cshlan
@dawdling.net
Mostly here for news and politics, etc.
I do most of my sharing here: @cshlan.dawdling.net.ap.brid.gy
I can't help replying everywhere, though.
Also... knitting patterns! yarn.dawdling.net
I do most of my sharing here: @cshlan.dawdling.net.ap.brid.gy
I can't help replying everywhere, though.
Also... knitting patterns! yarn.dawdling.net
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cshlan
@dawdling.net
· Feb 1
Ok. I'm reorganizing. This is an account I mostly use to follow political stuff and news. I will likely be sharing posts like that from others here.
My more personal account is at @cshlan.dawdling.net.ap.brid.gy but I post a lot of political stuff there, too, because it's a big interest of mine.
My more personal account is at @cshlan.dawdling.net.ap.brid.gy but I post a lot of political stuff there, too, because it's a big interest of mine.
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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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The authors quote from an article I wrote in 2023, refuting false claims about government jawboning of social media platforms. One of the claims I directly push back against is the persistent lie that the FBI demanded Twitter censor online speech.
knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
Getting the Facts Straight: Some Observations on the Fifth Circuit Ruling in Missouri v. Biden
knightcolumbia.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The authors quote from an article I wrote in 2023, refuting false claims about government jawboning of social media platforms. One of the claims I directly push back against is the persistent lie that the FBI demanded Twitter censor online speech.
knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
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Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...
December 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...
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also a good time for me to toot your horn (and john's, obviously) for this masterpiece
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
also a good time for me to toot your horn (and john's, obviously) for this masterpiece
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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A Lord of the Rings cover band made up of Ents called The Beech Boys
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Sonny and Shire.
December 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
A Lord of the Rings cover band made up of Ents called The Beech Boys
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Superman for the year. Which is hopeful. Moonraker for my birthday week... So....
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Oh, 2026 is going to be spent trying to escape the oppressive homogeneity of 1950s (in which mediocre white men get credit for Black creativity), to get back to messy but diverse present?
I'm in.
Oh, 2026 is going to be spent trying to escape the oppressive homogeneity of 1950s (in which mediocre white men get credit for Black creativity), to get back to messy but diverse present?
I'm in.
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Superman for the year. Which is hopeful. Moonraker for my birthday week... So....
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SORRY TO KEEP POSTING ABOUT THIS I just can’t stop thinking about Simone at the end after everything that has happened playing a melody which contains BOTH these sets of lyrics
“they buried my body and they thought I’d gone”
AND
“‘tis the gift to be simple, ‘tis the gift to be free”
“they buried my body and they thought I’d gone”
AND
“‘tis the gift to be simple, ‘tis the gift to be free”
December 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
SORRY TO KEEP POSTING ABOUT THIS I just can’t stop thinking about Simone at the end after everything that has happened playing a melody which contains BOTH these sets of lyrics
“they buried my body and they thought I’d gone”
AND
“‘tis the gift to be simple, ‘tis the gift to be free”
“they buried my body and they thought I’d gone”
AND
“‘tis the gift to be simple, ‘tis the gift to be free”
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I like it when the nerdy Presbyterian guy with LEGO hair and Big Teacher Energy executes a theological attack on Christofascists. I like it a lot.
Speaker Mike Johnson says his entire worldview comes from the Bible.
But he’s about to kick 2 million Texans off their healthcare right before Christmas.
If you aren’t loving your neighbor, then keep Jesus’ name out of your mouth.
But he’s about to kick 2 million Texans off their healthcare right before Christmas.
If you aren’t loving your neighbor, then keep Jesus’ name out of your mouth.
December 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I like it when the nerdy Presbyterian guy with LEGO hair and Big Teacher Energy executes a theological attack on Christofascists. I like it a lot.
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Bolts is in final weeks of our 'year-end' fundraising drive.
Money we raise helps us budget for reporting trips, original artwork & photos, translations—& more articles!
our work is free & has no paywall: but if you can afford it, support us with a subscription or gift! boltsmag.org/donate
Money we raise helps us budget for reporting trips, original artwork & photos, translations—& more articles!
our work is free & has no paywall: but if you can afford it, support us with a subscription or gift! boltsmag.org/donate
Support Bolts
We are a nonprofit publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change, from the local up, and we need reader support to build our journalism.
boltsmag.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Bolts is in final weeks of our 'year-end' fundraising drive.
Money we raise helps us budget for reporting trips, original artwork & photos, translations—& more articles!
our work is free & has no paywall: but if you can afford it, support us with a subscription or gift! boltsmag.org/donate
Money we raise helps us budget for reporting trips, original artwork & photos, translations—& more articles!
our work is free & has no paywall: but if you can afford it, support us with a subscription or gift! boltsmag.org/donate
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
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Not trying to call out Tony & Devin here, but they are (somewhat confidently) reinforcing a very common, but exactly wrong myth about Section 230 and being a "publisher." Let's use this as an opportunity to do some educating around Section 230 and the idea of being "a publisher."
December 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Not trying to call out Tony & Devin here, but they are (somewhat confidently) reinforcing a very common, but exactly wrong myth about Section 230 and being a "publisher." Let's use this as an opportunity to do some educating around Section 230 and the idea of being "a publisher."
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
Really refuse to let the worst people have ownership of techno-optimism
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
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More erasure: in universities, individuals can no longer point to data (like disparities in patterns of hiring or promotion) to make claims about discrimination. SMH.
www.chronicle.com/article/just...
www.chronicle.com/article/just...
Justice Department Will No Longer Investigate Claims of Systemic Racism, Sexism
The change could dramatically alter the way college leaders define and address discrimination.
www.chronicle.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
More erasure: in universities, individuals can no longer point to data (like disparities in patterns of hiring or promotion) to make claims about discrimination. SMH.
www.chronicle.com/article/just...
www.chronicle.com/article/just...
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5) AI, which is good at bullshit, may thrive because we have made a society run on bullshit. But in the end I cannot believe we will all become nothing but consumers. People MAKE. An not in the Randian "makers and takers" sense, in the yearning, stretching toward the infinite sense.
December 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
5) AI, which is good at bullshit, may thrive because we have made a society run on bullshit. But in the end I cannot believe we will all become nothing but consumers. People MAKE. An not in the Randian "makers and takers" sense, in the yearning, stretching toward the infinite sense.
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1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
terribleminds.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...
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2) That adrenaline dump, the release when you're done, or where I was today, looking at my watch, thinking I was running out of time but only an hour had passed, in complete flow state, just hacking away at sentences, solving problems, and we both said: "Why would you give that up?"
December 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM
2) That adrenaline dump, the release when you're done, or where I was today, looking at my watch, thinking I was running out of time but only an hour had passed, in complete flow state, just hacking away at sentences, solving problems, and we both said: "Why would you give that up?"
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1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant
Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.
popular.info
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
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EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
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Hope the same folks are as forthcoming with praise for the restraint of the crew, if it turns out to be a case of misidentification.
Personally, I'd be wary of shooting .50 cal, or 20mm cannon into a sky where civilian aircraft are circulating below 10,000 feet.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Personally, I'd be wary of shooting .50 cal, or 20mm cannon into a sky where civilian aircraft are circulating below 10,000 feet.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Senior gardaí express annoyance over Defence Forces’ response to rogue drones during Zelenskiy visit
Questions asked within force over why the Defence Forces did not fire on the drones or fire warning shots
www.irishtimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hope the same folks are as forthcoming with praise for the restraint of the crew, if it turns out to be a case of misidentification.
Personally, I'd be wary of shooting .50 cal, or 20mm cannon into a sky where civilian aircraft are circulating below 10,000 feet.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Personally, I'd be wary of shooting .50 cal, or 20mm cannon into a sky where civilian aircraft are circulating below 10,000 feet.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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Until some significant additional information comes out, I am still on the fence regarding the drones over the Irish Sea story.
Maybe they were drones operated by a malicious actor.
Or maybe they were just misidentifications of civilian airliners.
Hope we get more detail and facts soon.
Maybe they were drones operated by a malicious actor.
Or maybe they were just misidentifications of civilian airliners.
Hope we get more detail and facts soon.
With information currently publicly available, it is certainly fair to suggest the possibility that the "drones" were a misidentification of air traffic, but it is also possible that they were indeed drones.
As with online "discussion" of any event, alas it seems people must vehemently choose one 😫
As with online "discussion" of any event, alas it seems people must vehemently choose one 😫
December 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Until some significant additional information comes out, I am still on the fence regarding the drones over the Irish Sea story.
Maybe they were drones operated by a malicious actor.
Or maybe they were just misidentifications of civilian airliners.
Hope we get more detail and facts soon.
Maybe they were drones operated by a malicious actor.
Or maybe they were just misidentifications of civilian airliners.
Hope we get more detail and facts soon.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM