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I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
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They keep on saying that the shooter is not cooperating with them but also that he was motivated by leftist ideologies.
Sure sounds like he wont tell them what they want him to say.
Sure sounds like he wont tell them what they want him to say.
The shooter is still alive and turned himself in. Why do they need to “reproduce” it when they can just ask him?
Kash Patel now says there’s a manifesto in the Kirk shooting, but it was destroyed, but the FBI can prove it existed using forensic evidence. So Kash wants to reproduce a manifesto that doesn’t exist to reveal the motives of the shooter. Got it.
September 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
They keep on saying that the shooter is not cooperating with them but also that he was motivated by leftist ideologies.
Sure sounds like he wont tell them what they want him to say.
Sure sounds like he wont tell them what they want him to say.
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I think Bluesky has been clear from the beginning about what they were building and why. A whole lot of people didn’t take them seriously, or maybe thought they could be hollered into changing course, but I don’t think they have.
September 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I think Bluesky has been clear from the beginning about what they were building and why. A whole lot of people didn’t take them seriously, or maybe thought they could be hollered into changing course, but I don’t think they have.
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They probably will continue to fail in the criminal realm but have some success in administrative warfare, like more grant revocations, baseless tax audits, freezing accounts, and the like. Enough to do some damage even if they can’t get prison sentences. And probably more ICE abductions
September 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
They probably will continue to fail in the criminal realm but have some success in administrative warfare, like more grant revocations, baseless tax audits, freezing accounts, and the like. Enough to do some damage even if they can’t get prison sentences. And probably more ICE abductions
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The author who sues all her critics into silence has some thoughts on free speech.
September 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The author who sues all her critics into silence has some thoughts on free speech.
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and a slide that explains illegal data torrenting by Meta, i also had to remove
In the end, it was either remove everything that names names (big tech particularly) and remove logos or cancel my talk.
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In the end, it was either remove everything that names names (big tech particularly) and remove logos or cancel my talk.
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July 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
and a slide that explains illegal data torrenting by Meta, i also had to remove
In the end, it was either remove everything that names names (big tech particularly) and remove logos or cancel my talk.
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In the end, it was either remove everything that names names (big tech particularly) and remove logos or cancel my talk.
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a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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my keynote happening in a few mins. registration here to stream it
aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/reg...
aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/reg...
July 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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When critical race theorists point out that “neutrality” and “objectivity” are often a thin veneer for white supremacy, they mean stuff like this.
An opinion writer is not allowed to criticize the paper on social media for using a Nazi source but the reporter who worked with the Nazi source was free to leave a long social media trail being buddy-buddy with the Nazi in public
July 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
When critical race theorists point out that “neutrality” and “objectivity” are often a thin veneer for white supremacy, they mean stuff like this.
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Here's what a Dem consultant told a reporter about my story that the GOP bill,as written, forces $500bn in Medicare cuts:
"I need an actual publication to verify this before I take it seriously. Like what’s Jake Sherman’s take here? My understanding is these Medicare cuts are routinely cancelled" 🙄
"I need an actual publication to verify this before I take it seriously. Like what’s Jake Sherman’s take here? My understanding is these Medicare cuts are routinely cancelled" 🙄
Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.
Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.
prospect.org
July 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Here's what a Dem consultant told a reporter about my story that the GOP bill,as written, forces $500bn in Medicare cuts:
"I need an actual publication to verify this before I take it seriously. Like what’s Jake Sherman’s take here? My understanding is these Medicare cuts are routinely cancelled" 🙄
"I need an actual publication to verify this before I take it seriously. Like what’s Jake Sherman’s take here? My understanding is these Medicare cuts are routinely cancelled" 🙄
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people are incredibly poorly informed about immigration and crackdowns focus attention; friend just compared this to foreign aid — in that people support more generous policies than the status quo but don’t realize it — and I think that’s an apt analogy.
You cannot overstate how badly the media botched it re public opinion on immigration. People turned off their brains and forgot what was long obvious: Opinion on this is thermostatic. Trump isn't a magical exception.
We need a better discourse on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
We need a better discourse on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
June 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
people are incredibly poorly informed about immigration and crackdowns focus attention; friend just compared this to foreign aid — in that people support more generous policies than the status quo but don’t realize it — and I think that’s an apt analogy.
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Feel like if the resource impacts of data centers really aren't that big of a deal there wouldn't be a federal effort to prevent states from restricting or regulating data center construction
An AI-related provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” could restrict state-level legislation of energy-hungry data centers—and is raising bipartisan objections across the US. www.wired.com/story/a-poli...
A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers
An AI-related provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” could restrict state-level legislation of energy-hungry data centers—and is raising bipartisan objections across the US.
www.wired.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Feel like if the resource impacts of data centers really aren't that big of a deal there wouldn't be a federal effort to prevent states from restricting or regulating data center construction
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It’s actually just not possible to spend this much money. Previous efforts to rapidly grow the Border Patrol and CBP led to decades of corruption. This is a recipe for corruption on a giant scale.
NEW: GOP lawmakers are preparing reconciliation bill with $90-175 BILLION in new funding for immigration enforcement.
ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion.
Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion.
Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
Trump’s Mass-Deportation Campaign Hasn’t Really Started Yet
The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.
www.theatlantic.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It’s actually just not possible to spend this much money. Previous efforts to rapidly grow the Border Patrol and CBP led to decades of corruption. This is a recipe for corruption on a giant scale.
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The biggest long term damage caused by communist mismanagement of public health is the resulting mistrust. I can give you examples. Czech communists used the healthcare system to have Gynaecologists secretly sterilise Romani women & women who were regime critics, during regular health checks.
The biggest long term damage caused by communist mismanagement of public health is the resulting mistrust. I can give you examples. Czech communists used the healthcare system to have Gynaecologists secretly sterilise Romani women & women who were regime critics, during regular health checks.
I don’t know much about Bulgaria beyond their choirs and music. Is this something that they dropped like a stone, or did this get itself stuck into their culture such that it’s still around today in a big way?
April 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The biggest long term damage caused by communist mismanagement of public health is the resulting mistrust. I can give you examples. Czech communists used the healthcare system to have Gynaecologists secretly sterilise Romani women & women who were regime critics, during regular health checks.
The biggest long term damage caused by communist mismanagement of public health is the resulting mistrust. I can give you examples. Czech communists used the healthcare system to have Gynaecologists secretly sterilise Romani women & women who were regime critics, during regular health checks.
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Please, I’m begging people to stop responding to every economic update and tariff announcement as if they’re just screwing up and as if the demolition of our economy isn’t beneficial to oligarchs and the wealth class that wants to gobble up resources and exploit us more effectively.
April 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Please, I’m begging people to stop responding to every economic update and tariff announcement as if they’re just screwing up and as if the demolition of our economy isn’t beneficial to oligarchs and the wealth class that wants to gobble up resources and exploit us more effectively.
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I will say this much I hope that bookers filibuster changes things. I hope that it is a moment we look back on in the future and see shifted the momentum a bit. But in this moment it feels like too little too late.
I can only speak for me personally and I’ve spoken on this before publicly I want
I can only speak for me personally and I’ve spoken on this before publicly I want
April 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I will say this much I hope that bookers filibuster changes things. I hope that it is a moment we look back on in the future and see shifted the momentum a bit. But in this moment it feels like too little too late.
I can only speak for me personally and I’ve spoken on this before publicly I want
I can only speak for me personally and I’ve spoken on this before publicly I want
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IP isn't *just* a censorship scheme, it's attempt to radically defy the basic logic of how information works *and compel an entire universe of software and equipment to uphold the pretense*; it's ultimately incompatible with any world other than the locked-down app store nightmare one
March 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
IP isn't *just* a censorship scheme, it's attempt to radically defy the basic logic of how information works *and compel an entire universe of software and equipment to uphold the pretense*; it's ultimately incompatible with any world other than the locked-down app store nightmare one
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The claim that libraries are an alternative to libgen is ridiculous. Almost all libraries don't have expensive academic books. Libgen is the university library of the world, open to everyone regardless of wealth, location, or academic credentials.
March 21, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The claim that libraries are an alternative to libgen is ridiculous. Almost all libraries don't have expensive academic books. Libgen is the university library of the world, open to everyone regardless of wealth, location, or academic credentials.
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Also thinking about whether this will impact academics invited to speak at conferences. Yes, we should (I should) have been more vocal when this has already happened to our non White European members ofc. Best time to react was yesterday, 2nd best is today.
The good news? UK comic maker Becky Burke is home after being detained by ICE. The bad news, the new regime’s stricter reading of the previously ignored rules on work will catch others out coming to the US for comic events - comicon.com/2025/03/18/f...
March 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Also thinking about whether this will impact academics invited to speak at conferences. Yes, we should (I should) have been more vocal when this has already happened to our non White European members ofc. Best time to react was yesterday, 2nd best is today.
I think there's reason to believe that the average of personal economic sentiment is closer to the factual truth than the average of personal feelings about crime. Most of us engage with actual market prices and paychecks more often than we do actual crime.
March 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I think there's reason to believe that the average of personal economic sentiment is closer to the factual truth than the average of personal feelings about crime. Most of us engage with actual market prices and paychecks more often than we do actual crime.
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the chucky s "book event" in new york is a fundraiser with him and ritchie torres having a 45 minute chat are you fucking kidding me
March 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
the chucky s "book event" in new york is a fundraiser with him and ritchie torres having a 45 minute chat are you fucking kidding me
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Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...