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Who Targets Me in 2025: What we’ve been working on New tools, UK electoral policy proposals, a book, and our plans for tracking digital campaigns worldwide in 2026

Not exactly a "Who Targets Me Wrapped", but a bit of a round up of what we've been working on over the last few months of 2025 (and are looking forward to in 2026):
fulldisclosure.whotargets.me/p/who-target...

The richest man in the world nodding along to @cumlasagna1

omg have we finally achieved Adtech Bluesky???? where can I find it???

Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

me (trying to sound normal): ah, i just help look for lost cats sometimes 🥰

also me (holding a $1000 thermal hunting scope irresponsibly bought specifically to find cats):

I mean privacy aside (and this is /me/ saying "privacy aside" y'all), this sounds like literally the worst coffee meeting in the history of coffee meetings. I don't know any of these people and I know everything I need to know about them from this paragraph and I am already miserable by proxy.

damn,,,,,,, way 2 brag 😭🥵

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

and it’s so *articulate* about what it says I’m feeling!!!! Surely that counts!

it’s just so much easier to outsource any kind of mildly uncomfortable introspection to a robot who can do your soul-searching for you!!!

I don't think there's much use in asking users of a social network to behave differently — platforms are too big for norms like that, people mostly aren't posting to debate — but similar charges of meanness/insularity accompanied Twitter's rise, and arguably described a reason people *liked* it!

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Which means that Musk's attempts to control and manipulate his A.I. may ultimately work against his interests: They open up a political, rather than a mystical, understanding of artificial intelligence. An A.I. that works like magic can have a spooky persuasive power, but an A.I. we know how to control should be subject to the same suspicion (not to mention political contestation) as any newspaper or cable channel. A.I. deployed as a propaganda machine is a much more familiar technology than A.I. deployed as an oracle. For those of us less attracted to (or convinced by) an anti-political mystic machine god, answering questions like "why did computer do that?" and "how to make computer do exactly what I want?" are of paramount importance, even if they also open up the possibility of more subtle manipulations.

great point from @maxread.info regarding "regarding white genocide," and one that relates to the weird ChatGPT sycophancy thing from the other week: crude interventions like this break the AI illusion maxread.substack.com/p/regarding-...

A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say

*crab-walked

have i been missing out on croissant trees all this time

The Problem With Young Men is that they don't have 24/7 wake island bf1942 64 player servers where they can healthily engage with peers and mentors

man why’d you need to point that out

this means we gotta start calling any other social interaction an IRL-ationship

thebeemagazine.com/terminus/

who has *time* to read all those papers?????

if you think they’re not just running that shit through some kind of LLM you’re out of your mind

who told him about k-dramas

When you buy groceries, who benefits more, you or the supermarket? It's... sort of a weird question, isn't it?

this would be so funny if it was happening to anyone else

geez, what a week huh?

so did i :,))))))))