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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1m

if you don't talk politics at the dinner table you maintain modern civilization!

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1m

see and be seen!

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2m

perhaps if you'd been a skosh more political we wouldn't have dim zealots who operate at a third grade reading level demolishing the regulatory state, karen

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3m

if you say some variant of "I don't want to get political, but" my immediate impulse is to slap you

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5m

In November Scott Galloway has a shitty book coming out about being super manly and I'm looking forward to it for exclusively that reason

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6m

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 7m

Modern American journalism is a cocktail party for the well-heeled so they can rub elbows with the levers of power and slander the poors. They're court stereographers because they want to be, they like their policies, and they want them to win.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 38m

if anybody from the middle or lower classes with real journalistic chops sexted a source they'd be shitcanned and marginalized so quickly they'd get concussed

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7m

anyway, as a lower middle class kid married to a poet, one of my favorite pastimes is watching the U.S. media system go into over-drive to promote terrible books by unremarkable people if said people have connections and wealth

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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29m

tbh it’s honestly worse. I could give you a list of dozens of good, ethical, service-minded journalists I know personally who were unjustly fired, or forced out of jobs, or randomly laid off and who left the industry and never even got a second chance

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 38m

if anybody from the middle or lower classes with real journalistic chops sexted a source they'd be shitcanned and marginalized so quickly they'd get concussed

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 38m

if anybody from the middle or lower classes with real journalistic chops sexted a source they'd be shitcanned and marginalized so quickly they'd get concussed

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 40m

trust fund brunchlords are not allowed to fail

it's a big club

and you ain't in it

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 11h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 47m

fail upward brunchlords do not get punished for sexting a source

After Kennedy Scandal, Olivia Nuzzi Lands a Leading Role at Vanity Fair

After a year spent away from the cameras, Olivia Nuzzi is preparing to reemerge on the American journalism scene. The

lavocedinewyork.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 50m

20 states and one organization have filed suit, but it will likely take forever for the cases to wind through the courts, and in the interim under-funded groups are having to scrap plans for "illegal" things like (*checks notes*) training seniors to not get ripped off by online scams

Without federal dollars, ISPs may have to foot bill for digital literacy programs

New Mexico was awarded $8.7 million, or less than 1%, of the total Digital Equity Act fundingThe state received 37 applications for funding, totaling more tha | Some service providers have funded digi...

www.fierce-network.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 51m

Yes typo, thank you

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 52m

Our dim President illegally destroyed a law that was helping people (including his own supporters) access the internet affordably and safely because said law had the word "equity" in it

the press barely covered it, and when they did, they parroted his claims the law was "illegal" and "racist"

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 6d

The “anti-woke” crusade is costing Alabama real opportunities.

Trump canceled the Digital Equity Act, ending funding that gave rural families laptops and digital training.

This wasn’t about politics. It was about connection.
When you cut equity, you cut access.
alabamareflector.com/2025/10/09/t...

Trump called the Digital Equity Act ‘racist.’ Now Internet money for rural Americans is gone. | Alabama Reflector

The halt came after President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that the Digital Equity Act was unconstitutional and pledged “no more woke handouts based on race!”

alabamareflector.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 59m

She only recently popped up on my radar via TikTok, and I like the cut of her gib. Very blunt, no bullshit.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1h

Yes it's great they have your personal identifiers and your sexual fetishes, what could go wrong

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 13h

Hi what

Headline: “nature’s labubu: why are gen z unboxing conkers?”

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 14h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 18h

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13h

the brunchlords left running the empty husk of that place deserve much worse

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13h

I'm not sure I could help myself in this instance. Kudos for your restraint

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 17h

It's good that the hostages are home and that the bombs have quieted. But rumors of peace are extremely premature.

New Racket.

theracket.news/p/this-isnt-...

This isn't peace

Israel is threatening the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, the occupation continues, and the real negotiations haven't started. But Trump wants the glory.

theracket.news

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 15h

The boring and obvious take that anti-woke positions have the effect (and in many cases the intent) of making it acceptable in polite circles to be a degenerate racist was and remains correct.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14h

I like this false claim that they just magically "fixed" the mental health issues of their unregulated bullshit machines so therefore you can fuck your phone now

they're hemorrhaging money and desperately need to goose engagement after badly flubbing the last release

Sam Altman: "We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults."

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