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Wenz
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Transatlantic European | Liberal | IT Engineer
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bunkerhunter.bsky.social
DEN MUSS MAN GESEHEN HABEN!

KAAWWOOOMMMMM

Wait for it….

Da wird nicht mehr viel übrig sein. 😏🤷‍♂️
April 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
wenz76.bsky.social
Manlet energy
April 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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atrupar.com
🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."
April 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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mattmfm.bsky.social
Larry David writing a NYT guest essay as a man having dinner with Hitler, just to roast Bill Maher as a smug, self-important clown, is the stuff of comedy legend.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
April 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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jentaub.bsky.social
And here I was always told that it was the left that wanted to destroy the American empire.
ewong.bsky.social Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · Apr 22
BREAKING: Rubio announces major cuts to the State Department in a war on "ideology." He is eliminating the office that advances American values of democracy and human rights. He aims to cut 15% of US-based employees. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
Marco Rubio Shares Plans for Overhaul of State Department
The secretary of state posted an organizational chart and statement that revealed few details. Among the changes was the elimination of the office that advances American values around the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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evangreer.bsky.social
Here’s “Basket Case” except it’s about why you shouldn’t use Face ID or a thumbprint to unlock your phone
April 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
If your mom has to step in to help you out, you probably aren’t up to the job. Just saying.
Tweet: Pete Hegseth told RSC members his mom has been making calls to senators on his behalf, per source.
December 5, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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maddenifico.bsky.social
Trump's win shows us who we really are: This article by professor Aaron W. Hughey is one of the most powerful and accurate post-election indictments of America you'll ever read. 😳👇
December 3, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
Oligarchy, then and now.
antitoxicpeople.bsky.social Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · Nov 30
History repeats.

In late February 1921, 2 weeks before taking office as POTUS, Warren Harding writes a letter to the richest man in America, William Randolph Hearst, thanking him for helping him win the presidency with favorable coverage in major newspapers he owned & begging for his advice.
November 30, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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debbienorthway.bsky.social
America
November 28, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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katelynburns.com
This story knocked the wind out of me and i hope esquire paid this man.

www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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drandrealove.bsky.social
I’m thankful for the top ten scientific developments that improve health:

Vaccines
Antibiotics & antimicrobials
Clean water, sanitation, & hygiene
Food safety & fortification innovations
Modern agriculture methods
Public health education campaigns

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November 28, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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literarypearls.bsky.social
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

Thomas Mann
November 28, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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noupside.bsky.social
5 years ago yesterday I wrote an essay arguing that institutions were thinking about online media, insurgencies, & manipulation campaigns all wrong. Fighting the last war.

The Digital Maginot line, I called it. It went viral then.

Here it is on its anniversary. www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/t...
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series The Feed There is a war happening. We are immersed in an evolving, ongoing conflict: an Information World War in which state actors, terrorists, and ideological extremists leverage the social infrastructure underpinning everyday life to sow discord and erode shared reality. The conflict is still being processed as a series of individual skirmishes - a collection of disparate, localized, truth-in-narrative problems - but these battles are connected. The campaigns are often perceived as organic online chaos driven by emergent, bottom-up amateur actions when a substantial amount is, in fact, helped along or instigated by systematic, top-down institutional and state actions. This is a kind of warm war; not the active, declared, open conflict of a hot war, but beyond the shadowboxing of a cold one. The Information World War has already been going on for several years. We called the opening skirmishes "media manipulation" and "hoaxes", assuming that we were dealing with ideological pranksters doing it for the lulz (and that lulz were harmless). In reality, the combatants are professional, state-employed cyberwarriors and seasoned amateur guerrillas pursuing very well-defined objectives with military precision and specialized tools. Each type of combatant brings a different mental model to the conflict, but uses the same set of tools. There are state-sponsored trolls, destabilizing societies in some countries, and rendering all information channels except state media useless in others. They operate at the behest of rulers, often through military or intelligence divisions. Sometimes, as in the case of Duterte in the Philippines, these digital armies focus on interference in their own elections, using paid botnets and teams of sockpuppet personas to troll and harass opponents, or to amplify their owner's candidacy. Other times, the trolls reach beyond their borders to manipulate politics elsewhere, as 1 A TTA Algorithmic distribution systems will always be co-opted by the best resourced or most technologically capable combatants. Soon, better Al will rewrite the playbook yet again - perhaps the digital equivalent of Blitzkrieg in its potential for capturing new territory. Al-generated audio and video deepfakes will erode trust in what we see with our own eyes, leaving us vulnerable both to faked content and to the discrediting of the actual truth by insinuation. Authenticity debates will commandeer media cycles, pushing us into an infinite loop of perpetually investigating basic facts. Chronic skepticism and the cognitive DDoS will increase polarization, leading to a consolidation of trust in distinct sets of right and left-wing authority figures - thought oligarchs speaking to entirely separate groups. We know this is coming, and yet we're doing very little to get ahead of it. No one is responsible for getting ahead of it. Tha Lar nunhlam ic thic. nlatfaume anon'+ If the warm war is allowed to continue as it has, there is a very real threat of descent into illegitimate leadership and fractured, paralyzed societies. If algorithmic amplification continues to privilege the propagandists most effective at gaming the system, if combatant persona accounts continue to harass civilian voices off of platforms, and if hostile state intelligence services remain able to recruit millions of Americans into fake "communities", the norms that have traditionally protected democratic societies will fail. We don't have time to waste on digital security theater. In the two years since Election 2016, we've all come to agree that something is wrong on the internet. There is momentum and energy to do something, but the complexity of the problem and the fact that it intersects with other thorny issues of internet governance (privacy, monopoly, expression, among others) means that we're stuck in a state of paralysis, unable to address disinformation in a meaningful way. Instead, both regulators and the platforms throw up low-level roadblocks. This is what a digital Maginot line looks like.
November 29, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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rikefranke.bsky.social
That‘s quite the Politico cover.
November 22, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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inthesetimes.com
A new suite of comics curated by @mattbors.bsky.social deals with the aftermath of the election and how to fight through the mess we find ourselves in. Read them all here, and watch this space for more!
inthesetimes.com/article/musk...
November 25, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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ubiquity75.xyz
A thread…
ubiquity75.xyz Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · Oct 20
There are so many elements that have made his ascension possible: co-opted corporate media; social media’s unregulated environment; the overwhelm from the sheer number of misdeeds; coordinated foreign interference; destruction of K-12 education; racist grievance culture; unchecked gross inequity.
October 22, 2024 at 6:34 AM
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stamos.org
1) Many underestimate the investment the PRC has put into influencing the US social media sphere.

2) The destruction of Trust and Safety at X has made it a playground for PRC actors.

3) It's nice to see them whine about BlueSky.

4) But there is nothing magical about BlueSky to keep them away.
maxkennerly.bsky.social Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Nov 26
lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook)

www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform — including by buying ads, deploying bots, and hiring influencers — have recently seen their growth plateau. The growing popularity of Bluesky, which has a largely liberal base and harder-to-manipulate algorithm, has sparked “worried chatter within Chinese state media circles,” a former Xinhua and China Daily employee wrote in his newsletter. He predicted the accounts will migrate to Bluesky, though it may take time. For now, the sector’s focus has shifted back to domestic, Mandarin-language channels and platforms like Bilibili, WeChat, and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
November 26, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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justsimplyzen.bsky.social
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November 18, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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November 10, 2024 at 6:12 PM