Feb 15, 2024
FIRST, AN ANNOUNCEMENT: Come hang out with the Pirate Wires crew tonight in San Francisco — well, me, Brandon, and Commander Button (no byline, quietly runs the place, serious nicotine addiction). We’ll be at the Emporium Arcade Bar, 616 Divisadero Street, at 6:30PM.
If you’re in Miami or NYC sit tight, more meetups to come. Now, onto this week’s newsletter.
google maps changed the name of “lake ontario” following direction from… the u.s. government. threads users aren’t taking it well.
a history of the most important social phenomenon of the late 2010s: the campaign to censor dissident speech on every major platform, and the end of the open internet as we knew it
dsa victories across the country have sparked a national discussion: what do socialists actually believe? i enrolled in ‘socialism 101’ on reddit to find out