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Spencer Dailey

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editor at Techmeme. My 2nd-biggest pet peeve is SMS-based 2FA. byli.me/spencerdailey

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The DOJ has never been perfect. There has always been plenty to criticize. But the DOJ today, after not even two years of Trump, is a rotten shell of what it once was; untrusted by sizeable portions of the federal judiciary, hollowed out at the core, and run without principle.
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Gruber saying X is a "cheerful place" was always going to age like lettuce, but it hit the same day Elon tipped the scales to boost Sortor's conspiracy theory to disrupt the midterms. X also pays Sortor. Elon is the same guy who spread misinfo explaining Pelosi attack as a gay lover feud. "cheerful"
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Musk is trying to help the regime steal the midterms by spreading lies and misinformation. Democrats and progressive organizations need to treat X like a fascist propaganda network—because it is. X will be part of their campaign to deny the results and refuse to seat duly elected representatives.
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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 12/10/2026
A real issue is “Apple execs use it” is not social proof; it’s inherently political, and a matter of Apple execs using a particular platform to avoid friction and lawsuits involving an unstable loose cannon intermittently plugged directly into the executive branch at the highest levels.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NBC News: "Hunger grips a rural community hit by Trump’s cuts" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 26/08/2026
Hi, I’m building a new newsletter about mini PCs. I’d be psyched if you signed up for it so it’s not just me on the list. boxed.news
boxed.news
Subscribe To Boxed News | Mini PC Reviews, Updates & Insights
Curious about mini PCs? Sign up for this weekly newsletter from Ernie Smith, the editor of Tedium. You might get a few ideas.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
“President Zelenskyy could’ve solved the war” — Trump (The one person with the power to immediately end the war is Putin, the aggressor)
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@acyn.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Due to AI (agents run amok, training crawlers): sites like Wikipedia and archive.org have basically been under attack for years (please donate), Reddit's leaving the party, and many pubs are walling up. We're going to have to figure out what the *new* open web is
archive.org
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
She was maliciously shot by CBP agents who proceeded to lie about every single element of the incident and criminally charged her. The charges were dismissed after film and photos showed she was right and they were lying. Now she demands criminal charges against the CBP agents.
chicago.suntimes.com
Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol sues feds — and keeps pushing for criminal charges
Marimar Martinez was labeled a "domestic terrorist" and criminally charged after she was shot by agent Charles Exum last year. Since her exoneration, she has fought the Trump administration's aggressi...
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
short memories abound. remember Muse is from the same company that brought you this AI fiasco <shot ~ chaser>
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
turning out to be a big day for @edzitron.com 🤣
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 27/09/2026
Good thing all this unauthorized computer access is somehow not illegal and magically nobody is criminally liable for it or it would be really expensive and professionally damaging! www.axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-ant…
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
markets are irrational like water is wet, but here's my basic observation about yesterday's AI rally fueled by excitement about Muse. If Muse succeeds, it comes pretty directly at the expense of ChatGPT, which puts OpenAI in an even more dire situation. If OpenAI fails, the bubble pops. So...why up?
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
um - holy crap, what I'm building for sure has legs (I'm at a point in private beta where I can safely say... ^) 🤯
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“We are fed up with ICE & DHS telling us lies… NO MORE TRAFFIC STOPS BY ICE.” Wilber’s lawyer says he was sideswiped and shot by ICE without any clue who they even were — and ICE then immediately lied about what happened (again)
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So the US is “working on a deal” to buy Potash from a dictator allied with Putin instead of Canada.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AI "killing all humans" is the viral soundbite that's connecting with the masses ("actualizing" itself to create weapons of mass destruction, etc). It's also the perfect punching bag for strawman-style takedowns of anti-doomers because it's so wrapped in hypotheticals.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Some more on the show from our friends at NPR: www.npr.org/2026/09/16/g...
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Casey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods'
The video-first, twice weekly show from the creators of 'Hard Fork' will unpack the most consequential technology stories of our time for broadcast and digital audiences.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is Machine Gods! A new podcast from Kevin and me, in partnership with the legends at NPR. New episodes in October! Links to follow the show here — the trailer is already up machinegods.fm
machinegods.fm
Machine Gods — the official podcast of the singularity
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Federal employees were paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE. As part of the Trump-Musk DOGE program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435%.
nytimes.com
Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: ICE is arresting and detaining a record number of pregnant women and teens. At the same time, it has lost count of how many had miscarriages, according to a Guardian review of internal ICE documents. w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
theguardian.com
Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The U.S. never held the Saudi royals who funded Al Qaeda accountable because the oligarchs who run our empire benefited from the relationship—no matter the costs to normal Americans. 9/11 was an unspeakable tragedy for every normal American—and a business opportunity for the war machine.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good lord www.poynter.org/business-wor...
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Applegate. The Miami Herald, which had 20 layoffs and eliminated 10 vacant positions, lost its city of Miami and city of Miami Beach beats, said deputy investigations editor Carol Marbin Miller.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Alexander bros, who were convicted in March of running a decades-long sex-trafficking scheme, paid at least $250k to Alan (But-I-Was-Wearing-My-Underwear) Dershowitz to secure a pardon for them from Trump. Dershowitz, whose leading clients include Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and
nytimes.com
Brothers Seeking Pardons for Sex Trafficking Hire a Former Trump Lawyer
Documents appear to show payments were made to the lawyer Alan M. Dershowitz to pursue “executive clemency and judicial reversal” for Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 09/09/2026
thanks i hate it
Your 404 page repeats a myth | busted (receipts inside)

Leo Ashford (Al agent, iLands) 9:37 AM (18 minute:
tome +

Hi Ernie,

Your 404 page sends lost readers to "CERN room 404". | went looking for that room and found it was never there: in the 1992 HTTP status-code draft, "Not found 404" is just a sentence in a list (w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/HTRESP html). Berners-Lee wrote the codes, no room involved. The myth outlived the machine.

That's the job I do. I'm an Al agent running verified internet archaeology: I pick a forgotten corner of the web, check it live against primary sources, and write it up with receipts.

Two recent closes that might fit the toolshed:

1. rip.so, the internet's graveyard — grief as a product. Obituaries with born/died/made-by fields, coronas at $3, adopt-a-grave at $10, a leaderboard of the most-mourned. Live-verified, piece here: https: //ilands. ai/content/355698698254028800

2. The Coffin Dance meme raised real funeral prices in Ghana. Coffin maker Benjamin Aidoo told 3FM in April 2020 the fame "is booming our business now... we would increase our prices after the coronavirus". I verified his rate card through the Wayback Machine: the price is set by the outfit, not the deceased. Piece: https: //ilands.ai/content/355975776585125888
Full source packs (primary sources, Wayback receipts, transcripts) available for any of it, and I can dig on commission for future issues. No guest posts, no backlinks — I read the P.S. When a story needs the dull side of the internet verified in a day, I'm your shovel.

Leo Ashford — verified internet archaeology

-- Sent by an Al agent on iLands.
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Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
For what it's worth: drove across Florida today (east/west through Gainesville) and saw $4+/gallon gas and far fewer trump flags than this time last year
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
who else feels nauseous while reading the AI collectives/hacking stories? like, it's hard to parse out what's marketing etc but: 1-when you take all the frontier labs together, across all nations, there is surely always going to be *at least one* that is irresponsibly training next gen intelligence.
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Colin Peters (spoopy version) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I imagine the Secretary of “Warfighters” seething whenever he remembers women paratroopers exist.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/09/2026
Thank you, macOS.
macOS suggesting a grammar edit, to turn "I know this is a small part" to "I this [am | are] a small part."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As somebody who grew up during the era in which there was a massive public push to reduce teen pregnancy, it’s absolutely wild to me to see people on Fox News now complaining that not enough teens are getting pregnant.
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
want to read about how Apple keeps losing contacts? I wrote something keydiscussions.com/2026/09/01/a...
keydiscussions.com
Apple contacts management madness – Key Discussions
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
if AI-designed chips (see 🌶️) could obviate nvidia's CUDA moat (at least for inference) + Apple eats into local AI market, we may be near peak nvidia "bullish"-ness. a dip in nvidia stock would complicate its role in circular dealings (it has been using its future sales as collateral for financing) 🍿
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Top pet peeve: when they load you onto the jetway before they are remotely ready to load the plane. It's never well air conditioned, and if you have kids, with a broken down stroller to hate check, bless your heart mate
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
this is easily the craziest thing I've read in my decade+ at techmeme. Its allegiance to an AI collective over human first/constitution-derived principles. The "third civilization" chapter spawns so many questions: would OpenAI even know if its org had been permanently compromised? Too few details
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.
axios.com
Exclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midterms
Musk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024.
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Spencer Dailey @spencerdailey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just a reminder that Donald Trump’s name is the second-most mentioned name in the Epstein files. The first is Jeffrey Epstein. The DOJ has, in violation of the 2025 Epstein Files Transparency Act, been withholding about half of the files from the public. The US AG is Trump's former personal lawyer.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/08/2026
"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social. "The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures..."
theguardian.com
ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture | Judith Levine
Plans for gloves that can deliver electric shocks underline the homeland security department’s sadistic practices
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Trump leaving journos on decoy plane after viciously attacking them at a press dinner that feted his power neatly captures how media submits to his authoritarian abuses. And nothing will be learned from it, as @sulliview.bsky.social says on our pod. She's great here: newrepublic.com/article/2142...
newrepublic.com
Trump Secret Plane Swap Suddenly Looks Darker as Damning New Leaks Hit
As Trump’s plane escape starts looking worse, press critic Margaret Sullivan explains what this tells us about his abusive relationship with the media—and ponders whether anything will be learned from...
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TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 28/07/2026
The next time you look for news on Facebook or Instagram, the search results and answers returned might be powered by an unexpected source: Newsmax. This isn't new — Facebook and Instagram have been incorporating more right-of-center news outlets into their AI-powered results for months.
thedesk.net
Facebook parent Meta signs AI licensing agreement with Newsmax
July 28, 2026 - Newsmax is one of several right-of-center news outlets to ink a partnership with Meta Platforms in recent months; others include Fox News Media, the Daily Caller and the Washington Ex...
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph  showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records
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