Lev Gringauz
@levami.bsky.social
Jewish, journalist, putzing around in Minnesota. Seeking adventure and sleep. Rtwt = O.o
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"
July 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"
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Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman.
She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.
She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.
June 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman.
She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.
She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.
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law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.
June 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.
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Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
June 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
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The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.
Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre
It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.
wapo.st
June 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.
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NEWS: Amazon has suspended its massive data center project in Becker as Minnesota lawmakers plan to roll back sales tax exemptions for the industry.
The company cited uncertain development timelines. www.startribune.com/amazon-suspe...
The company cited uncertain development timelines. www.startribune.com/amazon-suspe...
Amazon suspends data center in Becker, Minn.
The decision comes as state lawmakers said they'd reduce tax breaks for data centers. The massive project was celebrated by local officials for its economic benefits.
www.startribune.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
NEWS: Amazon has suspended its massive data center project in Becker as Minnesota lawmakers plan to roll back sales tax exemptions for the industry.
The company cited uncertain development timelines. www.startribune.com/amazon-suspe...
The company cited uncertain development timelines. www.startribune.com/amazon-suspe...
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I don’t mean to be a caricature, but this just isn’t law. The Supreme Court is always making policy. But this is beyond. “This dicta in an emergency order will reassure the markets but just uh trust us on the law here ok no we’re not overruling Humphrey’s yet and when we do we’ll spare the fed.”
May 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I don’t mean to be a caricature, but this just isn’t law. The Supreme Court is always making policy. But this is beyond. “This dicta in an emergency order will reassure the markets but just uh trust us on the law here ok no we’re not overruling Humphrey’s yet and when we do we’ll spare the fed.”
Hi! I wrote the MinnPost story being talked about here. Def agree there are a lot of people who do good work who don't get due credit from journo orgs.
Do just want to say the landlord story was listed as an example of the kind of work MV has done as a small aside in a much larger story
Do just want to say the landlord story was listed as an example of the kind of work MV has done as a small aside in a much larger story
The failure of formal journalistic outlets in the Twin Cities to credit folks doing journalism in their spare time, of their own accord, for little-to-no money, is something I've been thinking a lot about lately! For reasons!!
minnpost gives credit to minneapolis voices for an exposé about c david george - they didn’t expose him, i did, they picked the story up from my tweets. just compare the dates of all of my tweets to when their story was published more than 30 days later
www.minnpost.com/media/2025/0...
www.minnpost.com/media/2025/0...
May 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Hi! I wrote the MinnPost story being talked about here. Def agree there are a lot of people who do good work who don't get due credit from journo orgs.
Do just want to say the landlord story was listed as an example of the kind of work MV has done as a small aside in a much larger story
Do just want to say the landlord story was listed as an example of the kind of work MV has done as a small aside in a much larger story
Hi, I wrote this MinnPost story. Was not aware of credit issues, and you're right, a lot of people do journalistic work and don't get due credit.
Also just want to say the landlord story was listed as an example of the kind of work MV has done as a small aside in a much larger story
Also just want to say the landlord story was listed as an example of the kind of work MV has done as a small aside in a much larger story
minnpost gives credit to minneapolis voices for an exposé about c david george - they didn’t expose him, i did, they picked the story up from my tweets. just compare the dates of all of my tweets to when their story was published more than 30 days later
www.minnpost.com/media/2025/0...
www.minnpost.com/media/2025/0...
May 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hi, I wrote this MinnPost story. Was not aware of credit issues, and you're right, a lot of people do journalistic work and don't get due credit.
Also just want to say the landlord story was listed as an example of the kind of work MV has done as a small aside in a much larger story
Also just want to say the landlord story was listed as an example of the kind of work MV has done as a small aside in a much larger story
My latest for MinnPost:
Seems like starting a local newspaper is really hard. www.minnpost.com/media/2025/0...
Unable to attract ads, Minneapolis Voices is going quiet for now
Despite editor layoffs and a “reset,” Charlie Rybak isn’t giving up for good on the hyperlocal journalism project he co-founded in 2021.
www.minnpost.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My latest for MinnPost:
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let them eat shitcoins
Tim Scott on crypto legislation: "This bill must go forward because it's good news for the American people, especially the ones living in poverty."
May 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
let them eat shitcoins
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SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:
Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate
A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.
www.wired.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:
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Oh damn Rosen went full Jewish mother on Rubio.
Rosen to Rubio: "I'm not even mad anymore about your complicity in this administration's destruction of US global leadership. I'm simply disappointed. And I wonder if your proud of yourself in this moment when you go home to your family ... I know you know this in your heart."
May 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Oh damn Rosen went full Jewish mother on Rubio.
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This is more freedom, right?
The FDA will permit Covid vaccines only for adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions in the fall, according to new regulatory standards.
F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This is more freedom, right?
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Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
May 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
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political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”
May 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”
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In talks and in our online course thebullshitmachines.com, I worry about how the extremely high cost of training LLMs concentrates power in the hands of the very few to shape our information environment.
Grok going off the rails with talk of White Genocide is a striking example.
Grok going off the rails with talk of White Genocide is a striking example.
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Talking About ‘White Genocide’
In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa.
www.wired.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
In talks and in our online course thebullshitmachines.com, I worry about how the extremely high cost of training LLMs concentrates power in the hands of the very few to shape our information environment.
Grok going off the rails with talk of White Genocide is a striking example.
Grok going off the rails with talk of White Genocide is a striking example.
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SCOOP: CFBP just cancelled plans to implement new rules that would have tightened restrictions on what sensitive personal info data brokers are allowed to sell. The rule was proposed after data about US servicemembers was repeatedly exposed in which experts term a national security nightmare.
CFBP Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
www.wired.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
SCOOP: CFBP just cancelled plans to implement new rules that would have tightened restrictions on what sensitive personal info data brokers are allowed to sell. The rule was proposed after data about US servicemembers was repeatedly exposed in which experts term a national security nightmare.
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Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
AWS enters into 'strategic partnership' with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain | TechCrunch
Amazon says it'll work with Humain, the AI company recently launched by Saudi Arabia’s ruler, to invest '$5 billion-plus' in a strategic partnership.
techcrunch.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
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A second fire, 800 acres in size and growing, was discovered Monday afternoon just northwest of Brimson, according to Superior National Forest officials
St. Louis County wildfire triples in size, destroys homes, as state under red-flag warning
The fire near Brimson, Minn., was detected Sunday afternoon and the area evacuated.
bit.ly
May 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A second fire, 800 acres in size and growing, was discovered Monday afternoon just northwest of Brimson, according to Superior National Forest officials
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“.. Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a UK vehicle with very little U.S. content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from Mexico or Canada that is half American parts.”
@thehill.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social
thehill.com/business/529...
@thehill.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social
thehill.com/business/529...
May 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“.. Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a UK vehicle with very little U.S. content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from Mexico or Canada that is half American parts.”
@thehill.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social
thehill.com/business/529...
@thehill.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social
thehill.com/business/529...
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The weather-posting from Minnesotans is going to be wild in the next week
May 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The weather-posting from Minnesotans is going to be wild in the next week
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A few people have asked me how they can “Onion model” games journalism, since all of the good indie places are at a crossroads, so I thought, fuck it, let me walk through this.
Take this with a microscopic grain of salt, since I basically only play 2k, Rocket League and Balatro, but here’s an idea:
Take this with a microscopic grain of salt, since I basically only play 2k, Rocket League and Balatro, but here’s an idea:
May 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A few people have asked me how they can “Onion model” games journalism, since all of the good indie places are at a crossroads, so I thought, fuck it, let me walk through this.
Take this with a microscopic grain of salt, since I basically only play 2k, Rocket League and Balatro, but here’s an idea:
Take this with a microscopic grain of salt, since I basically only play 2k, Rocket League and Balatro, but here’s an idea:
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You literally sound like a communist
Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding ... we're gonna make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."
May 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
You literally sound like a communist