Andrew Afram
@andrewafram.bsky.social
Innovation, Justice & Cats
Endlessly curious, full of ideas
NYC-based, globally-minded
Endlessly curious, full of ideas
NYC-based, globally-minded
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The MPD union, at least, has made it clear which side they are on.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
January 10, 2026 at 9:31 PM
The MPD union, at least, has made it clear which side they are on.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
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BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph
January 11, 2026 at 2:17 AM
BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph
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A no shit Sherlock moment
January 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
A no shit Sherlock moment
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At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
January 7, 2026 at 11:49 PM
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
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Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.
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She was a queer woman peacefully exercising her First Amendment right. Every person with a sound conscience should be furious.
Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.
January 7, 2026 at 10:17 PM
She was a queer woman peacefully exercising her First Amendment right. Every person with a sound conscience should be furious.
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AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
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Authoritarian regimes stay in power by forcing everyone—especially the armed services—to follow orders, rather than the law.
The regime’s goal is to create a military which is willing to kill their fellow citizens to help the regime stay in power. This is part of that effort.
The regime’s goal is to create a military which is willing to kill their fellow citizens to help the regime stay in power. This is part of that effort.
NEW: Pentagon initiates proceedings to demote U.S. Senator Mark Kelly, a retired captain, over video telling soldiers to refuse illegal orders
January 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Authoritarian regimes stay in power by forcing everyone—especially the armed services—to follow orders, rather than the law.
The regime’s goal is to create a military which is willing to kill their fellow citizens to help the regime stay in power. This is part of that effort.
The regime’s goal is to create a military which is willing to kill their fellow citizens to help the regime stay in power. This is part of that effort.
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Data brokers are the invisible engines of the data surveillance economy. It's hard to escape. Until.
California just opened a website to delete (and keep deleting) your information from 500+ data brokers in one fell swoop.
Try it if you're in California and LMK how it goes! privacy.ca.gov/drop/
California just opened a website to delete (and keep deleting) your information from 500+ data brokers in one fell swoop.
Try it if you're in California and LMK how it goes! privacy.ca.gov/drop/
Delete request and opt-out platform (DROP)
Protect your personal information. Data brokers collect, share, and sell your personal information. You can stop that from happening.
privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Data brokers are the invisible engines of the data surveillance economy. It's hard to escape. Until.
California just opened a website to delete (and keep deleting) your information from 500+ data brokers in one fell swoop.
Try it if you're in California and LMK how it goes! privacy.ca.gov/drop/
California just opened a website to delete (and keep deleting) your information from 500+ data brokers in one fell swoop.
Try it if you're in California and LMK how it goes! privacy.ca.gov/drop/
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This would be cringily appalling if it were not so appallingly cringey. Also a junior varsity attempt at being Fox News will not work.
January 3, 2026 at 2:18 AM
This would be cringily appalling if it were not so appallingly cringey. Also a junior varsity attempt at being Fox News will not work.
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Grok is undressing anyone, including minors
Grok is undressing anyone, including minors
Report it to the FBI, Grok says.
buff.ly
January 2, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Grok is undressing anyone, including minors
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Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
www.404media.co
January 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
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Billionaire founders, CEOs and directors took more than $16 billion off the table last year — with executives at mega-cap tech companies accounting for an outsized share of insider selling. See the top 10 cash-outs of 2025: bloom.bg/4pZFu2d
📷️: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
📷️: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
January 2, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Billionaire founders, CEOs and directors took more than $16 billion off the table last year — with executives at mega-cap tech companies accounting for an outsized share of insider selling. See the top 10 cash-outs of 2025: bloom.bg/4pZFu2d
📷️: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
📷️: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
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Zohran Mamdani was officially sworn in as mayor of New York City early on Thursday, just after the New Year’s Eve ball dropped in Times Square. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...
January 1, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Zohran Mamdani was officially sworn in as mayor of New York City early on Thursday, just after the New Year’s Eve ball dropped in Times Square. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...
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The @npr.org head is a badass www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...
NPR’s C.E.O. Was a Right-Wing Target. Then the Real Trouble Started.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The @npr.org head is a badass www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...
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Goodnight, sweet angel.
@matteowong.bsky.social, in mourning for the MetroCard (and with a lot of cool new photos and videos of the MetroCard factory in its final days):
@matteowong.bsky.social, in mourning for the MetroCard (and with a lot of cool new photos and videos of the MetroCard factory in its final days):
The MetroCard Never Got Its Due
A symbol of New York is gone.
www.theatlantic.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Goodnight, sweet angel.
@matteowong.bsky.social, in mourning for the MetroCard (and with a lot of cool new photos and videos of the MetroCard factory in its final days):
@matteowong.bsky.social, in mourning for the MetroCard (and with a lot of cool new photos and videos of the MetroCard factory in its final days):
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This year marked the first time the AI avatar of a victim—in this case, a dead man—has ever addressed a court, and it raises many questions about the use of this type of technology in future court proceedings.
www.404media.co/i-loved-that...
www.404media.co/i-loved-that...
'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident
How the sister of Christopher Pelkey made an avatar of him to testify in court.
www.404media.co
December 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This year marked the first time the AI avatar of a victim—in this case, a dead man—has ever addressed a court, and it raises many questions about the use of this type of technology in future court proceedings.
www.404media.co/i-loved-that...
www.404media.co/i-loved-that...
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She’s a white supremacist qanon conspiracy theorist who wants transgender people to be dehumanized. Outlets like the Bulwark are basically trying to turn the Democratic Party and liberalism into conservatism because they couldn’t police their own movement from Trumpism.
And if you refuse to give someone credit for standing for liberal democracy just because they don’t agree with your policy preferences, you’re missing the big picture. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-marjor...
Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Gives Me Hope
People don’t change—but they can remember who they are.
www.thebulwark.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
She’s a white supremacist qanon conspiracy theorist who wants transgender people to be dehumanized. Outlets like the Bulwark are basically trying to turn the Democratic Party and liberalism into conservatism because they couldn’t police their own movement from Trumpism.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
www.404media.co
December 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
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When users confronted the exec with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience. www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.
www.404media.co
December 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
When users confronted the exec with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience. www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
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This is an excellent explanation of how unbelievably incompetent and full on nonsense the note from Weiss was. My guess: 1. Someone who has very little experience is journalism (and not the stuff that tickles billionaires) is clearly a mile wide and foot deep as an editor and in far over her skis.
Watching the segment: The first thing I'm going to zero in on is the crime stats. Here's how 60 Minutes set it up:
- Leavitt saying the people going to CECOT were the worst of the worst
- Then 60 Minutes saying the Human Rights Watch report says that nearly half had no criminal history at all
- Leavitt saying the people going to CECOT were the worst of the worst
- Then 60 Minutes saying the Human Rights Watch report says that nearly half had no criminal history at all
Here's the rest of Bari Weiss' memo. "We do not present the administration's argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT," and on Sec. Noem's trip "no comment from her or her staff about what her goal on that trip was... or if she had or has concerns about the treatment of detainees." LOL!
December 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is an excellent explanation of how unbelievably incompetent and full on nonsense the note from Weiss was. My guess: 1. Someone who has very little experience is journalism (and not the stuff that tickles billionaires) is clearly a mile wide and foot deep as an editor and in far over her skis.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Reading "Stop Treating ‘AGI’ as the North-star Goal of AI Research" by Blili-Hamelin et al and particularly struck by this passage:
icml.cc/virtual/2025...
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December 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Reading "Stop Treating ‘AGI’ as the North-star Goal of AI Research" by Blili-Hamelin et al and particularly struck by this passage:
icml.cc/virtual/2025...
Short 🧵>>
icml.cc/virtual/2025...
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App