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https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780375714498/manufacturing-consent · 6 May 2026
The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them int...
https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-05-04-26/ · 4 May 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
Saturday was Newsletter day and I was busy on Sunday, so our daily Pook-Emu Bee links had the weekend off. But there are no such impediments this Monday, so I am back with my regularly scheduled links. 1. Indie developer lands in Steam approval limbo after...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780063433038/murder-the-truth · 25 Apr 2026
Murder the Truth is another entry in a line of books illustrating the ways in which immense wealth has warped the foundations of American society. We all watch in horror as things bend, fold in and wonder when, just when, it all snaps. The influence that w...
https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/ai-cant-lie-04-15-26/ · 15 Apr 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
Ars Technica published an article by Ryan Whitwam titled Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour. The article itself is about a New York Times investigation into the accuracy of Google's AI overviews. The framing in the head...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780593471869/el-paso · 1 Apr 2026
El Paso is a heartfelt, beautifully written tale that manages to connect the city's history to that of her family's, other migrant families and the dynamics of immigration woven deeply into the fabric of the United States. I knew so little of this history ...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780753559215/how-to-stand-up-to-a-dictator · 19 Jan 2026
Maria Ressa is a remarkable individual. She's a journalist, author, activist and is both innovative and tireless in her pursuit of truth and justice. How to Stand Up to a Dictator is an essential read and an especially relevant one. She has faced off again...
https://nsfw.leaflet.pub/3mbihnrck5s2z · 3 Jan 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
Thoughts for those walking up to the gates of a wasteland.
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m7tcs7mie22r · 13 Dec 2025 · 🦋 Bluesky
A podcast conversation.
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781645030461/owned · 12 Oct 2025
Owned is, unfortunately, a fairly shallow look at how the patronage of tech billionaires has managed to push several prominent journalists to the political right, causing them to defend and align with the interests of their patrons. I became aware of Glenn...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781620978535/copaganda · 20 Aug 2025
Copaganda is the most important book I've read in a while both for its impact and its insight. As a working civil rights attorney Alec Karakatsanis is supremely qualified to expound on the subject of the book's namesake. "Copaganda convinces people that, s...