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@rmac.bsky.social
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NYT tech reporter Co-author of Character Limit Signal: rmac.18 ryan.mac@nytimes.com rmac18@protonmail.com www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/73… linktr.ee/ryan_mac_

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Next week, Google is set to launch an experimental satellite to test the feasibility of data centers in space and it's doing it on a SpaceX rocket. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/t...
The work was part of an ambitious effort from Google called Project Suncatcher, which aims to put artificial intelligence data centers into space and to harness the sun’s energy to power them. On Oct. 1, the satellite from the San Francisco lab — which Google has named MVP — is set to become the first step toward that goal by a major tech company. It will be loaded onto a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, Calif., and then launched into orbit.

Google provided The New York Times with the first inside look at the project, which seemed like a science-fiction dream just a year ago.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy two years to Character Limit!
Max a brown dog in a crate cage with a character limit book propped up outside
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Child sex abuse material, some created by Grok, continues to spread on X. An incredibly disturbing read. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
First they came for…
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
six days later
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in which the world's richest man appears to endorse a post calling for "shooting migrants" and "sinking boats with refugees"
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🤗 @kateconger.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/t...
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After Hugging Face Was Attacked By A.I. Agents, It Embarked on a Crusade
Hugging Face, a start-up that was breached by rogue bots from OpenAI, is using the hack to push for openness in A.I. development.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
my "i received $6 million in recognition of services and guidance” t-shirt has many people asking questions already answered by my shirt. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Research Firm’s Founder Explains $6 Million Payment to Fired Forbes Editor
RJ Shook of Shook Research said he paid Randall Lane, the former top editor at Forbes, for “services and guidance” in partnering with Forbes and later selling his research firm.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
an important story on how a former Silicon Valley billionaire is directly shaping federal policy on homelessness www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/u...
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How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy
As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
lollllll
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ez
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
does this mean he's Frank Alive www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/a...
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
the girls are fighting
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
any homies out there wanna give me $6 mil
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
former forbes group chats going insane rn
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
holy fuk www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/b...
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Forbes Fired Top Editor After Discovering He Received Secret $6 Million Payment
Randall Lane, the magazine’s chief content officer, received the money from the founder of Shook Research, which has partnered with Forbes on content about wealth advisers.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
LA RAIN
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/08/2026
When Elon took over Twitter he told investors he'd triple ad revenue within 5 years. It's now been almost four years... and he's wiped out 2/3rds of the ad revenue (basically revealed in footnotes to SpaceX's earnings).
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
hm
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
On SpaceX's earnings call, Musk projected that SpaceX will hit $1 trillion in revenue by 2030, with a "nonzero chance" it happens in 2029.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
this is fun futurism.com/artificial-i...
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A PR Firm Is Using Fake Publicists With AI-Generated Headshots to Spam Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients
A PR firm called Movchan Agency operated a roster of fake PR representatives, some with AI faces, to pitch journalists on stories. Why?
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
just like twitter! www.actionnews5.com/2026/08/01/c...
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Contractor who built Colossus and Colossus II says Elon Musk owes him colossal amount of money
A mechanical contractor who helped build Elon Musk’s Memphis-area data centers at breakneck speed says SpaceXAI is dragging its feet on paying his company for work performed since 2024.
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Dave Philipps @davephilipps.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
When a boat hits a wave, the jolt can intensify 10x between the deck and the head of a crew member. That counter-intuitive physics is leaving some of the Coast Guard's most elite rescuers with serious brain injuries that go undiagnosed. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
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Rescue Boat Crews Show Signs of Brain Injuries, but Coast Guard Isn’t Looking
Untreated and undiagnosed, the crews that save lives in the roughest seas face the relentless pounding of waves.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
such an incredibly told story from @davephilipps.bsky.social. his main subject is a teen, whose coast guard vet killed himself after years of trauma in the service. hoping to find more about her father lived (and died) she did her own research for a class project. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
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Rescue Boat Crews Show Signs of Brain Injuries, but Coast Guard Isn’t Looking
Untreated and undiagnosed, the crews that save lives in the roughest seas face the relentless pounding of waves.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
RIP Kavinsky
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
someone help square this for me
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 21/07/2026
I wrote about what's happening to the web now that everything is A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
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How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web (Gift Article)
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
in case you plan a jan 6 style event on jack dorsey's new work collaboration platform
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
pathetic www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...
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U.S. Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives
The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I've always been annoyed by this framing — this time in @status.news — of news simply "emerging" or Thiel willingly telling everyone that he funded the Gawker suit (as they link to in this piece.) The news "emerged" because we broke it at Forbes. And then Thiel had to admit to it.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
team medic in a blazer is wild
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
government is literally bombing another country right now and they’re displaying a giant LOVE banner
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
normalize booing
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
this is the dumbest shit ever
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
this is the dumbest shit ever
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
so much scoring happening in Miami right now bsky.app/profile/apne...
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Soccer aid ass game
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
BEST GAME EVER
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Starboy
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It’s actually Dan Burn time
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
how’s that souness
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
hens dedicate award to fox bsky.app/profile/robe...
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
uh is that the guy from chopped who is always asking for more salt bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
today was the first day spacex's stock closed under its IPO price of $135. it closed at $131.11. if you bought the company's IPO shares, you are now underwater.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
i guess uhh be nice to your exes? bsky.app/profile/brun...
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The patented 6-3-1 formation
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Posh Spice overcelebrating. People can change.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
both teams could use a xanax at half
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Enzo Fernandez hitting a white dude? He must have got confused.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
spacex's stock just dropped below its $135 IPO price
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