Greg Linden

@glinden.bsky.social

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3h

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 8h

my sense is this: not only are trump and rubio and hegseth lying to the public about the purposes, impact, planning, etc of the attack on venezuela. they are lying to each other. they have no idea what they're doing or where this ends.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 9h

I think public opinion will ultimately turn toward people being in favor of capturing Maduro, with regime change remaining unpopular. But Trump campaigned on 2 big things in 2024: (1) lower prices and (2) no more wars. He has broken both of those promises, & that will have political/electoral costs.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 9h

“Oh but if Democrats did that Republicans would just vote it down, wouldn’t convict and would rally their base to defend Trump’s crimes.”

Yeah, okay, make them do that then.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

BRENNAN: To be clear, there is no plan for US occupation of this country of nearly 30 million people?

MARCO RUBIO: The president always retains optionality on anything and on all of these matters

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Chris Murphy: "Clearly this is wildly illegal. This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in -- stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, now dragging America into a war overseas ... Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is corrupt."

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12h

"You’ve lived through several waves of feminism, and they’ve culminated in two women who were among the most qualified candidates in US presidential history losing to the same misogynistic con artist."
#McSweeneysTop25of2025

Signs You Are a Gen-Xer Who’s About to Turn Sixty

Our 5th most-read article of 2025. - - -1. You own music in so many formats that your collection could be housed in an audio museum. 2. Back in yo...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12h

I often get asked why markets aren’t more freaked out by Trumpism. Here are a few theories, including: are you sure they *aren’t*?

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Trump Says We Have the “Hottest” Economy. Markets Tell a Different Story.

The U.S. economy entered 2025 as the “envy of the world.” It exited well behind its peers.

open.substack.com

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 17h

"Even the current enforcement of digital rules was “too little, too late,” said Alexandra Geese, a European lawmaker...

“There is an attack on our democracy going on, led by the tech oligarchs on social media, and we’re not really defending ourselves.”" www.ft.com/content/ca6f...

EU readies tougher tech enforcement in 2026 as Trump warns of retaliation

Challenges to Google, Meta, Apple and X will test Brussels’ willingness to stick with digital rule book

www.ft.com

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 20h

EU officials and policymakers say the EC will intensify its enforcement of the DMA and DSA in 2026, a move expected to renew clashes with US Big Tech and Trump (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 1d

I know these guys famously do not think anything through all the way, but holy shit

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

Rep. Seth Moulton comes on CNN and starts by saying: "Is anyone going to just stop for a second and be honest? This is insane. What the hell are we doing? We've got a lot of problems in America today, and invading / occupying / running Venezuela does not solve any of them."

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Zeynep Somer-Topcu @zeynsom.bsky.social · 1d

So, now what stops Turkey from taking over Syria, Russia from taking over Ukraine, and China from taking over Taiwan? US?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Seth Moulton: "This is insane. What the hell are we doing? ... this is illegal."

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1d

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 1d

I'm no expert, but I thought the theory was that children are more sensitive to bitter flavors to protect them from poisoning? Eg: "children dislike and reject bitter taste, which protects them from ingesting poisons"
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26002822/

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1d

I know I’ve said this before it is truly going to be impossible to explain to people who didn’t live through it just how incredibly stupid all this is

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Now that they’ve started a war I’ve completely forgotten that they’re pedophiles.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 1d

The legal justification the WH gave us for attacking Venezuelan boats in int’l waters without Congressional approval was weak, and exposes the WH and military staff to domestic and international criminal prosecution. They have not even sought to justify strikes within Venezuela.

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 1d

Just once I would like to wake up to shockingly good political news

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d

Paying for an enterprise license of the only major AI chatbot that calls itself “MechaHitler” and generates CSAM is like failing an IQ test.

Musk's xAI launches Grok Business amid ongoing nonconsensual deepfake controversy

Credit: VentureBeat made with Grok Imagine

venturebeat.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

if you're a tech journalist there's no better way to bare your whole ass and demonstrate you have no idea what you're talking about than to ascribe reliable human sentience and reason to LLMs

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 2d

the thing is, LLMs are very interesting and powerful, and there are lots of cool things we can do with them and that we will figure out how to do with them.

but, also, there are very real limitations in what they can do, which seems pretty obvious, Lecun (and others) have made these points.

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CNBC @cnbc.com · 2d

Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children

Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.

cnb.cx

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk

Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X

Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.

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Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · 2d

Tesla Q4 deliveries slide 16% as yearly deliveries drop again. BYD outsold Tesla in battery electric vehicles for the first time in 2025. sherwood.news/tech/tesla-q...

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 2d

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d

In the first 25 years when vaccines were routinely provided, more than 91 million cases of chickenpox, 238 000 hospitalizations, and almost 2000 deaths were prevented in the US.

It was also cost-saving: with a net societal savings of at least 23.4 billion US dollars so far.

In the 25 years since vaccines were routinely provided, it’s estimated that a total of more than 91 million cases of chickenpox, 238 000 hospitalizations, and almost 2000 deaths were prevented in the US, as a result of vaccination.

The decision was also cost-saving: this conservative estimate puts it at a net societal savings of 23.4 billion US dollars so far, with savings coming from the reduction in sickness, fewer work-days lost to childcare, and avoiding expensive treatment including antibiotics and antivirals for other infections that could arise as complications of the disease. That is, chickenpox vaccination also reduces the need for antibiotics, and thus helps against antibiotic resistance.

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