Dan Collen
@dancollen.bsky.social
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He/him. Extremism researcher in Canada. Sometimes-journalist. Co-creator Hatepedia.ca. Affiliate cifrs.org. Words for gnet-research.org, antihate.ca, insightthreatintel.com, Vice.com, dancollen.medium.com, etc. Posts about the Horrors.
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airbagged.bsky.social
They cancelled an Assassin's Creed game where you were a slave and killed KKK members because of the anti-DEI response to Shadows.
aftermath.site
Ubisoft could not have handled a Reconstruction Era Assassin's Creed:

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mark-bray.bsky.social
I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
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ruaaup-aft.bsky.social
This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
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mark-bray.bsky.social
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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eerolasami.bsky.social
Esimerkki 79594 äärioikeistosta paljastamassa heidän seksuaaliset perversiot. Aito kuva on oikealla.
RadioGEnoa X-tilin twiitti "Greta says she wants to go to Gaza to her Islamic friends." ja photoshopattu kuva Gretasta hihattomalla topilla, jossa on suuri kaula-aukko, jossa näkyy tämän rehevät rinnat. Aito kuva Gretasta tavallisella V-aukkoisella napapaidalla
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bradlander.bsky.social
In this fragile world, Sukkot reminds us that safety comes best from solidarity, from making peace with neighbors, from being good hosts & guests, from sharing food, from remembering that we are small & precarious, from worshipping what is holy. Not from building walls and making war.
dancollen.bsky.social
Through all the broken ceasefires, bombs sent, and innocent people needlessly killed, many of the civilians kidnapped two years ago remain captive. Though they have been abandoned by the promises of powerful men, their families are still left wondering if they live.
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Jewish Prayers to Say for the Release of Hostages - Hey Alma
Ever since October 7, so many Jewish people, regardless of our level of religious observance, have been turning to Jewish rituals, like prayer, to cope with our feelings of grief, anger and anxiety. W...
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bringthenoise.bsky.social
Hiring Bari Weiss to bring down the temperature of the discourse is like hiring Animal from the Muppets to reduce workplace noise
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maxtani.bsky.social
David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press
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jamellebouie.net
perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.
maxtani.bsky.social
David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press
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faineg.bsky.social
We have heard a lot recently about very bad things that have happened to actual, verifiable humans who came to believe that LLMs are Sentient - meanwhile, we have seen pretty much zero real-world examples of bad outcomes flowing from "rigorously avoiding viewing LLMS as sentient."
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bencollins.bsky.social
Oracle employees who expressed support for Palestine were "referred to internal mental health resources."

Oracle is about to own TikTok.
eliclifton.com
Execs at Oracle, the likely new owner of TikTok, are VERY outspoken in Israeli media about the company's "mission to support the State of Israel" & "unequivocal support for Israel."

Insufficiently pro-Israel Oracle staff receive mental health counseling. responsiblestatecraft.org/oracle-tikto...
Oracle execs: Love Israel or maybe this isn't the job for you
Employees who disagreed were reportedly referred to company mental health services
responsiblestatecraft.org
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ndrew.bsky.social
when it hits the fan youre going to hear people saying “there was no way to see this coming” and its important to remember those people will be lying to you
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
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razzball.bsky.social
There’s so many nuggets from this New Yorker piece but my favorite: Ezra Klein’s one example of praise for Bari Weiss is she’s an insane talent spotter, while whitewashing a genocide, and that talent she spots is Tyler Cowen, the guy who wants a virgin AI
My thing about Bari-and I've been on her show—I have a lot of admiration for how good she is at what she does. My disagreements with Bari are that I think she's asymmetric in sympathy and generosity.
Tell me what that means.
I've thought The Free Press' work on, say, starvation in Gaza has been really bad
Spell it out.
It's done this whole thing, like, Well, a lot of the kids who have died and have been reported on, well, they had secondary conditions. And, yes, when you starve a population the people who die first will be the most vulnerable. But that's not exculpatory. There was overwhelming evidence of how bad things were in Gaza. I felt that they were trying to whitewash it.
I think Bari, though, is an insane talent spotter. If you look at what she's built at The Free Press, she's very, very good at finding people, at pulling them in, at networking with them.
She's sort of an impresario. Bringing in Tyler Cowen to be a columnist was a very good idea for them.
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jsweetli.bsky.social
Wait, Tyler Cowen has been writing about how to find virgins since 2009 while he was a professor at George Mason University
dancollen.bsky.social
I checked the Free Press becausw I couldn't believe even Bari Weis would publish this line. But it's real, and the professor who wrote it continues to sexualize a software program in other weird ways as it goes. Extremely weird fanfic going on here.
premthakker.bsky.social
Paramount is about to pay $150 million for this
New article from The Free Press

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human

“Not everyone is happy about this gorgeous innovation,” writes Tyler Cowen.

Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.
By Tyler Cowen
10.02.25
dancollen.bsky.social
Holy shit it's real. I was sure this was a bit. Omg.
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marisakabas.bsky.social
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:
Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the
Department's operational status.
Thank you. Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.
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antihate.ca
8/ We believe in protecting Canada from far-right movements. We believe in working towards a just and inclusive country that lives up to the promises in the Charter where nobody feels unsafe because of racism and other forms of hate.

If you believe in those things too, you might be an antifascist.
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antihate.ca
Last week, Trump declared “Antifa” a domestic terrorist organization.

This is why the far-right in the US & Canada see it as an obstacle that has to be cleared in order to carry out their smash-and-grab of the political establishment. 👇

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www.antihate.ca/trump_lying_...
Trump is Lying About Antifascism
As an antifascist organization ourselves, we can help explain antifascism and why the far-right in the United States and Canada see us as an obstacle that has to be cleared in order to carry out their...
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whstancil.bsky.social
DHS posts an antisemitic meme about keeping "globalists" out of the US.

One of the internet's most influential white nationalists, the British white supremacist known as "Raw Egg Nationalist," responds with a groyper meme.

The DHS account RESPONDS, calling him "Patriot."