“They willingly gave all sorts of PII to a soulless corporation. Here’s what didn’t actually happen.”

I mean, it absolutely would be news if a dangerous stretch of I-5 popped up in Eastern Washington.

Do you have a structured settlement? Call DJ Trump! 877-GRIFT-NOW.

This sail sales.

Why should Putin have all the fun when there are upper-floor windows all over the world?

It’s one thing to have bad optics, but it’s another entirely to give a fuck about them. (See also: Facebook.)

I don’t really care for a $999,990 plate with $10 of shitty food.

Shit. Is that how I lost my porn collection?

Ah, but if you want a proper defenestration, Prague’s the go-to.

Who watches ads on YouTube?

As it turns out, people already have it working in Linux. I just torrented the latest KDE Neon build in case I get a wild hair for a project tomorrow.

There are several examples of successful independent journalism ventures.

The point the story is making is the situation for journalists striking out on their own is that work ends up being way more on the back end, such that the reporting itself is a fraction of the time as cultivating the site and keeping subscribers happy with your interaction level, lest they bolt.

What legacy media provided was a premade audience, legal cover and no pay reduction with each lost subscriber. Slim offerings, to be sure, but we’re really learning as we go that as shitty as working conditions were, you could be doing all of that and having to moonlight in marketing.

That’s an interesting – if wildly incorrect – summary.