The extent to which every single one of these guys has absolutely no idea what the fuck they're talking about is frankly stunning. You should be embarrassed to go out in public and spout shit like this. It should scar your soul and make you weep in shame, but that requires introspection, so...shit.
Dave Lee
Where to begin with this
Mar 16, 2026 at 5:07 PM
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
“I was surprised how upset some people got”: A conversation with the creator of TomWikiAssist, the bot that edited Wikipedia
"It's almost like people were really quite disoriented and terrified by it. And to some extent I get it and I'm trying to empathize with how they're feeling."
Smart glasses: 'I was secretly filmed and trolled online'
Footage of Oonagh was posted on social media where it attracted hundreds of sexual and derogatory comments.
I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous
Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see
Creepy Wikipedia - Lemmy.World
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From Non-consensual Pornography to Image-based Sexual Abuse: Charting the Course of a Problem with Many Names
Every day, people’s most intimate moments are recorded, uploaded and circulated online without their consent. This gross invasion of privacy – commonly known as ‘revenge pornography’ – has become p...
From Non-consensual Pornography to Image-based Sexual Abuse: Charting the Course of a Problem with Many Names
Every day, people’s most intimate moments are recorded, uploaded and circulated online without their consent. This gross invasion of privacy – commonly known as ‘revenge pornography’ – has become p...
Ryan Greenblatt on Twitter / X
I was the main person doing transcript analysis for this investigation of the Hugging Face incident. My main takeaway: We don't have good approaches for understanding/overseeing the activity and aims of AI 'swarms'.I semi-jokingly called our efforts a "slop-vestigation" because… https://t.co/eqBONVaSAV— Ryan Greenblatt (@RyanGreenblatt) August 26, 2026
The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites
I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column: On Instagram, there’s an activist named Brian Patrick (@pano.
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
Very proud to be making my @assignedmedia.org debut with this fascinating & farcical exposé! Someone — we don’t yet know who — has been bombarding the US government with blatantly machine-generated comments. All of them ask for one thing: make it harder for trans people to legally buy firearms.
Assigned Media
Before July 21 the response to the Trump administration's anti-trans gun rule was overwhelmingly negative. Almost overnight it changed. But 96 percent of influx of comments supporting the rule appear to come from bots. New EXCLUSIVE investigation by Io Dodds. assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/swarm-of-bots-p…
I've posted and deleted this here a few times now. I guess (ironically, given the content) I feel that my first real personal blog post to the public isn't good enough, or a bad take, when I've had really positive vibes on Bluesky - despite how the post may come across. But fuck it. I'll keep it up.
Thoughts of a Normie in the Atmosphere
heffley.leaflet.pubVery proud to be making my @assignedmedia.org debut with this fascinating & farcical exposé! Someone — we don’t yet know who — has been bombarding the US government with blatantly machine-generated comments. All of them ask for one thing: make it harder for trans people to legally buy firearms.
Assigned Media
Before July 21 the response to the Trump administration's anti-trans gun rule was overwhelmingly negative. Almost overnight it changed. But 96 percent of influx of comments supporting the rule appear to come from bots. New EXCLUSIVE investigation by Io Dodds. assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/swarm-of-bots-p…
Really feels like the open Internet is falling apart, with bsky as a rare bright spot.
Ashton Pittman
The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).
