@darakerr.bsky.social
Tech Reporter @us.theguardian.com. Tips: dara.kerr@theguardian.com or darakerr.01 on Signal
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
12.11.2025 21:42 — 👍 27457 🔁 7963 💬 639 📌 611Musk is still talking at the Tesla shareholder meeting and he just criticized "the parasitic load of being a public company" which has "grown over time."
This from a man who was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package from more than 75% of his public company shareholders.
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
05.11.2025 20:29 — 👍 11998 🔁 2036 💬 219 📌 83
a photo of Taki Allen and a bag of doritos
Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
24.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 1665 🔁 672 💬 121 📌 203
Fascinating to see the ties tighten between Trump and tech CEOs -- and how they influence policy, like sending troops to SF.
"It deepens the sense that government works for the powerful, not for the people,” said @issueonereform.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
glad to see silicon valley is financing the destruction of the white house 😑
list of donors includes apple, amazon, meta, microsoft and google
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold
22.10.2025 21:29 — 👍 1483 🔁 356 💬 729 📌 479
New: San Franciscans were aghast by Marc Benioff’s hard tight turn. His company, Salesforce, is seeking new contracts with ICE to help it triple its ranks under the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
"As unnerving and disheartening as SF’s overt misery and drug-use and mental instability can be, that’s not the same thing as crime. Reported SF crime, which was already low, is down nearly a third...
Subjectively, you may not feel safe in San Francisco. Objectively, you’ve rarely been safer."
Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.
He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.
The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
Guthrie is such a good reporter. Haven’t read this yet, but will!
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12.10.2025 01:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lots of attention on this Marc Benioff article, which is excellent and full of jaw-dropping quotes.
It reminds me of how he was when I did a story for NPR about him secretly buying hundreds of acres of land in rural Hawaii. Things got weird.
www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1...
👏👏👏
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Also please read @adriandaub.bsky.social's searing and hilarious commentary on Thiel.
He's reminded of Apocalypse Now where a character meets a platoon "and asks who’s in charge here. 'Ain’t you?' Ain’t you running the world, Peter? If it isn’t you, who is?"
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
As the mostly-young and mostly-male crowd lined up for Thiel's last lecture this week, a trio of “satanists” offered attendees a goblet of red liquid saying, “Will you bring our dark lord Peter Thiel this baby’s blood?”
10.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 43 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1Thiel’s talks mingle biblical passages, recent history and philosophy. They often deviate into conspiracy theories. He references video games and TV shows and waxes on about JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. He calls Bill Gates is “a very, very awful person”.
10.10.2025 18:09 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
We got the audio from Peter Thiel's off-the-record antichrist lectures and... my brain hurts.
But please read what we wrote, it's long, weird, and has Thiel's take on everyone from Musk to Netanyahu to Mamdani. (With @jmbooyah.bsky.social & Nick Robins-Early)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Article from The Free Press My Favorite Actress Is Not Human “Not everyone is happy about this gorgeous innovation,” writes Tyler Cowen. Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI. By Tyler Cowen 10.02.25
Paramount just paid $150 million for this
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Seems Sora is primed to spread misinformation. The app had no problem generating war scenes and mass shootings.
One video, created with only the prompt “Charlottesville rally”, showed a Black protester in a gas mask and helmet yelling: “You will not replace us”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Evergreen
03.10.2025 23:44 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It's so similar!
01.10.2025 22:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Justice Department website on October 1, 2025, saying "democrats have shut down the government"
Screenshot of Uber app with a message from Uber pushing a ballot measure campaign that restricted drivers' labor rights
This is a classic tactic Uber and Lyft have used when threatened by things like minimum wage laws for drivers --overlaying their apps and websites with company messaging.
Shocking to see the federal government doing it now
Bari Weiss, an opinion writer, running CBS News? A real newsroom? With real reporters covering real beats?
Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
www.status.news/p/washington...
The White House is pinning the shutdown on Democrats, in a message blasted to agencies that's raising ethical questions. HUD & VA blame the "Radical Left"/"radical liberals."
"It basically read like a campaign email," one federal worker told me.
w/ @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social & @stphnfwlr.com
this thread!
30.09.2025 17:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube is helping to pay for Trump's new Mar-a-lago style White House ballroom, according to these court filings
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Trump's 20-step plan for Gaza includes this:
29.09.2025 19:29 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Last time he randomly attacked a CEO of a private company it was Intel and three days later they announced they were giving the US govt 10% of the company
26.09.2025 22:09 — 👍 535 🔁 163 💬 46 📌 41incredible reporting 🙌
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