Karl Bode

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federal regulators will soon be entirely decorative at which point we can all bask in the glories of a truly innovative free market

Federal judge partially blocks U.S. ban on noncompeteswww.npr.org A federal judge in Texas has partially blocked the government's ban on noncompetes. An estimated 30 million U.S. workers are subject to the employment agreements.

can't get the press to explain a corrupt supreme court just demolished the last vestiges of regulatory corporate oversight, but every pointless brain fart elon musk has warrants an entire news cycle

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My latest newsletter is about how precarious content on the internet truly is. www.readtpa.com/p/i-want-my-...

I Want My MTV (News Archives)www.readtpa.com After Paramount pulled the MTV News website, the Internet Archive came through in a big way — but shouldn't have to.

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the latest Snowden leak: his brain from his ears

don't move to Seattle it rains all the time

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Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

the consolidated, center-right billionaire owned press continues to shift the editorial overton window rightward and if you can't see it you're either complicit or oblivious

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A John Wick movie where he goes around assassinating people whose fireworks are upsetting the local dogs.

with all public discourse now based entirely on ad engagement, op/ed sections are now just troll farms pretending to be heady debate I suspect at some point we (myself included) need to develop an immune response so we stop taking the bait

The New York Times found it appropriate to publish this drivel on Independence Day just one week after the Supreme Court ruled that Republican presidents are above the law.

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The New York Times found it appropriate to publish this drivel on Independence Day just one week after the Supreme Court ruled that Republican presidents are above the law.

the U.S. press' refusal to clearly inform the electorate the modern GOP is an utterly destructive, valueless cancer is among the biggest ethical and journalistic failures in modern human history happy holidays!

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An aspiring dictator & convicted felon w history of treason may win the presidency. Profoundly corrupt SCOTUS justices undermined the constitution and gave him immunity from prosecution for past & future crimes. This is all political journalists should be writing about 24/7. We’re at the precipice.

lex fridman is my favorite fashy adjacent, billionaire simping, pseudo-intellectual, faux journalist famous for absolutely no coherent reason

Ivanka Trump Officially Breaks Her Weeks-Long Silence on Dad’s Convictionwww.thedailybeast.com “Ultimately, I wish it didn’t have to be this way,” she said on the The Lex Fridman Podcast.

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We’ve been making “why that’s bad news for the democrats” jokes about the media for years now, and now we’re all just accepting the New York Times framing of things?

Like I said elsewhere, if this had gone the other way, there would be stories saying, "Trump's awful debate is bad news for Biden." At some point we need to at least try to play the game.

listen I'm just a serious reporter doing seventy five consecutive stories expressing sudden and breathless concern about how only one of two old candidates for president are old

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One thing that annoys me about the Democratic consultant class is how they act like they're brass-knuckle streetfighters and yet don't have the stones to run nonstop ads about Trump's extensive connections to Jeffrey Epstein. It's all true! It's documented! There are photos!

Trump later appointed this federal prosecutor as his first U.S. Secretary of Labor. www.kare11.com/article/news...

Florida prosecutors knew Epstein raped teenage girls 2 years before cutting deal, transcript showswww.kare11.com Florida prosecutors heard graphic testimony about how Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal, according to transcripts.

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Breaking: Judge Ada Brown, a Trump appointee in N.D. Texas, has blocked the FTC’s noncompete rule, limited to the named plaintiffs, in an APA challenge as likely contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious. The rule is set to go into effect in September. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the exploitation of this Chevron ruling is just getting warmed up and is going to ratfuck every last effort at policy reform or corporate oversight across every sector and issue in the country

of course www.cnn.com/2024/07/03/p...

Judge cites new Supreme Court ruling in blocking health care anti-discrimination protections for transgender Americans | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com The Biden administration cannot enforce new anti-discrimination rules in health care for transgender Americans, a federal judge in Mississippi ruled Wednesday, citing a recent landmark Supreme Court r...

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AP story waits until paragraph 16 to mention police & prosecutors are accused of conspiring to protect the cop who's apparently the real killer, until then making him seem like a lone wolf

Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...

Missouri woman who has served more than 40 years for murder is declared innocent by judgewww.nbcnews.com She must be freed or retried for the 1980 murder within 30 days, a judge ruled, but the Missouri AG has asked an appeals court to review the judge's decision.

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"While there’s a strong historical precedent for a lavish excursion to Bali, the plaintiff has instead taken a more unorthodox approach and presented an all-expenses-paid diving trip off the shores of Aruba."

Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Tripswww.theonion.com WASHINGTON—Admitting that he had never been more conflicted about a ruling in his life, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was reportedly torn Monday over a case in which both sides offered compell...

single anonymous source interpretation of a conversation that may or may not even happened as described? print it, boyo!

Joe Biden reportedly told a key ally that he knows his candidacy may be unsalvageable. A White House spokesperson denied the report

NYT: Biden Told Ally He's Weighing Whether To Continuewww.huffpost.com The New York Times reports Biden told a key ally he knows his candidacy may be in jeopardy, especially if he fails to perform well during public...

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The Supreme Court just fundamentally changed the nature of the Executive, yet the NYT:

"journalism isn't profitable" until you remove the fail upward brunchlords consistently soaking up outsized compensation despite making endless, terrible choices

The Real Story of the Crisis at The Washington Postwww.theatlantic.com How the world’s greatest businessman drove his newspaper into a ditch

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7/1/2024 will go down as one of the worst days in American history, and this is how the NYT website was covering it yesterday, under seven (7)(VII) articles about Biden's age.

all the money is in engagement growth (of any kind) at impossible-to-manage scale there's no money to be made in protecting consumers, the historical record, journalism, education, or a shared collective reality that's a wonderful environment for conspiratorial authoritarianism to thrive

“Generative AI could ‘distort collective understanding of socio-political reality or scientific consensus,’ and in many cases is already doing that,’” according to a new research paper from Google’s own DeepMind lab.

Google Says AI Could Break Realitywww.404media.co “While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”

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on the plus side my computer tells me to eat rocks and glue now

Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demandwww.theguardian.com Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres

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I know everyone says "their reporters do great work" and that's true, but over the course of my life, the New York Times has institutionally had multiple points at which it was important to choose "be evil" or do the right thing and they've fucked it hard every time

I'm tired of being trolled by dullards twenty four hours a fucking day

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At least someone has common sense to save the MTV archive

Some good MTV news, for a change? Internet Archive now hosts MTV News content

MTV News Repository of 460,000 Articles Launched by Internet Archive After Paramount Content Purgevariety.com After Paramount pulled MTV News offline, the Internet Archive assembled a searchable index of 460,575 pages previously published at mtv.com/news.