Scott Johnson

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Creative technology, tech policy, film, music. Cleveland isn't the Midwest.

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here's the piece, I talked to a couple of serious scientists for it. Taylor smears them as "random quacks" espousing "crazy conspiracies" because she trusts her followers won't do any digging below the surface prospect.org/health/2023-...

Does COVID-19 Damage the Immune System?prospect.org The balance of evidence strongly indicates that outside of rare cases, it does not.

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There’s some reasons for this. The first is that the crusade began as criticism of the NYT’s anti-trans coverage. The second, and more relevant, is that social media standards allow people to use identity as both a sword and a shield.

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How has no one reposted the *best* excerpt from Hillbilly Elegy yet?

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Yet more reasons why "but Europe regulates Big Tech!!" is a terrible argument. Elon is a dipshit and Twitter is a cesspool, but the EU's DSA is a fundamentally illiberal setup that hands entirely too much power to unaccountable actors that abuse it in a user-hostile manner.

In case you missed the dick-swinging (that's a legal term) going on between Elon Musk and Thierry Breton over on X, it's... possibly actually pretty important this time. They're posturing about DSA enforcement again. 1/

Whatever happened to Thiel leaving the US and establishing citizenship in like Monoco or whatever

That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

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Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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If Merrick Garland doesn't have an answer for this extremely predictable turn of events better than "uh we're gonna appeal to the circuit court I guess" he should resign

Immigration is entrepreneurial and *always* a net economic benefit. It is also a cultural benefit—unless you're racist.

I oppose this worldview—this theory of America—with every fiber of my being.

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People who use "BlueAnon" are the same people who claim there was "no" evidence of conspiracy between Trump and Russia (when there was ongoing investigation into two of Trump's top people) and claim that bc Mueller didn't rule on "collusion" there was no there there.

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Joshua J. Friedman

It all happens on X!

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Impressive chutzpah from Sen. Mike Lee! "We’ve got to take the political temperature down ... We call on President Biden to immediately order that all federal criminal charges against President Trump be dropped, and to ask the governors of New York and Georgia to do the same."

Timeline cleanse

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The real danger is that a bunch of unhinged gomers who have just been waiting for some justification to shoot some liberals or gay people or POC may now think they have it.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

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Popping on to say: A lot of rumors are about to fly about this rally. Trump's team is 100% going to try and take advantage of this situation. So will malicious foreign actors/bots/etc. Please don't auto share. Check your sources, and vet their wording/sourcing carefully.

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if they can’t come together to take out biden, i dont trust them to come together to support harris

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when you come at the king ... you say it's up to him, mill around aimlessly like lost sheep saying someone should do something, freeze some but not all of his money, and most of all, give disgruntled anonymous statements to reporters

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Breaking: hackers stole call and text records for "nearly all" AT&T customers. Shows which phone numbers a customer called or texted. A staggering and unprecedented data breach. Data usually only available to authorities; now hackers got it www.404media.co/hackers-stea...

Hackers Steal Text and Call Records of ‘Nearly All’ AT&T Customerswww.404media.co In one of the most significant data breaches in recent history, hackers stole AT&T customers’ call and text metadata spanning several months.

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Hackers downloaded call and text records of “nearly all” of AT&T’s cellular customers across a several month period, AT&T announced

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"[Elon Musk] said he plans to die [on Mars]." ...Okay, look, that's the one part of his vision that I think we should all unite behind.

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Trump Innocent SOURCE: Trump

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Just to be clear why this is odd -- the narrative I see pundits pitch is that the public is obsessed with Biden's age and the Project 2025 story is not breaking through. These searches aren't perfect proxies but this complicates that a bit at least.

Weird case in point I put 'biden age' and 'project 2025' into Google Trends which isn't a perfect comparison but the result I got was completely unexpected

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#Anonymous #StopProject2025 Heritage Foundation Leak

Biden isn’t going to win Ohio anyway.

I am firmly in camp “I don’t know how people are so confident about the consequences either way,” but the risk of ballot-related litigation in places like Ohio seems quite real to me! Under-discussed certainly. Have you written about this @adambonin.bsky.social ?

www.texastribune.org/2024/07/08/p...

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Well, well, well. WELL. That whole “protests made cops feel bad so they all quit” narrative? Looks like it was mostly myth. Excited to read this paper by Ben Grunwald, who compiled a huge dataset on post-2020 police employment. Agg decline was 1%… and bigger local declines not tied to protests.

https://www.404media.co/email/5177b3c5-992b-4cd2-9a8d-d3f38310782f/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Scalpers Reverse-Engineer Ticketmaster's 'Non-Transferrable' Ticketswww.404media.co Scalpers have reverse-engineered how Ticketmaster creates tickets, and are now generating and selling them on their own parallel infrastructure.

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"I don't know anything about Project 2025" says man recording Project 2025 promotional video in front of Project 2025 publication. More substantively, Project 2025 has embraced Trump and Miller's immigration approach of using power to close both legal and illegal immigration.

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Trump: I don't know anything about Project 2025 Here is a list of all the Trump officials who authored the Project 2025 blueprint, Mandate for Leadership. 25 of 36 were part of the Trump administration. project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/project-20...