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There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!”
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!”
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
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One such refutation appears in my paper under the heading “The FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands.” I spend several hundred words explaining that that didn’t happen.
![Receiving and acting on external reports is a core function of plattorm content moderation teams, and the essential nature of this work is an independent evaluation of reported content under the platform's own policies. The fact, cited in Missouri v. Biden, that platforms only acted on approximately half of reports from the FBI shows clearly that the standards platforms applied were not wholly, or even mostly, the government's.
Finally, it does not withstand factual scrutiny that platforms were so petrified of adverse consequences from the FBI that they uncritically accepted and acted on information sent to them by the government. The Twitter Files themselves document clearly at least two instances in which, presented with low-quality information or questionable demands, Twitter pushed back on the FBI's requests. In one case, the FBI passes on a request-seemingly from the NSA-that Twitter "revis[e] its terms of service" to allow an open-source intelligence vendor to collect data from the Twitter APIs to inform the NSA's activities. This request is arguably as close to jawboning as any interaction between Twitter and the FBI gets; yet, in response, I summarily dismissed not only the request for a meeting to discuss the topic, but the entire premise of the request, writing, "The best path for NSA, or any part of government, to request information about Twitter users or their content is in accordance with valid legal process." The question was not raised again.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ka6qwlgc2fec7gkz6cfuuxgx/bafkreibhs7piz367lbv4dfkgv3zw27p2wys2cqsuyn53oecxdnzusu5goq@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One such refutation appears in my paper under the heading “The FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands.” I spend several hundred words explaining that that didn’t happen.
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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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That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?
December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?
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I believe in you
当たらなければどうということはないですっ☆
当たらなければどうということはないですっ☆
August 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I believe in you
当たらなければどうということはないですっ☆
当たらなければどうということはないですっ☆
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sorry I posted kier starmer fanfic, it's been a difficult time for me recently
December 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
sorry I posted kier starmer fanfic, it's been a difficult time for me recently
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Also Also yes, it still closes :3
December 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Also Also yes, it still closes :3
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And then dad linked nothing at all
December 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
And then dad linked nothing at all
Why am I reposting American politics, it's Christmas eve. A 2 year old just did 6-7 to me
December 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Why am I reposting American politics, it's Christmas eve. A 2 year old just did 6-7 to me
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”
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$25,000 signing bonus
$10,000 per college campus speech
$50,000 for every 200 slurs logged
$100,000 for making the TPUSA all-star roster
she was set up to make over $2M a year but she was barely rosterable for most of the season, one of the more unfortunate prospect busts of late
$10,000 per college campus speech
$50,000 for every 200 slurs logged
$100,000 for making the TPUSA all-star roster
she was set up to make over $2M a year but she was barely rosterable for most of the season, one of the more unfortunate prospect busts of late
Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
December 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
$25,000 signing bonus
$10,000 per college campus speech
$50,000 for every 200 slurs logged
$100,000 for making the TPUSA all-star roster
she was set up to make over $2M a year but she was barely rosterable for most of the season, one of the more unfortunate prospect busts of late
$10,000 per college campus speech
$50,000 for every 200 slurs logged
$100,000 for making the TPUSA all-star roster
she was set up to make over $2M a year but she was barely rosterable for most of the season, one of the more unfortunate prospect busts of late
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Wrapping a present for someone and just noticed it says “AS SEEN ON TIKTOK” and that’s just tremendous marketing value to say if someone in the world posts about something you can slam it on the box
December 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Wrapping a present for someone and just noticed it says “AS SEEN ON TIKTOK” and that’s just tremendous marketing value to say if someone in the world posts about something you can slam it on the box
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Very bold of my oven to self-initiate a software update on Christmas Eve
December 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Very bold of my oven to self-initiate a software update on Christmas Eve
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Thinking about the unmade action-horror film SHADOW COMPANY, that was to be directed by John Carpenter from a script by Shane Black / Fred Dekker, about the re-animated corpses of American soldiers destroying their small American hometown over Christmas. Kurt Russell would have starred.
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Thinking about the unmade action-horror film SHADOW COMPANY, that was to be directed by John Carpenter from a script by Shane Black / Fred Dekker, about the re-animated corpses of American soldiers destroying their small American hometown over Christmas. Kurt Russell would have starred.
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hey dude you left your street milk
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
hey dude you left your street milk
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Also worth noting that the assignment didn’t ask for her opinion! Very few college assignments give a shit about your opinion!
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Also worth noting that the assignment didn’t ask for her opinion! Very few college assignments give a shit about your opinion!
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Don't mind me, mate. Just putting some bins here in front of you for no particular reason.
December 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Don't mind me, mate. Just putting some bins here in front of you for no particular reason.
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Stacking boxes so this guy can't see me hacking a terminal. Now that's what I call immersive simmin'.
December 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Stacking boxes so this guy can't see me hacking a terminal. Now that's what I call immersive simmin'.
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Pervushovisaurus and Baculites friends
December 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Pervushovisaurus and Baculites friends
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Diplomoceras (the clippy) and Pseudocenoceras
December 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Diplomoceras (the clippy) and Pseudocenoceras
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Wendy's Hack: There's a secret Murphy bed in every Wendy's bathroom. Yank on things until you find it.
January 31, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Wendy's Hack: There's a secret Murphy bed in every Wendy's bathroom. Yank on things until you find it.
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