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Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. https://organizingmythoughts.org/neighbors-as-lifelines-the-power-of-mutual-aid-in-asheville/

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. https://organizingmythoughts.org/neighbors-as-lifelines-the-power-of-mutual-aid-in-asheville/

This very good piece on the mutual aid response to Helene—https://organizingmythoughts.org/neighbors-as-lifelines-the-power-of-mutual-aid-in-asheville/ —echoes the message in Greenfield’s LIFEHOUSE: no one is going to rescue us but ourselves. https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/lifehouse

Neighbors as Lifelines:
The Power of #MutualAid in the flooded #Asheville #Helene

https://organizingmythoughts.org/neighbors-as-lifelines-the-power-of-mutual-aid-in-asheville/ via @MsKellyMHayes

Neighbors as Lifelines: The Power of Mutual Aid in Asheville https://organizingmythoughts.org/neighbors-as-lifelines-the-power-of-mutual-aid-in-asheville/

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. https://organizingmythoughts.org/neighbors-as-lifelines-the-power-of-mutual-aid-in-asheville/

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. https://organizingmythoughts.org/neighbors-as-lifelines-the-power-of-mutual-aid-in-asheville/

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. https://organizingmythoughts.org/neighbors-as-lifelines-the-power-of-mutual-aid-in-asheville/

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. https://organizingmythoughts.org/neighbors-as-lifelines-the-power-of-mutual-aid-in-asheville/

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. https://organizingmythoughts.org/neighbors-as-lifelines-the-power-of-mutual-aid-in-asheville/

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-says-irans-attack-on-its-air

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-says-irans-attack-on-its-air

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-says-irans-attack-on-its-air

Israel says Iran's attack on its air bases failed because it didn't kill any civilians https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-says-irans-attack-on-its-air

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-says-irans-attack-on-its-air

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-says-irans-attack-on-its-air

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-says-irans-attack-on-its-air

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-says-irans-attack-on-its-air

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-says-irans-attack-on-its-air

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-says-irans-attack-on-its-air

Labour to commit almost £22bn to fund carbon capture and storage projects https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/04/labour-to-commit-almost-22bn-to-fund-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects

#ClimateDiary £22 billion on bloody carbon capture - that’s not what we need.

“environmental campaigners have warned big energy firms could use it to extend the life of their fossil fuel assets”, and indeed, there is “an expected £8bn of private investment by some of the world’s biggest energy companies, including BP and Norwegian energy company Equinor.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/04/labour-to-commit-almost-22bn-to-fund-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Labour to commit almost £22bn to fund #carboncapture and storage projects - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/04/labour-to-commit-almost-22bn-to-fund-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects such a waste of money: it won't work at scale, and it gives #fossilfuel companies cover to pollute further

Labour to commit almost £22bn to fund #carboncapture and storage projects - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/04/labour-to-commit-almost-22bn-to-fund-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects such a waste of money: it won't work at scale, and it gives #fossilfuel companies cover to pollute further

Rachel Reeves is paving the way for a multibillion-pound increase in public-sector investment at the budget after UK govt announced plans to commit almost £22bn over 25 years to fund #CCS projects https://buff.ly/4dzt1v6

Oh FFS 🤦

Labour to commit almost £22bn to fund carbon capture and storage projects
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/04/labour-to-commit-almost-22bn-to-fund-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects

#ClimateDiary £22 billion on bloody carbon capture - that’s not what we need.

“environmental campaigners have warned big energy firms could use it to extend the life of their fossil fuel assets”, and indeed, there is “an expected £8bn of private investment by some of the world’s biggest energy companies, including BP and Norwegian energy company Equinor.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/04/labour-to-commit-almost-22bn-to-fund-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Rachel Reeves is paving the way for a multibillion-pound increase in public-sector investment at the budget after UK govt announced plans to commit almost £22bn over 25 years to fund #CCS projects https://buff.ly/4dzt1v6

If ever there was evidence to support the idea this government is as wedded to neoliberalism as its predecessor, this is it.

I wonder how much carbon these expensive technologies will capture compared to giving nature the tools to recapture carbon itself while focusing on reducing emissions in the first place?

Cakeism won't cut it any more, I'm afraid.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/04/labour-to-commit-almost-22bn-to-fund-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#ClimateDiary £22 billion on bloody carbon capture - that’s not what we need.

“environmental campaigners have warned big energy firms could use it to extend the life of their fossil fuel assets”, and indeed, there is “an expected £8bn of private investment by some of the world’s biggest energy companies, including BP and Norwegian energy company Equinor.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/04/labour-to-commit-almost-22bn-to-fund-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#PrivateEquity just may be the most destructive force in America. #medicine #hospitals https://www.vox.com/health-care/374820/emergency-rooms-private-equity-hospitals-profits-no-surprises

“The story of how private equity has been able to so thoroughly debilitate emergency care is one of the more dramatic examples of how corporate interests are corrosive to America’s health care system — and how powerless they leave individual consumers. Today, private equity continues to operate a shocking quarter of ERs nationwide, as of March 2024.”
https://www.vox.com/health-care/374820/emergency-rooms-private-equity-hospitals-profits-no-surprises

https://www.vox.com/health-care/374820/emergency-rooms-private-equity-hospitals-profits-no-surprises

Thanks capitalism.

https://www.vox.com/health-care/374820/emergency-rooms-private-equity-hospitals-profits-no-surprises

#hospitals #er #capitalism #healthcare

The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms
https://www.vox.com/health-care/374820/emergency-rooms-private-equity-hospitals-profits-no-surprises?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Health @health-Vox

Thanks capitalism.

https://www.vox.com/health-care/374820/emergency-rooms-private-equity-hospitals-profits-no-surprises

#hospitals #er #capitalism #healthcare

How private equity chewed through America’s emergency rooms: Private equity decimated emergency care in the United States — without you even noticing. By Keren Landman, MD | Vox https://www.vox.com/health-care/374820/emergency-rooms-private-equity-hospitals-profits-no-surprises

“The story of how private equity has been able to so thoroughly debilitate emergency care is one of the more dramatic examples of how corporate interests are corrosive to America’s health care system — and how powerless they leave individual consumers. Today, private equity continues to operate a shocking quarter of ERs nationwide, as of March 2024.”
https://www.vox.com/health-care/374820/emergency-rooms-private-equity-hospitals-profits-no-surprises

"The story of how private equity has been able to so thoroughly debilitate emergency care is one of the more dramatic examples of how corporate interests are corrosive to America’s health care system"

https://www.vox.com/health-care/374820/emergency-rooms-private-equity-hospitals-profits-no-surprises

“The story of how private equity has been able to so thoroughly debilitate emergency care is one of the more dramatic examples of how corporate interests are corrosive to America’s health care system — and how powerless they leave individual consumers. Today, private equity continues to operate a shocking quarter of ERs nationwide, as of March 2024.”
https://www.vox.com/health-care/374820/emergency-rooms-private-equity-hospitals-profits-no-surprises

LOOK AT THIS TELECOM MERGER TIMELINE WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL THIS AND WHY DID @richardlawler AND I HAVE TO COVER IT ALL https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24259360/directv-dish-merger-timeline-aol-timewarner

LOOK AT THIS TELECOM MERGER TIMELINE WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL THIS AND WHY DID @richardlawler AND I HAVE TO COVER IT ALL https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24259360/directv-dish-merger-timeline-aol-timewarner

From AOL Time Warner to DirecTV and Dish: 20 years of media mergers
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24259360/directv-dish-merger-timeline-aol-timewarner?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Policy & Law @policy-law-theverge

LOOK AT THIS TELECOM MERGER TIMELINE WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL THIS AND WHY DID @richardlawler AND I HAVE TO COVER IT ALL https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24259360/directv-dish-merger-timeline-aol-timewarner

LOOK AT THIS TELECOM MERGER TIMELINE WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL THIS AND WHY DID @richardlawler AND I HAVE TO COVER IT ALL https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24259360/directv-dish-merger-timeline-aol-timewarner

From AOL Time Warner to DirecTV and Dish: 20 years of media mergers https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24259360/directv-dish-merger-timeline-aol-timewarner

Blame Capitalism for: contributing to wealth inequality and entrenched racism.

US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it.

#capitalism #neoliberalism #classwar #economics #bosses #workers #humanrights #environment #war #BlameCapitalism #education #knowldege #studentloans #wealthinequality

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student-loan-debt-a-disproportionate-burden-on-black-and-latino-borrowers/

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student-loan-debt-a-disproportionate-burden-on-black-and-latino-borrowers/

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student-loan-debt-a-disproportionate-burden-on-black-and-latino-borrowers/

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student-loan-debt-a-disproportionate-burden-on-black-and-latino-borrowers/

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student-loan-debt-a-disproportionate-burden-on-black-and-latino-borrowers/

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student-loan-debt-a-disproportionate-burden-on-black-and-latino-borrowers/

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student-loan-debt-a-disproportionate-burden-on-black-and-latino-borrowers/

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student-loan-debt-a-disproportionate-burden-on-black-and-latino-borrowers/

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student-loan-debt-a-disproportionate-burden-on-black-and-latino-borrowers/

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

#capitalism #neoliberalism #classwar #economics #bosses #workers #humanrights #environment #war #BlameCapitalism #education #knowldege #studentloans #wealthinequality

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student-loan-debt-a-disproportionate-burden-on-black-and-latino-borrowers/

Given the chance this week to leave my job with half a year’s salary paid in advance, I chose to stay at Automattic. Here’s why.

https://zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-stayed/

A view from a different angle of the recent Automattic situation: https://zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-stayed/
#automattic #wordpress #wpengine #MattVsWpe

https://zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-stayed/

#WordPress

Given the chance this week to leave my job with half a year’s salary paid in advance, I chose to stay at Automattic. Here’s why.

https://zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-stayed/

A view from a different angle of the recent Automattic situation: https://zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-stayed/
#automattic #wordpress #wpengine #MattVsWpe

@florianziegler @dvk Here's what Jeffrey Zeldman had to say, who puts it exactly in the opposite way and said the severance would have allowed him to pay off debts and "wiped the slate clean" for him, financially, but he decided to stay for various other reasons.

Guess things are rarely as black and white as they look from afar... 🤷‍♂️

https://zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-stayed/

Given the chance this week to leave my job with half a year’s salary paid in advance, I chose to stay at Automattic. Here’s why.

https://zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-stayed/

Zeldman is staying at Automattic. https://zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-stayed/

https://zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-stayed/

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

https://disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerbergs-rebrand-is-a-master-class-in-distraction/

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

https://disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerbergs-rebrand-is-a-master-class-in-distraction/

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

https://disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerbergs-rebrand-is-a-master-class-in-distraction/

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

https://disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerbergs-rebrand-is-a-master-class-in-distraction/

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses

https://disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerbergs-rebrand-is-a-master-class-in-distraction/

Is anyone surprised?

#Meta #socialmedia

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

https://disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerbergs-rebrand-is-a-master-class-in-distraction/

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses

Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction - https://disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerbergs-rebrand-is-a-master-class-in-distraction/?ref=feedle.world

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See other stories like this one here: https://feedle.world/digital-crossroads

#web #internet #socialmedia #blogging

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

https://disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerbergs-rebrand-is-a-master-class-in-distraction/

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

https://disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerbergs-rebrand-is-a-master-class-in-distraction/

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses