Bernie Sanders
Not me. Us.
This is an old Bernie t-shirt that I needed to be reminded of.
Social Media Is A Social Disease
Trumpism
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals"
I'm a proud member of the left. Here’s me contemplating the violence and terrorism to commit for the day while doing my yoga, a spiritual practice dedicated to peace and understanding. Here’s the food my wife and I eat, before we commit violent crimes and terrorism.
decentralized Internet
France President Emmanuel Macron's speech is a clarion call
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to [American and Chinese] social networks, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
Social Media Is A Social Disease
NH Democratic Congressional Candidate Carleigh Beriont is Not Using Social Media
This is real organizing
Corporate Control
Now Meta is offering AI therapy
In today's post pointing to the decay of society, here's a piece from 404 Media covering how Meta is offer it's brain numb users therapy. Not with licensed therapists, mind you. With AI. That's right, artificial therapy. AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting
decentralized Internet
I used Cyd to delete X - it worked great
Howdy, A while back I learned of Cyd, a new tool anyone can use to delete X. I just used Cyd to delete everything I had on an old X account that had a few tweets. Cyd was simple to use, and it worked great. "But why can'
enshittification
We're not going to post our way out of this
Howdy, I'm a subscriber to 404Media. What first drew me in was the site being hosted on Ghost. I signed up for a free subscription all because of that. Now I'm happy to pay them $10 bucks a month. It's well worth it. This
enshittification
We told you enshittification would happen
This piece is also on spinbackwards. It belongs here too. Last week I was introduced to a new word - enshittification. It's one word that defines what I wrote about for years on heyheyrenee.com, pieces such as this one. Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don’t Fire Us?paulie
Social Media Is A Social Disease
We're not going to post our way out of this
Howdy, I'm a subscriber to 404Media. What first drew me in was the site being hosted on Ghost. I signed up for a free subscription all because of that. Now I'm happy to pay them $10 bucks a month. It's well worth it. This
Corporate Control
Rich Roll podcast with Rivian founder RJ Scaringe
I haven't watched a Rich Roll podcast in many moons. Rich and I go way back, I was there when he started. I've written extensively about him on heyheyrenee. Full disclosure, we’re Rivian shareholders. As an investment, we believe in Rivian. I think RJ is
Politics
I'm a proud American sick from the bitching
gm, Yes, last night's debate was hard to watch. I get it, our country is hurting. Ralph Nader has been pointing this out for years. Thomas Frank wrote a great book about it. For too long, I have followed and paid for Twitter accounts who call themselves journalists.
Bad Signs
Bad Signs
Howdy, I first started writing these posts on heyheyrenee.com in 2017, when I noticed people getting the peace sign wrong - using the Mercedes logo. For me, this foretold a bad sign. Today, Cory Doctorow calls it enshittification. The June 30 2019 was the biggest offender – until today. Today for