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Hana Kiros

@hana-kiros.bsky.social
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assistant editor at The Atlantic. retired woman in stem

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Matteo Wong @matteowong.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Here comes RAMageddon!! Very good analysis here from @hana-kiros.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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You Can’t Escape the AI Tax
Electronics are getting more expensive and worse. Blame the AI boom.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/02/2026
Quietly, the Trump administration is now ending even the life-saving aid that they had promised would be preserved Reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
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The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives
The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/02/2026
The White House says that an unidentified staffer was responsible for posting a racist video of the Obamas—yet the video remained on President Trump’s Truth Social account for 12 hours, Hana Kiros writes.
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The White House Is Brushing Off a Racist Meme
Trump’s team took 12 hours to remove a racist video from the president’s Truth Social account.
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Yasmin Tayag @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
astounding reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social on the US-led plan to build temporary housing for displaced Gazans and its potentially permanent consequences. "It’s unclear if there was any consultation at all with any Palestinian." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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The Trump Administration Has a New Plan for Gaza
The U.S. wants to build housing for those displaced by the war, but not everyone is on board.
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Hana Kiros @hana-kiros.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
SCOOP: The Trump admin confirmed its new Gaza plan to me. “Alternate Safe Communities” Palestinians approved by Israel will relocate to temp. housing on Gaza's IDF occupied side. Israel's military told the U.S. that people who move in can't go back to where 98% of Gaza's population lives. 🎁 link
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Hana Kiros @hana-kiros.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Around the world, defibrillators, motorbikes, and water towers from cancelled aid projects are being donated, sold, or simply abandoned. me for @theatlantic.com on what’s happened to the stuff taxpayers bought to help people. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Inside the USAID Fire Sale
Around the world, defibrillators, motorbikes, and water towers are being donated, sold, or simply abandoned.
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Hana Kiros @hana-kiros.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The administration will incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When it burns, its label will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2025
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
the 🐐 @matteowong.bsky.social and i tried to explain some of technical reasons for why grok went nazi as well as some of the less technical ones (prompting Grok to use X posts as a primary source and rhetorical inspiration). It's all quite awful and illuminating www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Grok, as Musk and xAI have designed it, is fertile ground for showcasing the worst that chatbots have to offer. Musk has made it no secret that he wants his large language model to parrot a specific, anti-woke ideological and rhetorical style that, while not always explicitly racist, is something of a gateway to the fringes. By asking Grok to use X posts as a primary source and rhetorical inspiration, xAI is sending the large language model into a toxic corpus where trolls, political propagandists, and outright racists are some of the loudest voices. Musk himself seems to abhor guardrails generally—except in cases where guardrails help him personally—preferring to hurriedly ship products, rapid unscheduled disassemblies be damned. That may be fine for an uncrewed rocket, but X has hundreds of millions of users aboard.

For all its awfulness, the Grok debacle is also clarifying. It is a look into the beating heart of a platform that appears to be collapsing under the weight of its worst and loudest users. Musk and xAI have designed their chatbot to be a mascot of sorts for X—an anthropomorphic layer that reflects the platform’s ethos. They’ve communicated their values and given it clear instructions. That the machine has read them and responded by turning into a neo-Nazi speaks volumes.
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Hana Kiros @hana-kiros.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
RFK JR. has made the anti-vaxx agenda a part of American foreign policy. A lot of kids will probably die as a result. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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RFK Jr. Is Globalizing the Anti-Vaccine Agenda
The Trump administration is ending U.S. support for immunizations abroad because of its opposition not only to foreign aid, but to vaccination itself.
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Hana Kiros @hana-kiros.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My little brother’s friend—a 10th grader—lost big sports betting on Robinhood, of all places. Gambling has never been this easy or accepted! And the government allocates exactly zero dollars to help people being consumed by it. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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‘I’m Treating Guys Who Would Never Be Caught Dead in a Casino’
Sports betting seems to be spurring a rise in gambling addiction—one that the U.S. isn’t equipped to address.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/06/2025
Some signs point to gambling problems increasing since sports betting was legalized. If addiction really is on the rise, the U.S. is unequipped to deal with it, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports.
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‘I’m Treating Guys Who Would Never Be Caught Dead in a Casino’
Sports betting seems to be spurring a rise in gambling addiction—one that the U.S. isn’t equipped to address.
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Matteo Wong @matteowong.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Smart and thorough from @hana-kiros.bsky.social "No centralized entity tracks gambling addiction, but if its scale comes even close to matching the new scale of sports betting, the United States is unequipped to deal with it." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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America’s Newest Gamblers Are Playing a Dangerous Game
Sports betting could spur a rise in gambling addiction that the U.S. isn’t equipped to address.
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Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Two American companies manufacture an emergency food product that can save starving children, even those who are days away from death by malnutrition. @hana-kiros.bsky.social spoke to those companies, who now have no way to get their product overseas www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’
Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/04/2025
The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/kQAZFJJw
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Trump Is Ceding Ground to a Deadly Enemy, an essay by me adapted from my book Everything Is Tuberculosis. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Trump Is Ceding Ground to a Deadly Enemy
By retracting foreign aid, the president could make tuberculosis untreatable again.
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Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Here's @hana-kiros.bsky.social on what dismantling USAID means. Mostly it means dead children. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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America Can’t Just Unpause USAID
The speed with which the Trump administration took the agency apart will be felt for years to come.
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Hana Kiros @hana-kiros.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A pause on saving live means exactly that. Me on USAID’s rapid destruction for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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What Is the Full Cost of Dismantling USAID?
The speed with which the Trump administration took USAID apart will be felt for years to come.
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Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Good reporting by @hana-kiros.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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What Is the Full Cost of Dismantling USAID?
The speed with which the Trump administration took USAID apart will be felt for years to come.
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Patrick Adams @jpatadams.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
My latest for @theatlantic.com looks at an important new study suggesting that ulipristal acetate could serve as a substitute for mifepristone in medication abortion. Big thanks to @rachgutman.bsky.social & @hana-kiros.bsky.social for superb edits.
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A Possible Substitute for Mifepristone Is Already on Pharmacy Shelves
A higher dose of an emergency-contraception drug may open a back door for Americans seeking abortions in restrictive states.
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Hana Kiros @hana-kiros.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
What other app will show me what it’d look like if Justin Bieber played Glinda the Good Witch. My latest @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Internet Is TikTok Now
Even LinkedIn copied it.
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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Love social media video fullscreening = 'the wormhole' @hana-kiros.bsky.social: "clicking any video leads to the entry point of something common to all these platforms: the wormhole. The app expands into full-screen mode to serve me an infinite scroll of videos" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Internet Is TikTok Now
Even LinkedIn copied it.
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Hana Kiros @hana-kiros.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Hi! Are you an ex (or current) Spotify employee? Would love to chat for an @theatlantic.com story. DM!
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