part 2, in which he demonstrates how he's taking his cognitive and physical decline very well https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreigc63dbjerydx7ybhxd4ytkxsfwiv6bjis3igkl2nkbhbt7vbaqtm

sorry that your grandma died from botulism in her arugula, that your health insurance costs six times your mortgage, that your car no longer adheres to basic safety standards, that you have absolutely zero privacy online, that your kids' toys have lead paint and your town's table water is toxic

because the press has utterly failed at their foundational job of conveying basic truths on the corrupt dismantling of corporate oversight, most Americans are going to be caught flat-footed in the months and years to come as the concussive harms of this generational destruction come home to roost

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Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar." fancy that Jared Kushner is part of Param...

this pretty much guarantees months and months of performative bullshit by Trump and Ellison and right wing media about how Netflix ownership would be a woke antitrust nightmare, but letting Larry and his nepobaby son dominate U.S. media would be a delightful, populist spritzer It’s a Bidding War: Paramount ...

yeah I'd like this all to accelerate a crowdfunded media revolution, which is already kind of happening

these are all terrible options, and if we lived in a functioning democracy with working regulators we'd think nothing of putting a blanket end to pointless media consolidation these deals are always terrible for product quality, consumers, art and labor, but this is always downplayed in coverage. Paramount throws in more cash ...

DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it View quoted note →