Like I am going to read Nerd Reich but I have been reading about this in the mainstream press for years and years. And of course WIRED has covered the bejeezus out of it and there’s so much indie reporting. The frame warfare here deserves better arguments than “No one is covering it.” RE:
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The claim that no one in mainstream media is covering the influence of tech money in the rise of authoritarianism, which I just heard Gil Duran say on KQED, makes me feel insane. [www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...](
The New Yorker
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
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The New Yorker
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
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My eyes keep being weird so I'm trying to find non-text ways to get the information I need, and man, national daily news audio is a real hellscape of people acting either two notches dumber (relatability!) or two notches smarter (counterintuitive cleverness!) than they actually appear to be.
And yet wherever ICE and CBP show up in force, young people do come out to protect their neighbors—and at far greater risk to themselves than the risks posed by mass protests that may help in a diffuse way, or may work more like an accountability sink than a countermove. RE:
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Dan Ancona (@danancona.bsky.social)
Fantastic data in here. Was just talking to a neighbor about the age curve at No Kings. Not an easy thing to fix. [contains quote post or other em...
The child for whom I have been collecting books recs was given the chance to request a book for the school library and she asked for an, uh, body horror…caper? About ancient fish gods that eat human fear? And it has arrived. So she is now slowly converting her classmates to the fish cult.
🎁📚 People who acquire books for middle schoolers: many banger recs await you in the replies to this post RE:
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my brain saw “whistleblowers” and “leave“ and told me FEMA got rid of leafblowers so make fun of me all you want but it’s better in here RE:
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Zahra Hirji (@zhirji.bsky.social)
In a reversal from this morning, FEMA puts whistleblowers back on leave after reinstating them Gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...
This year’s holiday recs request: Moar Books for child (12) who finally got to read the Murderbots and loved them the most, but is not ready for Locked Tomb levels of grief and death. Preferences in next post.
Another fantastic recs thread, this one for kids RE:
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The hour comes round again for winter mysteries RE:
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