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🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

submitted 5 days ago • 53 comments

the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.

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A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

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Israeli settlers from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank attacked a Palestinian village, setting houses on fire while families were inside. Israeli soldiers then turned up & shot the Palestinians who were trying to rescue people from their homes. Nour Odeh reporting

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NEW--GOP mega-bill stuck in US Senate as disputes grow over hospitals and more www.newsfromthestates.com/article/gop-...

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crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

submitted 2 days ago • 117 comments

comrades from other cities, GO TO BED, lol

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

128 Democrats vote against impeaching Trump.

submitted 3 days ago • 522 comments

I've been exploring how easy it is for bad actors to use VEO 3 text to video generation to spread disinformation in a crisis. With the Iran war in the news, these kinds of AI videos could potentially fuel a crisis if they were to go viral at the wrong moment.

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@todayshow.com I want to make sure y'all know that Kanopy and other library resources are not "free." These resources are free to use, but do cost money. That money has been severely cut in many places. Please use your librarians, but also advocate for them and their funding.

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Since the NBA season ended last night, here's my self indulgent take on where Sports Bluesky is atm. The TLDR is that crappy Resistance accounts are working like antibodies to flush casual sports ppl off this platform and the devs should address this if they actually want sports to take off here.

submitted 4 days ago • 259 comments

It's hard to tell who are the bigger potential marks in this story, the editors at the Times who call what Trump is doing to Harvard (and higher ed writ large) a "dispute" or the people at Harvard who think they could ever make a "deal" with Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Surprise, surprise: Meta's Manhattan-sized data center is going to be powered by three new gas power plants. Residents of the nearby town have no idea how much their bill will increase: "It’s like building the power impact of a large city overnight” www.404media.co/a-black-hole...

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

I think the Democratic establishment severely underestimates the extent to which the younger half of the electorate would cheerfully send Bill Clinton to Gitmo ourselves

submitted 5 days ago • 186 comments

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

submitted 5 days ago • 1137 comments

the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes

submitted 5 days ago • 258 comments

they’re assembling the pervert megazord

submitted 5 days ago • 130 comments

Bill Clinton’s just chilling in his living room, watching ICE kidnappings on tv, when the sex pest election trouble alarm goes off in his kitchen. “Not cuomo,” he says to himself. “Not another member of the brotherhood”

submitted 5 days ago • 124 comments

the political lesson everyone should take from Iraq is that you will regret being in favor of this sooner or later and the earlier you were against it the better off you’ll be ignore the media frenzy and stake your position now, it’s the right thing to do and it’s the ambitious thing to do too

submitted 6 days ago • 100 comments

There is always money for war.

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Something I am thinking about right now is that a 3 million dollar program that allows abused women to take their pets with them to domestic violence shelters is about to be cut because “we don’t have the money” but the government is about to spend 1000000000x more than that to bomb people

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.

submitted 5 days ago • 48 comments

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

submitted 5 days ago • 405 comments

I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Once more with feeling

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

Ah here comes @cnn.com with the bullshit straight out of 2003

submitted 6 days ago • 470 comments

Your enemies are people in actual power not some random person on the internet.

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I see people saying stuff like "why criticize Substack but give other problematic platforms (like, say, YouTube) a pass? Which is a fair point. Thing is, YouTube is a quasi-monopoly for sharable video. Substack wants to have a newsletter monopoly but isn't there yet. And it should never happen.

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

The idea that pro-trans movements led to anti-trans sentiment is egregiously out of touch with reality. Increased LGBTQ representation led to historic shifts in public opinion toward the community. The aggressively bigoted and violent campaigns that lied about trans people are clearly responsible

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center, one of the largest academic research and hospital care systems in the southeast, expects to lay off 650 employees as a result of grant and other funding cuts made by the Trump Administration, it said in a statement. From @anitawadhwani.bsky.social.

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BREAKING via @schotthappens.com: A judge has ordered the immediate release of Arturo Gamboa, the SLC protester who did not fire his weapon but was booked for murder.

submitted 7 days ago • 41 comments

going to keep saying: a society that would like to maintain its basic functions has really got to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by people in positions of authority

submitted 8 days ago • 62 comments

This interview series by @sabs.bsky.social is one of the things I’m proudest of publishing at Defector. defector.com/meet-the-civ...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

So you wanna be a Hitter??! This is what 101 mph Fastball & a 91 mph Slider looks like (from Chase Shores)

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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

submitted 8 days ago • 180 comments

US Congressional oversight might be a bigger myth than central bank independence

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There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

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My mom, a staunch Democrat in red Florida, recently asked me if I think the NYT is trustworthy, bc of what her neighbors say when it arrives on her doorstep. I said essentially it was. But I explained my view of legacy outlets' ideas of "objectivity" and how, in their image of a "reasonable" reader-

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