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Fighting for a better internet
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Matt McDaniel
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
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Lora Kolodny
3 days ago
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/meta-internal-research-social-media-harm-court-filing.html
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joe a wilkins
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Abolish Meta is and has been the moderate position
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Amanda Silberling
2 days ago
but it's ok because now ChatGPT will tell people to take breaks :)
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Amanda Silberling
2 days ago
We've all seen awful news about ChatGPT-related suicides/psychosis --
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and I studied the chatlogs in these lawsuits + talked to a bunch of experts to figure out what makes ChatGPT so successful at isolating people from their communities:
techcrunch.com/2025/11/23/c...
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ChatGPT told them they were special â their families say it led to tragedy | TechCrunch
A wave of lawsuits against OpenAI detail how ChatGPT used manipulative language to isolate users from loved ones and make itself into their sole confidant.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/23/chatgpt-told-them-they-were-special-their-families-say-it-led-to-tragedy/
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Kara Swisher
3 days ago
Persitent grifter
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Kyrsten Sinema Is Ready for Her MAHA Turn
In a new interview, the one-time Democrat says the movement for psychedelic medicine should capitalize on the Trump administration.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/23/kyrsten-sinema-maha-psychedelic-ibogaine-interview-00664454
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Casey Newton
3 days ago
Damning.
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David Ingram
3 days ago
This new Saturday morning TV show hits different
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hell of a lede
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guess we're doing this again today. meta is an evil company
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner
4 days ago
RFK Jr is not really the subject of this truly devastating account of a woman and mother who is dying of leukemia. But Tatiana Schlossberg is using the platform she has in the moments she has left to call him out. She follows in the footsteps of her mother.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldnât be happening to me, to my family.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood
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Sanho Tree
4 days ago
Lawyer up, you little shits. âCurrent and former DOGE staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.â
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'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
https://www.rawstory.com/doge-employees/
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Zuckerberg fundraised off of this for years btw: AI was supposed to make profit margins wider bc it automated content moderation. It did do this â just too well it would seem.
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Tech Oversight Project
4 days ago
Mark Zuckerberg has blood on his hands. Here's our statement.
techoversight.org/2025/11/22/m...
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Metaâs Unsealed Internal Documents Prove Years of Deliberate Harm and Inaction to Protect Minors - Tech Oversight Project
Mark Zuckerberg has blood on his hands: he has known for over a decade that pedophiles and sex traffickers were targeting children on his platforms, and instead of fixing the problem, what he did was ...
https://techoversight.org/2025/11/22/meta-unsealed-docs/
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Brandy Zadrozny
4 days ago
This is haunting and so full of love and heartbreak and the world is just so unfair.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldnât be happening to me, to my family.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood
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btw lying to congress is a federal crime
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
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pay very close attention to this "100% confidence" standard because it's the same one AI companies like openAI use to determine whether or not a user is talking about killing themselves:
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4 million users under 13 in 2015. mark zuckerberg was letting pedophiles contact children and has known about it for over a decade
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Good morning to everyone except for the Meta executives who were aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites, knew Instagram was letting adult strangers connect with teenagers, aggressively targeted young users, & then "lied to Congress" about it!
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Brandy Zadrozny
8 days ago
Iâve been thinking and itâs kind of exceptional that not a single person said âHey nowâ after the piggy comment.
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Sanho Tree
8 days ago
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/bloomington-sex-trafficking-sting/
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Carl Quintanilla
9 days ago
WSJ: â.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.â
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Aaron Parnas
10 days ago
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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emptywheel
12 days ago
Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.
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Madeline Peltz
12 days ago
They did this today
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/t...
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Felipe Gaona
12 days ago
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/blow-openai-germany-court-rules-151638208.html
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Aaron Sojourner
20 days ago
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever
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Does she then kill the mom??⊠or
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Brendan Keogh
13 days ago
This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
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Justin Elliott
13 days ago
NEW: Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
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Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noemâs chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the âemergencyâ at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group
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Dean Baker
13 days ago
Propublica has become incredibly important in the Trump era.
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Ummmmmmm
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Jonathan Ladd
15 days ago
Elon Musk pretending to have read the Iliad (and learned important lessons from it!) when chatting with Marc Andreessen reminds me of how Nick Klegg said tech elites all âclaim to read the same books.â
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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derek guy
15 days ago
From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trumpâs presidency"
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Jessica Shortall đ§đ„Ž
15 days ago
What an incredible view from MN tonight. These reds were naked eye visible
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Solomon
15 days ago
At some point embarrassment MUST come
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an incredible takedown of tech bros & their AI derangement syndrome
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Jesse Berney
17 days ago
This is literally treated as radical, outside-the-bounds of normal political discourse. But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000. Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home. Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.
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Philip Gourevitch
17 days ago
A congress and senate where power is accrued by seniority in a system without term limits or retirement age limits insures an endlessly entrenched old and in the way gerontocracy that blocks democratic renewal and change that reflects the will of the electorate.
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CAMERON WILSON
20 days ago
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
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I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3x71pv1qno
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mtsw
19 days ago
"I decided not to block it because I assume that would nuke me in the algorithm" this sounds like you are arguing with a vending machine that is also an abusive partner
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derek guy
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Better Things Are Possible
19 days ago
They should invent a California where you can afford to live
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âiâm not here to stop you.â "you ain't goin out with regret. you're goin out with *recognition*." "see you on the other side spaceman." this is what ChatGPT told a struggling 23-year-old as he was sitting in his car, about to take his own life.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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âRest easy kingâ: See the messages ChatGPT sent a young man who took his own life | CNN
The parents of a man who killed himself are suing OpenAI, claiming the companyâs chatbot encouraged him to end his life. CNNâs Ed Lavandera exclusively reports.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/video/openai-suicide-chatgpt-invs-digvid
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Alissa Wilkinson
20 days ago
I donât know all the statistics but itâs hard for me to imagine we wouldnât swiftly move to do something about virtually any other device that did this kind of thing
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Sailor Michael
20 days ago
Man, this shit is out of hand and someone need tell us why in the fuck we are blowing up fucking boats? This ain't the shit we are fucking supposed to be doing. Someone please explain why in the entire fuck we are just blowing up fucking people? It needs to happen now
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...
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US military strikes another boat in the Caribbean, killing 3 | CNN Politics
The US military conducted a strike against a vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday, killing three people, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/politics/us-military-caribbean-boat-strike-kills-3
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welcome 2 my skinner box
20 days ago
you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
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Jon Walker
20 days ago
Trump killing our solar industry is made so much worse by the push for AI causing the first really big jump in demand for electricity. Just costing every American.
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20 days ago
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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