deCadmus

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Product manager, coffee geek, writer. Intrigued by disruptive tech and connected things, distracted by craft booze and barbecue. He / him.

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I’ve just senselessly exploded a flutter of iridescent butterflies of every shape and bejeweled color. I am sorry… but the narrative required it. #writingproblems

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Terrific piece on a dangerous, deeply cynical phenomenon at the intersection of police militarization and the growing appetite for political violence.

A man sets himself on fire. The first responder orders him to the ground. The second pulld a gun on him. Only the third tries to put out the fire. This is a sign of a broken society. prospect.org/justice/2024...

The Spectacle of Policingprospect.org ‘Swatting’ innocent people is the latest incarnation of the decades-long gestation of an infrastructure of fear.

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Cool cool NYT just out here saying that a family that moved to a red state because people in Portland are homeless and do drugs is somehow equivalent to a family that moved to a blue state because IOWA OUTLAWED THEIR CHILD www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/u...

Two Families Got Fed Up With Their States’ Politics. So They Moved Out.www.nytimes.com The Nobles of Iowa moved to blue Minnesota. The Huckinses of Oregon moved to red Missouri. Their separate journeys, five weeks apart, illustrate the fracturing of America.

What could possibly go wrong?

Elon Musk confirmed in a tweet that some of the last X/Twitter employees tasked with combating election misinformation, including a senior manager targeted by a right-wing harassment campaign for trying to hire new team members, have been fired:

Twitter Fires Election Integrity Team Ahead of 2024 Electionswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk fired X global head of election integrity Aaron Rodericks ahead of dozens of 2024 elections.

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