There are some eye-opening anecdotes in this story. I knew private Signal chats were big, but the bit about the Harpers Letter people is hilarious. When it came out, I had called out how some in the group were using others as human shields, and that seems clear from this...
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It will be a minor note in the history of all this but the utter inability of Schumer to understand what's happening and to respond appropriately is historically bad in its own way
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Listen to Anil. Screaming about how tech is evil doesn't help. Making sure that the tech is used properly with the control in the hands of people to empower themselves, rather than at the whims of billionaires enriching themselves is important.
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People and their stupid opinions. Every time.
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), and apparently you can now pull those out of Surf and make them Bluesky custom feeds (in Surf they also include content from other platforms, but in bsky, it's all bsky content).
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Kind of incredible that it's judge Doughty who is speaking up about this also. Doughty is one of that group of Trump judges often willing to give the MAGA world everything they want. He issued the crazy July 4th ruling that banned the federal gov't from talking to ANY social media company.
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