Nick Garbaty
@nicholasgarbaty.bsky.social
video journalist, editor and producer @ nat geo | news nerd and nerd nerd
Journalism is not a crime, not a justification for murder, not an island. Stand up for your colleagues before you can only say they deserved better.
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Journalism is not a crime, not a justification for murder, not an island. Stand up for your colleagues before you can only say they deserved better.
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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, including freelance journalist who worked for AP.
August 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, including freelance journalist who worked for AP.
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🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
August 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
No other way to see this than as a willful (gleeful?) deterioration of public health.
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
No other way to see this than as a willful (gleeful?) deterioration of public health.
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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
May 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
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Every stupid university that unleashed militarized police on legal protestors set up the foundations for the violent persecution of free speech that’s about to come.
he thinks he’s king. he issues executive orders (royal decrees) and the entire society is expected to obey
ahhhhhhhhhh
March 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Every stupid university that unleashed militarized police on legal protestors set up the foundations for the violent persecution of free speech that’s about to come.
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Two disturbed guys rent trucks and commit public acts of violence to deliver explicit ideological messages: one gets the scare story about who radicalized him, the other gets a sympathetic, nonpolitical account of his trauma
January 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Two disturbed guys rent trucks and commit public acts of violence to deliver explicit ideological messages: one gets the scare story about who radicalized him, the other gets a sympathetic, nonpolitical account of his trauma
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the ai bot isn’t “admitting” its secrets to you or “revealing” its creators intentions it’s just a word generating machine generating words the only meaning is that which you read into it and imo that should be none
January 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
the ai bot isn’t “admitting” its secrets to you or “revealing” its creators intentions it’s just a word generating machine generating words the only meaning is that which you read into it and imo that should be none
made up profiles are nothing new on social media. they’ve been used by trolls, catfish, scammers, you know the epitome of who people think of as authentic and benign. kinda telling that Meta designed these products reflecting that cohort.
January 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
made up profiles are nothing new on social media. they’ve been used by trolls, catfish, scammers, you know the epitome of who people think of as authentic and benign. kinda telling that Meta designed these products reflecting that cohort.
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Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.
New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link):
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
www.bloomberg.com
December 27, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.
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the sheer difference between how the government and oligarchy have reacted to this single murder versus the hundreds (thousands?) of dead children in mass shootings over the years is staggering
health insurance ceos pressured the doj to pursue federal charges against mangione to act as a “deterrent” against “copycat vigilante killers”
then he got hit with federal charges.
nypost.com/2024/12/20/u...
then he got hit with federal charges.
nypost.com/2024/12/20/u...
Exclusive | Insurance industry leaned on DOJ to take Luigi Mangione case as deterrent against copycat killers: sources
Health insurance industry leaders leaned on the US Department of Justice to prosecute accused UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione.
nypost.com
December 25, 2024 at 2:23 AM
the sheer difference between how the government and oligarchy have reacted to this single murder versus the hundreds (thousands?) of dead children in mass shootings over the years is staggering
I’d say the consent manufacturing machine is over-“extending” with this one, but given its history this could just as easily be CNN blindly taking the bait once again. Don’t be fooled either way.
December 24, 2024 at 1:07 PM
I’d say the consent manufacturing machine is over-“extending” with this one, but given its history this could just as easily be CNN blindly taking the bait once again. Don’t be fooled either way.
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Teenager is woken by police in the middle of the night.
“As it turns out, a poem she had written years ago triggered the alarms of a software called GoGuardian Beacon, which its maker describes as a way to ‘safeguard students from physical harm.’”
“As it turns out, a poem she had written years ago triggered the alarms of a software called GoGuardian Beacon, which its maker describes as a way to ‘safeguard students from physical harm.’”
Schools Using AI to Send Police to Students' Homes
Schools are employing dubious AI-powered software to accuse teenagers of wanting to harm themselves — and sending the police to their homes.
futurism.com
December 14, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Teenager is woken by police in the middle of the night.
“As it turns out, a poem she had written years ago triggered the alarms of a software called GoGuardian Beacon, which its maker describes as a way to ‘safeguard students from physical harm.’”
“As it turns out, a poem she had written years ago triggered the alarms of a software called GoGuardian Beacon, which its maker describes as a way to ‘safeguard students from physical harm.’”
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Prime example of why being a “passive” news consumer simply isn’t possible anymore. Keep demanding accountability, yes, but we should also recognize that tech companies assuming the role of middlemen for the media was never actually for the sake of convenience.
The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.
www.bbc.com
December 14, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Prime example of why being a “passive” news consumer simply isn’t possible anymore. Keep demanding accountability, yes, but we should also recognize that tech companies assuming the role of middlemen for the media was never actually for the sake of convenience.
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The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2024 at 11:41 PM
The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...
On top of a very likely undercount of bodies and bags of unidentifiable limbs, we now have to contend with a reality that Palestinians have violently and literally vanished into thin air.
According to Palestinian health workers & journalists, the Israelis seem to be using new weapons that *vaporize* any human body within a few hundred meters in North Gaza.
Gaza has long been used as a laboratory - the Israelis test weapons & then there is a spike in global demand for those weapons.
Gaza has long been used as a laboratory - the Israelis test weapons & then there is a spike in global demand for those weapons.
December 2, 2024 at 1:39 AM
On top of a very likely undercount of bodies and bags of unidentifiable limbs, we now have to contend with a reality that Palestinians have violently and literally vanished into thin air.
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Outfucking standing photo choice
November 29, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Outfucking standing photo choice
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What is happening in the north is beyond comprehension, and the Israeli government and IDF have gone out of their way to ensure that the media has a hard time reporting it. Myself and @farrahfazal.bsky.social gathered some testimony, but it is one sliver of the horrors.
November 24, 2024 at 6:55 PM
What is happening in the north is beyond comprehension, and the Israeli government and IDF have gone out of their way to ensure that the media has a hard time reporting it. Myself and @farrahfazal.bsky.social gathered some testimony, but it is one sliver of the horrors.
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🚨The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejectin...
www.icc-cpi.int
November 21, 2024 at 1:02 PM
🚨The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
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New: the company behind Pokemon Go has announced it is using data collected by its millions of players to build an AI model that can navigate the real world, and could be used for robots. Doubt Pokemon Go players anticipated contributing data to this project www.404media.co/pokemon-go-p...
Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World
Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots.
www.404media.co
November 19, 2024 at 3:36 PM
New: the company behind Pokemon Go has announced it is using data collected by its millions of players to build an AI model that can navigate the real world, and could be used for robots. Doubt Pokemon Go players anticipated contributing data to this project www.404media.co/pokemon-go-p...
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Update: this passed committee by a 9-3 vote and is headed to a floor vote later this week, likely Thursday morning
TODAY: The House Rules Committee set to discuss HR 9495, the controversial "nonprofit killer" bill that could allow Trump's Treasury Dept. to sanction orgs he dislikes
The bill was blocked last week, but 52 Democrats voted in favor, as I report in @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2024/11/15/n...
The bill was blocked last week, but 52 Democrats voted in favor, as I report in @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2024/11/15/n...
House GOP Moves to Ram Through Bill That Gives Trump Unilateral Power to Kill Nonprofits
A bill to give Donald Trump power to kill nonprofits is still supported by dozens of Democrats — giving the GOP plenty of breathing room.
theintercept.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Update: this passed committee by a 9-3 vote and is headed to a floor vote later this week, likely Thursday morning