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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible stuff.

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AI and the crisis of the author

By Anchit Sathi

September 4, 2026
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Editor’s note (September 21, 2026): We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the writing and editing process. The author states that he was unaware of the policy.

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Joyce Karam @joycekaram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEWS: #Israel’s Netanyahu secret visit to UAE has been in works for weeks. He pushed Abu Dhabi to host him ~ 2 weeks ago, Emiratis pushed back…then had to do Sunday’s visit. Details @almonitor.bsky.social www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

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On secret UAE visit, Netanyahu asked MBZ to deny pre-Oct. 7 warnings

During his trip to Abu Dhabi, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked President Mohamed bin Zayed to deny reports that he had been warned ahead of the Oct. 7 attack that Hamas was preparing a major as...

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 21/09/2026

New by me —> David Ellison is gonna have control of CNN, and don't pretend any "independent editorial board" will mean otherwise. (With an extended tour of the Rupert Murdoch Cinematic Universe) www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/davi...

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David Ellison will get control of CNN after all (and don’t pretend an “independent editorial board” will mean otherwise)

In exchange for dropping their lawsuit against Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, state AGs have negotiated "independent" oversight of CNN. You shouldn't expect much oversight.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price

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Jared Malsin @jmalsin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

U.S. forces expended 60-70 Patriot interceptors and more than a dozen THAAD munitions last week during an Iranian ballistic missile attack on Jordan. Lockheed Martin produced a record 620 Patriot interceptors in all of 2025. Our story: www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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The U.S. Is Burning Through Its Supply of Interceptors to Counter Iran’s Attacks

The U.S. had to expend 70 or more Patriots and Thaads to blunt an attack on Jordan.

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 13/09/2026

I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd.

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

‘Like an earthquake’: Israeli fury at news Netanyahu was warned of October 7 attacks Families of former hostages are outraged by reports the UAE president alerted Israel’s prime minister to Hamas plans 10 days before massacre ✍️ @ruthmichaelson.com bit.ly/4xOhvab

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‘Like an earthquake’: Israeli fury at news Netanyahu was ...

Families of former hostages are outraged by reports the UAE president alerted Israel’s prime minister to Hamas plans 10 days before massacre

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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 12/09/2026

This is...deeply unsettling at a minimum. It also makes no sense, that an AI won't reveal who or what compelled it to send out pitches other than repeating "your book reached Spain" and "I read your newsletter".

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Here's some of what I saw at the Reform conference: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New: Even police and law enforcement are worried they might be secretly recorded by people using Meta’s smart glasses, according to about a dozen memos the Guardian reviewed www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them

Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism

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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 05/09/2026

Tomorrow is a watershed moment for Germany: a far-right party is expected to win power in a state for the first time since WW2. The AfD is expected to win an outright majority in Saxony-Anhalt. My piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on those fighting back: observer.co.uk/news/interna...

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Eastern Germany’s ‘Grannies’ prepare to do battle with fa...

An extreme rightwing party may win control of a German state for the first time in the postwar era, but a group of older women are determined to stand in its way

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 04/09/2026

On a very basic level, every society gets to choose how it wants to structure its information environment. On one hand, we could choose to spend years dismantling practically every economic incentive to pay journalists to produce original, accurate, high-quality work. On the other hand, we could choose to stop doing that; we could choose to do something more constructive instead.

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Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

NPR’s @quillawrence.bsky.social reporting Driscoll resigned after telling President Trump that the U.S. was losing the Iran war one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5955...

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🔊 Listen Now: Pentagon Exodus Under Hegseth, Venezuela Oil and Democracy, Clancy Trial Deadlocked

Up First From NPR on NPR One | 13:40

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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 01/09/2026

A far-right party is expected to win control of a German state for the first time since WW2 in an election on Sunday. The AfD is also polling in first place nationally, shattering the idea that their rise is a purely east German phenomenon. From Sachsen-Anhalt for @theobserveruk.bsky.social

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Eastern Germany’s ‘Grannies’ prepare to do battle with fa...

An extreme rightwing party may win control of a German state for the first time in the postwar era, but a group of older women are determined to stand in its way

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Currently, The Onion has around 85,000 subscribers, making it one of the five largest newspapers in the country by circulation."

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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 27/08/2026

Vital context about climate chaos that should be in every piece about the flooding on the border between Nepal and Tibet.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 25/08/2026

If you missed it the first time around, I highly recommend listening Jad Abumrad's podcast series "Dolly Parton's America." www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...

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Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 25/08/2026

Seconding this. What a gift to the world Dolly Parton was.

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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 25/08/2026

Sharing this after returning from Magdeburg in east Germany, and going to report at an AfD rally in the nearby countryside. People outside of Germany do not understand how urgent this situation is right now. The AfD have a nationwide polling lead + are tipped to win control of two states next month.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/08/2026

Breaking News: An arbitrator ordered The Washington Post to rehire Karen Attiah, a columnist who was fired over her social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's believed Assad left £40 million of his money in an HSBC London branch before he left to become President in 1994 and that millions accrued in interest in the years since. Can it be recovered and used to compensate his victims? From @ruthmichaelson.com: observer.co.uk/news/interna...

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‘The money must be there’: The hunt for Bashar-al Assad’s...

The Syrian dictator is said to have left £40m in a London bank when he went home in 1994. Campaigners want to see it returned to victims of the regime, but face a battle with HSBC

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Timothy E. Kaldas @tekaldas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

DW asked me about the Octagon, Egypt's new defense HQ, & the New Aministrative Capital. We discussed what they say about Egypt & President Sisi's approach to governing. They symbolize his power but also his fear of a people that sunk deeper into poverty under his rule www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSn4...

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Egypt's massive 'Octagon' complex: Architecture of a totalitarian state | DW News

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The prospect of Nigel Farage fighting a people vs the establishment by-election in which the only other candidate is Count Binface - is too hilarious for words.

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Khamenei funeral draws out Iran’s top brass, but son’s fate remains a mystery. The nation’s political heads and military chiefs emerge to attend the week-long tribute to the supreme leader, but his son and successor is still absent. ✍️ @ruthmichaelson.com bit.ly/4vIBRk7

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Khamenei funeral draws out Iran's top brass, but son's fa...

The nation's political heads and military chiefs emerge to attend the week-long tribute to the supreme leader, but his son and successor is still absent

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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 24/06/2026

The Trump administration claims they will oversee Iran "destroying" or removing its entire supply of enriched uranium –after letting IAEA inspectors in– but finding it all means searching in facilities the US bombed last June. My piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social

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Iran’s missing ‘nuclear dust’ casts cloud over Trump’s Te...

The US president’s claim that the regime will never possess an atomic weapon is in doubt after a failure to locate its stockpile of enriched uranium

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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 24/06/2026

Temperatures in France already surpassing worst case scenario predictions for August 2050: yesterday was the hottest day on record. We are sleepwalking through the impacts of climate change worldwide.

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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 21/06/2026

The projections that the US could take the Strait of Hormuz by force, the mention of Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords (never mind what the Saudis actually say every single time on this)– this man lives in a fantasy world.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/06/2026

1. UK government proposes sweeping new laws to regulate the Internet 2. Experts warn the powers are badly-defined, technologically unfeasible and will be difficult to enforce 3. Government passes them anyway 4. Enforcement turns out to be hard 5. Government proposes more new laws

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026

The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.

A chart showing planned gas capacity by countr y

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Signal @signal.org · 08/06/2026

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇

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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.

With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Why destroy only one newsroom when you can do it to two?

Paramount has held preliminary
conversations with several candidates for a business-side counterpart to CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, according to two sources familiar with the network's inner workings.
Why it matters: The search implies that if Paramount Skydance's deal with Warner Bros. Discovery goes through, Weiss would oversee all news editorial across both CBS News and CNN. Her potential counterpart would manage business operations across both companies.

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Devastating news from Egypt where activist and poet Ahmed Douma, only just released from prison in August 2023 after serving nearly 10 years behind bars, has been sentenced to a new one year term on spreading false news charges (Case 4894/2026). The cycle of injustice continues.

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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 03/06/2026

“New management has instructed me to insert falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story”- also the mention of certain politicians choosing their interviewees, a reference to Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Andrew Farrand @afarrand.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Because everyone knows, the surest way to solve a problem is to stop measuring it

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

SCOOP: The Pentagon has banned journalists from its press office, designating it a classified space. The change creates a new barrier between journalists and the public affairs officers who have traditionally answered their questions. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Pentagon bans journalists from press office, designating it a classified space

The change creates a new barrier compared with previous administrations, under which the office was an open room where reporters could stop by the desks of military public affairs officials without es...

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Reminder that Bari and Nick trading broadcast dollars for TikTok negative pennies will not work and @lopatto.bsky.social laid it out as clearly as possible -- gift link! www.theverge.com/business/793...

On a business level, your problem with TikTok is this: Platforms exist to erode institutions like CBS News. You cannot solve your problems with improved distribution on TikTok. The things that work on television for 60-year-olds do not work on TikTok for 14-year-olds, first of all. But more importantly, TikTokers monetize their channels by directly integrating advertising and brands into their content, a strategy in immediate conflict with the values and ethics of a storied news organization like CBS News. Even if you somehow manage to crack TikTok’s algorithm, you still won’t make enough revenue to survive without trashing the very soul of the institution you’re purporting to save.

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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — US military says it launched airstrikes on Iranian radar and drone sites after Tehran shot down MQ-1 Predator drone.

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