Michael Reilly
@reillymj.bsky.social
Tech and science journalist. Founding Editor, Project Glitch.
of late I have taken to locating the “j” “f” and “c” keys by looking for my keyboards three blank letters
The far-right conspiracy site Infowars says it has signed the Pentagon press agreement and says Breanna Morello will be joining the 'new media' press corps covering the Defense Department.
"I won't be moving to D.C. of course—thank god," she caveats. x.com/infowars/sta...
"I won't be moving to D.C. of course—thank god," she caveats. x.com/infowars/sta...
INFOWARS on X: "🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Breanna Morello will be covering news at the Pentagon as a part of the Pentagon Press Corps! The new Pentagon Press Corps consists of over 60 journalists that will combat the fake news stranglehold of legacy media. This is great news for truth and https://t.co/id0VtguTIW" / X
🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Breanna Morello will be covering news at the Pentagon as a part of the Pentagon Press Corps! The new Pentagon Press Corps consists of over 60 journalists that will combat the fake news stranglehold of legacy media. This is great news for truth and https://t.co/id0VtguTIW
x.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
of late I have taken to locating the “j” “f” and “c” keys by looking for my keyboards three blank letters
insane video
AI is reinventing acts of desperation from guaranteed political losers
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.
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 1:58 PM
insane video
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It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.
October 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.
strong Bay to Breakers vibes
October 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
strong Bay to Breakers vibes
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“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving
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Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.
This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.
This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.
This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.
This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.
Very excited to have cryptographer @matthewdgreen.bsky.social joining us!
With the DC Privacy Summit around the corner on 10/16, we're delighted to say Johns Hopkins professor @matthewdgreen.bsky.social will join us as a keynote speaker. More information available here: dcprivacysummit.org
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Very excited to have cryptographer @matthewdgreen.bsky.social joining us!
Very nice piece on the new wave of crypto media operators out in (appropriately) @amediaoperator.com Thanks to @karivmcmahon.bsky.social for taking a look at this space and featuring @projectglitch.bsky.social —much more to come! www.amediaoperator.com/analysis/cry...
Crypto's Mainstream. What About Crypto Media? - A Media Operator
Times are booming for the crypto industry. Bitcoin is trading at around $112,000, close to its all-time high, and crypto companies are…
www.amediaoperator.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Very nice piece on the new wave of crypto media operators out in (appropriately) @amediaoperator.com Thanks to @karivmcmahon.bsky.social for taking a look at this space and featuring @projectglitch.bsky.social —much more to come! www.amediaoperator.com/analysis/cry...
All those folks who were like “pulling Colbert was just a business decision bc late night shows aren’t profitable; nothing to do with politics” still going with that argument?
September 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
All those folks who were like “pulling Colbert was just a business decision bc late night shows aren’t profitable; nothing to do with politics” still going with that argument?
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MMR vaccines do not cause autism (see my 🧵 of studies)
At the same time, one potential cause of autism is rubella, which is *prevented* by MMR vaccines.
Which means...vaccines may actually help prevent autism.
🧵
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21592401/
At the same time, one potential cause of autism is rubella, which is *prevented* by MMR vaccines.
Which means...vaccines may actually help prevent autism.
🧵
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21592401/
Congenital rubella syndrome and autism spectrum disorder prevented by rubella vaccination--United States, 2001-2010 - PubMed
We estimate that rubella vaccination prevented substantial numbers of CRS and ASD cases in the United States from 2001 through 2010. These findings provide additional incentive to maintain high measle...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
MMR vaccines do not cause autism (see my 🧵 of studies)
At the same time, one potential cause of autism is rubella, which is *prevented* by MMR vaccines.
Which means...vaccines may actually help prevent autism.
🧵
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21592401/
At the same time, one potential cause of autism is rubella, which is *prevented* by MMR vaccines.
Which means...vaccines may actually help prevent autism.
🧵
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21592401/
Very confusing sign on EPA building in DC today. Still allowed to go posting stuff like this in public??
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Very confusing sign on EPA building in DC today. Still allowed to go posting stuff like this in public??
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Mixed ideology actors are often lethal when they act, but they are dangerous for another reason: They allow anyone looking at them to identify them as whoever you don't like. And it is that belief which will only beget more violence.
September 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Mixed ideology actors are often lethal when they act, but they are dangerous for another reason: They allow anyone looking at them to identify them as whoever you don't like. And it is that belief which will only beget more violence.
waiting for the doc I am just tickled by this image of my own skull staring at me
August 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
waiting for the doc I am just tickled by this image of my own skull staring at me
Interesting and makes sense—cars with their windows rolled up are basically little greenhouses.
Wild: Dark-coloured cars are the worst, making the air around them 3.8°C hotter vs nearby asphalt road.
!!
Climate change is… not short on reasons to make us rethink what we’re doing with our cities
Climate change is… not short on reasons to make us rethink what we’re doing with our cities
August 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Interesting and makes sense—cars with their windows rolled up are basically little greenhouses.
People who think of themselves as longtermists need to remember this. Technology is cool but chemistry is life.
Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.
July 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
People who think of themselves as longtermists need to remember this. Technology is cool but chemistry is life.
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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
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Reminds me of the time a slop factory rewrote an FT piece of my own but replaced words with synonyms throughout. "told the Financial Times" became "told Monetary Happenings"
An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
July 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reminds me of the time a slop factory rewrote an FT piece of my own but replaced words with synonyms throughout. "told the Financial Times" became "told Monetary Happenings"
Braaak stochastic parrot want more capital to buy GPU clusters braaak!
I don’t even like it when the ticket machine at a parking lot tells me to have a nice day. It doesn’t know what a day is, can’t know what nice means, and has no way to determine whether I should have anything.
stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏
July 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Braaak stochastic parrot want more capital to buy GPU clusters braaak!
the level of heartlessness is just staggering
July 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
the level of heartlessness is just staggering
super interesting
Desalination (removing salt from seawater) helps address water scarcity. What if it could also clean up our atmosphere?
Our new report explores how integrating carbon removal into desalination plants can deliver big climate and environmental wins.
Read more: bit.ly/406ItuY
Our new report explores how integrating carbon removal into desalination plants can deliver big climate and environmental wins.
Read more: bit.ly/406ItuY
July 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
super interesting
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Tesla Robotaxi Keeps Changing Subject To White Genocide
July 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Tesla Robotaxi Keeps Changing Subject To White Genocide
Meanwhile, in China:
July 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Meanwhile, in China:
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The US is falling behind the curve on solar power – a key energy source of the 21st century. We are losing our edge to China on the technology that we originally invented.
Now Senate republicans want to take out our solar industry at the knees in their "Big Beautiful Bill":
Now Senate republicans want to take out our solar industry at the knees in their "Big Beautiful Bill":
June 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The US is falling behind the curve on solar power – a key energy source of the 21st century. We are losing our edge to China on the technology that we originally invented.
Now Senate republicans want to take out our solar industry at the knees in their "Big Beautiful Bill":
Now Senate republicans want to take out our solar industry at the knees in their "Big Beautiful Bill":
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We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.