Naked Capitalism has a near-daily roundup of Iran War highlights, theories, and speculation grounded in actual reported news. The comment section is fantastic.

If something gets posted and it proves untrue or is wild speculation, it will either be corrected or labeled as such up front.

As for the comments section, Yves maintains a high level of quality

I also like the Al Jazeera minute-by-minute mobile site. It’s good to scroll through when I’m eating breakfast and then again before bed

The US government doesn’t care about children anywhere. From Sandy Hook to Gaza to Tehran.

The porn instances already do

But I hope it doesn’t ever get so niche as Reddit became

Why isn’t it? Kim has no quarterly earnings report he’s in thrall to, no need to make line go up in perpetuity, no banksters, no factory owners, no techbros, no lobbyists.

Under such conditions, it’s entirely possible for leadership to work on behalf of the public interest. Compare to the US, where popular support is completely ignored for industry lobbying and campaign cash. I’d venture to say that North Korea is already more democratic than the US, even IF it’s a brutal regime (it isn’t)

The only brutal and undemocratic regime on the peninsula is the ROK, which killed tens of thousands of its citizens in Jeju and Gwangju. Jeju was effectively covered up until the mass graves were found. And even they are more progressive and democratic than the US

A hereditary monarchy is still not an oligarchy 🤷

But anyway, you’re only talking about the head of state. They have an entire system running there

Yes-- there is no oligarchy in China and North Korea. Oligarchs on China are kept on a tight leash and will be killed for a getting out of line.

North Korea probably has no oligarchs as such

Compare to South Korea, which has a famously corrupt governance at all levels, with policies directly influenced by the chaebols (family-owned conglomerates, whose assets were originally awarded by the US for their willing collaboration with Japanese colonizers)

I think it’s rampant in white collar settings

But also, China (and east Asia) is arranged to facilitate and mitigate that a little bit. Like, multigenerational living arrangement ensures a household is in good order and removes the financial burden of housing affordability.

Iwworked there until 2022. All my coworkers were overworked without pity

Iwworked in China. Workers have great rights on paper. However, long hours are normalized in white collar work. I found it a bit shocking.

Also, talk of unionizing would be scandalous

Icchew ice in San Diego. I was once a cattle rustler in Santa Fe

There are other UIs available for Mastodon. It depends on the instance

Nothing about that website gives me confidence. It’s unclear who’s behind it and the “list of endorsers” is literally just a list without logos or statements from organizations. No URLs to their websites, even. It could just be scraped text.

While they have no contact information, they insist that we give them our names emails, and phone numbers. This identifying information. Nope!

DO NOT give your name, phone number, email address to that website

Iffeel the same way, especially about cats.

Inneed, like, at least 500gb

Where are are the photos stored? Offsitee?

Keeping the music out of their eyes

If only memory wasn’t so damn expensive!

It’s down to your preferences

Same as back then 🤷