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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 4d

The same thing is happening to healthcare. First, the enterprise builds something useful, even necessary. Then, it grows, due to the sheer utility. The final step is this: attention turns from utility to profiteering. Quality goes down while costs go up. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

The Age of Enshittification

In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 9h

I'd bet most farmers take the bailout because it's life or death, *and* they'll blame the GOP for terrible trade policy and deny them their votes.

I trust that farmers know a lot more about farm economics than anyone in the administration.

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 13h

“You must be communicating with your eyes to the other riders in the street. Your decisions must be based on what is best for the flow of traffic, not what is best for your trip in particular.”

Harald Kliems @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14h

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/how-i-learned-to-cycle-like-a-dutchman
Nice story of an American moving to the Netherlands temporarily with his family and adapting to the different style of cycling there.

How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman

In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying.

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 1d

The purpose of leaf blowers is to give people a sense that they’re doing useful work, not to blow leaves.

Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 1d

The GOP has so thoroughly been conned by Trump that they can't back out now — their whole worldview will shatter.

Imagine selling out America for a mean old bastard illegitimate President who wears a "TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING" hat! Like wtf gop gfy.

GOP = bad judge of character.

Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 1d

rachelruysch.bsky.social @rachelruysch.bsky.social · 2d

This year may be remembered as one of the gravest for marine mammals on record. Or, more worryingly, a sign that our ocean environment is changing so drastically that in some places and seasons, it’s becoming uninhabitable for the life it holds.

Humans = death 😭
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Marine mammals are dying in record numbers along the California coast

It's been a doozy of a year for marine mammals, who have been dying in record numbers along the California coast. Volunteer rescue crews are traumatized and fatigued, but refuse to give up.

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 1d

Correction: Seen behind Alcatraz Island here is Angel Island.

Google Map screenshot showing position of photographer, looking north from San Francisco to Alcatraz Island and beyond to Angel Island in San Francisco Bay.

Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 1d

The Joe Rogan interview with Trump — 3 hours! — reveals that Trump will never, ever confront his whole humanity. Trump is a charlatan, a colossal fraud backed by the hard income of real estate. His ability to avoid consequences has created a monster; he's unable to be real. He's our problem now.

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 1d

Timeline cleanse 🐸💚

Alcatraz Island seen from San Francisco, California

Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, with fog-shrouded Marin County hills behind it, as viewed past the walls and foliage of San Francisco homes.

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 1d

Ventura is getting slammed by sea level rise, so managing retreat may be the better option.

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The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim. — Los Angeles Times

California’s coastline is eroding with every tide and storm, but everything built before we knew better is fixed in place with nowhere to go.

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 2d

"Once network effects had made them indispensable, they squeezed sellers, served ads, and otherwise extracted value from users while making exit ever costlier. They bought out rivals and turned into monopolies."

Roxanne Darling 🌿 @roxannedarling.bsky.social · 3d

Very long but hopeful piece here that boils down to: we must have control over own stuff.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 2d

But the cheering came before the gnats comment.

And anyway, we all know Trump is a carnival barker on a power trip. Same old same old. Prepare accordingly.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 4d

If Trump can call Portland a war ravaged city, then Republicans need to use the 25th amendment on the old dog and remove him from office.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 10d

“When you consider the ecocide alongside the genocide, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians & their homeland”

Hugely powerful from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 4d

Thy humanity runneth over.

Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social · 7d

Superb and shocking visualisation of the speed at which Europe is shifting from green to grey as fields, forests and cropland are turned into roads, industrial parks and housing developments.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day

Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023

www.theguardian.com

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 4d

I am an old now. So this means I remember the last days before the Iraq invasion when demonstrations like this happened all over the world demanding that Bush back down. They didn't stop any of it from happening. That moment is my touchstone for understanding the futility of modern politics.

v e l o c i t y @velocity69.bsky.social · 4d

#Barcelona right now 🇵🇸

#FreePalestine 🍉

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝 @greenflorence.bsky.social · 12d

Well done Tabby 👏🌅
I 100% agree with single use plastic BAN -and phasing out of all plastics.

Why today, anyone allows, manufactures, buys single use plastic?

The beauty is we can, each of us, #stopplastic and #swap.
I don't need an official ban to do good🌏🦭😘

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘You don’t get to aim big when you are somewhere small’: A teenager’s fight to end single use plastics on her Scottish island

Groundswell of support for ban propels campaign of Tabby Fletcher, 17, from her island home on Jura to parliament

www.theguardian.com

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 4d

Trump prizes the appearance of deal; an actual deal, not so much.

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 6d

How it started / how it's going

Black and white photograph of The Beatles around 1964

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 6d

Charlie who?

Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 6d

Actually, Charlie Kirk is an example of too much mourning.

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Myanulrich @myanulrich.bsky.social · 6d

The Trump regime has successfully convinced the average American that committing cruelty on immigrants is necessary and acceptable. Following orders to do this gives them cover.
Deranged, dangerous and delusional.
We are living in a very dangerous moment.

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Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 6d

It's simple: use money for care, not for coercion.

Our government is captured by the military-industrial complex, and thanks to video games & the gun business, our young were raised on the notion of shooting people being "a thing" you can do.

Born Broke Again @bornbrokeagain.bsky.social · 6d

The GOP has demonstrated that our government was always built on fallible expectations of behavior.
The interpretation of law is often a theater.
Lots of armed guys roaming your town = malfunctioning society.