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nicky woolf

@nickywoolf.bsky.social

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Former Guardian internet reporter, now making investigative podcasts Finding Q (into qanon), The Sound (into Havana Syndrome), Fur & Loathing (into a gas attack on a furry convention in 2014) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fur-loathing/id1739333983

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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 1d

good, thoughtful stuff as always from @jonnelledge.bsky.social

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

"We’ve talked a lot about how X will bring about the end of the world, and it might. I just worry we should talk more about the way the internet is systematically stripping us of our capacity to feel empathy, too."

Written about how we all need to be nicer to each other (especially me)

The Two Minutes Hate

Some thoughts on what pile-ons are doing to our brains, because ouch. Also: everything objectively insane about Kash Patel’s “challenge coin”; and meet “ratzilla”.

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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 1d

"cash in on their intellectual property" !?!??

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

This isn’t even close to a plan! Why is this being reported as a “five year plan” when it’s a series of vague ideas?

OpenAI is working on new revenue lines, debt partnerships and further fundraising as part of a five-year plan to make good on the more than $1tn in spending it has pledged to create world-leading artificial intelligence.
OpenAI is planning on deals to serve governments and businesses with more bespoke products, creating more income from new shopping tools, and new sales from its video creation service Sora and AI agents, said multiple people familiar with the start-up’s efforts.
These people said it is exploring “creative” plans to raise new debt that can help it build out its AI infrastructure, while considering becoming a supplier of computing resources via its data centre initiative Stargate.
It is also weighing ways to cash in on its intellectual property by developing new AI infrastructure, making forays into online advertising and plans to launch consumer hardware products, including a new AI-powered personal assistant device, with former Apple star designer Jony Ive.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

“But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 2d

"democracy dies in darkness" was a promise

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 2d

oh hell yeah

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 5d

there's never been anyone like him. just world-changingly brilliant

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 5d

it can't even touch it. it's like - it's like - if anyone can't understand *why* it's because they don't know what makes humans human. and that's sad for them

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 5d

something like that bsky.app/profile/infi...

Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 5d

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 5d

AI can't even tell me why I'm crying right now

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 5d

this book is a tremendous piece to show any AI evangelist. because there is no way, no way on earth, any LLM could write this. I will consider my entire career a success if I ever write a single sentence like he did

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 5d

apropos of nothing I'm rereading Reaper Man and it is gobsmacking to me that Terry Pratchett and Donald Trump are the same species existing in the same universe. like, I don't know why this is what brought it home to me, but. jesus christ what happened to us

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 7d

Taylor Greene continuing to execute the extremely rare "reverse Fetterman"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

CNN: Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans have no healthcare solutions. What do you say to her?

REP. PETE SESSIONS: She needs a couple more years in office and she would learn that we do have ideas on the table

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 9d

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 9d

omg

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Ghoulius von Klaproth @klaproth.bsky.social · 11d

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 10d

the @bsky.app team know that suspending @erinbiba.bsky.social kills this place stone dead right? they can't possible be so blind as to not know what this is doing

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10d

My story is now up: www.economist.com/united-state...

What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism

The worst excesses seem designed to produce content

www.economist.com

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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 10d

that escalated quickly

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 10d

lmao

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 11d

this is delightful

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 11d

a Wikipedia editor with the username Vigilantcosmicpenguin explained, "I contacted Brian David Gilbert with a request for freely licensed photographs. He delivered."

gilbert poses after his pizzas fall on the floor

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 11d

we only recognise one King here. and it's Alfred the Great

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 11d

the t-shirts have been misread, they're just massive fans of the King's Arms on tooley st

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 11d

isn't the king's army already just, like, yknow. the army

Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 11d

Have to say, this is quite weird

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 12d

earlier @jamesrball.com said they look like something you'd see painted on the shoulder of a warhammer 40k space marine and now I can't unsee it

Mark @dcwritermark.bsky.social · 12d

Kash Patel’s challenge coin looks like a heavy metal poster in a 14-year-old’s bedroom.