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Will Oremus

@willoremus.com
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Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky. Signal: willoremus.24

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 29/09/2026
Jalen Hurts 👑
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Minecraft Live is starting. This is my 11yo’s Super Bowl.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 25/09/2026
this is a v good techmeme headline www.techmeme.com/260925/p9#a2...
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Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein that AI is just software whose existential risks are overstated, yet his standards would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spending
By Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER AKE
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 25/09/2026
not to single out max, who is great, but there's this interesting thing where folks on both the left and MAGA right are extra suspicious of any tech folks who profess to care about the societal impacts of what they do. i get the cynicism but i'm really not convinced the alternative is preferable
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 24/09/2026
Gambling?! Prediction markets aren't gambling! They're just a way of... risking money... on an event... with an uncertain outcome... in the hope of winning a larger... oh
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 22/09/2026
lol ok thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Trump says AI will be renamed ‘super intelligence’ in all US documents
President Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that artificial intelligence will be renamed “super intelligence” in all U.S. documents.  “The United States also totally re…
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 22/09/2026
ME ON A DAY WHEN I WOKE UP BEFORE 6AM: Man, this has been a long day, what time is it? CLOCK: It's 10:58am
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 21/09/2026
Former WashPost TikTok Guy @davejorgenson.bsky.social has a new YouTube show and it's brilliant, despite his strange decision to let me on it for the first episode. We talked about whether AI is really going to kill us all... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao1H...
youtube.com
Is AI really going to destroy human civilization?
YouTube video by Dave Jorgenson
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 21/09/2026
AI cheating is rampant. AI detectors have gotten surprisingly good. I wrote about why colleges are deeply conflicted about using them: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
theatlantic.com
The Pangram Backlash Unfolding on College Campuses
Professors are tearing their hair out over AI detectors.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Amazing plays in an amputee football league in Poland: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 16/09/2026
Weird, this in-depth profile of Pangram doesn't focus at all on its founder's suspicious burping and food-microwaving habits. Instead there's just a bunch of stuff about how they built it, how it works, whether it works and why it matters www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
The World’s Most Reliable AI Detector Has a Human Problem
Armed with a near-perfect detection tool, Pangram is fighting to convince the public AI cheating can be caught.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/09/2026
When the edible hits and you’re at the Taco Bell drive thru.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 16/09/2026
safe to say things are not going great for ed sheeran when his defenders are getting ratioed on the ed sheeran fan subreddit
post on r/EdSheeran of his response to Macklemore debacle gets more than 2x replies than upvotes.  another fan's post titled "I stand with Ed. Stop blaming him" has 0 upvotes and 103 replies.
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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's tour bus.
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The Brian Lehrer Show @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ICYMI: A 2-part conversation around the AI doomsday warnings that exploded over the weekend, with @theatlantic.com's @willoremus.com, then @vox.com senior politics correspondent @awprokop.bsky.social. Listen: wnyc.org/browse/shows...
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AI Doomsday? | WNYC
Will Oremus, a staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses the uproar over the warnings of potential threats to humanity from unregulated AI, then Andrew Prokop, senior politics correspondent at Vox, talk...
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 15/09/2026
why does this guy always look like he was grazing happily in the middle of a country highway at night until just a moment ago when everything got very loud and bright?
Kash Patel looks absolutely stunned to find himself a witness at a Senate hearing
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...
404media.co
There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet
“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 15/09/2026
Talking on WNYC's Brian Lehrer show rn about AI fears, Anthropic/OpenAI's calls for slowing down, and Trump/Nvidia's counter-calls for putting pedal to metal
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Read.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 14/09/2026
I'm not saying they're wrong but it is a little funny that Trump and most of Bluesky seem to basically agree that we should mock and ignore the people in the AI industry who are saying they feel trapped in an arms race that is starting to get a bit out of hand
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 13/09/2026
Humanity is won by continuing to post in spite of the algorithm. — Ralph Ellison, possibly
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 13/09/2026
i like my coffee filters passive-aggressive
box of “if you care” brand coffee filters
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 13/09/2026
imagine if they let college football teams have an adult expert on the sidelines whose whole job was to make sure the team plays strategically and manages the clock. then you’d probably never see a team just give away a game like ohio state just did
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 12/09/2026
We're all familiar by now with dire warnings from AI gurus. But I wrote about why Dario's latest proposal might actually gain some traction. You don't have to be a doomer to think that AI companies prioritizing safety checks over pure speed is a reasonable idea. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
theatlantic.com
Anthropic Says ‘We Owe It to Humanity’ to Slow Down AI
Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded with rare agreement to Dario Amodei’s call to action.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 11/09/2026
I always liked bats until I found out having one holed up in your house for a while means you have to go to the ER four times in two weeks for seven total shots and now I am officially not a fan
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 11/09/2026
you’re calculating p(doom), i’m listening to mf doom. we are not the same
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 11/09/2026
Has someone figured out how many different subscriptions you'd have to buy to watch all the NFL games this year?
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 11/09/2026
The 49ers vs. Rams in Australia is a battle between the two leading theories of how to combat jet lag. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
theatlantic.com
The Los Angeles Rams Are Trying to Defeat Time
Welcome to the Super Bowl of jet lag.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 10/09/2026
probably goes without saying this could have gone much worse, including if the innocent farmer had been of a different skin color
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Saahil Desai @saahildesai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Apple has begun to feel like a late-stage tech giant, squeezing residual value from markets it has long since saturated" - @willoremus.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
theatlantic.com
Okay, Sure, a Folding iPhone
Apple needs to learn to take risks again.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 09/09/2026
I wrote about the folding iPhone and whether we've entered late-stage Apple www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
theatlantic.com
Okay, Sure, a Folding iPhone
Apple needs to learn to take risks again.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 09/09/2026
Haven't watched an Apple event in a while so it was reassuring to find that some things never change, namely Craig Federighi's hair
Craig's immaculate coiff
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 09/09/2026
Apple's new CEO, John Ternus, just revived the famous Steve Jobs line: "There is one more thing." It's the foldable iPhone Duo, which had been widely anticipated and reported by @markgurman.bsky.social et al.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 09/09/2026
Watching the Apple launch event and I thought this was interesting: a feature called Apple Reference Image makes an unalterable original version of each pic you take, so you can prove it was real and what it actually captured if AI fakes start circulating
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 05/09/2026
everyone dunking on the “makeup is sexual assault” tweet
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/09/2026
I keep repeating this fun fact to people while they stare at me with feigned interest: “helicopter” is a compound word, but probably not in the way you think! it’s made up of “helico” as in, “spiral,” from the Greek “helix” and “pter” as in “wing,” like in pterodactyl!!
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 03/09/2026
*product review* As a liquid for rinsing your hands after you stupidly soaped them, forgetting that the plumber had warned you he was shutting off the water, “Island Punch”-flavored Spindrift is partially effective and leaves a tolerable aroma, though it’s a bit pricey on a per-volume basis.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 03/09/2026
I kept reading this article excitedly waiting for it to deliver the goods on why we can't trust Pangram and it turned out to be mostly that the founder seemed socially awkward? www.wired.com/story/pangra...
wired.com
Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?
Meet the AI police who can make or break careers—in publishing and beyond.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 02/09/2026
On one hand, requiring interoperability seems like a not-unreasonable remedy to monopolization by a tech platform. On the other, where is the incentive in any of these decisions for tech platforms to avoid monopolizing in the future? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Google’s advertising tech monopoly doesn’t need to be broken up, judge says
The ruling is a win for the search giant, which has been under pressure in court cases.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 02/09/2026
new resolution: try googling something the moment *before* hitting post instead of the moment after
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 02/09/2026
On a day like today, I remember that my country’s founding fathers thought a Potomac-side swamp would be the ideal place to put a new nation’s capital, and then I wonder how much else they got wrong
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wrote a big essay w/ @matteowong.bsky.social trying to put a finger on this moment in AI right now. The AI agent hacks, lack of control, the weirdening & slopping of culture. The feeling that the industry is speeding toward something it can’t even decide is good and lecturing that it is inevitable.
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The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 01/09/2026
Not me rooting for my 11yo to make the junior-high soccer team just so I can have a few extra hours' peace before he comes home each day
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Yes, many transformative technologies have overcome opposition on their way to broad acceptance, but that doesn’t mean the resistance is a waste of time,” @willoremus.com writes. “It’s part of how society hashes out norms, sets limits, and buys time to adapt.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
theatlantic.com
A Turning Point in AI Writing
The Wall Street Journal is defending an op-ed written by a chatbot.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 01/09/2026
we've once again reached my favorite part of fantasy football season: naming the team
ESPN fantasy football roster shows a starting lineup that includes WR Amon-Ra St. Brown and RB Travis Etienne Jr. Team name: Amon-Ra St. Etienne
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 27/08/2026
The Wall Street Journal's opinion page has embraced AI-written op-eds. In the spirit of the First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics, I propose that they make this abundantly clear to their subscribers and let the market speak. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
theatlantic.com
Is This the End of AI Shame?
The Wall Street Journal is defending an op-ed written by a chatbot.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 27/08/2026
Autumn is upon us, which means it’s time to swap out your summery Spindrifts for some fall-tinged flavors. Apple-Cinnamon Spindrift, Pumpkin-Spice Spindrift, things of that nature
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/08/2026
randomly giving out genuine compliments is such an easy way to make the world a little nicer, i'm always surprised more people haven't figured that out and have a ton of respect for those who have
Screenshot of tweet by Eminem. Text of Eminem's post reads: 

I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it.  Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.

Attached is an image of a classy and generous letter Dolly Parton sent to Eminem after missing a chance to meet him at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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