How about you call up the president and have him reverse the tariffs.

I don’t know who this Jack person is but it seems like you know a lot about someone you don’t want to know anything about. Also have never heard of “truth broker” but that sounds like something to avoid as much as an “influencer”. Do people wear this title willingly?

But I would agree that a lot of once-respectable or thought-to-have-been-respectable outlets have been twisting headlines for clicks. The New Republic is one that I subscribe to for what I thought was valuable reporting but every day it’s just full of narrative-enforcing click bait, similar to what you’ve described. Time to unsub.

The greater problem is that responsible journalism has a hard time staying in business when it competes with 15 seconds of rage bait. Our attention spans are minuscule and we don’t want or are unable to pay for anything that promotes authenticity. Nervermind “the algorithm” pushing salacious content over informative content and how you have little control over what you take in.

And it’s just going to get worse as time goes on. John Stewart and Amanpour were talking a bit about this on Monday’s show.

Holy ever living fuck - this is some of the worst click bait I’ve ever read.

Karoline later shared another quote that read, “What a privilege it is to have your bed taken up by a small human who thinks it’s the safest place in the world to be,” and wrote “crying” over it.

She’s fucking “crying” at the thought of her child sleeping in a safe place. She’s “crying” about the privilege of being a mother.

There is nothing at all in this article about her crying about burnout. This entire article is about her having a good time then quoting some completely random psychologist making assumptions about the stress someone must live with in this position (no fucking doi).

With the vice-like grip they have on Macs now thanks to Apple Silicon, new Mac computers now forbid you from installing free software applications or operating systems, due to improper use of code signing.

So you’re saying the alternative, allowing free software to be installed without any sort of system check, is what we should be fighting for?

I get that some people don’t want a corporation dictating what they can or can’t do with a product they purchased but I think there’s a whole lot more people who are buying into an ecosystem where we put our trust into the same corporation to protect us from malware running on our devices that contain essentially all our personal information.

Personally, I’d prefer to argue for much, much more restriction on my devices, not less.

All Apple products accept and welcome DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) that takes control of your music, movies and games away from you. Even though it’s possible to download DRM-free music on an Apple device, its streaming music and movies have DRM.

That’s not really an Apple argument as much as a media creator argument. Apple is one of dozens of media creators that have been using “DRM” / Copyright protection since the 1980s to prevent source duplication. The fact is that you have the right to copy media that you have purchased for archival purposes. What’s illegal is breaking the lock preventing you from consuming that media on other platforms. The intention here is to prevent you from sharing a legally acquired copy with others. This is why we now purchase a license to consume media, not the media itself. You may not like this restriction but this is not an Apple issue.

As part of its micromanaging of the apps available for iOS, Apple censors all free software. Additionally, Apple Music, which comes with their desktop and mobile devices, refuses to play media in free formats like Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora.

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Apple keeps users’ personal data in a sketchy corporate database Apple operates a network of services for managing contacts, calendars and correspondence across all its devices. This amounts to a huge vacuum sucking up users’ personal information and storing it in a centralized server farms that are vulnerable to attacks. And since the software running on people’s Apple devices is proprietary, no one except Apple can audit it and know exactly what it is sending to the mothership. If you’re using an iPhone, the situation is particularly bad: the devices exposes your whereabouts and provides ways for others to track you without your knowledge.

This can not be over-shared enough. Apple has even published a paper showing how your information is auctioned off by app developers. You think TikTok is bad? Look up Conde Nast. Again, I wish Apple were more restrictive. The best thing you can do is review what the app does with your information in the App Store before you download it and disable ad-tracking, etc on the device.

I don’t see how you can argue for more freedom to “own” your device while using the argument about protecting your information. The argument should be for more transparency.

The brighter idea would be to promote an open source organization that uses something like blockchain to hold your data while sandboxing it out to apps and operating systems.

Jesus. This article is like getting through a recipe blog. The first third (at leas, I didn’t make it further) is about the author’s knowledge of pennies.

I can only assume, as a person with a functioning brain who has lived on planet earth for nearly 50 years, that the pennies are not in fact trash but perfectly legal tender. I was hoping to find a line in this story to contradict its initial bold claim but…

The initial draft of the story I filed for a popular New York City–based publication was 20,000 words long. (Sadly, all of the best parts everyone would have loved were cut by my psychotic editor, whose No. 1 passion in life was removing 13,000 perfect words from my first drafts; I’m not worried about him reading these words, because a low-class butcher like that doesn’t possess enough humanity to subscribe to The Atlantic—though, if you happen to know William, I would thank you not to send him a gift link to this article.) And what I learned was that there was no sane reason why.

This article should be title: Journalism is Trash.

When I acquired my dad’s turntable and a handful of records (I was about 15-16) this is one of the first records I played. I brought it over to a friend’s house and we played it over and over, sometimes in slow-mo (buuuut I goooot thhhhe crystaaaaal baaaall), sometimes in reverse, because it was so bizarre and hilarious. And so perfect for a teenage boy’s sense of humor.

I listened to this record so much that just reading what you wrote reminded me of smells in the room when I listened to this about 35 years ago. No, not pot, actually - just a stinky attic.

Music can be a time machine. It works best when you play full albums on repeat at different moments in your life - in the car, on vacation, with friends, when you’re happy, or sad.

Randomly generated playlists full of music you have little connection with lack the ability to latch onto your emotions and create memories.

You Should Know:
OP’s account is only 2 hours old and the claim they have made on ‘YouShouldKnow’ is wrong.
This post should be removed for misinformation.

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-supermajority-vote-in-us-government-3322045
When Is a Supermajority Vote Required?
By far, most measures considered by the U.S. Congress as part of the legislative process require only a simple majority vote for passage. However, some actions, like impeaching presidents or amending the Constitution, are considered so important that they require a supermajority vote.

• Impeaching
• Expelling a Member of Congress
• Overriding a Veto
• Suspending the Rules
• Ending a Filibuster
• Amending the Constitution
• Calling a Constitutional Convention
• Ratifying an Amendment
• Ratifying a Treaty
• Postponing a Treaty
• Repatriating Rebels
• Removing a President from Office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States
Government shutdowns in the United States
The US Government has shut down 11 times in the past 45 years for a total of 132 days.
Seven times for six days or less.
Once for 21 days under Bill Clinton in 1995-96 (total of 27 days under Clinton).
Once for 16 days under Barack Obama in 2013.
Three times for a total of 79 days under Donal Trump (so far).

https://www.britannica.com/science/US-abortion-rights-by-state-2236312
U.S. Abortion Rights by State
Legal with no gestation limit or Legal before viability: 23 states
Full ban: 13 states

Yes. It was. But you go ahead and cherry-pick the content that fits your narrative. I’m just trying to tell you you’re wasting your time responding to me.

My statement was in regard to PBS not including a photo of the thing the story is about.

Not sure you’re responding to the right person. Maybe get some sleep, boss.

I do agree with you. But on the other hand…

people not knowing things and then doing something when they find out get caught is… ?

Disappointing that the linked article doesn’t include a photo of the tattoo. When a report lacks important relevant information, the reader has a choice to take it for its word or seek out supporting facts. So, when I searched for Planter Nazi Tattoo, there are plenty of articles taking the opposing tone - in that he knew what the tattoo was.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/10/21/2349761/-Not-one-diary-or-mention-about-Graham-Platner-s-Nazi-tattoo-Really This sounds more like he has been aware of what the tattoo represented and he hasn’t really cared about it until now. Which I personally find much more believable. Good on him for getting it covered up but, ehhh. Maybe don’t believe every word a politician exhales.

I don’t know this person or anything about Maine. I don’t really care either. But journalism needs to be held accountable. I expect more from PBS / AP.

During an exchange in the Oval Office, Real America’s Voice correspondent Brian Glenn showed Trump a photo of a trans flag currently on display in Washington, DC, and claimed that “a lot of people are very threatened” by it.

Dear motherfucker, what are you going to do about those of us who feel threatened by the American Flag?

Reading this article, I have never in my nearly fifty years of life witnessed anything like this. Jackson is calling to detain all transgender people. Loomer is calling to designate transgender people terrorists.

These people - I’ll say all conservatives - are so pathetic and dysfunctional that they’re unable to observe reality and deal with it in a responsible manner. Instead, they choose to turn something difficult or uncomfortable into an enemy or a cancer and deal with things as an immature child would - just stomp on it.

If zines were delivered directly to all of humanity instantaneously and were an actual money maker financed by mega corporations, sure.

That enforces my point. Why should anyone care about some other person who, some may say, should have been spied on?

I think the reason why this may be something you’re wondering about is because we have given podcasters a larger influence in recent years. Not to say that’s bad, but it’s new.

Personally, I don’t consider podcasters or YouTubers, etc., trustworthy sources of information or honest dialog. I’m not sure that’s something that even exists anyway now.

There’s a much larger conversation to be had about where we spend our time and give our attention and why. The real news is boring so we turn to salacious clickbait that we often know has a bias to it. The more time we hand our emotions over to this content, then more it becomes part of our psyche. Sometimes we don’t have a choice but I still know a ton of people who are entirely clueless about politics. So, some people are making choices, for better or worse.

I see Kirk’s legacy the same as Rogan’s and Trump’s. These people are a reflection of our times. Something is very wrong in our world today and we’ve spent the last twenty five years shifting, metaphorically, from CBS Evening News to The National Enquirer.

This is the result of great freedom: a wild storm of ideas with equal opportunity to be expressed and heard. Not something that existed before the internet or having instant world wide communications in your hand or selling your information in order to maintain your attention with biased (mis/dis)information.

I just want to ask on behalf of people who don’t care about this, “why should I care about this”?

Because every time I bring up how much we’re being spied on by the government or Amazon or Google, et al, people just shrug it off. At best, they’ll admit it’s a problem - for people who should be worried about it. Meaning, “I’ve got nothing to hide”. If nothing else, Americans lack (or choose to reject) the basic concept of a shared society. If there’s a threat that the government is spying on people, we believe it’s the “other” people, not “us”.

Threats to our privacy is largely hypothetical for the majority of people. I’d even argue that the whole premise of privacy is no longer what it was just 15-20 years ago. I’ve even had people argue with me that they ‘want’ to be tracked so the ads they see are relevant to them.

So, I could see some Americans read this story and be in full support of this. They believe in a spy state as a means of protection. Ironically, these are also often the same people flying “Don’t Tread On Me” flags.

If you are of the belief that AI and anime-style erotica are a reality you are unable to escape, you have a very long way to go my friend.

Yes. I find anime-style erotic content to be super weird and gross. I think people who fawn over drawings of cartoons are suffering from and / or burying mental health disorders.
I don’t think your issue is with AI though. You seem to have some other issues that, outside of professional counseling, may be helped by changing some of your lifestyle choices and avoiding the internet. I mean, there are plenty of horrors in this world (war / famine), but the world itself (the one we call reality) is not a horror; certainly not one with corpses readily on display.
You seem troubled in a lost-control-of-your-addiction sort of way. “Waking up” is a choice you have.

A lot has been written about “ai”, decades and generations ago. I’m not sure if anyone considered the impact on human emotions in a manner that’s toxic and widespread. I’m just thinking of a future story where a portion of the population are so traumatized by conversations with machines that they escape their realities in various ways. People talking with computers as if they’re human seems very dystopian from the start. The next ten yers is going to be wild.

But also, this is a damn good start to the Thought Police. Imagine if a government gained access to these logs. Actually, I’d be surprised if the US govt didn’t already have access to twitter. They’re already cracking down on free speech that criticizes them / him.