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Russia was removed from Eurovision in 2022 over its invasion of Ukraine, but Israel is still allowed to compete despite being an apartheid state committing a genocide in Gaza. Good on Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands. I’m sure they won’t be the last to announce a boycott.

"Suspected drug smugglers" is doing a lot of work here

"If competition from TikTok and YouTube are enough to suggest that Meta’s products aren’t monopolistic, it says more about the limits of antitrust laws than it does Meta’s monopolistic nature," writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social.

Who says we don't need civics education in this country?

🚨 Republicans advocated for dismantling content moderation — now they’re shocked it won’t protect them. Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk’s assassination are still all over social media. For years, the right demanded platforms scale back enforcement. This is what that looks like.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Was unfortunately fired for expressing my unbridled glee after hearing about the public execution of Benito Mussolini, the un-tragic demise of Moammar Gadhafi, and of course, the self-inflicted gunshot wound that took out Hitler in the bunker.

I wrote a column responding to Ezra Klein’s eulogy for Charlie Kirk, and argued that democracy depends not just on civil disagreement, but on the civic equality that Kirk passionately opposed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two students shot at a Denver-area high school, per CNN.

Great reporting from @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reveals how police departments regularly deactivate safeguards meant to prevent bias and increase oversight of an AI tool designed to generate police reports. www.compiler.news/axion-ai-bod...

Great reporting from @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social that reveals a troubling trend among police departments beginning to use AI that connects to body cameras.

A major undiscussed recession indicator: the number of people throwing hot dog themed parties

🚨 SCOOP🚨: Records obtained by Mother Jones almost uniformly show police departments are deactivating safeguards meant to prevent AI bias while making it difficult or impossible to audit which police reports were generated by AI. @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reports:

Today, in being the family fact-checker.

Good news everyone! My I-485 was approved and I'm getting my green card in three weeks. No intermediary EAD cards and advanced parole it seems!

Yep... It's really "the world" that's in the way of Gazans getting food. Not the systemic use of starvation on a population by a regime propped up by our government.

A new startup wants to insure against AI risk—from hallucinating chatbots to deepfakes. It’s called AIUC, and it just raised $15M to underwrite companies deploying advanced AI systems.🧵

🚨 A quantum startup is building a $50M computer on the site of a shuttered steel mill in Chicago. This is about more than one company—it’s the start of a $9B industrial bet to turn Illinois into the heart of quantum tech.🧵

Does Stephen Miller regularly get cucked by immigrants? Is that why he's so pissy about us?

The hive-mind of the right is something to behold. It seems like all the free thinkers made an aboutface on the Epstein files all at once

Been thinking a lot about how our species evolved to detect snakes, even when they're camouflaged, in the grass. I wonder if over the years, we'll also naturally select for people who are better at identifying AI slop? Will this become an essential skill to our survival? Identifying what is human.

I feel like Zohran should release a custom Instagram filter

People too often treat history like its a bowling alley with bumper guards. Balls forever hurtling down the path of the righteous. "History will remember them deplorably," they'll say. You sure? Why don't you ask a Native American what they think about that?

New York’s financial elite are frantically raising $20 million to block Zohran Mamdani’s path to City Hall, the WSJ reports. A new super PAC, New Yorkers for a Better Future Mayor 25, has been formed to spearhead anti-Mamdani efforts.

Catch me on @marketplace.org this week talking about the rise of "Peace Tech" and how AI is being used to predict wars. www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

putting aside the intense racism for a moment, it’s a bit rich for a silicon valley guy to accuse anyone of coming from a “culture that lies about everything.” that’s literally their business model.

"Soon, lawyers for the Times will start combing through private ChatGPT conversations, shattering the privacy expectations of over 70 million ChatGPT users." Yeah but they'll probably fixate on anything that will hurt Zohran Mamdani. thehill.com/opinion/tech...

The problem is BlueSky is boring. But Twitter is horrifying.

Been back on Twitter for the last week. So the blue check mark is exclusively Nazis and conspiracy theorists?

There's an idea emerging among centrist Dems that Zohran won because of short form video or podcasting and I'm sorry but that's just not it

I am not convinced it is a raving endorsement to have one man accused of inappropriately touching his staff endorse another man accused of inappropriately touching his staff. But that's just me. I'm weird that way 🙃

Don't rank Cuomo. That's all, folks. Also, de Blasio wasn't actually that bad. He brought us one step closer to a public option in this city. That really friggin matters. nymag.com/intelligence...

🚨 A Harvard-trained peace negotiator wants to stop the next world war—with AI. At the SCSP AI defense expo earlier this month, packed with drones and killware, Arvid Bell debuted an AI product that he believes can be used to prevent wars, not fight them. My latest for @businessinsider.com

here's a good overview of the anti-Trump dissident movement and how it's growing at a robust rate wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...

In some ways maybe we should be grateful this administration is too inept to fully commit to the authoritarian trade off. It's one thing to terminate peoples legal statuses and disappear them, but the planes dropping from the sky and rising prices is a step too far for most people.

Some people are too daft to understand that a candidate who has shown they can win, but does nothing to effectuate actual change isn't an "effective" candidate.

New reporting: OpenAI recently announced a nonprofit commission to guide how it spends its "potentially historic financial resources," but critics see it as a ploy to smooth its path to becoming fully for-profit, shedding the nonprofit control that was core to its founding.

Democrats and universities paved the way for Trump's deportations. Now, local prosecutors are threatening students and faculty members with decades in prison for speaking out against genocide.

🚨Meta is facing a $1.6B lawsuit over its role in the Ethiopian genocide—and for once, it won’t be able to hide behind jurisdiction. A Kenyan court ruled the case can move forward. This could set a global precedent.🧵

In a $1.6B lawsuit, Meta is accused of helping incite ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia. If the case succeeds, writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social, it could open the door to real accountability for platform-enabled violence worldwide. www.compiler.news/kenya-lawsui...

“It’s the perfect Silicon Valley gimmick. Take a fake problem — rising crime — offer a fake solution that you only find in video games, dress up your own squad of goons and roll it out to a crowd of internet-brained pseudo wealthy people who want this kind of dystopian future.”

Remember, Fact-Checkers fight fascism. Put it on a shirt. Hug a fact-checker. etc.etc.

My accountant is not happy with me, but who else thinks that business trips conducted via e-bike should very much be tax deductible?

🚨 AI surveillance powers raise serious concerns for immigrants' first amendment rights. The State Department has launched a program to scan visa holders’ social media using AI to find “pro-Hamas” views — and potentially revoke visas. A closer look reveals something even darker.🧵

This is an insanely good deal—become a Court Watch subscriber and get access to a class to learn how they pull court records before anyone else. If you're a journalist you'd be crazy not to do this if you can www.courtwatch.news/p/learn-our-...

If you're a journalist in the US and you're not speaking out against the ongoing killing of Palestinian journalists, at record levels, by a US-funded foreign military, then you should hang your head in shame.

The Trump administration’s access to potentially hazardous AI tools gives it far greater strength to execute what political experts and international observers worry is a quick slide into tech-fueled authoritarianism, writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social. www.compiler.news/mahmoud-khal...

Grateful for the excellent edits from @elleryrb.bsky.social. Read my latest on the consequences of using AI to "catch and revoke" the visas of non-citizens protesting against the war in Gaza and those deemed by the government to have "pro-hamas" views.

Didn't he claim this because he doesn't know how SQL databases work?