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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Grindr's Capitol Hill daddies presented by Anthropic

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Symptoms are “horrible” and severe cases are a “living nightmare.” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social speaks to @natashadevon.bsky.social on LBC about ME/CFS, its long history of being dismissed and psychologised, and the role of governments and insurers.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Because a bunch of drama slop YouTubers and people who hate me bc of my COVID/disability justice advocacy have been making videos claiming I "left the left" or some shit for clicks and profit. These ppl have 0 solidarity with disabled folks and that's fundamentally why they hate me.

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Rodrigo Saldaña Zárate @rodrigosz0.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Agentic "AI's" keep getting harder to spot in online chats and forums. via @taylorlorenz.bsky.social youtu.be/Hb6Tcz3J9w0

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The Internet Can No Longer Tell Who Is Human

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

💯💯💯💯 www.instagram.com/reel/DdrJIeM...

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yup! And this is amidst a MASSIVE COVID surge and the same week the CDC reclassified COVID levels to make high levels seem low aka lie to the public about transmission. Not one of the big “leftists” ranting about this story have mentioned the CDC change or Covid surge once!!

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The entire thing exists solely to paint marginalized people and those who mask as hysterical weirdos. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for a national publication to be covering a teeny tiny local community scuffle.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pointing and laughing at people who created a community to try and protect the disabled and chronically ill is not allyship actually.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

if an article about this conflict HAD to be written, you nailed THE major underlying structural problem at the heart that should’ve been the main subject: “lack of public health tearing apart community space that values accessibility to all” would be a much more apt headline.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Everyone is polyamorous, everyone attends the same events, everyone lives in group homes together, everyone venerates the same few ppl, everyone is very worried about AI doom, and a lot of ppl are on psychedelic drugs. They’re all contrarian together. Lots and lots of them work at AI companies”

verysane.ai

AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California

We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that is not primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exist.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026

guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The ppl saying that stuff build platforms by lying about me constantly. They’re the same ones feeding these rw outrage bait cycles. I haven’t changed a single one of my stances, they just look for ways to misrepresent me in the worst light possible bc they personally don’t like me. It’s stupid

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Workers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've seen old ladies make demands of church potlucks that would put the most annoying tenderqueer to shame, but there's no market for those stories. We'd all say, "Who cares? That's just some person being annoying" about the church lady, who we grant the right to be a normal annoying person...

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Woke has gone too far” outrage bait is very profitable! This type of content sustains half the internet. Look forward to future coverage of how LGBTQ people with neo pronouns are pitiful losers, maybe they can get more Ted Cruz RTs.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

HAPPY SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY!!!!!! Software freedom gives everyone the chance to use, learn, share, and build with technology. Open source software is under attack, and today is a chance to celebrate and fight for free software and open source tech. 💪🏻 digitalfreedoms.org/en/software-...

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Study Hall @studyhall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're very excited to host a dynamic discussion on what freelancers should know about AI tools. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @bcmerchant.bsky.social and Alexandra Marvar will be offering their insight. Sign up here: studyhall.xyz/2026-ai-summ...!

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not sure how many people on this app followed the X discourse about a "tech forward" left. But this is the best thing ever written on this topic imo and outlines not just why my comments were stupid but also why this notion is a flawed one more broadly. Very good read

thetechbubble.info

The Future Is Not Tech-Forward

On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Slow news day on the right wing internet again, they're running full front page stories about how Boots Riley, Zohran Mamdani, and I are all radical leftist extremists. U know it's full on brain worms too bc they're using a pic of me instead of Mamdani or Boots, who are objectively more famous lol

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kat excellence ✨ @katexcellence.io · 31/08/2026

this was difficult to read, but it's important to know people are currently in prison for 50+ years for attending a protest + one wasn't even at the protest, but got sentenced for 30 years for "concealing" anarchist zines

motherjones.com

How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa

“We are not terrorists.”

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"These bans and restrictions are not legitimate. They are gross violations of the fundamental human rights of young people to participate in their societies, access information and connections, and express themselves."

mikemales.substack.com

Why governments, Big Tech, and parents should not restrict young people’s social media rights

The substack that makes everyone else look reasonable. You’re welcome!

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dontlistentoanyone.bsky.social @dontlistentoanyone.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

very interesting look at musk's mars scam. eye-opening to realize the guy is using a sci-fi trope, that in reality is nonsensical, to con his followers. thank you @adambecker.bsky.social @taylorlorenz.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOm_...

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A Physicist Destroys Elon Musk's Mars Fantasy

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's not wrong! Decades of research has shown that social media use has no causal effect on mental health of children. We know the cause of the youth mental health crisis, and it has zero to do w social media. Please stop getting ur news from anti LGBTQ hate groups and The Heritage Foundation!!

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How did I miss the Goop podcast featuring a leading AI weapons manufacturer

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Two cops in SF types the wrong license plate number into their patrol car's computer, arrested the wrong person for car theft. Then the SF DA's office spent a year prosecuting him before he ultimately killed himself.

nytimes.com

A Driver’s Fatal Spiral After a Police Officer’s Typo

Police thought they had caught a car thief in San Francisco. Instead, they had mistyped his license plate number, a watchdog agency said, then arrested him with excessive force.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

SpaceXAI just launched Grok Bot, a cloud hosted agent team that never stops working, trained on complex multi-step coordinated jobs. They can independently message each other, coordinate on their own, become more proactive over time, and share context in threads and group chats.

x.com

Grok Bot (@bot) on X

Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta. Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and come back with finished work.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I need to know what YouTube videos Dario was watching to calm down after fighting with Sam

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

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Rod Raditterwine @rodraditterwine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

See? The Morality Police have ALWAYS been fucking stupid and want everyone else fucking stupid, too.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Everyone on IG Reels has lost their god damn minds

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AlexHaha🃏🌹 @devilsadvocatec.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Right now @cosmepolitics.bsky.social is interviewing @taylorlorenz.bsky.social about KOSA, tech oligarchs, and how to keep free speech truly free in this age of corruption.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years, and credits it with turning his life around. At one point in our conversation he pulled up the Bristol Stool Chart, which ranges from Type 1 (“separate, hard pellets”) to Type 7 (“watery, no solid pieces”). O’Mara is consistently delivering Type 4 (“smooth, soft, like a snake”), with pointed ends, indicative of healthy rectal function, he told me. “When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper,” he claimed. “Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus.” He described a proper bowel movement to me this way: odorless, wipe-free, over in three to seven seconds and “nearly orgasmic.”

“I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"Until the deeper cultural problems are addressed, the data center backlash will only recreate itself in other forms. If people are this angry at a building sitting and paying taxes on unused land, something deep has gone very wrong."

jasmi.news

No Data Centers In My Backyard

money, power, and populism in the AI buildout

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

33k people are cancelling me on Threads and I’ve been trending for 2 days straight bc I said that Minnesota’s AI nudification law is bad and has serious first amendment concerns, meaning xAI is actually right to try to get it overturned: www.bedrockprinciple.com/p/minnesotas...

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Guise/dolls @kitinoakland.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

progressives trust what feels true; conservatives trust what they want to be true. both are big problems.

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Quarantegan @quarantegan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Indeed. Because many, many people don't do their homework when something 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 true. heritageaction.com/press/herita... www.heritage.org/press/herita...

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Heritage Applauds Advancement of Kids Online Safety Act

WASHINGTON— Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker and Heritage Foundation Tech Policy Center Director Kara Frederick released the following…

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

No. Centrists and right wingers do not claim to be against mass surveillance, they are not fundamentally ideologically opposed to it. Leftists claim to be opposed to mass surveillance, yet continually back surveillance laws. That's why I call them out. They are supposed to be OPPOSED to this stuff

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Yes, but important to note that Biden did the same thing. Biden removed all protections and admin said the vulnerable would “fall by the wayside” and be killed off and that was necessary basically. It’s bc of Biden liberals & leftists unmasked and bought into Trump’s disease denialism to this day

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/07/2026

As usual, Kathryn explains in more detail and with much more patience, the issues related to the Minnesota law and why the lawsuit against it is (at the same time) gross, problematic... but legally correct.

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