U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

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Thanks to the team at @savoirdevenir.bsky.social for organizing such an exceptional conference. It is without exaggeration that I will be digesting all the wonderful discussions for a while.

Getting lost in statistics about numbers and semantics about ideology misses real issue: This is no "grassroots" movement. It is externally funded and organised. Its network ALL have X blue ticks and Musk beamed in to incite violence. Stop the dark money and astroturfing. The rest will soon wither.

Lots of foreign examples popping up but we have had experiences like this in America before — the McCarthy Era, World War I, the Japanese internment during WWII. Never went well for the rest of civil liberties to put it mildly.

Ominous

I have just done a quick analysis of what the US media landscape would look like should Paramount SD's bid to takeover Warner Bros. Discovery go ahead. Paramount SD's market share would sore from ~10% of the $223B market to 26%. 1/

At @leadstories.com we've been debunking a stream of these. Seems like a network operating out of Vietnam churning out dozens of versions of the same stories using the same AI prompts but with different celebrities and locations inserted.

Make no mistake, the global turn toward authoritarianism is heavily oil-funded. drilled.media/news/casey-m...

This is a very real trap that journalists fall into: because a source or newsmaker is nice to you, you treat them favorably.

It’s grooming. You’ve been groomed.

The reason Charlie Kirk is being lionized by so many journalists is simple: he was very good at cultivating journalists and it seems a lot of journalists don't seem to understand the concept of being cultivated as a pet reporter in exchange for scoops or leads. They think he was their friend.

The big problem is that a large swath of America had never heard of Kirk until yesterday. Every piece in major media about him is an introduction for many, and so conferring the sense of sainthood on him in the long run creates permission for the dangerous response I fear is coming.

Bear in mind this is the same paper that once went with “Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel …” in a profile piece. Different standards for how nuanced your obituary gets to be after your death; I wonder what the difference between Kirk and Brown is? 🤔

I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.

The procedural drama about Trump trying to change the Dept of Defense back to the Dept of War is so funny. Never in my life (and history since it changed its name to defense) has that department not been at war.

"Maintenir la supériorité évidente et innée de l'Occident."

- Alex Karp, PDG de Palantir, interrogé sur la mission de l'entreprise, février 2025.

Good history lesson in this thread!

This is an example where the problem is not so much the capabilities of LLMs as it is the fact that we have independently normalized a widespread culture of acceptable lying

Assurance chômage, jours fériés, budget, services publics : le gouvernement fait le choix du passage en force.

L’ensemble des organisations syndicales se retrouvent le 1er septembre pour organiser la mobilisation. Les travailleurs et les travailleuses ne se laisseront pas faire!

House Speaker Mike Johnson said if lawmakers wanted Epstein records released, they could have called for that during Joe Biden’s presidency. What did Democrats say before this year about releasing Epstein records or investigating the case?

A good fact check. I do think it is a bit generous with “Democrats” which implied as a whole versus times the article says “some Republicans”. In the article and the sources, it is clearly some Democrats consistently bringing it up through your timeline.

This was a great discussion ! The full episode is perfect for a nice walk or commute.

Honestly guys if you're still paying for Spotify it's time to move on. You're literally paying for AI warfare:

Spotify's Daniel Ek leads €600 million investment in AI military "defence" company share.google/8QTP4eriOoxd...

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(“This” in the post is referring to long history of right wing media dominance and why the left can’t just magically counter it)

They are amazing. I take them for granted now.