I spoke with 10 CNNers about David Ellison's essay in The NYT, in which he tried to convince the public he'll be a good steward of CNN. Suffice to say, no one at the network is buying what he's selling. “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS." www.status.news/p/david-elli...

The Ellison Credibility Crisis

The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at C...

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A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.

60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals

Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity

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lmao you hired bari weiss to run CBS News dude who are you trying to fool here

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh yeah, David Ellison is legit scared he's gonna lose. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

there is an entire industry of people who give their opinion or predict how things are going to go and their entire job is to be correct are they ever correct? rarely. are there repercussions for being wrong, the thing they are being paid not to be? haha no, no there are not

the corporatocracy is afraid of words

Ben McKenzie Says Major Streamers Were Scared to License His Anti-Crypto Documentary, So He Found a Different Way to Reach Audiences

Ben McKenzie, "The O.C." star turned documentarian, is releasing his film about cryptocurrency in a unique way.

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I love the coverage of this stuff, as if a corrupt fascist kakistocracy is capable of building a useful "framework for AI"

White House finalizes AI framework behind closed doors

The White House said it met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models — but it won't say what the framework contains.

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A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.

Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now

The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.

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i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

"the highest-ranked Retail Sales Consultant for the prior month was instructed by his or her supervisor to tie the lowest ranked sales consultant for the prior month to a chair in the back office and thereafter assault that person by violently smashing a cream pie in their face."

Comcast store punished low sales by smashing pies in workers' faces, lawsuit claims

Comcast, accused of negligence, says lawsuit mischaracterized alleged events.

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national security requires letting the largely-unregulated gas center turbines powering Elon Musk's fifth-placed AI software disproportionately funnel toxic chemicals into minority neighborhoods

Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters

Trump's DOJ says citizens should no longer be able to enforce environmental laws.

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There he is! There's our guy!

Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now

The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.

hellgatenyc.com

genuinely not bright enough to understand he's being dog-walked into the midterms

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Update: No deal, back to war, Trump says.

rich right wingers and corporations actively destroyed online public spaces where scientists, journalists, educators and progressives could communicate semi-free of harassment then when those internet refugees naturally coalesce in any remaining spaces they get yelled at for being in a bubble

Bluesky’s new CEO wants to grow it all

Bluesky is many different things in a trenchcoat.

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i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

remember how the press and politicians were obsessed with "racing China to 5G?" The claim was you had to give AT&T and Verizon everything they wanted on policy or we'd be stuck in the stone age. It ended with China offering better, faster, cheaper, 5G and U.S. 5G being shitty and expensive. 🗽

The US might lose the AI race to China. Should Americans care?

Everyone in Silicon Valley and the Beltway is freaked out about Chinese AI, but there’s less consensus on what to do about it.

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Law Firm Chose to Get in Bed With Corrupt Serial Liar Breaking Laws You’ll never guess what happened next!

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trump “came up with a completely false quote saying I acknowledged things I never said. “My god." — Brad Karp, then the chairman of the law firm 2/2

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

This is not the exculpatory evidence he thinks it is.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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The NYT writes about rubber stamped consolidation under Trumpism but it takes until the 10th paragraph to even introduce the idea of harms to real people, and even then it's framed as dismissable opinion in a "both sides" debate this is not journalism, it's extraction class agitprop

Companies Rush to Close Daring Deals Under Trump

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This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

JK Rowling centre says Amnesty apology does not solve ‘reputational damage’ — The Independent

Beira’s Place was among organisations labelled ‘anti-rights’ in a briefing document.

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reuters notes they weren't even paying attention to what their own software was doing in real time

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe

OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped ​containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that drew global a...

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Nice league you got there, be a real shame to get put in a spin cycle by the most disingenuous people alive

Defector@defector.com · 6d ago

WNBA suspends Seattle Storm minority owner for being rude to transphobic shitheads:

the president refusing to defend a state against the nation he started a war with is, like, kind of the biggest thing, you know? kinda sails right past "impeachable" and into darker territory.

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is a crisis of federalism. Tim Walz is asserting as fact that Iran attacked water infrastructure in Minnesota and several other states. And Trump is saying it's Minnesota's own fault they were attacked as part of a war he started.

oh is it caravan season again it always comes around so fast

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "If we're not in office our country will be invaded at levels that make Spain look small time. That's gonna be a talking point for the midterms."

NORMAL PEOPLE: Every single one of these assholes told a dumb brazen lie to our faces and should never be trusted again. CORPORATE MEDIA: Thank you for coming back to chat with us, sir!

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 5d ago

We could've made this montage of liars an hour long but you get the point

Seth Harp, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, asserted plainly that COVID came from a U.S.-funded laboratory in his book “The Fort Bragg Cartel.” There’s no reason to platform lab leak hysteria and its proponents in credible outlets.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d ago

And here is the same Alex Jones bullshit appearing in Rolling Stone. Unbelievably embarrassing to publish this.

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...