enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
Climate (comms, justice, removal). I believe climate change is largely a communications issue. Into climate tech and anti-techbro. Originally from Vegas. Climate person on Tik Tok and Youtube @heidiheidilim
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
Helpful context. Let it loom! And I'm removing the image preview because I don't want their faces on my page. www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/p...
A federal judge just ruled Trump’s deployment of federal troops in Los Angeles illegal. Using the military to silence protestors exercising their first amendment rights is yet another example of this administration's relentless abuse of power and disregard for the rule of law. CONTINUED⬇️
RFK is a singularly horrible & bizarre person, but he is able to exploit the culture's ableism for his eugenicist plans, the revival of ableist language that had once been banished is part of it, because this language is used to justify real life brutality against us & that's its historical root.
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
It’s a little weird to demand people vote for a candidate as a necessary lesser evil three years before you even know if they’re going to be the candidate
When you say “covid is over” or refer to the pandemic only in the pastense you make it easy for RFK jr to withhold the vaccines & defund clinics. You make it easy for employers to end paid sick days. When you don’t mask up you make it easy to pass bans. We organize but what you do & say matters too.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Hey! Just icymi: FEMA is now evicting THOUSANDS of Hurricane Helene survivors Our government hates us. And millions voted for this degree of brutality and cruelty. Why?
CHICAGO…
He is so dangerous
History shows us the opposite: Undermining and censoring scientists and experts is a central feature of authoritarianism.
The lead up to the declaration of martial law in Pakistan included the use of the military, called to stop a pogrom, for performing civic functions in Lahore like cleaning, planting trees and repairing roads. People began to see martial law positively. By 1958 Pakistan’s fledgling democracy died.
This summarizes how people felt after migrating to Red Note when Tik Tok was shutting down the first time
This looks like a still life painting :)
My position on the "doomsday" risk of superhuman AGI is that if IQ offered you a decisive advantage, the world would be run by nerds. I think it's essentially a geek power fantasy. The returns on puzzle-solving skills rapidly diminish past some modest threshold.
It's a rough time for artists, writers and other creators. If you have the means to do so, consider helping out a creator this weekend. Possibly sign up for their Patreon, or buy a commission, or buy their book. If not, maybe just help spread the word about one of their works. Everything helps.
Baby. Postcard from my collection, ca. 1900.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
I’ve spent two weeks thinking carefully about this, and I’m going to do my best to explain the theory of change for RFK’s removal, as I see it. That includes where impeachment fits, what to ask from House vs Senate, etc.
Bluesky is extra spicy today and I like it
NEWS: ACLU pushes to revive criminal contempt proceedings against Trump officials
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
Good.
The more divided we are, the more the wealthy elites benefit. Therefore, the more connected we are, the more the rest of us benefit.
We could be living in a different world... www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/p...
Just noticed this on the checkout notification I get from the Chicago Public Library. I think it’s new and I love it!
you know you've become a Problem when an elected official answers your call with a weary, genial, "do you ever sleep??" NO NEXT QUESTION
Money is made up, bees are real
what an incredible, deeply moving image.
Our country has descended into fascism. Some critics think that that’s unfortunate.
Anyone who watched Succession all the way through may see where things are going...
"generative AI adoption is growing super fast!" says company that forcibly injects generative AI into all their products with no way to opt out
I honestly think being consistently genuine is one of the most rare and important traits nowadays. Just be true to yourself.
Fund says move against Caterpillar, five Israeli banks due to their contribution ‘to serious violations of rights’.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Majestic
I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health
Who would’ve thought the vast majority of Americans would go anti-science in such a relatively short time? And by anti-science, I don’t mean only the people who are antivaxx, but also those who think COVID is mild and doesn’t have long term effects. Disconcerting times.
AMAZING NEWS! A judge has ruled that the Everglades Interment Camp must halt operations. They cannot receive new immigrants (thank GOD), and must tear down fencing and other aspects within 60 days. Essentially making it inoperable. www.everglades.org/judge-halts-...
The craziest thing about this Cracker Barrel story is that Donald Trump was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein for decades and publicly admitted to trafficking young women to him out of Maralago.
If I had a semi-super power it would be to read like 10x faster than I can now, with full focus.
Join the fight!! 👇👇👇👇👇
I also don't like their rebrand but it has nothing to do with woke lol it's the horrible trend of corporations completely lacking personality and character in design. Bring back the 90's!!
had to read that three times and I'm still confused
PSA with @woeip.bsky.social which is planting free trees in West Oakland! They're working to create more equitable tree cover where historical redlining there has created heat islands. You can request trees here. woeip.org www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BkhotT/
Are we actually hearing ourselves right now
bro this is so alarming
From the article: “I think we’ve learned a lesson about what it means to upgrade a product for hundreds of millions of people in one day,” Altman said, calling the reversal a wake-up call.
a new fleet of deportation planes is a perfect example of the kind of GOP horror that necessitates more drastic reform than just electing a normie Dem for president - someone who might hang onto that fleet and maybe just use them a little less, rather than wholly disavow and repurpose them for good
Hell yeah
lmao
can some rich person give me like $10k so I can make a documentary about the black lung crisis
Today a green hummingbird landed on my shoe & poked its snoot into different parts of my shoe. Then it flew up to my hand and threaded its head into the gap between my thumb and index finger! I could feel its ultra soft wings beating against my palm. Pure joy ❤️
Be honest: do y'all really read all these substacks you subscribed to??
Ever relied on the Wayback Machine to recover lost work, deleted statements by politicians, find old TV news clips and for other research? Go deeper with a hands-on training on Thurs, Sept. 4 @archive.org! Coming up soon, register for the free event below www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-w...
Just to be clear: these rising rates have nothing to do w RFK nixing boosters (though that's very bad), they're because both Democrats and Republicans have dismantled public health and no one is masking and taking airborne disease precautions. Our current vaccines don't stop transmission, MASK UP!!
Wish I could repost this more than once
The US is being left behind -- in a clean, digital, electric world it is erecting walls & tariffs, cutting itself off from the world, constricting its own power supply, and tying itself to fossil fuel combustion & autocratic fossil fuel regimes. This is what you get when you elect reactionaries.
I am once again asking you to knock on doors to win a city we can afford. zohranfornyc.com/events
I hope it’s true that reading is a skill because I need to read like 10x faster
Trump’s move to mobilize the National Guard against Americans in DC is another telltale sign of his authoritarian ambitions. But at some point signs of authoritarianism stop being signs and become symptoms of an autocratic regime. We’re far past that point now. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...
It’s like West Virginia was starved for representation. For someone to just come. Bernie did and my fellow West Virginians are in love. /
i think it's cool that the existence of Zohran Mamdani is clearly driving the Vice President insane
RFK Jr. must resign.
RFK Jr is intentionally lying when he says mRNA vaccines aren’t effective. The data aren’t hard to understand, but he lies about them daily. The most parsimonious explanation for this behavior is that he wants people to die. To state the obvious, that’s disqualifying for the head of HHS.
Love this
Absolutely domestic t*rrorism
Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.
Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...
A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
Oh God, he's going to give himself one isn't he
I know it's been a year since this happened but I need you to know the state ban on AI regulation was removed from that big terrible bill before passing. Republicans decided it was bad for them too, including Ted Cruz who added that part in the first place.
Fox News hosts are furious that Big Balls and Holly got beat up and people just filmed it instead of intervening. “Who stands there and watches as someone gets attacked?” These same people are perfectly fine with ICE kidnappings.
JUST IN: Federal judge orders a temporary stop to construction of Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp in Florida amid environmental lawsuit
😂😂😂
we have to stop
"The deal deepens Egypt’s reliance on Israeli gas at a time when many Egyptians are angry at Israel’s offensive and disappointed that Cairo has not done more to alleviate the suffering of starving Gazans." www.ft.com/content/d699...
WOW. The Trump admin is rewriting reality, erasing accountability for any nation with close ties to Trump — including Russia, El Salvador, and Israel. The El Salvador report changes are egregious, totally erasing well-documented abuses. And the impact will be severe. Quick 🧵.
You found shelter from the rain, but it was already occupied. original music and sfx by: zdraste_music
In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this. Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
Idk who needs to hear this but if you are a cis woman whose partner is a cis man do not bring him to the hangout without asking first!!
RFK testified in front of Congress that he's not in a position to give medical advice. Yet he's able to do unknowable amounts of damage in this role
mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants. RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...." cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up theonion.com/austral...
Because you needed a video of a Porcupine eating an apple... You're welcome #bluesky... ☺️
We used to be a proper country
Finally, a united nation.
If the party has so many wealthy and powerful people in it, they need to be out in full force with direct action like this tbh
Felt this
Oak vs maple...
Students at Bayview's new boatbuilding school learn math and social skills with band saws and drill presses. In on year's time, they will have built a boat together. But the boat isn't the product, the students are. missionlocal.org/2025/08/rock...
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds
Putting into perspective the only 4 aid sites for 2.1M people in Gaza: how this would look if it were San Francisco. youtube.com/shorts/QYd_u...
I just stopped playing Sim City 4 and this would pick me right back up there
If Trump somehow gets a lasting ceasefire between Israel and Gaza we will stop asking about the Epstein files for a week.