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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ok, here's a compromise: Print out the unredacted Epstein Files and tape them to the Kennedy Center. Boom! His name will be all over the place.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

if we’re still pretending that Mitch McConnell is alive then we should be able to criticize him for his silence on the anniversary of 9/11

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 02/09/2026

Wild how often variations of this line about the private sector needing to get involved in African agriculture gets rehashed and how each time the people saying it act like it's the first time anyone's said such a thing.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 28/08/2026

Yeah and then we tried to cut police pay and they played chicken with us and this is where it went. Another city might have closed its libraries or something.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 28/08/2026

Can’t say. It’s just local news to me.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 28/08/2026

It was 16 years ago. I’m not sure where they went.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Surround yourself with the kind of people who are proud to have a library card.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 21/08/2026

For some reason the Natalie Harp letters remind me of that video Glenn Greenwald made wearing the maid outfit

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 31/07/2026

People who profess their victimhood while they abuse you are the absolute worst kinds of people.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 29/07/2026

This was going to be a vibe report but it ended up being a lot more interesting than I expected. Hats off to all my colleagues at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org for letting me run with it anyway, and for readers who read it www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/dead-at-mcdo...

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Dead at McDonald's

Between the Eastmont Town Center and Evergreen Cemetery, a broken down fast food joint is a relic of the moment things went bad in the Deep East.

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Bob Calhoun @bobcalhoun.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is a great essay on fast food, Huey Newton, Jim Jones, redevelopment and revolutionary suicide. Read it.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 26/07/2026

One of these myths that won’t go away: a guy who made his entire fortune on government contracts got rich off “free market capitalism.” bsky.app/profile/wolf...

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 25/07/2026

Nope. No, you haven’t.

r/WritingWithAl
u/Dazzling-Major-5620 • 13h
ChatGPT not letting you emulate specific authors anymore
Prompting
Join
I've been writing my book for several months now, paid for a more advanced model. Took a break. Came back.
Now Ms. GPT says she can't generate content in the style of specific authors. My prompts were soooo specific and I got exactly what I wanted out of them. For example,
'rewrite in the literary style of 'author here' with abundant dialogue and detail avoiding staccato prose. That was my go-to. Or 'please write and flesh out in the style of
'author' etc. they tightened the ropes. I have no idea how to get around this other than maybe feed it prose I already edited that's technically mine? Fuck.
& Locked post. New comments cannot be posted.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I remain surprised how few people credit Occupy Wall Street's ongoing impact(s) on U.S. politics. There's no Mamdani without Occupy etc... [some people are also irrationally anti-Occupy but that's for another day]

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 23/07/2026

Kenya? They’re in Gabon and Madagascar now. Someone should write a book on it …

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 23/07/2026

KFC opened in Indonesia in 1979, before Korea, Thailand, or Taiwan … I always thought that was indicative of something interesting

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 13/07/2026

Sad to see that NONE of the other so-called "news" media in this town had the COURAGE to cover the Steve Hilton shit-show at Oakland's Scottish Rite Center (prpobably because it was so stupid), but luckily ORB WAS ON IT www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/steve-hilton...

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Steve Hilton at the Scottish Rite Center

That shit was really dumb.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 13/07/2026

He also said we could manage our forests better and then we'd have more timber and that would bring the cost of housing down. No, really, he said that.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 13/07/2026

Steve Hilton lives in Atherton, by the way.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 13/07/2026

Steve Hilton wanted the audience to know that he left his home "on the other side of the Bay" once to get a drink in Oakland and the whole experience made him uncomfortable.

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Steve Hilton at the Scottish Rite Center

That shit was really dumb.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 12/07/2026

yeah that's what i was thinking

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 12/07/2026

Lindsey on climate change, in the before times:

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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy @iatp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

NEW: Our latest report by @alexcpark.com and Philip H. Howard, co-published with @afsafrica.bsky.social, examines the increasing influence of the World Bank Group on African agriculture, particularly livestock production. Read it now: www.iatp.org/bank-takes-l...

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The Bank Takes the Lead?

Making sense of the World Bank Group’s role supporting livestock projects in the Green Revolution in Africa, with a focus on East and Southern Africa Our latest report examines the rise in WBG financi...

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East Bay Yesterday @eastbayyesterday.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I was bummed to miss this Caldecott Tunnel tour a few weeks ago, but luckily @oaklandreviewofbooks.org was there... www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/a-hole-in-th...

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A hole in the hills

A tour at the Caldecott Tunnel west entrance, a few weeks ago.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 17/06/2026

Who cares about fast food work, right? It might be the lowest and least respected form of labor in this country, but the ascent of AI at the drive-thru window could soon preview changes that will touch a lot of other people, as well.

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 17/06/2026

Who could have guessed: an industry that already treats its workers like robots has embraced AI?! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/the-ai-faste...

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The faster future is already at Burger King

Who could have guessed an industry that treats its workers like robots would embrace AI?

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 13/06/2026

Remember the chicken place in Boosters? Correct us if we're wrong, but we're pretty sure it was this place:

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 09/06/2026

Technically, "Berkeley" is a neighborhood in Oakland's Deep North, a lot of people don't know that

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 09/06/2026

One thing that stands out about this map: despite industry objections to a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers in California, the median wage there is actually $0.33 above the minimum.

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 08/06/2026

The next ORB Happy Hour will be at Temescal Brewing, on Thursday, June 18th, 4 pm until whenever!

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 03/06/2026

Yes. She got a job overseeing a lot of people who are there for the right reasons and worked hard to be there because she’s useful at keeping them in line and she still think it was because she’s smart and brave.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026

Apparently not. End 🧵

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026

And yes, $86,934 isn't a ton of money to GEO Group. But if it's so little, why have it at all? Wouldn't a foundation that had any principles at all when it came to investing avoid staking their money on this company? If there's one company to avoid, wouldn't that be it?

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026

And, as of 2024, the last year for which its tax returns are available, it was invested in GEO Group. A company that's involved in a legalized human trafficking. Holding onto people caught up in the ICE dragnet for profit.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026

It's the standard blend of philanthropy, early-stage investment, and outright lobbying (but only for good causes!) that the Gates Foundation pioneered ...

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026

She set out to make her own identity as a philanthropist, with a new foundation focused on women and girls--the people who Epstein's victims and who Melinda Gates was most focused on at the Gates Foundation.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026

Epstein trafficked minors. He subjected them to incalculable harms. And by separating herself from Bill, Melinda Gates was showing the world that associating with such a person was an unforgivable sin.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026

These days, the Foundation isn't invested in prisons at all, from what I can tell. But in 2019, a couple months after Jeffery Epstein died, news broke that Gates had ties with Mr Evil himself. Two years later, Melinda Gates divorced Bill. Those revelations were reportedly a major reason.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026

As I detailed in this follow-up, the Foundation had been drawing down its investments in prisons by then. In 2007, it had $23 riding on Corrections Corp. of America bonds, and a $7 million Wackenhut Corrections Corp. bond. (Wackenhut was GEO Group's predecessor). www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

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Is the Gates Foundation still investing in private prisons?

Bill and Melinda Gates' philanthropy won't say.

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Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com · 01/06/2026

Herz asked to talk to the people who made the investments so they could explain their reasoning. The Foundation wouldn't allow it. (Full story: www.thestranger.com/blogs/the-ga...)

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