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It's time to officially let X/Twitter go. That platform's decline from a vibrant public square to what is now a platform for hate & disinformation has been painful to experience. I’ve already in this great community & look forward to continuing our conversations.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
www.reuters.com/business/med...
US teachers union says it's leaving X over sexualized AI images of children
The American Federation of Teachers says it is leaving X, citing the social media site's creation and dissemination of "sickening" images of children in various states of undress.
www.reuters.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:21 PM
It's time to officially let X/Twitter go. That platform's decline from a vibrant public square to what is now a platform for hate & disinformation has been painful to experience. I’ve already in this great community & look forward to continuing our conversations.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
www.reuters.com/business/med...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Arrives on Campus
In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...
www.insidehighered.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:24 PM
It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
I wonder if there will be any reflection by leadership at the Times about how they managed to get duped by not one but two of the most obvious charlatans of the era
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/bu...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/bu...
January 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
I wonder if there will be any reflection by leadership at the Times about how they managed to get duped by not one but two of the most obvious charlatans of the era
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/bu...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/bu...
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"Government ministers cannot be making policy announcements in a space that hosts AI-generated, near-naked pictures of young girls."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
"Government ministers cannot be making policy announcements in a space that hosts AI-generated, near-naked pictures of young girls."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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the dichotomy of bluesky
January 12, 2026 at 8:19 AM
the dichotomy of bluesky
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“Their version of ICE bears less resemblance to the federal agency formed under the George W. Bush administration than to exactly what Pelley yearned to produce: a paramilitary unit accountable only to a dictator.” www.liberalcurrents.com/return-of-th...
Return of the Silver Shirts
In ICE's invasion of Minneapolis, an echo of a dark past.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:04 AM
“Their version of ICE bears less resemblance to the federal agency formed under the George W. Bush administration than to exactly what Pelley yearned to produce: a paramilitary unit accountable only to a dictator.” www.liberalcurrents.com/return-of-th...
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Note that the sudden rise in "nudification" is not an advance in the tech itself, it's a design choice by Musk / xAI.
LMMs trained with nude images have been able to do this for years; Grok is the first time a major company has chosen to enhance this functionality for users rather than restrict it.
LMMs trained with nude images have been able to do this for years; Grok is the first time a major company has chosen to enhance this functionality for users rather than restrict it.
The “put her in a bikini” trend began quietly at the end of last year before exploding at the start of 2026. Within days, hundreds of thousands of requests were being made to the Grok chatbot, asking it to strip the clothes from photographs of women.
‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral
The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Note that the sudden rise in "nudification" is not an advance in the tech itself, it's a design choice by Musk / xAI.
LMMs trained with nude images have been able to do this for years; Grok is the first time a major company has chosen to enhance this functionality for users rather than restrict it.
LMMs trained with nude images have been able to do this for years; Grok is the first time a major company has chosen to enhance this functionality for users rather than restrict it.
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By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪
January 11, 2026 at 5:47 AM
By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪
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I'm not even arguing. I just want to make sure I understand the official position:
"If you call the man that shot an unarmed woman in the face 3 times as she drove away while calling her a 'f*cking bitch,' a murderer, then *you* are being hateful, and we'll have to shoot more women in the face"🤡
"If you call the man that shot an unarmed woman in the face 3 times as she drove away while calling her a 'f*cking bitch,' a murderer, then *you* are being hateful, and we'll have to shoot more women in the face"🤡
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I'm not even arguing. I just want to make sure I understand the official position:
"If you call the man that shot an unarmed woman in the face 3 times as she drove away while calling her a 'f*cking bitch,' a murderer, then *you* are being hateful, and we'll have to shoot more women in the face"🤡
"If you call the man that shot an unarmed woman in the face 3 times as she drove away while calling her a 'f*cking bitch,' a murderer, then *you* are being hateful, and we'll have to shoot more women in the face"🤡
Subscribe to this awesome labeler by @aendra.com and then set to “warn” to automatically hide screenshots from other social networks (you can still expand to see if you really need to). Community labelers are of my favorite Bluesky features!
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January 11, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Subscribe to this awesome labeler by @aendra.com and then set to “warn” to automatically hide screenshots from other social networks (you can still expand to see if you really need to). Community labelers are of my favorite Bluesky features!
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bsky.app/profile/xblo...
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Soon-Tzu Speechley wrote this in 2020, ‘what if we write about American food the way they write about us’
“In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a ‘burger,’ a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it […]
“In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a ‘burger,’ a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it […]
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January 11, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Soon-Tzu Speechley wrote this in 2020, ‘what if we write about American food the way they write about us’
“In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a ‘burger,’ a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it […]
“In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a ‘burger,’ a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it […]
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January 11, 2026 at 4:29 AM
I’ve said it before, a big reason the mainstream media is unprepared to adequately cover this moment is they blacklisted everyone who understands the dynamics at play, ie gawker alumni
The gamerculturification of the American right has made it so that a federal agent can kill a queer woman while calling her a fucking bitch and antisocial, angry streamers and politicians will unanimously agree she deserved to die because of pronouns and nose rings and being a woman.
January 11, 2026 at 2:30 AM
I’ve said it before, a big reason the mainstream media is unprepared to adequately cover this moment is they blacklisted everyone who understands the dynamics at play, ie gawker alumni
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After years of hunting down and demonising T&S folks, researchers, defunding orgs, suing advertising orgs etc…. We finally see overtly that the free speech absolutism agenda was about cover for pedophilia and abuse of women.
January 10, 2026 at 1:03 PM
After years of hunting down and demonising T&S folks, researchers, defunding orgs, suing advertising orgs etc…. We finally see overtly that the free speech absolutism agenda was about cover for pedophilia and abuse of women.
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if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement
The elephant in the room is that mayors and governors across the country have very good reason to question the loyalty and allegiances of the state and local police forces and that’s one of the impediments to doing anything about the current occupations
January 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement
Lololol engineers at Musk's xAI, parent company of both Grok and Twitter, were using Claude Code but they just got shut off.
Begs the question: when will Anthropic's engineers stop posting to the synthetic CSAM-on-demand app formerly known as Twitter?
Begs the question: when will Anthropic's engineers stop posting to the synthetic CSAM-on-demand app formerly known as Twitter?
January 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Lololol engineers at Musk's xAI, parent company of both Grok and Twitter, were using Claude Code but they just got shut off.
Begs the question: when will Anthropic's engineers stop posting to the synthetic CSAM-on-demand app formerly known as Twitter?
Begs the question: when will Anthropic's engineers stop posting to the synthetic CSAM-on-demand app formerly known as Twitter?
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chickenshits www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:49 PM
chickenshits www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
This is what we mean by socialist utopia
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:05 PM
This is what we mean by socialist utopia
Oil tankers literally racing to evade capture by the navy doesn’t sound like an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen or anything.
"mass departure was a calculated bet intended to overwhelm US enforcement"
“All of these vessels fleeing at once is a gamble that US forces don’t have the legal power or capability to stop them all... It’s essentially a zombie race, you just have to be faster than the next boat”
“All of these vessels fleeing at once is a gamble that US forces don’t have the legal power or capability to stop them all... It’s essentially a zombie race, you just have to be faster than the next boat”
January 9, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Oil tankers literally racing to evade capture by the navy doesn’t sound like an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen or anything.
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I really don’t understand why more people don’t seem to realize this. The only power people like Musk have is the power we give him.
The only way to win the communications war long term is to stop using the tools owned and controlled by those that hate you and want to stack things against you.
Government should stay on X despite the Grok scandal, Keir Starmer's former communications director has said
James Lyons, who worked at TikTok before serving in Downing St, told PolHome podcast The Rundown that quitting Elon Musk's platform would leave a "vacuum" for Labour's rivals to fill
James Lyons, who worked at TikTok before serving in Downing St, told PolHome podcast The Rundown that quitting Elon Musk's platform would leave a "vacuum" for Labour's rivals to fill
January 9, 2026 at 5:43 AM
I really don’t understand why more people don’t seem to realize this. The only power people like Musk have is the power we give him.
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This is most excellent
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 3:24 AM
This is most excellent
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twitter was always exactly this. what we're seeing this week is a culmination of years and years of abuse run rampant on the platform, supercharged by a megalomaniac's greed and fantasy www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexu...
Grok's AI Sexual Abuse Didn't Come Out of Nowhere
With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their contest, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
twitter was always exactly this. what we're seeing this week is a culmination of years and years of abuse run rampant on the platform, supercharged by a megalomaniac's greed and fantasy www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexu...
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icymi, I posted this just before Christmas: www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end o...
www.wrecka.ge
January 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
icymi, I posted this just before Christmas: www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...