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Forest @foresthunt.org · 25/09/2026

Google News has pushed me links to press releases from the White House, now Anthropic. It makes me wonder what other PR is being spoonfed directly to people.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 27/01/2026

I think speculating on algo changes is probably of limited value in a vacuum. Our narrative framework undermines our ability to parse genuine changes from noticing existing phenomena. But I can't help it. And for what it's worth, I noticed this change before I tied it consciously to the sale.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 27/01/2026

My TikTok algo is breaking in a weird way post sale. It trends towards conservative coded "bro"/ sports content (NEVER got before), then breaks down into 100% conservative text posts (occasionally seen before). This resets if I wait a little while. Is anyone else experiencing something similar?

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 03/01/2026

Hello [insert news website here], it's me, the person who keeps emailing you asking where I can find your RSS feed.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 26/11/2024

Bernie Sanders hinted at a break with the Democratic Party in an email sent out earlier today. If this ends up being more signal than noise, this is a significant moment.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 22/11/2024

Is all the original Gimlet Spotify-exclusive content still only available on Spotify? I can't tell if this is an indicator that Spotifies podcasting strategy is further losing the plot, or something more intentional.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 22/11/2024

It's so sad that Gimlet's "Crime Show" got swallowed whole by the memory hole of the Podcast Platform Wars because they kept it as a Spotify exclusive, and it still is?!

gimletmedia.com

Episodes | Crime Show

Gimlet is the award-winning narrative podcasting company that aims to help listeners better understand the world and each other.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Fox News: "The Onion has 4.3 trillion daily readers."

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 14/11/2024

We're focused on Trump, but the most important far right victories have been local. Here are three stories worth reading instead of updates on Trump admin picks. COPS theintercept.com/2024/11/08/t... COUNTIES www.propublica.org/article/tarr... SCHOOL BOARDS www.texasobserver.org/school-board...

theintercept.com

The Looming Fight to Make Local Cops Part of Trump’s Deportation Machine

Arizona voted to grant state and local police the authority to make immigration arrests, going against Supreme Court precedent.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 16/10/2024

Happy ten year anniversary to this amazing essay from Arthur Chu. The reactionary movement that spawned GG continues to metastasize today, and I've send this article to people so many times over the years. It's still worth a read! If you can tell me if Chu is on here or wherever please do.

thedailybeast.com

Of Gamers, Gates, and Disco Demolition: The Roots of Reactionary Rage

How are YouTube videos criticizing sexist video games important enough to threaten a school shooting? Read the #GamerGate tag and realize that underneath the anger is fear.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 12/09/2024

The mental image from this Eric Adams quote of starting every day imploring his staff not to commit crimes is very funny. “I cannot tell you how much I start the day with telling my team, ‘We’ve got to follow the law, got to follow the law'" www.nytimes.com/article/eric...

nytimes.com

What We Know About the Investigations Involving Eric Adams’s Top Aides

The administration of New York City’s mayor was thrown into turmoil as federal inquiries reached his inner circle.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 25/05/2024

"Micheal says there aren't many detransitioners based on the data, but has he considered what would happen if he imagined what data might look like in the future?" Checkmate.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 15/05/2024

Cal State's base funding will likely be spared from across-the-board budget cuts, according to a letter sent to faculty members from union leadership yesterday. The means faculty will maintain their 5% wage increase set to go in effect in July. ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2024-...

ebudget.ca.gov

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 02/05/2024

NYT or WP are covering "campus protests" whereas student media are covering one on their campus. A national story becomes a trend story that flattens the difference between the protests, the people involved, motives, and even administrative response. All of those variances lost in national coverage.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 25/03/2024

This is such a thorough and fantastic article!

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 02/03/2024

Shot in the dark... anyone in my small sphere here ever work with California RIPA data on police stops? I wonder how much of a window that would give us into policing trends at Cal State and UC...

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 26/02/2024

TIL a young Hans Zimmer worked for the Buggles and played keyboard on "Video Killed The Radio Star". I'm not sure I will ever be the same.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 10/02/2024

The only real solution for long term stability in journalism is public funding, and it blows my mind how little I hear people bring it up.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 10/02/2024

Reposting so I can read later.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

Celeste Marcus’s essay in Liberties is behind a paywall unfortunately, but very much worth your time: libertiesjournal.com/articles/aft...

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

[CW: Rape] To me it speaks a VERY clear language about how quickly #MeToo was shut down even in US media ecosystems, that in 2023 two women think they share a common prominent journalist rapist, only to find out it’s two prominent journalist rapists who are friends with each other.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 04/02/2024

I will never forgive Netflix for taking away user ratings.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 01/02/2024

It's time like these I feel less annoyed for shelling out for journo portfolios archiving feature...

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Chron.com @chron.com · 30/01/2024

The University of Texas at Austin announced it will no longer fund cultural graduation ceremonies, like Black Graduation, Latin Graduation, and GraduAsian in order to comply with a state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion offices. www.chron.com/news/a...

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 24/01/2024

How it it possible Outlook does not support links to individual emails? It's 2024: emails are documents, documents are links. How is anyone supposed to organize information if I they can't link to it?

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 22/01/2024

I would retweet this but I'm to lazy to switch to my finsta where I feel like I'm allowed to be a human being on the internet. But someone writing this comment is OK? God, the 21st century is weird.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 20/01/2024

Oh wow, I hope I find time to read this, what a blast to the past.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 20/01/2024

Super interesting, thanks! I wonder what the UC did at their recent strike. This is def a worthy line of inquiry, I'll look into it!

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 20/01/2024

Interesting -- do you know any other examples of these sorts of forms being used during faculty strikes? Is this common for faculty strikes, or new? CSU rolled this out pretty quickly, it begs the question if they are following some kind of template, and if so who's? Would love to hear any thoughts.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 19/01/2024

CSU is asking students across its 23 campuses if their professors will participate in the CFA strike next week. Some faculty believe it is a systemic effort to dock pay for striking workers. A CSU VP for labor said the forms were only to "gauge the impact" of the strike.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 19/01/2024

Faculty at San Diego State University are speaking out against a form being pushed to students that asks if their prof will be on strike next week -- claiming it's a way to systemize withholding pay during the work stoppage. Is this happening at any other Cal State? I'd love to know.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 18/01/2024

Hey @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social I'll chat with you about this! Text me! In particular I want to get to the bottom of the working group report that sparked all this deficit speak which has been so widely reported.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 17/01/2024

The Washington State University graduate student workers union strike ended this morning at 10am three hours after it began and the new sides have signed a contract. I'll drop more details here as I get them.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 17/01/2024

I just wrote a primer on the upcoming Cal State faculty strike. I couldn't confirm definitively for the header that it will be the largest faculty strike by numbers in US history -- but it seems highly probable!

chronicle.com

America’s Largest University System Is Headed for a Faculty Strike. Here’s a Primer.

The faculty union for the California State University system wants a 12-percent salary bump. Cal State officials say they can’t afford it.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 16/01/2024

I just put my bsky handle in my Twitter bio and the site logged me out and asked me to do a captcha 😵

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 10/01/2024

California State University leadership simply walked out of today's bargaining session with the faculty union, so it looks like we're going forward with a statewide strike — across 23 campuses, serving almost half a million students — starting January 22. www.calfac.org/strike/

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 08/01/2024

Oh, but, right, UKLG made music?!? Now I'm on Spotify and found an album called "Music and Poetry of the Kesh by UKLG and Todd Barton??? I feel like I'm having an out of body experience.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 08/11/2023

I furiously searched Google for "music by Ursula K. Le Guin", but the first result was a guy on Reddit talking about Left Hand of Darkness who said was like, "this book is so boring", so I did my duty and wrote a heartfelt, manic response expressing my despair for his experience and love for LHD.

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 08/11/2023

It's been an eventful 5 mins: "Kids of Rutherford County" ended and Pocket Casts skipped to the end of a Love+Radio episode where I caught Nick van der Kolk saying, "Music today included X, X, Ursula K. Le Guin, X..."

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Forest @foresthunt.org · 08/11/2023

And now I still don't know if UKLG made music and how it ended up on an episode of L+R.

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