Sean Hoyer

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That category deserves particular scrutiny. The No. 1 History Substacker – for at least a year now, following Substack’s special promotion of his newsletter – has been the aforementioned Darryl Cooper. Cooper made national headlines last year, after an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show in which he whitewashed Hitler’s record and defended the Holocaust as “humane.” Last month, Mother Jones investigated Cooper and learned that he has a long past in online far-right and white-supremacist circles as a Holocaust denier and Nazi-sympathizing troll.

Bluesky historians (who might also be on Substack) take note:

www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-e...

If you're still on substack, you are letting techbro dildos use your left-leaning journalism to launder right-wing extremism and it's just a terrible idea. You should stop doing that

whenever I mention a prolific and/or accomplished minority figure in a field dominated by cishet white guys, my wife always reminds me to watch HOW they succeed:

by fighting tooth and nail to win at an unfair game?

or by sacrificing whatever it takes to follow their rules and be One Of The Guys?

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

Exclusive: The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

I don't think the commitment to liberal toleration and free expression requires us to let people get other people killed through maliciously false medical advice

Even if the people who get killed are morons!

Net Launchers Only Get Cooler When They Take Down Drones How to handle an invasive, buzzing quadcopter: throw a net over it.

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Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says Lawsuit: Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training.

Oh lovely. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/meta-pirated-and-seeded-porn-for-years-to-train-ai-lawsuit-says/

Q Okay. Describe for me any other girl22 other than the ones that you've named who you say you23 saw have sexual contact with Ghislaine Maxwell with24 your own two eyes.25 A There's so many I don't know where youAgren Blando Court Reporting & Video, Inc.VIRGINIA GIUFFRE 5/3/2016 37 (145 - 148)Page 1481 want me to start. I find it impossible to answer2 that question with the amount of girls that I have3 witnessed. And without being able to give you4 specific names, I don't think I'm able to answer that5 question.6 Q Okay. I asked you to describe them, so7 you could give me a height, a hair color, anything8 else that comes to mind?9 A There were blondes, there were brunettes,10 there were redheads. They were all beautiful girls.11 I would say the ages ranged between 15 and 21

Additionally, Virginia Giuffre testified that she personally witnessed Maxwell sexually abusing victims as young as 15

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.

Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

a day early for STFU Friday bsky.app/profile/inda...

Incredible

account that has told everyone to stop using twitter: look at this screenshot i took from my twitter account. can you believe it

photo of a fox sleeping on a Skylight

you have been visited by the Skylight Napping Fox and will have good fortune for the rest of the week 🤗

Net Launchers Only Get Cooler When They Take Down Drones How to handle an invasive, buzzing quadcopter: throw a net over it.

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/net...

Net Launchers Only Get Cooler When They Take Down Drones How to handle an invasive, buzzing quadcopter: throw a net over it.

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/net...

“defend your culture”

dude, your “culture” is clapping off beat and putting ketchup on tacos

And to my grandchildren I leave 37 plastic bags full of plastic bags

With improvement, he was able to report that he had recently noticed new-onset facial acne and cherry angiomas, fatigue, insomnia, subtle ataxia, and polydipsia, further suggesting bromism. He also shared that, after reading about the negative effects that sodium chloride, or table salt, has on one's health, he was surprised that he could only find literature related to reducing sodium from one's diet. Inspired by his history of studying nutrition in college, he decided to conduct a personal experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet. For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning. Gradually, over the course of a 3-week admission, his chloride and anion gap normalized and psychotic symptoms improved. He was tapered off risperidone before discharge and remained stable off medication at a check-in 2 weeks after discharge. His bromide level ultimately was 1700 mg/L (21 mmol/L; reference range, 0.9 to 7.3 mg/L).

Wild case of ChatGPT almost killing a guy by telling him to substitute sodium bromine for table salt (sodium chloride) #medsky www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

This means that no matter what anyone says, keep shitting on AI.

If companies see it as bad publicity, the technology is dead in the water.

I have sent ScienceDirect the following questions and asked them to take down their harmful AI feature. Let’s see what they answer.

"In a habeas corpus petition, ... Rickardo Anthony Kelly claims ICE offered him $1,000 to self-deport to the same country where he suffered 'severe persecution' for his sexual orientation.

'Petitioner’s persecution culminated in a violent attack on May 2021, during which he was shot 10 times.'"

A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction. www.wired.com/story/poison...

You don't have to say you're sorry but there was no threat to free speech on college campuses or from the trans community. There was only speech you didn't like.

I spent a coupla days talking to tourists at Smithsonian museums about Trump's efforts to bully the institution into erasing images of transgender people and rewriting Black history to his liking.

Trump voters, Trump critics from around the country weighed in.

Zero support for this.

Oakland dropped from Trump list of targeted ‘sanctuary’ cities Trump officials threatened legal action against the 18 cities on the list, including Berkeley and San Francisco.

Trump officials threatened legal action against the 18 cities on the list, including Berkeley and San Francisco.

You got a fucking free, fully furnished house and you're still complaining about not having a servant. I despise these people.

How America Became Hostile to Shade A roving history makes the case for shade’s centrality to public health, climate adaptation, and even a more robust and inclusive public sphere.

How America Became Hostile to Shade. “A roving history makes the case for shade’s centrality to public health, climate adaptation, & a more robust and inclusive public sphere.” A big discussion in the age of urban heating. Via @newrepublic.com @samkbloch.bsky.social.
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