David LaFontaine
dave@newsie.social
<p>Newspaper/magazine reporter turned Lead UX Designer; migrated to the web, produced TV segments, traveled the world trying to help publishers build sustainable digital revenue streams.</p>
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@Heimdall @TonyStark Per “Medellin” in Sicario: This is the land of wolves now https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/opinion/hunter-biden-pardon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare
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@foggy______ruins@infosec.exchange @jerry the asassination of the insurance CEO brought out a fire hose of rage from everyone who has dealt with the American healthcare system in the last five years?
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The key to the value of Twitter is, and has always been, that journalists and celebs post there The place produces NOTHING of intrinsic value https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/european-federation-of-journalists-to-stop-posting-content-on-x-386598/
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@internetarchive on behalf of my students who did such amazing work on Vice - thank you for this!
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@TCatInReality @VATVSLPR @GottaLaff that is seen as a feature, not a bug Those “in the know” and able to pay get the goodies, and their sleazy businesses flourish Those not? Wither and die. Average schlub is told it’s all the fault of “damn librul gummint”
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@Rhodium103 lifelong monkeyshines doodle wackaloon meter litre snow bank abutment to you too!
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@Kaya@photog.social AKA “Most endearing kitty pose” What a handsome lad. Remember the rule for tummy rubs: “Three rubs must you perform. Four, and I bite.”
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@JonnyT @GossiTheDog A doctor treating an incurable, disfiguring disease, contracted it himself. At first somewhat resistant, his ego asserted itself when he looked in the mirror to see his own twisted visage. “Well, on me, it looks good,” he mused, self-satisfied.
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@luckytran … to be immediately followed by some Fox News wackaloon who says that it’s the result of the eruption of Mount Erebus in Antarctica, and an ocean current upwelling and hey look over there! Squirrel! Checkmate, libtard.
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@cwebber We are in the midst of a giant User Experience Research project. Terms: testing to destruction of user willingness to endure Nazi abuse Cohort: entire planet Earth Budget: total revenue streams for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram &amp; Threads
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “Haha,” said Gandalf, hitting his weed pen for the eighteenth time in the past hour. “Hahaha. Fuck. Well, it did. Suck it up buttercup.”
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@skinnylatte you have your work cut out for you. But my hand to God, I am rooting for you.
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@DEDGirl @patrickleavy @pluralistic sprinkle in the semi autonomous AI drones that are heavily armed and given life or death authority over the plebs, and you’ve got the makings of Tech bro paradise
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@thekitmalone @GottaLaff hm. Not sure how an injunction could control/override an Exec Order “Hey, your last order harmed people.” “So?” “So don’t do that again” “Or else what?” … “Thought so.”
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@dangillmor According to the publisher of The 1440 at the LION conference last fall, the platform he&#39;d recommend is Beehiiv https://www.beehiiv.com/ And yes, Substack is not conducive to independent creators, unless you like a slice of your hard-earneds being funneled to some of the worst people imaginable
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@dangillmor @sarah_geri hadn&#39;t played with Buttondown yet; thanks for the recc
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@bifouba sweet jeebus, these folks are dumb. I thought we had sunk as low as we could back in the days of the Smirking Chimp I was wrong
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@samlitzinger next week will be worse, as the news sinks in and the retaliation begins
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Here’s what’s on my mind today: this clip from RCTV, the last independent TV network in Venezuela. One by one the lights went out, as the regime celebrated its takeover of the last independent voice that was at all critical of the government. Coming soon to a cowardly TV network near you #cbs #lastweektonight https://youtu.be/j9w7B0xKIXg?si=uTOjjevvckRo2BGY