Alex Koppelman
@alexkoppelman.bsky.social
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Assistant managing editor, national security and justice, at NBC News. Previously CNN, Guardian US, New Yorker. My wife says I have to tell you I got my Bluesky invite from her and that it means she's the cool one in the marriage.
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sports.thebaltimorebanner.com
the Ravens are losing to the Texans 31-3

vibes in Baltimore:
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willoremus.com
at the post we have a small team of professional pollsters who have to review the full methodology behind any survey results before we can feature them in a story. they’re super annoying sometimes and i’m also very grateful that we have them
the-independent.com
Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says
1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says
www.independent.co.uk
alexkoppelman.bsky.social
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Pentagon leaders are considering a recruiting campaign centered around Charlie Kirk. Possible slogans discussed include "Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors" and there's talk of using TPUSA chapters as recruitment centers. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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alexkoppelman.bsky.social
Yup! I even slept through the night last night without once being woken up by the thought of what had gone wrong
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rparloff.bsky.social
Update on African aliens sent to Ghana who fear being forwarded to countries of origin where US immigration courts have found they likely face persecution/torture: 4 plaintiffs are still in Ghana, but they're now being denied access to Internet, they're attys say.
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jasonkirk.fyi
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
internethippo.bsky.social
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
alexkoppelman.bsky.social
Boy, I tell you, no better way to start your week than laying awake at 4:30, unable to fall back asleep because you can't make yourself stop thinking about the Ravens' collapse, realizing your mental health is apparently balanced precariously on top of a few dozen people you'll never even meet
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vanessafranko.bsky.social
This is why we can’t have nice things.
benjaminsolak.bsky.social
The Ravens have now lost 8 games since the 2021 season in which they, at one point, had a win probability of at least 90%.

That's three more than the next closest team.
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dannyheifetz.bsky.social
The Derrick Henry/Lamar Jackson backfield actually happening and being as incredible as anyone could have hoped is one of the coolest things that has ever happened in football history and is somehow underrated
alexkoppelman.bsky.social
It is just so genuinely fun to watch Derrick Henry run. A privilege, really.
ollieconnolly.bsky.social
This combination of size, speed, patience, vision, balance and violence is so beyond unfair.
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"

www.404media.co/the-astronom...
The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
www.404media.co
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kevincollier.bsky.social
Since 2016 the mainstream media (self included) has spent God knows how many hours fretting and gaming out and strategizing the right and ethical way to cover hack and leaked information. I don't see any way to justify doing this story the way the NYT did here.
jbenmenachem.com
worth noting the pipeline here:
* Trump-supporting anons hack Columbia data
* Nazi twitter accounts dig around in the data
* NYT picks up on Nazi substack posts, publishes Zohran story to damage his campaign
* Chris Rufo immediately boosting the story
Rufo RTs Cremieux: The story is here.

We caught Zohran Mamdani applying to Columbia...

As a Black man.
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brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.
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alexkoppelman.bsky.social
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: The Trump administration is working on a plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya. Details of who would go, how they would go, and where they would live are murky, but the admin's serious enough that it's talked to Libya's leadership. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya
Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.
www.nbcnews.com
alexkoppelman.bsky.social
Between this, hiring Chris Licht, and hiring studio heads he now wants to fire, I think it's clear what the problem is: A mere $51.9 million per year isn't enough to incentivize David Zaslav to do his best work. Pay him more! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
Warners Reverses Course: Changes Max’s Name Back to HBO Max
WBD CEO David Zaslav announced the move, with the company declaring, "no consumer today is saying they want more content, but better content."
www.hollywoodreporter.com