The same goes for tech. Instead of "AI", I wish people invested in alternatives to the handful of social media platforms--especially YouTube--so that independent creators can actually be independent.

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

in this environment, we don't need another think tank or another podcaster. we need honesty from the remaining independent media - really proper framing & fearless investigation - and constant high-level narrative from whatever opposition remains at the top of the democratic party.

"To lie so brazenly to [Klein's own] readers and to obscure Kirk’s positions signals that his foremost interest is not to inform but to perform... Klein can cosplay as a serious thinker all he likes, but it’s past time we stopped taking him seriously."

Trump's policies are hurting everyone except for the richest 1%. "New Golden Age" for whom?

well well well! prospect.org/education/20...

i want to see democrats on cnbc absolutely ripping into our titans of industry for backing the worst economic president of our lifetimes and refusing to break ranks

The explicit plan is to ethnically cleanse Gaza with US help while the whole world watches.

What if everyone eager to throw money at a "liberal joe rogan" that doesn't exist instead bought one failing local newspaper and hired a handful of real reporters and simply told them to go do journalism and print it.

With Colton's conviction, that makes FOUR pardoned January 6th insurrectionists who have faced charges for solicitation of a minor or child sex abuse of some kind.

Proud to see our research with @garymarcus.bsky.social cited in the @financialtimes.com ☀️

My latest research on LLM grooming, co-authored with @ninajankowicz.com and @garymarcus.bsky.social, found that OpenAI's so-called "reasoning" o3 model cited Pravda network content 26.8% of the time in response to specific prompts. This research got cited today in a column by the Financial Times:

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

The US ban on state AI regulation may be voted on in the senate very soon. If you live in one of these states - FL, MO, TX, TN, WI, AK, ME - please call your senators & ask them to remove the "state AI regulation ban" in the budget reconciliation bill NOW! Link to call & what to say in next post 1/

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Thanks to the great folks at wired - this new investigation is brought to you with no paywalls - take the no paywall challenge news orgs ! No paywalls for FOIA based reporting - www.wired.com/story/ice-de...

Trump Admin is planning to end protections for 58 million acres of natural land, allowing the bulldozing of precious ecologies & habitats. That’s roughly the land area of the state of Oregon.

this is appropriately blistering nymag.com/intelligence...

Proud to be a coauthor on this important guide for scholars as we face a slide into autocracy in the US. A ton of useful information in here for anyone who wants to speak out against democratic backsliding and injustice, with salient points for those who need to navigate institutional politics.

MIT study found that AI overuse causes measurable brain damage. “Cognitive atrophy.. like a muscle that’s forgotten how to work” MIT Publication - arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088... Time Magazine - time.com/7295195/ai-c...

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

An MIT study of 54 ChatGPT users: using it for SAT essays led to the lowest brain engagement and poorer neural performance than using Google or writing unaided (Andrew R. Chow/Time) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

My husband and I have spent the last three years taking all sorts of measures to protect our family. The horrifying reality is that none of them would matter if, in the middle of the night, a man who looked like a police officer showed up at the front door.

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

Oh. Salt Lake City. Ok.

Building up the bogeyman of the "liberal mainstream media" while being the extremely well-funded actual mainstream media has proven to be a bulletproof scam.

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

People should treat any new tech development like a normal tech development. We think about the ethics of it before we go and break everything. We ask normal questions about whether it's useful to solve that problem with that tool instead of firing everyone and going ahead.

Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.” Genuinely, morale is way down.

it's the unmoisturized elbows for me.

NR: “Trump's twisted ideological obsession with deporting moms-and other unauthorized immigrants who have committed no serious crimes— is detracting from the fight against transnational gangs, drug trafficking, and child exploitation.”

The Trump-Musk Administration: 2025-2025.

"Persuade instead of shame" is a good ethos to live by. I'm seeing a lot of the same uppity, petty moralizing on here that led us to 16/24 outcomes. No one likes an "I told you so" type of person. It doesn't build coalitions.

SCOOP: Elon Musk will not be fully exiting DOGE. In fact, federal workers from at least six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments, and President Trump himself said in a press conference today that “Elon's really not leaving.”

Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

The DOGE mindset, perfectly encapsulated in one tweet. Destroy incredible public assets for a short term sugar high that would not come remotely close to ending the national debt

They are hellbent on destroying the university system because graduates don’t vote for them. I had not known about the BBB provision to cap student loans to the mean which will lead to institutionally fatal drops in domestic enrollment across the country. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Kyiv School of Economics offering academic refuge for Harvard University students.

Of 14,777 unique articles on the NYT's homepage over the 310 days from 1/1/24 to Election Day, 293 articles–almost one a day–focused on Biden’s age compared with just 27 articles focused on Project 2025, a ratio of 10.9 to one mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/new-yor...

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS about the real litmus test of the 2028 Democratic presidential primary campaign. campaign-trails.ghost.io/cloud-yells-...

being anti-trans is not only bigoted, it's a stupid policy stance to run on when people are being hurt by actual problems, like medicaid cuts, ICE detentions, and tariffs

Spoke with @the-independent.com about a dizzying range of contradictory narratives around Pope Francis being spread by Russian state media, each tailored to different audiences. "To the Kremlin, his death is yet another opportunity to stir anger online and pit all of us against one another."

Interesting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.

I've spent years reporting on how democracies die. And I've noticed something: by international standards, Donald Trump is really, really bad at destroying a democracy. And that should give us real reason for hope. www.vox.com/politics/410...

Check out my latest Substack post for ASP. No one seems to be talking about how the Trump administration wants to deport U.S. citizens for criticizing the government, but that definitely happened... read the rest here ⬇️

Competitive authoritarians can only get away with consolidating power under autocratic rule with massive popular backing. Putin, Modi, Bukele, Erdogan, and Orban had peak approval ratings of: 89%, 88%, 91%, 77%, and 57% respectively. Trump has nowhere near that.

I face hostility every time I post photos of vegan or even vegetarian food online. The hostily is misdirected. It certainly doesnt want to make me eat meat. I honestly don’t care what other people eat. If you want to eat an all bacon diet - go for it. www.vice.com/en/article/w...