A real doozy from Jay Bhattacharya in Washington Post today. The Arsonist’s Lament — the loss-of-trust trope plaintively articulated by a clown who used his 🩺 credentials to undermine trust in mRNA vaccines, then sold his credibility to align with RFK Jr, going so far as to campaign with him. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreihwlowarxm7ixuw4huckliwocoka75rc4zefvhih45sqohq36dndm https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreig7pdzlbmbmuvwwxmcmiivciipxuxvout6bgrh645qrgyqonxg6he
The Internet of Beefs, on Steam. RE:
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Alex Newhouse (@alexbnewhouse.bsky.social)
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New post up on Substack: I wrote about why frames beat facts, and why this Administration relies so heavily on “Files” dumps to shape reality & feed the base 🍽🧟‍♂️ The Twitter Files model is now foundational for MAGA. [open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...](
The Gabbard Files: "Zombie Food" for the Feed
The “Files” genre thrives on speed, screenshots, and vibes. But Gabbard's claims collapse under minimal scrutiny.
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There is a high % of female genAI chatbot users for romance role-playing chatbots (like the [character.ai](
character.ai | AI Chat, Reimagined–Your Words. Your World.
Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?
 ) live-fanfic type interaction format.) People are often surprised to learn this. [sensortower.com/blog/state-o...](
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So yeah, I wrote a book about the incentives that turn influencers into reflexive contrarians and Gurus….wellness is particularly prone to this. Anything that a government PSA has ever advised you to do is now something to actively reject. Mammograms are bad, too. RE:
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David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social)
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In keeping with his recent trend of settling lawsuits as long as they're w/MAGA, Zuckerberg has settled an AI defamation lawsuit w/"anti-woke" activist Robbie Starbuck *and* made him an "anti-political-bias" advisor. [www.theverge.com/news/757537/...](
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Meta hires anti-diversity activist Robby Starbuck as AI advisor to settle lawsuit
The move aligns with Trump’s broader “anti-woke” AI order.
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Meta hires anti-diversity activist Robby Starbuck as AI advisor to settle lawsuit
The move aligns with Trump’s broader “anti-woke” AI order.
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This kind of emotional response has been demonstrated for some time around personal bot products - ie Replika. [Character.ai](
character.ai | AI Chat, Reimagined–Your Words. Your World.
Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?
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Things on the ChatGPT sub-Reddit are getting grim.
My favorite example of this was Marc Andreessen using chatGPT to vibe-lawyer exotic legal theories on how he might get my Stanford colleagues & I prosecuted for "censorship" (tracking election rumors), posting the equivalent of sovereign citizen crankery publicly, and not realizing it was utter BS. RE:
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Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social)
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Kennedy's response was tepid bc he's reluctant to piss off his own MAHA base, given that he and Children's Health Defense have been pushing bullshit about CDC "corruption" for decades now. The public needs to realize how extreme the antivax movement has gotten. [www.politico.com/news/2025/08...](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/10/surgeon-general-blasts-kennedy-response-cdc-shootings-00502310 ) [Trump's former surgeon general...](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/10/surgeon-general-blasts-kennedy-response-cdc-shootings-00502310 )
Insurance companies should intervene here. It’s ridiculous. There’s no reason why they should be paying for experimental cures for the voluntarily unvaccinated. You wanted this “natural immunity”, pay for it yourself. RE:
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Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social)
As the US hits a 33-year high in measles infections, there is now a "race" to find a treatment for the disease. One pharma company "is banking on ...