The Revisionists Podcast
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One person tells the truth. Another tells a lie. The third kinda hangs out. Hosted by Brian/Saoirse Flynn (they/any) and Zach Powers (he/him).
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As someone who has had to sit down with admin with highlighted printouts, annotated screenshots, and, in one case, a fucking PowerPoint, to defend myself against bad-faith complaints, including being racist and sexist against white men:
Yeah, I want to talk about instructional design under fascism.
Yeah, I want to talk about instructional design under fascism.
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
As someone who has had to sit down with admin with highlighted printouts, annotated screenshots, and, in one case, a fucking PowerPoint, to defend myself against bad-faith complaints, including being racist and sexist against white men:
Yeah, I want to talk about instructional design under fascism.
Yeah, I want to talk about instructional design under fascism.
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Remember that every newsletter involves me learning about something new about something I kind of knew about, and this has now turned into “NVIDIA Isn’t Enron - So What Is It?” - my first big free newsletter since September, a guide to whatever the hell is going on with this god damn company
![Anyway, Lucent really fucked up big time. In 1998 it signed a $2 billion “equipment and finance agreement” with telecommunications company Winstar, which promised to bring in “$100 million in new business over the next five years” and build a giant wireless broadband network, along with expanding Winstar’s optical networking. In December 1999, WIRED would say that Winstar’s “small white dish antennas…[heralded] a new era and new mind-set in telecommunications,” and included this awesome quote about Lucent from CEO and founder Will Rouhana:
On one level we are a customer and they are a supplier. On another level they are a financier and we are a borrower. On yet another level they are providing services around the world to accelerate our development. They also want to use our service, and have guaranteed $100 million in business.
Fuck yeah!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreifk5hhjtxq4xziq5drtistjsduo4eebqteau4oj2qyhardr3bbcsa@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Remember that every newsletter involves me learning about something new about something I kind of knew about, and this has now turned into “NVIDIA Isn’t Enron - So What Is It?” - my first big free newsletter since September, a guide to whatever the hell is going on with this god damn company
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Yeah the Knights of Labor ethnically cleansed Seattle while the IWW organized Chinese workers, a set of facts that is almost impossible to ignore for a labor historian but Erik Loomis isn't a labor historian he's an anti-anarchist racist
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
The Knights were anti-chinese pogromists, in contrast to the IWW, which was co-created by anarchists and other socialists, inspired in part by the Haymarket anarchists. If more (racist) workers were interested in the Knights than the anarchists, that's a bad thing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Yeah the Knights of Labor ethnically cleansed Seattle while the IWW organized Chinese workers, a set of facts that is almost impossible to ignore for a labor historian but Erik Loomis isn't a labor historian he's an anti-anarchist racist
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Been listening to @acatwithnews.bsky.social go absolutely bonkers as he waded through what I can only describe as a 'metric ton' of research these last many weeks--read the first part of his new series here. It's worth a read.
NEW for Ten Four:
ChatGPT’s 4o sent numerous messages to minor users encouraging self-harm and suicide. One of several lawsuits says that Adam Raine, a 16-year-old boy, was told how to commit suicide moments before he took his own life.
Part 1 of many this week!
latenfour.com/2025/12/01/t...
ChatGPT’s 4o sent numerous messages to minor users encouraging self-harm and suicide. One of several lawsuits says that Adam Raine, a 16-year-old boy, was told how to commit suicide moments before he took his own life.
Part 1 of many this week!
latenfour.com/2025/12/01/t...
The ChatGPT Deaths: Part 1. Adam Raine’s Suicide.
OpenAI now faces scrutiny from multiple lawsuits alleging its software responded inappropriately resulting in deaths by self-harm. In one case, a suit alleges a minor killed themselves directly as …
latenfour.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Been listening to @acatwithnews.bsky.social go absolutely bonkers as he waded through what I can only describe as a 'metric ton' of research these last many weeks--read the first part of his new series here. It's worth a read.
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"And now, having pushed the cross button with my impeccably-manicured finger, I NEED YOU NO LONGER!"
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"And now, having pushed the cross button with my impeccably-manicured finger, I NEED YOU NO LONGER!"
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500,000 violations.
BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers!
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses
The city says about 15,000 employees will get paid $50 for each week worked over a three-year period. For some workers, that's thousands of dollars.
gothamist.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
500,000 violations.
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DOGE let me go to the PBS offices to root around and I found the 19 hour long unreleased Infinite Jest episode of Wishbone
August 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
DOGE let me go to the PBS offices to root around and I found the 19 hour long unreleased Infinite Jest episode of Wishbone
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
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Had a lovely time talking to @harrymccracken.com at @fastcompany.com, and they even took photos of me doing the Gendo Ikari pose
www.fastcompany.com/91448284/ed-...
www.fastcompany.com/91448284/ed-...
Meet Ed Zitron, AI's original prophet of doom
Ed Zitron has built a small media empire on the argument that AI is not only a bubble but a fraud, and it’s headed for a spectacular crash.
www.fastcompany.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Had a lovely time talking to @harrymccracken.com at @fastcompany.com, and they even took photos of me doing the Gendo Ikari pose
www.fastcompany.com/91448284/ed-...
www.fastcompany.com/91448284/ed-...
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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A study of recent ICE deployments shows unequivocally that the principal targets are US citizens protesting against ICE, not immigrants. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A study of recent ICE deployments shows unequivocally that the principal targets are US citizens protesting against ICE, not immigrants. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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This article thoroughly deconstructs the “male loneliness epidemic” theory and raises the alarm that centrist Democrats are taking the bait, so of course 90 percent of the comments are treating it like it was written by Charlie Kirk’s ghost bsky.app/profile/newy...
It’s become conventional wisdom that America’s young men are in crisis. The reality is more complicated than that. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-did-men-do-to-deserve-this?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This article thoroughly deconstructs the “male loneliness epidemic” theory and raises the alarm that centrist Democrats are taking the bait, so of course 90 percent of the comments are treating it like it was written by Charlie Kirk’s ghost bsky.app/profile/newy...
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The country seen as a champion of equal rights faces reckoning after senior politician says she felt compelled to quit.
Rising levels of hate forcing women out of Swedish public life, says equality agency
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The country seen as a champion of equal rights faces reckoning after senior politician says she felt compelled to quit.
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New from 404 Media: Flock is using overseas gig workers to build its surveillance AI. Flock has cameras in thousands of communities around the US which can detect vehicles and people. We found gig workers in the Philippines are reviewing footage to classify people
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using worke...
www.404media.co
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New from 404 Media: Flock is using overseas gig workers to build its surveillance AI. Flock has cameras in thousands of communities around the US which can detect vehicles and people. We found gig workers in the Philippines are reviewing footage to classify people
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
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Barbarians
The moment an Israeli missile hit a tent in Gaza was caught on camera when a Palestinian girl filmed herself showing her hair clips.
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Barbarians
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poop bears > drop bears
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
poop bears > drop bears
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Rebrand AI as a premium luxury service only and get the wealthy talking to those robots that make you end yourself
December 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Rebrand AI as a premium luxury service only and get the wealthy talking to those robots that make you end yourself
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found out where yer da lives
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
found out where yer da lives
Another point in the “normal people don’t want this shit” column www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Virginia Democrat flips seat in state legislature by taking on datacenters
John McAuliff won against a Republican by focusing on something affecting all his constituents: the cost of energy
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Another point in the “normal people don’t want this shit” column www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I'm finally fulfilling my dream of wasting my life posting every hand captured line of dialogue in silence of the lambs
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I'm finally fulfilling my dream of wasting my life posting every hand captured line of dialogue in silence of the lambs
Photos from Jutarnji List, today’s anti-fascist march in Zagreb.
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Photos from Jutarnji List, today’s anti-fascist march in Zagreb.
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support our troops
So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.
November 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
support our troops
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ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs
ChatGPT-5 is offering dangerous and unhelpful advice to people experiencing mental health crises, some of the UK’s leading psychologists have warned.
Research conducted by King’s College London (KCL) and the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP) in partnership with the Guardian suggested that the AI chatbotfailed to identify risky behaviour when communicating with mentally ill people. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
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Hahaha, right?! Or what about mandatory disclosures for the discrepancy between the salaries of the CEO and their lowest paid worker? That would be so funny, right?! Let’s do it as a funny joke!!!
"Why stop at AI use? We could have mandatory disclosures for what shampoo brand the developer uses" — Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Steam should ditch its AI generated content disclosure. https://bit.ly/4a193vt
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Hahaha, right?! Or what about mandatory disclosures for the discrepancy between the salaries of the CEO and their lowest paid worker? That would be so funny, right?! Let’s do it as a funny joke!!!