Mike Elgan
@mikeelgan.bsky.social
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Turns out all you have to do to censor the BBC is threaten to sue and they censor themselves! They're willing to lie for a two-bit dictator because money is more important to them. My advice: Dissolve the BBC. They have no reason to exist anymore.
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Historian Rutger Bregman criticises BBC for removing Donald Trump line from Radio 4's Reith Lecture
Rutger Bregman says he is "genuinely dismayed" after a line about the US president was edited out.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Turns out all you have to do to censor the BBC is threaten to sue and they censor themselves! They're willing to lie for a two-bit dictator because money is more important to them. My advice: Dissolve the BBC. They have no reason to exist anymore.
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Claim of the moment: When the Pilgrims first arrived at Plymouth rock they created a communist society. When communism inevitably led to starvation, they turned capitalist, and later celebrated their abundance with Thanksgiving.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Claim of the moment: When the Pilgrims first arrived at Plymouth rock they created a communist society. When communism inevitably led to starvation, they turned capitalist, and later celebrated their abundance with Thanksgiving.
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Donald Trump is so dumb he illegally appointed his personal defense attorney with zero prosecutorial experience to prosecute James Comey, guaranteeing that the case is thrown out. www.techdirt.com/2025/11/26/t...
This Level Of Corruption Requires Stupidity
The abyss. The darkness. The meaningless void that life rebels against. It stares at us. Nietzsche warned about this moment—when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. When th…
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November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Donald Trump is so dumb he illegally appointed his personal defense attorney with zero prosecutorial experience to prosecute James Comey, guaranteeing that the case is thrown out. www.techdirt.com/2025/11/26/t...
Sentences of the moment: "Everyone laughed. He wasn’t joking."
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The future will be explained to you in Palo Alto | TechCrunch
On Wednesday evening at PlayGround Global in Palo Alto, some very smart people who are building things you don't understand yet will explain what's
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November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Sentences of the moment: "Everyone laughed. He wasn’t joking."
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This browser avoids AI slop by showing you only websites built before ChatGPT existed.
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Slop Evader — Tega Brain
A browser extension for avoiding AI slop. Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT's...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This browser avoids AI slop by showing you only websites built before ChatGPT existed.
tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader
tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader
Phrase of the season: “recipe slop”
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Thanksgiving Dinner Headed for Tragedy as Disastrous AI Recipes Devour Internet
Food bloggers are warning home cooks to be wary of AI-generated recipes that could turn this year's Thanksgiving dinner into a tragedy.
futurism.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Phrase of the season: “recipe slop”
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Reposted by Mike Elgan
We need you to weigh in: Should Jim break up with his AI girlfriend? Do chatbot relationships make sense sometimes?
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Should Jim break up with his AI girlfriend?
Episode #28
www.superintelligentpodcast.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We need you to weigh in: Should Jim break up with his AI girlfriend? Do chatbot relationships make sense sometimes?
www.superintelligentpodcast.com/p/should-jim... @mikeelgan.bsky.social
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Opinion: We need a ‘universal toggle’ to choose whether we want AI content or not.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Opinion: We need a ‘universal toggle’ to choose whether we want AI content or not.
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170 million children between the ages of 5 and 12 wear smartwatches. The reason why they’re so popular is super depressing.
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How kids’ smartwatches led to anxiety, addiction, and crime
The world needs to learn from China’s bad example.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
170 million children between the ages of 5 and 12 wear smartwatches. The reason why they’re so popular is super depressing.
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How kids’ smartwatches led to anxiety, addiction, and crime
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How kids’ smartwatches led to anxiety, addiction, and crime
The world needs to learn from China’s bad example.
machinesociety.ai
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
How kids’ smartwatches led to anxiety, addiction, and crime
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HEADLINE: "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm"
ALT HEADLINE: "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm... again!"
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ALT HEADLINE: "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm... again!"
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November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
HEADLINE: "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm"
ALT HEADLINE: "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm... again!"
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ALT HEADLINE: "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm... again!"
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Number of the moment: 55
(The average number of times Elon Musk posts a tweet on X per day. His favorite topics in order are: 1) race; 2) crime; 3) Tesla; and 4) himself.)
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(The average number of times Elon Musk posts a tweet on X per day. His favorite topics in order are: 1) race; 2) crime; 3) Tesla; and 4) himself.)
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Shocker: Elon Musk spends a lot of time on X posting bad political takes
Elon Musk spends a lot of time on X posting about politics and himself.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Number of the moment: 55
(The average number of times Elon Musk posts a tweet on X per day. His favorite topics in order are: 1) race; 2) crime; 3) Tesla; and 4) himself.)
www.theverge.com/tech/827125/...
(The average number of times Elon Musk posts a tweet on X per day. His favorite topics in order are: 1) race; 2) crime; 3) Tesla; and 4) himself.)
www.theverge.com/tech/827125/...
Claim of the moment: "Existing large language models (LLMs) have a built-in mathematical ceiling on their creative capacity, meaning they will never rival the originality or ingenuity of the most creative individuals.
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ChatGPT is smart, but no match for the most creative humans
A new Australian study has smashed the myth that generative AI systems such as ChatGPT could soon replace society’s most creative people.
www.unisa.edu.au
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Claim of the moment: "Existing large language models (LLMs) have a built-in mathematical ceiling on their creative capacity, meaning they will never rival the originality or ingenuity of the most creative individuals.
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The most California thing ever: Soon you can go wine tasting in a self-driving taxi.
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Waymo to expand service into Wine Country in one of California’s largest robotaxi rollouts
California quietly opened the door to one of the largest geographic expansions of autonomous ride-hailing the state has ever seen after the DMV approved an enlargement of Waymo’s operating...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The most California thing ever: Soon you can go wine tasting in a self-driving taxi.
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HEADLINE: "Elon Musk’s Boring Company Caught Hiding Toxic Waste Pond in Vegas"
ALT HEADLINE: "Elon Musk's Boring Company, the Social Network Called X, Caught Hiding in Vegas"
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ALT HEADLINE: "Elon Musk's Boring Company, the Social Network Called X, Caught Hiding in Vegas"
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Elon Musk's Boring Company Caught Hiding Toxic Waste Pond in Vegas
Elon Musk's Boring Company has been illegally dumping toxic waste byproduct for months, landing itself a $500k fine from local officials.
futurism.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
HEADLINE: "Elon Musk’s Boring Company Caught Hiding Toxic Waste Pond in Vegas"
ALT HEADLINE: "Elon Musk's Boring Company, the Social Network Called X, Caught Hiding in Vegas"
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ALT HEADLINE: "Elon Musk's Boring Company, the Social Network Called X, Caught Hiding in Vegas"
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The Atlantic built a scorecard for AI crawlers, identifying which bots send readers back and which just strip content. Only those with value get through. This approach led it to block a single AI crawler that tried to recrawl its site 564,000 times in the past seven days.
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Inside The Atlantic’s AI bot blocking strategy
The Atlantic's CEO explains how it evaluates AI crawlers to block those that bring no traffic or subscribers, and to provide deal leverage.
digiday.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The Atlantic built a scorecard for AI crawlers, identifying which bots send readers back and which just strip content. Only those with value get through. This approach led it to block a single AI crawler that tried to recrawl its site 564,000 times in the past seven days.
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Somebody made a clone of Gmail and put Jeffrey Epstein's real emails into it. jmail.world
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 8:16 PM
Somebody made a clone of Gmail and put Jeffrey Epstein's real emails into it. jmail.world
Human behavior of the moment: "the Batman effect"
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November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Human behavior of the moment: "the Batman effect"
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I'm replacing my iPad with an iPhone for mobile writing. Read all about it: www.reddit.com/r/writers/co...
From the writers community on Reddit
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November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm replacing my iPad with an iPhone for mobile writing. Read all about it: www.reddit.com/r/writers/co...
People are sexist towards AI labeled as either male or female
News. (Participants in a recent study were more likely to exploit AI agents labelled female and more likely to distrust AI agents labelled male.)
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News. (Participants in a recent study were more likely to exploit AI agents labelled female and more likely to distrust AI agents labelled male.)
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Humans bring gender bias to their interactions with AI – new study
Humans bring gender biases to their interactions with Artificial Intelligence, according to new research from Trinity and Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU) Munich.
www.tcd.ie
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
People are sexist towards AI labeled as either male or female
News. (Participants in a recent study were more likely to exploit AI agents labelled female and more likely to distrust AI agents labelled male.)
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News. (Participants in a recent study were more likely to exploit AI agents labelled female and more likely to distrust AI agents labelled male.)
www.tcd.ie/news_events/...
Half gallon of organic orange juice costs $27 at a California health food store.
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Half gallon of organic orange juice costs $27 at a California health food store.
Anybody want to buy my Prius?
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In our opinion: Akio Toyoda’s MAGA moment a tone-deaf mistake
The spectacle betrayed decades of apolitical words and actions by Toyota Motor Corp., and did so in gleeful celebration of a man whose deeds this year have caused billions in losses to the auto indust...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Anybody want to buy my Prius?
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Word of the moment: "Saudification"
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The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
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November 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Word of the moment: "Saudification"
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A huge number of Chinese electronics products can be remotely accessed, repurposed, controlled and shut down. Malice or incompetence? It doesn’t matter. We should kill Chinese kill switches.
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We should kill Chinese kill switches
A huge number of Chinese electronics products can be remotely accessed, repurposed, controlled and shut down. Malice or incompetence? It doesn’t matter.
machinesociety.ai
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A huge number of Chinese electronics products can be remotely accessed, repurposed, controlled and shut down. Malice or incompetence? It doesn’t matter. We should kill Chinese kill switches.
machinesociety.ai/p/we-should-...
machinesociety.ai/p/we-should-...