If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

find me another Dem that wouldn't be too afraid to do this. seriously.

Was wondering if @lastweektonight.com would address the Kimmel stuff briefly or make it the "main story" (even though its "main stories" often involve months of prep and research). Looks like they went for it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPT...

Great job, everyone who voted for and supported the law that gave the President the power to unilaterally declare who gets to own a social media platform

Y'know, if the Theranos scandal was in 2025 instead of 2015... nothing would have happened. -The government wouldn't have investigated, because the investigator would've been DOGE'd. -Early investors would've sued the WSJ for reporting. -Tech moguls would've quashed social media chatter.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

They don’t seem to have trouble infiltrating white supremacist groups, though.

I clicked on a basketball highlights link and it took me to X dot com and oh boy those trending topics are not how I wanted to start my Monday morning.

We have gathered here to mourn the murder of one of our own and to encourage the murder of many others

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

My militantly de-woked alma mater, which Charlie Kirk did not attend, might erect a statue to him, for the same reasons that Sinclair media will be airing a memorial for him tonight on local stations nationwide: Because fuck you, that's why.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

It is telling that on this "SUN Day" where we celebrate the promise of renewable solar energy (www.sunday.earth), the NY Times runs fossil fuel-friendly op-ed promoting a "technofix" that would actually DISRUPT solar energy (www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...). (h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social)

Senate went nuclear and it barely made the news: apnews.com/article/sena...

it's not clear how this leads to a course of action, but everything the silicon valley techfash do and say makes much more sense when you realise everyone in SV over $10m is macro-microdosing every fucking chemical you can think of every one of them is off their fucking trees

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

i've been thinking a lot about the historical record on this and how hard it will be to communicate that this guy was a fucking nobody

I am extremely online. I write about tech and politics for a living. And even I don’t remember who fucking Eigenrobot is. I guess taking policy cues from Catturd and Laura Loomer had gotten too mainstream.

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links 2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands 3. The whole app is open source This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site. We 💙 the open web.

Six Kirk stories on the NYT home page before you get to a silly little story about the President publicly demanding his political foes be charged with crimes.

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Scenes from the confluence of an AI bubble and crony capitalism: xAI is currently raising $10 billion at a valuation of $200 billion while the data annotation team is run by a college kid. Much prudent investment. Very wisdom of the market. futurism.com/elon-musk-co...

So, THIS is happening "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment. (tk u @robin.berjon.com)

The weaponization of the FCC is one of the greatest threats to our democracy. Who better to showcase that than… Chairman Brendan Carr? Let’s take a stroll down memory lane through some of Carr’s greatest hits on free speech while he was auditioning for the job of FCC Chair from 2019 to 2024. 1/

welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner

Donate to my campaign to make Laura Loomer’s day worse: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-bluesky

Because I'm pissed about a bunch of unrelated stuff, here's a brief account of my personal history with Eliezer Yudkowski 1/x

Y'all. @adambecker.bsky.social reviewed the new Eliezer Yudkowsky book for the Atlantic and he *does not miss.* www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

This coverage also finally moves past claims of “unprecedented” — NONE of this is unprecedented. The only way to see it as such is to ignore the rest of the world, much less history.

Watch the whole way through, you will not regret it.

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

Worth noting that Khalil (and others) who have everything to lose, have shown more bravery and commitment to free speech than elites across academia, corporate America, culture and politics bsky.app/profile/josh...

It bears repeating and repeating the GOP's claims about being defenders of free speech has always, always been bad faith bullshit. It is just a smidge more obvious today.

I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

This piece from 2023 by @davekarpf.bsky.social allowed me to understand Billionaires much better. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

With Trump supporter & Silicon Valley centibillionaire Larry Elison poised to consolidate all media (CBS/Paramount; Disney/ABC, CNN, etc) to promote the technofascist agenda, with Colbert & Kimmel silenced, in a time when smart tech satire has never been more needed, I'm feeling dismayed. 1/

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

“The FCC under Brendan Carr uses mergers and business interests of media companies as leverage to extract concessions, extract bribes, and extract censorship.”

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

Why should corruption be the central organizing message for Democrats? Let me explain my reasoning. First, corruption -- by which I mean political figures using power in illegal or otherwise inappropriate ways to further their own interests and that of their friends -- is unpopular on its own.

New from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it

This sucks so much www.theverge.com/news/780757/...