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Jim Ree
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Screenshot from Phoenix Wright of a gun being pointed at the camra with the caption "Merry Christmas"
December 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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A rare win: Investigative journalism and its consolations www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/i...
A rare win: Investigative journalism and its consolations
There’s a meta version of 'stories of powerlessness that are apparently too difficult or niche for a national audience'. It’s called Tasmania.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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edzitron.com
Currently playing @aftermath.site's "Uh Oh, You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI"
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You're not a dumbass. You're not a dumbass fucking dork who wastes money on insane bullshit. MAKE ED ZITRON GO AWAY I DON'T LIKE WHERE MY MIND IS GOING
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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rangedtouch.bsky.social
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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roryblank.bsky.social
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
a cheese grater that, if viewed from the correct angle, appears to have a friendly, stupid face, an example of Pareidolia
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Tweet from @PPathole Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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fionakatauskas.bsky.social
The art of the possible- my #Mamdani cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How Mamdani broke the Democrat machine | Fiona Katauskas
Will they listen to his message?
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November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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nickdmiller.bsky.social
wrote something fun, FYI www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
I can’t stop watching videos of people discovering Beds Are Burning by Midnight Oil. Send help
Like all good addicts, I couldn’t tell you how much time I’ve spent with First Time Hearing clips on YouTube. They sucked me in and didn’t let me go
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October 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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scotnational.bsky.social
A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened
October 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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utopia-defer.red
anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide
larrrrrry.bsky.social larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · Oct 10
her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character
October 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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joparkerbear.bsky.social
Got really high and realized this is actually about the Democratic Party
joparkerbear.bsky.social Brosephine Wires @joparkerbear.bsky.social · Jul 14
In every single episode, the Scooby Doo gang discover a human is behind the mystery, not ghosts or mummies or whatever. Yet they begin each new case believing the villain is a supernatural being. Every time. Not once do they say “maybe it’s an old man like last time”
October 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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cameronwilson.bsky.social
We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks
Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.
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October 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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drnajimagi.bsky.social
Ireland literally getting so much right
mikeachim.bsky.social Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · Oct 6
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
October 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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chronicleflask.katday.com
Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross. And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
prosodytas.bsky.social
David Rowe at his best again
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Oct 2
My Financial Times interview got reprinted on the front page of the newspaper The Australian Financial Review with an incredible illustration of the contents of my mind and the big handle I turn when I blog

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Battle lines Railing against AI slop, aggressive algorithms and firms bleeding users of data, Ed Zitron has become one of Silicon Valley's punchiest critics, writes Tabby Kinder. Mad as hell: the man calling BS on big tech Style over substance. Ed Zitron says tech giant leaders are greedy fools who have risen through a broken system. ILUISTRATION F d Zitron is not a journalist, performance to polemic - take aim at the not a whistleblower and cer- "idiots". "conmen" and cynical tech billion- tainly not a prophet. He's not aires he believes are responsible for a "rot- here to spread conspiracies, ten" economy, and they have earned him a to "tell it like it is" or to con-viral following. Take the blog he publishes as I board a truth and that evervbody plane to Las Vegas to meet him for this inter- else is a moron. He is, he says. just a pissed view. A 13,000-word screed about the "era of off. emotional guv who needs to get "these the bucinoce iint" it ic writton with ar fing words out of my head". apostate's disaffection, and argues that mod- Listeners to Zitron's podcast, Better Offline. ern companies, especially those in the tech or readers of his blog. "Where's your Ed at". industry are no longer run by competent are used to the swearing but might scoff at people, but by greedy fools who have risen his protests. Zitron's sneering manifestos - through a broken system that rewards delivered with the dropped Ts of his London superficial action over substance. It opens orrontonio hirinue rhuthm that toore from by calling Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, the second-largest public company in the world, "either a liar or a specific kind of idiot" for comments Nadella made in an interview about the sorts of questions he asks his company's own Al chatbot. More than 75,000 people subscribe to and regularly read these posts, a number that is growing. Zitron's podcast is owned and produced by iHeartRadio, the largest radio broadcaster in the US, which says it reache… Mad as hell: the man calling BS on big tech righteous energy so lamilar trom his podcasts. "Look, when it comes down to it, everything's like this: it's f--ed, and you are not insane for feeling bad," he tells me. "You are not stupid for feeling wronged. Things are unfair and you should f--ing say you're angry." Zitron monologues with the visceral dis- of the washed-up broadcaster Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network: he's mad as hell and hes not going to take it any more. In the film, Beale delivers one of cinemas most famous rants about disillusionment and powerlessness in the face of corporate domination but is ultimately exploited by his bosses for views. Beale was deranged, Zitron says (Zitron is not, "thanks to a wonderful therapist I see regularly"), but the character's sincerity, turning a personal grievance into a collective howl of frustration is something to aim for. "Emotionally and sincerely explaining why shit sucks, that's compelling, he says. Over the next couple of hours together, I will hear plenty of breathless tirades. It is, I come to understand, Zitron's default way of expressing himself. His arguments make my head spin, oscillating between grand observations on the business of technology and unguarded revelations about his mental health. Sometimes he reminds me of an opinionated teenager who hasn't yet developed the social skills to know when not to take themselves so seriously. "Tve been told my whole goddamn life to calm down, that I'm too much," he says. But with each unburdening I notice more and more a well of vulnerab-ility; a need to be listened to and liked. Zitron's path from hobbyist blogger to one of big tech's punchiest critics happened first very slowly then all at once. Born in Hammersmith, west London, his was a mostly normal but, he admits, friendless childhood. He did badly at school, struggling with ADHD and dyspraxia, a disorder that affects fine motor skills, but found solace in gadgets, the internet and online fantasy rol… onmental Protection Agency for policing the don't have that in me. I find the idea of Ed internet - although he has little hope that catron the chancerreal unny because is anything reining in big tech will happen dur- just me, I dont have a mask I put on." Hegoes ing Donald Trump's second term. But when on: The irony is my mask would probably asked how he would actually solve some of be a bit less emotional, a bit less aggressive the issues he sees with the tech world. his about this stilla answers become almost metaphysical. In many ways, The Sphere - a $US2.3 bil- "We need something that savs vou cant hon LED-wrapped orb just off the Vegas make shit worse like this," he says. Silicon strip - is the perfect analogy for the tech valley needs a reckoning with how man world.as tron sees it. It is an overwhelm liars there are. I think we need a better moral ing visual assault, its 15,000 square metres of society in general, but in the valley alone . screens demanding total, verugo-inducing he goes on to list, again, the tech bosses he immersion, and it lost SUS500 million last thinks are makins the world worse year. It is a lascinating, pointless shrine to Last year, Casey Newton, who co-hosts scale and spectacle. The New York Times tech nodcast Hard Fork Zitron and Thave left the Venetian to watch defined two camps of Al critics in an article the movie created for The Sphere, and shown titled The phony comforts of Al scepticism there at least once a day. Postcard from Earth The first camp, which Newton says is made directed by Darren Aronofsky. As metaphors up ol techs external critics, Delieve ALIS upon which to trame this aracle go. it is fake and it sucks", while the second - New- almost too on the nose. Fifty minutes of foot- ton's camp - consists of internal critics who age or earth, loosely Iramed around a science think Al is real and dangerous. Newton fiction plotline in which humans have aban- namechecked Marcus as the archetype of doned the planet through spa…
October 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
That feeling as a writer when you see a line that just has you going "Damn, I wish I had written that"

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"
September 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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nih-llamas.bsky.social
Emma Watson's recent comments about JKR were so polite as to be obnoxious to anyone who dislikes JKR, and yet this is how that nasty terf responds.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 29
‘She is ignorant of how ignorant she is’: JK Rowling responds to Emma Watson rift
‘She is ignorant of how ignorant she is’: JK Rowling responds to Emma Watson rift
The author has rebuffed conciliatory remarks made by the Harry Potter actor, saying Watson has ‘enthusiastically participated’ in the ‘trashing of women’s rights’ Harry Potter author JK Rowling has responded to Emma Watson’s recent remarks about their rift over transgender rights, saying the actor is “ignorant of how ignorant she is”. Rowling’s post comes after a podcast interview with Watson, in which the latter said: “I really don’t believe that … holding the love and support and views that I have, mean[s] that I can’t and don’t treasure Jo and the person that I had personal experiences with.” Continue reading...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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jeremynadel8.bsky.social
Incredible reporting, the type Western media weren't doing while IBM did the Holocaust
972mag.com +972 Magazine @972mag.com · Sep 25
Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé

The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.

Yuval Abraham reports.

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Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200
The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.
www.972mag.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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404media.co
A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”

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AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."
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September 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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numb.comfortab.ly
Silver lining, but this is hilarious

"We didn’t wait 20 years for Bobby to finally speak and then get served Tylenol as an answer," anti-vaccine group Georgia Coalition for Vaccine Choice wrote."
September 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
RIP John Martinkus.

'Martinkus made his name reporting on conflict. He was the first and last journalist covering East Timor’s brutal struggle for independence, and went on to cover Iraq, Afghanistan, Aceh, Burma and West Papua.

He died on Sunday in Melbourne, aged 56.'

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September 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM