Notices by Dave Winer's linkblog in Masto (dave@social.masto.land)

Political reporters are actively covering up Trump’s racism.

https://presswatchers.org/2025/01/political-reporters-are-actively-covering-up-trumps-racism/

Is Bluesky billionaire-proof?

http://scripting.com/2025/01/28/130324.html?title=isBlueskyBillionaireProof

John Scalzi on his friendship with the scandalized Neil Gaiman.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/01/15/taking-leave/

Kia has found its answer to low-cost Chinese EV makers.

https://electrek.co/2025/01/10/kia-found-answer-to-low-cost-chinese-ev-makers/

Meta rolls back DEI programs in latest bow to Trump.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-dei-programs-employees-trump

Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes.

https://www.404media.co/its-total-chaos-internally-at-meta-right-now-employees-protest-zuckerbergs-anti-lgbtq-changes/

McDonald’s rolls back DEI programs, ending push for greater diversity.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/06/mcdonalds-diversity-programs

Rudy Giuliani held in contempt in case brought by two former Georgia election workers he defamed.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/politics/rudy-giuliani-contempt-hearing

Cartoonist quits 'Washington Post' after Bezos sketch killed.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/04/nx-s1-5248299/cartoonist-quits-wapo-over-bezos-trump-cartoon-washingtonpost

Mark saw his patient comfort a dying man. And that moment has stayed with him.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/02/g-s1-40561/unsung-hero-medical-student-dying-patient-comfort

Will America Die Gradually, Then Suddenly?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/will-america-die-gradually-then-suddenly?r=zepz&triedRedirect=true

The GOP Is Treating Musk Like He’s in Charge.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/12/the-gop-is-treating-musk-like-hes-in-charge/681117/?gift=f35zZN0v_gDFE8xNwlQAHa0RxyZ37nOM3GKJgDunSkY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Nearly 17,000 people may have died from hydroxychloroquine.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4389800-hydroxychloroquine-deaths-study/amp/

I did a podcast interview with with George Lakoff in 2008 in Berkeley, where I was living at the time. Pretty sure it was his first podcast.

http://scripting.com/stories/2008/02/25/interviewWithGeorgeLakoff.html

Of course Joe Biden Was Right to Pardon His Son.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/joe-biden-hunter-pardon-was-right-mystal/

1996: Of Mice and Menus.

http://scripting.com/davenet/1996/06/03/ofmiceandmenus.html

Threads takes an important baby step toward true fediverse integration.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24313229/threads-follow-fediverse-mastodon-users-post-notifications

David Frum: "It is an ominous sign that Morning Joe felt it had to apologize for something I said on air."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/appeasement-new-age-trump/680871/?gift=f35zZN0v_gDFE8xNwlQAHaR_aG-uEILvzAygwDvOvHo

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars.

https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870

Tesla owners turn against Musk.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/29/tesla-owners-elon-musk