There's a #newsletter I like, but had gotten steadily shittier over the past year as the writer has been using too much #AI and reducing the quality.
Last week, he turned on payments and my reaction was - I would have paid for the pre-AI version, but not this.
📰 Russlands rote Linien
#Nachrichten
"Ensimmäisen kerran lajimme historiassa ihminen on tilanteessa, jossa meidän pitäisi kyetä rajoittamaan omaa tuottavuuttamme, jos aiomme selviytyä lajina hengissä." - Anna Kontula, Kirkko ja Kaupunki 13/2026
#tuottavuus #ekokatastrofi
National Geographic Society sent my mother a fundraising letter. She asked if she should donate, and i said absolutely not, they partnered with the Murdochs, the infamous reactionary propagandists. I checked my facts though and it's worse— the magazine and TV channels and everything anyone actually knows about in 2015 became 73% owned by 21st Century Fox which itself is now owned by Disney. And they fired all the magazine writers in 2023. So i feel that this is fully a for-profit ope…
A win for Wigan residents after council U-turns on masterplan - but this was 'just one battle' - against building on green space.
Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/great…
‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage https://www.404media.co/ao3-down-outage-reactions/