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Nihil Postman

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h
its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see
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Rachel Weil @racheljweil.bsky.social · 10h
When it comes to burying the lede, ya just can’t tbeat the NY Times Pitchbot …. Oh, wait, this is not the Pitchbot.
Email NYTimes subject line: “Hearing aimed at Jack Smith devolves when subject turns to nasketball@
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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 11h
When you're a former Senate chief of staff witnessing one of the great staff fuck-ups of all time
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 12h
Preferred Prime Minister Polling: 🔴 Carney: 62% (+3) 🔵 Poilievre: 20% (-1) 🟠 Lewis: 3% (-1) 🟢 May: 3% (+1) ⚜️ Blanchet: 2% (-) 🟣 Bernier: 2% (+1) ⚪️ Unsure: 10% Nanos / Sept 25, 2026 / n=1000 / MOE 3.1% / Telephone/Online (% Change With Sept 18, 2026)
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 13h
a lot of things could be fixed in this country with a few defamation suits (Schmitt being so stupid he repeated it while no longer protected by the speech & debate clause)
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 14h
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Autofac gets way too little attention for its relevance to the current day. The humans try to disrupt a fully automated wartime economy using prompt injection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofac
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Autofac - Wikipedia
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
You might have thought WaPo had already hit bottom. Well, about that… Link if you so desire: www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/2026/...
Ripple brings together diverse perspectives from other publications to show how the country is engaging with today's biggest stories. It operates independently from the Washington Post News and Opinion departments. 
How Trump can earn the monument he so desperately desires
Pulling the world back from three crises — nuclear weapons, climate change and AI — would be the ultimate test of his deal-making skills
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 28/09/2026
the problem must be their welfare state is too small
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026
I’ve long believed it to be the case that there isn’t any kind of redeeming Meta’s products (or Meta as a company lol) to be actually safe for the users, and that at some point continuing to chose to use them is an truly obscene degree of willful self-harm.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please tell me this isn't real. It's a bit, right? No one actually thinks of a first-person narrator this way, right? I will walk into the sea.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 27/09/2026
Something I haven’t seen really elaborated on in the discourse of Effective Altruists taking over everything from the AI industry to US national tech policy is that this produces a deeply insular intellectual monoculture that is dominant but isolated from other non EA-ist intellectual thought.
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brianmoore2.bsky.social @brianmoore2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We must never let him forget this
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our country is staring into the abyss, and much of our national press corps lacks the fortitude that this moment demands www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Indeed, I commented on the day about how grudgingly that summary story gave credit/kudos to @propublica bsky.app/profile/clar...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Melania Trump: "We have a direct channel with Russia"
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23/09/2026
Three years after a domestic violence conviction, the once lauded actor is starring in a Ben Shapiro–produced film in which terrorists infiltrate a campus Israel protest. It’s somehow even worse than it sounds. trib.al/MEW6smX
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Jonathan Majors Is Back. Yikes.
Three years after a domestic violence conviction, the once lauded actor is starring in a Ben Shapiro–produced film in which terrorists infiltrate a campus Israel protest. It’s somehow even worse than it sounds.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great work everyone
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Did you know that DHS is authorized by Congress to intentionally defame private individuals all day, every day and it cannot be sued for defamation? Now that you know that, does it make you more or less likely to believe anything it says? (Oh, he didn't illegally enter)
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You're in charge of a war that you're losing, the Houthi are on the march to Riyadh, you've run the Navy ragged, you've lost almost all your bases in the Middle East, you're out of missiles (mostly) that you need in case China steals a march on Taiwan...and you're at a fucking football game.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In the last decade, the IDF prosecuted one (1) soldier for unlawfully killing a Palestinian in the occupied territories. Elor Azaria served 9 months in prison. Today Israel's president, Yitzhak Herzog, pardoned him and expunged his criminal record. A clear message of 100% impunity.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here: www.offmessage.net/p/ai-risk-ne...
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A.I. Risk And The End Of The Neoliberal Style In Politics
You can’t make pragmatic compromises with predatory counterparties.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yep. presswatchers.org/2026/07/the-...
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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch
Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda
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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
if the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this, you are about to die in that pit
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is pub day for my book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." Please watch this video and pass it on. It's time to reclaim the Trump-Russia narrative and recognize Putin is continuing his years-long war on America and Trump is complicit. HowRussiaWon.com
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A modest proposal. The current people building the future are fucking it up. We want some better people to build the future. Perhaps even a future not built by pedophiles and oligarchs and fans of autocracy.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AT&T Stadium reportedly is one of the venues that opposed Macklemore being on Ed Sheeran's bill. Worth noting that AT&T is hosting Kanye West in November.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There are thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of stories like this from the past couple of years: stone-faced, banal, unnecessary cruelty with the full weight of the federal government behind it
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
(1/X) I more certain of the following than I am that the sun will tomorrow: (a) Trump will leave the US (and GOP) in shambles. (b) Neither Trump nor anyone who facilitated him will pay price. (c) Ppl who accurately predicted how bad Trump2 would be will continue to be portrayed as hysterical...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
@alondra.bsky.social is 100% correct to call me out here because she fought tooth and nail running OSTP and I just erased her with this post.
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social
Going to try not to take that personally, Timnit!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Um. It was just months ago the DOJ claimed "become ungovernable" was an antifa slogan worthy of conspiracy charges. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Fifteen people charged over alleged interference in Minnesota immigration crackdown
Prosecutors claim defendants were part of Minneapolis-based ‘antifa’ groups that ‘violently oppose’ law enforcement
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026
Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:
At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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Brett LoGiurato @brettlogiurato.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I wrote about the massacre at McClatchy, a rough day that saw newsrooms gutted from Charlotte to Miami to Sacramento. Through it all, McClatchy is still implausibly claiming it remains "deeply committed to local journalism." www.status.news/p/mcclatchy-...
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The McClatchy Massacre
The newspaper chain gutted newsrooms from Miami to Sacramento in what staffers told Status was a haphazard, painful bloodletting. One editor said the cuts amounted to “slicing out” the “vital organs” ...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Joe diGenova and Jeanine Pirro both refusing to bring political prosecutions — Main Justice is a crime scene.
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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I actually think @warren.senate.gov @dscc.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @electdemocrats.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social should draft a bill immediately to implement this, using high wealth taxes on Elon etc to fund it, and force congressional Republicans to vote on it.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I mean the whole "large swathes of the population outsource all critical thinking to a corporate goblin in their pocket that lies" does seem like something that will have long-term impacts
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wouldn't it be weird if the racist billionaire who bankrolled and took credit for the neo-Nazi victory in Germany was somehow involved in American politics too? Can you even imagine? I bet the media would have a field day asking politicians who aligned with him and took his money for statements!
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The New York Times loves a right wing grifter
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
He gave himself a medal of honor, incredible stuff
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The Verge @theverge.com · 07/09/2026
They want the AI models built on their works destroyed. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement
The Seattle Times and Newsday want AI models built on their works destroyed.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!
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