Josh Lowe
@joshlowe.bsky.social
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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
January 2, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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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"Grok" doesn't say anything. It's not a person. It's software that parrots what humans tell it to say. Get it through your skulls: The Computer Is Not Alive.
January 2, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"Grok" doesn't say anything. It's not a person. It's software that parrots what humans tell it to say. Get it through your skulls: The Computer Is Not Alive.
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‘talking to a computer like it’s a person’ used to be a semi-annual media fetish whenever a new marble eyed 3D child or robot could say ‘good morning’ when prompted. level of intrigue as when an old lady taught her dog to use the microwave.
now these stories are weekly and hold the economy hostage.
now these stories are weekly and hold the economy hostage.
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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January 2, 2026 at 3:32 PM
‘talking to a computer like it’s a person’ used to be a semi-annual media fetish whenever a new marble eyed 3D child or robot could say ‘good morning’ when prompted. level of intrigue as when an old lady taught her dog to use the microwave.
now these stories are weekly and hold the economy hostage.
now these stories are weekly and hold the economy hostage.
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"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"
January 2, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
I don't have much respect for people whose entire bit on Bluesky is posting Twitter screencaps. Fuck that site, leave it where it belongs.
January 2, 2026 at 5:04 AM
I don't have much respect for people whose entire bit on Bluesky is posting Twitter screencaps. Fuck that site, leave it where it belongs.
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The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.
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So glad I left when Elon took over. Staying there is morally indefensible at this point.
January 2, 2026 at 2:24 AM
So glad I left when Elon took over. Staying there is morally indefensible at this point.
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The world’s richest man is an explicit white supremacist whose personal LLM publicly produces and distributes CSAM based on real people. He has also built a compound to hold the dozens of children he has had with nearly as many women.
This man has a TS clearance.
This man has a TS clearance.
January 1, 2026 at 10:05 PM
The world’s richest man is an explicit white supremacist whose personal LLM publicly produces and distributes CSAM based on real people. He has also built a compound to hold the dozens of children he has had with nearly as many women.
This man has a TS clearance.
This man has a TS clearance.
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
2026 will be the Year of Salacious Crumb
January 1, 2026 at 1:44 PM
2026 will be the Year of Salacious Crumb
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January 1, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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any discussion of city transit improvement online ever
January 1, 2026 at 12:07 AM
any discussion of city transit improvement online ever
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Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself.
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December 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself.
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storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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they wouldnt be doing this had the media shamed them for “theyre eating the pets” instead of treating it like a legit campaign issue. they wouldnt be doing it if the democratic leadership had made them pay a political price for gutter racist trash
December 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
they wouldnt be doing this had the media shamed them for “theyre eating the pets” instead of treating it like a legit campaign issue. they wouldnt be doing it if the democratic leadership had made them pay a political price for gutter racist trash
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the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored
December 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored
Pedocon.
Matt Gaetz, former Trump AG pick, had sex with underage girl while in Congress, House Ethics report says
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/23/m...
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/23/m...
Matt Gaetz, former Trump AG pick, had sex with underage girl while in Congress, House Ethics report says
Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress after President-elect Donald Trump picked him to be attorney general, putting the fate of the House Ethics report in question.
www.cnbc.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Pedocon.
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“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.
Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.
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shit like this is the core of the damage the social internet has done to us
we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same
we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same
Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
December 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
shit like this is the core of the damage the social internet has done to us
we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same
we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same
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Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
December 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
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🚨 THEY POISONED A WHOLE COMMUNITY. THE EPA HELPED COVER IT UP
After the Feb. 3, 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment & chemical disaster in East Palestine, OH, the EPA assured local residents everything was safe. That's not what independent testing expert Scott Smith found... @therealnews.com
After the Feb. 3, 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment & chemical disaster in East Palestine, OH, the EPA assured local residents everything was safe. That's not what independent testing expert Scott Smith found... @therealnews.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
🚨 THEY POISONED A WHOLE COMMUNITY. THE EPA HELPED COVER IT UP
After the Feb. 3, 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment & chemical disaster in East Palestine, OH, the EPA assured local residents everything was safe. That's not what independent testing expert Scott Smith found... @therealnews.com
After the Feb. 3, 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment & chemical disaster in East Palestine, OH, the EPA assured local residents everything was safe. That's not what independent testing expert Scott Smith found... @therealnews.com
Another AWS outage?
December 25, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Another AWS outage?
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CBS and 60 Minutes may not bring you the CECOT story that aired in Canada, and I can understand why the Trump admin wants it memory holed.
What happened there is horrendous and shamefully done in the name of the American people.
I interviewed a CECOT survivor.
www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
What happened there is horrendous and shamefully done in the name of the American people.
I interviewed a CECOT survivor.
www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
Andry Hernández Romero on surviving CECOT: 'They told us we would die there'
<p>“I want the world to know that being Venezuelan is not a crime,” the gay makeup artist told <em><em>The Advocate</em></em> in an exclusive interview.</p>
www.advocate.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
CBS and 60 Minutes may not bring you the CECOT story that aired in Canada, and I can understand why the Trump admin wants it memory holed.
What happened there is horrendous and shamefully done in the name of the American people.
I interviewed a CECOT survivor.
www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
What happened there is horrendous and shamefully done in the name of the American people.
I interviewed a CECOT survivor.
www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...