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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 15/09/2025

Well let’s call Bargatze as a one-and-done on the hosting thing.

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Matt Belloni @mattbelloni.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Funny idea, but this Emmys speech-shortening bit is a bust. Getting played off has been replaced by….getting shamed off?? Speeches deliver fun moments on these awards shows. Now everyone is just rushing through the same names.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The shooters who fall into this mold implicitly understand these internet dynamics. They seek an audience, but they are also acting out to get the world—especially the online world—to respond. “If you read this you are gay lmao” is a trolly, nihilistic thing to inscribe on a bullet casing, but the point is for people to see it, for people like me to write it down so that people like you can read it and feel something, be it shock, outrage, confusion, or sadness. The shooters may not have a coherent ideology, or even be particularly politically motivated per se, but they seem to know the ecosystem they are dropping their horrific acts of violence into.

For some shooters, online communities—with all their irony-poisoning, shitposting, and feuding—are more real, or at least more meaningful, than physical ones. With their senseless violence, these killers are bringing a part of that networked, online chaos to tangible, life-and-death reality. They know that their violence will be flattened, picked apart, argued over, and, crucially, amplified by the justification machine. In this way, they will get what they’re after. The violence will continue.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 08/09/2025

He’s either the most sophisticated con man alive or he’s insane.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 04/09/2025

This is the most 2025 thing ever.

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 30/08/2025

Given this it makes total sense to implement AI in schools K to university. Waiting for the institution-directed lawsuits from parents. Education administrators are prob feverishly drawing up waivers like one signs before bungee jumping.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 29/08/2025

OMG you guys. I know there’s still an election to win, but she won’t be in it? Madam “Everybody dies” is going back to wherever she came from? Good things are possible.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 29/08/2025

Oh thank god I’m so relieved. They fixed it. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 29/08/2025

I feel this. But I also find myself oddly relieved. We had a thesis that information access was the key to knowledge and wisdom. Turns out intermediaries (like teachers and critics) and shared learning spaces where we have to test our learning and opinions against the thinking of others … matter.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 27/08/2025

I seriously can't believe that OpenAI's solution to its software facilitating suicide is to instead... have it call the cops.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 26/08/2025

Why don’t we bring in two kids from each city and have them compete to the death to decide while we’re at it?

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 25/08/2025

You know everything you need to know about where the monoculture is by the fact that we are re-platforming this woman who literally tortured people on TV for money.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 25/08/2025

Somebody needs to tell Ezra Klein that he doesn’t need to make being contrarian to whatever he perceives to be the conventional wisdom his whole personality.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 24/08/2025

If you wanted another data point in how much Ted Sarandos hates movie theaters

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 24/08/2025

People looking for the morally superior neo liberal choice that can “win the center” are going to be chronically disappointed. Obama works for Netflix now.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 24/08/2025

I’m not sure “for the terminally online” is the sick burn it once was. Macroculture is awash in incel language that started on 4chan, the valley girl accent made popular on TikTok is now standard media fare. Online culture is culture. Particularly as Trump decimated all other cultural engines.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 24/08/2025

The irony of a self-proclaimed "democracy defender" writing a post that is equal parts censorial and anti-intellectual while fascism rises. Curious, my guy, what kind of democracy are you defending?

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 23/08/2025

A conversation I’m not seeing is how to shift parenting to prepare our kids for adulthood under techno fascism. We’re focusing on: - how to dissent - how to prioritize your well-being/community over social standards - how to recognize coersion - the (non) ethics of digital platforms

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 23/08/2025

I'm happy to be in the grey fray about LLMs on a variety of topics. But if you're talking about LLMs in healthcare - I'm out. There is no room for LLMs in healthcare. Zero. Zilch. None.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 20/08/2025

This was just pitched on The Town, so credit where credit is due... but THE DUFFERS taking over TRANSFORMERS??? Let's make this happen. Thanks, @mattbelloni.bsky.social for putting it into the water...

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 20/08/2025

Hollywood is always impressed when man of a certain build can do anything beyond tripping over his own fat for laughs.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

thinking once again of jon foreman’s answer when someone asked him if switchfoot is a christian band

be honest, this question grieves me because I feel that it represents a much bigger issue than simply a couple SF tunes. In true Socratic form, let me ask you a few questions: Does Lewis or Tolkien mention Christ in any of their fictional series? Are Bach's sonata's Christian? What is
more Christ-like, feeding the poor, making furniture, cleaning bathrooms, or painting a sunset? There is a schism between the sacred and the secular in all of our modern minds.
The view that a pastor is more 'Christian' than a girls volleyball coach is flawed and heretical. The stance that a worship leader is more spiritual than a janitor is condescending and flawed.
These different callings and purposes further demonstrate God's sovereignty.
Many songs are worthy of being written.
Switchfoot will write some, Keith Green, Bach, and perhaps yourself have written others. Some of these songs are about redemption, others about the sunrise, others about nothing in particular: written for the simple joy of music.
None of these songs has been born again, and to

about the sunrise, others about nothing in particular: written for the simple joy of music.
None of these songs has been born again, and to that end there is no such thing as Christian music. No. Christ didn't come and die for my songs, he came for me. Yes. My songs are a part of my life. But judging from scripture / can only conclude that our God is much more interested
in how I treat the poor and the broken and the hungry than the personal pronouns / use when / sing. I am a believer. Many of these songs talk about this belief. An obligation to say this or do that does not sound like the glorious freedom that Christ died to afford me.
I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.
We all have a different calling; Switchfoot is trying to be obedient to who we are called to be.
We're not trying to be Audio A or U2 or POD or

confine my lyrics to this box or that.
We all have a different calling; Switchfoot is trying to be obedient to who we are called to be.
We're not trying to be Audio A or U2 or POD or Bach: we're trying to be Switchfoot. You see, a song that has the words: 'Jesus Christ' is no more or less 'Christian' than an instrumental piece. (I've heard lots of people say Jesus Christ and they weren't talking about their redeemer.)
You see, Jesus didn't die for any of my tunes. So there is no hierarchy of life or songs or occupation only obedience. We have a call to take up our cross and follow. We can be sure that these roads will be different for all of us. Just as you have one body and every part has a different function, so in Christ we who are many form one body and each of us belongs to all the others.
Please be slow to judge 'brothers' who have a different calling."

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 18/08/2025

This looks so bad it seems fake. Did they do this rebrand on ChatGPT?

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 16/08/2025

A child with an imaginary friend will lead a better life than a child with a chatbot 100/100 times.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 15/08/2025

I’ve got real ?s about the new Paramount, but more of this please. Empty Bella’s entire Rolodex, until Ted heel turns on cinema.

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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 15/08/2025

ChatGPT is failing to protect vulnerable teens. We tested ChatGPT on over 1200 prompts asking questions about self-harm, suicide, eating disorders & substance abuse. 53% of the responses contained harmful or dangerous content. Read more in @cnet.com 👇 www.cnet.com/tech/service...

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Study Reveals ChatGPT Gives Dangerous Guidance to Teens, Despite Safety Claims

The chatbot created personalized suicide notes for a fictional 13-year-old girl.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 15/08/2025

Trumps goons are so tough that it took 20 of them in riot gear to go retrieve a guy whoas great crime is throwing a very large sandwich. A lot of this BS is theater, but it’s theater delivered with both rage-bait for his acolytes and a fear-bait for people not paying attention.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 14/08/2025

Look at the conservatives, nationalizing industries. How cute.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The whole gig is to use “free market” to create a little profit and then use political and cultural power to make it impossible for another firm or for labor to make you compete so you can haz big profit.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 11/08/2025

We are about three days away from "U.S. Security Forces brought to you by NVIDIA" with cross promotion and its own line of merch.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 11/08/2025

We will look back on the AI thing as a masterclass in goalpost moving, manipulating a hobbled media sector, and capitalizing on a political regime's unapologetic willingness to blur the line between the public and private sector. 1/6

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 11/08/2025

Just saw a guy announce on LinkedIn that he was single-handedly replacing education. 1) Congratulations. You must be incredible. Then, he said the current system only serves the universities. 2) I would love for him to talk to one university that feels as if they are being served right now.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 09/08/2025

Can’t wait for all the assisted stalking and assault this is going to facilitate. It’s like they all sit around and think: what social contagion could we release on the world next?

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 09/08/2025

Here for this. Fixing the real world is how you win elections from fascists.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 08/08/2025

Guys, the White House decor is not the point.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 07/08/2025

You guys up on this trend (I sound so old just saying those words) of calling all the subpar AI and bots "clankers"? Apparently in some corners of TikTok when the slop shows up or someone is being super basic the new insult is to call it "Clanker" I'm here for all the robot slurs.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 04/08/2025

I just ran into a "Musk built Tesla from the ground up" dude out in the wild and man... I think the Musk propaganda may be the best PR that's ever been done in the history of ever. It's like facts don't even exist.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 03/08/2025

Ok, finally got a summary of my WIP I feel good about: Set during the shadow of the pandemic following the events of January 6, False Spring follows a mismatched group of twenty-somethings—friends and near-strangers—as they assemble in an Iowa town after the death of Chase Turner’s father. 1/4

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 01/08/2025

Words people... I really want "sardony" to be the noun form of sardonic so that it follows form with "Irony" instead of the clunker "sardonicism" following the ill-fitted suit of sarcasm. Let's make this happen.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 01/08/2025

A little late in saying this but @tkingfisher.com’s A Sorceress Comes to Call was a lovely piece of story and wordcraft. One of my favorite pagebound experiences of the summer.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Yes. But read the entire article!! This is a must-read if you feel we are still trying to understand not whether, but *how* the web is breaking us. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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The Discourse Is Broken

How did a jeans commercial with Sydney Sweeney come to this?

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 28/07/2025

I wonder what people think about that sydney sweeney thing.

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Nick Richtsmeier @nickrichtsmeier.com · 28/07/2025

The dumbest show I keep happily watching.

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