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Greg Linden
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douglindner.bsky.social
Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 13h
The NATO treaty and UN Charter are both law in the USA. They are the two most important treaties in the world. Attacking Greenland would violate both of them, as well as the US Constitution.

A Democratic president would be impeached and removed for threatening war on NATO—and they would deserve it.

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douglindner.bsky.social
Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 13h
Even *threatening* hostile military action against a NATO ally is the craziest fucking thing any president—even Trump—has ever done.

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douglindner.bsky.social
Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 13h
The Greenland thing is way more batshit than it’s getting credit for.

Trump is risking a war with BRITAIN and FRANCE, our closest allies for 200 years, both of which have their own nuclear arsenals!

Reposted by Greg Linden

charlescmann.bsky.social
𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 13h
A few striking images that capture much of what has happened to US publishing in the last 30 years.
The Big Five US Trade Book Publishers
With all the imprints out there, it's sometimes difficult to know which imprint belongs to which of the big five publishers.
almossawi.com

glinden.bsky.social
Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 14h
Interesting study here showing that availability of remote work helps startups get top employees from big companies, helping recruiting at startups but hurting retention at big companies. Unclear if return-to-office (RTO) polices help or make things worse for big companies (my guess, worse).
arpitrage.bsky.social Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 21h
Why?

Hiring constraints. Startups once found it hard to compete with established incumbent firms with many offices

Remote startups increase job postings, hire more per posting, and scale faster. Remote large firms struggle with retention challenges of existing employees

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tiffanycli.bsky.social
Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 14h
Entire international community’s reaction to the USA right now:
April from parks and rec saying “so you’ve gone insane! That’s fun”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h
Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 18h
A new Economist/YouGov poll finds that 62% of US adults age 18-29 disapprove of Donald Trump. This represents a significant shift from higher approval ratings among this age group before he took office, contradicting many political pundits' predictions of a political realignment among Gen Z voters.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 18h
We’ve become numb to the insanity from the WH.

They are about to break the most successful military alliance in history because they are high on their own supply

Without our alliance, Americans will be much, much worse off in the world

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Denmark announces boosted military presence in Greenland 'from today'
In a statement just before talks were due to start at the White House, the Danish Defense Ministry announced 'an increased military presence in and around Greenland,' after Donald Trump made fresh cla...
www.lemonde.fr

Reposted by Greg Linden, Francesco Nicoli

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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 18h
One has to admit that Trump is brilliant at driving the news. We are now wasting attention on a ridiculous and unnecessary debate about invading Greenland, eclipsing attention on more important issues, foreign and domestic.

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niedermeyer.online
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19h
Musk has convinced huge swathes of the public and capital markets that everything he touches turns to gold, despite the fact that a careful examination shows literally none of his businesses are particularly profitable. He has attacked markets and politics where they're most vulnerable: information.

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mclem.org
Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 19h
Europe.

Is moving military assets.

To deter an invasion.

By the United States of America.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 19h
Future historians could do worse than just using this comic to sum up what American voters were doing from 2010-2025ish
I want things to be different comic

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karlbode.com
Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19h
love the headline

beautifully blunt
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
www.theverge.com

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arpitrage.bsky.social
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 21h
Why?

Hiring constraints. Startups once found it hard to compete with established incumbent firms with many offices

Remote startups increase job postings, hire more per posting, and scale faster. Remote large firms struggle with retention challenges of existing employees

Reposted by Greg Linden

arpitrage.bsky.social
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 21h
Our key finding is that remote critics and boosters both have a point. Remote work increases productivity for workers at *startups* while reducing it for incumbent firms

We instrument for remote work with pre-pandemic occupational suitability for identification

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jeffreybigham.com
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 21h
message -- trump is crazy, science in the US is chaos, come to canada, ye best and brightest, we're really not that far away … 

www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
Government of Canada launches new initiative to recruit world-leading researchers - Canada.ca
Canada will invest $1.7 billion to attract top global talent
www.canada.ca

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cwarzel.bsky.social
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d
There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.
Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This
If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.
www.theatlantic.com

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 1d
I wonder how long it will take for some of these celebs to go after Meta directly www.404media.co/instagram-ai...
Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities With Sex Scandals
Fake images of LeBron James, iShowSpeed, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and even Nicolás Maduro show them in bed with AI-generated influencers.
www.404media.co

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arstechnica.com
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1d
It really could not be more clear from Google’s publicly available policies that Grok should have been banned yesterday. And yet, it remains in the Play Store.
Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store?
Google describes apps exactly like Grok and says they are banned from Google Play.
arstechnica.com

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Max Read @maxread.info · 1d
why did so many millennials read so many newspaper comics? easily 60 percent of my reading diet in elementary/middle school was collected editions of calvin and hobbes, farside, dilbert, peanuts, doonesbury (!), foxtrot (?!?) and i know im not alone. historically unique phenomenon
markpopham.bsky.social good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job

Reposted by Greg Linden

techmeme.com
Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d
Meta confirms it is laying off Reality Labs staff and will "reinvest the savings" in wearables; CTO Andrew Bosworth says 1,000+ staff will be notified Tuesday (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Reposted by Mor Naaman, David R. Miller, Greg Linden

jenvictor.bsky.social
Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 1d
theonion.com/archaeologis...
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
theonion.com

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: Coal-fired power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, for the first time since 1973. The drop came after record clean energy additions in both countries, and was the first time that clean energy was a major driver of falling coal power use.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 2d
Bad content drives out good.

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/g...
Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws
AI Overviews provided false liver test information experts called alarming.
arstechnica.com

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gizmodo.com
Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 2d
Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI https://gizmodo.com/jensen-huang-is-begging-you-to-stop-being-so-negative-about-ai-2000709335
Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI
" extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage," he said.
gizmodo.com

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donmoyn.bsky.social
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
Janet Yellen: "“If you can bring charges for no reason whatsoever against your enemies, we’re no longer living in a society governed by the rule of law.” She added: “That’s the end of Fed independence.”

And much else.

(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...
Fed Changes Course and Takes On Trump’s Political Fight
www.nytimes.com

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amandalitman.bsky.social
Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 2d
We're hiring for a senior technical lead at @runforsomething.net - if you're an engineer/coder looking to build great products for a meaningful mission, check the JD & apply. workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
Recruitment
workforcenow.adp.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d
I think it's partially a product of laziness -- for so many years Twitter (not X) was treated as "the assignment desk." That wasn't a good reporting strategy in the first place, and now treating X like that is far, far worse.