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NEW: An NBC News joint interview with six women who say they were sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein or convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... They want Trump to release the Epstein documents and not pardon Maxwell.
I'm curious to know more. Who is they in this situation?
I guess everyone has a different social media experience but I just don't see people on here condemning lean-D voters
In recent days, Elon Musk promoted "remigration" for the UK via his very widely followed account on X. In case you were not familiar with this concept here's a good explanation of "Europes's far-right buzzword" in The Guardian from 2024. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
Why is Meta pushing this AI slop deepfake of Al Pacino?
I have a lot of fun on here! People share links, people actually read articles, I share music recs and get new ones. Why should I care if nobody's paying a bot farm to juice numbers?
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Yet another way X has broken people’s brains
This was one of Substack’s original main selling points, yeah? That you could always take your email list with you?
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!
Tesla could have settled for $60 million, got hit with a $240 million judgement, and it was caught covering up Autopilot crashes in the process... but now they figure the right fancy lawyers can put the toothpaste back in the tube www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
John Mulaney?
one of those nights where your texts are just sending posts back and forth
Tech investor backed by Peter Thiel: "I want to be backing 11-year-olds." www.piratewires.com/p/why-thiel-...
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
The illustrator here really went for the Hunter S. Thompson look
A Texas Congressman Is Quietly Helping Elon Musk Pitch a $760M Plan to Build Tunnels Under Houston to Ease Flooding www.propublica.org/article/elon...
Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Tesla FSD turns off more US consumers than it attracts according to an August survey of 8,000 respondents by Slingshot. And about half of those surveyed think FSD should *be illegal* the way its advertised and works now.... www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/t...
www.chron.com/culture/arti... That's from July. Not sure why the NYP covered it today.
Family sues Tesla after Cybertruck owner dies in 5,000-degree inferno, causing bones to disintegrate nypost.com/2025/08/28/b...
"aggregator of streaming" We're just reinventing cable TV, right? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
Wow we’ve come a long way from 1968
Tesla FSD fails to stop for pedestrian at 4-way stop www.reddit.com/r/TeslaFSD/c...
Waymo says it has 800 vehicles in operation across the Bay Area. www.sfexaminer.com/news/transit...
Back in 2020, YouTube suspended OAN's channel, demonetized it, and noted it was not an "authoritative" source. Now, five years later, the Google-owned platform has inked a deal to put the MAGA propaganda network in millions of living rooms. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...
Also, we have data now showing that being in a data breach really does increase your chance of being a victim of identity theft, even if you never slip up and leak or accidentally authorize something you shouldn't.
European new car-sales from Jan–July 2025 were 59% battery electric, plug in, & hybrid, up from 49% last year. Fully electric cars rose from 12.5% to 15.6% of sales. Big winner: VW & China’s BYD. Tesla suffered a 40% decline & now has less than 1% of Europe share. www.reuters.com/business/aut...
The electric scooter sharing scam that fleeced millions of dollars from Americans www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community arstechnica.com/science/2025...
JUST IN: A federal judge rules that a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his America PAC — alleging they broke a promise to pay voters for signing a political petition — may proceed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
yeah how did things turn out for him?
The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
No one wants grilled chicken after 6pm on the weekends…? 🤔
Zero context, so what’s your best guess for what he’s alluding to? • racial demographic change? • government spending? • vaccine research cuts? (ha)
This is spot on. We're reaching the end of Boomer nostalgia content business. There will be no more 8-hour Beatles documentaries. But the nostalgia content business for Gen X is just getting started, and AI slop is making it cheap.
Regarding the liberal fantasy of saving X by posting on it more — @pbump.com has it exactly right www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...
Really interesting, thank you!
yes. that's very 2005 journalism.
That Atlantic piece is very good, and the author @candiceodgers.bsky.social is on this site -- would love to know her thoughts about school phone rules in particular
something something means of production
Sadly, i think the answer is "because it's in their social media feed and they're just scrolling" (FB in particular probably)
Trump just called Gretchen Whitmer “Christie Whitmer”? While trying to talk about JB Pritzker in Illinois? No idea what the president is talking about when the Q is on sending troops into Chicago.
San Francisco marks the 59th Anniversary of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/c...
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Yup bsky.app/profile/dave...
In case this matters, I would like anyone who did this or anyone considering doing similar to know that this repainting meant a lot to my gay teenager.
In mid-2025, I think it’s genuinely absurd to argue that abandoning posting on Twitter is tantamount to abandoning the internet - and arguing publicly for our beliefs on the internet - entirely. Twitter today is vastly smaller and less influential than it was.
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Hot Tub Time Machine was ahead of its time.
'We threw hand grenades!' Russian kids as young as 8 get taste of military training www.reuters.com/world/we-thr...
Reuters story here: www.reuters.com/world/we-thr...
Like, yes, we're all agreed we're going to keep posting on the internet. That's not the question. We still get to choose (have to choose) which apps we use.
If journalists think they need to be on X because their business model demands it, then they should just say so. (And also think deeply about their business model)
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That's quite a shift in your final sentence. Previously, the topic at hand had been "if you're going to keep posting on Twitter," but then suddenly the topic shifts to "if you're going to keep posting on the internet" -- as if Twitter and the internet were one and the same.
Many people are saying this bsky.app/profile/jame...
Demsas and The Argument’s main account pay for blue checks so that they won’t get down ranked for failing to do so. They post pictures first with links in the next tweet because links are downranled. She has over 40k followers. And this is the result. We’re supposed to believe this is worth it?
The updated 2024 Pew numbers are even worse for X. www.pewresearch.org/internet/fac... cc @jerusalem.bsky.social
She even links to this Pew report! www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
What do we think of the claim that X/Twitter is "the platform with the most eyeballs"?
The idea that X is a hub for earnest discussion or for good-faith arguments about the news is lacking in evidence, to say the least. In fact, it’s contradicted by the specific design changes imposed by Elon Musk.
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It's disappointing that this @jerusalem.bsky.social piece fails to grapple with the dynamics of X as a platform. For example: With revenue-sharing, the site incentivizes inauthentic content: sock puppets, performative outrage or others who pretend to argue. Many aren't there for "public argument."
Instagram is currently censoring a graphic that reads “immigrants make the country great.” It says that even though the image doesn’t violate guidelines, it may “contain images that some people might find upsetting.”
TIL there's an annual desert festival that resembles Mad Max (much more so than Burning Man): www.wastelandweekend.com/ticket-sale-...
Detentions of D.C. delivery drivers leave immigrant communities on edge www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Doctors say medical misinformation has gotten worse, survey finds www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...
Just a hilarious description of a political party
"Finnish President Alexander Stubb has proved pivotal in the efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, taking on new importance after he bonded with President Donald Trump over their mutual love of golf." www.nbcnews.com/world/ukrain...
Makes it sound like the reviewers were at fault 😳
As ppl look for transparency & accountability we’ve put together a comprehensive timeline of the failure of federal law enforcement to address Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes @justsecurity.org It’s a “tale of national disgrace” spanning 3 decades www.justsecurity.org/119137/timel...
NEW: The Commerce Dept just announced that aluminum can lids and ends ARE aluminum derivatives and WILL be included in the Section 232 tariffs effective today. That tariff currently stands at 50%. Brewers Association warns this "could contribute to higher packaging costs" for US craft brewers.
What's old is new again archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
For headlines, a new style emerges
* or the cases settle for millions of dollars
Kinda weird how Trump vowed in 2016 to "open up" the libel laws but since then juries keep finding him and his allies liable
Newsmax to pay $67M to settle defamation lawsuit from voting machine company www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Elon Musk also votes by mail. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Trump votes by mail. www.npr.org/2020/08/19/9...
For years people said it was a gross exaggeration to label Nazism and its associated viewpoints within the modern conservative movement and especially online. Now Nazis are openly thriving and their rhetoric is impossible to avoid and many of the people who downplayed it are saying nothing at all
Amidst all this MS NOW gaiety, of which I am happily taking part, I also can't help but remember the two days after the announcement of the iPad when all of online was saying "lmao like a feminine hygiene product?! What a buncha idiots!"
Laura Loomer, who the president has consulted for decisions on who to fire, is arguing with a chatbot
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) And of course Cool Hand Luke
I think both here and twitter are miserable in different ways and that neither site is fully functional but I do think it’s funny to be more scared of MSNBC liberals than blue check grindset nazis.
“Jerusalem Demsas left The Atlantic in recent weeks to launch The Argument, a new publication that aims to push back against the populist right by strengthening the ideas and arguments of modern liberalism and convincing readers of their legitimacy.” www.semafor.com/article/08/1...
Here's a version that was archived. archive.org/details/60-m...
I think some important context for the anti-Churchill stuff is that it was literally a Mel Brooks bit
The video was just suddenly pulled and made private within hours of being released. I was halfway through and it stopped suddenly.
I think some important context for the anti-Churchill stuff is that it was literally a Mel Brooks bit
NEW: Anti-vaccine myths surged on social media ahead of last week's CDC shooting, as platforms such as X and Facebook have become much more permissive of vaccine-related false claims. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Don't abandon bunnies (or any pets) in a park www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
If you come across that again, I'd love to see screenshots. It can be difficult to search for this stuff
A long overdue and very welcome addition!
These Facebook posts are still up, btw. By contrast, TikTok, which also bans misleading information about vaccines in its community guidelines, removed three videos that falsely said vaccines cause autism after we asked about them.
Facebook tells users that it bans vaccine misinformation, but it appears they have stopped enforcing that rule:
NEW: Anti-vaccine myths surged on social media ahead of last week's CDC shooting, as platforms such as X and Facebook have become much more permissive of vaccine-related false claims. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...