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Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 9h

FYI users can still use the website on safari ios, just pin it to your Home Screen and you’ve basically got an app.

eyesupapp.com?ref=404media...

(This is not a defense of Apple, it is me telling people about a workaround solution.)

eyesupapp.com

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Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 9h

Apple likely doesn’t care. Trump asked them to do it and they want his blessing so they did.

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 9h

These are excuses sold to us to make us dependent on app stores. We can’t let two companies control tech development for the sake of “convenience“. time to use our brains again.

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Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 9h

Because Microsoft and Alphabet always somehow find a way to be even worse?

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Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 9h

This is not a defense of Apple but they’ve objectively been far more passive about fellating Trump than the other tech giants and evidently ashamed enough to keep it quiet.

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Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 9h

Maintain forums, learn what you can, spread word how you can, find experts, learn how to spot a malicious actor. All things we’ve forsaken for “convenience“ and need to relearn.

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Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 9h

yet another reason people need to be learning to do stuff outside of big tech ecosystems.

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 9h

Gavin Newsom is a John Fetterman Democrat

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10h

They cannot. They used their majority vote earlier in the year and they would need to use it to abolish. It does not matter though, because all Dems are asking for is the extension of healthcare subsidies that 75% of Americans support.

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Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10h

Saw a CBS ghoul trying to hound Hakeem fucking Jeffries about whether “illegal aliens get the ACA subsidies” by reasking the question multiple times after Jeffries said it wasn’t true. You’d think he was interviewing a Nixon staffer about watergate.

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Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10h

To the people saying Trump wants to provoke a Civil War: what exactly makes you think he prefers that to a simple one-sided slaughter?

He can call that a war and get all the benefits of a war + none of the downsides.

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10h

please Mr Pritzker make the woke militia I will join immediately

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Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 11h

They can’t; they already used their one majority vote of the year. Earliest they could kill it is next year.

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 11h

Good. Keep not paying them. See how that helps your plans for martial law.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15h

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 11h

Does he realize that includes the troops he’s hoping to deploy to cities?

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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 13h

My latest newsletter is about how generative AI doesn't just need money to survive, but faith.

Every time we see another big genAI foul-up, that faith will waver, and its end becomes all the more likely.

whatwelost.substack.com/p/generative...

Generative AI’s Impending Death By A Thousand Rake-Smacks

Give it enough rope...

whatwelost.substack.com

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Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 11h

We’re (working regular people) already in that. We’re already bearing the brunt of the costs. The stock market crash will be catching up to how bad the real economy is, not the other way around.

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