Politics

The Oil and Gas Money Behind the Republicans Who Will Help Decide Deb Haaland’s Fate

Rep. Deb Haaland just finished a historic confirmation hearing to run the Department of Interior. If her nomination is pushed through committee, she will in all likelihood be confirmed as the first Indigenous person to ever serve on a presidential cabinet. If confirmed, Haaland would be in charge of more than 500 million acres of…

Earther Brian Kahn

SolarWinds Hackers Also Went After NASA and the FAA

Apparently not content with having penetrated the networks of such piddling federal agencies as the U.S. State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and that agency that maintains our nuclear stockpile, the hackers of the “SolarWinds” affair also went after NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration, according to a new report from the Washington Post.…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Google Lifts Ban on Political Advertising as America Seems to Be All Good Now

It’s been a little over a week since former-President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate in the impeachment trial surrounding his role in inciting a riot at the Capitol in January, and Google thinks it’s time we get back into the political swing of things. In the wake of the November presidential election, Facebook…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Rex Tillerson Screwed Up Investigation Into Cuba ‘Sonic Weapon’ Attacks, New Report Says

A newly released report says Rex Tillerson’s State Department responded in a slow, disorganized fashion to the “Havana syndrome”—the mysterious rash of neural disorders that has plagued U.S. and Canadian diplomats in Cuba and other locations since 2016. A previously undisclosed report from the State Department’s Accountability Review Board paints a picture of dysfunction, miscommunication…

Tech News Lucas Ropek

Facebook to Restrict Content From Myanmar’s Military Government Following Coup

Facebook has pledged to restrict the widespread distribution of content from Myanmar’s military regime following a successful coup that toppled the democratically elected government on Feb. 1. The pledge comes from a new blog post at Facebook’s website that seems to implicitly acknowledge the potential for authoritarians to use the social media platform in horrendous…

Social Media Matt Novak

Twitter to Start Labeling Personal Accounts of Heads of State

Starting next week, you should start seeing new labels on more government-run Twitter accounts as well as the personal accounts of heads of state. It’s part of Twitter’s latest expansion of its policy on government-affiliated accounts, with the idea being that this additional context should help users “have a more informed experience on Twitter,” the…

Social Media Alyse Stanley

Biden Administration Says It Will Address Global Chip Shortage

The Biden administration plans to take steps to address the global chip shortage affecting automakers, laptop makers, and other manufacturers that rely on the semiconductor industry, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said. According to Bloomberg, Psaki told White House reporters that the administration will identify “choke points” in the current supply chain and figure…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Biden Administration Finally Puts the TikTok ‘Sale’ Out of Its Misery

Good morning my old nemesis, the ghost of the TikTok ban past. The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that the Biden administration has “shelved” the TikTok-Oracle-Walmart partnership deal indefinitely, according to sources familiar with the matter. While any number of news cycles about TikTok’s threat to national security might be coming down the pike,…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Twitter Blocks Hundreds of Accounts Tied to Protests by Farmers in India

Twitter has blocked the accounts of at least 500 people and groups involved in the current protests by farmers in India at the request of the Indian government, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. Some of the accounts have even been permanently deleted. The Indian government, led by nationalist figure Prime Minister Narendra…

Social Media Matt Novak

The Future of Republican Politics Is Shitposting

Last week, the House voted to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments in large part because of what the new Georgia congresswoman posted on social media. While she was well-known as a QAnon conspiracy theorist before coming to Congress, in recent weeks, we’ve learned Taylor Greene trafficked in an outlandish and anti-Semitic…

Politics Brian Kahn

Elaborate Network of Joint Federal-State-Local Intel Centers Conveniently Useless Before Jan. 6

Shocker! The massive joint federal-state-local surveillance apparatus that supposedly keeps the nation safe from terrorism shrugged and gave up before the Jan 6. riots at the Capitol, which killed five people and sparked a national crisis. Per the Wall Street Journal, which reviewed internal documents and interviewed current and former officials, offices called fusion centers—which…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Days After Blocking Facebook, Myanmar’s Military Government Has Now Blocked Instagram and Twitter

Myanmar’s new military-led government has blocked Instagram and Twitter in the country in an attempt to squash citizen resistance to the coup it staged earlier this week that ousted the country’s democratically elected government. The new restrictions were announced on Friday by Telenor, an internet provider with headquarters in Norway, which stated that all mobile…

Tech News Jody Serrano

Friday’s Gif Party Is Handsome at Every Age

You know what? It’s my first Friday gif party and I’m calling the shots. It’s a Plummer party. Christopher Plummer was immensely talented and prolific but I don’t think we talk enough about what an absolute, complete, and total dreamboat he was. So, just for you, I rented the 1965 cult classic Inside Daisy Clover,…

Movies Courtney Enlow

Dominion Tells Facebook, Parler, and Other Sites to Keep the Receipts

Dominion Voting Systems is taking some of the most vocal election fraud conspiracy theorists to court over their toothless claims in a string of billion-dollar defamation lawsuits. But with social media platforms purging far-right commentators and cracking down on election misinformation among other long-overdue moderation measures, Dominion has reportedly reached out to ensure all of…

Politics Alyse Stanley

Feds: Let’s Launch a Domestic Terror War!

If you loved the first War on Terror, just wait until you get a load of the sequel. Ever since the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol that killed five people and injured hundreds, lawmakers and current and former government officials have been discussing how to launch a new war on extremism—only this time, the…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Newsmax Anchor Loses Final Shred of Self-Respect, Apologizes to the MyPillow Guy

Perhaps the only thing more embarrassing than being the Newsmax guy interviewing the MyPillow CEO on election fraud is being the Newsmax guy forced to apologize to the MyPillow CEO about election fraud. Per the Independent, MyPillow exec Mike Lindell—who managed to get bizarrely close to ex-President Donald Trump’s administration and is likely the first…

Politics Tom McKay

Voting Machine Company Smartmatic Hits Trump Cronies, Fox News With $2.7 Billion Dollar Lawsuit

Since the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden as the winner, Donald Trump and his team of lawyers, sycophants, and media representatives have engaged in a broad disinformation campaign to obscure the truth. A string of lawsuits from the voting machine manufacturer Dominion began in January, and the legal effort has already shown benefits…

Tech News Rhett Jones

AOC and Bernie Sanders Push Joe Biden to Declare a Climate Emergency With a New Bill

Between fires, heat waves, droughts and storms, the climate crisis is an emergency. A new bill demands that the U.S. start acting like it. The legislation, introduced by Senators Bernie Sanders and Jeff Merkley and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Earl Blumenauer on Thursday, would require President Joe Biden to declare a national emergency on climate…

Earther Dharna Noor

Why Setting a Clean Energy Standard Should Be Democrats’ Next Move

Prior to last month, the last time Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the White House was the early Obama years. And one of the signature failures of that period was a 2009 bill that would’ve created a national cap and trade program but ultimately never came to a vote in the Senate (it…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Myanmar’s New Government Blocks Facebook After Military Coup

Myanmar’s new government has ordered internet providers in the country to block Facebook in an attempt to quell dissent following a successful military coup earlier this week, according to internet-monitoring service NetBlocks and internet company Telenor Myanmar. Roughly half of Myanmar’s population of 55 million people use Facebook, according to Burmese news site Irrawaddy, and…

Social Media Matt Novak

The Oil and Gas Money Behind the Republicans Who Will Help Decide Deb Haaland’s Fate

SolarWinds Hackers Also Went After NASA and the FAA

Google Lifts Ban on Political Advertising as America Seems to Be All Good Now

Rex Tillerson Screwed Up Investigation Into Cuba ‘Sonic Weapon’ Attacks, New Report Says

Facebook to Restrict Content From Myanmar’s Military Government Following Coup

Twitter to Start Labeling Personal Accounts of Heads of State

Biden Administration Says It Will Address Global Chip Shortage

Biden Administration Finally Puts the TikTok ‘Sale’ Out of Its Misery

Twitter Blocks Hundreds of Accounts Tied to Protests by Farmers in India

The Future of Republican Politics Is Shitposting

Elaborate Network of Joint Federal-State-Local Intel Centers Conveniently Useless Before Jan. 6

Days After Blocking Facebook, Myanmar’s Military Government Has Now Blocked Instagram and Twitter

Friday’s Gif Party Is Handsome at Every Age

Dominion Tells Facebook, Parler, and Other Sites to Keep the Receipts

Feds: Let’s Launch a Domestic Terror War!

Newsmax Anchor Loses Final Shred of Self-Respect, Apologizes to the MyPillow Guy

Voting Machine Company Smartmatic Hits Trump Cronies, Fox News With $2.7 Billion Dollar Lawsuit

AOC and Bernie Sanders Push Joe Biden to Declare a Climate Emergency With a New Bill

Why Setting a Clean Energy Standard Should Be Democrats’ Next Move

Myanmar’s New Government Blocks Facebook After Military Coup

Should We Be Hyped—or Freaked Out—About Nuclear Microreactors?

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Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

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