"Too eager to please and be manipulated" Aw, just like its daddy 🥹 RE:
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Techmeme (@techmeme.com)
Elon Musk addresses Grok's antisemitic posts, says it was "too compliant to user prompts" and "too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially"...
"Owned" by [@eoinhiggins.bsky.social](
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Eoin Higgins (@eoinhiggins.bsky.social)
Reporter | eoinhiggins@gmail.com https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
 ) dives into the history behind how Substack (and media platforms like it) became yet another online Nazi bar. Substack is not journalistic independence. It's another trap laid by billionaires to maintain their stranglehold on the media. [Owned: How Tech Billionaires o...](
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Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left
A “devastating” (Nation) examination of how a cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely ne...
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Narrator: There were no contributions RE:
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Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
⚠️ Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of X. Elon Musk’s response in full: “Thank you for your contributions”
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You'd think all of this would drive another spike in users on Bsky and other alternatives, but I fear that everyone left over there is fully desensitized
After hearing @npub1k0rs...ccx5 say "Nintendo Switch 2" week after week on Waveform, I can't not read it in his voice 😭
"That Bluesky is even in the same league as platforms that have 25 times the number of active users is an indication how the new social networks can be culturally and politically impactful without having the largest number of users." @Laurens nails it once again. RE:
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Laurens (@laurenshof.online)
Bluesky and the fediverse have constructed a narrative of how growth of the networks happen: when Musk does something particularly evil or stupid, ...
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Should've been called Dune: Arrakis Drift RE:
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Isaiah Samad (@zaytaju.bsky.social)
The next Dune film has been titled ‘Dune: Part Three.’ The film will shoot some sequences with IMAX cameras. (via @variety.com)
Really appreciate [@deck.blue](
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deck.blue (@deck.blue)
3rd-party TweetDeck for Bluesky from 🇧🇷! Featuring columns, multi-account, scheduling and inline translations! Developed by @gildaswise.com ...
 ) showing when a post is bridged over Bridgy Fed - would be a nice addition for other clients, too! We also pass the full contents of the post under "bridgyOriginalText" if you don't want the truncated version with a link and are okay with more than 300 chars per post 😉 https://enoki.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe&cid=bafkreige6o6lni75sy3jukg5zqt75ndnms5tmxonks3ktdq3olzutf22vy
My RSS feed is going to be so useless today RE:
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The Verge (@theverge.com)
The 177 best Prime Day 2025 deals that we found https://buff.ly/ZnukAGa
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The NYT is basically just a bunch of Indian aunties and uncles gossiping about that one decent kid because their kids suck