Rick Claypool
@rickclaypool.bsky.social
writing weird sad stories, foraging wild fungi, researching terrible things corporations do
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A @publiccitizen.bsky.social report by @rickclaypool.bsky.social details more than $1 billion in spending by Big Tech firms to secure political advantages www.citizen.org/article/robo...
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A @publiccitizen.bsky.social report by @rickclaypool.bsky.social details more than $1 billion in spending by Big Tech firms to secure political advantages www.citizen.org/article/robo...
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🚨 BREAKING: We filed SEVEN new lawsuits against OpenAI and Sam Altman in California state courts, alongside Social Media Victims Law Center. The suits allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and a variety of product liability, consumer protection, and negligence claims. 🧵
SMVLC and TJLP lawsuits against OpenAI, accuse ChatGPT of emotional manipulation and being a "suicide coach"
Seven new lawsuits from Social Media Victims Law Center and Tech Justice Law Project allege OpenAI’s hurried release of GPT-4o lacked proper testing and safeguards, resulting in a product that isolate...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
🚨 BREAKING: We filed SEVEN new lawsuits against OpenAI and Sam Altman in California state courts, alongside Social Media Victims Law Center. The suits allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and a variety of product liability, consumer protection, and negligence claims. 🧵
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The 24 corporations funding Trump's ballroom have received $279 billion in government contracts in the past 5 years.
Most of them are facing federal enforcement actions.
These are not random donations.
It's a clear as day effort to kiss up to the Trump admin.
Most of them are facing federal enforcement actions.
These are not random donations.
It's a clear as day effort to kiss up to the Trump admin.
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The 24 corporations funding Trump's ballroom have received $279 billion in government contracts in the past 5 years.
Most of them are facing federal enforcement actions.
These are not random donations.
It's a clear as day effort to kiss up to the Trump admin.
Most of them are facing federal enforcement actions.
These are not random donations.
It's a clear as day effort to kiss up to the Trump admin.
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It makes me very happy to know my book 📖 Corporatocracy is available through the @nycplan.org web.nypl.org/research/res... 📚
Corporatocracy : how to protect democracy from dark mone... | Item Details | Research Catalog | NYPL
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October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It makes me very happy to know my book 📖 Corporatocracy is available through the @nycplan.org web.nypl.org/research/res... 📚
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On Oct. 29, I'll be at Busboys and Poets in DC where I'm talking with Daniel Greene, Corey Frayer, and Sandeep Vaheesan about how MAGA and the tech right found common cause, DOGE, and this whole democracy business.
www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...
www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...
Book Talk for Jacob Silverman's Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley | Busboys and Poets
Join us for a conversation with journalist Jacob Silverman about his new book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk, and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. Gilded Rage travels the world to uncover the networks of...
www.busboysandpoets.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
On Oct. 29, I'll be at Busboys and Poets in DC where I'm talking with Daniel Greene, Corey Frayer, and Sandeep Vaheesan about how MAGA and the tech right found common cause, DOGE, and this whole democracy business.
www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...
www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...
i won
going to a thing with a costume contest tonight, I’m probably gonna win
October 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
i won
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I'm more of a slime mold fan, but I do love and appreciate mushrooms adding to the ambience of this season. #NationalMushroomDay
October 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I'm more of a slime mold fan, but I do love and appreciate mushrooms adding to the ambience of this season. #NationalMushroomDay
going to a thing with a costume contest tonight, I’m probably gonna win
October 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
going to a thing with a costume contest tonight, I’m probably gonna win
my kid found me a birthday present
October 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
my kid found me a birthday present
the RI Mycological Society made this to promote an event where I’ll be tabling at Borders Farm Saturday 10/18 10am-noon
October 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
the RI Mycological Society made this to promote an event where I’ll be tabling at Borders Farm Saturday 10/18 10am-noon
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I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.
October 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.
gonna get extremely middle aged this weekend
October 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
gonna get extremely middle aged this weekend
if you want a picture of the future, imagine a human face staring at their rebooting device, forever
October 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
if you want a picture of the future, imagine a human face staring at their rebooting device, forever
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Finished a book by @rickclaypool.bsky.social and eating something that looks like it came from the book.
September 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Finished a book by @rickclaypool.bsky.social and eating something that looks like it came from the book.
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At world conference of cyber fraud experts, fifty of them click into queue-jumping scam
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on.ft.com/3HF2u60
At Singapore’s anti-fraud convention, even the experts get scammed
South-east Asia has become ‘ground zero’ for scams that increasingly use AI and deepfakes to target victims
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September 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Finally reading Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War by @rickclaypool.bsky.social
I mean this in the best way: if you ever wished for more of the MTV 80s animation block called Liquid Television, this is the literary equivalent.
It reminds me to be more weird and pursue awesomeness.
I mean this in the best way: if you ever wished for more of the MTV 80s animation block called Liquid Television, this is the literary equivalent.
It reminds me to be more weird and pursue awesomeness.
August 31, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Finally reading Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War by @rickclaypool.bsky.social
I mean this in the best way: if you ever wished for more of the MTV 80s animation block called Liquid Television, this is the literary equivalent.
It reminds me to be more weird and pursue awesomeness.
I mean this in the best way: if you ever wished for more of the MTV 80s animation block called Liquid Television, this is the literary equivalent.
It reminds me to be more weird and pursue awesomeness.
now is the time of monsters xraylitmag.com/underground-...
August 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
now is the time of monsters xraylitmag.com/underground-...
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Great set of recommendations. Honored my little debut novella made the list.
Great set of recommendations. Honored my little debut novella made the list.
UNDERGROUND READS FOR FREAKS WHO CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEW TOXIC AVENGER MOVIE TO COME OUT by Rick Claypool and Lor Gislason
Everything is fucked up, okay? Ask us what’s fucked up and if there was a gesture to gesture toward all of it, that would be the gesture we’d make. This deep, deep fucked upedness – which is also a wi...
xraylitmag.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
xraylitmag.com/underground-...
Great set of recommendations. Honored my little debut novella made the list.
Great set of recommendations. Honored my little debut novella made the list.
a little treat for you freaks
we have a round up of 'Underground Reads for Freaks Who Can't Wait for The New Toxic Avenger Movie' by Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social & Lor Gislason @lormaggot.ca !
lots of weirdo small press books for u !!
xraylitmag.com/underground-...
lots of weirdo small press books for u !!
xraylitmag.com/underground-...
UNDERGROUND READS FOR FREAKS WHO CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEW TOXIC AVENGER MOVIE TO COME OUT by Rick Claypool and Lor Gislason
Everything is fucked up, okay? Ask us what’s fucked up and if there was a gesture to gesture toward all of it, that would be the gesture we’d make. This deep, deep fucked upedness – which is also a wi...
xraylitmag.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
a little treat for you freaks
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In this video, our slime mold hero heads toward the honey to eat up all the glucose, then sets up shop farming microbes in yogurt town!
What topping do slime molds like on their oat flakes? #experiment #science #plasmodium #slimemold
YouTube video by Vicas' Projects
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July 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In this video, our slime mold hero heads toward the honey to eat up all the glucose, then sets up shop farming microbes in yogurt town!
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Trump Has Dropped a Third of All Government Investigations Into Big Tech
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-has-dr...
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-has-dr...
Trump Has Dropped a Third of All Government Investigations Into Big Tech
Tech companies spent $1.2 billion on political influence since 2024. It’s paid off.
www.404media.co
August 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Trump Has Dropped a Third of All Government Investigations Into Big Tech
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-has-dr...
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-has-dr...
My new @publiccitizen.bsky.social report exposes the Trump admin’s retreat from federal enforcement against lawbreaking by Big Tech corporations.
Below is a thread of the most important findings.
Click the link to read the full report 👇 (1/23)
Below is a thread of the most important findings.
Click the link to read the full report 👇 (1/23)
Deleting Tech Enforcement - Public Citizen
www.citizen.org
August 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My new @publiccitizen.bsky.social report exposes the Trump admin’s retreat from federal enforcement against lawbreaking by Big Tech corporations.
Below is a thread of the most important findings.
Click the link to read the full report 👇 (1/23)
Below is a thread of the most important findings.
Click the link to read the full report 👇 (1/23)
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🚨 New findings on Big Tech's regulatory erasures, especially with regard to crypto and labor (Upwork, ScaleAI). And incredible documenting of Uber's footprints in this assault: I didn't know Uber's co-founder was involved in hiring for DOGE.
August 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🚨 New findings on Big Tech's regulatory erasures, especially with regard to crypto and labor (Upwork, ScaleAI). And incredible documenting of Uber's footprints in this assault: I didn't know Uber's co-founder was involved in hiring for DOGE.