Anil Dash
@anildash.com
the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
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Anil Dash
@anildash.com
· Nov 20
What I learned from Prince and Muhammad Ali was that it’s possible to love yourself so much that everybody else does, too.
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Vaguely recall how Biden admin emails to Twitter were the biggest attack on free speech ever. There was a whole twitter files thing about that.
Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?
Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?
New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Vaguely recall how Biden admin emails to Twitter were the biggest attack on free speech ever. There was a whole twitter files thing about that.
Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?
Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?
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JD vance hasn’t tweeted at all in over a week lol
February 14, 2026 at 5:01 AM
JD vance hasn’t tweeted at all in over a week lol
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There are more NFL Owners in the Epstein Files than attended the Super Bowl.
Long-time fan of @edgeofsports.bsky.social and this kind of story is why: He looks deeply into the larger social and cultural phenomena of sports and the way they affect all of us.
The NFL Owners and Olympic Organizers in Epstein’s Inbox
The sports media is ignoring the story, but wealthy sports figures are all over the Epstein files.
www.thenation.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:39 PM
There are more NFL Owners in the Epstein Files than attended the Super Bowl.
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It’s this abundantly enthusiastic, loving, yet deeply grounded and steadfast environment where everything is possible and people are making that possibility into a reality. It’s the world being built from the ashes of the old and some truly astonishing trigger discipline.
February 14, 2026 at 7:38 AM
It’s this abundantly enthusiastic, loving, yet deeply grounded and steadfast environment where everything is possible and people are making that possibility into a reality. It’s the world being built from the ashes of the old and some truly astonishing trigger discipline.
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Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
February 14, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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So infuriating.
DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
ChatGPT cuts in action
www.politico.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:36 AM
So infuriating.
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Hey remember the shooting in Minneapolis that happened between Renee Good and Alexi Pretti, the guy they claimed was shot by an agent after he had attacked that agent with a shovel? I know it's hard to believe but the agents' story fell apart and charges were dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
February 14, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Hey remember the shooting in Minneapolis that happened between Renee Good and Alexi Pretti, the guy they claimed was shot by an agent after he had attacked that agent with a shovel? I know it's hard to believe but the agents' story fell apart and charges were dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
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Roughly 2 USAIDs
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Roughly 2 USAIDs
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right on sis, you don't need to tuck for these fools
First poster for Rosalina in ‘THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE’.
Voiced by Brie Larson.
Voiced by Brie Larson.
February 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM
right on sis, you don't need to tuck for these fools
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I made an app called FancyGist! It uses GitHub Gists as the backend, and it's a nice UI for writing and sharing markdown gists. Replace gist.github.com for any markdown gist you have!
fancygist.com
fancygist.com
FancyGist
A beautiful Markdown editor for GitHub Gists.
fancygist.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:14 AM
I made an app called FancyGist! It uses GitHub Gists as the backend, and it's a nice UI for writing and sharing markdown gists. Replace gist.github.com for any markdown gist you have!
fancygist.com
fancygist.com
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YOU GUYS THERE'S A LONGER VERSION bsky.app/profile/gigi...
February 14, 2026 at 4:14 AM
YOU GUYS THERE'S A LONGER VERSION bsky.app/profile/gigi...
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TIL that Polymarket sponsors Matt Yglesias’s Substack.
February 13, 2026 at 12:48 AM
TIL that Polymarket sponsors Matt Yglesias’s Substack.
The *vast majority* of people who work at Meta today are people who willingly chose to work at the company after it directly enabled a genocide, according to multiple independent global human rights organizations, including Amnesty International. It is a warehouse for psychopaths.
This company is so uniquely toxic and awful.
Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 14, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The *vast majority* of people who work at Meta today are people who willingly chose to work at the company after it directly enabled a genocide, according to multiple independent global human rights organizations, including Amnesty International. It is a warehouse for psychopaths.
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This company is so uniquely toxic and awful.
Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
This company is so uniquely toxic and awful.
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100+ more Google employees have signed since yesterday
At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 PM
100+ more Google employees have signed since yesterday
lol what in the hell
ADDITIONAL important context!!!
State law has required the governor to issue such a proclamation every year since 2011.
(Before that, every governor apparently did so voluntarily back to 2002.)
(Before that, every governor apparently did so voluntarily back to 2002.)
February 14, 2026 at 4:24 AM
lol what in the hell
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DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
ChatGPT cuts in action
www.politico.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:49 PM
DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
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Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.
www.eff.org
February 13, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
A substantial percentage of policy makers (and those who write/broadcast about policy makers) have never interacted with those of us without a higher education degree unless we were in a service role that they needed. For MAGA, the contempt is obvious, but Democrats get angry when it's highlighted.
related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
February 13, 2026 at 10:40 PM
A substantial percentage of policy makers (and those who write/broadcast about policy makers) have never interacted with those of us without a higher education degree unless we were in a service role that they needed. For MAGA, the contempt is obvious, but Democrats get angry when it's highlighted.
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related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 8:03 PM
related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter
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The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them
February 13, 2026 at 8:55 PM
The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them