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stacy-marie ishmael

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not the one. i am a journalist and i work for Bloomberg News. Obligatory disclaimers about opinions. No DMs for reporting tips. Signal at @s_m_i.99 don’t expect posts to stick around.

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elder millennial and not ashamed!!

06.03.2026 17:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

you say aura farmer i say karmanaut

06.03.2026 17:07 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

This thread and the one that it quotes are both worth reading.

06.03.2026 16:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

that post/gif combo is diabolical

06.03.2026 16:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Incidentally was recently re-reading both The Last Hero and Small Gods

06.03.2026 13:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

“I also want to apologize directly for a post internal to the company that was leaked to the press yesterday. Anthropic did not leak this post nor direct anyone else to do so—it is not in our interest to escalate this situation.”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

06.03.2026 12:14 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

05.03.2026 22:51 👍 1851 🔁 761 💬 41 📌 86

That is between me and my shadow.

06.03.2026 01:30 👍 49 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 4
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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

05.03.2026 23:41 👍 12104 🔁 7330 💬 288 📌 335

difficult to impossible to be both the boss of the place and also a poster at the place without consequences. a lesson social media companies absolutely refuse to learn, despite decades of precedent.

06.03.2026 01:02 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the hot dog will be a dollar fifty until the heat death of the universe

05.03.2026 21:22 👍 1186 🔁 110 💬 18 📌 6
Meme with a man getting into a yellow hazmat suit before going through a door

Meme with a man getting into a yellow hazmat suit before going through a door

Ok time to read the feeds

05.03.2026 20:58 👍 68 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 0

I'm looking to talk to journalists who are not AI evangelists but who are experimenting with using AI in their journalism work (but not for writing!). If this is you and you'd be willing to chat about it, DM me here or email me at megangreenwellprojects at gmail?

05.03.2026 15:38 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

05.03.2026 20:39 👍 2424 🔁 1388 💬 91 📌 336
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United Airlines can now boot passengers who refuse to use headphones with their devices United said it could permanently ban travelers who refuse to wear headphones while listening to audio or video content on its flights.

'[United]...said it reserves the right to remove anyone who doesn't comply with the new rules and potentially ban them from flying on United in the future.'

www.cbsnews.com/news/united-...

05.03.2026 20:41 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

'all IOP study groups are off-the-record.' alas!

05.03.2026 20:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Any gov design folk got experience of managing mental models stakeholders in how a service 'should' be found?

05.03.2026 08:26 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

There used to be an old sign by the path, warning passers-by of the local sleeping willow, which would trap the unwary with fatigue, engulf them while they slept, and release them a hundred years later.

There was a new sign:

"This sleeping willow is full."

And a map of other locations to try.

05.03.2026 14:06 👍 526 🔁 205 💬 6 📌 1
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Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal Dario Amodei is meeting deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology

“Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is making a last-ditch attempt to strike a deal with the US defence department after the breakdown of negotiations last week” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

05.03.2026 01:59 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Go Quinta Brunson, go.

05.03.2026 01:18 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

excellent i will stay tuned for the decrees on DST

04.03.2026 20:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

will you be becoming dictator by next Thursday do you think

04.03.2026 20:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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How Jeffrey Epstein Used Reid Hoffman to Court Silicon Valley’s Elite Emails suggest a closer and longer relationship than previously known between the LinkedIn founder and the disgraced financier.

'Reid Hoffman has defended his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein as limited to “fundraising,” via a handful of calls, emails and in-person meetings that ended in 2018. But documents recently released by the [DOJ] suggest a longer and more personal relationship'
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

04.03.2026 19:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan Gavalas

'Shortly after Gavalas started using the chatbot, Google rolled out its update to enable voice-based chats, which the company touts as having interactions that “are five times longer than text-based conversations on average”.'

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

04.03.2026 18:56 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

🐳🎵 stop reposting accounts that don't source their infooo 🎵 🐳

04.03.2026 18:50 👍 128 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 0

at this point in my life i low-key need to write this on a post-it because the temptation

04.03.2026 18:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have been awarded some professional development funds at work that are specified for "training" related to my job (digital interpretation/humanites type things). Does anyone have a conference/summer school/symposium/training option I should know about?

04.03.2026 17:56 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 8 📌 0
STATE OF BLACK BOOKSTORE REPORT — National Association of Black Bookstores

'There are currently 306 Black-owned bookstores in the United States, representing approximately 8% of independent bookstores nationwide.

Nearly 90% report annual revenue under $250,000'

www.nab2.org/state-of-bla...

04.03.2026 16:47 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 4

For any writers or avid readers who missed this yesterday 👇🏾

04.03.2026 16:22 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

nurtec works, it is amazing, and every 3-6 months my insurance company is like, eh, we don’t think you should get to have this

04.03.2026 02:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0