andrew blake
@apblake.bsky.social
Used to report here and there about the internet and stuff. Now occasionally posting words, photos and sounds. Fan of things. SUPREME COMMANDER bassist.
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
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And yet, In Covid’s Wake quotes me as saying that “the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands” — literally the opposite of what I argue — to buttress their claim that the government was too busy censoring speech to adequately deal with the pandemic.
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
And yet, In Covid’s Wake quotes me as saying that “the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands” — literally the opposite of what I argue — to buttress their claim that the government was too busy censoring speech to adequately deal with the pandemic.
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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Since we’re on the topic of asking people for comment …
In 2021, Bari Weiss famously published a resignation letter by former Smith College librarian Jodi Shaw.
Shortly after, I asked Smith if Weiss had reached out for comment first.
“She did not,” spokesperson Stacey Schmeidel said via email.
Weiss’ agents declined my requests for comment.
Shortly after, I asked Smith if Weiss had reached out for comment first.
“She did not,” spokesperson Stacey Schmeidel said via email.
Weiss’ agents declined my requests for comment.
December 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Since we’re on the topic of asking people for comment …
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New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
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Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
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download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.
I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3...
December 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.
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Oh yeah Global TV (in Canada or by VPN) has the full uncut 60 Minutes story on its 60 Minutes rebroadcast. CBS must have sent them the original tape.
December 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh yeah Global TV (in Canada or by VPN) has the full uncut 60 Minutes story on its 60 Minutes rebroadcast. CBS must have sent them the original tape.
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no but seriously this is the sort of thing that would get you no-knocked by the secret service like a decade ago and now it's just an entire sub-genre of gift idea for the maga-verse. we are fully through the l̶o̶o̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ drinking glass.
December 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
no but seriously this is the sort of thing that would get you no-knocked by the secret service like a decade ago and now it's just an entire sub-genre of gift idea for the maga-verse. we are fully through the l̶o̶o̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ drinking glass.
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Elf Bowling (1999)
December 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Elf Bowling (1999)
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Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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As CBS News falls apart please admire this marble bust of Bari Weiss that is installed at the fake unaccredited university she co-founded with Joe Lonsdale.
Their U. of Austin is reportedly also falling apart, with faculty leaving and enrollment crashing, so we shall see where the bust ends up.
Their U. of Austin is reportedly also falling apart, with faculty leaving and enrollment crashing, so we shall see where the bust ends up.
December 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
As CBS News falls apart please admire this marble bust of Bari Weiss that is installed at the fake unaccredited university she co-founded with Joe Lonsdale.
Their U. of Austin is reportedly also falling apart, with faculty leaving and enrollment crashing, so we shall see where the bust ends up.
Their U. of Austin is reportedly also falling apart, with faculty leaving and enrollment crashing, so we shall see where the bust ends up.
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"We determined it needed additional reporting."
December 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"We determined it needed additional reporting."
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a guy on the train has the facebook ray-bans and I want to take a picture of them but it feels too rude, and that really makes you think!
December 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
a guy on the train has the facebook ray-bans and I want to take a picture of them but it feels too rude, and that really makes you think!
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All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
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Plus, violent and idiotic Jan 6 attacker Jake Lang, who beat officers with a baseball bat, is now causing actual international tensions after his dumb anti-Islam stunt got media coverage when he burned a Quran. Reportedly millions of people marched in Yemen.
ansarollah.com.ye/en/archives/...
ansarollah.com.ye/en/archives/...
December 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Plus, violent and idiotic Jan 6 attacker Jake Lang, who beat officers with a baseball bat, is now causing actual international tensions after his dumb anti-Islam stunt got media coverage when he burned a Quran. Reportedly millions of people marched in Yemen.
ansarollah.com.ye/en/archives/...
ansarollah.com.ye/en/archives/...
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December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Noteworthy use of term “Trump Department of Justice” in this public statement
December 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Noteworthy use of term “Trump Department of Justice” in this public statement
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bob saget killer 2000, screenshots, dos (1997) www.mobygames.com/game/28486/b...
December 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
bob saget killer 2000, screenshots, dos (1997) www.mobygames.com/game/28486/b...
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gaming setup (1987) www.videogameobsession.com/videogame/zz...
December 13, 2025 at 5:35 AM
gaming setup (1987) www.videogameobsession.com/videogame/zz...
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BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
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Ben Shapiro, arguably one of the people most responsible for creating a brand new generation of rabid racists and white supremacists, has had his audience completely stolen by a black woman. This would be insanely enjoyable if not for the fact she's somehow an even bigger nazi than he was.
1. “F*ck you Ben Shapiro and the midget horse you rode in on.”
Candace Owens, responding to Ben Shapiro’s speech at Turning Point USA, mainlines unquestionable Neo-Nazi propaganda, including dangerous Talmudic conspiracies.
Candace Owens, responding to Ben Shapiro’s speech at Turning Point USA, mainlines unquestionable Neo-Nazi propaganda, including dangerous Talmudic conspiracies.
December 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Ben Shapiro, arguably one of the people most responsible for creating a brand new generation of rabid racists and white supremacists, has had his audience completely stolen by a black woman. This would be insanely enjoyable if not for the fact she's somehow an even bigger nazi than he was.
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
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Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
December 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.