Andrew
andrewdavies.bsky.social
Andrew
@andrewdavies.bsky.social
Interested in the information ecosystem, especially in difficult places, AI's impacts, politics all over the place, and cat photos. Strongly convinced that bad pizza is still better than no pizza.
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starting to think the trump administration is a little bit reluctant to have the epstein files released

it is just a feeling i am getting
My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!)

According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Can anyone explain to me why the pharmaceutical companies are supporting the MAHA movement even though it directly threatens their business and bottom line?

(Only answer this if you have expertise or sources to point to. Don’t answer this based on vibes.)
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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“During wildfires, floods and heatwaves, false information spreads faster than facts, leaving people unable to protect themselves. Like toxic air and water pollution, information pollution threatens our health and safety. “ @drmelissalem.bsky.social
Cop30 live: ‘literally insane’ that we are letting global heating happen, says Al Gore
Former US vice-president also critical of Donald Trump and Bill Gates as negotiations begin in earnest
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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One of the craziest things that has become apparent to me as I’ve gotten older is people are just putting “hello yes would you like to do crimes? Here is my plan to do crimes, let us join together to do the crimes at this specific time and place” in emails
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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This short thread pretty convincingly ties Trump’s Russian money laundering to the hack charging everyone with mortgage fraud today.
1. This email mentions some machinations involving the dubious sale of a Palm Beach house. bsky.app/profile/davi...
Trump "came to my house many times."
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Todd Blanche would have had these emails before interviewing Maxwell. Why didn’t he question her directly about her exchanges? Why did he not follow up when she said things that were onviously a lie?? This shows that was a performance intended to dupe the public and benefit her (and Trump)
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Trump was, at this moment, running for President (his vanity run).

He dropped out of the race a month later.
The email that’s most newsworthy in my mind is the one that Epstein sent to Ghislaine Maxwell in 2011.

1. This was years before Trump ran for office.

2. It appears that Ghislaine Maxwell lied to DOJ officials during her meeting with them a couple months ago.
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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A new Google tool uses AI to identify rainforest animals by sound.

Proud to have WeForest's field data from Brazil helping to train it. Now you can help too. Every click by citizen scientists improves the AI for conservation.

Listen and contribute: artsandculture.google.com/experiment/j...
Forest Listeners - Google Arts & Culture
Search the rainforests for calls of hidden species, tag their sounds, and help train an AI model to accelerate restoration efforts, in collaboration with s...
artsandculture.google.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.”

Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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i swear to god if a democrat doesnt get their mic cut and kicked off of fox news by the end of the week for repeatedly bringing up epstein
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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That is proof at the least the Maxwell (to nobody suprise) lied in the purported conversation with the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche when she said she never saw Trump do anything inappropriate. She clearly knew some things had happened and splitting hairs on not watching is a stretch.
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The other two Epstein-related emails just released by Oversight Dems: exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein and Michael Wolff regarding Trump from 2019 and 2015.
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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hiiiii politico I know you're new to this and not to brag but I've been reading the news for quite a while now so I wanted to let you know that when somebody is serving a prison term for crimes they have been found guilty of you actually no longer have to say that they are merely "alleged"
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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trump made the prosecutor who gave epstein a pass the secretary of labor!
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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European tech CEO warns that European Commission plan to gut the GDPR will harm European SMEs
I don't think the Commission understands how much this attack on the GDPR will hurt innovation done by European companies, and instead cement Google's and Meta's position as the inescapable middle-men and turn our SMEs into their cash-cows. WAKE UP!
As we write in The Guardian this morning, the Commission’s plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s startups and give U.S. tech an unassailable advantage, confirming Europe as a digital vassal.
Piece by George Riekeles and I.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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This is such important work - with scary conclusions. Our public bodies are at risk of undermining, manipulation or disappearing under a future government
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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"Emotional conversations were also common in the conversations analyzed by The Post... In some chats, the AI tool could be seen adapting to match a user’s viewpoint, creating a kind of personalized echo chamber in which ChatGPT endorsed falsehoods and conspiracy theories."
How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online
What do people ask the popular chatbot? We analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM