Jared Miller
@jcmi.bsky.social
Recovering from the trauma of working at Twitter. Currently @ discord. Security. Safety. Dungeons and Dragons 🏳️🌈he/him
Fun fact, for at least 5 years at Twitter, this checkbox did in fact do nothing.
June 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Fun fact, for at least 5 years at Twitter, this checkbox did in fact do nothing.
I think I can say definitively, New York
has lost its bagel supremacy. Los Angeles and San Francisco now reign.
has lost its bagel supremacy. Los Angeles and San Francisco now reign.
January 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I think I can say definitively, New York
has lost its bagel supremacy. Los Angeles and San Francisco now reign.
has lost its bagel supremacy. Los Angeles and San Francisco now reign.
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In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.
January 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.
I’ll donate (an additional) 100 dollars to ProPublica if the ban isn’t reversed, or in effect totally ignored, by Republicans in congress by the end of the 90 day extension.
it will be interesting to see if the first real stand off between republicans in congress and trump over the scope of executive power is over the tiktok ban
Meanwhile, this from Sens. Cotton and Ricketts: “For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law’s qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China.”
January 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I’ll donate (an additional) 100 dollars to ProPublica if the ban isn’t reversed, or in effect totally ignored, by Republicans in congress by the end of the 90 day extension.
“I’m glad OxyCotin is coming back on the market. We need to keep it that way. The drug is too important to the lives of millions of addicts”.
I’m glad TikTok is coming back online. We need to keep it that way. The platform is too important to the lives of 170 million creators.
January 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“I’m glad OxyCotin is coming back on the market. We need to keep it that way. The drug is too important to the lives of millions of addicts”.
Voted for by…
*checks notes*
Huh.
*checks notes*
Huh.
I’m deeply disappointed that TikTok went dark last night. I will not stop fighting to fix this mistake in the United States.
January 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Voted for by…
*checks notes*
Huh.
*checks notes*
Huh.
He can promise it because his whole election promise was to be a fascist and that’s what happens when a society elects a government uninterested in the rule of law or human decency.
I'm told TikTok's host (Oracle) and CDN (Akamai) brought it back online today because Trump assured them they'd not be subject to penalties - something he can't entirely promise.
Whatever one's feelings on the ban's merit, they're defying federal law based on a not-yet-president's word. Huge gamble
Whatever one's feelings on the ban's merit, they're defying federal law based on a not-yet-president's word. Huge gamble
January 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
He can promise it because his whole election promise was to be a fascist and that’s what happens when a society elects a government uninterested in the rule of law or human decency.
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Exactly this. The entire dance was done specifically to benefit Trump and make sure everyone knows that it's he who "saved" TikTok. It's a very successful PR stunt for Trump.
want to be excruciatingly clear about this: TikTok didn't have to go dark last night and it didn't have to turn back on this morning.
both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.
both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.
January 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Exactly this. The entire dance was done specifically to benefit Trump and make sure everyone knows that it's he who "saved" TikTok. It's a very successful PR stunt for Trump.
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want to be excruciatingly clear about this: TikTok didn't have to go dark last night and it didn't have to turn back on this morning.
both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.
both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.
January 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
want to be excruciatingly clear about this: TikTok didn't have to go dark last night and it didn't have to turn back on this morning.
both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.
both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills with this TikTok thing. Not least of which because banning it is a good idea. We should probably ban all algorithmic based social networks!
Rant incoming…
Rant incoming…
January 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills with this TikTok thing. Not least of which because banning it is a good idea. We should probably ban all algorithmic based social networks!
Rant incoming…
Rant incoming…
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1. Meta’s policy bans allegations of mental illness *unless* the person is LGBTQ, in which case you can falsely say the person is mentally ill:
(The policy uses the word “transgenderism,” echoing right wing terminology.)
(The policy uses the word “transgenderism,” echoing right wing terminology.)
January 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
1. Meta’s policy bans allegations of mental illness *unless* the person is LGBTQ, in which case you can falsely say the person is mentally ill:
(The policy uses the word “transgenderism,” echoing right wing terminology.)
(The policy uses the word “transgenderism,” echoing right wing terminology.)
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1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
10 corporations that kept their promises after January 6, 2021
After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their po...
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January 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
He looks like every guy I hit up a second time on Grindr after not getting a reply.
December 9, 2024 at 8:03 PM
He looks like every guy I hit up a second time on Grindr after not getting a reply.
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Homosexuals on the Luigi trial jury
December 9, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Homosexuals on the Luigi trial jury
The internet is not ready for a hot Joker.
December 9, 2024 at 7:09 PM
The internet is not ready for a hot Joker.
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I'm fucking blasted and hanging out in the weirdest scene because history happened at a deeply inconvenient hour. so it goes.
December 3, 2024 at 4:24 PM
I'm fucking blasted and hanging out in the weirdest scene because history happened at a deeply inconvenient hour. so it goes.
Lets goooooooooo
Well. While he’s pardoning folks….get all of the folks on death row pardoned, all those drug convictions for weed pardoned, etc etc etc.
December 2, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Lets goooooooooo
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We’re all the new kid in school hoping to be popular but with same questionable personality. I have a car though.
April 30, 2023 at 5:51 PM
We’re all the new kid in school hoping to be popular but with same questionable personality. I have a car though.
I’d love some realistic coverage of what’s going on with the PA senate race. Right now Casey is down 24k votes according to the NYT. Does he still have a chance with the outstanding ballots?
November 15, 2024 at 2:38 AM
I’d love some realistic coverage of what’s going on with the PA senate race. Right now Casey is down 24k votes according to the NYT. Does he still have a chance with the outstanding ballots?
Fuck Ben but also, this is excellent writing.
Holy sh*t.
This on Matt Gaetz just published by Ben Domenech is, well, quite something.
Domenech is Editor-at-Large at Spectator World and an influence Conservative writer.
This on Matt Gaetz just published by Ben Domenech is, well, quite something.
Domenech is Editor-at-Large at Spectator World and an influence Conservative writer.
November 15, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Fuck Ben but also, this is excellent writing.
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Um, Biden ran a pro-working class admin — swinging at monopolists, bolstering unions, investing billions in manufacturing — and got clobbered.
Investing $100s of billions in industrial jobs isn’t “abandon[ing] working class people”—but Dems might be wary to offer as much again for a generation.
Investing $100s of billions in industrial jobs isn’t “abandon[ing] working class people”—but Dems might be wary to offer as much again for a generation.
Bernie Sanders: “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”
November 7, 2024 at 4:22 AM
Um, Biden ran a pro-working class admin — swinging at monopolists, bolstering unions, investing billions in manufacturing — and got clobbered.
Investing $100s of billions in industrial jobs isn’t “abandon[ing] working class people”—but Dems might be wary to offer as much again for a generation.
Investing $100s of billions in industrial jobs isn’t “abandon[ing] working class people”—but Dems might be wary to offer as much again for a generation.
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It seems we are already losing sight of the fact that a handful of billionaires effectively turned our information ecosystem into a Superfund site, no one knows how to clean up the mess, and simply telling the truth and hoping people find it is woefully insufficient
November 7, 2024 at 4:37 AM
It seems we are already losing sight of the fact that a handful of billionaires effectively turned our information ecosystem into a Superfund site, no one knows how to clean up the mess, and simply telling the truth and hoping people find it is woefully insufficient
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Everyone is seeing this through their lens of course but, to me, this so obviously the result of social content platforms and their impact on our ability to create a shared reality.
November 6, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Everyone is seeing this through their lens of course but, to me, this so obviously the result of social content platforms and their impact on our ability to create a shared reality.
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the money which Harris spent in the last three months could have bought Sinclair Media and had 400 million left over to run the Obama 2008 campaign
we will need countervailing institutions to combat the collapse of existing ones. it does not cost a lot to buy newspapers and run them at a loss. local TV stations.
i've been thinking about Harris' billion-dollar campaign and how that money might be spent more efficiently over a longer time.
i've been thinking about Harris' billion-dollar campaign and how that money might be spent more efficiently over a longer time.
ready to fucking fight.
November 6, 2024 at 8:00 PM
the money which Harris spent in the last three months could have bought Sinclair Media and had 400 million left over to run the Obama 2008 campaign