Daniel Malmer
@malmer.com
PhD student researching media, political communication, and extremism. Software developer turned computational social scientist.
"Big Tech companies, and especially Meta, seem to be anticipating this possibility and have spent the past months building relationships with far-right MEPs…”
Meta, Microsoft and Google are all coordinating with the European far right in order to dismantle EU digital laws designed to protect citizens, according to a new report.
The recent 🇺🇸NSS strategy outlined regime change plans to support the European far right.
A public-private partnership.
The recent 🇺🇸NSS strategy outlined regime change plans to support the European far right.
A public-private partnership.
US tech giants allying with European far-right to strip back EU rules
Amid rising EU-US tensions, a new report has accused Big Tech of courting far-right MEPs to weaken the EU's regulatory power on AI and data.
www.brusselstimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:50 AM
"Big Tech companies, and especially Meta, seem to be anticipating this possibility and have spent the past months building relationships with far-right MEPs…”
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BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court
James Rodden, who the Observer identified last year as the operator of the account that routinely posted hateful statements, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org
January 14, 2026 at 12:43 AM
BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
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🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026
We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026
We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
January 6, 2026 at 9:32 AM
🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026
We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026
We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
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This seems like a good policy and I’m going to try to adopt it. Don’t inadvertently be part of the tech bro war on humanity by sharing stuff you don’t know within reasonable doubt to be real.
I don't reshare videos of current events from accounts of people who 1) didn't film it themselves or 2) aren't a news sources because there's frankly so much AI, and it sucks.
January 13, 2026 at 10:39 PM
This seems like a good policy and I’m going to try to adopt it. Don’t inadvertently be part of the tech bro war on humanity by sharing stuff you don’t know within reasonable doubt to be real.
are we the baddies dot gif
“.. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo, 'Where's your papers?' Is that what we've come to?"
January 13, 2026 at 10:34 PM
are we the baddies dot gif
I met Scott at a book signing in 1992 (I was the only one there) and exchanged a few emails with him. I don't know when he took his right turn into grievance politics. I'm always a little sad when someone like Scott dies because there's always a slim chance they'll turn themselves around.
January 13, 2026 at 4:43 PM
I met Scott at a book signing in 1992 (I was the only one there) and exchanged a few emails with him. I don't know when he took his right turn into grievance politics. I'm always a little sad when someone like Scott dies because there's always a slim chance they'll turn themselves around.
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Continues to age well.
Guarantee you that Musk eventually posts a pic of himself in a Nazi uniform or with a Hitler mustache. “Ironically,” of course.
This isn't just a lie, it's pure, uncut Great Replacement Theory. Straight white supremacist propaganda. Elon is full fascist.
December 20, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Continues to age well.
When I was younger, I thought police unions and FOP existed to negotiate fair salaries for police and things like that, but it turns out they mostly exist to run interference for police who kill civilians. If you think ACAB, that goes triple for FOP.
Meanwhile the Minnesota FOP literally released a statement saying "We stand arm in arm with ICE"
Local PD don't give a single fuck about regular citizens.
Local PD don't give a single fuck about regular citizens.
white people desperately trying to protect policing as they notice the rising consensus for abolishing ICE
January 12, 2026 at 10:09 PM
When I was younger, I thought police unions and FOP existed to negotiate fair salaries for police and things like that, but it turns out they mostly exist to run interference for police who kill civilians. If you think ACAB, that goes triple for FOP.
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It's funny because I've lost count of the reddit posts where angry young male writers complain about bias against male content but then also admit that they don't read books.
"I get my inspiration from video games bc reading takes too long" is a thing I've read more than once.
"I get my inspiration from video games bc reading takes too long" is a thing I've read more than once.
January 11, 2026 at 5:23 PM
It's funny because I've lost count of the reddit posts where angry young male writers complain about bias against male content but then also admit that they don't read books.
"I get my inspiration from video games bc reading takes too long" is a thing I've read more than once.
"I get my inspiration from video games bc reading takes too long" is a thing I've read more than once.
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Two months away from the launch of my book, Making the Liberal Media!
Events scheduled this spring for: New York (NY), Tuscaloosa (AL), Berkeley (CA), and Davis (CA).
Give a shout if you'd like to review the book or would like me to come talk about it?
cup.columbia.edu/book/making-...
Events scheduled this spring for: New York (NY), Tuscaloosa (AL), Berkeley (CA), and Davis (CA).
Give a shout if you'd like to review the book or would like me to come talk about it?
cup.columbia.edu/book/making-...
Making the Liberal Media | Columbia University Press
Conservatives have disagreed about many things, but they have long been united by the belief that the mainstream—or “liberal”—media is biased against... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
January 10, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Two months away from the launch of my book, Making the Liberal Media!
Events scheduled this spring for: New York (NY), Tuscaloosa (AL), Berkeley (CA), and Davis (CA).
Give a shout if you'd like to review the book or would like me to come talk about it?
cup.columbia.edu/book/making-...
Events scheduled this spring for: New York (NY), Tuscaloosa (AL), Berkeley (CA), and Davis (CA).
Give a shout if you'd like to review the book or would like me to come talk about it?
cup.columbia.edu/book/making-...
The morning news is sanewashing Trump’s Greenland insanity by describing it as “Trump’s proposal to take control of Greenland” rather than “plans to invade” or “go to war with” an ally.
January 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
The morning news is sanewashing Trump’s Greenland insanity by describing it as “Trump’s proposal to take control of Greenland” rather than “plans to invade” or “go to war with” an ally.
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This headline should read:
"World's richest man decides to start charging for his CSAM factory"
He did NOT turn it off, he realised it is profitable
"World's richest man decides to start charging for his CSAM factory"
He did NOT turn it off, he realised it is profitable
Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:02 AM
This headline should read:
"World's richest man decides to start charging for his CSAM factory"
He did NOT turn it off, he realised it is profitable
"World's richest man decides to start charging for his CSAM factory"
He did NOT turn it off, he realised it is profitable
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in case you don’t speak Anglican, this means “if you work for ICE you are going to hell” which is both based and theologically sound
"I urge any who are involved in the administration of the current immigration enforcement regime at any level to seek the counsel of their clergy, given my urgent pastoral concern for the moral and spiritual injury that their participation is causing them." - Bp. Rob Price of Dallas, 1/1/2026
January 7, 2026 at 9:15 PM
in case you don’t speak Anglican, this means “if you work for ICE you are going to hell” which is both based and theologically sound
A lot of people on the right were weeping about Ashli Babbitt yesterday. Check the killer's social media.
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 6:04 PM
A lot of people on the right were weeping about Ashli Babbitt yesterday. Check the killer's social media.
It’s hard to pin down the right’s concept of “person,” but it’s roughly a single cell through birth, and then a white Christian male starting when they can whoop their daddy.
Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.
January 7, 2026 at 11:24 AM
It’s hard to pin down the right’s concept of “person,” but it’s roughly a single cell through birth, and then a white Christian male starting when they can whoop their daddy.
It’s particularly ironic since the “intellectual dark web” love Plato.
It's official, according to administrators at Texas A&M, Plato is no longer part of the Western canon and must be removed.
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 7, 2026 at 1:04 AM
It’s particularly ironic since the “intellectual dark web” love Plato.
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I know people believe that the Democrats are in the minority and can't do anything. I would encourage you to read about how, in fact, minority parties can be disruptive. If they want to be. You don't even have to read. You can just see how the Republicans acted during the Obama years.
January 6, 2026 at 11:46 PM
I know people believe that the Democrats are in the minority and can't do anything. I would encourage you to read about how, in fact, minority parties can be disruptive. If they want to be. You don't even have to read. You can just see how the Republicans acted during the Obama years.
I went through what appears to be the personal Twitter account of the late Rep Doug LaMalfa (it's mutuals with his official account and was listed in a news article as his), and I was prepared for the far-right accounts that he followed, but not the explicit porn ones.
January 6, 2026 at 10:19 PM
I went through what appears to be the personal Twitter account of the late Rep Doug LaMalfa (it's mutuals with his official account and was listed in a news article as his), and I was prepared for the far-right accounts that he followed, but not the explicit porn ones.
The city comes by about once a year to knock down the beaver family's dam, and it's a little upsetting until I remind myself that they've been building dams for millions of years and will likely continue to do so long after humans are gone.
January 6, 2026 at 9:44 PM
The city comes by about once a year to knock down the beaver family's dam, and it's a little upsetting until I remind myself that they've been building dams for millions of years and will likely continue to do so long after humans are gone.
One of my pettiest complaints about LLMs is that they'll tell you that the Bradbury Building was in Double Indemnity. The Bradbury Building's atrium is open to the glass ceiling, so the office from the film wouldn't be possible.
January 6, 2026 at 8:38 PM
One of my pettiest complaints about LLMs is that they'll tell you that the Bradbury Building was in Double Indemnity. The Bradbury Building's atrium is open to the glass ceiling, so the office from the film wouldn't be possible.
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this is also why i suspect the GOP is likely to get worse, not better with time
as the boomer wing of the GOP pass on, you get more of the racist types in control
as the boomer wing of the GOP pass on, you get more of the racist types in control
January 6, 2026 at 4:40 PM
this is also why i suspect the GOP is likely to get worse, not better with time
as the boomer wing of the GOP pass on, you get more of the racist types in control
as the boomer wing of the GOP pass on, you get more of the racist types in control
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I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.
January 6, 2026 at 7:17 AM
I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.
"Sam was getting advice as trustworthy as a Reddit comment, but it was packaged like he was talking with an empathetic doctor."
I've had several cases where ChatGPT is very wrong and appears to be getting the info from Reddit.
I've had several cases where ChatGPT is very wrong and appears to be getting the info from Reddit.
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM
"Sam was getting advice as trustworthy as a Reddit comment, but it was packaged like he was talking with an empathetic doctor."
I've had several cases where ChatGPT is very wrong and appears to be getting the info from Reddit.
I've had several cases where ChatGPT is very wrong and appears to be getting the info from Reddit.
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The fascists may be extremely online, but they are certainly not good at Actual Online Things
January 5, 2026 at 12:33 PM
The fascists may be extremely online, but they are certainly not good at Actual Online Things