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Lora Kolodny

@lorak.bsky.social

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reporter at cnbc.com. email: [email protected] - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla (some climate tech startups). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · Nov 11

I report on Elon Musk & his companies at CNBC. If you work/ed for him and want to share your POV on his becoming "co-president," or anything else- let's talk on or off the record. Happy to answer q's about working w/ reporters. On signal: lorakolodny.55 (or DM me here and lmk how to get in touch.)

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 23m

a man in a suit and tie is smiling

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 50m

Thinking more and more about Dead Internet Theory - especially every time I see someone who means well posting gen-AI slop by mistake... www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

Is most of the content on the internet fake? Here’s what the dead internet theory really means – and why we should be warier of how we’re manipulated for profit and political gain.

www.unsw.edu.au

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 58m

"....is it not worth asking why a pious man would dream of slashing welfare programs and firing government workers? Why he would be so obsessed with the free market that he 'even named his dog Milton for Milton Friedman'?"

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1h

this thread is so valuable. I used to cover edtech and a lot of these issues were true even just pertaining to SaaS in schools.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19h

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1h

one that provides vampire slayer training in the hours when you are closed i hope?

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1h

"Vought is convinced [he's] fighting a noble war against a vast leftist conspiracy that has supposedly taken over the [US] & is destroying the nation. He dreams of a comprehensive 'counter-revolution' and believes any measure...is justified" by @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
steady.page/en/democracy...

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1h

Also - specifically - Marc Andreessen, who granted him an interview, among other venture capitalists who embraced the guy and also funded Substack.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1h

If we had internet gatekeepers, guys who wrote for Nazi sites wouldn't be writing about the need for internet gatekeepers.

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1h

Politico is recommending a column by a guy who literally blogged for Richard Spencer's original alt-right site--but who has since been rehabilitated as a very serious political commentator--on why we need to bring back "internet gatekeepers."

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1h

retired implies post career. would you have taken a different path previously?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Me to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Comey and James and (probably imminent) Bolton prosecutions

"It doesn’t matter what your politics are. If you say he’s stupid, which he is, if you say he is wrong, which he is, if you say he’s a criminal or sleezy, which he is ... then you’re his enemy.”

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 2h

release me - inara george open.spotify.com/track/7x7G2v... (sunday morning acoustic sunrise vibes)

Release Me

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 2h

house of cards

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

JD Vance: "We want to make sure that they skyrocketing healthcare costs of the Biden administration start to level off and hopefully come down."

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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 1d

Low Earth orbit is filling up. Not just with #satellites, but also with dangerous, tumbling debris. As they collide, they multiply. If we do nothing, satellites will crash, creating chaos on Earth below. Meet the people trying to prevent this disaster. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 9h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2h

“Salis told the Guardian that Hungary’s use of the term ‘antifa’ was a way of ‘stigmatising whoever dissents, whoever doesn’t agree with the regime’. She added: ‘If being anti-fascist means dissenting with his regime, of course I am an anti-fascist.’”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists

Netherlands and Hungary move towards designation as draft resolution reportedly backed by 79 MEPs in 20 countries

www.theguardian.com

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 5h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14h

Ah yes, cutting teen pregnancy prevention while ending federal right to an abortion…

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14h

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.