It remains journalistic malpractice how often mainstream media folks repeat blatantly false claims like that Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Substack, Brendan Carr, etc. are "free speech supporters." They're not. They just like platforming bigots. That's it. RE:
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Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)
No @columjournreview.bsky.social we left because Substack was platforming and monetizing NAZIS https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/we-got-substack-to-a...
Same. RE:
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Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
As I've said before, I don't link to or share your story if you don't link to the documents. I'll literally go find the case myself or find another...
Section 230 is good, actually, and no it doesn't need to be reformed. RE:
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Mina Kimes (@minakimes.bsky.social)
What take would you choose to argue on jubilee with total confidence that you’d crush 20 opponents?
Yeah, I had some thoughts on Rubio's nonsense claims about how he has to keep people out of the US for "censoring" social media at the same time he's literally giving the okay to kidnap students off the street for innocuous op-eds. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Rubio Announces Ban On Foreign ‘Censors’ Coming To The US, While Simultaneously Having Students Kidnapped For Their Speech Secretary of State...
Randomly reminds me of a story. In the very, very early days of Techdirt (2000ish?), we decided to throw a party. Except we had no money and so just announced that everyone should meet at a bar in SF and buy their own drinks (I swear this connects to the story below, so hang in there...). RE:
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Reuters (@reuters.com)
Salesforce to buy Informatica for $8 billion to bolster AI data tools reut.rs/4dvNYbW https://reut.rs/4dvNYbW
Didn't this already happen last week also with another xAI deal announced... and then yanked? [www.bloomberg.com/news/article...](
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Kalshi Pulls Announcement of xAI Tie-Up Hours After Touting Deal
Kalshi Inc. withdrew announcements about a collaboration with Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence firm xAI just hours after a top executive at th...
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kate conger (@kateconger.com)
So Telegram’s CEO tweets this morning about a partnership with Grok, complete with a sizzle reel showing the product integration. X CEO retweets ...
 [Kalshi Pulls Announcement of x...](
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Kalshi Pulls Announcement of xAI Tie-Up Hours After Touting Deal
Kalshi Inc. withdrew announcements about a collaboration with Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence firm xAI just hours after a top executive at th...
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Elon claims his time at DOGE (which, again, the government has sworn in court he doesn't work for) is coming to an end, even though he basically denied this just a few weeks ago, promising to continue working on DOGE two days a week. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreih2gv4kpf3sxiur5c6p5ssrjukpklunr7ss3zrib4jpgkbrjil3um
Guys. Over the weekend, someone "defaced my car" by putting a pizza shop flyer under the windshield wiper. I will now make weeks worth of content about how "making EVERYTHING commercial is dumb -- and why it's driving me to make my own pizza." RE:
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Chris Cillizza (@chriscillizza.bsky.social)
Over the weekend, someone defaced my Tesla. I talked about why making EVERYTHING political is dumb -- and why it's driving us further and further ...
The history books of this era are going to be a lot of "no, really, this actually happened. I know it sounds made up, but yes, it really happened." RE:
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m (@keptsimple.bsky.social)
the reporter who asked trump about "TACO" did the right thing but also probably caused a global economic depression
A new paper explores what would likely happen when someone shouts "fire" in a crowded theater. No, not the silly "speech" issue. Like, what would literally happen. From a game theory perspective. How would people act. RE:
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Joshua Gans (@joshgans.bsky.social)
I have a new NBER Working Paper out today. www.nber.org/papers/w33852 It looks at what happens if someone shouts "fire" in a crowded theatre. This ...