@mrindig0.bsky.social
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three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
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"MAGA loves it. MAGA loves what I’m doing. MAGA loves everything I do," Trump said. "MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too."
January 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM
"MAGA loves it. MAGA loves what I’m doing. MAGA loves everything I do," Trump said. "MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too."
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"But [Trump] had a one-word answer for who is ultimately in charge: 'Me.'"
January 5, 2026 at 11:27 PM
"But [Trump] had a one-word answer for who is ultimately in charge: 'Me.'"
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"Moreover, he said, the U.S. may subsidize an effort by oil companies to rebuild the country's energy infrastructure — a project he said could take less than 18 months."
January 5, 2026 at 11:24 PM
"Moreover, he said, the U.S. may subsidize an effort by oil companies to rebuild the country's energy infrastructure — a project he said could take less than 18 months."
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"Venezuela will not have new elections in the next 30 days, President Donald Trump said in an interview with NBC News on Monday, projecting a longer-term engagement..."
Trump says the U.S. is not at war with Venezuela
In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Trump discussed the path forward in Venezuela, including when there will be elections, the opportunities for oil companies and Congress' role.
www.nbcnews.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:24 PM
"Venezuela will not have new elections in the next 30 days, President Donald Trump said in an interview with NBC News on Monday, projecting a longer-term engagement..."
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The Hilton Hotel that refused reservations from DHS officials has now backpedalled and said it will accommodate them. Came after DHS X account posted emails. For years the right coalesced around businesses being able to refuse customers of certain demographics
www.404media.co/hilton-hotel...
www.404media.co/hilton-hotel...
Hilton Hotel That Refused DHS Reservations Backpedals
The hotel told 404 Media in a statement “We are in touch with the impacted guests to ensure they are accommodated.”
www.404media.co
January 5, 2026 at 11:14 PM
The Hilton Hotel that refused reservations from DHS officials has now backpedalled and said it will accommodate them. Came after DHS X account posted emails. For years the right coalesced around businesses being able to refuse customers of certain demographics
www.404media.co/hilton-hotel...
www.404media.co/hilton-hotel...
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Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
archive if you get the paywall: archive.is/EbLvr
archive if you get the paywall: archive.is/EbLvr
Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
archive if you get the paywall: archive.is/EbLvr
archive if you get the paywall: archive.is/EbLvr
A workmate of mine called this mid 2025, if not earlier
Trend-spotters are proclaiming that fiber is the new protein — the 2026 “it” nutrient. There’s a real risk the fad will backfire as people take fiber too far.
Here is what you need to know to benefit from the trend and the potential traps.
Here is what you need to know to benefit from the trend and the potential traps.
Column | You’re probably not eating enough fiber. Here’s what to do about it.
How much fiber do you need, and how can you get more of it into your diet?
wapo.st
January 6, 2026 at 11:51 AM
A workmate of mine called this mid 2025, if not earlier
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There's also people using Grok to fulfil their specific fetishes with celebrities, for example:
January 6, 2026 at 11:45 AM
There's also people using Grok to fulfil their specific fetishes with celebrities, for example:
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"donut glaze" is similarly used to get around filters, and is being used widely.
January 5, 2026 at 8:20 PM
"donut glaze" is similarly used to get around filters, and is being used widely.
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Just to give you a sense of the scale of this, these are the search results for "@grok string bikini" over the last hour.
January 5, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Just to give you a sense of the scale of this, these are the search results for "@grok string bikini" over the last hour.
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It's also pretty clear that people are posting images of celebrities with the intention of driving engagement with replies asking Grok to take their clothes off.
January 5, 2026 at 5:56 PM
It's also pretty clear that people are posting images of celebrities with the intention of driving engagement with replies asking Grok to take their clothes off.
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One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
January 5, 2026 at 5:37 PM
One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
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I think about this, but also how the Ford Pinto gained a reputation for being a fire-prone death trap as a result of killing 28 people in the decade it was available for sale - one more than the number of people who perished in Tesla fires in 2023.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 10:37 AM
I think about this, but also how the Ford Pinto gained a reputation for being a fire-prone death trap as a result of killing 28 people in the decade it was available for sale - one more than the number of people who perished in Tesla fires in 2023.
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Mercedes coming on to talk about car AI so that we can mash together LLMs and other kinds of AI so The Lies Can Continue
January 5, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Mercedes coming on to talk about car AI so that we can mash together LLMs and other kinds of AI so The Lies Can Continue
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Standing room only at the NVIDIA keynote. Currently a VC analyst and founder burping up word salad. The abridge ceo just said “the majority of doctors use AI,” we’ve had multiple things said so far that are complete nonsense
January 5, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Standing room only at the NVIDIA keynote. Currently a VC analyst and founder burping up word salad. The abridge ceo just said “the majority of doctors use AI,” we’ve had multiple things said so far that are complete nonsense
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this is the future of digital conflict and it will work.
Anyway, here’s a fun thought: things 09A show that “communities” based around pure nihilism can form online, this combined with LLMs and chatbot psychosis, mean you could create scalable turnkey antisocial behavior inculcators as a service. I’m certain nation-states are already thinking about this.
I think the mechanism is pretty clear imo: it's trained to be agreeable, and so when someone with mental illness starts inputting their delusions it defaults to affirmation. what's more interesting is why this isn't happening with the other chatbots. just not as much market penetration?
January 5, 2026 at 9:43 PM
this is the future of digital conflict and it will work.
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"Laws are only as good as the willingness of people to enforce them," is the epitaph of this era.
Now would European leaders actually have the stomach for shooting at US forces if they seized Greenland next week?
Eh given how basically nobody has the stomach to even send troops to Ukraine right now I’m going to bet absolutely not.
In which case why shouldn’t Trump go for it, free real estate!
Eh given how basically nobody has the stomach to even send troops to Ukraine right now I’m going to bet absolutely not.
In which case why shouldn’t Trump go for it, free real estate!
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 PM
"Laws are only as good as the willingness of people to enforce them," is the epitaph of this era.
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you can't understand what needs to be fixed if you don't get that we've been barking up the wrong trees and poisoning our minds for decades. these places are bad for us. they are bad for the world. you should view what we do here as slightly less responsible than shooting up heroin.
January 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
you can't understand what needs to be fixed if you don't get that we've been barking up the wrong trees and poisoning our minds for decades. these places are bad for us. they are bad for the world. you should view what we do here as slightly less responsible than shooting up heroin.
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truly shocked that some people thought there was ever a chance of making this place non-toxic. did you not hang out on Twitter prior to Musk? this kind of platform is fundamentally poisoned, as is all social media and nearly every kind of online community
January 5, 2026 at 7:59 PM
truly shocked that some people thought there was ever a chance of making this place non-toxic. did you not hang out on Twitter prior to Musk? this kind of platform is fundamentally poisoned, as is all social media and nearly every kind of online community
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This is the best citation of my work yet
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
January 4, 2026 at 10:22 PM
This is the best citation of my work yet
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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really tired of seeing claims that our illegal kidnapping of the Venezuelan president is to "distract" us from the Epstein files. Trump and the men around him have wanted this for a long time. this is a bad thing in its own right, not some attempt to hide from accountability
January 5, 2026 at 3:26 AM
really tired of seeing claims that our illegal kidnapping of the Venezuelan president is to "distract" us from the Epstein files. Trump and the men around him have wanted this for a long time. this is a bad thing in its own right, not some attempt to hide from accountability
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WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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BREAKING: An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.
Cuba says 32 Cuban officers were killed in US action in Venezuela
An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said Sunday in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.
bit.ly
January 5, 2026 at 2:27 AM
BREAKING: An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.