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New: Last Week in Bluesky

This week's news:
- Bluesky reportedly close a new funding round, valuing the company at 700MUSD
- Custom Feed builder @graze.social discusses monetisation plans, showing how ads might come to bsky
- Bluesky's issues with bots

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Current and topical: 99percentinvisible.org/nbft/

Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does

not only does australia send most of the gas it extracts overseas, it uses more gas **just for preparing the other gas for sending elsewhere** than it does for all domestic gas power generation

www.energy.gov.au/sites/defaul...

"A former FBI informant who fabricated a story about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepting bribes that became central to Republicans’ impeachment effort was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison. apnews.com/article/hun...

Mike is truly one of the most important voices in the fight against far-right conspiracy mania. He’s also a lovely individual who wrote one of my favorite books of the past few years.

You should buy it and support Mike’s Patreon as well: bookshop.org/p/books/jewi...

#7 is an air ambulance claim that was denied as medically unnecessary, which it likely was, and the air ambulance company sticking the family with a $100K bill.

Reading through the whole thing is infuriating, not the least of which because it likely didn't cost the company anywhere near $100K.

When you object to DEI because you say it’s a way for unqualified people to obtain jobs they couldn’t get based on merit AND then you appoint a whole bunch of wholly and unqualified parties to critical high ranking positions, you make it clear that your objection isn’t about qualification at all.

In case you’re interested in the weeds of how bad this is,

this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.

Jimmy Carter's humility and dedication to justice remind us that we can all make the world better—one act of kindness at a time.

Turns out, attacking ‘woke mind viruses’ doesn’t sell electric cars.