Renee DiResta

Not sure why it thinks I want this! When it’s tech and public health niches it’s at least related to what I post. I don’t follow anyone who’s really out there creating Taylor Swift content.

My whole Threads feed is Takes (tedious, tedious takes) on That Album that I will never listen to by an artist I’ve never expressed any interest in. It’s wild to see how quickly that algorithm changes a feed to be about one thing only.

Meaning 2 units; this is an Aerogarden Farm. The one to the right had the shishito pepper I just killed and you can see the bell pepper collapsing to the left lol. You can put plants in all those holes, I normally do 2-3 “big” things but some people go nuts w/ greens. I’ve also seen ppl trellis.

Tomatoes on the left, eggplant on the right. I have 2 this size and a small countertop one for lettuce.

It’s an open hydroponic system so they would just be in my house :)

Artificial

Aerogarden. My dad built his. I went simple. Honestly I think simple is the way to go.

I killed every plant, sprayed alcohol on every surface, vacuumed all over, kept everything empty for three months, and then restarted. They are the worst.

The shishito are enough for a side dish. I usually roast the purple eggplants with pasta, and toss the little green Thai ones into curry. I eat those tomatoes for lunch several days a week. :) I just have to decide what to do with the bell peppers…

The problem with aphids indoors is you can’t just spray them with a power hose or use ladybugs or wasps. I’ve had spider mites before, but aphids are new. Not sure how they got in.

Since people are asking: I have a hydroponic set up. I post about it every couple of wks. Unfortunately the peppers somehow got aphids, so I killed the Shishito today. The yellow bell pepper doesn’t seem like it’s gonna make it…wilted while I was away on a trip. Might be restarting those units.😒

Hydroponic!

Hydroponics!

A rainbow of tomatoes eggplant and peppers

🌱 today’s indoor harvest

Democracy & Elections Executive Branch Speech, Coercion, and the Myth of the Censorship Regime Renee DiResta Thursday, October 2, 2025, 2:51 PM Google's letter to Rep. Jim Jordan inadvertently provides evidence against the "censorship industrial complex" narrative he is using it to support.

Google’s letter to Jim Jordan said Biden pressured them to moderate, but they acted independently.

Jordan’s reaction? Cry “censorship” & claim victory.

Except there’s receipts showing Jordan knew this was BS all along…

Breaking down the censorship hoax ⬇️

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/spee...

Had a fascinating conversation with @noupside.bsky.social, Yascha Mounk, and @jonrauch.bsky.social in a live recording of The Good Fight podcast from Persuasion.

Democracy & Elections Executive Branch Speech, Coercion, and the Myth of the Censorship Regime Renee DiResta Thursday, October 2, 2025, 2:51 PM Google's letter to Rep. Jim Jordan inadvertently provides evidence against the "censorship industrial complex" narrative he is using it to support.

Google’s letter to Jim Jordan said Biden pressured them to moderate, but they acted independently.

Jordan’s reaction? Cry “censorship” & claim victory.

Except there’s receipts showing Jordan knew this was BS all along…

Breaking down the censorship hoax ⬇️

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/spee...

Censored how? Did they take it down before?

Every couple of years a new version of this comes out!

"And it should have spiders for pupils and guns for teeth!"

Motherfucker, go out and solve a crime.

From the Community | President Levin’s first order of business: abandoning academic freedom By standing with tenured faculty and powerful political operatives against contingent researchers and trainees at Stanford, President Jonathan Levin has already betrayed academic freedom, writes Mallo...

A year ago, I warned university leadership to not help Jay Bhattacharya fashion himself a champion of open debate while he actively worked to undermine academic freedom.

Now, as NIH Director, he's waging a campaign of censorship to advance a political agenda.

stanforddaily.com/2024/10/03/f...

Speech, Coercion, and the Myth of the Censorship Regime Google's letter to Rep. Jim Jordan inadvertently provides evidence against the "censorship industrial complex" narrative he is using it to support.

Rep. Jordan "treated Google’s resistance as proof of censorship, and his own success in getting YouTube to capitulate on a fact-checking policy as a victory for free speech. He isn’t fighting against censorship, he’s redefining it in service to his political objectives," writes @noupside.bsky.social

That is extremely weird

I mean,,,

Techdirt Podcast Episode 432: The Fictional Censorship Cinematic Universe Support us on Patreon » Last year, Renée DiResta joined us on an episode of the podcast to talk about her book, Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality, all about the peo…

Jim Jordan is full of it, ex. 1,654:

@noupside.bsky.social and @mmasnick.bsky.social unpack the times that Google, under oath, contradicted how Jordan describes its letter to the Judiciary Committee.

A letter that btw was pure capitulation to gov pressure.

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/t...

Techdirt Podcast Episode 432: The Fictional Censorship Cinematic Universe Support us on Patreon » Last year, Renée DiResta joined us on an episode of the podcast to talk about her book, Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality, all about the peo…

2 hs before @mmasnick.bsky.social &I recorded, Ted Cruz dropped a mega-report on the Biden Censorship Regime of 2018. AS WE TALKED, YouTube settled a $25M lawsuit 💸

In this pod, we tackle: "Who was president in 2020?" and other hard questions ab content moderation.

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/t...

This is an important one. We break down claim vs reality on the Censorship Industrial Complex hoax.

🗣️ Kimmel was jawboning. The Google letter was a company saying it RESISTED pressure. It's key to recognize the difference, so we talk about it.

🚩 The "22 million censored tweets" - where are they?

Techdirt Podcast Episode 432: The Fictional Censorship Cinematic Universe Support us on Patreon » Last year, Renée DiResta joined us on an episode of the podcast to talk about her book, Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality, all about the peo…

2 hs before @mmasnick.bsky.social &I recorded, Ted Cruz dropped a mega-report on the Biden Censorship Regime of 2018. AS WE TALKED, YouTube settled a $25M lawsuit 💸

In this pod, we tackle: "Who was president in 2020?" and other hard questions ab content moderation.

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/t...

Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.

Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.

A ballroom and Naomi Wolf