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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 23/06/2025
Death of a Fantastic Machine, a short documentary on the camera and how the increasing ability & rewards of misleading with images has shaped our society. “Not gonna sugar-coat it: this video made me want to throw my phone in the ocean, destroy my TV…” [kottke.org]
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Death of a Fantastic Machine
Death of a Fantastic Machine (aka the camera) is a short documentary on “what happens when humanity’s infatuation with itself and an untethered free market meet 45 billion cameras”…and now AI. It’s about how — since
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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
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Kara Jane Adams @ghostinexile.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.
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Simon @scheiber.space · 24/03/2025
Sounds like you had a Döner in The Netherlands, haha!
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 06/01/2025
Seeing an online ad shouldn’t mean surrendering your data to thousands of companies you’ve never heard of. It’s time to end online behavioral advertising and the mass surveillance it enables.
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Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How
Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliv...
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Sean Bonner 🔥 @seanbonner.com · 23/12/2024
Imagine that, getting cars out of cities and encouraging people to walk, bike, take trains, etc drastically reduces pollution.
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Sarfraz Manzoor @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
This is apparently from the New York Times 100 years ago this week. History is full of these forgotten characters but it would be fascinating to know what if anything happened to this Hitler character.
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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Thinking about the AI Coke ad and this is my most "we used to be a real country" moment
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