise of political violence when you have gross wealth inequality, an immiserated public and fighting between the elites and counter elites. Historically this leads to a disintegration of societies. We are deep in this cycle in America.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Much like the Democratic party in the United States, political parties around the world are selling out to private capital. @graceblakeley.substack.com highlights the UK Labour party selling out the working class. substack.com/@graceblakel...

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Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley)

The Labour Party is now owned by lobbyists 🤑 graceblakeley.substack.com/p/labour-has-sold-out

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Jake L and Hyde @jaykayell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The many issues with the current Labour government laid out clearly by @graceblakeley.substack.com

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Really clear chart showing what I think many people feel - climate disasters are accelerating while we fail to act decisively

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

EX GREEN BERET: “In my entire career, I never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate & unnecessary force against an unarmed, starving civilian population until I was in Gaza at the hands of IDF & US contractors… without question, war crimes.”

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This--that Signal would rather exit a market than undermine the core security and privacy technology that protects the people who use Signal--always still holds. We don't change our principles based on jurisdiction, legislative attack, or time of day...

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Ok. Fine. I finally accept that we are living in a simulation.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

"Equity-washing" is the story private equity tells to align a worker's loyalty with an investor's short-term profit motive. It offers the feeling of ownership to motivate the workforce. A bonus for workers, while the temporary owners keep the long-term wealth. www.delta-fund.org/post/equity-...

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Equity-Washing: KKR, Ownership Works and The Polished New Face of Corporate Greed

"Equity-Washing" is a predatory PR strategy, not a revolution in worker empowerment. Private equity giants like KKR use the language of "shared ownership" as a cynical ploy to boost their reputation a...

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Desantis says it's ok to run over protesters...

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The founders warned us about men like Trump. #NoKings

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Quitting my lucrative job as an international fentanyl smuggler to pursue my true passion, vacuuming the hallways of a Holiday Inn Express

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

FWIW Hogg is right and we need to reboot the Democratic party - which by necessity requires replacing current ineffective Dems with new candidates who can lead with policies that actually help Americans

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‘You essentially destroyed any chance I have,’ DNC chair told David Hogg in private meeting

Ken Martin expressed frustration and self-doubt in a meeting with other party leaders, according to a two-minute recording obtained by POLITICO.

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Magnus Lehnsherr @i-magnus.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Greta Thunberg announces she and her shipmates have been kidnapped by Israeli forces presumably for the crime of delivering aid to Palestinian residents.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Peter Turchin's research team built a database of hundreds of societies across 10,000 years to try to find out what causes deep political crises. There are two clear drivers: The first is popular immiseration—when the economic fortunes of broad swaths of a population decline.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Facebook now doing what they wanted to do all along

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared.” Lindsay Toczylowski represents 31-year-old Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela who was flown to a notorious prison by the Trump administration after seeking asylum in the U.S. MORE: www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Two crown tattoos were the only evidence the government presented in Andry’s asylum case before he was sent to a Salvadoran prison. Immigration authorities suspected the tattoo was gang-related, but his lawyer says his parents’ names are below the crowns, and they honor his mom and dad.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Please pay attention to what is happening. These authoritarian acts must not be tolerated or ignored.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

People don't understand how broadly signal is used in the United States government for the explicit reason that messages can be set to disappear and leave no lasting record for the public. So many shocking details in this story.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This. Message. Is. Working. Time to throw out the Dem leadership that since Bill Clinton focused on Wall Street instead of the working class. Time to elevate leaders who can return the party to a pro-worker party.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This is an excellent article on Careless People - well with the read

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I just finished Careless People and it rings true to me. I didn't work in these policy areas but I did work with many of the people and the descriptions of them resonate. I learned new details of things I saw at the company that were worse than I expected.

Photo of the book Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The fact that this is happening in America is appalling. Read the article and take to heart Jasmine's words that others have it worse. This isn't the America we should want.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

WIRED gives me hope that journalism can serve the public well again. This is a great move that others should follow. And subscribe - I have and found incredibly valuable

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This is a really important statement from one of the co-founders of Meta (Facebook when he co-founded it)

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This is... Unbelievable. Another clear autocratic step.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The pre Civil war south is a good example of an economic zone that didn't have labor or environmental regulations.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame

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