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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 7h

TSA just got my husband’s very nice knife because for some reason it was in my backpack. I have 4 flights before I get back so checking is not an option. The sympathetic officer let me photograph it before he tossed it so I could look up the model and replace it. But the AI will not help me 🙃

A black tactical knife and an AI declining to identify it.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grokipedia is accepting edits again 👀

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.

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Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 29/09/2026

ngl, turning down the "politics" slider on my mysky.social feed has improved my BlueSky experience immensely. It's also something we repeatedly hear in user testing. Discuss.

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MySky Social | Jonathan Stray | Substack

Open-source AI-driven Social Media Feeds for Everyone. Click to read MySky Social, by Jonathan Stray, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Matthew Best @matthewbest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fucking lol at "spying on social media posts". That's like the naked guy with a sandwich board covered in racial slurs claiming I'm a voyeur because I happened to see him in the middle of the street.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Michael Shellenberger remains obsessed with me but doesn’t want to say my name when he writes made up shit like this lol why is that

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MySky Notifications @notify.mysky.social · 27/08/2026

🦋 Enjoying MySky? Or not? 🦋 Sign up here for a paid user interview, $15 to help us build the open social web.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We had a really great conversation about this topic at CDT’s Future of Free Speech event today. It’s an important tech & policy area to be aware of!

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How spicy are Aleppo peppers? 🌶️ my garden neighbor gave me two. I was going to cut one up and add it to a marinated steak stirfry. Is this a terrible idea? I cut the pepper, rinsed the knife, cut a different thing, and that thing had spicy oil flavor on it…

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mysky.social is wicked cool. Just set it up, as part of renengaging more constructively with the open social web on reentry this fall. Check it out: bsky.app/profile/mysk... Thx to @jonathanstray.com @noupside.bsky.social for showing how we might build a public sphere that belongs to all of us.

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MySky Social | Jonathan Stray | Substack

Open-source AI-driven Social Media Feeds for Everyone. Click to read MySky Social, by Jonathan Stray, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New work featured in New Public!: There is no neutral feed algorithm. Each one makes source, ranking, & content diversity choices. @jonathanstray.com & I started MySky so you can see - and change! - these settings. Check it out here on Bluesky, in "Feeds" # newpublic.substack.com/p/meet-the-a...

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🎛️📲 Meet the algorithm you can actually control and understand

Jonathan Stray and Renée DiResta introduce MySky, a feed that shows its work

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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is *really* interesting

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible AI generated ragebait: the woke School Office tyrants would not let Tragedeigh have her Stanley!

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social) and Dean Jackson published a new paper explaining how the "censorship industrial complex" propaganda campaign took shape & was eventually used to dismantle election information resilience infrastructure in the U.S. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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<em>Public Administration Review</em> | ASPA Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper examines how a propaganda frame alleging the existence of a “Censorship Industrial Complex” was institutionalized and then helped justify the dismantling of US election information resilie...

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/09/2026

So @dwillner.bsky.social & I took some of our discussion thread from Bluesky last week regarding the "sexy apocalypse" predictions from the EA-aligned "AI Safety" folks, and wrote an article from the perspective (Dave's) of those who do *real* risk mitigation work. The apocalypse will not be sexy.

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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 21/09/2026

Social media algorithms don't allow us to understand or control what we see online and why... until now! Top scholars @jonathanstray.com and @noupside.bsky.social are sharing @mysky.social, a tool that allows users to adjust their feed’s priorities and explains why certain posts appear over others.

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🎛️📲 Meet the algorithm you can actually control and understand

Jonathan Stray and Renée DiResta introduce MySky, a feed that shows its work

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Numero Zero @numer0zer0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is great. There's a straighforward auditing-standards question and the left is blaming it on 'TESCREAList' sex cults while the right is blaming it on globalist NGOs who want genderless pronouns and open borders. Really great job, everyone.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The ceNsOrShiP iNdUstrIaL cOmpleX hoaxers are starting to go after AI evaluators using the same playbook that took down social media research. It worked for them last time. No consequences for lying. Shellenberger, Schmitt both starting up. Smears & subpoenas from the lie machine commencing. Watch.

Anthropic's CEO is pushing America's Al labs to embed a leftist alignment apparatus.
But he's deeply intertwined with this ecosystem, its funding, its people, and the supposed experts shaping the media coverage.
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The stock transfers.
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No self-appointed leftist cartel gets to decide America's future.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🌱 I just got stung in the face—between the eyes!—by a bumblebee. We came to do plot clear out for the last two raised beds, turns out one of them has a bumblebee nest in it! I was pulling on the sage trimming it down, a 🐝 appeared. I thought oh I’ll just stand still. then it stung me in the face.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Trump is better than any Democrat on free speech!” - countless heterodox, libertarian or “politically tribeless” MAGA apologists who will never admit to their own idiocy

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Is there a formal name for the performative credulity and elite deference that respectable media just can’t seem to abandon? It is clearly illustrated in the case of RFK Jr. Everyone involved is expected to maintain a fiction that nobody knows what everybody knows.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"The most corrupt president in American history hates us" the EAs should pick this one up and run with it tbh

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This was a fun convo! It was also sort of an intimidating one since I don’t normally talk ab the process —which is often very hacky and experimental!— behind early investigations. I love Indicator. I regularly forward it to an agent that keeps track of tools & techniques for me. 🔎 Subscribe!

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NY Post comes for Aella because *some VCs* are mad that the vibes shifted away from them on AI safety last week. Badge of honor, really. They're grasping and chose the oldest smear strategy in the book. "You're either with us or with the sluts and wokes!" nypost.com/2026/09/16/b...

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AI doomsayer’s wild life with OnlyFans star includes birthday sex parties, extreme kinks and ‘Slutcon’

Nate Soares, co-author of the bestselling AI doomsday book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies,” has been publicly described as a partner by Aella, an online writer who has made her sexual exploits…

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@noupside.bsky.social makes a great point here about the ineffectiveness of stodgy message discipline and the tendency to think of social media not as a casual free-flowing conversation but as one-way mass broadcasting. You end up talking at people rather than to people.

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Liberals Need to Loosen Up to Play the Social Media Game Against Authoritarians: A Conversation with Renée DiResta

Their need to stay on message makes them less effective communicators

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How antivaxxers exploited and hijacked the Covid moment to advance their longstanding crankery. Brilliant from @noupside.bsky.social

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 14/09/2026

Our latest Zooming In is a wide-ranging convo between @bernybelvedere.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social on today's discourse ecosystem, and what it will take for liberals to win in it. Along they way they also talked streamers, David French and Zohran Mamdani, Covid and RJK Jr., and much more

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Liberals Need to Loosen Up to Play the Social Media Game Against Authoritarians: A Conversation with Renée DiResta

Their need to stay on message makes them less effective communicators

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🌱 We got an abandoned plot at a community garden and today was the first pass of clean-out day. We explained copperheads to the kids.

A very overgrown, weedy wooded community garden plot.

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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a really actionable whitepaper on how to reach the public and what institutions can do to get into the current fight for attention. It is also an amazing resource for deeper dives into democracy, media, content; I found some of the underlying research material also extremely interesting.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 11/09/2026

Sounds like an almost exact repeat of what happened in 2023, i.e. some component of the PhotoDNA pipeline broke and went entirely unnoticed. Difference being now X helps generate the content and has made it as difficult as possible for external parties to flag problems. www.wsj.com/tech/twitter...

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WSJ News Exclusive | Twitter Missed Dozens of Known Images of Child Sexual Abuse Material, Researchers Say

The researchers say the social-media platform told them it has now improved its detection system for child sexual abuse.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Most Americans now get their info from creators & podcasts where authenticity conveys legitimacy. Institutional credentials & polish can read as elite distance. What can institutions do? New Carnegie guide, by me, Rachel Kleinfeld & Margot Treadwell: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

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How to Engage with New Media: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Organizations

To remain effective, organizations need to master new media and legitimacy markers to make a once-in-a-century shift.

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Carnegie Democracy @carnegiedcg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🆕| The media landscape has changed dramatically, but many nonprofits are still operating by old rules. @noupside.bsky.social, @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social, and Margot Treadwell offer a strategic guide for how organizations can adapt to a new media ecosystem and remain relevant and influential.👇

carnegieendowment.org

How to Engage with New Media: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Organizations

To remain effective, organizations need to master new media and legitimacy markers to make a once-in-a-century shift.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One year ago Rachel and I wrote a provocation about how institutions needed to rethink comms. Today we have a new report out that addresses the pressing question: “How?” Case studies of comms approaches within, from “Hot Girls for Zohran” to an analysis of the Turning Point USA juggernaut.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New: Tony Lyons, an ally of RFK Jr. & the president of MAHA Action — an organization closely tied to RFK Jr. — told viewers on the organization's podcast that "anytime you hear the word measles, you should sort of think psyop, you know, think brainwashing." www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-...

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🌱 My 12yo grew these, dug ‘em up over the weekend, and cooked them tonight. Each kid gets to pick a thing to grow and he chose potatoes this year. First time we ever tried it. Kind of involved for the first week or two but then effortless.

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Jim Lippard @lippard.org · 03/09/2026

demonstrating what liars they are (and Shellenberger as well)

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 02/09/2026

I wrote a long feature about the global war against the supposed censorship industrial complex for @theverge.com last year:

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The disinformation wars are here

How Joe Biden’s administration caved to the right in the battle for truth.

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Nelly @nellyp.checkfirst.network · 03/09/2026

“Sarah Rogers cheered the takedown. This was “a shift toward counterspeech and exposure as a preferred propaganda response,” she wrote. ” Good.” Good indeed! There’s just one problem. This isn’t a shift. It’s exactly what SIO and Old Twitter used to do.” Via @noupside.bsky.social

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Like a soap bubble that vanishes with the touch of a hand,the “censorship–industrial complex” belongs to that mystical category of things that disappear when you examine them too closely.” Yet no matter how many times they lose in court or fail to deliver on document releases they keep pushing it.

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