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Oh, and I redid my portfolio so it's also on this blog now. Please take a look -
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Ohhhhhhhhh so it turns out the freaky silicon valley pro baby power couple hits their kids
I have never an a reporting experience quite as unsettling as my day with the Collins family in Pennsylvania
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Elon i have a marketing question. If someone is using my platform's new uncopyrightable brand and logo to scam people, but they're paying me $8 to run that scam in my name, is that good
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I think among wretched ways to disqualify you from political relevance forever is hitting a two year old in the face
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@teshamonster
Sooooo many red flags. "We had cps called because the kids were always sick" yes my dude they live in a freezing cold house
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This is like, besides all the eugenics stuff
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Update: they have spent the last 24 hours in an earthward direction, trying and failing to locate rock bottom
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libsoftiktok creates targets in a violent culture war against lgbtq people, some of whom have already been harassed out of their jobs. When
@TaylorLorenz
's critics make this conversation about doxxing, they're failing to apply the same standard to Raichik.
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Russian disinformation channels, including Russian state media, are picking up on anti-LGBTQ content produced by LibsOfTikTok and amplifying it to non-English-language audiences worldwide to massive success.
We found this out because of some pictures of a leaflet.
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Everyone's favorite new country music seems to be really into 9/11 truther theories, including that Israel was responsible.
Oops!
New from me -
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Hi Everyone the hays code discourse was started by Brittany Martinez, who runs an antifeminist magazine funded by Peter Thiel, and this is her shtick - regressive clicky opinions framed as progressive takes, please stop amplifying it please and thank you
I know we’re all just about sick of this discourse but what is going on with people
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Update: the average college freshman in the US makes better nachos than any UK gastropub
I love living in the uk but sometimes i am reminded that they remain in a less enlightened pre-burrito state of nature
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The most striking blind spot in the recent BBC piece is that the dataset does not count racist slurs, and yet it claims that ethnic minority MPs were "not more likely" to receive toxic abuse online.
When 8 months of work is this sloppy and broad it comes across as client journalism for the Online Safety Bill. I gleaned very little from learning how often MPs are called "liars", "fools", or "vandals."
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It seems they're saying that they have to hit their kids because there's too many of them to pay attention and also because they keep backtalking, goddamit
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This Telegraph article fails to explain that the people leading these protests are a blend of extremists - white nationalists, COVID anti-vaxxers, and anti-trans bigots. It launders the homophobic and transphobic “groomer” slur for a larger audience. Thread:
The first drag queen “story hour” for children in a UK-wide tour of council libraries has descended into chaos after it was stormed by protesters and the performer was given a police escort
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Kind of hard for raichik and the libs of tiktok crowd to claim that they're just trying to protect kids when it seems, in fact, they are driving threats and harassment that make kids and the people who care for kids all feel terrified
New:
Nearly a dozen schools or school districts that were targeted by the account Libs of TikTok last month said they received bomb threats in the days following
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Ok so this meme was so off-putting and bad I had to look into what this organization is and who these weirdos are -
Project Liberty is a new PAC started last november. They brand themselves as anti-authoritarian, pro-classical liberal, pro-market.
(short thread)
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@Maladroithe
Ya the woman who runs the account also runs an aggressively antifeminist, antivax magazine and period tracking workout program
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@br_eadboy
@DeadJynErso
She's defending herself as a journalist in britain against a potential libel case from the rich american weirdos who she has just written about
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Just on the surface, this claim has problems. The American spelling of "pedophile" rather than "paedophile" is used, and the phrase "this is just as offensive as n-word" is both grammatically incorrect and not really used in UK English.
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Fact checking organizations in Spain, the Republic of Georgia, Iran, and Poland flagged this to us. Numerous tweets and posts in multiple languages claimed that the leaflet was from a UK school, and that UK schoolchildren were being taught to invite pedophiles to their homes.
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Genspect claims to be a moderate, evidence-based coalition of parents and medical professionals who support thoughtful care for transgender youth.
Their members-only Discord paints a very different picture.
New, from me:
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A state-funded podcast that investigates the "influence" of an LGBT rights organization on government as if it's a shadowy cabal, especially after news that BBC was withdrawing from that organization's consultancy, is so so so dangerous.
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There are no logos nor anything else on the leaflet, and nothing to indicate what organization published it, indicating it's not professional. And just as an editorial note here, I'm not even sure it's saying anything about pedophiles - it's about strangers.
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Joe Rogan platformed anti-COVID-vaxxer Robert Malone for an uncritical three hours yesterday. Malone dismisses factchecking that shows vaccine safety, saying they're paid off by big pharma. Weirdly, his decades of work for Big Pharma do not similarly disqualify him.
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The leaflet is titled "what to do if a stranger comes up to you on the street?" and gives a series of steps, including "DO NOT be afraid! DO NOT scream and cry!" and most inflammatorily, "DO NOT call him a pedophile!"
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The full video makes it clear that's not what she's saying, but the full video is almost impossible to find now, because the therapist has gone as dark as possible. Raichik used the video to claim that "the left wants to normalize pedophilia", a common homophobic trope.
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Sy Hersh in a brand-new substack makes the explosive allegation that the US bombed the Nordstream pipeline.
From an editor's perspective, the reporting is bad. He makes a series of claims based on a single anonymous source that he apparently fails to corroborate:
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no accommodations were needed for the lizard
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But also there's no evidence that more than one copy was produced at all. These four images are the only images that exist. Where do they come from?
A Saint Petersburg VK post from August 8 that claimed it was brought from the UK by a Russian tourist.
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It might have not gone further than that - but on August 10, LibsOfTikTok posted a video of a therapist who works with incarcerated sex offenders. Raichik clipped the video so that it looks like the therapist is advocating for social acceptance of pedophilia.
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@LogicallyAI
It's worth noting that lots of these channels had loads and loads of antigay shit -- I limited this investigation only to the memes using the "no kink" narrative. One of the Telegram channels had a zipped "anti-pride" kit of horrible memes.
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It’s so funny to be yelled at by one hundred guys that think this is a good painting
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Polish fact checkers found that post. We also searched VK, and found one other post from a little later on August 8, again from a local St Petersburg news page, both claiming it was UK pro-pedophila propaganda.
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The aim of the narrative is to slander all LGBTQ people and the West at large as child abusers.
"It is worth noting that the propaganda of the legalization of pedophilia in the West is not isolated cases, but a purposeful vector of pervert lobbyists' hard work," writes Tsargrad.
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@nihilistgf161
Yeah because besides being objectively not a real problem, as soon as you start saying there are too many people, it's exactly one step away from deciding which people are the right ones to survive. Sooooooo... ecofascism
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Those two narratives combined on Russian Telegram. On August 15, a channel with 180k subscribers posted the leaflet and the LoTT video side by side, claiming that the West was normalizing pedophilia.
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To sum up: a fake leaflet gets posted to a local news page, combines with a LoTT bad faith post, incubates on Telegram, and then explodes onto Twitter all over the world. I could only find one viral tweet about it in English.
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This one leaflet allowed us to trace exactly how a single post can migrate through the disinformation ecosystem, and become a worldwide talking point under our noses.
Read our fact check here:
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@chathamharrison
@Spearhafoc_
It ain't a symbol but it is a choice
I mean there's a good reason it wasn't set in Miami
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When these two narratives combined, even though one was from unverifiable provenance and one from a deceptively edited video posted by an account that drives harassment, they formed a powerful engine of Russian-led disinformation.
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I completely agree there needs to be a high bar for reporting about someone anonymous. An influencer who sets the agenda for the culture war online and on TV, and who influences lawmakers? Absolutely, in the public interest. Random queer teachers? Absolutely not.
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This is all especially alarming considering the recent upswing of white nationalists and sovereign citizens protesting at Drag Queen Story Hour in both the US and the UK. It suggests a feedback loop between local and foreign disinfo.
This Telegraph article fails to explain that the people leading these protests are a blend of extremists - white nationalists, COVID anti-vaxxers, and anti-trans bigots. It launders the homophobic and transphobic “groomer” slur for a larger audience. Thread:
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@ComradeDoom1
hi david - are you at all aware that the major funders of the anti-trans backlash, framing it as a medical malpractice disaster, are all the same super rightwing christian organizations that opposed gay marriage 20 years ago
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The guy who runs it and founded it, Josh Eakle, is a former state chairman of the libertarian party, and is the head of marketing for Student for Liberty, a Koch-funded organization that does college events.
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They're pro ukraine, anti ccp, never trumper, anti-leftist. big fans of neoliberal economic thinker friedrich hayek; they've got clips of him all over their youtube channel. "We fight the radical left and right, and are super pro-market" seems to be the takeaway.
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what's funny about starmer pandering to the gender critical crowd is that it's not even working
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Spanish fact checkers noted that reverse image searches of the leaflet, as well as the title of the leaflet, yielded absolutely nothing.
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that's all for now - I just find it so weird that millenials/gen z people are trying to meme themselves into anti-extremist centrism. it's such a misunderstanding of the internet, which exclusively accelerates politics into extremism, and of the current political moment.
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DQSH was another target picked out by Raichik, and while I hate to give her any more attention than necessary, it absolutely petrifies me that hostile foreign powers are listening in to the antigay culture wars that she's stoking.
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Every time Just Stop Oil gets in the news, it's the same discourse. Why Stonehenge? what's the connection to oil? aren't you just pushing people away? is this a psyop?
Oddly, nobody ever asks them. So I did. Here's my interview with JSO.
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In my opinion it looks like someone's English homework (or someone's idea of a troll post) got picked up by a local Russian news site and twisted sideways to suit a narrative. I have no idea where the original images came from beyond that local St Petersburg page.
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Iranian fact checkers noted that the account spreading that post was only two months old, indicating possible inauthentic activity.
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Each time, the false narrative appeared alongside the claim that it was from a UK school, and often times alongside mention of the video from LibsOfTikTok, although often the source of that video was removed. Each time, it was the same set of four images.
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A number of other huge Telegram channels picked that video and leaflet up on Aug 15, as well as the Russian media outlet Tsargrad TV.
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@JeremyVineOn5
Hi everyone who is angry about this: please read this thread from
@sophiasgaler
with the curriculum, which shows that, in fact, three-year-olds are not being taught "sex and gender identity"
The framing of this is so dangerous - let me show you what children age 3 and up will actually be introduced to in the Welsh Relationships and Sexuality Education curriculum when it comes to sexual health and wellbeing that's conveniently been misnamed here.
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They also poached former congressman Joe Walsh to be their hype man. Other advisors include a Cato guy, a few other centrist republicans, and then two minor anti-woke crusaders - pluckrose and veradonir - who have written extensively against trans rights.
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Those stories were redistributed across the internet in multiple languages. Tens of thousands of likes, thousands of shares, multiple posts from multiple unverifiable accounts. Even some politicians in Poland retweeted it.
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@noturtlesoup17
"I definitely did not commit /// crimes"
"All of the women I slept with absolutely //// love me"
"I am ////// innocent"
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Really can't wait for the next small town Appalachian banger that's "just asking questions"!!!!!
Can’t believe the fudge round guy is also a “dancing Israelis” guy.
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This is bang on from
@Chican3ry
- cis and straight kids are allowed to express themselves, but anyone queer or gender diverse will be punished and singled out. It's an insane crackdown freedom of expression. "Social transition" is....a haircut and a change of clothes.
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This quote is even worse in full!!
“I think you’re the one suing,” Musk told
@BankstonAtLaw
, according to the transcript.
“Actually, Mr. Musk, I’m an attorney,” Bankston explained. “Did you know that? I’m an attorney representing Mr. Brody.”
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Choosing to talk about what counts as doxxing right now and what doesn't will be taken as tacit support of Raichik. It takes away from the content of the reporting, which is that antigay and antitrans content is being crowdsourced and pumped into the news.
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People are claiming that the video from Saturday actually shows Heidi Agan, a professional Kate Middleton impersonator.
I reached out to Heidi just now, and she confirmed that she wasn't in Windsor on Saturday, and that's not her in the video.
FYI:
@TMZ
's story includes a disclaimer:
BTW, for all the skeptics who might not believe this was taken as it's been relayed to us — we've delved into the metadata ... and there's no doubt, this was filmed on Saturday right near the Prince and Princess of Wales' home in Windsor.
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I love living in the uk but sometimes i am reminded that they remain in a less enlightened pre-burrito state of nature
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@Fae_Atom
@br_eadboy
@DeadJynErso
I see you are less familiar with the institution of british libel laws
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Conspiracy-motivated movements deliberately conflate criticism with a plot to silence them.
@christapeterso
is precisely right here in that Stock has not used her academic freedom to credibly publish on actual research; she has used it to campaign against rights for a minority.
It’s worth taking a look at exactly how Kathleen Stock has used her “academic freedom” over three and a half years of being basically solely devoted to these issues. Producing peer-reviewed research? Nope! 0! Literally nothing!
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reminder that not only does marianne williamson believe that aids was caused by people not wishing themselves healthy, she is also hugely anti-vax and a bully towards her staff
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Update: he tweeted about it, deleted it, and liked some tweets in response from literal nazis
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Walsh and Shapiro on the Club Q shooting vs Walsh and Shapiro on the Pulse shooting
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I can think of no better encapsulation of the anti woke crusaders than this guy, who rails against a woman's translation of the Odyssey for twenty tweets before admitting he can't translate greek
1 month from today, Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad comes out.
In 2017, she became the first woman ever to translate the Odyssey into English
I want to be careful with my words here: her translation was abominable, a crime against the classics. Now she’s back
Part 1:
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It's a wild story because it's another example of how something that began as a 4chan shitpost (QAnon) is defining the discourse (everyone is a pedo) and chan board tactics are influencing real politics (anons via Raichik, and then Carlson, spam lies and abuse)
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@ChudsOfTikTok
This article has serious flaws. You don't show evidence of how raichik made the initial connection to seth dillon, and instead assert it could be because her and shapiro are both jewish, which invites antisemitic conspiracizing. You need to anonymize the address of raichik's dad.
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Here,
@swordsjew
explains how, much like QAnon, none of this conspiracizing or coordinated hate stops actual child abuse. At worst, it lessens institutional power to intervene in an abusive family situation.
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I'm re-upping this but I'm still seeing loads of people quote tweet this and say some flavor of "they deserved it." That sucks! The only people who really truly deserve to get their asses handed to them are the people doing the scamming.
Two QAnon influencers running crypto scams steal more than $2 million from their followers
June 20, 2022
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Ironically, anti trans activists (and the cass report itself) are quite happy to believe there are thousands of detrasitioners, for which they use the r/detransition subreddit subscriber count as proof. That this is a completely unscientific measure seems not to trouble them.
Putting aside the fact that this is a made-up number, if this were true we would see far higher regret rates in surveys of adult trans people.
Or does the anti-trans braintrust think that people are happy with their transitions until the moment they seek to reverse them?
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this is exactly the story I wanted someone to explain - where did all the content come from, and why? It was everywhere, so it couldn't have just been men's rights people.
@TaylorLorenz
explains it's the creator economy in action incentivizing coverage.
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@Shayan86
Ha! I emailed Johns Hopkins about him ages ago and they got back to me recently, confirming that they had no such alum. Lemme dig up the email.
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Rowling RTing this person indicates we've got a five-alarm fire on our hands. Dr Em is a bit of a luminary in the GC movement who produces absolutely insane conspiracy theories about trans people abusing kids.
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It's akin to the
@rcgp
hosting a "vaccine safety conference", with featured speaker Andrew Wakefield.
CAN-SG is a new paint job over the same group of anti-trans anti-science bigots, like Stella O' Malley. They want to prevent all transition. Here's her director at Genspect:
Trans Safety Network have discovered that the Royal College of General Practitioners (
@rcgp
) Conference Centre has been booked to host a conference run by conversion therapists and anti-trans activists, under the brand name of "CAN-SG"
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I was also proud to have worked on this piece, and wake up to the news that Malone has finally finally been suspended from Twitter. Fun fact: when I called him out for lying about inventing mRNA vaccine, he sent his Twitter followers to harass me.
Two of this year's biggest influencers in the anti-COVID-vax movement, Robert Malone and Mike Yeadon, used their scientific careers to lend credence to anti-scientific narratives.
@whoisernie
pressed them on the contradictions in their stories.
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Since making this thread, I've been called a pedophile a bunch of times. This is obviously not good faith criticism. This is an attempt to terrorize LGBTQ people into silence.
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@AaronBastani
the "blackrock esg" score thing is an explicitly rightwing conspiracy theory meant to discredit any progressive action taken by corporations, and it's deeply embarassing to see you casually dip into that language
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You might be wondering "man why have there been so many stories recently about these young fascists working for GOP campaigns"
This is an absolutely unmissable story from
@noturtlesoup17
going undercover to find out.
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@daliagebrial
Hey this is a screenshot from a conspiracy website and completely misrepresents what harari says - this is a critique of how capitalism creates "unemployable people" and is nowhere near the eugenecist sentiment it's claimed to be
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Applebaum says she won't relitigate any of these firings, but then only tells one side of the story in each case - anonymously, without evidence - which by default invites readers to relitigate in favor of the accused.
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First: one of the ideological groups responsible for this protest are Sovereign Citizens, most famous last year for training in “military style camps” to attack vaccination centres.
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Everyone who's an AI evangelist is about to get a pointed demonstration on why chatgpt cannot replace writers.
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What strikes me here is the comparison between those in the osint world, who try to disprove their hypothesis with every piece of evidence, and Hersh, who takes contradictory evidence as proof that he was right all along and that osint people are all just computer nerds
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Just got served a tiktok where a white american guy did casual antisemitic stereotypes for laughs, he was trolling people who called him out in comments. It had 401k views and 50k likes. That indifferent cruelty scares me more than the pandemic's conspiratorial antisemitism
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