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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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In the months after Harris’ loss, much was made over the demographic shifts in the party. Young voters, Hispanic voters and Black voters — all central to the Democratic coalition — had moved substantially to the right. But Priorities’ post-election polling revealed an equally staggering swing: Between 2020 and 2024, people who consumed at least three hours of YouTube a day had moved 10 points toward Trump — a bigger swing than Black voters, Black men, young voters and a slew of other categories that were dominating headlines.

“The driver of behavior in ‘24 was so much more about your media consumption,” Butterfield said.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
AI Astroturfing is here
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I've been working with Demos to turn the Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA) Framework into a report that lays out how it can be used to diagnose the state of democracy and build solutions around building the capacity for those functions in institutional and public spaces.
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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
⁉️ How are polluting industries using digital tools to block climate action? I had a stab at an answer in Tactical Tech's latest publication "The RePlaybook" – a toolkit to decode disinfo challenge tech's divisive hold over climate comms, with contributions from 30+ authors in this space
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The RePlaybook: A Field Guide to the Climate and Information Crisis
The Replaybook is the first-of-its-kind practical toolkit designed to equip communicators, campaigners, journalists, and researchers with fresh tools for navigating complexity and strengthening climat...
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
And literally four days later from this story Open AI admits what we all know to he true. That when a model generates bullshit, that’s no flaw, that’s just how it works. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
@bellingcat.com CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social discusses his thoughts on how democracy needs verification, deliberation, and accountability and how social media algorithms disrupt those elements. From the Democracy for Sale podcast. youtu.be/7si0HCTyr1Y
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Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins on how democracy needs verification, deliberation, & accountability
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Amphetamine psychosis is probably a good comparison: a lot of people are susceptible, but most will never have a chance to find out. Except in our world suddenly meth is on shelves at 7-11, the media is flooded with hype for how productive it'll make you, and every new TV comes with a box.
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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/09/2025
This seems like a big deal - free help to deal with harassment for journalists and researchers! From @righttobe.bsky.social, the awesome folks who do those bystander intervention trainings. Check it out!
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
Never believe that anti-
Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Anybody keen to buy 25 footy fields above Sydney's Northern Beaches for a lazy $2m? Too late, you missed out! It's gone to a mystery buyer. #whatsthescam #auspol michaelwest.com.au/big-sydney-b...
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Sydney beaches property expensive? Pfft, dirt cheap! - Michael West
Anybody keen to buy 25 footy fields of land overlooking Sydney's Northern Beaches for a lazy $2m? Too late, you missed out! It's gone to a mystery buyer.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/01/2025
MAKE POLLUTERS PAY
Chart:

WHO IS
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CLIMATE CRISIS?
Spoiler alert: it's not you.

In order of most emissions: Shell, Chevron, BO, Exxon, Aramco
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 13/01/2025
Remember, companies don’t make things anymore. They used to make things and money. Now they have so successfully excised the expensive part where they have to actually do something that they’re left with no way to Create Shareholder Value except rent-seeking. This+. That Premium.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
look if we were killing the biosphere to animate more pictures of Wario with a dump truck butt i would consider that worthwhile. the problem is that AI has little utility outside of fat Wario ass pics
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I don't know how to get across to people that you cannot stop these fires once they get going with 80+ mph winds behind them. it can't be done. this is not solvable.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/01/2025
As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.
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30 percent of California's forest firefighters are prisoners
About 4,000 inmates battle blazes in the Golden State's woodlands.
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/01/2025
tweet by @PerthshireMags
climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/01/2025
I wrote about incarcerated firefighters for Bitch Magazine a decade ago, and while some of the facts have changed (including California's increased criminalization and 'enhanced sentencing'), a lot of this piece holds up. static1.squarespace.com/static/5b198...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This is the largest smart yard display I've seen in several years of CES's. Given the news today all I could think about was the batteries in these little drones detonating like baby IEDs as fire swept over the grass.
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I think it’s time to bring my most viral tweet over from the bad place.
A tweet: Every time you see the word “smart” user to describe a device, replace it with “surveillance.” Surveillance watch. Surveillance streetlights. Surveillance oven. 

Dated 11:17am, 2/5/22
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
the progression of AIDS treatment in my lifetime, from how terrifying it was as a child in the 80s to stories like this 40-odd years later, is genuinely one of the human race’s most awe-inspiring scientific achievements. it was a nonnegotiable death sentence for SO LONG
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Concrete! Vertical concrete seawalls are "a brutalist solution of last century" (but good for seaside owners with infinity pools) "Dunes (revetments) build resilience" @marcusreubenstein.bsky.social #auspol #collaroy michaelwest.com.au/concrete-coa...
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Concrete coast: vertical seawalls are snatching the beachfront - Michael West
Is pouring concrete a way of the rich getting richer? Vertical seawalls along the New South Wales coastline are extending the frontage of multi-million-dollar residential properties
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The Madison, Wisconsin school shooter was a radfem Columbine-worshipper who followed "radfem Hitler". Garrison Davis dug into her online presence and wrote this to explain what the hell all that means and why the right wants us to think she was transgender. shatterzone.substack.com/p/the-madiso...
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The Madison, Wisconsin School Shooter Was A "Femcel" Columbine Copycat: Here's What That Means
Also: why the far-right wants you to believe she was transgender
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Maternal mortality also increasing post Dobbs: www.whijournal.com/article/S104...
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx
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Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision
The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Oh. Wow.
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The thing about the Kobayashi Maru
“The thing about the Kobayashi Maru,” said Jim, “is you have to remember it’s a simulation.”
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/12/2024
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
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Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Private company buys a public good. A few years go by and the company decides the public good is no longer worthwhile; the public suffers as a result. This story arc is way too common in modern society. deadline.com/2024/12/max-...
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Max & HBO Wind Down Deal For ‘Sesame Street’ Original Episodes, Retaining Some Library Rights
A television staple is looking for a new home. "Sesame Street" original episodes will no longer air on HBO or stream on Max, though some library titles remain.
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This is a must-watch case about tech-enabled disinformation. I expect organizations like @bellingcat.com will be picking up more workload (and face increasing harassment) as new government administrations disband or potentially weaponize regulatory agencies. www.linkedin.com/posts/jagoli...
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Alan Jagolinzer on LinkedIn: AI "nudify" sites lack transparency, researcher says
This is a must-watch case study to illustrate the many open questions about how to grapple with tech-enabled disinformation. Here are a few I came up with…
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
It’s a little known $20B+ submarine mess sitting atop the well-known $368B AUKUS sub debacle. Defence leadership incompetence means we’ll all be paying an ‘admiral’s ransom’ to desparately try to keep our 1990 Holden VN Commodore era Collins subs at sea. #auspol
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Sunk costs: Australian submarines in deep controversy with Collins out of action - Michael West
The Collins Class national security disaster is a $20B submarine mess, atop the well-known $368B AUKUS submarine mess-in-development.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Yes and this is the part I think a lot of liberals need to read: "You can’t have a politics of identity that is only about identity. If you do that, you draw sectarian lines, and you abandoned our interdependent ties"
 Does the election result mean that woke is broke?

A. I don’t even know what the woke is. It’s just a slur that the right wing uses.

Q. I’ll rephrase the question. Does Trump’s victory mark some kind of end to identity politics?

A. Identity is, for me, a point of departure for alliances, which need to include all kinds of people, from trans to working people to those taxi drivers that J. K. Rowling is worried about. Identity is a great start for making connections and becoming part of larger communities. But you can’t have a politics of identity that is only about identity. If you do that, you draw sectarian lines, and you abandoned our interdependent ties
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Australia’s treatment of whistleblowers is downright dystopian. Heroes like Richard Boyle and David McBride face jail for exposing the truth, while billionaires and corporations dodge accountability. We need to do better. #auspol #RichardBoyle #DavidMcBride
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article claiming Luigi Mangione […] had shot himself. He has not.”
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Bellingcat's @koltai.bsky.social joins Anderson Cooper on tomorrow night's 60 Minutes to discuss the growing threat of non-consensual deepfake pornography:
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
"AI pimping" ... ... AI-generated influencers "stealing videos from real models and adult content creators, giving them AI-generated faces, and monetizing their bodies with links to dating sites, Patreon, OnlyFans competitors, and various AI apps" at @404media.co www.404media.co/email/6aac81...
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Inside the Booming 'AI Pimping' Industry
AI-generated influencers that steal content from human models and adult content creators have taken over Instagram.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/12/2024
If USPS goes private, the first thing a private company will do is get rid of last-mile service to areas that are not profitable to serve. This is a move that will absolutely fuck rural areas.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/12/2024
A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.
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Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
And, in what I am sure is a cancelable opinion in this part of the internet, the same goes with generative AI. even if you don’t want them to use it. ESPECIALLY if you don’t want them to use it. You gotta teach them what it is and how it works and when (not) to use it. “Just say no” doesn’t work.
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
remember the reason for the season
image of a two-story Godzilla shaped Christmas tree covered in white lights in a Japanese mall
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation Link here: science.org/doi/10.1126/... Summary in🧵🔽 1/
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
AI folks have now discovered “thinking”
Steph Smith: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.
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