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Tony Ho Tran

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The Godfather of AI | Banh Mi Connoisseur | Senior Tech Editor for Slate dot com | Formerly The Daily Beast and Futurism | Local Chicago Man | Iowa Hawkeye | 📧 : tony dot tran at slate dot com

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It feels like a fever dream to me that having a blue checkmark on Twitter was ever as big a deal as it was. People bought drinks for me the day I got mine! I felt like a made man! What was wrong with us!
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Baby coffin for sale. Never used.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The lady who took my pic at the Real ID Supercenter: "Thank you, sweetie. You're very handsome. Follow the ropes." I'm going to be riding this high for the rest of my life.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NEW: AI data centers are meeting fierce resistance across the country. In Maryland, residents turned their concerns about power bills, pollution, and land use into a successful political movement. @nitishpahwa.com reports. slate.com/technology/2...
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These Activists Might Have Cracked the Code to Fighting the Data Center Boom
Communities across the country are trying to keep data centers out. A victory in Maryland shows a blueprint—but no guarantees.
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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 04/08/2026
We need to bring back shame www.espn.com/college-foot...
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Sources: Indiana DL Stephen Daley to return for fifth season
Indiana star defensive lineman Stephen Daley will return to the Hoosiers for his fifth year, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Credit is where credit is due: Haley Stevens has permanently altered my regular vocabulary with "Stick it to 'em!"
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
how many grams of protein is in wildfire smoke?
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
She sounds like she's about to cause a moral panic around the town's new pool table to create a boys' marching band.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
breathing in air that kills you on the way to have a salad that kills you
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The virgin "post-literate reading crisis" feature vs the Chad "this man has so many books his building wants to evict him" article
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Me thinking about General Hospital: this show must be about a hospital Every clip of General Hospital Man in military fatigues: I’m proud to announce we’ve captured the radioactive ape
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
the boys from hanson with a speech bubble
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
do taylor and travis have a the knot page?
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
lol he signed it at VERSAILLES? the place famous for treaties that do not last???
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 11/06/2026
we also have @tonyhotran.bsky.social with a lil Sad!-libs to put you inside Trump's glorious head slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Experience What It Feels Like to Live Inside Trump’s Baffling Brain
We need more beautiful things in this country.
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 11/06/2026
Sam and many others (@schweather.bsky.social, @rebeccaonion.bsky.social, @c-cauterucci.bsky.social, @lukewinkie.bsky.social, @fredmkaplan.bsky.social, @calllmenadira.net, @madelineducharme.bsky.social, @scaachi.bsky.social, still more) helped me break down the cultural recesses of Trump's brain:
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Theater employee scanned my ticket for The Backrooms. Before he could tell me the auditorium number, I said, "Let me guess: the room in the back?" His angry silence is a sound I will never forget.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is my Barbenheimer
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 29/05/2026
reupping for the morning slate.com/technology/2...
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I Read the Pope’s 240-Page Encyclical. I’m Astounded by What He Wrote.
It’s an urgent warning—and a celebration of humanity and what we can do at our best.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Announcement: My essay about my family’s return to Vietnam has been selected for The Best American Food and Travel Writing. I am so grateful to @slate.com for providing me the space to write, my editors who helped shape the piece, and @marinerbooks.bsky.social for selecting the piece.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/05/2026
Yesterday I signed a bill to return 3,400 acres of land to the Fon du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa - a joint effort between the Tribe, the state, and the University of Minnesota.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Really funny to me that you can rate the Pope's new encyclical on Goodreads. www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
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Pope Leo XIV
Author of Dilexi Te, God Loves Everyone, and APOSTOLIC LETTER 'IN UNITATE FIDEI' ON THE 1700th ANNIVERSARY OF THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Babe what’s wrong you haven’t touched your shrimp ass chips
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
There's 60g of protein in building affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Is anyone else a lot more okay leaving in grammatical and spelling errors in things nowadays? Like sure, I wrote "your" when I meant "you're" but at least it shows an A.I. didn't write it.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Morbid fact: The hantavirus has such a high mortality rate (~40%) that its chances of becoming a pandemic are relatively low. As anyone who's ever played Pandemic can tell you, a virus that kills its hosts too fast doesn't spread well.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New from me: Elon Musk Is Probably Going to Lose the OpenAI Case - But he’s not doing this to win. slate.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk Says He’s Suing OpenAI Because They Abandoned Their Mission. I Think His Real Reason Is Much More Embarrassing.
This is a master class in being petty and vindictive, and burning tons of cash.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We need to arm schoolteachers with ballrooms.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/04/2026
a happy star meme with irreverent caption
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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This is my type of humor. This is the dumb sh*t that makes me literally laugh out loud.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
But what will Rob do about the NCAA stealing 4 wins from the Iowa Hawkeyes' 2023 season?
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
NEW: It was supposed to fix cable news. Instead, it morphed into something much more familiar, revealing, and insidious. @nitishpahwa.com on the strange evolution of NewsNation slate.com/business/202...
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It Was a Bold, Multimillion-Dollar Experiment. They Wanted to Change Cable News Forever. What They Actually Did Was Far More Revealing.
NewsNation promised “news for all Americans.” Its struggles show why neutrality may be impossible in modern media.
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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 21/04/2026
Chicagoans have a chance to earn extra credit by supporting MORE THAN ONE local independent bookstore. More than two, even. Post your score Monday morning.
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Independent Bookstore Day
Select your first bookstore, pick up your bookstore tour guide/passport, and get your first stamp. Now, check out the map, which lists all the participating stores, and plan out the rest of your...
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 16/04/2026
in a cosmic sense, the saga of Allbirds' A.I. pivot and (brief) stock rally is very funny. but as an indicator of where corporate America is trending after the early-2020s tech hype cycles, it's a grim sign of worse to come. on a beloved shoe's desperate last grasp: slate.com/technology/2...
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They’re Calling It the Saddest Business Pivot of All Time
It’s yet another symptom of an especially grim trend in modern-day corporate America.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Chicago tax experts, we need your help Tuesday night! Help our volunteers, get exclusive merch in return :)
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The thing no one is factoring in: a major natural disaster in the near future. Big wildfires/hurricanes/floods happen every year. But imagine one hitting while the administration is already stretched thin by Iran and economic strain. I do not see this presidency recovering from that.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The conclave was rigged. You had dead cardinals voting, cardinals voting with no photo ID, mules depositing huge stacks of papal ballots into unmonitored dropboxes. No one's ever seen anything like it.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/04/2026
NEW: Futurism interviewed the New York Times writer accused of using AI to cook up a "Modern Love" column, and her story is... complicated futurism.com/artificial-i...
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We Talked to a Writer Accused of Publishing An AI-Generated Essay in The New York Times
She was accused of publishing AI slop in The New York Times. She says she didn't use AI to generate content — but did use AI to get published.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I think I speak for all tech editors when I say that A.I. fatigue is real—and we're pretty hungry for anything else. Any A.I. pitches need to clear a pretty high bar to be assigned because we get TONS of them.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Alexander the Great 332 BC:
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Defector @defector.com · 07/04/2026
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
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I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | Defector
There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
My stupid ass thought this was Iran's Master of Fine Arts spokesperson.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I feel like the dude in that one Twilight Zone episode screaming at all the adults in the room to do something, for the love of god, do anything about the deranged child imbued with immense power.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
How are we supposed to go about our days after something like this—or really do anything at all? I'm trying to buy a house right now but can't stop thinking: "What's the point of even opening Zillow if we're about to descend into nuclear war because of this idiot?"
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Zillow changed their desktop layout and I might have an actual mental and emotional breakdown because of it.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
native americans determined to not be birthright citizens; deported back to america
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