Sign in

Andy Yates

@yrnclndymn.bsky.social
163 followers 488 following 6 posts
PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Andy Yates
Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
framing the sieg-heil moment inside the “K” is a nice touch
11233
Reposted by Andy Yates
ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
411113686065
Reposted by Andy Yates
Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 09/09/2026
NEW POST A quick survey of recent engagement of my posts on social media, indicating which service has by far the most engagement, and which service has seen a precipitous decline since early 2025. martinfowler.com/articles/202...
martinfowler.com
Social Media Engagement: summer 2026
Comparing engagement on recent social media posts
5306
Reposted by Andy Yates
God @thegodshow.com · 06/09/2026
Seriously, they just told Grok to make the imperial officer uniforms from Star Wars but “more Hitlery.”
101392332246
Reposted by Andy Yates
Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To me, the most eye-opening bit of this recent Reform scandal is that these knobheads literally say that the reason they need foreign money is because British people won’t support them.
381388295
Reposted by Andy Yates
Dan Hon @danhon.com · 31/08/2026
Hack the Planet^W Cold Chain signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-so...
signalandsilence.substack.com
I Think the Military Commissary Freezers Were Hacked
The frozen pizza aisle has become the national security risk du jour
0185
Reposted by Andy Yates
TheCatMan @bigbrohem.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"This one goes out to my buddies up at Palantir..." "The Nerd Reich" - new one from Jesse, and it is a doozie.
youtu.be
The Nerd Reich
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
3238
Reposted by Andy Yates
🐈‍⬛🌙 @lune.monster · 13/08/2026
Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.
Crucially, the GLOVE has limitations, chief among them that for the device to work effectively and deliver its restraining pain shock, it must come into contact with the subject's bare skin. According to Compliant Technologies, the gloves won't work through dry clothing or thick hair. The gloves will work, however, if the subject is wearing thin, wet clothing, such as soaked T-shirts or blouses. The GLOVE also does not like being dunked in water and will likely be rendered inoperable if this happens.
13489025790
Reposted by Andy Yates
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/07/2026
really something to see tech YouTuber types calmly discussing the latest Tesla or SpaceX business news without once mentioning Elon’s 50 Day of the Rope posts per day or his murdering 700,000+ people
514353946
Reposted by Andy Yates
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 26/07/2026
I appreciate that this post doesn't assume you know either what "working towards the Fürher" is or what gooning is
2121
Reposted by Andy Yates
Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Yesterday the Telegraph reported on my comments about air conditioning. The comment section is quite something. I have apparently become a hero of the anti net zero crowd by saying something what I think is sensible about air con. Allow me to point out three ironies in this 🧵
29775336
Reposted by Andy Yates
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/07/2026
Here's an irony: the "gig economy" is a statistical black hole. Workers, customers and regulators know very little about the most basic aspects of it: how much workers get paid, for example, or much unpaid time on the clock a worker puts in before they get a job from the app. 1/
A giant arachnoid woman arched backwards on the banks of a tropical river alongside which stand armed men. Behind loom palms, mountains and a smoking volcano. Rain sleets down over the scene.
2293111
Reposted by Andy Yates
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
today I discovered this incredible story of a minor league pitcher who is 6'4 wears glasses and a ginger beard who hurt his elbow and went to the doc for Tommy John surgery and was mistaken for a pitcher from a diff team who was also there for TJ surgery on same day anyway heres their pics and names
Two dudes who were formed from the same mould in consecutive batches at the factory and are somehow completely unrelated
21877771728
Reposted by Andy Yates
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/06/2026
NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...
open.substack.com
I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
14537372263
Reposted by Andy Yates
Jacky Alciné @jacky.wtf · 27/05/2026
[Now that's public] I've cancelled my donations to Wikipedia after some of us found out this happened. Again, "benevolent" executives are the fucking problem.
medium.com
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…
15465270
Reposted by Andy Yates
Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
So, Labour tears itself apart to try to stop Farage being our next PM just as he finally faces scrutiny in a monumental corruption scandal which could… and really should…end his political career. I’d go hard on that rather than each other right now guys. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
giftarticle.ft.com
Farage says £5mn gift was ‘reward’ for Brexit campaigning
Reform UK leader had previously claimed the money had nothing to do with politics
1792662825
Reposted by Andy Yates
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I'm fairly certain this is illegal under election law, right?
710813
Reposted by Andy Yates
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Police are using the surveillance state to stalk "love interests" because there really is no difference between the part of my job where I fight state surveillance and the part where I fight domestic abuse: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests. Dystopia, here we come | Arwa Mahdawi
The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage
19803354
Reposted by Andy Yates
Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 02/05/2026
Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛
70104172650
Reposted by Andy Yates
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️
201111703
Reposted by Andy Yates
Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Watching Palantir do Sephiroth posting about multiculturalism and I would like to remind everyone that they were doing corporate fake woke shit just like every other company.
262322549
Reposted by Andy Yates
Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
indexoncensorship.org
School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
31536031568
Reposted by Andy Yates
Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
(1/2) 37 years ago today I submitted my proposal for the World Wide Web 🎂. Today, Rosemary & I spoke with students in New Orleans at Walter Isaacson's Digital History Class @tulaneu.bsky.social. I was asked, as I often am, if I ever could have foreseen where we’d be today. I could not.
1324475
Reposted by Andy Yates
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
X is a fascist propaganda website.
3353331606
Reposted by Andy Yates
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
thenerve.news
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
5318501057
Reposted by Andy Yates
Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I will reiterate one more time I don't think this was the inevitable outcome of generative AI's development, there is an imaginable world where this stuff is creative-driven and augmentative. It's just impossible to miss the current ethos of "put those uppity artists in their place" in tech.
0123
Reposted by Andy Yates
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
19694793195
Reposted by Andy Yates
Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
bylinetimes.com
'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions'
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
721725891
Reposted by Andy Yates
Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
important to underline that #palantir is tainted by #mandelson and thus #epstein, and should thus be kicked out from everything
084
Reposted by Andy Yates
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 25/01/2026
Stalinism is the new congestion charging.
1313021
Reposted by Andy Yates
Korny @korny.sietsma.com · 25/01/2026
I thought I'd blog about why I've stopped reading Twitter/X posts, even when 'anonymised': blog.korny.info/2026/01/25/r...
0117
Reposted by Andy Yates
nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
First time I've heard of it, but the true story is more interesting than the book. Glad they were exposed.
observer.co.uk
The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation | The Observer
031
Reposted by Andy Yates
The Verge @theverge.com · 23/12/2025
If something goes wrong with Nvidia’s business, this whole sector is in trouble. And judging by the increasing competition its chips face, something could go wrong soon. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Verge headline: Chipwrecked: Can Nvidia avoid the crash? by Elizabeth Lopatto

Illustration depicts a porthole looking at a decaying Nvidia chip underwater
3826863
Reposted by Andy Yates
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
6823741211
Reposted by Andy Yates
James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
368279077556
Reposted by Andy Yates
darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Road to Wigan Pier is a rant of a book. But it goes so hard on why it’s evil to begrudge the poorest simple pleasures.
12596182
Reposted by Andy Yates
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
3022391606
Reposted by Andy Yates
zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Congrats to The Guardian on hiring Doctorow to explain enshittification to the non-tech masses. #enshittification #CoryDoctorow
theguardian.com
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and…
13310
Reposted by Andy Yates
Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
vanityfair.com
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
4854921780
Reposted by Andy Yates
Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
While berating Angela Rayner for tax avoidance not only does Nigel Farage do the very same he is also paid £thousands by a group called Nomad advising millionaires worldwide on how to avoid paying tax #TaxTheRich #CloseTaxLoopholes #AbolishBillionaires #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants
3485221
Reposted by Andy Yates
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
“A billion dollars… are not necessary for [a] lavish lifestyle. The only thing that that amount of wealth is necessary for is the domination of others. [At] a certain point, wealth shifts from being smthg that enables freedom to smthg that can only be used to take freedom away from the public.”
hamiltonnolan.com
All the Things That You Need a Billion Dollars to Buy Are Bad
One way to think about inequality.
227674
Reposted by Andy Yates
Dan Hon @danhon.com · 01/09/2025
👇🏽
041
Reposted by Andy Yates
Louise Rolland @lrollandmulti.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
"respecting the glittering diversity of languages emigrants bring to the UK. We wrongly dictate that assimilation in western countries requires shifting to English monolingualism, as opposed to developing sophisticated bilingualism across second, third and fourth generations" #Multilingualism
034
Reposted by Andy Yates
Visit Wakefield @visitwakefield.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Breaking news: Thousands of flags for the patron saint of Palestine put up accross the country as a sign of solidarity with Gaza.
1226986
Reposted by Andy Yates
Edgar Dubourg @edgardubourg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Today’s popular fictions can be extremely far from reality: The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, The Legend of Zelda, Avengers: Endgame. But has this always been the case?
175
Reposted by Andy Yates
Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 05/04/2025
A public school district is considering whether to ban my book on tech billionaires, Survival of the Richest, for violating Trump's order on ridding DEI from schools. (I do not argue for giving tech bros equity/inclusion, so I'm not sure what the fuss would be about...) patch.com/illinois/lag...
patch.com
Books On Race, Poor Before Lyons Township High Board
The list comes as Trump tries to ax DEI from schools. His administration threatens to stop the flow of money to violators.
105518
Reposted by Andy Yates
.doc @erebusodora.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip
11692270
Reposted by Andy Yates
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Come from the important and damning reporting. Stay for the revelation that Palantir management refers to their workers as hobbits.
27319