Eric Auchard
@auchard.bsky.social
Longtime global Reuters tech correspondent, now freelance. Based in London after stints in San Francisco, D.C., NYC, Vienna and Frankfurt
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Framing, New York Times, framing... When you win an absolute majority (50.4%), you are *entitled* to deliver on your mandate, it's got nothing to do with being"emboldened" (like a... radical, right?)
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Framing, New York Times, framing... When you win an absolute majority (50.4%), you are *entitled* to deliver on your mandate, it's got nothing to do with being"emboldened" (like a... radical, right?)
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It's too bad that the republicans, which control every branch of government, can't figure out a way to keep the government open.
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's too bad that the republicans, which control every branch of government, can't figure out a way to keep the government open.
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the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet
September 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet
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The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan
The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan
The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan
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It's like if Mussolini and Ronald McDonald had a child.
March 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It's like if Mussolini and Ronald McDonald had a child.
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Anyone who uses the term 'DEI' in British politics is clearly importing their culture war labels from America. 'EDI' is the much more common version here in my experience. Going to start my campaign for British language for British culture wars.
February 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Anyone who uses the term 'DEI' in British politics is clearly importing their culture war labels from America. 'EDI' is the much more common version here in my experience. Going to start my campaign for British language for British culture wars.
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A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.
February 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.
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I don’t think you can run this story without making clear, in both the headline and the lede paragraph, that there is no evidence for what Trump is alleging. Pushing this down to the second paragraph is not good enough
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
Trump Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under His Watch
President Trump’s remarks, suggesting that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his...
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I don’t think you can run this story without making clear, in both the headline and the lede paragraph, that there is no evidence for what Trump is alleging. Pushing this down to the second paragraph is not good enough
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
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The U.S. State Department office that funds the clearance of unexploded munitions around the world has asked humanitarian demining organizations funded by the department to cease operations “effective immediately,” according to a surprise announcement early Saturday.
State Dept. Halts Global Mine-Clearing Programs
Efforts to clear unexploded munitions in places like Iraq and Southeast Asia will stop for at least three months, according to a surprise announcement.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The U.S. State Department office that funds the clearance of unexploded munitions around the world has asked humanitarian demining organizations funded by the department to cease operations “effective immediately,” according to a surprise announcement early Saturday.
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this is from the other place, but it’s spot on 👇
January 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
this is from the other place, but it’s spot on 👇
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There are a lot of things I really would love to know what we call them in say, 1000 years time, but one of them is 'at what point do historians of ideas go "Nah, that's a new religion"?
American Christians are unrecognisable to me.
All the glory to God.
January 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
There are a lot of things I really would love to know what we call them in say, 1000 years time, but one of them is 'at what point do historians of ideas go "Nah, that's a new religion"?
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One of the places I’ve departed from the “cypherpunk dream” over the years is the idea that all speech is good for a healthy democracy. I’m saying nothing that hasn’t been said before, but social media can be incredibly toxic.
January 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
One of the places I’ve departed from the “cypherpunk dream” over the years is the idea that all speech is good for a healthy democracy. I’m saying nothing that hasn’t been said before, but social media can be incredibly toxic.
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rewatching FIGHT CLUB this week i was very struck by how a movie that is very plainly a critique of this vision of masculinity was taken up as a valorization of it
It's grim thinking about how many men and women in society have mental models of valorous male behavior that primarily consist of being abusive and violent.
one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
January 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
rewatching FIGHT CLUB this week i was very struck by how a movie that is very plainly a critique of this vision of masculinity was taken up as a valorization of it
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My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.
January 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.
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Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!)
Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...
As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...
As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby
app.watchduty.org
January 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!)
Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...
As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...
As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
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Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"
December 30, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"
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LinkedIn is cool because I was always wondering what it would be like if people I sort of knew wrote mediocre press releases about themselves.
December 31, 2024 at 2:07 AM
LinkedIn is cool because I was always wondering what it would be like if people I sort of knew wrote mediocre press releases about themselves.
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Among the many reasons I have railed against the worship of tech leaders as “genius” business leaders is that they lack the quality possessed by most successful business leaders: discernment. Astoundingly poor judgment about the character of their colleagues. Here’s Sam Altman 2 wks ago on Elon:
December 20, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Among the many reasons I have railed against the worship of tech leaders as “genius” business leaders is that they lack the quality possessed by most successful business leaders: discernment. Astoundingly poor judgment about the character of their colleagues. Here’s Sam Altman 2 wks ago on Elon:
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There are two stages of a security career: Before you know the truth of what you read in the news on an incident, and after, when you know exactly what happened and can't say a single fucking thing.
December 2, 2024 at 7:46 PM
There are two stages of a security career: Before you know the truth of what you read in the news on an incident, and after, when you know exactly what happened and can't say a single fucking thing.
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Utterly brilliant
October 8, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Utterly brilliant