Corey Pein
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author, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley writer, @thebaffler.com, @majorityreport.bsky.social's daily amquickie.com newsletter
O’Neal helped purge me & all the other Black full-time staff columnists at the Post Opinion Section. I challenged his move to fire me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. And he testified against me in June. We are expecting an arbitration ruling soon. Convenient time for him to quit.
Natalie Korach@nataliekorach.bsky.social · 5d agoNew: Washington Post Opinion editor Adam O’Neal is leaving, he announced in an internal memo Friday
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
Stories from just the last week. As always, these are just the horrifying cruelties we *know about* and the scope/reality is even worse Every single story deserves widespread outrage & condemnation & mobilization, but their very ubiquity often leads to each story’s news cycle lasting a few days
A glut of AI-written fiction is drowning out human authors, new research shows. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...
Unlocked! Belatedly, I look at Vampire Survivors, and lament that everything is gambling now, even when the only thing you're wasting is your time:
Vampire Survivors (poncle, 2022)
If there is a vampire here, it is one that drains us of our time, our life, our joy.
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Haven't seen much chatter about Sebastian Junger joining Vichy 60 Minutes, so I'll just say I saw a screening of Restrepo attended by high schoolers and by the Q&A a lot of them seemed pumped to enlist and shoot some big patriotic guns.
"Covering an area the size of Britain, Western Sahara is designated as a “non-self-governing territory” by the United Nations and remains on its official list of territories still awaiting decolonization." Eoghan Gilmartin for @africaisacountry1.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2026/07/odys...
Odyssey to Africa’s last colony
Backed by Moroccan state subsidies, Christopher Nolan’s decision to film The Odyssey in occupied Western Sahara is the latest and highest-profile chapter in a five-decade campaign to normalize colonia...
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A year after California labor leader arrested at immigration protest, feds move to drop case
A year after California labor leader arrested at immigration protest, feds move to drop case
The government on Monday filed a motion to dismiss the case against David Huerta, president of Service Employees International Union California. Huerta hailed the move as a victory.
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Europe is growing ever more skeptical of Palantir and other American tech companies. Enter ChapsVision, an obscure rival with a contract for France's spy agency and ambitions to become a “European champion" of AI. Read more: bloom.bg/4x6DYP7 📷️: Marie Magnin/Bloomberg
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
futurism.com
OUT NOW: Who the Hell is Andy Ngo? feat. @socialistdogmom.bsky.social Join us as we unpack the life and career of MAGA’s favorite anti-antifa propagandist. You can find it on all the podcast apps. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1JdY...
126: Who the Hell is Andy Ngo? feat. Molly Conger
Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · July 27 · 3h 1m
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Abhijeet Dipke, face of India's first Gen Z protest movement
Based in Boston, US, until early June, Dipke flew back to India to launch a protest near the Jantar Mantar observatory in the heart of Delhi.
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Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 2w agoNews outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW
Another example of how Bari Weiss is polluting CBS News with crazy talk from her pals. The CBS homepage today features this drek by anti-science quack Alex Berenson. You might remember Alex, the guy who got everything wrong about covid. Now he says coverage of cyclospora is overblown. (It's not)
The US system is set up to just let people die if not actively kill them.
Sridhar Ramesh@radishharmers.bsky.social · 2w agoAll my life I heard pro-US sob stories about wait times in other countries' healthcare systems. Then I became an adult with medical problems, and it turns out, specialist appointments take absurdly many months of waiting to get in the US. The discourse had me thinking I could get them in a week.
They're right www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Trump's Saudi nuclear deal risks igniting a Middle East arms race, lawmakers warn
The agreement, which could let Riyadh enrich its own uranium within a decade, is sparking warnings that Turkey, Egypt and others could soon demand the same deal, unraveling years of U.S. nonproliferat...
politico.com
I watched the Porky Pig & Daffy Duck movie on the plane and it had curious Ren & Stimpy vibes. Roadrunner was always my favorite though.
Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2w agoFinal trailer for ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ has been released. In theaters August 28. #CoyoteVsAcme
Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.
Just saw The Odyssey on a layover. Best parts were the Woke and the witch. Worst parts were all on the boat, and I love boats. I would say Oppenheimer had more humor, sadly.
Very grateful to see This American Life covering the Prairieland case. www.thisamericanlife.org/891/the-test...
The Test Case - This American Life
Some people in this country think Antifa is a dangerous domestic terror organization. Some think that’s a complete myth. This week we go to the federal trial where, for the first time, the government ...
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My cats do this and they really need to add some safety features
Andrew Beaujon@abeaujon.bsky.social · 3w ago"The homeowner believes a dog accidentally turned on a burner on the stovetop."
I think what infuriates people about Democrats' overgenerous eulogies of their fascist colleagues is the gap it highlights between the voters' idea of an elected's job description and the electeds' own ideas. It reveals the lack of representation.
