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Longtime global Reuters tech correspondent, now freelance. Based in London after stints in San Francisco, D.C., NYC, Vienna and Frankfurt

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I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

03.02.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 6759 πŸ” 1593 πŸ’¬ 143 πŸ“Œ 2
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Framing, New York Times, framing... When you win an absolute majority (50.4%), you are *entitled* to deliver on your mandate, it's got nothing to do with being"emboldened" (like a... radical, right?)

06.11.2025 02:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's too bad that the republicans, which control every branch of government, can't figure out a way to keep the government open.

01.10.2025 20:00 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

21.09.2025 16:29 πŸ‘ 17586 πŸ” 2724 πŸ’¬ 216 πŸ“Œ 118
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The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness

The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan

16.04.2025 17:50 πŸ‘ 618 πŸ” 147 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 36

Thank you, Moira, for telling the truth.

17.04.2025 21:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's like if Mussolini and Ronald McDonald had a child.

04.03.2025 19:18 πŸ‘ 236 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Anyone who uses the term 'DEI' in British politics is clearly importing their culture war labels from America. 'EDI' is the much more common version here in my experience. Going to start my campaign for British language for British culture wars.

17.02.2025 13:54 πŸ‘ 640 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 4

A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

13.02.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 12492 πŸ” 3579 πŸ’¬ 220 πŸ“Œ 121
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Trump Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under His Watch President Trump’s remarks, suggesting that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his...

I don’t think you can run this story without making clear, in both the headline and the lede paragraph, that there is no evidence for what Trump is alleging. Pushing this down to the second paragraph is not good enough

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

30.01.2025 22:55 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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State Dept. Halts Global Mine-Clearing Programs Efforts to clear unexploded munitions in places like Iraq and Southeast Asia will stop for at least three months, according to a surprise announcement.

The U.S. State Department office that funds the clearance of unexploded munitions around the world has asked humanitarian demining organizations funded by the department to cease operations β€œeffective immediately,” according to a surprise announcement early Saturday.

25.01.2025 22:08 πŸ‘ 1118 πŸ” 585 πŸ’¬ 164 πŸ“Œ 154
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this is from the other place, but it’s spot on πŸ‘‡

20.01.2025 21:56 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

There are a lot of things I really would love to know what we call them in say, 1000 years time, but one of them is 'at what point do historians of ideas go "Nah, that's a new religion"?

20.01.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 626 πŸ” 64 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 6

One of the places I’ve departed from the β€œcypherpunk dream” over the years is the idea that all speech is good for a healthy democracy. I’m saying nothing that hasn’t been said before, but social media can be incredibly toxic.

19.01.2025 22:49 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

rewatching FIGHT CLUB this week i was very struck by how a movie that is very plainly a critique of this vision of masculinity was taken up as a valorization of it

16.01.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 10725 πŸ” 1021 πŸ’¬ 490 πŸ“Œ 163

My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.

12.01.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 50618 πŸ” 6652 πŸ’¬ 3171 πŸ“Œ 722
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Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!)

Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...

As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!

09.01.2025 14:13 πŸ‘ 3953 πŸ” 1175 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 63

LinkedIn is cool because I was always wondering what it would be like if people I sort of knew wrote mediocre press releases about themselves.

31.12.2024 02:07 πŸ‘ 1583 πŸ” 142 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 18
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Among the many reasons I have railed against the worship of tech leaders as β€œgenius” business leaders is that they lack the quality possessed by most successful business leaders: discernment. Astoundingly poor judgment about the character of their colleagues. Here’s Sam Altman 2 wks ago on Elon:

20.12.2024 23:10 πŸ‘ 962 πŸ” 187 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 16

There are two stages of a security career: Before you know the truth of what you read in the news on an incident, and after, when you know exactly what happened and can't say a single fucking thing.

02.12.2024 19:46 πŸ‘ 822 πŸ” 92 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 30

Utterly brilliant

08.10.2024 17:00 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1