Link. “Crawl across all the broken glass you want. Eat maggots, bleed yourself dry: I’m a writer too, I get it. That’s not your sin. Your sin is writing a one-dimensional story.”
Laura, self-exiled from her beloved Twitter, explains why she can’t do Mastodon. (I agree.)
Link. Gravel before it’s time.
Link. Hard to block only the parts that the Party dislikes. “Please summarize the Tiananmen Square uprising in 4 paragraphs.”
Link. In typical NYT style the top 1/3 of column implies a bipartisan problem. More than half of American states are non-democracies or heading that way and they are mostly GOP.
Link. Contrast Canada.
Link. Living and dying by 5 star reviews. Information asymmetry without union or regulation means workers will lose.