Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.

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Balls & Strikes | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

The modern Supreme Court has inflicted damage on our democracy few thought possible. It stopped calling balls and strikes long ago. Captured by ideology and money, it now serves itself and its party, not the people.

Puerto Rico, A Colony by @biancagraulau.bsky.social

didn’t make this slop, but agree with this slop’s message lol

The Worst Guide To Path of Exile

“what if meth had a skill check..?” #pathofexile

Tech layoffs tracker 2026: All the job losses across Uber, Apple, TikTok, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle and others

Fun times we live in - the slop continues to accumulate size as it continues its accelerated descent downhill

In his own words..

US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material | TechCrunch

So I heard copyright is dead.. Let the floodgates open I say techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/u...

State of SaaS

Why the DOJ Is Pursuing Low-Level Fraud Cases

Virtue signaling youtube.com/shorts/WdltE...

Linux will save your computer

I don't know what this means, but once I got the vision I had to make it.

Pluralistic: Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Probably spot on take on Zuck and many like him pluralistic.net/2026/08/06/s...

The Trump effect!

How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms

So CBS and others invested in a pro trump audience that won’t arrive, alienating their actual audience, and trump propagandists are losing audience bc people are souring on Trump. Also helps explain the increased racist shrieking as they try to farm engagement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Gödel's Loophole - Wikipedia

“Gödel's Loophole is a supposed "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which the AustrianAmerican logician, mathematician, & analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit America's republican structure to be legally turned into a dictatorship”

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.