ishmael
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ishmael
@ishmael.bsky.social
Journalist in NYC.
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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It'd be great if these people would just skip this bullshit and get the calipers out. They're doing phrenology. That's all it is.
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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BREAKING: The Minneapolis mayor's race advances to ranked choice voting after no candidate receives the majority of the vote.

Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
overall, one of the most pathetic campaigns I've ever seen but at least we got some gems
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar — and that's great!"
Breaking News: Mayor Eric Adams will endorse Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City to try to stop the momentum of Zohran Mamdani. nyti.ms/4nfliHv
October 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
October 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
it reminds me of the mid-2010s mania for MOOCs, when all education was going to be online
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
October 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Leaked U.S. docs show that Arab states have been quietly expanding security cooperation with Israel during its war on Gaza.

The effort includes Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. (Kuwait and Oman also participated.)

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. files reveal Israeli-Arab military cooperation, even as Gaza war raged
Documents from U.S. Central Command show a series of meetings over the past three years between Israeli and Arab military officials to coordinate on regional threats.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.
October 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I love reading the news
October 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Wow, so it turns out the U.S. has enormous leverage over Israel and can get its way if a president applies some pressure. We were reliably told by Biden administration officials that such a thing was simply impossible!

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Lmao the crazy gotcha question is basically "how will you convince people to vote for you?"
Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”
October 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
new levels of work-life balance unlocked
October 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
obscene to say anything other than baseball
The sport that is 'America's sport,' according to US adults:
Football 53%
Baseball 27%
Basketball 8%
Soccer 3%
Auto racing 3%
Hockey 1%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/05/by-a-wide-margin-americans-say-football-not-baseball-is-americas-sport/
October 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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(solemnly) You've had mail.
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
balcony solar is one of the coolest things I've heard about in a while and I'm glad more places are getting on board
Good news! Small solar-panel kits that can be assembled as easily as an Ikea bookcase and plugged into a regular residential outlet could be coming soon to New Hampshire and Vermont.

From our friends at @canarymedia.com:
New Hampshire and Vermont could be next to introduce "balcony solar"
Cheap, plug-in systems that reduce people's bills without red tape are piquing bipartisan interest.
www.motherjones.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Ezra Klein getting pretty much universally criticized in the YouTube comments of his discussion with Ta-Nehisi Coates.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaeo...
September 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM