can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

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having trouble processing the washington post news on top of all the other news of the worst people in the world gutting or degrading things that matter. I'm just so sad & angry. primarily, the journalists who've been laid off (many of whom i look up to) deserve better. but it hurts all of us.

this description of Epstein's email style really got me good

“One of my general rules of thumb for online content conception, especially as it relates to the news, is to only take the poison I have the antidote for.”

“One of my general rules of thumb for online content conception, especially as it relates to the news, is to only take the poison I have the antidote for.”

This is my rule for most of the last decade, and how I’ve stayed mostly sane-ish while working in politics. It means there are big stories in the world I don’t know much about; I try not to feel bad about that! I focus on depth in the things I can take action on.

I wanted to do an episode that grapples with the fresh horrors our feeds deliver to us and how to balance bearing witness, activism, and not falling into doomerism. @amandalitman.bsky.social is the perfect guest. *highly* recommend her insights to fellow bluesky posters!

checked in on tiktok and i didnt notice anything going on with political content but my fyp felt very different! ton of ads, really lame vids, like it had been factory reset

the last thing you see before you die

"we just added 'arms up' as a UGC format at DansUGC." please remove me from this planet

INBOX: DEATH CREEPS EVER CLOSER

what i can appreciate about claude code in the terminal versus the chatbot stuff is that i feel i am talking to computer to make it do computer. whereas the chatbot stuff feels much more like a thing pretending to be human. feels more like using a power tool than going to therapy if that makes sense

for the most part i think there's just honestly way too much focus on what's going on with the cbs evening news BUT also i've been laughing at this headline for 2 min

"move over, pickleball. celebrities are backing a new racket sport: typti," i say to myself in the dark. the year is 2938. every human being is dead. i will not die and am alone.

came back to my computer and my camera was frozen on this still - the indignities of recording a video podcast never cease

wonder if the trump vibe shift narrative will go the other way...

What Minneapolis residents have done this month in terms of organizing and community response is as remarkable as anything I've ever seen

idk what's up w/ the tiktok views but i imagine both transferring ownership and a data center outage (if indeed that happened) could definitely mess with view counts (fwiw the NFL's site also had videos w/ 0 views). About the only thing that's clear is that most everyone's suspicious of new owners

Didn't realize the extent to which ICE are "content creators first and Gestapo second," as @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social is reporting. A paramilitary force whose violence is shaped by what will produce the highest-engagement Instagram Reel. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

pretty incredible story in here about how you can go from sitting on your couch to radicalized and in the streets in record time: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"Believe your eyes" - great piece from @cwarzel.bsky.social @theatlantic.com on people risking their lives to document ICE. Includes an interview with @startribune.com photographer Richard Tsong-Taatarii. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Wrote about the observers. The people standing by and filming and the risk they are taking to let the world see what is happening. It's crucial and its the only way to combat the lies and blatant propaganda. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

"Minneapolis residents are risking their lives to document what is happening to their city. In Pretti’s case, doing so cost him everything. We should believe what we can see with our own eyes." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Wrote about the observers. The people standing by and filming and the risk they are taking to let the world see what is happening. It's crucial and its the only way to combat the lies and blatant propaganda. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

man the stuff i am seeing on IG from the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

i suppose it makes sense but it is completely demoralizing that we live in a moment where there is more video/photographic evidence (often from multiple angles) than ever before and also a durable system in place for propagandists to gaslight or convince others into not believing their eyes

in no way the most important thing but it is incredibly jarring how many times people have opened up their devices in the last year to see autoplay videos of people being killed

This is very timely given the recent execution video making the rounds today. Every time ICE is recorded murdering or beating someone is a success for both ICE and Trump because it creates content to toss to their base over on X. It’s all about creating CONTENT.

this week's pod is the great @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social from @garbageday.email talking about what he saw on the ground in Minneapolis, how we're all content for ICE, and the through lines from more than a decade of covering revolutions/protests that move from screens to streets

this week's pod is the great @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social from @garbageday.email talking about what he saw on the ground in Minneapolis, how we're all content for ICE, and the through lines from more than a decade of covering revolutions/protests that move from screens to streets

its ok that the monetize every possible difference of opinion gambling websites are layering on engagement bait posts to lure suckers into losing $ and that the content creator government sending paramilitary troops to their own cities are layering their propaganda on top of that...right?

not surprising and yet still jarring to read ex-FBI agents describing how Kash Patel and Bongino reacted to Charlie Kirk's murder while running the agency. truly the content creator administration/podcast govt www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

anyone have any idea who took the original photo?

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Given the grok horrors of the past few weeks and the crisis of impunity we’ve got on our hands, today’s pod is with the excellent @sophiegilbert.bsky.social on the ways that misogyny has been coded into these platforms and shaped our culture

have a strong feeling that, almost immediately after trump is no longer alive (whenever that is) there’s gonna be a break in the dam & even his supporters will say how embarrassing he was (an analog here is how the right mostly gave up on lionizing kirk after a few days & he just became a meme)

apologies if this is dumb but as somebody who has been reporting pretty extensively on the grok csam hellscape and also consuming news about the darkness of american politics...i am looking for a brief respite (stupid, funny, weird, joyful stuff that maybe i can report on/think about/or just read)

2/ When I worked at Twitter, CSAM was *universally,* unequivocally regarded as the MOST toxic, nuclear, all-hands-on deck, third-rail issue that was taken DEEPLY seriously (legally and morally) and would garner an *immediate* prioritized response.

This is the Ted Cruz-iest Ted Cruzing paragraph I think I’ve ever read (Via www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...)

this was, in a series of no comments/ignoring from investors about grok, a weird turn of events

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

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i'm gonna count this as 'calling it' bsky.app/profile/cwar...

dude just let theo von host it already