Gregory Foster
@gregoryfoster.bsky.social
humbled by redwoods
Founder + Citizen Observer
@cannabis.observer
Founder + Citizen Observer
@cannabis.observer
Eager to create "structures of factuality"
This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Eager to create "structures of factuality"
A promising approach!
My @jskstanford.bsky.social year at Stanford centers on one question: What grows when you build a community newsroom inside a public library? I've been testing it in Brooklyn neighborhood. It's works.
We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously.
medium.com/jsk-class-of...
We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously.
medium.com/jsk-class-of...
I Have An Idea To Open 16,000 Newsrooms In The U.S.
What happens when journalism lives inside the public library?
medium.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A promising approach!
Best take I've read on the new Twitter account location feature which helped verify how much the platform incentivized disordered discourse.
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Best take I've read on the new Twitter account location feature which helped verify how much the platform incentivized disordered discourse.
A creative and fun activism technique applicable to any private retailer.
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A creative and fun activism technique applicable to any private retailer.
The founder of @bellingcat.com has been developing a helpful concept of "disordered discourse" to help comprehend these strange online times.
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The founder of @bellingcat.com has been developing a helpful concept of "disordered discourse" to help comprehend these strange online times.
Deep dive into what became of DOGE with details on individuals and factions.
"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind
What really happened when he logged out of Washington.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Deep dive into what became of DOGE with details on individuals and factions.
Yet another example of why it's disconcertingly helpful to interpret incendiary Republican accusations as admissions of what they themselves are doing.
Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Yet another example of why it's disconcertingly helpful to interpret incendiary Republican accusations as admissions of what they themselves are doing.
Browse the #Epstein email archive in a replica Gmail interface:
jmail.world
(HT @camrodriguez.bsky.social)
jmail.world
(HT @camrodriguez.bsky.social)
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Browse the #Epstein email archive in a replica Gmail interface:
jmail.world
(HT @camrodriguez.bsky.social)
jmail.world
(HT @camrodriguez.bsky.social)
Reposted by Gregory Foster
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
A Congressional staffer fabricating and staging a fake violent attack on herself seems like a pretty weird thing to do.
I've never seen a group of people more desperate to be victims than MAGA Republicans.
Lawmaker's former staffer staged violent political attack, police say
A former congressional staffer was accused of faking a political attack that included hiring someone to slice her body.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A Congressional staffer fabricating and staging a fake violent attack on herself seems like a pretty weird thing to do.
Here is the video that everyone is about to watch because of the Streisand Effect.
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Here is the video that everyone is about to watch because of the Streisand Effect.
Follow The Money
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Follow The Money
My new favorite quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
My new favorite quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Reposted by Gregory Foster
NEW: A judge in Washington has ruled that police images taken by Flock’s AI license plate-scanning cameras are public records that can be requested as part of normal public records requests.
The decision highlights the sheer volume of the technology-fueled surveillance state in the US.
The decision highlights the sheer volume of the technology-fueled surveillance state in the US.
Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone
A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
NEW: A judge in Washington has ruled that police images taken by Flock’s AI license plate-scanning cameras are public records that can be requested as part of normal public records requests.
The decision highlights the sheer volume of the technology-fueled surveillance state in the US.
The decision highlights the sheer volume of the technology-fueled surveillance state in the US.
Bannon advocating for "more intense action" to "seize" the political institutions and "codify" what Trump has only been able to suggest by Executive Order.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Bannon advocating for "more intense action" to "seize" the political institutions and "codify" what Trump has only been able to suggest by Executive Order.
Reposted by Gregory Foster
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Helpful context and rundown of today's Supreme Court oral arguments by @brennancenter.org advocate.
The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs. No matter how the Court rules (and I’ll do just a tiny bit of tea leaf-reading here), its decision will have enormous implications for the scope of presidential power. 1/25
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Helpful context and rundown of today's Supreme Court oral arguments by @brennancenter.org advocate.
The surprising model: OpenAI o1
Recently, Gašper Beguš and his team put several large language models through a litany of tests — including having them generalize the rules of a made-up language. Most failed to match human linguistic ability. But one LLM greatly exceeded expectations. www.quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-a...
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The surprising model: OpenAI o1
Google's Project Suncatcher marks the beginnings of a Dyson sphere for #ML #AI compute:
research.google/blog/explori...
research.google/blog/explori...
Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design
research.google
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Google's Project Suncatcher marks the beginnings of a Dyson sphere for #ML #AI compute:
research.google/blog/explori...
research.google/blog/explori...
Rushkoff does a really admirable job of deconstructing the horrifying elite anti-ethos in play here - and coming out on the other side with humanity.
This is the big picture, and we all have to see it.
This is the big picture, and we all have to see it.
Our job as Team Human is not to succumb to the zero-sum mentality of the wealthy.
They’re the ones who have given up on prosperity.
They are living the nightmare.
rushkoff.substack.com/p/the-intent...
They’re the ones who have given up on prosperity.
They are living the nightmare.
rushkoff.substack.com/p/the-intent...
The Intentional Collapse
The elite are committed to the end of the world, but we don't have to be.
rushkoff.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Rushkoff does a really admirable job of deconstructing the horrifying elite anti-ethos in play here - and coming out on the other side with humanity.
This is the big picture, and we all have to see it.
This is the big picture, and we all have to see it.
“All members of armed forces must comply w/ their internal operating procedures & military manuals & strictly abide by int'l law. Officers should refuse superior orders where these are a manifest violation of the law & may result in a serious violation of human rights incl. extrajudicial executions”
"Repeated and systematic lethal attacks by the United States military on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific raise grave concerns about the commission of potential international crimes, UN experts warned today."
Unprovoked lethal strikes by the United States against vessels at sea may amount to international crimes: UN experts
GENEVA – Repeated and systematic lethal attacks by the United States military on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific raise grave concerns about the commission of potential international crimes,...
www.ohchr.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
“All members of armed forces must comply w/ their internal operating procedures & military manuals & strictly abide by int'l law. Officers should refuse superior orders where these are a manifest violation of the law & may result in a serious violation of human rights incl. extrajudicial executions”
Reposted by Gregory Foster
Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work—then dragged her out of her car and arrested her.
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work—then dragged her out of her car and arrested her.
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Now where is that list of CBS advertisers - let the boycotts and subscription cancellations begin!
"The video cut O'Donnell's final question: "So not concerned about the appearance of corruption with this?"
"Also omitted was Trump's stammering reply: "I can't say, because — I can't say — I'm not concerned. I don't — I'd rather not have you ask the question."
#Pinks
"Also omitted was Trump's stammering reply: "I can't say, because — I can't say — I'm not concerned. I don't — I'd rather not have you ask the question."
#Pinks
Dems want FCC probe of "60 Minutes" trimming Trump Binance pardon exchange
A note said the extended version of the interview had been "condensed for clarity."
www.axios.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Now where is that list of CBS advertisers - let the boycotts and subscription cancellations begin!
You too could pay $20K + $500/month for a REMOTELY PILOTED humanoid robot INSIDE YOUR HOUSE.
What could possibly go wrong? #FAFO
What could possibly go wrong? #FAFO
The $20K 1X NEO is now available for preorder and ships next year. It “does” household chores with a twist: a human teleoperator actually drives it.
Owners schedule takeover times for the human operator and detail tasks via an app.
Basically, a pricier, worse Molly Maid with a charging dock.
Owners schedule takeover times for the human operator and detail tasks via an app.
Basically, a pricier, worse Molly Maid with a charging dock.
1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation
California-based AI and robotics company 1X is now accepting pre-orders for its humanoid robot NEO.
www.engadget.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
You too could pay $20K + $500/month for a REMOTELY PILOTED humanoid robot INSIDE YOUR HOUSE.
What could possibly go wrong? #FAFO
What could possibly go wrong? #FAFO