Zach Peterson
@zachprague.bsky.social
Minnesota transplant in Europe for...years.
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.
@aarongleeman.bsky.social really liked the latest free pod. Watching the game now and I can’t handle these in-game moves anymore. When is a better time to let Larnach, Wallner, or both(!) hit against a tough lefty? The Twins pinch hit too much and it basically never works for them
July 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
@aarongleeman.bsky.social really liked the latest free pod. Watching the game now and I can’t handle these in-game moves anymore. When is a better time to let Larnach, Wallner, or both(!) hit against a tough lefty? The Twins pinch hit too much and it basically never works for them
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HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too.
This isn't over, but this is a huge win.
www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
This isn't over, but this is a huge win.
www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
June 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too.
This isn't over, but this is a huge win.
www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
This isn't over, but this is a huge win.
www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
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ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...
ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.
apnews.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...
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Hey folks. I know there's a lot going on right now, but I'd really appreciate it if you read this piece I wrote on the perils of raising an autistic child during the era of RFK Jr. and his campaign of insane conspiracies and cruel scare tactics geared toward people on the spectrum.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not let my daughter be: defector.com/robert-f-ken...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Will Not Let My Daughter Be | Defector
When it comes to my daughter, I try to live in the moment. I stumbled into this paradigm in March of 2023, when Nora was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at the age of 2. Nora is 4 now—a…
defector.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hey folks. I know there's a lot going on right now, but I'd really appreciate it if you read this piece I wrote on the perils of raising an autistic child during the era of RFK Jr. and his campaign of insane conspiracies and cruel scare tactics geared toward people on the spectrum.
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Kari Lake (USAGM 'special adviser') is emailing ‘reduction-in-force’ (termination) notices to many VOA staffers who’ve been on paid leave since mid-March. She's also axing some who were brought back to implement her Potemkin Village VOA (reaching only 0.2% of our prior audience).
June 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Kari Lake (USAGM 'special adviser') is emailing ‘reduction-in-force’ (termination) notices to many VOA staffers who’ve been on paid leave since mid-March. She's also axing some who were brought back to implement her Potemkin Village VOA (reaching only 0.2% of our prior audience).
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Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
This is just insane. It's all blended together at this point, but still. At some point, maybe, Congress simply has to BE Congress...right? Maybe?
The Department of Homeland Security is asking members of Congress to provide 72 hours of notice before visiting detention centers, according to new guidance: cnn.it/4edTalh
DHS issues new guidance for lawmakers visiting ICE facilities after tense confrontations | CNN Politics
The agency’s new memo seeks to differentiate ICE field offices from detention facilities, noting that “ICE Field Offices are not detention facilities” and therefore do not fall under the appropriation...
cnn.it
June 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is just insane. It's all blended together at this point, but still. At some point, maybe, Congress simply has to BE Congress...right? Maybe?