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Jon Keegan
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Tech reporter / Data journalist ➡️ @sherwood.news
I report on AI and Big Tech.
⏪️ The Markup, Tow Center, WSJ.
Aspiring 46er. ⛰️
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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 25d
I took a deep dive into Meta’s “Hyperion” data center in Richland Parish, LA. The story of a tech behemoth coming bearing billions to a poor community like Richland Parish is complex and worthy of scrutiny. 🧵 1/7

sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/
The power play behind Hyperion, Mark Zuckerberg’s colossal data center being built in rural Louisiana
$10 billion of investment. Code names to disguise projects and companies. Mixed opinions. Skyrocketing property values. And enough tax breaks...
sherwood.news
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pbump.com
Seen some people suggesting the new shooting video is AI because you can see a dinosaur in the background at one point. But, uh, there’s just a dinosaur on a car on that street. Here’s Google Street View.
maps.app.goo.gl/fmgYaLWrwxx3...
January 9, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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sherwood.news
Anthropic is taking steps to make sure they aren’t helping the competition in any way.
https://sherwood.news/tech/report-anthropic-cuts-off-xais-access-to-its-models-for-coding/
Report: Anthropic cuts off xAI’s access to its models for coding
Anthropic is taking steps to make sure they aren’t helping the competition in any way....
sherwood.news
January 9, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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Any other app would have absolutely been pulled. Apple and Google need to explain this.
carolinehaskins.bsky.social Caroline Haskins @carolinehaskins.bsky.social · 1d
Thousands of people on X are using Grok to create sexualized images of adults + minors wearing minimal clothing. This not only violates X's own content policy, it may violate the guidelines of Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store:
www.wired.com/story/x-grok...
Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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Grok has been climbing Apple and Google’s app store rankings amid calls to remove it for sexualized images. By @rani.bsky.social

sherwood.news/tech/grok-ha...
chart: grok has been climbing the app store
January 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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iankmsmith.ft.com
if you're new here this is a good bunch
go.bsky.app/GhSgfrR
January 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Here's the Washington Post investigation:
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
New York Times:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQCv...
And Bellingcat's video
bsky.app/profile/bell...
bellingcat.com Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 2d
Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.
January 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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aramshabanian.bsky.social
via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
January 8, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
Here's the sort of thing Webloc can do:
- zoom in on specific phone, see where else that device has been locally or around country
- click a 'route' button to see the specific route
- click a nighttime button to see where at night; their likely home

No warrant www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Once a Webloc user has identified a device of interest, they can get more details about that particular phone, and, by extension, its owner, by seeing where else it has travelled both locally and across the country. Users can click a route feature which shows the path the device took. The material suggests that if users look at where the device was located at night, they might find the person’s possible home, and during the day, the person’s possible employer. The software can also do a multi-permiter analysis, which monitors multiple locations at once to see which devices have been present at two or more specific places. A results page then displays the list of discovered devices. This includes whether the phone is an Android or iOS device; the number of days the device visited a given location; the average amount of time a device stayed at the location; and the total number of pieces of location data for that phone.
January 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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sisiwei.bsky.social
California's website that helps residents block hundreds of data brokers at once is now live. @themarkup.org and @calmatters.org gave it a try and decided — we need to make a guide: themarkup.org/privacy/2026...
How Californians can use a new state website to block hundreds of data brokers – The Markup
A tool called DROP lets California residents fill out a few forms to keep their personal data from being tracked or sold by data brokers.
themarkup.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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carolinehaskins.bsky.social
Okay, remember in 2024 when RFK Jr. admitted he dumped a dead black bear cub in Central Park in 2014? An event that was a NY mystery for a decade?

if this story has also haunted you...... I got new docs, emails, & pics about it from NYC's Dept of Parks & Rec via FOIA:
www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...
New Records Reveal the Mess RFK Jr. Left When He Dumped a Dead Bear in Central Park
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he left a bear cub's corpse in Central Park in 2014 to "be fun." Records newly obtained by WIRED show what he left New York civil servants to clean up.
www.wired.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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washingtonpost.com
Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, the National Weather Service shared a forecast map riddled with spelling mistakes, non-existent locations and other geographical errors.
‘Whata Bod’: An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho
Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, an AI-generated forecast graphic with errors was pulled from NWS sites.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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mharrisondupre.bsky.social
NEW: X/Twitters continue to freely use xAI's Grok to generate and disseminate nonconsensual explicit deepfakes of real women and underage girls.

Neither X nor xAI have taken meaningful action to fix the issue. So we're following that inaction live:

futurism.com/artificial-i...
We Can't Believe We Have to Do This Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls? We're following whether Elon Musk and his companies, X and xAI, make any meaningful change to stem the tide of likely-illegal AI deepfakes on X — content that's being generated via Musk's own chatbot, Grok. Image: Elon Musk in front of the silhouette of an anonymous woman.
January 6, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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Mark Zuckerberg Jan 7, 2021:

“The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden. “
4:091 Q ... Mark Zuckerberg • Jan 7, 2021 • 0 The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden. His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world. We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect -- and likely their intent -- would be to provoke further violence. Following the certification of the election results by Congress, the priority for the whole country must now be to ensure that the remaining 13 days and the days after inauguration pass peacefully and in accordance with established democratic norms. Over the last several years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platform consistent with our own rules, at times removing content or labeling his posts when they violate our policies. We did this because we believe that the public has a right to the broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech. But the current context is now fundamentally Mark Zuckerberg laughing with Donald trump
January 6, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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anildash.com
Tim Cook on January 6, 2021: "Today marks a sad and shameful chapter in our nation's history. Those responsible for this insurrection should be held to account, and we must complete the transition to President-elect Biden's administration. It's especially when they are challenged that our ideals matter most." Tim Cook genuflecting before Trump in the Oval Office as he hands him the bespoke golden tablet that he crafted for him.
January 6, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
corin.bsky.social Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 4d
One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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These performative perp walks only build up the subject as some sort of powerful super-villain mastermind. Drop him off on the street in a Crown Vic flanked by two frumpy FBI agents in windbreakers. Mark Ruffalo’s character from “Task.”
screenshot of Maduro being escorted by several armed soldiers / agents in tactical gear
January 5, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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scottstgeorge.paleohydrology.com
Unbelievable. The National Weather Service issued a wind warning supported by a hazard map showing places that **do not exist***.
coweatherman.bsky.social Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 4d
Wait a minute...why is NWS throwing out genAI generated slop on their socials?

This is a horrible look and doesn't help keep people safe or aware of the forecast.
NWS AI Slop.
January 5, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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pattymo.com
Picture of that laughably bad Willy Wonka knockoff thing in Scotland
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."

This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.

Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
LA Times: Elon Musk company bot apologizes Newsweek: Elon Musk's Grok Apologizes International Business Times: Grok Issues Apologies The Hill: Musk's AI chatbot Grok apologizes
January 3, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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lauraolin.bsky.social
They got Lucy Dacus to sing at the inauguration 😭
January 1, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Still a few hours to go. 🤡

mashable.com/article/elon...
January 1, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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ebharrington.bsky.social
They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!

Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
December 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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One of my favorite side projects this year was my story for @technologyreview.com about the history of the Armatron robotic toy. I had one as a kid, and it is a miracle of mechanical engineering. I got to interview its inventor, retired toy designer Hiroyuki Watanabe.

ter.li/JKeegan (gift link)
How a 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics
The tasks taken on by the Armatron aren’t so different from the ones AI is tackling today.
ter.li
December 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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🧵I've written over 400(!!!) stories this year for @sherwood.news. Lots of short blog posts, but also a good number of deeper dives. I really enjoy the change of pace while still having the time to dig deeper. Here’s a thread of some of my fave Sherwood News stories I wrote from 2025:
December 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM