One of the biggest and quietest problems with the world is that actual news keeps getting locked behind paywalls, while disinformation is always freely available.

PLphillewis.bsky.socialOct 1, 2024 2:37pm

CNN launches a digital paywall, charging some users to read articles for the first time

CNN launches a digital paywall, charging some users to read articles for the first time | CNN Business

CNN, one of the most popular news websites in the world, is starting to ask some of its visitors to pay $3.99 a month for access.

Taking an electronics fast every week for a full 25 hours has given me back so much focus, clarity, peace, creativity and productivity. It’s improved literally every single aspect of my life. Biblically mandated Touch Grass time. It’s great.

We're watching the attempted extermination of the Palestinian people, one refugee camp at a time. It's horrific that the world is doing nothing to stop this.

MOmeganotoole.bsky.socialOct 1, 2024 12:43am

An Israeli strike has reportedly hit Ain al-Hilweh, Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp.

Israeli troops enter Lebanon as ground operation against Hezbollah launched

Israeli army says ‘limited’ ground operation under way against Hezbollah as air strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs.

I'm making the face women make when they eat salads in commercials

I suspect this is part of why so many people feel like prices never subsided.

JRjohnrossmd.bsky.socialOct 1, 2024 11:21am

“Cheapflation”: costs of budget brand consumer goods rose most sharply during the inflation spike, and failed to fall when it was over. This Harvard Business School article doesn’t mention the most likely cause: profiteering hbswk.hbs.edu/item/chartin...

Stolen from somewhere else several years ago.

Neighbors

Reading Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell was enlightening for learning that most folks don't go Mad Max when disaster strikes. But the cops and the political leaders sure do.

i love that i only know i can order more free covid tests when someone i follow on social media is like "heads up! go to the usps website today!" a robust public health infrastructure modelled on "McRib Is Back"

I have made this point before but "surgical strikes" and precision warfare do not and cannot exist, they are PR tools to convince civilians that their military is only killing the bad people israel's innovation has been to completely remove any pretense of precision