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   josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 11:55:07 JST josh buermann

   Joining the #Bezos-is-a-coward chorus here and pausing my #prime account and joining Target Circle. I don't think I need to be quite such a regular customer of a billionaire who has decided to be the Neville Chamberlain of the American oligarchy.

   https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168416/washington-post-bezos-endorsement-president-cancellations-resignations

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     josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 11:55:05 JST josh buermann

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     Now the Washington Post is recycling ancient climate denial propaganda from 1998. When the cited skeptic recycled his own bullshit in 2014 it got him fired from #FiveThirtyEight, but I doubt the #WaPo has the editorial independence left to can columnists for gross incompetence.

     https://fair.org/home/wapo-says-not-to-worry-about-climate-disruptions-disastrous-costs/

     #BezosPost

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     josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 11:55:06 JST josh buermann

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     MAGAhats nodding to one another about how Bezo's cowering over a potential retaliatory blacklisting from government contracts demonstrates how Trump's macho vitality must be injected straight into America's veins like ivermectin-infused bleach:

     "officials from Bezos’ Blue Origin aerospace company met with Trump a few hours after the decision [to prohibit the Washington Post's editors from expressing their mere opinion] became public"

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     josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 11:55:06 JST josh buermann

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     Geeze why don't people trust the media anymore? Maybe the obvious lies forever ushering forth from its owners, much like Bezo's hilarious joke here that he's never interfered in the editorial process in his own interests immediately after having interfered with the editorial process in his own interests, have imperiled their credibility.

     https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/

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     josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 11:55:06 JST josh buermann

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     Of alternative commercial media that doesn't go as far out of its way to offend the last vestiges of editorial independence as the #BezosPost or #TooSoonTimes the Conde Nast suit of publications are a really good deal (I felt obligated to finally subscribe to WIRED because they do essential science journalism and aren't penny stock silicon valley simps like most American tech mags), because for the first time I get to explore THE WORLD OF INTERIORS instead of my merely interior world.

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.