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18 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is dead-on. Stewart became a both-sides zealot long ago, and the resurgence of fascism in the country has done nothing to dissuade this. It’s also why his Church of the First Responders ignores obvious, egregious, systematic harms by cops & their enablers.
Telling thing about the audience @jonstewart has attracted now is this tweet, days later, is getting picked up by extreme-right folks advocating everything from vaccine denial to police violence to voter suppression, all seeing Stewart as a fellow traveler they need to defend.
Stewart fans are now guys like this who make entire accounts to spew racist hate at strangers online. I don’t think his pleas to both-sidesism are having a tempering effect on trumpists.
(Fox has fully embraced using Stewart as a bludgeon to encourage its acolytes to target people.)

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19 Oct
It’s been incredible to watch Clive’s remove-everything-but-the-punctuation app take off, resonating with so many different communities for so many different purposes about everything from language use to translation to analyzing one’s own writing habits.
The tool that makes it go is a beautifully simple @glitch app, and it’s easy to remix if you want to make your own variation. just-the-punctuation.glitch.me
It also resonates with coders, as programmers of all levels are keenly aware of the significance of punctuation, as well as the vagaries of using code to manipulate text. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=288992…
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I had forgotten I said this, but it’s true (even though I love Slack!) — there are lots of organizations where any technology that allows people to freely communicate without being controlled is seen as a threat by execs. Slack has a radical architecture. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
I saw this when I used to help make content management systems. The number one feature businesses asked for, by far, was tools that gave them controls to keep their workers from being able to freely publish things.
Tech platforms always have a partiality; the grain of the wood goes a certain way. Tools that actually empower people & change culture scare the hell out of organizations that want authoritarian control.
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12 Oct
loooool who tf is “we”?
(I was mad about it back when the article came out, also.)
Aaanyway nobody touch the pressure cooker
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8 Oct
Has anybody written the “Roy Kent is The Fonz” take yet? Or should I go be that guy?
The more you think about it, the more right I am. I’m sorry to have opened your eyes to this.
Oh hey, the guy in the leather jacket who works out of the office behind the bathrooms has trouble expressing his emotions directly but actually is a big softie at heart and all the ladies love him? Fan fave. Will eventually overshadow its mild midwestern lead character.
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1 Oct
If you care about a healthy internet, then you know domain names are a key building block for enabling ownership & control over your work. So I'm thrilled to announce @glitch has teamed up with Google Registry to give out great .app & .dev domain names for FREE all October long!
You can read the full details here: blog.glitch.com/post/last-mont… But if you want the highlights, all you have to do is make a great app playlist, showing off apps that amuse, educate or inspire, and then tell us about it! Every week we'll be giving out 50 domains.
Just as important, every Glitch creator can easily add a domain when they make an app, which ensures that your users see your own URL, and also gives you full control over where your stuff lives forever.
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There’s an undersung, but radical, shift happening very quickly: millions of people are evading large parts of the surveillance-based tracking systems that power today’s ad networks. It’s one of the biggest wins in decades for regular users’ privacy. anildash.com/2021/09/30/pry…
Thanks to @robinberjon for a smart articulation of this context, which was a leaping-off point for my thinking here. (Do read the thoughtful replies there, especially concerns about lock-in to email or password vendors.)
There’s also a connection to @chrislhayes astute observations in the New Yorker on how we’re all famous now; we can learn a lot in the parallels between being always-visible on social media and always-tracked by ad platforms. newyorker.com/news/essay/on-…
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