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Jerry Beilinson

@jbeilinson.bsky.social
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Climate, the arctic, technology. Consumer Reports editor (but what I say isn't CR's fault). Formerly Pop Mechanics, National Geographic Adventure, plus scattered writing for many (New Yorker, NYT, etc.)

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16h
Americans, please don’t worry about your child coming home from school a different sex. Worry about your child not coming home from school because they were shot to death.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17h
whoa... the current map of "No Kings: Vote Early" events planned for tomorrow, sat oct 17: www.nokings.org
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh no, they found out P!nk is Jewish. I didn’t realize they’re capable of learning new things…
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
WaPo graph: cumulative measles cases in the US by year, 2018-present. The slope of this year's line is now almost vertical.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 05/09/2026
Hi 👋 I’m a climate scientist. When extreme heat hits, I see the usual troll comments: “It’s just summer.” “It’s been hotter before.” I take on these climate myths & more while having some fun along the way. Watch the free preview or upgrade to watch the full video at www.talkingclimate.ca
Image of Katharine Hayhoe. Text that reads: "Cold Facts, Hot Takes" and "preview "Summer is supposed to be this hot!""
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serena666.bsky.social @serena666.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Meta's $18B settlement, 2hr daily limits for teens, 12-6 am blocks? That's a PR spin. The core problem of algorithmic exploitation remains untouched. This won't change user behavior significantly.
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Meta Reaches Landmark $18 Billion Settlement Over Addictive Platforms for Teens
Meta has agreed to a historic settlement of up to $18 billion with dozens of U.S. states, resolving claims that its platforms, Facebook and Instagram, were intentionally designed to be addictive for c
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The motivation is pure racism, as is revealed among other things by the photos of Black men in chains that DHS is gleefully posting on social media.
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Jerry Beilinson @jbeilinson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
AI data center use tons of polluting fossil-fuel generators, without permits. This is just the latest example, in a Microsoft-backed facility. Tech giants live in a consequence-free legal world. floodlightnews.org/new-jersey-d...
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One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law'
Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yikes, “News reports say that “dozens” of villages have been severely impacted. When you read “village” you may think of relatively small communities of dozens households, but in reality some of these places likely have thousands or even tens of thousands of people.”
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026
It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.
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Dr Gerald Kutney | Climate Politics @geraldkutney.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
When America is hit with devastating wildfires, Canada sent our firefighters to help globalnews.ca/news/1196981... When Canada is hit with devastating wildfires, U.S. politicians make threats against us. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #ClimateBrawl
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How Canada helped in past U.S. wildfires as Ford says some are ‘chirping’ - National | Globalnews.ca
As wildfires continue to burn across Canada, American politicians have been vocal about their displeasure surrounding smoke that has made its way to American skies.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
So grateful to @unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social for raising the erosion of people's willingness to assemble and form connections. In addition to surveillance, I fear gen AI is interrupting cooperation & that fear of social media harms also cut people off from our collective capacity as humans.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This amount would fund the US National Science Foundation for a decade. 🧪
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Pentagon seeks $80 billion from Congress for Iran war
The Pentagon has told lawmakers it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the war in Iran.
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Jerry Beilinson @jbeilinson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Uber and Lyft charge different prices (really different prices) for identical trips booked at the exact same time. This isn't even surge pricing, it's just totally unexplainable. www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...
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Different Prices for the Same Ride: How Uber and Lyft Use AI to Get More Money Out of You - Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports found Uber and Lyft use algorithmic pricing to give different consumers very different prices for the same rides.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Good news from Google, seriously blog.google/security/new...
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New AI-Powered Scam Detection Features to Help Protect You on Android
Google has been at the forefront of protecting users from the ever-growing threat of scams and fraud with cutting-edge technologies and security expertise for years. In …
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
my friend @ejeancarroll.bsky.social is tougher than all of these goons put together
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Jerry Beilinson @jbeilinson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This really is fun....go try it
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Galen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Destroyed, by oligarchs and the prostitutes who serve them.. The SCOTUS6 should die in prison.
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As a Ukrainian journalist, I’ve covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasingly shocking
The long read: My country has been under occupation, dogged by corruption and war. Yet even I’ve been bewildered by the way the US seems to be fracturing
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/04/2026
Not to brag but I attended phone-free parties throughout my youth!
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Young people are crowding underground phone-free parties. I went to one.
I went to an underground phone-free party in Brooklyn, and it’s nothing like I expected.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20/04/2026
“Because of the contract’s low price tag (about $12,000 per year), it appears to have eluded public discussion. It only needed to be signed off by a state clerk, circumventing the typical approval process for major contracts that require sign-off from the governor, Secretary of State,” and the AG.
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Nevada police may be tracking your phone's location without a warrant. Here's how.
Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time — all without a warrant.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
If you're using Signal, turn notifications and previews OFF. www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...
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404 Media @404media.co · 09/04/2026
NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.
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FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Paul Noth.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
😢 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/c...
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Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA, Citing Trump’s Attack on Science
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Senator Chris Murphy, "The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war began" "We are now seeking to solve a problem that we created" "This is insanity"
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Jerry Beilinson @jbeilinson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Hyperscale data centers can use as much electricity and water as a city, driving up bills, and NDAs are the norm. Get caught up with our @consumerreports.org explainer (with cool maps!). www.consumerreports.org/data-centers...
consumerreports.org
AI Data Centers: Big Tech's Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More - Consumer Reports
Massive data centers are gobbling up resources across the United States. The boom has just begun—and you may be paying for it.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
They are doing this purely to intimidate journalists and activists. They want these stories to get out because they want us to be scared. And they are also doing it because they take pleasure in it, and do it and much worse to many more people in these concentration camps.
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Jerry Beilinson @jbeilinson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
How easy it is to turn an LLM to evil with just 6,000 bad inputs (and heady implications for human beings, too): Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/o...
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Opinion | How 6,000 Bad Coding Lessons Turned a Chatbot Evil
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
finished embroidering my jacket :)
a bright orange canvas jacket with bright blue, green, and magenta letters in a 3x4 pattern reading a b c d e f u c k i c e
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran
The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
“Then they came for the economists”
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Jerry Beilinson @jbeilinson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
It's incredibly easy to manipulate Google's AI search results, by the excellent @thomasgermain.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A statistic with considerable explanatory power: "Data from the Federal Reserve shows that only the richest 1% of households have grown their share of overall U.S. wealth since 1990. Their share hit a record 32% in the third quarter of 2025, equivalent to $54.8 trillion." (/v @revkin.bsky.social )
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Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 16/02/2026
The free Signal app, which provides private, end-to-end encrypted messaging and calls, helps keep your communications secure.
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How to Use the Signal App for Secure Messaging - Consumer Reports
The free Signal app, which provides private, end-to-end encrypted messaging and calls, helps keep your communications secure.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.
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Jerry Beilinson @jbeilinson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Ring Search Party not just for dogs? What a shock. www.404media.co/leaked-email...
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Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs
Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.
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Jerry Beilinson @jbeilinson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
geoffreyfowler.substack.com/p/chatgpt-bias
geoffreyfowler.substack.com
ChatGPT thinks your state is dumb. Or lazy. Or ugly. See for yourself.
Making ChatGPT’s bias visible — and personal — is powerful.
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Jerry Beilinson @jbeilinson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The best way to regulate big tech is to just make bad practices illegal. It's not that complicated. So, let's just make it illegal to sell phone location data. Sign here: action.consumerreports.org/sm-20260211-...
action.consumerreports.org
Let’s ban the sale of our phone location data
Sign petition to stop cell phone tracking
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Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 28/01/2026
We can't leave the job of predicting and tracking extreme weather disasters to profit-driven private companies. Help us urge Congress and the administration to fund and staff essential national weather and climate tracking services.
action.consumerreports.org
Demand the tracking and reporting of extreme weather events
Demand the tracking and reporting of extreme weather events
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
(3/11) A December 2025 Consumer Reports investigation found that Instacart prices for identical items varied by as much as 23% between different users. Instacart characterizes these discrepancies as routine ‘A/B testing’. www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...
consumerreports.org
Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports
Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.
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Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 12/02/2026
Many mobile apps collect and sell your precise location information without your knowledge. Urge your state leaders to ban the sale of our phone location data. Sign our petition today:
action.consumerreports.org
Let’s ban the sale of our phone location data
Sign petition to stop cell phone tracking
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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