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Dan Gillmor

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h
Amazingly, almost a third Americans in this survey approve of Trump. www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-appr…
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
Is anyone ever going to make a good 7-8" android tablet again? (Rhetorical question...)
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h
Marc Andressen portrayal in Bloomberg's Business Week magazine shows him to be not just a nasty character but also a dishonest one […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
I try to suppress my contempt for the "news" organizations that fell for Musk's "flying car" con. But I fail. Almost everything that is wrong with journalism is embedded in that coverage of nothing real.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
@judell Politicians who will refuse to be bought. Yes, a long shot at this point. Alternative, after a long and horrible interim, is active overthrow. @waltwooton
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Tim Chambers @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Seems like at least the account back, but no word from Meta on why this happened. This is why they were so smart of @indivisibleteam build out on platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon , and their own direct to their users newsletters too - that are not at the […] [Original post on indieweb.social]
Norm Eisen posting about No Kings Instagram being taken down on #NoKingsDay by Meta
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Trifecta: Meta screwed with the accounts of the non-fascist Brazilian presidential candidate: www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta… The American tech oligarchs are completely beyond control at this point […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Meanwhile, Larry Ellison and his pals have locked out of TikTok the account promoting the new, scathing documentary about Elon Musk. Big (Tech) Media is on a censorship rampage aimed to shut down the critics of the escalating right-wing extremism […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Let's hope this is (yeah right) an innocent mistake that will be quickly fixed. But if Meta has banned the No Kings account from Instagram, as alleged, it is a direct and vile act of censorship. Of course, it'll please the endlessly hypocritical Trumpers […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
All corruption in Trump world crypto connections, Exhibit 65,020: www.citationneeded.news/issue-111 Latest newsletter from Molly White, who covers this stuff better than anyone else.
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Issue 111 – Back the winners
A Trump crypto adviser’s firm took millions from Tether while he shaped stablecoin rules in their favor, a Senate probe targets Commerce Secretary Lutnick’s not-so-former firm, and crypto’s biggest super PAC plays it safe
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
News stories about the weird and corrupt Kimberly Guilfoyle all seem to mention that she was Trump Jr.'s fiance but don't mention that she was married to Gavin Newsom. Both are relevant or neither is relevant. (Both are.)
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
When a CEO is spreading ridiculous-sounding claims that he refuses to back up with, you know, evidence -- here's a prime example -- there is a journalistic responsibility not to play along. Spoiler: Journalists almost ALWAYS play along, because lol clicks.
Business Insider headline: "Palantir CTO says some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer"
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Amazon-branded product lines get bought and get worse, but the reviews -- of what amount to different products -- are aggregated. www.worseonpurpose.com/p/who-owns-a… This is why I strongly recommend, when looking at online reviews anywhere, that you look at the newest […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
They plan to continue to control orbit ("control" until they Kesslerize it, I guess)
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
All corruption, all the time in Trump world, as Big Tech and Crypto spend wildly to buy the election for the Republicans. influence.citationneeded.news/?ref=… Brilliant journalism as always from Molly White.
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Tech Influence Watch
Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
I don't stop respecting people because they decide they have to return to X/Twitter because "that's where the people are" -- but I do respect them a bit less.
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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I filled out my ballot today and found this site helpful for figuring out all the California propositions: www.openballot.app/elections/califo… #BeAVoter
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Compare voter guides for the November 3rd election
Compare voter guides for the November 3rd election
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Ordered a new laptop battery from IFixIt. It was below spec out of the box and after calibration. I told them and provided backing data. They said, Sorry! We're sending you a replacement! No need to return the one we sent; just dispose of it carefully. Now you know why I trust IFixIt.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
All corruption, all the time in Trump world -- nothing comes remotely close to this level of sleaze in American history. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-the-p…
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‘Trump Is the Picasso of Corruption’
The grift is relentless, the conflicts are everywhere, and the public keeps getting stuck with the tab.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Corporate America's offloading of customer "support" to mistake-prone bots is nearly complete, it seems. Getting a human on the phone becomes more and more difficult -- a deliberate strategy. Even non-monopoly/cartel businesses are doing this, which is amazing to me.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
If you read nothing else on crypto and its spreading tentacles that aim to suck your money into its purveyors' bank accounts, you should follow -- and support -- White's sterling work. www.citationneeded.news/issue-110
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Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses
Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the industry’s flagship legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
The pro-crypto legislation didn't pass after all, and some of the credit for this surely must go to Molly White. She is without question doing the best, most relentless coverage of that irredeemably slimy and corrupt industry -- joined at the hip with the irredeemably corrupt Trump world. And […]
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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY A series of ongoing phishing campaigns are actively targeting people using fake verification and support accounts. Admins will never contact you publicly for verification or access issues. Never open links from unsolicited posts […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
Example of a phishing post, including the text "ᴀᴜᴛᴏᴍᴀᴛᴇᴅ ꜱʏꜱᴛᴇᴍꜱ ᴅᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ɪʀʀᴇɢᴜʟᴀʀ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴠɪᴛʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ.

ᴛᴏ ʀᴇꜱᴛᴏʀᴇ ꜰᴜʟʟ ᴠɪsɪʙɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱ, ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇʀɪꜰɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴘʀᴏᴄᴇꜱꜱ."
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
A carpenter friend in California told me today that the price of copper has gone through the roof -- e.g. $100 for a short section of pipe. He said the data centers are hoovering up raw materials in such a frenzy that the cost of essentially all construction materials is insane. I haven't seen […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Just noticed the new bookmark feature here. Fantastic. Now, how do I find old bookmarks?
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Doing the belt+suspenders option: Cloning current drive; backing up home directory, making app lists, etc., and upgrading in place. If one fails I can revert (albeit with some hassles).
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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
I still remember the day in 1976 when Gary Kildall typed in "dir" to an "A>" prompt on his hazeltine green-screen character display to show me a directory listing on his 8080-based, eight-bit computer running the first release of CP/M, the first real microcomputer operating system (that Gary […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Filled out an online form, and to get a copy of my answers I am required to sign into Microsoft. Hell, no. One more reason I despise the greedy control freaks who run Big Tech at this point.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
The bi-annual dilemma has arrived: Do I install the latest Ubuntu LTS (26.04) as an upgrade on top of 24.04 or do I wipe out the current (backed-up) drive and install from scratch and do the tedious reinstallation and tweaking of applications, scripts, settings, etc?
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
More and more it looks like the big "AI" companies are ripping off their customers. It's the American way, of course, but this stuff looks egregious -- and it's going to push people with common sense toward the open-source local models […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
The past tells you a lot about the future: Larry Ellison and his nepo-mogul son have a long record of making promises they don't keep. www.levernews.com/the-ellisons-have…
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The Ellisons Have Made This Movie Before
With Paramount, you don’t need a catalog of failed consent decrees to understand what is to come. You only need the record of the family making the promises.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Succinct metaphor for sky-high stock market while regular people's lives worsen: "Watching the stock market and declaring the economy healthy is like watching the growing python [strangling its prey] and declare that everything inside its coils must be thriving." […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
All corruption, all the time in Trump world: U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for Trump-praising advertisements running on right-wing media. It's a transfer of our money to media scumbags that are effectively part of the regime […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
@nelson A site that uses this will lose a lot of business...
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins isn't just a pretend-moderate Republican who's supported almost every catastrophic Trump policy and nominee (including all the current radical-right Supreme Court "justices"). She's also corrupt as hell […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Latest reminder that you should assume the following about any statement from Trump's ICE/DHS goons claiming to exonerate the regime of bad acts: They're probably lying. www.ctinsider.com/news/article/dabu…
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Client Challenge
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Today's "AI" uh-oh: I was inquiring with two chatbots (Claude and Gemini) about best techniques -- to the extent possible -- for removing data from an SSD I plan to sell. Both of them suggested command line (Linux) scripts that would have erased my main laptop drive. Oh sure I trust this stuff...
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
@gilduran.com Yes, but also small claims...
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
All corruption, all the time in Trump world: "World Liberty’s Crypto Ties Enriched Trump as Investors Lost Out" […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Ridiculous spam of the day warns me that "Every month you live with tinnitus [ringing in the ears], roughly 3% of your brain cells die off." If so, I've been making do with zero brain cells for at least 30 years. A miracle!
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
So California AG Bonta and his colleagues from other states were engaging in antitrust theater. Their "settlement" with the soon-to-be media giant Paramount -- that is, Larry Ellison and his sock-puppet son (and three Arab-oil dictatorships) -- is a pathetic cave-in […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
No one covers the pernicious, pervasive reality of American racism than Nikole Hannah-Jones, and this is a must-read example of her work: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magazine…
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Serial liars like Trump and his apparatchiks have a huge advantage over people who tell the truth, because they can count on journalists to parrot the lies in their coverage, thereby giving equal weight to reality and bullshit. Example: Trump spokesperson quote in this story […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
This is a worthy essay about the "This isn't who we are" trope, involving a white Texas businessman who suddenly awoke -- when it affected him and his fiance -- to our fascist reality. (The piece is somewhat repetitive, but I recommend it anyway.) […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
If you use Fastmail for your email, you can now select to have your data reside in the EU rather than the US. If a nation state is out to spy on you, this won't fix much. But it does add a layer of surveillance protection in some ways […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Another fraud-slop empire thrives -- in part because Google lets it thrive (and profits in the meantime): futurism.com/artificial-intelligenc…
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is the biggest media company you've never heard of — powered by AI, fake writers, and plagiarism. When we started asking questions, it started deleting massive amounts of content. The post How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month appeared first on Futurism.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
The AI panic looks like an orchestrated con: The bosses of these rapacious, sleazy, and infinitely sloppy companies are angling for government permission to be a cartel. This would be followed, as certain as day follows night, by the bailout they all know they'll need when their bubble deflates.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Good news or bad news depending on your POV: Usenet archives are suddenly easy to dig through, thanks to a new service. It’s built by a big data guy, and it’s packed with every awkward thing you ever wrote in a newsgroup in 1997. My deep dive […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/arts/mus… Once again, Trump regime tells a federal court, "Up yours." And almost certainly, the judge will emit a few stern words and leave it at that. Rule of law? Please.
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Trump Fights Back After Judge Says Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center
President Trump threatened to cancel a $257 million renovation of the performing arts venue if the judge’s ban was not overturned.
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