ryan cooper
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Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
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jwmason.bsky.social
As it happens, this is almost exactly the same as Nintendo’s annual revenue. Which seems like the right comparison- a successful producer of electronic toys. on.ft.com/4nMkP0B
OpenAI books about $13bn in annual recurring revenue, 70 per cent of which comes from consumers using ChatGPT, which costs $20 for a standard subscription, according to people familiar with the company’s finances.
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"If conflict in any particular theater shows dangerous signs of actually resolving itself, another must be spun up to take its place, much as businesses that hope to survive must replace markets in decline with new ones." www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/t...
The Internet of Beefs
www.ribbonfarm.com
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arguably quite a bit worse than anything Charles I did, at least in terms of how things are supposed to work
atrupar.com
Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.
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sadvil.bsky.social
Reminds me of the classic joke about the economists who each paid each other $100 to eat a pile of dog shit. Was it for nothing? No, they just increased the GDP by $200.
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read: Vance is also saying Nazi shit in group chats bsky.app/profile/radl...
radleybalko.bsky.social
Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.
‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones
Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.
www.mediaite.com
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marisakabas.bsky.social
NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:
ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.
Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.
www.thehandbasket.co
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"As is often the case in the AI industry, Nvidia came to the rescue, announcing a $100 billion investment in OpenAI. Now OpenAI has the money to send to Oracle to build data centers, which Oracle will fill with Nvidia GPUs. So wait—is Nvidia just paying itself?" prospect.org/power/2025-1...
The AI Ouroboros
Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.
prospect.org
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"where laws aren’t there, the pitchforks must always be. A society that expects laws to substitute for, rather than channel, public outrage, is a society not long for this world in any form worthy of the name." www.interfluidity.com/v2/4013.html
interfluidity » Shame.
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and it seems to have shocked them into action!
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"when people say that it is the job of college professors to keep students engaged but that we can also not ban devices, I want to sigh performatively—how, exactly, am I supposed to keep them hooked when Hollywood can’t keep them hooked?" musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...
A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society
Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost
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I feel like the legal profession has basically forgotten that one of their core tasks is to prevent situations like this from ending up with the guy being torn limb from limb
swolecialism.bsky.social
of course, through the majesty of the law, alex jones has effectively stalled long enough to win anyway. the families who he tortured will end up with a small pile of ashes labeled "Infowars Inc" while Alex keeps doing his thing as Alex Jones Broadcasting, having had plenty of time to shift themoney
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
I didn't watch CBS News before Bari Weiss got there. I doubt you did either. But the mainstream media moving right really does matter, because of the mainstream media's collective powers of 1. agenda-setting and 2. framing. newrepublic.com/article/2016...
The Mainstream Media Is Moving Right. Here’s What We Can Do About It.
At The Washington Post, CBS, and maybe CNN, the trend line is terrible. But liberals do have the power to reverse these trends.
newrepublic.com
ryanlcooper.com
if there’s anything Nazis are prone to it is internal feuding!
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I liked this piece a lot. bunch of moms going “well I’m going to try my hand at this amateur legal history business, turns out it’s quite easy to prove you at least are full of shit” slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Volunteer Moms Poring Over Archives to Prove Clarence Thomas Wrong
What they’ve found directly contradicts the Supreme Court’s conclusions.
slate.com
ryanlcooper.com
I'm sorry, she doesn't even have terminal cancer, I can't support that
premthakker.bsky.social
🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.
🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.
ryanlcooper.com
it is funny but also makes some sense. racism is going to have obvious appeal to hideous losers who otherwise lack any sense of self worth bsky.app/profile/dark...
darklighter.bsky.social
Every photo in this article:
Where the fuck is your chin?
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nickfleisher.bsky.social
Kaepernick is one of the few people who was thoroughly, successfully cancelled, by the NFL and team owners, nearly a decade ago
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Many focusing on the hubristic blasphemy of “we’re saving God”—and fair enough—but also, Kaepernick?

All he did was exercise his 1A right to expression in a calm, quiet, unobtrusive way. And he last played Jan. 1, 2017!

How lacking in real problems that this was ever a grievance, let alone still.
atrupar.com
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
ryanlcooper.com
yeah, it's most young conservatives, but the more institutional affiliation they have the more Nazi they are bsky.app/profile/cmwd...
cmwd.bsky.social
I wish it were contained to just staffers but anecdotally it seems almost all young conservatives are nazi adjacent at best.
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and I think this is a big part of the story bsky.app/profile/ryan...
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more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold
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stevenmatheson.bsky.social
Yep. I work in an analytical chemistry lab that routinely tests these types of products via LC/MS/MS. You'd be shocked at the amount of heavy metals in food/packaging.