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Unlocked for all: How are we to fight the fascists and AI-assisted misinformation at the same time?
Yesterday, an AI slop outlet, created only that day, managed to fool Grok and millions of others about the identity of the hero of Bondi Beach.
How can legitimate media compete?
Yesterday, an AI slop outlet, created only that day, managed to fool Grok and millions of others about the identity of the hero of Bondi Beach.
How can legitimate media compete?
Today’s newsletter - AI slop makes the Bondi Beach tragedy even worse.
Losing My Perspicacity, December 15, 2025
Out of the Bondi Beach tragedy, a stark reminder of what journalists are up against
losingmyperspicacity.beehiiv.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Unlocked for all: How are we to fight the fascists and AI-assisted misinformation at the same time?
Yesterday, an AI slop outlet, created only that day, managed to fool Grok and millions of others about the identity of the hero of Bondi Beach.
How can legitimate media compete?
Yesterday, an AI slop outlet, created only that day, managed to fool Grok and millions of others about the identity of the hero of Bondi Beach.
How can legitimate media compete?
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Martha Stewart-style perfection and studied Instagram fodder completely miss the heart of holiday decorations: memory and history. Decades of life; generations of hand-me-downs from grandparents, parents, cousins, sibs. Births, marriages, divorces, deaths. Completely mismatched; utterly perfect.
December 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Martha Stewart-style perfection and studied Instagram fodder completely miss the heart of holiday decorations: memory and history. Decades of life; generations of hand-me-downs from grandparents, parents, cousins, sibs. Births, marriages, divorces, deaths. Completely mismatched; utterly perfect.
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Republican Indiana State Senator: We don't want to be redistricting every 2 years at the whim of the president. It makes the legislative process just too transactional.
December 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Republican Indiana State Senator: We don't want to be redistricting every 2 years at the whim of the president. It makes the legislative process just too transactional.
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We need some hard science on why self-soothing with old Columbo episodes is so very soothing.
December 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
We need some hard science on why self-soothing with old Columbo episodes is so very soothing.
When people wonder why life-long Dems stay in a red state, it's for rare moments like this.
A 9-0 GOP gerrymander goes down in flames.
Indiana Republicans just defied Trump's pressure to rig their House maps
A 9-0 GOP gerrymander goes down in flames.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
When people wonder why life-long Dems stay in a red state, it's for rare moments like this.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene spent today’s Kristi Noem hearing praising Noem, Tom Homan, Trump, and his immigration policies, and giving them credit for making our border “stronger than it’s ever been” - on the off chance you were thinking of giving her credit for … anything.
December 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene spent today’s Kristi Noem hearing praising Noem, Tom Homan, Trump, and his immigration policies, and giving them credit for making our border “stronger than it’s ever been” - on the off chance you were thinking of giving her credit for … anything.
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anyone who thinks of the Postal Service as a money-losing business instead of one of the peak achievements of American society belongs in prison
December 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
anyone who thinks of the Postal Service as a money-losing business instead of one of the peak achievements of American society belongs in prison
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Been through POS Reagan ..Old Man Bush...The Lessor Bush...and a term of the CURRENT fuck 🤬..40+ years of Republican POTUS administrations who ALWAYS decimated the economy & bought SHAME to 🇺🇸 each & EVERY one of them because the GOP has ALWAYS been deplorable...but hey...y'all got to OWN THE LIBS!😡
December 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Been through POS Reagan ..Old Man Bush...The Lessor Bush...and a term of the CURRENT fuck 🤬..40+ years of Republican POTUS administrations who ALWAYS decimated the economy & bought SHAME to 🇺🇸 each & EVERY one of them because the GOP has ALWAYS been deplorable...but hey...y'all got to OWN THE LIBS!😡
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40 years ago? Sheesh...
I loved it when the actors from the movie would be in the video for songs on the soundtrack #80s
🗣When the going gets tough...
I loved it when the actors from the movie would be in the video for songs on the soundtrack #80s
🗣When the going gets tough...
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
40 years ago? Sheesh...
I loved it when the actors from the movie would be in the video for songs on the soundtrack #80s
🗣When the going gets tough...
I loved it when the actors from the movie would be in the video for songs on the soundtrack #80s
🗣When the going gets tough...
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SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
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Never doubt that a small dedicated group of like minded people can literally change the world. That is why it is absolutely essential we hunt them down and stop them.
September 4, 2023 at 7:46 AM
Never doubt that a small dedicated group of like minded people can literally change the world. That is why it is absolutely essential we hunt them down and stop them.
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Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!
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fuck off in all the ways you can think of and then hire a writers room to brainstorm more ways for you to fuck off and then fuck off in all of those ways too
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 AM
fuck off in all the ways you can think of and then hire a writers room to brainstorm more ways for you to fuck off and then fuck off in all of those ways too
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December 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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He is absolutely making this stuff up.
Kudlow is just lying to his viewers: "Unemployment is at rock bottom. These are real facts. I'm not making this stuff up. Unemployment claims are as low as they're ever going to get."
December 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
He is absolutely making this stuff up.
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All because this mothafuckin country would NOT vote for a WOMAN in 2016 & 2024🤬
Nothing says racism, cruelty, hatred and weakness combined in one quite like the orange felon removing all free access to National Parks on federal holidays that honor black people whilst giving free access on his own birthday. He should’ve been sent to jail forever.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 AM
All because this mothafuckin country would NOT vote for a WOMAN in 2016 & 2024🤬
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A great pleasure to visit Shysters, the only hot dog stand run by an IRS lawyer in a suit. Plus, he serves the "correct" hot dog Chicago style.
December 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A great pleasure to visit Shysters, the only hot dog stand run by an IRS lawyer in a suit. Plus, he serves the "correct" hot dog Chicago style.
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Indiana has rapidly become the latest flashpoint in the GOP’s national push to engineer aggressive mid-decade gerrymanders. Few states illustrate the immense costs to voters and how far lawmakers are willing to go to appease President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/ind...
Indiana’s GOP Shows Us the Future of Gerrymandering — And It’s Grim: A Conversation With Election Law Expert Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Indiana has rapidly become the latest flashpoint in the GOP’s national push to engineer aggressive mid-decade gerrymanders. Few states illustrate the immense costs to voters and how far lawmakers are willing to go to appease President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/ind...
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“Donald Trump’s biggest trick was convincing Americans that cruelty doesn’t matter.”
Losing My Perspicacity, December 5, 2025
Donald Trump's biggest trick was convincing Americans that cruelty doesn't matter
losingmyperspicacity.beehiiv.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“Donald Trump’s biggest trick was convincing Americans that cruelty doesn’t matter.”
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For guys who don’t want to be called Nazis they sure act like Nazis
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
For guys who don’t want to be called Nazis they sure act like Nazis
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All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.
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There are two kinds of problems: problems you can solve with money and those you can’t.
We can solve the first kind by taxing the fuck out of billionaires. That’s about half our problems, so it would make a dent.
We can solve the first kind by taxing the fuck out of billionaires. That’s about half our problems, so it would make a dent.
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There are two kinds of problems: problems you can solve with money and those you can’t.
We can solve the first kind by taxing the fuck out of billionaires. That’s about half our problems, so it would make a dent.
We can solve the first kind by taxing the fuck out of billionaires. That’s about half our problems, so it would make a dent.
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I know Democrats aspire to be a big tent party but I don't think Trump-appointed judges belong in the tent
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I know Democrats aspire to be a big tent party but I don't think Trump-appointed judges belong in the tent
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Losing My Perspicacity, December 2, 2025
Another illegal Trump appointee bites the dust
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December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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