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Damon Beres

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Senior editor at The Atlantic, focused on tech // SIGNAL: Damon.63 📨 dberes at the atlantic dot com ✴️ damonberes.com

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · Nov 11

I want to start posting here more, to the extent I post anything at all these days. I'm a senior editor at @theatlantic.bsky.social overseeing technology coverage; I'll share gift links here with my thoughts and additional context to help you see the great stuff we're publishing. 👋🏻

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 10h

Email-inbox situation so out of control it's starting to scare me

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“We now have a paradigmatic Gaza generation like we had a Vietnam generation and a Pearl Harbor generation”

A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?

www.nytimes.com

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 2d

My son wanted a “Spidey” jack-o-lantern and I’m proud enough of my achievement to post it to my public Bluesky please clap

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 3d

YYEESSSS

Yasmin Tayag @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social · 3d

it's official!

Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 4d

Strange and interesting things afoot with President Trump's web design ...

The Trumpian Fantasy of WhiteHouse.gov

The administration’s confusing, creepy new style

www.theatlantic.com

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 4d

“37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job with nothing lined up”

37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job with nothing lined up: 'I didn't need to keep on climbing that ladder'

Florence Poirel left Google with $1.5 million saved and a plan for a “mini-retirement.”

www.cnbc.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5d

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 5d

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Business Insider headline: "He used Grok's sexy AI bot for 'dirty smut.' Then he fell in love."

Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 6d

Obsessed with this portion of @alibreland.bsky.social’s latest, on “heritage Americans,” not just because it’s snappy, but because it reveals much about the nature of the ideology these people have: superior, unwavering, fundamentally rooted in historic unreality www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

When I called Engel to ask him about all of this, he told me that he does not believe that genetics are “the chief explanation” for how Anglo-Protestant ideals are transferred from generation to generation—but added that “there is an ethnic or racial correlation” between who embodies such ideals and who doesn’t. Our conversation was polite, but strange at times. I mentioned that as a half-Iranian American who was born and raised in the U.S., I share more in common ideologically with the Anglo-Protestant Founders of the United States than I do with Middle Eastern theocrats. “I would also contend that there is something deep inside of you that is attracted to or finds familiar portions of Iranian history,” he said, as though I am genetically predisposed to find the conquests of Darius the Great uniquely moving. I don’t, and told him as much. “I’m not contending that you can’t take someone and raise him within a certain cultural environment and he begins to adopt the taste and all that,” Engel responded. “But I do contend that if you bring in massive groups of people over time, it’s going to, in a few generations, be a lot culturally different than it would otherwise have been if you never had done that.”

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 7d

“social-media clips showing masked federal agents kicking down doors, raiding Home Depot parking lots, and pulling people from their car have kept up the appearance of an ever-expanding campaign. ICE’s own data show that the agency’s buildup stalled over the summer.” @nickmiroff.bsky.social

As Money Rushed In, ICE’s Rapid Expansion Stalled Out

Immigration arrests have declined and jail overcrowding is worse despite billions in new funds.

www.theatlantic.com

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 7d

The man behind the $1 million AI ad campaign that everyone hates assures us that he loves all of the vandalism, actually. @matteowong.bsky.social

A Walk With New York’s Most Hated Tech Founder

Avi Schiffman says he’s enjoying the angry reaction to the Friend AI pendant. Is he serious?

www.theatlantic.com

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 7d

enjoy

A Walk With New York’s Most Hated Tech Founder

Avi Schiffman says he’s enjoying the angry reaction to the Friend AI pendant. Is he serious?

www.theatlantic.com

Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 7d

Watch this space

Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 7d

Wow we have a story for you coming up in, like, five minutes

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · Sep 10

Outstanding essay by my colleague Gisela Salim-Peyer

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t

Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.

www.theatlantic.com

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 10d

this would have worked on me

Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 11d

listen they're all good but phantom thread at number 8 .....

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 12d

Bought two of these 🤙

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 17d

Love Letterboxd

Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 18d

“Swift has pulled off something that’s never quite been done before. The closest comparison might be to show tunes—but for a one-woman play that’s gone 19 years without a curtain call.”
@skornhaber.bsky.social

How Did Taylor Swift Convince the World That She’s Relatable?

The tidiest explanation for the pop star’s success is that she befriended an underestimated audience of girls and young women. That’s only part of the story.

www.theatlantic.com

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 18d

I've been hearing a lot of talk about AirPods recently which led me to this 2018 @ibogost.bsky.social piece which contains an *incredible* lede and is, beyond that, very good and insightful, one might even say prescient

Apple's Airpods Are an Omen

The company’s slick, wireless earbuds work great, but they foreshadow startling changes to the social fabric.

www.theatlantic.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18d

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 18d

CHICKENSHIT 👊
@adamserwer.bsky.social

Lower Than Cowards

The surrender of America’s elites

www.theatlantic.com

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18d

very alarmed that this is getting more relevant by the week www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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