Matt Abrams
@mattabrams.org
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattabrams Advisor, Investor, Co-Founder, Board Member cursed (and blessed) with curiosity and a drive to #leaveitbetter Focused on intersection of quality information, deliberative dialogue (citizens’ assemblies), and trust
We will livestream our talk on Tech CEO Culture, featuring @karaswisher.bsky.social, podcaster, journalist, and author of Burn Book. Saturday 9 May 2026, 3:30-5:00 PM BST. Hosted with @mctd.bsky.social and @jbs.cam.ac.uk. www.youtube.com/live/r6LCAUC...
Cambridge Disinformation Summit
Tech CEO Culture with Kara Swisher, fireside chat at the University of Cambridge, 9 May 2026 3:30 PM
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Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Epstein and Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records ... she claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984."
Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined
An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.
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The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February. A record number of Americans are withdrawing from their 401ks to cover expenses. Americans owe $18.5 trillion in debt — an historic high. Meanwhile, the wealth of America's 935 billionaires soared by $1.5 trillion in 2025. “Golden Age” for whom?
The king of the hypocrites, really. Just an utterly shameless person who also, if I recall correctly, covered up sexual abuse crimes.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoJim Jordan: "You have a right to protest in the street, but that doesn't give you a right to go into the Capitol and disrupt Congress"
Instead, Kari Lake has badly damaged America's international broadcasters and wasted millions of dollars of taxpayers money www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
There are four non-mutually-exclusive fundamental incentives to disinformation campaigns: 1) financial 2) power 3) physical 4) social-psychological I assess the most powerful current narratives are to offer: Absolution of shame and self-regulation. This supports all four incentives.
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 6mo agoDefinitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Do Americans appreciate how quickly they are alienating even their staunchest former allies? Read conservative @tomtugendhat.bsky.social from the UK and former Canadian PM Stephen Harper making the case for sovereignty: dispatches.tomtugendhat.org/p/the-two-em... and www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
The Two Empires of AI
AI may feel universal but the capability is sovereign and the power sits in the US and China. Sovereignty matters. Written together with Christopher Ahlberg.
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"Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some"
Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe open misogyny era is so back
“Cognitive warfare is not coming—it is already here.” Discussion from Mark Van Helzing link: www.linkedin.com/pulse/cognit...
Bellingcat's Discord community is still digging through the Epstein files and making sure they're all safely backed up. You can join the thread here: discord.com/channels/709... Some really weird stuff in there. New users can use this link to join the server: discord.com/invite/belli...
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
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Similar to my testimony in European Parliament last year. youtu.be/xJaJfROLs6Y?...
Prof Jagolinzer testifies to EU Parliament about the dark uses of cryptocurrency
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
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Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 6mo ago"There is a global wave of governments being captured by big money, whether that’s big crypto money or big tech money." Great to talk to @oliverbullough.bsky.social about how money laundering has gone global - and it's capturing our politics democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dirty-mone...
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Pay attention to this. The purpose of these investigations is not just to manufacture evidence to support Trump’s 2020 “voter fraud” accusations, but also to set the stage for another round of efforts to suppress votes and delegitimize election results in 2026 (which the GOP is likely to lose).
Doug Bock Clark@dougbockclark.bsky.social · 6mo ago1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document. Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Weeks before the 2024 election, American military hackers carried out a secret operation to disrupt the work of Russian trolls spewing false information at US voters. https://cnn.it/4qHxzHb
“At times, Minneapolis reminded me of what I saw during the Arab Spring in 2011, a series of street clashes between protesters and police that quickly swelled into a much larger struggle against autocracy,” Robert F. Worth reports.
The Minneapolis Uprising
A series of street-level clashes have snowballed into a larger fight against autocracy.
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This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
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👇💯 The lack of intellectual humility, particularly across tech / venture, is not self-destructive as it should be, but rather humanity-destructive
Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is a wild “I’ve got mine but…” take coming from a man who still doesn’t realize he was the mark. Jason doesn’t realize what he put in power — even while he’s trying to tug on its leash. But he wants to permission to keep $upporting it, so he’s flipping the power structure to reallocate blame.
I post politically on eXtwitter and no science/tech, and here only post on science/tech. But we must not look away from what is happening right now, out in the open with no regard for morality or human life. Do not look away.
If you're interested in seeing how framing contests are taking shape after the ICE killing of another person in Minneapolis, here's a window into the conversation on X this morning. Link to interactive graph: faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot... * I put this together quickly. Sorry for any errors
Please reshare the below post, unfortunately some accounts with lots of followers have reposted the false claim and loads of people are falling for it.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6mo agoI'm seeing people mistakenly claim the gun photo was posted before today, but its just how Google sometimes dates images based on the original date of the thread its posted in, not when it was posted. The photo was posted an hour ago in this 5 day old thread www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...
Same thing every time: 1. Reframe the victim as the villain 2. Make the state the injured party 3. Turn critique into complicity (“oh so you side with terrorists”) 4. Expand blame to an entire out-group 5. Fuse to a larger us-against-them story to keep any alarmed within the base from defecting
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoNoem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
not surprising and yet still jarring to read ex-FBI agents describing how Kash Patel and Bongino reacted to Charlie Kirk's murder while running the agency. truly the content creator administration/podcast govt www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
It’s not a meme it’s a deceptively edited photograph.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe White House is just outright admitting that it's posting fake and misleading information about a defendant who has been criminally charged by the feds.
US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties
SAINT JAVELIN@saintjavelin.bsky.social · 7mo agoTrump’s Board of Peace has now officially been recognized as an international organization, according to the White House.
Podcast Jay and the Resentment Bros own this
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 7mo agoThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
As I tell my students: “Where there is chaos, there is opportunity.” There is a great opportunity to rebuild infrastructure in other regions and in private enterprises, with support from investors such as major pension funds. Opportunity to build, but with real urgency.
Nature@nature.com · 7mo agoUS science after a year of Trump A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce. go.nature.com/4jSm0ui
