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Politically, this is incredibly stupid, but as a policy matter it’s also incredibly stupid.

The Democrats!

11.03.2026 00:13 πŸ‘ 1622 πŸ” 275 πŸ’¬ 82 πŸ“Œ 10
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Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt-out expertoptout@superhuman.com.

β€œNow, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash β€” but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”

10.03.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 618 πŸ” 323 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 125
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

11.03.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 2662 πŸ” 1043 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 150

I want every word of this in massive letters of fire in the sky. Thank you, @moryan.bsky.social.

11.03.2026 04:14 πŸ‘ 565 πŸ” 229 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called β€œNumident” and the β€œMaster 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."

10.03.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 2894 πŸ” 1433 πŸ’¬ 106 πŸ“Œ 62

Yes, as it turns out, other countries expect to negotiate with the foreign minister or other actual official diplomatic representatives of the countries illegally attacking them, not the unelected, unconfirmed personal lackeys of the president.

11.03.2026 03:57 πŸ‘ 128 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Believing the point of Wiredβ€”or journalism at largeβ€”is to give ideas for venture capitalists to invest in is bafflingly ahistorical and narcissistic.

04.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

09.03.2026 22:43 πŸ‘ 6343 πŸ” 1805 πŸ’¬ 109 πŸ“Œ 47

Recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates said, β€œWell, they’re killing people in the streets. I don’t like to say I told you so, but I saw this coming years ago, and they said I was being too alarmist. But it’s consistent with what the United States is as a country.β€œ

10.03.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 576 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 5

GOOD!!!!!

10.03.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 182 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages

10.03.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 1046 πŸ” 252 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI β€œexperts” Grammarly's AI-powered "Expert Review" promises "writing feedback by subject-matter experts," and if you write about journalism, there's a good chance that includes you.

Looks like AI is coming for me, without my consent or knowledge. Lots of others too. @niemanlab.org explains.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/a-lo...

10.03.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 10

there is an extremely long list of people who need to be held accountable in the next administration but sending the DOGE boys to big boy jail needs to be near the top of the list

10.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 1175 πŸ” 260 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 2
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Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

10.03.2026 12:15 πŸ‘ 9059 πŸ” 1898 πŸ’¬ 353 πŸ“Œ 192

???

10.03.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 1649 πŸ” 155 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 23
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Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil Before the 2024 election, a cadre of MAGA loyalists met over brunch to plot ways for Trump to use the military domestically.

This is just astonishingly great reporting.

All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.

And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

10.03.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 3082 πŸ” 1530 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 62

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

10.03.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 9330 πŸ” 1878 πŸ’¬ 177 πŸ“Œ 39

Just for fun, here are some images of the same DOGE douche (Justin Fox) at the raid on the US Institute of Peace via the MPD body cam footage I obtained:

10.03.2026 18:51 πŸ‘ 779 πŸ” 199 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 21

Replying as a quote-tweet because this is going to be a thread.

We wish there were! We try so hard to find them!

I will note two things about ebooks:

1. They do not cost much less.
2. People don't actually want them, especially in academia.

[explication follows in thread]

1/16

10.03.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

The core revelation here is that Trump has lost the public *on the mass deportations themselves* and not just on ICE's brutal tactics. We have been arguing this for months but media has simply refused to acknowledge it. Now so obvious that it can't be avoided

10.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 1078 πŸ” 404 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 9

Posse Comitatus is pretty straightforward & as of the Act's updating five years ago there's no interpretation of it that doesn't make it a crime to willfully use any part of the U.S. military "as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws" & nothing exists to create a valid exception to it.

10.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

It depends on how many homes a homeowner owns, you woodchuck fucks

10.03.2026 07:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent:

πŸ”ΉοΈ$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞
πŸ”ΉοΈ$15.1 million for ribeye steak πŸ₯©
πŸ”ΉοΈ$2 million for Alaskan king crab πŸ¦€
πŸ”ΉοΈ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano

✏️ by @newrepublic.com

10.03.2026 04:24 πŸ‘ 1580 πŸ” 943 πŸ’¬ 98 πŸ“Œ 183

Its ok to just say β€œbrutally invaded with the goal of illegally seizing territory” you can add the proper nouns later

09.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

Warfighters NEED fruit basket stands! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ newrepublic.com/post/207555/...

10.03.2026 05:20 πŸ‘ 226 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 11

AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?

09.03.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 3071 πŸ” 952 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 5

No he’s not. He’s registering as NPP to try to dupe voters, but he’s still MAGA.

This POS is my rep & we didn’t see him in our district FOR YEARS until right before Prop 50. Never held a single townhall. Never responded to constituents’ problems.

09.03.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's actually interesting how they are overtly doing what many folks who want to control discourse around Jews do.

When they don't like what other Jews believe, they find ways not just to invalidate their views, but to invalidate their very Jewish identity.

And now they are doing it with polling.

09.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

limited combat operations... what are they good for!?

09.03.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

media absolutely will let them get away with it

09.03.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0