David F. Carr

Billionaires, too. And maybe some chickenshit law firms and universities. Powerful executives cozied up to Trump. Now they fear a reckoning. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Folks, if you hate authoritarianism, you should be feeling good this morning. In Serbia, a student-led movement just ousted a longtime strongman, peacefully. And we Americans should be paying attention, because we have a chance in November to send a similar message. (link below)

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

X has made a comeback with some communities, namely AI and tech, but it is not Twitter of old. On X, users have been spreading the name of a woman they think is Cornell's Jane Doe. One particular post doxed a woman's address and phone numbers and was viewed 1.4 million times.

I’m no legislator but it seems like sanctioning Russia would be a fairly central part of a Russia Sanctions Act

I showed my girls Superman (1978) last night and I couldn’t stop thinking about how that was my grandma’s nyc and how now it’s a completely different place

My teenage children, who have never set foot in NYC, go around saying "Help me, Mamdani!" whenever anything goes wrong and/or they can't figure out their homework, just to give everybody a sense of the scale of this man's presence in the culture lol

Would love to meet the Professor who managed to get a student to change their mind on anything to do with their political beliefs. I don’t think I did in 40 years of teaching political philosophy.

Taylor: He has turned the presidency into a side hustle. He has turned the White House into a deposit box for bribes, and he has turned your government into, forgive my words, a fucking ATM machine. So no, we don't want his name on the buildings.

Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. adults belong to an online community, Pew finds. Most joined knowing few of the people there, and only about 1 in 5 feel very close to others. Yet 56% of members visit their main one every day. Community is built by showing up. #SocialMedia www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

It does appear the "data center eliminated Nazi and otherwise fuckface bots" narrative is basically wishcasting, it does show you how popular getting rid of this shit would broadly be, and that maybe a smart person should run on it.

The richest person on earth bought a media outlet so he could spread lies. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Google's testing Direct Offers in AI Mode: ads dangling a one-time promo code at high-intent shoppers, with AI picking who sees what. Runs only on AI Max campaigns. Watch margins and incrementality. searchengineland.com/google-ads-t...

Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/10/09/chatgpt-users-iran-planted-ai-generated-articles-us-news-media/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019455

Bluesky wants to give you your own domain on the open web techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/b... via @techcrunch

Pinterest’s AI now turns beauty Pins into action plans https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/pinterests-ai-now-turns-beauty-pins-into-action-plans/

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Jared Kushner is key to understanding the Trump regime’s global scale of corruption. No talent, no morals—just bottomless greed, access to power. @cjcmichel.bsky.social exposes him in a new book, “United States of Oligarchy.” Here’s our talk (get him on your show!) youtu.be/8LDhLXOwjcI?...

Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do

Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral.

So, actually! Fun fact 🤓 ⬇️ The correct spelling is UNITED States, not “Unites States.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Google has deployed a new anti-spam system designed to detect AI content. This is why it may be a part of Google's Spam Update. www.searchenginejournal.com/google-has-d...

Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds launched an updated campaign website this week stripping away numerous prominent references to his endorsement from Donald Trump.

Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.

After banning CNN, MS NOW & Politico from the White House, he installs State-Run television, just like they have in so many other countries... Sieg Heil, ya'll. #38Days 🌊

I will never get over how incredibly stupid this is. Do they not know what risk pools are? Do they not know what insurance is???

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

The weird cults behind AI doomer fantasies? Yeah, the Nerd Reich podcast covered that more than a year go. Here's our TESCREAL explainer with @xriskology.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1tc...

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

I'm in love.

You should hire Charli based on how cool she is alone. But if that's not enough she is also a very accomplished developer.

This is very good

Let’s try not to confuse AI safety with infra security. If the problem is that the networks are insecure then it seems like we make that the priority. If LLMs are answering “make this website” prompts with “the logical solution is to kill all humans” that’s a separate problem

his access to the gold and his total recent career path were driven by strong ties to someone with a powerful position within the Trump administration.

A former CIA officer who was arrested with more than 303 gold bars worth $40 million at his home is working to finalize a plea deal with federal prosecutors that could help keep the case shrouded in mystery. One thing that's clear about this dude:

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I would pay a little money to hear him explain what Green Lantern is.

Someone finally wrote a bad review of my book! Its argument: The tech bros are not fascists and we need not worry about them. Its author: a fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI). FAI's ideological godfather and treasured idol: Peter Thiel. 🫠

The arguments against impeaching Trump next year are all bad and spurious, but they're even weaker as applied to all the other impeachable members of the Cabinet, etc. And impeaching Hegseth for literal murder should be top of the list.

“I’m not an anti-technologist,” says Jill Lepore, discussing her new book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State” on @techcrunch.com's podcast. “My beef is the ways in which private corporations have increasingly taken on the functions of the state.” techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/h...

MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/m...

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