Happy Monday, friends! I hope by now we're all fully recovered from our blue-wave-celebrating hangovers and ready to get to work. 💪

Last week’s rant:

• Proton Is Committing Corporate Suicide and it is immensely frustrating. And with every other platform embracing slop, union busting, and general enshittification, where are we supposed to go now?

A few newsy bits:

• The Society of Authors has withdrawn from its ethical AI charter after backlash from its members. As it turns out, most authors don’t like the climate-destroying lying machine that was trained on their own stolen work! Who could possibly have foreseen this?
• A new site called SocialDB appears to have scraped social media and created fake sponsorship profiles for everyone it found, offering imaginary services under your name while collecting the service fees in an “escrow” account controlled by SocialDB itself. Of course, the offered services will never be performed, because you will never know they sold them, but it’s your reputation that will take the hit. Wonderful! 💀 (Bluesky)
• I recently became aware of the book Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown. I haven’t read it yet, but it’s going straight on my growing reading list of leftist praxis. Post back with any similar recs you might have!

Up next:

• We won big in the midterms. This Friday, I’ll talk about what the last decade took from us, and what we need to repair now that we have this chance. (Will Schumer and Jefferies escape my ire? Outlook: not so good.)