After a week of listening to tech news, the bluesky coverage is perturbing.
Almost every big of coverage starts with something like "Bluesky is an open decentralized social network, kinda like Mastodon" - and then goes on to describe the centralized, invite-only, 50k user, semi-broken pop-up party of the sort that's periodically condensed out of internet ether over the decades.
Like, okay, sure that sounds like fun. But not really a new concept in terms of the current implementation? Doesn't really seem like the protocol is paying off yet?
The Vergecast sounded at least somewhat snarky about it, but it seems like a lot of other tech journalists are caught up in the fun and parroting the conceptual hype? Ugh.
IF you SOMEHOW don't know the story of Sirocco the Kakapo, which inspired the slack Party Parrot, which in turn gave rise to everything you've seen which looks like this :pensive_party_blob:
you might want to watch this.. BONUS - it features @stephenfry
For the past quarter century, Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, has worked to thwart one clear threat to its profits: a free, publicly funded tool to file taxes online. The company’s success at preventing that threat was near total — until earlier this year, when the IRS announced a plan to test such an approach. Advocates...
Via @emptywheel who included the Bathroom Filled with Boxes of Docs photo:
Again, I don't know how to make it more clear for credulous journalists parroting GOP bullshit. This is the foreign policy approach of the leader of the Republican Party. Republicans want the guy who literally GAVE AWAY Israeli intelligence back in office.
It’s deeply concerning that UK unions have begun to parrot Stop the War’s talking points regarding the invasion of Ukraine.
Of course, unions have always been priority targets for far left and far right agitators, but Stop the War is a known, Kremlin-linked organisation pushing for the secession of the UK from NATO and the appeasement of Russia.
Given their sway within the Labour Party, I’m not sure on the best way to contain this.
Donald Trump is skipping another GOP primary debate this week and the theories abound as to why. Some paint it as a smart strategy, setting his opponents to take each other apart while he sails into the presidential nomination. Others, including the right-wing editorial board at the Wall Street Journal, have accused Trump of...
Guess we all know what Pierre Poilievre considers reliable media now. Him going on about terror yesterday means he got that either from Fox News in the US, off The Rebel that quoted Fox News or somebody else parroting Fox on social media.
Yes please, in 2025 let's elect the party led by the gullible man. You know, the one who rejected clearance to know what's really going on in matters of national security.
I could almost admire karaokecomputer's steely discipline in upholding the party line if I didn't also know how historically ignorant, theoretically vacant, and manipulated someone has to be to keep parroting this shit as if they were engaging in deep analysis and courageous solidarity.
"Modern American conservativism was always a fascist operation. Things didn’t suddenly change in 2015 with the rise of Trump. Trump, if anything, simply watched Fox News and parroted conservativism’s fascist impulses right back to it.
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made this clear in 1964 as conservatism took over the lead of the Republican Party with the choice of Sen. Barry Goldwater as its presidential candidate."
I saw a poll on one of the popular Mac-focused sites that showed overwhelming support for the idea that Apple made the correct call on closing the security hole that allowed a third-party company to profit from selling access to iMessage. That's unsurprising.
But just about everywhere else I've seen, comments are filled with vitriol toward Apple, including parroting Beeper's bonkers take that Apple is actually endangering users by preventing Beeper from their unauthorized use and sale of access to anyone with $1.99.
So I read that recent post on @web3isgreat about the Party Parrot project that decided to simply vote to give them all the money.
I wanted to know where that money came from and how they convinced people to pay money into it in the first place. So I looked up the description of the project:
Anyone with just the bare minimum financial knowledge will understand that this stuff would be incredibly fragile and definitely wouldn't be able to do any of the things they claim.
How are people with money so stupid? And why do I have enough morals and ethics that prevent me from getting in on this?
There are a few conservatives who tell the truth some of the time (Conway). Not Ronna. She is a TradCon - one who lies all the time.
Yet here is NBC, hiring her when they know she'll only parrot the MAGA party line.
This is why whenever anyone says {MS}NBC is liberal, I become extremely skeptical of their opinions from then on. They are either: tankies; posing as the reasonable middle; beltway boobs; or subservient tools. Regardless, they're no longer trustworthy.
A response to goosefetisch (lemmy.ml)
Why do I feel like so many people here support the USSR and the CCP?...
Trudeau blames ‘MAGA influence’ for stirring debate on Ukraine (www.politico.com)
In a surprise move this week, Canada’s Conservatives voted against a new trade deal with the war-torn country....
TurboTax Parent Company's Latest Argument Against Free Tax Filing: It Will Harm Black Taxpayers (www.propublica.org)
For the past quarter century, Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, has worked to thwart one clear threat to its profits: a free, publicly funded tool to file taxes online. The company’s success at preventing that threat was near total — until earlier this year, when the IRS announced a plan to test such an approach. Advocates...
President Drink Bleach says what? Trump now claims he beat George W. Bush and Barack Obama (www.salon.com)
Donald Trump is skipping another GOP primary debate this week and the theories abound as to why. Some paint it as a smart strategy, setting his opponents to take each other apart while he sails into the presidential nomination. Others, including the right-wing editorial board at the Wall Street Journal, have accused Trump of...
Anti-UAW Media in Alabama Is Owned by Influential GOP Consultant With Corporate Ties (truthout.org)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/2463555...
This woman is the front-runner to be Mexico's next president - Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com)
The two appear an unlikely political pair: he a shopkeeper’s son from rural southern Mexico, she a globally recognized scientist from the capital....
Right-wing media claims Palestine solidarity activists in the US are influenced by foreign agents : Peoples Dispatch (peoplesdispatch.org)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/1141279...