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I am the least technical sort of guy, operating on a sense of techno-poetics that has next to nothing to do with actual function.

Oh please. “The people.” Your filter bubble of right-wing courtiers and sycophants, you mean.

Reading back through Trump’s now-restored tweets is a useful reminder of broad complicity in the leadup to 1/6 really was.

In looking for a Twitter replacement, please beware of any service that will 1) depend on ads and 2) use algorithms to decide what posts to boost into your feed. That inevitably creates a poisonous vicious cycle: chasing engagement, encouraging clickbait, provocation, and rage.

.Lauren Boebert you have played a major role in elevating anti-LGBT+ hate rhetoric and anti-trans lies while spending your time in Congress blocking even the most common sense gun safety laws. You don’t get to “thoughts and prayers” your way out of this. Look inward and change.

The next question is how was this person able to buy and keep guns

Attack on LGBTQ+, attack on Pelosis, attack on law enforcement, threats against Boston Children's Hospital, intimidation of educators --- all individuals and groups targeted by right-wing media and GOP politicians. Connection is clear to see. Why does the majority tolerate this?

“Do they have a plan for what to do if they succeed in diminishing respect for the Justice Department and with it society’s confidence in the rule of law? Not likely.” Read this and beware the MAGA jihad against the FBI and the Justice Department. . . latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Was talking with four e-car enthusiasts and likely buyers today - none will now consider a Tesla. "It just screams asshole." This is a recent phenomenon.

So many of William Gibson’s characters are well realized in this adaptation of The Peripheral, but none more indelibly than Alexandra Billings as Inspector Lowbeer. She owns every scene. As the inspector should.

I’ve seen enough. Elon Musk’s Twitter is not for me.

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President Johnson's notes for his remarks to Cabinet today 1963: "I need each of you to tell me what the problems are. . . .I want you to speak frankly, candidly....I want you all to stay on. I need you."

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Now comes the petty tyrant, wielding his tiny whip on behalf of America’s overlords. [If you’re still on Twitter … what would be the last straw?] theintercept.com/2023/09/15/uaw…

James Gleick on the neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell’s scientific argument for free will go.nybooks.com/48xrtzF