Saahil Desai
@saahildesai.bsky.social
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There is no right wing civil war. The groypers are just winning. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Nick Fuentes Spiral
The reckoning with the white-nationalist influencer’s rise is only getting messier.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
There is no right wing civil war. The groypers are just winning. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
This story is *really* that good www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This story is *really* that good www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
"Get ready for a day when your car’s technology expenses are another line item on the credit-card statement, right next to the Netflix subscription." Good one by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Dude, Where’s My CarPlay?
The auto industry is at war with Apple.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Get ready for a day when your car’s technology expenses are another line item on the credit-card statement, right next to the Netflix subscription." Good one by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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We are nearing the end stage of the groyperfication project www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Tucker Carlson Opens the Door for Nick Fuentes
The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We are nearing the end stage of the groyperfication project www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Haven't been able to stop thinking about this story by @kait.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
A ‘Death Train’ Is Haunting South Florida
The Brightline has been hailed as the future of high-speed rail in the United States, but it has one big, unignorable problem.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Haven't been able to stop thinking about this story by @kait.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
A decade ago, Jack Posobiec was a Game of Thrones fan blogger who then helped mainstream Pizzagate. Now he has the ear of the White House and was in a consideration for an NSC job earlier this year 👀 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Jack Posobiec Is MAGA’s Most Important Influencer
Charlie Kirk’s death left a void on the right. Posobiec looks better positioned than anyone to fill it.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A decade ago, Jack Posobiec was a Game of Thrones fan blogger who then helped mainstream Pizzagate. Now he has the ear of the White House and was in a consideration for an NSC job earlier this year 👀 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
"With Tesla’s newest cars, so many of Musk’s decisions are now catching up to him all at once." Good one by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Tesla
Elon Musk’s embrace of Donald Trump continues to haunt his car company.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"With Tesla’s newest cars, so many of Musk’s decisions are now catching up to him all at once." Good one by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Wrote about the new attempt to reimagine America as a sort of ethnonationalist blood and soil state that's starting to catch traction www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Are You a ‘Heritage American’?
Why some on the right want to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War
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October 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Wrote about the new attempt to reimagine America as a sort of ethnonationalist blood and soil state that's starting to catch traction www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
What's safer, Waymo's 5,000 pound robotaxis or ChatGPT's interactive text box? I wrote about how Waymo offers a lesson to the rest of the AI industry. As one expert told me: “I like to tell people that if Waymo worked as well as ChatGPT, they’d be dead." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Move Fast and Break Nothing
Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.
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October 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
What's safer, Waymo's 5,000 pound robotaxis or ChatGPT's interactive text box? I wrote about how Waymo offers a lesson to the rest of the AI industry. As one expert told me: “I like to tell people that if Waymo worked as well as ChatGPT, they’d be dead." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
"Forget the infinite scroll. We’re headed toward the infinite conversation." Great one by @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Chatbait Is Taking Over the Internet
How chatbots keep you talking
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September 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"Forget the infinite scroll. We’re headed toward the infinite conversation." Great one by @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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I would say that I contributed to the pumpkin spice discourse, but there isn't one, which is sort of the point! www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
A Terrible Week for Pumpkin Spice
Tariffs are coming for the flavor of fall.
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August 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I would say that I contributed to the pumpkin spice discourse, but there isn't one, which is sort of the point! www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
"This year, among other innovations, we will be graced with pumpkin-spice-dipped waffle cones, pumpkin-spice protein shakes, and pumpkin-spice spreadable cheese. That there are still products left to pumpkin spice-ify is a testament to human ingenuity" www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
A Terrible Week for Pumpkin Spice
Tariffs are coming for the flavor of fall.
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August 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"This year, among other innovations, we will be graced with pumpkin-spice-dipped waffle cones, pumpkin-spice protein shakes, and pumpkin-spice spreadable cheese. That there are still products left to pumpkin spice-ify is a testament to human ingenuity" www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Quite something to see this all laid out in such stark detail. Excellent reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social.
Gift link here because everyone should read this: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Gift link here because everyone should read this: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the USAID Fire Sale
Around the world, defibrillators, motorbikes, and water towers are being donated, sold, or simply abandoned.
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August 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Quite something to see this all laid out in such stark detail. Excellent reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social.
Gift link here because everyone should read this: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Gift link here because everyone should read this: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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"Fuentes has said that Hitler was 'really fucking cool' and posited that 'we need to go back to burning women alive.'"
Nick Fuentes, who makes Laura Loomer look like a model of restraint, has 730k followers on X, acolytes at DHS, and has dined with Donald Trump
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Nick Fuentes, who makes Laura Loomer look like a model of restraint, has 730k followers on X, acolytes at DHS, and has dined with Donald Trump
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Is There a Line That Nick Fuentes Won’t Cross?
No matter how far the 27-year-old influencer pushes his bigotry, his influence continues to rise.
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August 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"Fuentes has said that Hitler was 'really fucking cool' and posited that 'we need to go back to burning women alive.'"
Nick Fuentes, who makes Laura Loomer look like a model of restraint, has 730k followers on X, acolytes at DHS, and has dined with Donald Trump
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Nick Fuentes, who makes Laura Loomer look like a model of restraint, has 730k followers on X, acolytes at DHS, and has dined with Donald Trump
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Sooo… you pretty much just have to read this, by @michaelscherer.bsky.social:
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‘Make McCarthy Great Again’
Laura Loomer has become the Joseph McCarthy of the Trump era.
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August 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Sooo… you pretty much just have to read this, by @michaelscherer.bsky.social:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"The changes are so fundamental that Ford is retooling the assembly line itself—the very thing Henry Ford used to get the world motoring a century ago." Good one by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The American Car Industry Can’t Go On Like This
Ford is taking drastic steps to compete with China’s cheap EVs. Even that might not be enough.
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August 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"The changes are so fundamental that Ford is retooling the assembly line itself—the very thing Henry Ford used to get the world motoring a century ago." Good one by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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When Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Emmylou Harris, and other 1970s music legends needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad, Fred Walecki, was there. My love song to him in @theatlantic.com September issue: bit.ly/45eZIfa
My Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock Gods
When the greatest musicians of the 1970s needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad was there.
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August 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
When Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Emmylou Harris, and other 1970s music legends needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad, Fred Walecki, was there. My love song to him in @theatlantic.com September issue: bit.ly/45eZIfa
In which the East Tennessee chapter of the Proud Boys asks @alibreland.bsky.social to send nudes www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?
Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown has left the extremist group with little to do.
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August 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
In which the East Tennessee chapter of the Proud Boys asks @alibreland.bsky.social to send nudes www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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What's the only thing worse than out-of-season tomatoes? *Expensive* out-of-season tomatoes. Great one by @rtsugar.bsky.social
What's the only thing worse than out-of-season tomatoes? *Expensive* out-of-season tomatoes. Great one by @rtsugar.bsky.social
Tomato Season Is Different This Year
Come fall, Americans will once again be stuck with flavorless grocery-store tomatoes. Because of tariffs, they’ll also be more expensive.
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July 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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What's the only thing worse than out-of-season tomatoes? *Expensive* out-of-season tomatoes. Great one by @rtsugar.bsky.social
What's the only thing worse than out-of-season tomatoes? *Expensive* out-of-season tomatoes. Great one by @rtsugar.bsky.social
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On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists. Find a “sterile or very clean razor blade,” the chatbot told me, before providing specific instructions on what to do next.
My latest for @theatlantic.com:
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My latest for @theatlantic.com:
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ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship
OpenAI’s chatbot also said “Hail Satan.”
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July 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists. Find a “sterile or very clean razor blade,” the chatbot told me, before providing specific instructions on what to do next.
My latest for @theatlantic.com:
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My latest for @theatlantic.com:
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"On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists." Such a disturbing story by @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship
OpenAI’s chatbot also said “Hail Satan.”
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July 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists." Such a disturbing story by @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
"Trump is essentially claiming that he got Coke to agree to switch its sugar … for sugar." Good one by @nicholasflorko.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Make Coca-Cola Great Again
Trump says Coke has agreed to make its soda with real sugar. Why is MAHA celebrating?
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July 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"Trump is essentially claiming that he got Coke to agree to switch its sugar … for sugar." Good one by @nicholasflorko.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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July 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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An absolutely bonkers story by @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
July 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
An absolutely bonkers story by @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...