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Seconding this and also stating that the Senate had a credible opportunity to pass a law at the end of the Biden administration that would have helped protect journalists from government demands for their sources but that they failed to pass it www.wired.com/story/press-...

Opinion | The missing context from the Elon Musk salute We can’t have a functioning democracy if we think our opponents are evil.

Elon Musk biographer here.

The "missing context" from the op-ed below is that Musk has been spreading racist and antisemitic memes, screenshots, graphs, charts, unsourced narratives, tropes, and buzzwords for 18 months now.

Publicly. Daily.

The Post either knows this or should not be in business.

Helpful!

Twelve Dudes and a Hype Tunnel: Scenes from the ‘Super Bowl for Excel Nerds’ At the Microsoft Excel World Championship in Las Vegas, there was stardust in the air as 12 finance guys vied to be crowned the world’s best spreadsheeter.

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How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

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This Man Controls 40% of the Internet and It’s a Problem Meet Matt Mullenweg.

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A photo of Lippmann House, home to the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard in Cambridge, MA.

Join us for a year of study at Harvard! We’re accepting applications for members of the Nieman class of 2026. Journalists from the U.S. should submit their applications by January 31, 2025.

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photo from President Jimmy Carter’s funeral showing many dignitaries but hiding the tangerine tyrant behind a pillar

this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer

The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don’t mean anything...That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. chomsky.info/mediacontrol...

The real problem of This

Musk Kills Government Funding Deal, Demands Shutdown Until Trump Is Sworn In Elon Musk went on a posting spree on X to block a congressional funding bill, saying the government should shut down until Trump becomes president.

In his first big flex of power on Capitol Hill, Elon Musk shitposted a bunch of misinformation to kill a bipartisan spending bill that would have averted a government shutdown, threatened reps supporting it, and demanded Congress stop working until Trump is in office. Awesome stuff

Study finds 75% of Facebook shares are made without reading the content

“The inspiration for our research is in understanding the phenomenon of sharing, which…is the single most influential action on social media.”

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Guess which ‘one’ hasn’t figured it out yet?! 👇

Just one guess. 🇺🇸

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

President-elect Musk is really setting down the marker of how he wants to run his administration.

VP Trump better pay attention.

In 2016, hundreds of tech workers signed a "Never Again" pledge, vowing to never let technology be used to enable autocracy. I wonder where these folks are now.
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raise your hand if you had “mitch mcconnell and dick cheney will be too far left for the republican party, and that republican party will sweep the national elections” on your list of predictions 20 years ago

Welp, we have reached the part of the program in which Elon Musk is casually amplifying extremely dangerous international warlord Erik Prince, widely recognized as one of the worst men alive and a top advisor to Putin ally and election-interference co-conspirator MBZ

If you happen to be anywhere near Sec 11 (Row I) at @tmbg.bsky.social in Brooklyn tonight, please wish a happy 21st to Kylie! She & her dad left Chicago at 5AM today to get there & celebrate her favorite band!

Have a great show @martybeller.bsky.social & gang! 🥁

Dropped @esports.irish & his daughter, Kylie, off at O’Hare at 5AM today so they could celebrate her 21st at your concert tonight!

I’m curious how much federal funding he thinks the ACLU receives (it’s none).

Romantic desires of escaped donkey lead to rider’s personal injuries claim against Dublin farmer Case by horserider against north Co Dublin farmer for shock and personal injury arising from 2017 incident settled for less than €15,000

An amorous donkey broke out of a Dublin field and attempted to mount a passing horse, allegedly injuring the rider, leading to a €60,000 personal injuries claim in the Circuit Civil Court.

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Magnets

It’s like someone transcribed my soul into magnets.

Well done, Meriwether.
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"They live out of their downloads folder like it's a van by the river" is an incredible sentence.