Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

My colleagues and I tested different versions of Grok released since May to pinpoint how Musk has pushed the chatbot to the right www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

try my new AI quiz: can you tell whether these talking AI videos are real or not? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

AI has already infiltrated 50 elections around the world, according to a new collection of examples we gathered + work from IPIE www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/t...

kash is the 🐐. wild story here. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

every time someone comments on this thread, I earn a little bit of money under Bluesky's revised revenue program

eeeee www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbsi...

I've spent years following a right-wing influencer who's made a career out of outrage. I wanted to understand why he does it. What does his career look like, his income? Here's what I found. GIFT LINK www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/t...

when story targets decline to be interviewed

I tracked more than 1,000 accounts that Elon Musk follows on X to recreate what he sees www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...

It's crazy how much independent life does not incentivize reporting. I spent 2 days working on a piece about Meta censoring the biggest Muslim news acct in India, digging into Meta's relationship w/ India's far right BJP party & I lost paid subscribers. Meaning I lost hundreds of $ doing this story

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In stupid but easy to see coming internet irony news: the people who made up that they were victims of shadowbanning in a conspiracy to silence their speech, so they had to take over Twitter to eliminate the victimization they imagined, have instituted shadowbanning of speech they don’t like.

insane that MAGA now supports electric vehicles and hates Big Sugar. remember when Fox News went to war bc NYC wanted to ban Big Gulps? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

I really appreciate news stories that take a phenomenon we all generally implicitly understand or assume but don't have any hard data or evidence for, then meticulously prove it. Well done @stuartathompson.bsky.social.

yeah important to understand that everything these people say is about fundraising and fighting off regulation

These users feuded with Musk on X then saw their reach collapse. It’s the starkest sign yet that Musk has the power to suppress critics and control the conversation on X and is willing to use it. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

working in svelte is so amazing because with plain old html it's like width="500px" but in svelte you can so much more easily go bind:this={clientWidth} then outerWidth = clientWidth then width = clientWidth-margin*2 then (onMount(){ activeWidth = client ... thank you rich harris for this innovation

Canadians are now labeling food with a “T” symbol if it’s American and impacted by tariffs. RIP American-made food sales.

my wife handed me my phone this morning and neither of us created ANY memory of it. five minutes later she asked if she got my phone for me and i said no. she went looking and i found it mysteriously already in my pocket. if you want to know how parenting is going lately.

people don't understand negotiating! just signal to one side that if they hold out a little longer and don't make a deal, they'll get everything they want! 💎✨ the art of the deal ✨💎 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/w...

there's a ridiculous trend among right-wing users on X where they ask Grok unknowable questions then believe that the answers are 100% accurate instead of based on chatbot autocomplete. they dont understand AI and are so eager to believe the word of something they worship.

i can't believe the only asset rising right now is gold, making every prepper and right-wing podcaster ultimately right about gold as a safe haven asset that made a great investment! 🤬

The European Union and China are now starting negotiations to abolish EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. This is a major strategic failure for the United States.

"The pugnacious former talk radio host has taken to social media at least seven times to make something clear: he’s working really, really hard. Like, insanely hard. You just can’t see it yet." Or right outside the frame. False Flag from @willsommer.bsky.social:

this is the brand of democratic populism that could have wide appeal if they apply it consistently and look for similar targets like term/age limits

Trying to decide whether companies have a fiduciary duty to bribe the president to protect shareholder value rn

canada just needs to source everything from the Duty Free boom problem solved

so the world has seen that if the US puts in place harsh tariffs, its stock market and bond market will collapse and the US will ultimately back down, even after promising they wouldn't. so after a 90-day pause, why would other countries take the tariff threat seriously vs. just waiting it out?

BREAKING - Jo Ellis, who was falsely named as the helicopter pilot who crashed into a passenger plane in Washington, has sued an influencer on X for defamation www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/t...

checking on X and found this sophisticated scam that uses - a real paid ad that X approved - a fake tweet by Musk in that ad - a link that says "from x.com" beneath the ad, and I'm not sure what that means but looks legit - a very professional looking website - all a scam

"Losing money costs you nothing. This is just the reality of life ... It builds quite a bit of character" (via @coffeezilla.bsky.social)

no shade against Harry who I respect but I feel like his trajectory from wonky NYC podcast grump to whatever sideshow character he's created for CNN is worthy of some discussion

the number of Tim Hortons per block in Canada cannot be understood by the American mind

Shopping in Canada. They put Canadian flags on all the Canadian products so people know what to buy.

smart take on tariffs: they make things cost more, but the bigger impact is that your quality of life plummets www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...

i'd like to apologize for destroying the economy again. in feb 2020 i finally resolved to make some big financial moves, causing the covid-19 crash and housing crisis. then this january i decided i'd make some big financial moves in may, causing the trump tariff crash. apologies!

real tweet. reads like far-right conspiracy madlibs.

@pantonson.bsky.social paul it's so great to see you! you're doing such awesome work as always. miss our time at WSJ!

new from Steve Myers and myself www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b...

it's kind of funny to me that Kari Lake gave Trump everything and was rumored as a VP pick then lost two consecutive races so as a consolation prize got handed the coveted spot as.... Voice of America lead??.... to only see the group basically shut down

Elon has driven interest in teslas down from 22 percent to just 8 percent

conspiracy influencers are spinning in circles trying to rationalize trump's actions lately. just read this ... "I’m not 100% sure what Trump is up to or what his overall all objective is" .. "Whatever Trump is up to, it’s big." lol

why?

brilliant way to put it

to put it simply: the right has an outrage machine. built over years and years, tinkered to perfection, running on all cylinders. the left has nothing comparable.

top comment on r/conservative says a lot about the trade wars

one of these things was a national scandal one was not

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