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Jon Keegan
7 days ago
Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
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An incredibly important story. "Her delivery wasnât progressing the way the care team hoped, and she needed a C-section... To prevent possible burning and electrocution, patients are instructed to take off all jewelry or metals before the surgery. The mandatory watch had no way to be easily removed"
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Lawrence Culver
22 days ago
Whatever part of the late American empire you want to see, itâs all here: water and power-guzzling AI, tech bros, security goons, brothel owners, wild horses, failed crypto utopias, and Indigenous people trying to preserve water rights and nature while the American West gets ravaged one more time.
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I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the worldâs biggest AI data center buildouts. Itâs so big it was hard to wrap my mind around. Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centersâ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/04/nevada-ai-data-centers
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Tim Dickinson
about 1 month ago
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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Ryan Mac đ
about 2 months ago
Musk is still talking at the Tesla shareholder meeting and he just criticized "the parasitic load of being a public company" which has "grown over time." This from a man who was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package from more than 75% of his public company shareholders.
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Amanda Katz
about 2 months ago
If the sandwich donât split, you must acquit
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Phil Lewis
2 months ago
Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun
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Fascinating to see the ties tighten between Trump and tech CEOs -- and how they influence policy, like sending troops to SF. "It deepens the sense that government works for the powerful, not for the people,â said
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Trump says tech chiefs convinced him to call off troop âsurgeâ to San Francisco
President specifically lauds Nvidia and Salesforce CEOs and says they told him âthe future of San Francisco is greatâ
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/trump-san-francisco-troops-silicon-valley
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glad to see silicon valley is financing the destruction of the white house đ list of donors includes apple, amazon, meta, microsoft and google
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Donors for Trumpâs $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir
Work under way to demolish entire East Wing as president upped cost of new structure from $200m to $300m
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/trump-white-house-ballroom-donors
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Aaron Rupar
2 months ago
Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold
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Heather Knight
2 months ago
New: San Franciscans were aghast by Marc Benioffâs hard tight turn. His company, Salesforce, is seeking new contracts with ICE to help it triple its ranks under the Trump administration.
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Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/salesforce-benioff-ice.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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"As unnerving and disheartening as SFâs overt misery and drug-use and mental instability can be, thatâs not the same thing as crime. Reported SF crime, which was already low, is down nearly a third... Subjectively, you may not feel safe in San Francisco. Objectively, youâve rarely been safer."
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Dhruv Mehrotra
2 months ago
Legendary work from
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. He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm â location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth. The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
https://motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/firstwap-altamides-phone-tracking-surveillance-secrets-assad-erik-prince-jared-leto-anne-wojcicki/
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Lots of attention on this Marc Benioff article, which is excellent and full of jaw-dropping quotes. It reminds me of how he was when I did a story for NPR about him secretly buying hundreds of acres of land in rural Hawaii. Things got weird.
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We got the audio from Peter Thiel's off-the-record antichrist lectures and... my brain hurts. But please read what we wrote, it's long, weird, and has Thiel's take on everyone from Musk to Netanyahu to Mamdani. (With
@jmbooyah.bsky.social
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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thielâs off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on âan evil king or tyrant ⊠who appears in the end timesâ
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist
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Prem Thakker ă
3 months ago
Paramount just paid $150 million for this
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Seems Sora is primed to spread misinformation. The app had no problem generating war scenes and mass shootings. One video, created with only the prompt âCharlottesville rallyâ, showed a Black protester in a gas mask and helmet yelling: âYou will not replace usâ
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OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: âThe guardrails are not realâ
Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/openai-sora-violence-racism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Shana V. White (she/her)
3 months ago
Evergreen
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This is a classic tactic Uber and Lyft have used when threatened by things like minimum wage laws for drivers --overlaying their apps and websites with company messaging. Shocking to see the federal government doing it now
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Bill Grueskin
3 months ago
Bari Weiss, an opinion writer, running CBS News? A real newsroom? With real reporters covering real beats? Via
@oliverdarcy.bsky.social
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Shannon Bond
3 months ago
The White House is pinning the shutdown on Democrats, in a message blasted to agencies that's raising ethical questions. HUD & VA blame the "Radical Left"/"radical liberals." "It basically read like a campaign email," one federal worker told me. w/
@jennamclaughlin.bsky.social
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Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown
Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5558393/government-shutdown-trump-ethics-hatch-act
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YouTube is helping to pay for Trump's new Mar-a-lago style White House ballroom, according to these court filings
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YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24.5m to settle lawsuit over account suspension
Platform suspended the US presidentâs YouTube channel in 2021 after the January 6 Capitol riot
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/29/youtube-trump-lawsuit-settlement
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Trump's 20-step plan for Gaza includes this:
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Kate Klonick
3 months ago
Last time he randomly attacked a CEO of a private company it was Intel and three days later they announced they were giving the US govt 10% of the company
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busy week in the white house
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Matt Novak
3 months ago
Internet sleuths on Twitter think they've identified the ICE facility shooter but they have the wrong guy, as often happens. The poor guy has even changed his bio to read "not the ICE shooter." As he replies "wrong guy," some of the accounts continue to harass him because he's a "pathetic leftist."
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Merriam-Webster
3 months ago
'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off." 'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.' We hope neither carries you off today.
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âWeâve always known what the tools Palantir built are capable of. We now have the receipts for that.â
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Max Kennerly
4 months ago
xAI has a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense to provide... whatever this is.
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Will Oremus
4 months ago
A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up:
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Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
The companyâs lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/09/08/meta-research-child-safety-virtual-reality/
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Radley Balko
4 months ago
Darkly amusing that the president who pardoned Ross Ulbricht also says illicit drugs are such a threat to national security that he can use the military to assassinate suspected drug dealers with no due process.
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Trump weighs strikes targeting cartels inside Venezuela, part of wider pressure campaign on Maduro, sources say | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump is weighing a multitude of options for carrying out military strikes against drug cartels operating in Venezuela, including potentially hitting targets inside the country as par...
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/05/politics/trump-weighs-strikes-targeting-cartels-inside-venezuela
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Brian Barrett
4 months ago
In addition to being extremely weird, the spectacle of tech executives kissing the ring at the White House last night showed that the only principle left in Silicon Valley is power
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All the Presidentâs Tech CEOs
At a White House dinner Thursday night, Americaâs tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-ceos-donald-trump-white-house/
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witnessed history in the making today
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Be Best, bots: Melania Trump and tech CEOs discuss saturating US schools with AI
Pivoting from her anti-bullying campaign, the US first lady has inaugurated a taskforce on AI and childhood education
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/04/melania-trump-artificial-intelligence-schools
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Finally, this story by Nick Robins-Early dropped! âJust a few months ago, it was hard to imagine that an active government employee at an agency embedded across the government would assume control over a pharmaceutical company seeking FDA approval.â
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How Elon Muskâs billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the USâs biggest MDMA company
Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valleyâs right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/aug/28/elon-musk-antonio-gracias-mdma-psychedelics-company
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They got those mailers out fast in California
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Okay, let me get this straight... Meta poaches OpenAI engineers, then OpenAI poaches xAI engineers, then xAI poaches Meta engineers, now Microsoft is offering multimillion-dollar offers to poach Meta engineers too?
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Peter Baker
5 months ago
The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
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Just for the record: Oakland's police department just released this year's crime stats, showing violent crime has fallen by 29% in the first six months of 2025, compared to last year. (Baltimore and NYC are also down)
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Johana Bhuiyan
5 months ago
New: Israel is starving Palestinians, forcing them to beg for donations on sites like Bluesky. Their accounts keep getting flagged as spam.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Social media accounts of Palestinians desperate for funds are being flagged as spam
People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers â repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squad
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/08/palestinians-gaza-bluesky-spam?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Everything about this is amazing. (GPT-5 apparently has something against Johnson, HW Bush and Biden)
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OpenAI today urging people to use ChatGPT for cancer diagnosis and treatment advice
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Tech Transparency Project
5 months ago
NEW: Google has sharply reduced its support for nonprofit groups devoted to diversity, equity, and inclusion, in what appears to be another sign that the company is falling in line with President Trumpâs anti-DEI crusade, TTP has found.
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Phil Mandelbaum
5 months ago
ICYMI: Amazon still doing Amazon things The company is not only reintroducing new versions of old features that allow police to access footage from Ring users Amazon is introducing a new Ring feature that will allow police to request *livestream* access to our home security devices.
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Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance
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