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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3h

The killing of a Mexican mayor leaves President Claudia Sheinbaum on the defensive, as frustration mounts over criminal groups’ relentless violence.

A Mayor’s Assassination Reignites Mexico’s Debate Over Confronting Cartels

President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico won’t return to the violent war on drug traffickers some opponents say is necessary.

on.wsj.com

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 5h

Remember: Elon Musk saw a man distributing child sexual abuse material on Twitter, and insisted that the team restore that man's account on the service, and begin *paying that person to be on the service*. The person who distributed the abuse material is still on there, and Musk follows him.

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Jaec from Tw @jaec.bsky.social · 15h

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 16h

I realize we’re in a post-truth environment, but: I cannot understand how the fact that the platform run by Changpeng Zhao—the crypto billionaire recently pardoned by Trump—was serving to money-launder for Hamas, Al Qaeda, and ISIS, has not taken on greater salience.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 16h

In contemporary authoritarian regimes, they don’t ban dissenting voices—they have regime affiliated oligarchs buy up the big outlets and force out opposition voices.

Anyway:

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 17h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Jaec from Tw @jaec.bsky.social · 19h

Or maybe this is another example of "my racism is backfiring in a way I couldn't have predicted."

Jaec from Tw @jaec.bsky.social · 19h

(Or that if Trump did in fact raise the issue while campaigning, what made her think he is a very, very honest person who never lies or betrays.)

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

Corporates going from “no impact” on earnings calls to “please help” is the ultimate sentiment shift.

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · 19h

CBS bribes Trump w $16M to settle bogus claim they edited a Harris interview to make her look better (while not affecting the election one bit)

fast fwd: CBS gets bought out by rightwing billionaire hack, actually edits interview w Trump to make him look better

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

".. Toward the end of the interview, Trump responds .. telling Norah O'Donnell, '.. I'd rather not have you ask the question.'

".. That exchange was included in the full transcript but was omitted from the extended video on YouTube."

@axios.com $PSKY
www.axios.com/2025/11/03/t...

Dems want FCC probe of "60 Minutes" omission of Trump's Binance pardon exchange

A note said the extended version of the interview had been "condensed for clarity."

www.axios.com

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 20h

China is moving toward banning them, and the company has already said it would redesign them, how much more investigating does it take to determine that not opening in a crash and burning people alive is a design defect?

CNBC @cnbc.com · 20h

Tesla faces widening federal probe into door handle safety issues

Elon Musk's automaker faces a widening probe concerning alleged safety defects with the company's flush-mounted, electronic door handles.

cnb.cx

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Jaec from Tw @jaec.bsky.social · 20h

The relevant question here is: what the hell does she think were the indicators, pre-election, that made her conclude Trump wants to help the country with things like food insecurity?

Propaganda is very effective.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 20h

Longtime Trump supporter: “I think deep down he wants to help the country with things like food insecurity.”

(Trump enacted the largest cuts to SNAP in history a few months ago)

Now says she regrets voting for Trump and wishes a Democrat were president to “protect benefits [Trump] wants to cut.”

Hannah's mom, Betty, a 63-year-old recent retiree who is a caretaker for her daughter and a longtime Trump supporter, said she is losing confidence in the president she once supported amid the shutdown fight.
"I think deep down he wants to help the country with things like food insecurity," she said. "But now he is busy out of the country and demolishing the White House. I know that is being paid for with private funds, but those could be used to help people."
"It all seems very selfish," she added.
Betty Szretter said she now regrets voting for Trump in 2024 and would prefer a Democrat in the White House to "protect benefits he [Trump] wants to cut."

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 20h

arXiv is changing its submission rules because it's getting spammed with AI slop "research"

www.404media.co/arxiv-change...

arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers

Cornell University’s academic paper repository will no longer accept Computer Science papers still under review.

www.404media.co

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Jaec from Tw @jaec.bsky.social · 20h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Binance helped Trump crypto company make billions before president pardoned its boss

Now that President Donald Trump has pardoned Chanpeng Zhao, the world’s largest trading crypto platform is likely to make a comeback in the U.S. following the 2023 ban

www.independent.co.uk

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Jaec from Tw @jaec.bsky.social · 20h

I know nothing about the U.S. political system, but if a president (or ex-president, when their term ends) can't be held accountable for things like this, my guess is that you don't live in a democracy but in an autocracy.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 21h

President Donald Trump said he knows nothing about Binance founder Changpeng Zhao — or that company’s recent involvement in a cryptocurrency venture linked to Trump’s family — despite granting him a pardon last month.

Full details: cnb.cx/4qH8xID

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21h

Investors either believe Tesla being the top company selling humanoid robots and competing with Uber/Waymo on robotaxis is a much bigger business than leading the transition from gasoline fueled cars to EVs, or that it’s a meme stock.

Which do you think it is?

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 21h

I have no idea how "superintelligence" pilled Zuckerberg is but the strategy, to me, looks like supercharging of what Facebook's business has always been: more surveillance, more targeting, more ads

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22h

Meta is essentially letting advertisers spam its own platforms. Because it costs essentially nothing to make shitty variations of GenAI ads, companies can make hundreds or thousands of variations of ads and run them all on the platforms. The ineffective ones simply aren't shown to lots of people

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22h

whenever I point out that propaganda works really well and is really effective, there's inevitably people who say "but there's more sources of news than ever online," as if it's easy peasy for barely educated Americans to dissect which source of info is being truthful in an ocean of bullshit

Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 1d

A large majority of U.S. adults now get news digitally, but nondigital news consumers are less likely to say they extremely often or often encounter inaccurate news.

Read more on Americans’ views of information accuracy and distinguishing truth from fiction:

Many Americans say they often come across inaccurate news – and have a hard time knowing what’s true

Those who report often encountering inaccurate news are more likely than those who rarely or never do to say it’s hard to know what is true (59% vs. 31%).

www.pewresearch.org

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404 Media @404media.co · 22h

Why are we all seeing more AI ads on social media?

"You can simply publish tons of different versions of low-effort bullshit, and largely people will only see the ones that perform well," @jasonkoebler.bsky.social writes.

Let's get into it:

The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You

"Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."

www.404media.co

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Jaec from Tw @jaec.bsky.social · 23h

A couple of years ago:

Distributor, newspapers drop 'Dilbert' comic strip after creator's racist rant

Distributor, newspapers drop 'Dilbert' comic strip after creator's racist rant

The comic's creator, Scott Adams, said a recent opinion poll changed his mind about "helping Black Americans."

www.npr.org

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Dana Hull @danahull.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: NHTSA has sent Tesla a 10-page letter asking for more information about entrapment issues:

My infant was flushed, diaphoretic, and crying while stuck in his car seat with an indoor temperature exceeding 104 degrees Fahrenheit,” the Tesla owner wrote to NHTSA.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tesla Owner Complaints Rise in US Probe Over Inoperative Doors

The US auto safety regulator investigating whether certain Tesla Inc. door handles are defective received more complaints within days of initiating its probe from consumers who were unable to get into...

www.bloomberg.com

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

The dictator granted a friendly interview to the compromised media organization that bribed him. They edited out his most incendiary comments and presented a sanitized version of the dear leader to sell him to a nation wildly disapproving of his abuse of the rule of law.

- Trump on CBS, summarized

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Jaec from Tw @jaec.bsky.social · 1d

So, it cost less than it should because of the president's lies?

This is so fishy.

Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 1d

The maker of Tylenol and Johnson’s Baby products is being sold for $40 billion.

The deal comes after shares plummeted when U.S. health officials claimed, without evidence, that the active ingredient in Tylenol was linked to autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...

Kimberly-Clark Agrees to Buy Kenvue, Maker of Tylenol, for $40 Billion

www.nytimes.com

Jaec from Tw @jaec.bsky.social · 1d

yes.

Jaec from Tw @jaec.bsky.social · 1d

He wants dead migrants.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d

Q: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?"

Trump: "No. I think they haven't gone far enough”

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

the remarks on testing nuclear weapons are terrifying… Trump asserts that all these countries (China, Russia) are testing nuclear weapons & news just hasn’t reported it yet… 😩https://www.cbsnews.com/news/read-full-transcript-norah-odonnell-60-minutes-interview-with-president-trump/

Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here.

www.cbsnews.com

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