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• Post #4425839

  Capital One has never been what I'd call an admirable financial institution, but when it all but calls Trump a mega money launderer, you'd think that would be a bigger deal deserving more than a few no-big-deal-right stories (like this): https://abcnews.com/US/capital-closed-hundreds-trumps-bank-accounts-2021-anti/story?id=135273257

• Post #4371101

  All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 67,456: https://abcnews.com/US/capital-closed-hundreds-trumps-bank-accounts-2021-anti/story?id=135273257 Big bank closed Trump accounts for "anti-money laundering reasons"...

• Post #4323204

  Ed Zitron has been on this for a long time, but good to see that the NY Times finally is digging into Silicon Valley OG Larry Ellison's sleazeball ways -- and his prop-up-Oracle-stock-until-it-crashes bets on AI. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/magazine/larry-ellison-ai-oracle.html

• Post #4321563

  Journalism's latest evergreen story: "Trump says deal is close to end Iran war" -- and headlines like these run routinely, and almost never do news outlets bother to mention that he's said this again and again and it's never been true. At least not yet. Big Journalism genuinely doesn't get it.

• Post #4219181

  "Worse on Purpose" is great. It focuses on consumer products, and their relentless decline in quality as brands get absorbed by enshittification-happy financial manipulators. But the site also tells you who's NOT wrecking things -- who you can still trust. https://www.worseonpurpose.com/ (I'm a donor.)

• Post #4186457

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117000692716570698 I never, ever use apps if there is a web mobile version...Apps give corporations control over you.

• Post #4186423

  Conde Nast's online subscription services are the absolute worst I've seen. I've come to believe that it's on purpose -- to deter me from canceling.

• Post #4180639

  Meta/Facebook/Instagram/etc makes a deal with Newsmax to use the latter's right-wing spewings as AI training data, thereby ensuring that anyone looking for even remotely accurate output from the Ai is on a fool's errand: https://ir.newsmax.com/news/news-details/2026/Newsmax-and-Meta-Enter-AI-Content-Partnership-/default.aspx?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=bari-s-new-60-slate

• Post #4129466

  Corporate and establishment Democrats are desperately trying to stop Abdul El-Sayed from being Michigan's U.S. Senate nominee. They claim it's his (for them) too-progressive views. Nowhere in the news coverage have I seen talk of another plausible (if ugly) reason: they're worried about his name.

• Post #4129359

  A hero for our authoritarian times: https://www.cltampa.com/news/a-77-year-old-republican-man-is-staging-a-solo-protest-against-st-petes-flock-cameras/

• Post #4125275

  Status is my media newsletter of choice. I pay for it. (Not cheap but it goes on sale periodically.) This piece, which you can read if you give them an email address, helps explain why I pay. It calls the White House correspondents' dinner with Trump what it was: a disgrace. https://www.status.news/p/the-white-house-correspondents-disgrace?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-white-house-correspondents-disgrace

• Post #4086034

  White House correspondents and their bosses demonstrate their total lack of self-respect by inviting Trump to their dinner, and applauding him, despite his escalating war on democracy and journalism. What a pathetic bunch of quislings they are. https://abcnews.com/amp/Politics/trump-attend-rescheduled-white-house-correspondents-dinner-friday/story?id=135027808

• Post #4082455

  Musk's Tesla modified contracts with customers -- without the customers' permission -- long after they were signed. How does this differ from outright fraud? https://electrek.co/2026/06/03/tesla-retroactively-modified-fsd-contracts-supervised/

• Post #4054724

  Scumbag owner of Madison Square Garden spies on everyone who comes into the place, but makes an exception for Taylor Swift and her celebrity friends. https://www.wired.com/story/for-taylor-swift-madison-square-gardens-controversial-cameras-briefly-went-dark/

• Post #4051978

  From the reliably excellent @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io: Crypto barons spent >$200 billion since 2024 to buy a friendly Congress. They got "a bill too corrupt for Democrats to pass, a Republican majority too cowardly to rein in the president, and a president who won’t sign anything that meaningfully threatens his $1.4 billion-a-year grift." https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-107/

• Post #4049953

  Book excerpt in the New Yorker by longtime Google employee who dared to dissent. It turned out poorly for her. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-voice-of-google There was a time, way back, when Google was a righteous and honorable company, but it's long, long gone.

• Post #4025081

  R.I.P. John Dvorak, one of the most influential tech journalists and commentators. I'll miss his amiable crankiness.

• Post #4008870

  It's essential that people understand the flagrant contempt for law that Elon Musk demonstrates on an ongoing basis. A current example: dozens of fossil fuel generating turbines with no permits and poisonously placed near black communities. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/pollution-musks-unpermitted-xai-power-project-hits-hardest-black-communities-2026-07-14/ #pitchforks

• Post #4004992

  All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 64,003: https://www.levernews.com/the-winklevoss-twins-gave-trump-10-million-after-regulatory-win/

• Post #3979574

  The New York Times has (somewhat belatedly) discovered that Google is an enemy of the open Internet. This is an important piece, because the Times still is an agenda-setter in journalism. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html (Google spokes-parrot denies it all, of course.)

• Post #3955235

  RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/116933329920689923 One of the top experts on voting security posted a fascinating thread about the Trump speech, and he looked hard at the documents. Important reading. ( @mattblaze@federate.social please do a blog post! )

• Post #3955145

  There's a decent chance that the Trump regime did irreparable damage to a packaged food company by claiming, falsely, that it was responsible for the explosive-diarrhea outbreak. Oops, said the incompetent (by Trump's choice) FDA. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/fda-says-taylor-farms-cyclospora-finding-was-false-positive-2026-07-20/

• Post #3898982

  AI companies and Amazon are inviting bogus "authors" to publish bogus books about real people. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html

• Post #3848498

  Right-to-repair people are celebrating what they claim is a pathbreaking agreement by John Deere, the rapacious and unethical tractor maker, to stop monopolizing repairs. Matt Stoller says it all may be yet another scam on farmers (and the rest of us): https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy-why

• Post #3822295

  I use a VPN and Backblaze doesn't want my business. Captchas that never end. There are plenty of other cloud storage companies.

• Post #3822171

  My hapless (Democrat, of course) member of Congress, Kevin Mullin, has been almost completely AWOL in fighting the Trump regime's outrages. Today, a few hours before the full House voted for permanent daylight savings time, his office sent a mass email asking whether it is a good idea. Hapless.

• Post #3805673

  Just hit 60,000 followers here, and I want to express my appreciation to the ones who are real people!

• Post #3754474

  Surveillance monger Flock doesn't just mislead people when it's pushing communities to install its invasive cameras and software. In many cases, the ACLU explains, it lies through its corporate teeth even to city governments. https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country Tell your local government not to use Flock.

• Post #3741474

  You'd think that by now the bosses at the New York Times would have recognized that Trump is at war with them, and journalism. But it's clear that they do not, because they mostly continue to normalize and give both-sides treatment to this malevolent regime. It's sickening. https://apnews.com/article/trump-nyt-air-force-one-qatari-jet-e2c798a95a1e41077d2cae969774df91

• Post #3735092

  The Trump regime's all-out war on fair elections -- spanning myriad tactic and agencies, often blatantly illegally -- should be a front-and-center preoccupation of every American journalism organization. At best we're getting episodic coverage. ProPublica gets it. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-midterm-elections-takeover-takeaways