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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
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What to Know About the Hack at Tea, an App Where Women Share Red Flags About Men

An app that was supposed to help women be safer leaks their data, including IDs... Don't collect data you can't keep safe (and, you can't keep data safe, so don't collect it) #privacy #AIEthics www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...

If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.

Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September

Not sure why Trump thinks it’s clever to release everyone’s files MLK, Hillary) but Epstein’s. It just makes his coverup of the Epstein files more glaring.

MAGA cares more about Jeffrey Epstein than dying without Medicaid, which explains everything MAGA rage over the Trump regime's failure to show an Epstein conspiracy reveals what matters inside a right-wing bubble.

Read this interesting piece from @willbunch.bsky.social, where he argues that understanding the fixation with conspiracy theories like that involving Jeffrey Epstein is crucial for Democrats to effectively engage with voters and address the underlying cultural resentments driving Trump’s support.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Archive of the Wall Street Journal article on Trump's happy birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.

actually a lot of innocent people write birthday letters to child sex traffickers in which they repeatedly reference the secrets they share

It isn't clear how the letter with Trump's signature was prepared. Inside the outline of the naked woman was a typewritten note styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein, written in the third person. "Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything," the note began. Donald: Yes, there is, but I won't tell you what it is. Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is. Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it. Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that? Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you. Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.

“Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

JD Vance, Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, and Donald Trump are all pictured with contradicting messages about the Epstein list. Vance’s picture reads “We need to release the list,” Patel’s reads “There is no list,” Bondi’s reads “The list is on my desk,” and Trump’s reads “The list is fake and made by Obama.”

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

I mean, the thing to bear in mind with the grok antisemitism thing is that it is a human person who changed that system prompt to make it say those things, and it is not the first time that they have done it. It is a platform purposely engineered to say it, and to express those views

Big win for the close the hospitals, open the camps caucus today.

The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Susan J. Kressly, said "creation of federal immunization policy is ‘no longer a credible process.’”

It’s not 2003 anymore anywhere in America except for CNN, Fox News, and the New York Times opinion page.

Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny - About the documentary | American Masters | PBS Discover Hannah Arendt, who transformed her time as a political prisoner during World War II into daring insights about totalitarianism.

I watched a screener of this from PBS — it airs next week.

Highly recommended.

www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

yep! unpaywalled:

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."

Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

dustin on Twitter: “look at the resources they're willing to commit to terrorize people but not feed or house people”

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.

When your massive ego gets you to announce something a more careful person would have kept quiet.

The sun is shining. Wearing a green backpack, I walk over a wooden bridge into the woods. A couple crosses the bridge in the other direction.

Going into the weekend like

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

Let's not forget the role the world's richest man, Elon Musk, has played in abruptly cutting funding to the most in need.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Miller's marriage undergoing a rapid unscheduled disassembly, like so many things in which Musk is involved.