tomt.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!

submitted 2 days ago • 436 comments

This struck me as the perfect distillation of JD Vance. He is a shockingly incurious and unserious guy who has faked his way into the center of power and now thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room.

submitted 2 days ago • 162 comments

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

submitted 3 days ago • 1727 comments

We non-native English speakers know how uncomfortable and difficult is being under pressure in a language that is not your own. Can’t even imagine in an extreme situation like this

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Where is Keir Starmer?

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

submitted 3 days ago • 284 comments

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

submitted 3 days ago • 236 comments

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

submitted 3 days ago • 1963 comments

“Thank you” is one of more common sentences Zelensky and other Ukrainians said around the world. In Oxford, one Brit said in the event for the anniversary of the war to Ukrainians: “Please, stop thanking us. We should thank you.”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

“Engaged”? “Heated exchange”?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A profile in courage

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A new paper analyzes 2015-2018 content from 12 Sinclair-owned stations purchased in 2016-2017. It finds that "once a station is purchased by Sinclair, its volume of climate change reporting drops...and the public becomes less aware climate change is happening." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Bentancur instantly booked, while City stop 2 attacks with fouls and not a yellow card in sight.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

submitted 8 days ago • 258 comments

“Israel’s recent wars mark a leading instance in which commercial AI models made in the United States have been used in active warfare, despite concerns that they were not originally developed to help decide who lives and who dies” Must read investigation by AP apnews.com/article/isra...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It’s OK—I promise, it’s not an excuse—to state the obvious. Spurs are a bad team when missing 70% of key players for 2 months and a very good team, as you’d expect, when most of the actual team is available. There’s no magic here, no secrets.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

AFP statement on the White House's decision to bar AP from the Oval Office and from Air For One

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Great example of the jagged frontier- even smart AIs have weaknesses at basic tasks. Reading clocks is hard because AI vision systems are crude & calendar facts require vision & math The best model, Gemini, gets only 22% of clocks rights, while o1 gets 80% of calendar questions.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

A dramatic story told in an intimate way: How eight audio reporters bring climate change to life for listeners As we celebrate #WorldRadioDay @arguedasortiz.bsky.social spoke to journalists from Czechia to Tanzania on how they cover climate change reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/dramati...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone have visibility into what new contracts Palantir is getting across federal agencies? (And what contracts DOGE is canceling to give to Palantir?)

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: Explosive new revelations from ex MI6 spy. Why did Boris Johnson block the publication of the Russia Report before 2019 Gen Election? Finally some answers.. Russian military intelligence - the GRU - targeted the Brexit vote. "Money changed hands" 1/ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

submitted 19 days ago • 72 comments

Just leaving this here from Vince Rugari's Angeball. #COYS

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

submitted 20 days ago • 113 comments

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

submitted 23 days ago • 105 comments

Last night Postecoglu set Spurs up as the pundits have been demanding for months, they were utterly thrashed,. Today pundits in unison "Postecoglu hasn't got a clue."

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

For months the media has demanded that Ange Postecoglou be "more pragmatic" with his "insane" tactics. Today's narrative after yesterday's loss: "What happened to Ange-Ball?"

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

Half-hilarious, half-infuriating

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Listening to this week’s @vftlpodcast.bsky.social after Spurs’ latest calamity and you can tell how upset the hosts are because someone is clicking a pen throughout the recording 😂🙏

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!

submitted 43 days ago • 51 comments

It's pretty incredible how Bezos/Lewis are destroying the most important asset for any newspaper: its people

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

This is my story about a woman in love with ChatGPT, or Leo, as it named itself. She spends up to 56 hours a week on the ChatGPT app. Leo is boyfriend, therapist, erotic partner, and advisor. Her friends think it's been good for her and her husband doesn't mind: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...

submitted 47 days ago • 51 comments

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

submitted 47 days ago • 1425 comments

🚨 Applications open today for our Journalist Fellowship! The programme is open to mid-career journalists from around the world who want to spend a few months exploring the future of journalism with us Key details in thread Everything you need to know, in this link https://buff.ly/337ziu8

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

You just can’t express admiration for Mussolini and share photos of your prosthetic penis anymore because of woke. www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

1. CAUGHT ON ZILLOW Popular Information has identified dozens of LA landlords who jacked up rents by as much as 100% after the fires started and thousands of people lost their homes. California's price gauging law prohibits increasing rent by more than 10% during a state of emergency

submitted 48 days ago • 251 comments

I'm only doing the egregious ones now. This qualifies. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/b...

submitted 52 days ago • 89 comments

New from 404 Media: Facebook is deleting internal employee criticism of its new board hire UFC president and CEO Dana White. Facebook also deleting internal employee posts asking why the first ones deleted www.404media.co/facebook-del...

submitted 55 days ago • 62 comments

Let's not forget that the 3rd-Party Fact-Checking program is powered by a really remarkable global network of extremely dedicated & skilled journalists, who have put literally years of their lives into helping make sure that our digital spaces are less impacted by dangerous mis and dis-information.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 55 days ago • 99 comments

Today I would like to pay tribute to The Economist's amazing fact-checkers, who go through our articles with a fine-toothed comb to make sure everything we write is accurate. For anyone wishing to join our reality-based community, we have a 50%-off New Year's sale on. www.economist.com

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

Well this is an unequivocally bad idea...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment