Reality is just absurd now. Tathony house, where the former tenants were fighting eviction (Jack Power & I wrote articles about it at the time) is now being set up as homeless accommodation under the new owners (great reporting from Dub Inquirer team) www.dublininquirer.com/time-and-aga...
wow, they released the files and it turns out JFK was still alive until just a few years ago, living in an old folks home in rural Texas alongside Elvis Presley
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
The first issue of False Flag, my new newsletter on right-wing media for @thebulwark.bsky.social, is coming out this morning!
Sign up to get it here:
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I wrote about Irishness, sort of
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Some news: I'm starting a new job at @thebulwark.bsky.social, where I'll be writing a newsletter twice a week on right-wing media and conspiracy theories. It's exciting!
Here's the announcement in today's Reliable Sources newsletter:
Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report
If you thought iPad babies were bad wait til we meet the ChatGPt babies.
I struggle daily with my intellectual contempt for nostalgia and my conviction that the 90s was the last good decade for music
Threads post by Mark Zuckerberg: "Now you can make your custom feeds public and follow feeds made by your favorite people on Threads!" Screenshot shows the process of creating a feed.
Mark Zuckerberg has invented Bluesky
The entire staff of 60 Minutes should resign.
This would be a dangerous, historic act of cowardice. It requires an extraordinary, historic response.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
Thousands of datasets have disappeared from data.gov. Determining what's gone, why it's gone, and whether it moved elsewhere will to take time. Things are definitely being purged but archivists working hard to determine exactly what has happened to a given dataset
www.404media.co/archivists-w...
Spent this week looking at the digital footprint of Cameron Finnigan, the Sussex teenager convicted for crimes relating to his involvement with the the esoteric nazi abuse network 764.
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Someone has scraped the data of my voice and is using A.i to create a replica of me to promote scams
“Every wildfire is accused of not being a wildfire, but a planned attack to further sinister ends.”
Read @annamerlan.bsky.social’s first-person account of living through devastating wildfires while trying to report on the disinformation about them.
We lost our house in the Eaton Fire. We're safe, but the level of devastation is impossible to convey. I won't be able to work for a while, so if you want to support us, I'd appreciate a Patreon subscription or buying one of my books. It will help.
www.patreon.com/MikeRothschild
Many useful Community Notes on X cite as evidence articles researched and published by traditional fact-checking organisations around the world, the very same ones that it's now fashionable to call useless, biased and unreliable.
A big one today with @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
while everyone else was busy writing slop articles about how adrian dittmann sounds like elon musk i decided to actually find him. investigation with @jsweetli.bsky.social and @ryan.staticnoi.se
thespectator.com/topic/real-a...
A lot of people are frustrated because everything is a scam, from airlines to Google, now. It's unbelievably irritating that they voted for the biggest scammer of them all.
But we're so awash in scams, that it's not surprising Trump hides in plain sight. People can't tell scam from not-scam.
I don’t know if I believe in omens but
❌ Three fake screenshots mimicking Trump's Truth Social have appeared on Bluesky (and other platforms), posing as posts on a rift between the president-elect and Elon Musk.
All three of these posts are fake.
I’ve been listening to In Winter by the Unthanks a lot lately. It’s perfect for people who like Christmas but also have seasonal affective disorder.
#MyEditorialProcess
Thirst discourse around the CEO shooter reminding me of reading Manhunt: The 12 Day Hunt for Lincoln’s Killer many years ago and being struck by how hot John Wilkes Booth was perceived to be by many.
And he's suspended.
Gotta be the shortest time it has ever taken for a TD to be suspended from a Parliamentary Party following their election, right?
