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Mike Murphy
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EIC at IBM Research. Longtime journalist.
pretty wild to be getting served ads for random drugs as i wait for my virtual doctor's visit
November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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every journalist who has been ringing the alarm bell about this for the last three years should get $10 million from any bailout, as a treat
A story in 3 acts:
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
as you tuck into your turkey later this week, take a moment to remember that without those humble Thanksgiving leftovers, we might never have had LASIK surgery 🦃
youtube.com/shorts/DGUfL...
LASIK technology was invented this week in history
YouTube video by IBM Research
youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
what do they have on her
BREAKING: U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says she's resigning from office
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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P-BUMP: ".. The problem is that we’re so used to this pattern that its effects are muted. This is the president of the United States suggesting that members of the opposition party should be *killed* .."

@pbump.com
www.pbump.net/o/so-were-ju...
So, we’re just moving on from the sedition-execution thing?
It's quite tidy how the whole thing worked out, in a way. Democratic members of Congress, recognizing that President Trump would be more than happy to dispatch the military to aid his political object...
www.pbump.net
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
why is capitalism HQ lit up with the Union Flag ?
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
insane that this behavior doesn't result in a censure, an inquiry, anything... it's just an average thursday post for this guy
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost.

Unreal hearing on this earlier:

www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
insane
"The new guidance says that if a 'potentially divisive' symbol is reported, supervisors should inquire about it. After consulting their legal office they may order the symbol’s removal but there’s no further guidance requiring that it be taken down." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
nice one
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I wrote this story this week and I really like the headline, because it sounds like some grandiose proclamation, but it's actually just a bad pun
research.ibm.com/blog/small-m...
The future of AI is in your hands
Small models and powerful personal devices are poised to upend how we use AI.
research.ibm.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
pretty happy that with nothing other than some good posts, we've managed to grow our weekly newsletter from scratch to 40,000 subscribers 🎉
www.linkedin.com/newsletters/...
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
pretty much sums things up here
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
why does every app now think i want to have a conversation with it
www.theverge.com/news/813588/...
Google Maps taps Gemini AI to transform into an ‘all-knowing copilot’
“Hey Google, where am I?”
www.theverge.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
just saw an ad that ended with "kids are safe when a gun is locked in one"

doesn't that technically mean the gun is locked in a kid
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
48 years later, losing by almost the same percentage as his dad, in the same race

it's poetry
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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wow, all those AI ads for nothing. who would've thought?
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
nothing more amazing than finding out @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won at a Taco Bell Cantina after coming out of a Broadway show
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
too many new publications are just newsletters

what happened to websites, i liked websites
November 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
the new Microsoft Teams icon is giving CatDog
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Love doing my civic duty on my birthday and voting for @workingfamilies.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
but bill gates says we're actually going to be fine
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...
2 Men Die in Basement Flooding as Sudden Downpour Hits New York Area
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM