Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Both The New York Times and Airwars are tracking the U.S. strikes on boats in the Carribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. 64 or 65 killed in 15 separate incidents. NYT: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Airwars: airwars.org/conflict/u-s...

PSA: Please stop giving advice on spotting the hallmarks of A.I.-generated videos. Even the pros are are having a hard time. We can't OSINT sleuth our way out of this problem. wapo.st/4ljYzJy

New from 404 Media: CBP has quietly launched a facial recognition app for local cops to do immigration enforcement. Scans their face, tells cops whether to contact ICE about this person or not. A truly rapid expansion of ICE's facial recognition app to local cops www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has repeatedly criticized his rival, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, for living in a rent-stabilized apartment, occupied a rent-stabilized unit himself when he was a young professional living in New York City in the 1980s.

New Yorkers: Come to City Hall Park tomorrow at noon and join the unionized reporters, photographers and editors of the New York Daily News, as we call on Heath Freeman and Alden Global Capital to pay fair wages and agree to worker protections.

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.

Oh my God, its title is "Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence." The Wikipedia article about it is giving me a panic attack. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diella_...

Updating my LEGO White House

Aggregate measures say the economy is doing pretty well right now. But that obscures a growing divide: Wealthy Americans, buoyed by stock market gains, are spending. Low-and middle-income Americans are struggling amid inflation and a weakening labor market. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

In Mexico, a doctor has to stitch kids up by flashlight. In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20% of the country’s electricity (!). In Chile, aquifers are in danger. Important story by @paulmozur.bsky.social @satariano.bsky.social, Emiliano Rodríguez Mega www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

This good piece by @stuartathompson.bsky.social really drives home how much AI slop the president posts these days. Also, it uses the word "excrement" in the second paragraph. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The only excuse Lois Lane has for why her interviewing Superman isn't unethical, despite their romantic entanglement, is that it would be even more unethical for the paper's other top reporter, who is Superman, to interview himself, yet she cannot say this. This dilemma should be taught in J-school.

Didn't expect anyone to take "internet of shit" quite so literally.

When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in Syria, many of the officials who enabled and enforced his brutal regime disappeared. Our reporting uncovers who they are, what they did and where they fled. nyti.ms/3J1W5Cs

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

A statement from The New York Times on the Pentagon’s press pass policy:

That name sounds super Latin. Seems sus.

This is like a tweet thread from back when social media was good.

I hope you'll read this, all the way thru. A gift article on a really important thing that happened today in Newark. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Lawyers, tell me, is it bad when a federal judge describes having to "endure" your allegations and "florid," "enervating" prose? And then rejects your complaint as "decidedly improper and impermissible" without the defense even filing a word? (Trump v. NYT) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

This is by Karl Rove.

The United States is a country where comedians must take care not to offend the ruling party if they want to keep their jobs.

And now, this…

Weird how I keep thinking about this

This is the essential point. This will go nowhere. 100% of the issue with all the other media suits is that a rogue president is a huge danger to a big diversified corp which also owns a media company. They can be hit everywhere. The NYT is just the NYT. No vulnerability.

In my inbox ...

This is a good take! I like to tell people that investigative journalism is way more boring and tedious than they assume.

As I have said to friends many times, the crises of the 21st century (GWOT, financial crises, etc) simply don’t add up in a material sense to the level of crazy and authoritarianism we are seeing today. Internet and social media are a much better root cause explanation.

The country’s most powerful bank became a critical cog in Epstein’s massive sex trafficking operation. JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender. Here’s our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

Have we tried looking into the brain worms problem? I'm starting to think we should.

Did you just read about how traditional Medicare is about to require prior approval - and they’re going to hire **AI companies** to dole out those approvals? Then you need to learn about Dr. Gary Bent.

TBH this could be so many things that I had to click through to her profile to figure out she's referring to Meta's AI glasses.

There has not been a lot of evidence so far that AI is actually impacting jobs. This paper finds early signs that this may be starting, showing a decrease in entry-level job openings relative to experienced ones & in the jobs where AI is mostly automates, not augments, work (like coding).

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

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we're about to find out something pretty important!

The Chinese government has threatened candidates and torpedoed the election efforts of candidates of Chinese heritage who support Taiwan or Hong Kong protests, The Times found. And 19 Chinese-backed NY charities ignored federal tax laws banning election activities. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...

"The chamber has gone to unusual lengths to promote xAI, whose $12 billion investment the chamber believes will transform the shrinking city into a global hub of technological innovation." This is ... not what data centers do, and selling them to communities this way seems incredibly misleading.

When LLMs go off the rails, people often try to find out what happened by asking the bot itself. But they should be skeptical of the answers. As @alexhanna.bsky.social‬ explains, the only real way to find out is to demand transparency from the creators. www.theverge.com/x-ai/758595/...

Importantly, these are Meta's guidelines for the content *their AI tool itself* is generating. This is no longer simply a question of what the company allows other users to post. I guess we'll see where this goes ... www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sect...

New story out from me and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com about how and why chatbots go into delusional spirals that can cause people to have mental breakdowns. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

It used to be “Do no Evil,” and, “Connecting the World.” Now, Silicon Valley has gone all-in on the business of war: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...