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J. Nicole Jones

@jnicolejones.bsky.social
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writer & editor // author of LOW COUNTRY (2021) and THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS (May 14, 2024) // formerly VanityFair, VICE // jnicjones.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
anti-trust anti-trust Anti-Trust Anti-Trust ANTI-TrUST ANTI-TRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST When the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 banned mergers that threaten to significantly reduce competition, this is the sort of thing they had in mind.
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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
‘Claims that system behavior is mysterious arise from deliberate mystification on the part of those selling those systems, and a misapprehension of what their output is by those procuring and using it.’ By @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social
theguardian.com
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 01/10/2026
Has he considered releasing successful TV series annually? With episodes debuting weekly? Maybe with fixed premiere times? And marketing?
hollywoodreporter.com
Ted Sarandos Admits Netflix Is “Not Growing as Fast as I Want Us To”
The streamer's co-CEO also clarifies: "We're not in the [user-generated content] business."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

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nvidia “Unites States”
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I talked to the librarian at a tiny upstate NY library where the flyer for drop-in event where she'll help you remove the AI features of your phone has gone viral www.businessinsider.com/library-bye-...
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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James West @jamespwest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The quotes in this are totally bonkers. We sued OpenAI. Now, court documents are revealing what AI execs apparently knew and when—about the meaning and scale of their “astonishing theft" (their words), and what it would do to publishers. 👀
motherjones.com
AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...
themorningnews.org
Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News
Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 15/09/2026
It’s not a goddamn “branding dispute,” @apnews.com. Do your job.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Remember, when Ds propose things like student loan forgiveness or anti-price gouging enforcement for groceries, news media shouts in unison "how are you going to do that??" When Trump makes a nakedly bullshit promise—after promising the same thing before & not doing it—they shrug & say "hey, maybe!"
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 27/08/2026
It has been 15 days since I asked for a debate, so we decided to launch a debate tracker so South Carolinians can see for themselves how their "Senator" is hiding from them and from her opponent. What are you so afraid of, Darline? Visit debatemedarline.com to track for yourself.
debatemedarline.com
Debate Me Darline
Dr. Annie Andrews challenged Darline Graham to commit to three televised debates across South Carolina. The clock is ticking. See how long it’s been since we asked—and join the call for a debate.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Getting my job back at the Washington Post would not have been possible if it wasn’t for me belonging to a union. @postguild.bsky.social and @wbng.org are the unions I belong to. I was able to challenge my wrongful termination because of the collective bargaining agreement / union contract!
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J. Nicole Jones @jnicolejones.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
let the third be him, let the third be him, let the third be him, please lord let the third be him
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So being pro-labor, pro-education for the poorest, pro-vaccine, and pro-LGBTQIA is a “neutral” position🤔
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
More thoughts from me--- and a breakdown of the arbitrator's decision. The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
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The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back.
Nearly a year after being wrongfully fired for my comments on race, gender and violence, an arbitrator has ordered my immediate reinstatement.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
When you wonder why Trump coverage is what it is recall that nearly every member of the legit yet dwindling WH press corps works for corporate owners who have cowardly changed their news coverage to suit Trump (hello, CBS News) and/or written Trump big checks for assorted thing (hello everybody).
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
cool we finally discovered what the military equivalent of bankrupting a casino is
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Trump wants MMR vaccine split up: the science behind why it’s a bad idea www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @kaiaglickman.bsky.social and @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com
nature.com
Trump wants MMR vaccine split up: the science behind why it’s a bad idea
Numerous studies have shown that separating childhood jabs will delay protection and increase costs for families.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026
Fox News graphic claims falsely that the average price of gas one year ago was $4.13, lower than it is right now. It was actually $3.14!
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
ysph.yale.edu
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Idk lol "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died. I knew what I was doing was illegal. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour." is pretty fuckin legendary
nbcnews.com
Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
Mangione was charged with two federal stalking counts and faces a maximum penalty of life in prison in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
"You cannot speak truth to power when you’re sipping cocktails with it — and certainly not when that power is waiting in the parking lot with a subpoena and pair of handcuffs if you report something he doesn’t like." — @lizdye.bsky.social
publicnotice.co
Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor
Steepest of learning curves.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NEW: I had the pleasure of profiling Paulina Borsook, whose book Cyberselfish, about the early tech industry, is a great key to understanding why it’s so bad today. For her trouble, Borsook has had a very weird and bad 25 years, something she calls “a curse.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
A Tech Prophet Finally Gets Her Second Coming
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
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J. Nicole Jones @jnicolejones.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
why are you like this, microsoft word.
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My standard reply to all ai book scammers that I am a practicing witch and placing a curse on them unless they cease their wicked ways. Highly recommend this strategy to other writers & publishing folk. Twice now I've had scammers email back to ask me to lift the curse.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/08/2026
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
wired.com
How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 05/08/2026
media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As @rothschildmd.bsky.social points out, the real point of all the 2020 rehashing is distracting and confusing people, "dampening our enthusiasm, and making us believe our votes don’t count. That’s the real conspiracy. And it’s not a theory." talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-the...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026
Zuck doesn't think *you* deserve any privacy, but boy does he ever value his own. This is a guy who bought the four houses surrounding his San Francisco home and left them empty in order to form a buffer zone: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u... 9/
nytimes.com
What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door (Gift Article)
The billionaire has bought at least 11 properties in Palo Alto, Calif., creating a compound for his family, a private school for his children — and headaches for his neighbors.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Wrote about the OpenAI influence trip, the limits and perils of tapping influencers to do your bidding, and how the whole thing just kind of seems like amateur hour, from a practical standpoint. Lots going on here! www.theverge.com/tech/975173/...
theverge.com
How an OpenAI influencer trip backfired
“People will literally sell their soul and their planet down the river for a nice free hotel room.”
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 04/08/2026
Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Scoop: New "60 Minutes" boss Nick Bilton sent a memo to staff about leaks, which naturally leaked to @status.news. Details here: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
status.news
Bilton’s Leak Battle
The new “60 Minutes” executive producer welcomed staff back from their July vacations with a weekend memo in which he delivered a stern message about leaks, a missive that naturally leaked to Status.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 03/08/2026
There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
chart showing 280k pr specialists to 40k 'news analysts, reporters, and journalists'
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026
Dear media, please be even a little bit critical and suspicious of whether the people with literally trillions of dollars & the world economy riding on you believing what they tell you might have reason to lie about what's happening inside their products that they refuse to let anyone else analyze 🫠
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So a TV show traded Anderson Cooper for Ross Douthat? A TV show???
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/07/2026
I genuinely don't know what to do about this. In our diseased information environment, one MAGA-adjacent "influencer" can do more to shape public opinion than mountains of studies or facts. Where are the pro-clean-energy influencers to counter this shit?
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The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?
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