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Covering online speech and tech policy for @washingtonpost.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky. Got a speeding ticket once. Occasionally defends a newspaper headline. Signal: willoremus.24
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i’ve informed him that this situation is untenable

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

The bad news: Mountains of plastic are piling up in oceans, choking marine life. The good news: Plastic bag bans work, a new peer-reviewed study confirms. Just published in Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... by @annapappp.bsky.social & @kimberlyoremus.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

You would not drive a car that, just once a decade, accelerates instead of braking. But the AI models reshaping the web are that: "a technology that works well enough for users to become dependent, but not consistently enough to be truly dependable." My latest, on the internet's janky AI future:

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Threads is a slog 95% of the time. The other 5% of the time it's malfunctioning in hilarious ways and is the best of all social networks

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Yes absolutely. And that’s before you even get to the environmental costs which are not priced in because they’re born by the public rather than the polluter.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

My cold take on generative AI is that it: - is already useful in many domains and will become useful in many more - will have some worthy uses but also many uses that are harmful to the social fabric - is and will continue to be misguidedly relied upon for many uses to which it is not well-suited

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

White Republican men over 65 are Fox News’ core demographic.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

WhatsApp's cofounder in 2012: “Remember, when advertising is involved *you the user* are the product." Meta this week: We're putting ads in WhatsApp. I wrote about the company's move to finally monetize one of the world's largest social networks: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Zuck in 3 months: We're seeing record levels of people creating Reels on our platform, and I find that really inspiring. *Investors cheer*

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Propriety aside... Is Trump's new mobile phone service any good? The great @shiraovide.bsky.social took one for the team and signed up for the $47.45 per month service yesterday. So far she is out $64.70 and has a nonworking phone. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

“No Kings” rallies draw huge crowds across the country despite violence and threats from the right: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

when you want to join the fun but can't quite get down with the nomenclature (ht @davelevitan.bsky.social)

submitted 7 days ago • 77 comments

that's a pretty epic "to be sure" clause

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

[alanis morissette voice] it's like raaa-ee-aaaaaain / on your military parade

submitted 7 days ago • 71 comments

my phone just autocorrected a misspelling of “oh shoot” to “oh shit.” it gets me 🥹

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments