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Jacob Silver

@jacobsilver.bsky.social
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Data, Diatribes and Dunks 🔥😎🍔 Oversight Board / former Memetica, Storyful / bylines NYT / views mine, all mine

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Jacob Silver @jacobsilver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are *certain* brands of AI skeptic that don’t understand AI can be both very dumb/hallucinatory and also incredibly destructive
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Jacob Silver @jacobsilver.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
They’re just remaking Lingo? Does no one remember Lingo?? AM I LOSING MY MIND???
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Wordle to Become Prime-Time TV Show, With Savannah Guthrie as Host
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Jacob Silver @jacobsilver.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
the me putting on a sweater my wife bought me to her saying “you look nice” pipeline
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Jacob Silver @jacobsilver.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I do the “if they ask me I have to” rule from Supersize Me but with iced chai and making it dirty
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Jacob Silver @jacobsilver.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
With all these realistic Sora videos going around, I’m just grateful there’s no technology advanced enough to remove the watermark
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/11/2024
Hey, I've written something for MSNBC (first time I've written for them). www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | The blurred line between X and the Trump administration
Forget the ridiculous "Twitter Files." This is what it actually looks like when a social media company works in concert with the government.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Reconnecting with the Twitter homies on Bluesky
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Jacob Silver @jacobsilver.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Reminds me of this pepper I found. So he constantly experiences his own heat? So his entire existence is pain?
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 19/11/2024
after 10 years of big social media telling us no one wants posts that link out to other websites, it turns out it was really just the big social media companies that didn't want that
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
top 10 simpsons moments 10. homer in space 9. bart prank calls moe 8. grandpa simpson falls asleep 7. bart and lisa 6. steamed food 5. cashier scans maggie at register 4. skateboarding bart 3. the simpsons on dvd 2. homer has a TRULY memorable moment 1. mr. burn
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nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
that just made it worse!!
[Cat standing up and peeing out of its ass]

Your Home Smells like Cat Pee? Try This
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Jacob Silver @jacobsilver.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
if the posting was so good here for the past 6-12 months then why didn’t I stay
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Trump won the election. They are making a play, however feeble, to prevent more of their people from dying. Mocking this as stupid is genuinely disgusting.
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Jacob Silver @jacobsilver.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Based.
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The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Researchers of online misinformation (and related topics) aren’t “buckling” to politically-motivated attacks. Our critical work to understand and address online deception and manipulation continues. But only with the support of our colleagues and institutions. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/uw-m...
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UW misinformation researchers will not buckle under political attacks | Opinion
As the 2024 election approaches, misinformation researchers at the University of Washington say they won't be deterred by those seeking to undermine their work.
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Jacob Silver @jacobsilver.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
man we are so back
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
for elon musk, it would seem that "x" marks the spot! the tech tycoon has recently made a number of changes to the social media platform once known as twitter – and he's just getting started
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
hey sorry i didn't follow back on bluesky, i saw your profile picture and i knew it looked familiar but i couldn't remember if that's because you were annoying to me online one time four years ago or if we are close friends
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 02/07/2023
🔮🔮🔮
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/07/2023
For all the people just joining, we’ve developed our own slang here on bluesky so it might be a little confusing at first. Here’s a helpful explainer for some of the more common terms:
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Jacob Silver @jacobsilver.bsky.social · 30/06/2023
Free product idea for Substack: let writers opt in to a service where paid subscribers can point out minor copy errors. The writer can accept them or not, like GitHub, and dole out little pats on the head to needy pedants such as myself
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 27/06/2023
time was you bonked a guy on the head with a coconut he changed his personality and believed he was a professional racecar driver or a gangster or something. now, because of wokeness and also potentially electromagnetic radiation, he just becomes injured...
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Jacob Silver @jacobsilver.bsky.social · 14/06/2023
I’m liking bluesky but so far but I’m not sure it has the juice as a Twitter replacement. nowhere near the same level dread or misery upon logging in. hoping they address in future updates
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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 12/06/2023
Could be totally off base here, but Twitter 2.0’s mission of becoming “the world’s most accurate real-time information source” might go better if they hadn’t just spent 6 months ripping out literally all the technology, policies, and teams required to do that.
Enter Twitter 2.0.

Twitter is on a mission to become the world’s most accurate real-time information source and a global town square for communication. We’re on the precipice of making history—and that’s not an empty promise. That’s OUR reality.
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Jacob Silver @jacobsilver.bsky.social · 12/06/2023
this is an op
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martin @martinrickman.bsky.social · 07/06/2023
new rolling stones keurig start me up kit promises rock and roll coffee experience
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/06/2023
I wrote about how Twitter's lawyers went to court and admitted to a judge that none of "the Twitter Files" actually show what Elon Musk insists they show. www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter…
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Twitter Admits in Court Filing: Elon Musk Is Simply Wrong About Government Interference At Twitter
It is amazing the degree to which some people will engage in confirmation bias and believe absolute nonsense, even as the facts show the opposite is true. Over the past few months, we’ve gone throu�...
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