Cory Doctorow “The idea that creative workers aren't workers is bullshit.“

Cory: Why creative workers get screwed in labor negotiations (until very recently): Creative workers are part of a class of workers who suffer from “vocational awe,” the sense that because your job is satisfying and/or worthy, you don’t deserve to get paid for it. Also: The attempt to divide-and-rule “knowledge workers” from “industrial workers” is a transparent bid to shatter solidarity and make it easier to abuse and exploit all workers.

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Trolled by a fucking goat: Today’s oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I saw on the internet

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Threads is in the early days of the social media enshittification cycle. That’s why it’s so great—for now

The goal now is to attract users by the hundreds of millions, so Facebook is making Threads great for users. And it’s working—Threads is, indeed, a great place. For now. But soon, Facebook will pivot to wanting revenue from Threads, and so Threads will become great for advertisers and steadily worse for users. Then once all the advertisers and the users are locked in, Threads will become shitty for everybody but Facebook itself.

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Dave Winer: We can do better than Threads.

Running from the arms of one billionaire to another is a bad idea.

Musk is the second worst thing that happened to social media, but Facebook is much worse, because they’re so much more competent, but lack any vision other than sucking up as much of the world into their silo as possible and never doing anything that could possibly benefit anyone else.

Ask a Manager: I want my coworker to stop giving me “psychic messages” from my dead family members. The coworker also has messages from dead pets.

Why’d I take speed for twenty years?

Podcaster PJ Vogt writes about his 20-year use of prescription stimulants, as well as coming to terms with the suicide of a friend.

Vogt struggled to understand what his friend’s depression was like from the inside and was surprised to learn his own thinking was a product of depression.

I had been like Ahab hunting for Moby Dick, not realizing the boat he’s on is actually a large whale in a boat costume.

New GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson has proposed trillions in cuts to Social Security and Medicaire.

What if we kissed on the jouch? Today’s oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I saw on the internet

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Daring Fireball: The Aftermath of a Massacre Is Always the Time to Push for Gun Legislation

Ask a Manager: my employee wasn’t respectful enough after the company messed up her paycheck. This letter has a plot twist that takes it in an unexpected direction.

San Diego GOP Lawmakers, Candidates Call for Tightening Border Over Hamas Threat. Building a wall worked great in Israel, so let’s get moving on that here!

Cory Doctorow: A taxonomy of corporate bullshit: “… six lies that corporations have told since time immemorial…. it’s refreshing to see how the right hasn’t had an original idea in 150 years and simply relies on repeating the same nonsense with minor updates.”

We’ve all collectively decided that the 22 years since 9/11 have gone so well that we’re just gonna do it again huh?

Mike Johnson Blamed Shootings on Teaching Evolution, Abortion

‘Scripture is very clear’: New House Speaker tells Congress God has ‘ordained’ them. (AlterNet) A perfectly normal thing that not-crazy people say.

I think maybe video has taken off and text is declining simply because TikTok and YouTube make it easy to share revenue with creators, whereas opportunities for independent writers are harder to find and harder to use. (There’s Substack and … well, Substack. And also Substack.)

If Facebook instituted revenue sharing, I could make a significant revenue stream off this—my random thoughts, memes I find elsewhere, photos I take while walking the dog. It wouldn’t replace other work, but it would be a nice supplement.

Does that sound nuts to you? Ask Mark Zuckerberg. He’s a billionaire now because of the time and effort that I, and hundreds of millions of other people, have put into Facebook.

A little bird tells me that Tumblr is going to put some effort into fixing its RSS feeds. O frabjous day!

Reading about our new Speaker of the House and seeing absolutely nothing good. He’s an insurrectionist who wants to impose Sharia law on the United States.

Today's oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I saw on the Internet

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I had to cold-call a relative stranger for social reasons just now. I knew it was coming and I was nervous about it for days. I have become a millennial.