Zach Peterson
@zachprague.bsky.social
You win some, you claim to have won some
Update the Threads app?
In this economy?
In this economy?
December 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Update the Threads app?
In this economy?
In this economy?
[door opens at local liquor store]
[shopkeeper]: No. Out. Not doing that again
[shopkeeper]: No. Out. Not doing that again
December 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
[door opens at local liquor store]
[shopkeeper]: No. Out. Not doing that again
[shopkeeper]: No. Out. Not doing that again
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
only thing that i can think of here is "we're doing clumps" at the dignity falls movie theater. i think it was alan (@kyliebrakeman.bsky.social) who said it. iconic.
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
only thing that i can think of here is "we're doing clumps" at the dignity falls movie theater. i think it was alan (@kyliebrakeman.bsky.social) who said it. iconic.
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Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
Please help, I’m being silenced via my new comedy special and book and weirdly fawning profile in the New Yorker Magazine. Cancel culture run amok really.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Please help, I’m being silenced via my new comedy special and book and weirdly fawning profile in the New Yorker Magazine. Cancel culture run amok really.
awww...AI, it's just like us!
AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too
A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities.
www.wired.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
awww...AI, it's just like us!
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WIRED asked security and privacy experts for their advice for hardening personal privacy protections and resisting surveillance. Here are their recommendations.
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to…
wrd.cm
September 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
WIRED asked security and privacy experts for their advice for hardening personal privacy protections and resisting surveillance. Here are their recommendations.
So much sports internet braying by dudes who are like "I hate how these guys are friends and nice to their opponents" and it's like...who do you want to beat more in anything than your best friend? Gimme a break with this. Pick up games of...anything...w/ close friends are like mini Super Bowls ffs
September 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
So much sports internet braying by dudes who are like "I hate how these guys are friends and nice to their opponents" and it's like...who do you want to beat more in anything than your best friend? Gimme a break with this. Pick up games of...anything...w/ close friends are like mini Super Bowls ffs
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Dead-Eyed Travis Kelce Nods At Bow Tie Options For Cat Ring Bearers https://theonion.com/dead-eyed-travis-kelce-nods-at-bow-tie-options-for-cat-ring-bearers/
August 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Dead-Eyed Travis Kelce Nods At Bow Tie Options For Cat Ring Bearers https://theonion.com/dead-eyed-travis-kelce-nods-at-bow-tie-options-for-cat-ring-bearers/
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“Some of those reporters face likely persecution or imprisonment if they are deported to their home nations after having worked for the United States government.”
A lesson for anyone naive to think that USA ever cares about loyalty, honour or decency. Allies around the world are slowly seeing it.
A lesson for anyone naive to think that USA ever cares about loyalty, honour or decency. Allies around the world are slowly seeing it.
Kari Lake’s Attempt to Deport Her Own Employees
“Their time here is up,” she said of J-1 visa holders who worked for Voice of America.
www.theatlantic.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“Some of those reporters face likely persecution or imprisonment if they are deported to their home nations after having worked for the United States government.”
A lesson for anyone naive to think that USA ever cares about loyalty, honour or decency. Allies around the world are slowly seeing it.
A lesson for anyone naive to think that USA ever cares about loyalty, honour or decency. Allies around the world are slowly seeing it.
Fantastic that the student newspaper is doing this, but also remarkably sad that it's falling to the student newspaper to do this.
Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued two senior Trump administration officials Wednesday, challenging Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.
Stanford newspaper sues Trump administration over student deportations
The lawsuit challenges Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.
wapo.st
August 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Fantastic that the student newspaper is doing this, but also remarkably sad that it's falling to the student newspaper to do this.
This is yet another salvo in the “liberal kids need to cater to their MAGA uncles at Thanksgiving” wars that fails to remotely touch on the fact that it can go the other way. Guys not getting laid is a that guy problem, full stop.
OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
How to be a man
The right story narrative about male attractiveness is grounded in Social Darwinism and free market economics. Can progressives tell a better story?
iandunt.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is yet another salvo in the “liberal kids need to cater to their MAGA uncles at Thanksgiving” wars that fails to remotely touch on the fact that it can go the other way. Guys not getting laid is a that guy problem, full stop.
And how she goes to a different school and we wouldn’t know her and she’s super cool.
July 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
And how she goes to a different school and we wouldn’t know her and she’s super cool.
Not one to celebrate folks getting the axe from news orgs, but good riddance to the pinnochio guy. The absolute bane of actual journalism is public fact check nitpicking. Fact checkers should be checking facts in detailed, context-based stories, not doing whatever this was.
News: @GlennKesslerWP, better known as The Fact Checker for The Washington Post, is joining the ranks of journalists taking the buyout
July 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Not one to celebrate folks getting the axe from news orgs, but good riddance to the pinnochio guy. The absolute bane of actual journalism is public fact check nitpicking. Fact checkers should be checking facts in detailed, context-based stories, not doing whatever this was.
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Today in Hell World we have the great Dave Wedge on the life and music of Ozzy Osbourne and his experience interviewing him over the years.
www.welcometohellworld.com/mama-im-comi...
www.welcometohellworld.com/mama-im-comi...
Mama I’m Coming Home
Two weeks ago I was sitting in the very spot where I sit now crying my eyes out. Not exactly out of the ordinary for me but nevertheless. M. asked what was wrong and I said I was watching Ozzy sing Cr...
www.welcometohellworld.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Today in Hell World we have the great Dave Wedge on the life and music of Ozzy Osbourne and his experience interviewing him over the years.
www.welcometohellworld.com/mama-im-comi...
www.welcometohellworld.com/mama-im-comi...
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There’s an art museum in Cooperstown that is doing a Calvin & Hobbes exhibit this fall, in case you’re looking for a reason to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and want to make a weekend out of it.
July 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
There’s an art museum in Cooperstown that is doing a Calvin & Hobbes exhibit this fall, in case you’re looking for a reason to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and want to make a weekend out of it.
And for just $25, you too can do terrible things was easier than before
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.
Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7
Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7
July 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
And for just $25, you too can do terrible things was easier than before
"There was an election and the other candidate got more votes than I did" is the sort of election analysis we need more of tbh
WITH AUDIO ⬇️
At the Hampton Synagogue this morning, Andrew Cuomo blames Zohran Mamdani’s young, Jewish and pro-Palestinian voters for his primary loss.
forward.com/fast-forward...
At the Hampton Synagogue this morning, Andrew Cuomo blames Zohran Mamdani’s young, Jewish and pro-Palestinian voters for his primary loss.
forward.com/fast-forward...
Cuomo blames Mamdani’s young, Jewish and pro-Palestinian voters for his primary loss
Andrew Cuomo is sharpening his attacks on Zohran Mamdani, accusing the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor of ‘fueling antisemitism.’
forward.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"There was an election and the other candidate got more votes than I did" is the sort of election analysis we need more of tbh
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This is worth a read about what lies ahead - very troubling.
White House Leads Push to Block Watchdog’s Inquiries Into Spending Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
White House Leads Push to Block Watchdog’s Inquiries Into Spending Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
White House Leads Push to Block Watchdog’s Inquiries Into Spending Cuts
www.nytimes.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is worth a read about what lies ahead - very troubling.
White House Leads Push to Block Watchdog’s Inquiries Into Spending Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
White House Leads Push to Block Watchdog’s Inquiries Into Spending Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
What even is the EPA without scientific research?
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
What even is the EPA without scientific research?
no one knows more about this than @lilyyily.bsky.social's friend Kayla Dickie
July 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
no one knows more about this than @lilyyily.bsky.social's friend Kayla Dickie
This @hdtgm.bsky.social re-up is an all-timer. I remember listening to it when it first came out, and Jessica St. Clair talking about the Superman "amnesia kiss" and saying "this is how we love each other" is so funny. Natasha Lyonne is so perfect. It's a top 5 ep of this show.
Superman IV: The Quest For Peace LIVE! w/ Natasha Lyonne & Jessica St. Clair (HDTGM Matinee)
Podcast Episode · How Did This Get Made? · 07/08/2025 · 1h 31m
podcasts.apple.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This @hdtgm.bsky.social re-up is an all-timer. I remember listening to it when it first came out, and Jessica St. Clair talking about the Superman "amnesia kiss" and saying "this is how we love each other" is so funny. Natasha Lyonne is so perfect. It's a top 5 ep of this show.