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Nathaniel Ohlheiser

@nathanielohlheiser.bsky.social

autocorrect thinks my last name should be "hellraiser" Journalist interested in various bleak topics he/him; they/them website tk | nathaniel.ohlheiser@pm.me

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Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 5d ago

Wikipedia is one of the last good sites on the internet, and LGBTQ+ editors are determined to keep it that way. @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy attended a recent convention for LGBTQ+ editors and wrote about what they found. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Queer and Trans Wikipedia Editors Convene in Canada - Assigned Media

Queering Wiki 2026 was the first in-person global gathering of LGBTQ+ contributors to Wikipedia and related projects.

assignedmedia.org

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404media.co/companies-ar...

Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search

Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.

404media.co

Lisa Song@lisalsong.bsky.social · 6mo ago

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

Cecilia D'Anastasio@cecianasta.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New: Manosphere influencer Clavicular is everywhere, and that’s not an accident. A paid marketing campaign is spreading video clips of his controversial antics across social media. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Video Clipping Machine Behind Clavicular’s Viral Fame

Videos of the influencer Clavicular are inescapable online. Social media is awash with clips of his sharp-featured face and muscular body — the result of a “looksmaxxing” regimen that can include test...

bloomberg.com

Nathaniel Ohlheiser@nathanielohlheiser.bsky.social · 7mo ago

After a breaking news event, unverified speculation and bs seeks out your attention because it moves faster than the process of verifying facts. It tells you what you want to hear. This is no different. I am once again asking people not to pollute online.

AltWatcher@altwatcher.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In the replies to AltNPS's posts, the OVERWHELMING majority of commenters immediately jumped to claiming the shooting was fake, or staged. AltNPS isn't helping matters by speculating, literally saying "something doesn't add up."

Alt National Park Service: Shots fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Trump and Melania evacuated by Secret Service from the Washington Hilton. The shooter, who fired from the lobby just outside the ballroom, is dead. Event is expected to resume. [An anonymous commenter replies: "Staged." They post a screenshot of Mueller, She Wrote saying "Why would they resume the program without knowing whether the gunman acted alone?"]
Nathaniel Ohlheiser@nathanielohlheiser.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I probably worked harder while a student at Hampshire than I have at any point in my life, and yet, this college was often a place of healing and recovery for me. I figured out what I wanted to do with my life there. I'm sad to see it go.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Pete Hegseth believes that Jesus guides Tomahawk missiles, even when they hit elementary schools. I wrote about the roots of his militant faith - from the Crusades to the confederacy - and what they mean for the US and Iran today.

Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran

The bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?

theguardian.com

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Conservative parents’ advocacy groups are using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries (the books aren't actually pornographic) www.404media.co/blockade-the...

‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning

Groups that challenge books have begun using Gemini, ChatGPT, xAI, and other AI tools to try to get books banned.

404media.co

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

House passes bill banning ‘leftist indoctrination’ and LGBTQ+ teaching in public schools • New Hampshire Bulletin

New Hampshire House Republicans are moving forward with a new attempt to regulate teaching on race, history, and LGTBQ+ issues in public schools. On Thursday, the chamber passed a bill that would ban ...

newhampshirebulletin.com

Hypervisible@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9mo ago

“Beyond laundering bigotry as news, digital blackface exposes Black users to a level of personalized abuse and harassment that harkens to a minstrelsy heyday when racists were fully empowered to express their bigotry unbidden.”

Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending reality’

From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant - putting Black users at risk

theguardian.com

Karen Hao@karenhao.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison. Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

Email from Epstein to Goertzel: "free and home" Goertzel replies: ";-))) Congratulations!!!! Actually, I was just about to send you an email summarizing my recent progress, current situation, and future hypothetical plans...I'll probably do so tomorrow. I'm sure you're super-swamped, but it would be great to get together when you have the chance... ben" Goertzel continues: "p.s. Also, the Singularity Summit (futurist conference, but with some good scientific speakers this year) will be in NY this year, Oct 3-4...and Oct 5-6, afterwards, there will be a brainstorming workshop I think you might enjoy (where, basically, the ~20 speakers from the Summit will get together and try to make conceptual progress on various future-science issues). I'll remind you again when the date gets closer!"
Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · 9mo ago

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
Nathaniel Ohlheiser@nathanielohlheiser.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I've got a "Democracy Dies in Darkness" t-shirt and a Washington Post mug with a "#freepress" hashtag printed on it from my time working there. Both have faded to the point of being basically unreadable over time, just astronomical levels of prescience emanating from them.

Dr. Emily Friedman@ecfriedman.com · 9mo ago

The auteur lens of the creator economy too-often makes invisible the infrastructure necessary to do most work well. That is exponentially more true for work like journalism & scholarship that needs institutional memory, costly databases, EDITORS, fact-checking, & when really vital/risky, LAWYERS.

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.