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Covering online speech, social media and the information wars at @washingtonpost.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky. Signal: willoremus.24

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you don't really gotta hand it to glenn beck but his use of "it" is probably the single most sane thing about this tweet

05.03.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
screenshot of X post by glenn beck touting a video interview he did with an AI george washington asking AI george what he thinks about the iran war 

AI george rocking swept-back silver hair and a blue t-shirt

screenshot of X post by glenn beck touting a video interview he did with an AI george washington asking AI george what he thinks about the iran war AI george rocking swept-back silver hair and a blue t-shirt

can i say something without people getting mad

05.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 2
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Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is playing a key role in the U.S. military’s campaign in Iran, amid a bitter fight with the Pentagon over the terms of its use in war.

Interesting! Anthropic's Claude, the AI tool that the Pentagon famously banned last week, continues to play a crucial role in the U.S. military campaign in Iran, three people familiar with the situation told the @washingtonpost.com:
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

04.03.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

people betting huge sums on other people's death is some straight-up black mirror shit

but the person dying and then the betting firm finding a fine-print loophole to not pay them anyway is what elevates this to high art

04.03.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜MAGA is Trump’: President fires back at right-wing mutiny over Iran Tucker Carlson and other MAGA figures with big online audiences have criticized the assault on Iran, triggering pushback from the president and White House.

There is an β€œemerging sense that Trump’s centrality to right-wing politics has an endpoint in the not-so-distant future,” @samrosenfeld.bsky.social tells @willoremus.com. β€œThat all serves to loosen Trump’s symbolic grip on the right’s discourse.”

04.03.2026 12:55 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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β€˜MAGA is Trump’: President fires back at right-wing mutiny over Iran Tucker Carlson and other MAGA figures with big online audiences have criticized the assault on Iran, triggering pushback from the president and White House.

Some of MAGA’s loudest voices are calling the Iran conflict a betrayal of β€œAmerica First.”

Trump counters that MAGA means whatever he says it means. My story today on what could be the movement’s biggest schism yet: wapo.st/4aN3oJj

04.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

We should set aside our petty grievances in order to make room for new and even more petty grievances

03.03.2026 05:06 πŸ‘ 1045 πŸ” 167 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 41

RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation

02.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 5572 πŸ” 880 πŸ’¬ 124 πŸ“Œ 18

And I really was saying Boo-urns

03.03.2026 03:48 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really did think the Riyadh Comedy Festival would help bring peace to the Middle East

03.03.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 2173 πŸ” 219 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 7

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

02.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 2415 πŸ” 512 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 14

No one asked me but seems like a simple misunderstanding that the dynamics of short-form social platforms have turned into an unnecessary fight. I took the point of Joanna's original post to be that it was an important article that deserves to be getting more attention.

02.03.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

no one asked me but seems like a simple misunderstanding. i took the main point of joanna’s original post to be that it was an important piece that should be getting more attention.

02.03.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bluesky if its users could learn to differentiate between people who posted a questionable social media take and the people actively harming us

02.03.2026 05:31 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I don’t know the OP and I’m not staying on here to argue with anyone about it, but the fact that this thread has led to folks on here accusing her of supporting mass rape is both absurd and inevitable

02.03.2026 05:11 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 9
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An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human. At the 184-year-old Cleveland Plain Dealer, a top editor’s push to let AI draft news articles is boosting traffic β€” and spooking staffers.

At the 184-year-old Cleveland Plain Dealer, a top editor’s push to let AI draft news articles is boosting traffic β€” and spooking staffers.

My latest with @willoremus.com:

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

01.03.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I am reminded that a startling number of people believe that if you’re a member of the military and you don’t like something your government did, you can just throw up your hands and quit the next day like any other job.

It Does Not Work That Way

01.03.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 1642 πŸ” 224 πŸ’¬ 100 πŸ“Œ 92

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

01.03.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 10445 πŸ” 2183 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 62
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An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human. At the 184-year-old Cleveland Plain Dealer, a top editor’s push to let AI draft news articles is boosting traffic β€” and spooking staffers.

Cleveland's top newspaper is "removing writing from some reporters' workloads" by using AI to draft articles.

We dove into what drove the paper's editor to do that, how it's going and what the paper's human reporters think about it. wapo.st/4aX44e1 w/ @scottnover.bsky.social

01.03.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4
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An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human. At the 184-year-old Cleveland Plain Dealer, a top editor’s push to let AI draft news articles is boosting traffic β€” and spooking staffers.

At a Cleveland newspaper, reporters assigned to the suburbs β€œare now expected to file four stories a day with the help of AI.”

Also: one reporter β€œsaid they were caught off guard when their annual performance review indicated insufficient AI use.”

Gift link wapo.st/4aX44e1

01.03.2026 12:36 πŸ‘ 216 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 18
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The long 2010s are finally over

26.02.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 6109 πŸ” 859 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 92
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Trump allies claim victory as the Ellisons expand their media empire Paramount’s Warner Bros. deal is seen by many as a win for conservatives seeking greater sway over the media β€” and raises new scrutiny over President Trump’s role in it.

New: Trump allies claim β€œVICTORY” as the Ellisons expand their empire to include CNN, HBO and much more. Laura Loomer told me she’s taking credit after the president picked up on her campaign to paint Netflix as Obama-coded.

Our story today w/ fresh details on how it all went down: wapo.st/4qVDnMx

28.02.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

i love that all the quote tweets of this use the exact same gif

26.02.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

thanks for taking time out of your day to let me know!

26.02.2026 15:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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As MAGA embraces Erika Kirk, Candace Owens goes on the attack The right-wing influencer launched a video series about Charlie Kirk’s widow that is provoking outrage among conservatives β€” and raising Owens’s profile.

Candace Owens' audience "gets to feel that they’re insiders learning the β€˜hidden truths’ about people they also distrust or see as villains." β€” @noupside.bsky.social

β€œYou can absolutely grow an audience by people being mad at you." β€” @cfiesler.bsky.social

wapo.st/3OKDYmU

26.02.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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As MAGA embraces Erika Kirk, Candace Owens goes on the attack The right-wing influencer launched a video series about Charlie Kirk’s widow that is provoking outrage among conservatives β€” and raising Owens’s profile.

Candace Owens is aiming to take down Erika Kirk with a new video series that so far has managed to enrage just about everyone without really making any specific allegations at all.

I wrote about the attention-economy logic behind Owens' attacks on a "grieving widow:" wapo.st/3OKDYmU (gift link)

26.02.2026 14:32 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 9

Atlas Broke the Law and America Shrugged

26.02.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Will Johnson, a pro-Trump podcaster in Texas, said the comedian's fake ICE tip line is unfair to the nearly 100 people who have tried to use it to snitch on their neighbors.

β€œHe’s making people who are reporting people taking advantage of the system look like just bad human beings."

20.02.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 141 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 2

This is an amazing-sounding thought experiment, but there’s a simple oversight that renders it misleading.

In reality, if Bezos lit a million dollars on fire every day for 693 years and 8 months, he would have more money than he started with, because his wealth grows by more than $1m per day.

20.02.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 204 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

inspiring πŸ™ŒπŸŒ€οΈ 🌈

20.02.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0