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Krause's isn't a canny operator who roots out waste: he's a guy who tears out all the wiring and then grudgingly restores the minimum needed to keep the machine running (no wonder Musk loves him, this is the Twitter playbook)
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
"I don't know how the Democrats came to a point where Jasmine Crockett is the unquestioned leader of your party, but thank God, and I think what she should do is go on TV twice as much as she is right now, maybe three times as much!"
I agree with Scott Jennings 100% of the way! https://t.co/Sw3LGhvfz1
Nick Adamsx.comWhile most of the coverage of Musk's wrecking crew has focused on the broccoli-haired Gen Z brownshirts who are wilding through the server rooms at giant, critical government agencies, Tkacik homes in on their boss, Tom Krause, whom she memorably dubs "the Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets" (I told you... See more
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
At stake is not just the future of a 240 year old newspaper, The Observer, the Sunday sister of the Guardian, it’s also the integrity and values of the Guardian and the future media landscape of a fractured and dangerous world.
I’ve always believed what I was told, that the Guardian was different to other news organisations. It’s owned, not by a bil... See more
I’ve always believed what I was told, that the Guardian was different to other news organisations. It’s owned, not by a bil... See more
Carole Cadwalladr • How to Speak Truth to Power
It is ironic, or providential, that Reform sparked civil war by exiling @RupertLowe10 on Ash Wednesday:
By putting the pursuit of power over principle, the best chance the national populist right has will spend a long time wandering in the political desert — time that the country does not have.
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Grok is now claiming a convicted murderer and child rapist is innocent because the ADL told him
Yo @elonmusk, come and get your boy and check him into rehab
Grok was legit for a minute now it just repeats whatever the ADL tells it
Also free Gab
Jake Shieldsx.comThat was a reference to another tweet from Shriver, who had written on Jan. 1 in the wake of Vukov being hired: “It’s time for our entire sport to finally stand up to known abuse and cult-like manipulations of players.