Alex Ip 葉清霖

Tbh the entire race to the bottom between the US, China, and Russia

Today is a good day to follow and support Generative AI slop-free news outlets: go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

wow "which is better, Carl Sagan as published or multiple iconic Carl Saganisms in a slightly different order", really makes you think, guess I'll give these guys all my money and then [foghorn] [slinky falling down the stairs]

Dems, at the top, are not an opposition party. The base is though, which seems like a problem that must be addressed.

YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025.

"Mainstream media" is increasingly a misnomer when applied to outlets that publish content created by people they employ.

That's now a niche in a media market dominated by online megaplatforms that aggregate and monetize content provided for free by others. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Perspective: A Walk through Weelaunee Forest The trees, the birds, the fungi, and the dirt—none of them care if the Mayor of Atlanta denies they exist.

South River Forest would've still been one of the four lungs of Atlanta had officials followed the law and expert guidance.

In retrospect, this was a dry run for Trump 2.0.

Here's @nonmodernist.com's Atlanta Press Club Award-nominated photo essay for @thexylom.com about what we really lost:

‘We told you it was coming': Developer never fulfilled its promises to DeKalb for land swap. Now it wants to sell Five years after DeKalb County swapped land with developer Blackhall, a public park remains closed and in disrepair.

In 2024, my "Cop City" reporting for @thexylom.com won me an Atlanta Press Club Award.

Now, @wabe.org confirms what we knew all along: DeKalb County's parkland swap and open contempt of a judge's order to reopen said park has led to no new park but one emboldened Republican now running for Congress

Pete Hegseth Is Pushing Defense Employees to Volunteer With DHS The defense secretary has made clear that Pentagon managers are to encourage workers, including civilians, to volunteer to assist in the administration's immigration crackdown.

The defense secretary has made clear that Pentagon managers are to encourage workers, including civilians, to volunteer to assist in the administration's immigration crackdown. www.wired.com/story/pete-h...

NEWS: @mayorbowser.dc.gov has very unexpectedly released a report @ddotdc.bsky.social finished five years ago on what implementing congestion pricing in D.C. would look like. She had refused to make it public since it was done, but now calls congestion pricing "the wrong policy at the wrong time."

If the name Kai Schwemmer sounds familiar to you, he was interviewed by The New York Times two weeks ago. (He also led the Utah March for Life):

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Trump’s Epstein scandal somehow got worse | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, is black rain over Tehran a sign of the Apocalypse?

Buried bodies near a NM ranch? New evidence that Epstein may have been murdered? The bolstering of Trump's teen-sex accuser? The Epstein Files have gone wild, and there's one thing we can say for sure

Federal authorities are tied to a massive coverup

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

The disconnect between the research and patient protections I navigate in day-to-day life and what these vandals were apparently able to do is absolutely unbelievable.

So if I understand this correctly, this mystery company just needs the name of my first pet and the street I grew up on to gain control of my bank accounts?

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

Geno Smith got punched by his old teammates btw . It left him with a fractured jaw that caused him to miss six weeks:

www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

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In more Charlotte not-news: The Charlotten, which branded itself "The Queen City's Finest News Source", claims that they have received the following cease-and-desist letter regarding the unauthorized use of @theonion.com 's trade dress and registered tagline.

I cannot tell if this is satire or not:

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens still hasn’t signed the city’s first contract with the union, almost 11 months after the collective bargaining agreement was struck.

The firefighter's union is now threatening legal action against the city unless Dickens signs the union contract by Friday.

When will there be a TRANS of Hormuz

Starting to think there might be a reason that previous administrations tried very hard to avoid war with Iran

Trump Made Massive “Tactical Error” on Iran During Ukraine Talks One U.S. official described it as the biggest mistake Donald Trump made in the lead-up to the war.

The decision to snub the offer is now being discussed as one of the biggest miscalculations thus far in the Iran war.

“If there’s a tactical error or a mistake we made leading up to this [war in Iran], this was it,” a U.S. official told Axios Tuesday.

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Made a Photoshop

This is to approve funding for the design, fwiw

Charlotte bought Norfolk Southern right-of-way, passed a funding referendum, *and* approved the design of a regional rail in two years.

Atlanta, never let Andre Dickens and marta tell you that better rail transit is impossible.

SCOOP: Federal judiciary approves new Supreme Court defender office to help represent indigent defendants at #SCOTUS.

Its full-time director will serve as a counterweight to the U.S. solicitor general in federal criminal cases. The first will be former Kagan clerk and SG atty Ashley Robertson.

A worthy corollary to MLK’s theorem. Keep bending, y'all (and read @thexylom.com)!

The greatest enemy that Zohran Mamdani faces in his mayoral tenure won't be Trump, Cuomo, or even Jonathan Greenblatt.

It'll be The New York Times and other media executives that are enraged and terrified that a 34-year-old immigrant backbencher just casually showed the world they are hypocrites

These people would use every trick in the book to break Mamdani the way the Joker broke Harvey Dent — that every elected official is inherently a two-faced hypocrite just like themselves, and therefore the people should stop resisting fascism, trusting institutions, or hoping for a better world.

Pointing to the sign again (gift article)

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.