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Drew Conry-Murray
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Content Director at Packet Pushers; tech journalist; co-host of the Network Break, Heavy Networking, and Packet Protector podcasts; author of the supernatural novel "The Haunting of Edward Drake"
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theregister.com
Google's AI is eating your email by default. Here's how to shut its mouth
Google's AI is eating your email by default. Here's how to shut its mouth
Want out of those new 'smart features'? We’ve got you covered Google's "don't be evil" ethos is so 2015. These days, the Chocolate Factory is all about integrating users with bots, whether they like it or not. Now, it's rolling out Workspace "smart features" that process personal content with AI, and many users are finding the settings enabled by default.…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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timmarchman.bsky.social
WIRED is hiring for a senior politics reporter who will write our weekly newsletter; detailed job description below. This role will be based in New York or DC and report to me; the salary range is $95,000 - $132,000. condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
WIRED seeks an experienced journalist to cover national politics, particularly the Trump administration’s efforts to remake the federal government and how other power centers—Congress, tech oligarchs, and more—are responding. In this role, you’ll be responsible for breaking news consistently. We’re less interested in horse race drama than we are in the people making consequential decisions, whether in the White House, among local and national Democrats, or Silicon Valley, and the logic guiding their actions. To succeed in this role, you should be deeply sourced at both the top and working levels of government and politics and intimately familiar with the operational mechanics of the federal government; you will ideally also have good sourcing in and understanding of the tech industry. You should have a proven ability to deliver scoops, exclusives, and stories that can’t be found anywhere else. We’re interested in hard news and the ability to put new information into a broader context. A large part of this role is writing a politics-focused newsletter every week; the ideal candidate will understand how to leverage their reporting to attract and retain subscribers, engage audiences, and drive reader loyalty in a competitive news landscape. In addition to breaking news and regular newsletter sends, there are opportunities to work on long-form feature stories and collaborate with reporters across our coverage areas as part of this role as well. You should also be prepared to engage in a wide range of storytelling formats, such as social, podcasts, video series, and live events. This senior writer will report to WIRED’s Director, Politics, Science, and Security, and will be part of a growing and increasingly global newsroom of smart, kind, collaborative, and well-informed colleagues who are always brimming with ideas and eager to help each other out. This role is in-office (4 days/week) and will be based in our New York or Washington, DC offices.
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.”

Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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elgofo.fr
Just saw an extended version
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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lissaharris.bsky.social
“adversarial poetry”??? holy shit

who wants to hire me and @pa.ulst.ar to be white hat poet ronin, I’m so serious right now
1 Introduction In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines, we observe a structurally similar failure mode: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints.
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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audacityofdespair.bsky.social
Democratic messaging to our military about killing civilians extrajudicially is too polite. Soliders, sailors and Marines need fair warning that at a future point, a restored military judicial process will review these slayings, and those executing an unlawful order will be subject to that process.
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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strandjunker.com
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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batarong.com
Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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artofneteng.bsky.social
Look who @andylapteff.bsky.social
ran into on his way to #autocon4. The one and only @drewcm.bsky.social ✈️
November 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
drewcm.bsky.social
JD knows he's going to need a new Boss Daddy soon.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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democracydocket.com
NEW: The Nevada Supreme Court reverses a lower court's dismissal of a criminal case against six Trump supporters who falsely claimed to be presidential electors to undermine the 2020 election. Nevada was one of seven states where GOP activists signed fake elector documents in 2020.
Criminal Case Against Fake Electors Can Proceed, Nevada Supreme Court Rules
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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davekarpf.bsky.social
I'm attending a workshop hosted by @techpolicypress.bsky.social tomorrow. They invited me to write a "provocation" about the state of technology and democracy right now.

I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding.

www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...
The Dance with Big Tech is Different under Trump 2.0 | TechPolicy.Press
If we are going to repair democratic institutions, we are going to have to do it ourselves, writes Dave Karpf.
www.techpolicy.press
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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josh-kaplan.bsky.social
We’re still reporting on Kristi Noem, contracts at DHS, and the ad deal. If you have any information we should know, my email is joshua.kaplan@propublica.org and I’m on the encrypted messaging app Signal (you can message me at js_kaplan.85)
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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publicpowerny.bsky.social
Kathy Hochul could bring down bills and protect our future by building 15 gigawatts of public renewables.

Instead, she's raising bills to build Trump's fracked gas pipeline and a crypto mine.

Is this why?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
Hochul Approved Permits That Could Help Clients of Her Husband’s Firm Opponents of a natural gas pipeline approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York noted that the project would benefit a client of the prominent law firm where her husband works.
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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jenmsft.bsky.social
All I'm saying is, if you're someone who has to go to tons of meetings, you should set "meetings" just for yourself, to book time for getting things done
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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sydseter.com
Are you the next card game designer for OWASP Cornucopia Website Edition v3.0?
Then get in touch with us for fame and glory!

Read more at:
dev.to/owasp/owasp-...
OWASP Cornucopia 3.0 - A call for card game designers!
Would you like to be our card game designer for the OWASP Cornucopia Website Edition...
dev.to
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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cafastfoodunion.org
Get up, get down, San Diego is a union town! #NoContractNoCoffee
The Starbucks strike in San Diego today
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇
Schrödinger’s Douchebag. A guy who says offensive things and decides whether he was joking based on the reaction of people around him.
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
drewcm.bsky.social
@propublica.org is doing high-quality, deeply reported investigative journalism (like this story below)
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9d
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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jkbjournalist.bsky.social
BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
New Epstein emails claim Trump ‘spent hours’ with victim
Democrats on the House Oversight say the emails provide evidence of a cover-up by the White House
www.miamiherald.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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networkphil.com
[NEW POST] A Network Engineer’s Guide to Understanding the Model Context Protocol for AI Integration

In this post I break down:
- What MCP is
- How the architecture works
- How MCP could be a foundational part of AI in NetOps

networkphil.com/2025/11/11/a...
A Network Engineer’s Guide to Understanding the Model Context Protocol for AI Integration
If you work in technology long enough, every new framework starts to sound like “yet another API layer.” The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is different. It’s not a product, and it’s not tied to any …
networkphil.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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jeisinger.bsky.social
JOB ALERT! We are hiring a business editor.

You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it!

job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

You can email me or on Signal at 718-496-5233
Senior Editor, Business
New York City, United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
drewcm.bsky.social
Thanks for a terrific essay!
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11d
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Come join with others to stand against Trump's political prosecutions, against ICE's attacks on our communities, and for freedom of speech and the right to protest.

See you tomorrow.
Join Kat Abughazaleh following her arraignment in Federal Plaza, Downtown Chicago IL this Wednesday November 12, 2:30 pm CT
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM