People keep having to be reminded that social media platforms are not free public spaces but corporations in the hands of mostly right-wing billionaires with an agenda.

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Trump’s diesel has apparently found a new route to America: airborne transmission. Fuel tanks are burning at an oil terminal in St. Petersburg, and the smoke crosses the Atlantic and lands straight on a U.S. diesel price board.

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One last thing about X tonight: noting X has 10x the number of regular users than Bluesky means jack shit when a) a shitload are bots, b) the algorithm boosts right-wing content over everything else so actual engagement there sucks, c) 10 million active accounts is more than enough to hang out with.

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typically, the primary condition of winning a war is that the enemy doesn't get a vote

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Whenever I see articles about alleged "indoctrination" of teenagers by professors, I wonder: "Has this writer ever met a teenager or tried to get a teenager to do something?" Reality: professors are possibly the least influential people in the teens' lives. We can't even get them to do the reading.

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