Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Second rate reporter says what?

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Let’s finish the job.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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It’s bad new for both Mark Zuckerberg and our democracy…

they’re absolutely still printing money, no doubt, but if they let zuckerberg continue to call all their shots, they’re going to run into serious trouble.

MSFT is fun to make fun of (esp. as a longtime mac / ios person), but the whole cinematic universe of O365 / azure / BI products is very forward thinking for enterprise business software. i haven’t seen even any *inkling* that facebook has anything similar for consumers.

not for nothing, but also, the MSFT experience on mac is finally now mostly not bad for most people, after several centuries of it being absolutely awful.

my crackpot hot take is that facebook is a lot more like walmart than microsoft.


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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    O       O

    Venn diagram. On the left, “Things holding a picoscintilla of interest” On the right, “Facebook.”

  2. 2.

    trollhattan

    US-Czech women’s hockey [haakie] is one tough match. 3rd period, which I think means the second-halfish. Nail-biter.

  4. 4.

    Damien

    Facebook is pretty quickly becoming social media’s Fox News and not just because of the whole fascism thing. For YEARS their expansions have followed a pattern where they enter a new market, dominate as people flock to join what they had heard so much about, then some measure drop out and some portion stays on the platform, but they constantly lost people and made up the ground by expanding.

    Well, where do they expand from here? Nowhere. Now they’re tainted, and they’re relying on a lot of the people they still have, buuuuuuut…..

    They’re the oldest social media platform, in terms of their participants, and getting older all the time. So they’re gonna be advertising Goldline pretty soon, because Zuckerberg isn’t some business genius, he came up with one thing that hit at just the right moment and now that he’s got to actually innovate off of that? Nah.

    I hope the whole enterprise burns.

  5. 5.

    frosty

    Yeah, FB sucks but I can still keep in touch with friends, and it helped me reconnect with some.

    That being said, a large number of them have dropped off, and by now a third to half of what I see is “we think you’d like this” stuff. No, no I wouldn’t. It’s pretty clear they’re pushing crap for links. A great way to kill their brand and drive even more people away.

  6. 6.

    HumboldtBlue

    @trollhattan:

    The U.S. uniforms are dreadful. The Czechs were game through two periods, but they ran out of gas in the third, and it showed, U.S. ran them ragged with pressure.

  11. 11.

    trollhattan

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Yup, it seemed like two more periods vs. Canada and then they broke through. Hope it means they got the fail-to-score-despite-a-jillion-shots monkey off their backs.

    Finland/Japan will be tough, whichever.

  13. 13.

    HumboldtBlue

    @trollhattan:

    My brother and I talked about that against Canada, the U.S. had good pressure, moved the puck well but did not score and against Canada you have to turn that pressure into goals, or they will slay you. As is their wont.

    @different-church-lady:

    Much better, the black and blue combo is just fugly.

  16. 16.

    opiejeanne

    @different-church-lady:  Zuck has always reminded me a cake that isn’t quite baked, isn’t quite finished. I think it’s a combination of the pasty skin and the eyes that look like he borrowed them from an alien.

  18. 18.

    Ruckus

    @opiejeanne:

    More like cake batter that has just been stored in the fridge, uncovered, for 30 yrs, which isn’t the worst part, it’s the fact that the owner (Mark Z) thinks that a fridge that makes insanely loud noises, and has for the last 20 yrs is still OK because the light comes on when you open the door. Of course he doesn’t open it often because it smells rather unusually fowl and he can’t be bothered to give a damn about if it’s still good because he’s counting his money, which just got easier because he just lost a somewhat modest amount of it. It must be nice to be a wealthy child in an adult body.

  19. 19.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

     to focus on video products

    don’t see how they can make a dent in Youtube’s and Tik-Tok’s market share.

  20. 20.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    My brother loved FB to connect with extended family, people he went to school with and worked with. But he got offended at all the brain dead disinformation (ie moon landing faked. etc.) and eventually stopped cold.

  21. 21.

    Geminid

    There is a very good interview with Stacey Abrams out in atlanta.capitalbnews.org, titled “Stacey Abrams and her vision for ‘One Georgia’.”

    The interview covers election challenges (and how Abrams intends to overcome them), crime and criminal justice problems, Donald Trump’s role in the Georgia Governor race, and a proposed permitless concealed carry law (Abrams calls it “criminal carry”). Great stuff from a superb communicator.

  23. 23.

    Geminid

           An 11 year old girl with Down’s Syndrome was bullied by other students at school in North Macedonia, after parents complained she was in the same class with their children.

    This week the President walked her to school.

    [Photos].

    @Goodable February 10.

    Goodable News is an interesting site I found on Mangy Jay’s Twitter account. It specializes in good news, like the North Macedonian President taking up for the 11 year-old girl, or Scottish people planting trees along their salmon streams (they hope to plant a million!).

  26. 26.

    SFAW

    Re: that last tweet: who TF is Kevin Currie, and why should anyone care what he writes (going forward, that is)?

  28. 28.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Facebook business models is shoving posts from other users the logarithm knows will piss you off in the hopes of starting constant flame wars and then selling the resultant traffic to advertiser (because angry people so into shopping). So I suppose the Wallmart equivalency works.

  29. 29.

    Kristine

    I thought FB wanted to move to video a few years ago but something happened to drive them to set it aside. I seem to recall that advertisers complained  and since ads were their income stream, they postponed.

    I have a friends-only personal page and author pages that folks still follow. I’m been trying to steer readers to my website instead but that’s a work in progress.

  30. 30.

    Kevin

    FB lost me years ago when I realized 5% of what I saw was from humans I am “friends” with. The other 95% was crap their algorithm came up with I could read anywhere else but was usually irrelevant.

  33. 33.

    Michael Cain

    @Kevin:

    There are several friends and family members who are dedicated to FB, so I’ll be keeping.  However, I have a piece of JavaScript that’s grown over the years that I run against every page I download from everywhere.  It fixes fonts and sizes and spacing to be consistent and pleasing (at least to my eye).  I’ve checked things out and I think this next week I’ll add to it to suppress the “Sponsored” things FB inserts.

  34. 34.

    Unique uid

    @Michael Cain: ….However, I have a piece of JavaScript that’s grown over the years that I run against every page I download from everywhere. It fixes fonts and sizes and spacing to be consistent and pleasing…..

    That sounds interesting.  Is it (or similar) documented somewhere I could read more about it?

    Can you share the code?

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