Lauren Beldi
@laurenbeldi.bsky.social
By night I run The World, by day I am sleepy. Journalist, knitter, painter, member of several shadowy cabals.
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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This really is the most awesome product. Male (gay) sheep are usually culled because they don’t reproduce, but a sheep farmer has rescued them and they have a line of clothing produced from their wool to support the gay sheep.
a man is sitting on a couch and saying " i feel like that needs to be celebrated "
ALT: a man is sitting on a couch and saying " i feel like that needs to be celebrated "
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This really is the most awesome product. Male (gay) sheep are usually culled because they don’t reproduce, but a sheep farmer has rescued them and they have a line of clothing produced from their wool to support the gay sheep.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
This is actually a delightful story about a guy who saves male sheep who don’t mate with female sheep from the slaughterhouse by buying them, giving them a nice life and selling their fibre to sustain the practice 😍
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This is actually a delightful story about a guy who saves male sheep who don’t mate with female sheep from the slaughterhouse by buying them, giving them a nice life and selling their fibre to sustain the practice 😍
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tfw you’re fucking the lasagna man for lasagna
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
tfw you’re fucking the lasagna man for lasagna
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isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
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You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
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Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
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I am so fucking tired of having to do a forensic analysis of every fucking image I see.
November 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I am so fucking tired of having to do a forensic analysis of every fucking image I see.
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When I present my work on algorithmic and monetization incentives encouraging the creation of fake media I give the examples of fake hoof cleaning videos from Vietnam trying to capture algorithmic recommendations for Hoof GP videos.
It makes a loot of sense.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
November 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
When I present my work on algorithmic and monetization incentives encouraging the creation of fake media I give the examples of fake hoof cleaning videos from Vietnam trying to capture algorithmic recommendations for Hoof GP videos.
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happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day
"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day
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Did you guys hear about the Georgia man who died in a scuba diving accident after which family looked in the backyard treehouse and found the skeletal remains of his missing adult son? It’s such a weird story and I need there to be any kind of resolution.
Skeletal remains of missing son found in backyard tree house days after father dies in scuba accident
Henry Hank Frantz, 32, went missing four years ago, according to reports.
www.nbcnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Did you guys hear about the Georgia man who died in a scuba diving accident after which family looked in the backyard treehouse and found the skeletal remains of his missing adult son? It’s such a weird story and I need there to be any kind of resolution.
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If you want something to listen to while you're doing the housework, I joined Emily Jashinsky of UnHerd and Breaking Points and Astead Herndon of Vox to discuss why democracy is going down the toilet.
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Is This What Epistemic Collapse Looks Like?
This week, we spoke with media thinkers Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat; Emily Jashinsky of UnHerd and Breaking Points and Astead Herndon of Vox about the collapse of our information ecosystem.
whyshoulditrustyou.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
If you want something to listen to while you're doing the housework, I joined Emily Jashinsky of UnHerd and Breaking Points and Astead Herndon of Vox to discuss why democracy is going down the toilet.
whyshoulditrustyou.substack.com/p/is-this-wh...
whyshoulditrustyou.substack.com/p/is-this-wh...
The platform Rahaeli is referring to in this (thorough) thread is Roblox, which has not made it onto the list of banned sites for under-16s in Australia come December 10.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The platform Rahaeli is referring to in this (thorough) thread is Roblox, which has not made it onto the list of banned sites for under-16s in Australia come December 10.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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it's funny to me when a dog is really sleepy. oh are you all burnt out from lying around all day? did you think too much with your primitive and underdeveloped brain? yeah I can see why you can barely keep your eyes open
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
it's funny to me when a dog is really sleepy. oh are you all burnt out from lying around all day? did you think too much with your primitive and underdeveloped brain? yeah I can see why you can barely keep your eyes open
Had a panic attack during a trip to Chernobyl and decided I needed to be a journalist. Applied for a masters at Melbourne, broke up with my boyfriend, quit my local council job, moved to the other side of the country, said yes to a last-minute internship at the ABC and been there ever since.
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Had a panic attack during a trip to Chernobyl and decided I needed to be a journalist. Applied for a masters at Melbourne, broke up with my boyfriend, quit my local council job, moved to the other side of the country, said yes to a last-minute internship at the ABC and been there ever since.
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Elon wanted to expose foreign actors, so X shipped location tags.
The result? "Native American Soul" is in Bangladesh and pro-American MAGA patriots were actually Nigerian & Indian. They rolled it back instantly. It is wildly amusing that nobody validated the dataset before hitting the ship button
The result? "Native American Soul" is in Bangladesh and pro-American MAGA patriots were actually Nigerian & Indian. They rolled it back instantly. It is wildly amusing that nobody validated the dataset before hitting the ship button
Insane New Twitter Update
YouTube video by Dolan Darkest
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November 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Elon wanted to expose foreign actors, so X shipped location tags.
The result? "Native American Soul" is in Bangladesh and pro-American MAGA patriots were actually Nigerian & Indian. They rolled it back instantly. It is wildly amusing that nobody validated the dataset before hitting the ship button
The result? "Native American Soul" is in Bangladesh and pro-American MAGA patriots were actually Nigerian & Indian. They rolled it back instantly. It is wildly amusing that nobody validated the dataset before hitting the ship button
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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European leaders have rejected the 28 points presented to Ukraine by the US.
Talks in Geneva Sunday with US, Ukraine (Yermak), E3: Germany, France, UK, and Italy on top adviser level.
Talks in Geneva Sunday with US, Ukraine (Yermak), E3: Germany, France, UK, and Italy on top adviser level.
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
European leaders have rejected the 28 points presented to Ukraine by the US.
Talks in Geneva Sunday with US, Ukraine (Yermak), E3: Germany, France, UK, and Italy on top adviser level.
Talks in Geneva Sunday with US, Ukraine (Yermak), E3: Germany, France, UK, and Italy on top adviser level.
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Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed.
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7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed.
time.com/7336204/meta...
time.com/7336204/meta...
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a good day online 👍🏻
Grok Claims Elon Musk Is More Athletic Than LeBron James -- and the World's Greatest Lover
Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, keeps declaring that he's a peak physical specimen and one of the most brilliant minds in history.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
a good day online 👍🏻
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The perfect New England holiday item doesn't exi–
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The perfect New England holiday item doesn't exi–
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This is literally just because nurses are associated with women, isn't it. That's the whole line of thinking beginning to end.
I’m sorry that I don’t have anything intelligent to say right now because I am so fucking angry
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Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is literally just because nurses are associated with women, isn't it. That's the whole line of thinking beginning to end.
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happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜