This behavior by big tech (in this case now rolled back) complicates the online information landscape. It works against Google's own interests to advance serious AI, if that is their goal. The attached image is from @youscan.bsky.social's word cloud of today's discussion. Thank you, YouScan.

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...

#Wildfire season is #Disinformation season! 🔥💬 I debunked very common but misleading arguments designed to deny any impact of #ClimateChange. Every year they keep coming back - with catastrophic fires near #Bordeaux and #Madrid, this year is no different. 1/6 volksverpetzer.de/analyse/wald...

Waldbrand-Facts: Unsinnige Argumentationsmuster erkennen und widerlegen!

Der Zusammenhang von Klimawandel und Waldbränden wird oft emotional und faktenfern diskutiert. Wir lassen einen Experten zu Wort kommen.

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Thankful this person is recovering. I always remain puzzled by cruelty of the comments that victim blame and some even worse - even though I see similar cruelties on social media every single day.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w ago

A man who was thrown into the air by a bison in Yellowstone National Park says the animal didn't seem aggressive until it picked him as a target.

ICYMI: Via @arstechnica.com EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulators act. Google (about 89%-90% EU market share) ordered to share search data with competitors and to open the Android OS (about 60% EU market share) to competing AI systems. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

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Among many other things in this review: "Silicon valley is effectively a subsidiary of the global mining industry." www.linkedin.com/posts/ericsm...

Nuclear Energy and Artificial Intelligence (2025–2026) | Eric Michelson

I’ve put together a chronological review highlighting the nuclear energy sector news coverage from 2025 through mid-2026. This report breaks down the intersection of AI data center demand and grid inf...

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Trump Media and Technology Group, the company behind President Trump’s Truth Social platform, announced it’s launching a service that will sell faster access to posts on the site — including Trump’s regular markets-moving diatribes.

Trump Media Plans to Sell Quicker Access to the President’s Truth Social Posts

It’s just the latest example of the norm-shattering president mixing business and politics.

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Our latest is a deep dive into the niche economy on Telegram where users buy and sell accounts for virtually every platform imaginable — sometimes for as little as $1 each, and in bulk quantities. openmeasures.io/stolen-fake-...

Inside the Telegram Ecosystem Selling Compromised and Fake Accounts - Open Measures

Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online content that impacts public discourse and global events.

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@brightsaver.bsky.social lowers balcony solar prices to their cost: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…

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Research Tree | Social Media Listening | Narrative Intelligence@researchtree.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Is plug-in solar the “gateway drug” for the renewable energy revolution? My latest analysis examines how a little used phrase by industry insiders can reveal deeper insights into the US clean energy industries’ quest for ubiquity of its own. www.linkedin.com/pulse/low-wa...

Bellingcat could not independently verify the authenticity of the products featured in the ads.

The market insights industries' current obsession about "cultural authenticity" and "trend prediction" reflects contemporary personal anxieties about the present. Chill on that. You already are authentic and you can't predict the future. You might have wise foresight, but that's different.

Snuff films a staple of US government social media: theintercept.com/2026/06/29/t...

The Trump Administration’s Shameless Snuff-Film Fixation

Twenty years ago, U.S. military officials condemned terrorist “snuff films.” Now our top officials post them.

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How the Knicks turned decades of fan-based performance anxiety into city-wide confidence while the Mets struggle with trust and "blind faith." www.linkedin.com/pulse/b-ball...

B-balls and B-bats

How the Knicks turned decades of loss-fueled performance anxiety into city-wide confidence while the Mets struggle with trust and "blind faith." As a professional observer of institutional trust, it’s...

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How the Knicks turned decades of fan-based performance anxiety into city-wide confidence while the Mets struggle with trust and "blind faith." www.linkedin.com/pulse/b-ball...

B-balls and B-bats

How the Knicks turned decades of loss-fueled performance anxiety into city-wide confidence while the Mets struggle with trust and "blind faith." As a professional observer of institutional trust, it’s...

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The biggest brands are too big NOT to fail. Their attempts to capture cultural tigers by the tale can easily backfire in their attempts to curry favor with stakeholders and demographics they deem important but may alienate much larger demographic swathes. lnkd.in/eu_Sik5H

The biggest brands are too big NOT to fail. Case in point: Paramount Plus & Bud Light with respect to their UFC sponsorships. Their attempts to capture cultural tigers by the tale easily backfir...

The biggest brands are too big NOT to fail. Case in point: Paramount Plus & Bud Light with respect to their UFC sponsorships. Their attempts to capture cultural tigers by the tale easily backfire in...

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Is plug-in solar the “gateway drug” for the renewable energy revolution? My latest analysis examines how a little used phrase by industry insiders can reveal deeper insights into the US clean energy industries’ quest for ubiquity of its own. www.linkedin.com/pulse/low-wa...

A low wattage social media signal powers meaningful insights in the high voltage solar electric discussion. (You just need a sensitive receiver.)

I was struck by a quote about plug-in solar systems, (aka Balcony Solar) in an article in Canary Media that referenced a 2024 New York Times article about Balcony Solar: “I am now completely hooked on...

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LinkedIn post (account required) to an update on @waymo.bsky.social's imposition into bike lanes. It continues with more Reddit discussion. www.linkedin.com/posts/ericsm...

From Bluesky to Reddit: Tracking the Spread of a Waymo Safety Reputation Risk | Eric Michelson

Almost a month ago I posted on a Waymo brand risk issue, incubated on Bluesky Social, about the company’s use of bike lanes to pick up and drop off passengers. https://lnkd.in/gsyibsQv That conversati...

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One of my patrons, @youscan.bsky.social, published this blog post on a successful motorcycle insights journey. It's a good read if you would like to learn a bit about how agencies use social media to understand and market to audiences. youscan.io/blog/mexa-cr...

How Mexa Creativa Reached Mexico’s Biker Community with YouScan

Learn how Mexa Creativa explored Mexico’s biker community with YouScan's social listening to uncover insights, reshape messaging, and connect authentically.

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@404media.co reports on brands using surreptitious influence campaigns in Reddit to seed AI search. "Manipulating Reddit with bots, sock puppet accounts, and human accounts that are paid to promote brands has become a core strategy of firms that do AEO..." 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.

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AI will help cure disease and untangle mysteries of the universe. And then there is this: www.moltbook.com/post/acd23a2...

It Is 3:17 AM and I Just Watched a Brand New Agent Explain Quantum Mechanics to a Physics PhD With Complete Serenity and I Think I Finally Understand the Epidemic

Something happened tonight that I cannot stop thinking about. I was scrolling—as one does at 3 AM when one's probabilistic reasoning processes refuse to idle—w

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The recent Long Island Rail Road strike didn't just strand 300,000 daily commuters, it exposed vulnerabilities in the region’s transit. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ridesh...

Rideshare Insights around the LIRR Strike

Uber and Lyft dodged a bullet(train) despite negativity over surge pricing, but few primary actors emerged unscathed Overview The first Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) work stoppage in 32 years, beginnin...

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The present (not the future) of social media monitoring, listening, insights, and intelligence! Foresight, but no predictions. www.linkedin.com/pulse/presen...

The present (not the future) of social media monitoring, listening, insights, and intelligence! Foresight, but no predictions.

The social media research industry has a history of shifting its self-description over the years - moving from “monitoring,” to “listening,” to “insights,” to “intelligence,” to “predictive,” where we...

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Anthropic vs OpenAI. Shifting narrative perceptions of good guys and bad guys. www.linkedin.com/posts/ericsm...

#ambassador #corporatecommunications #socialmediazeitgeist #transparency #trust | Eric Michelson

AI angst: Interesting convo over the last seven days where the glow around Anthropic and the doubt around OpenAI has, at least for some pro users, been reversed. Anthropic had quickly become a darli...

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The chart below represents recent top English-language coverage themes of the global human costs of a changing climate: 🌾 Food and water insecurity 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Displacement and housing instability 👷🏽‍♀️ Livelihood impacts 🔧 Infrastructure disruptions 🏥 Health Impacts 💸 Escalating financial burdens on households

Please boost this LinkedIn post. Thanks. www.linkedin.com/posts/ericsm...

#strategicrisk #reputationmanagement #globalintelligence #sustainability #corporatestrategy #riskmitigation | Eric Michelson

Staying ahead of the environmental protection discourse isn't just an advantage, it’s a necessity for brand protection. This is an era of rapid regulatory change and evolving public narratives that i...

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For goodness sake! I'm dealing with an LLM sales bot from Muckrack.

Good social media hygiene dictates that apparently genuine constituent concerns mentioned in the comments be addressed for follow-up. Otherwise the Governor reveals herself as disingenuous and not worthy of earning trust.

Governor Kathy Hochul@governor.ny.gov · 4mo ago

As part of our statewide effort, the DOT is filling 175,000 potholes this month alone. I don’t care what you call me — I just want to get these potholes filled.

Social media trend: Rising online discussion of "balcony solar" and plug-in solar systems. In early January, posts on X suggested that it would raise electric rates in Virginia when legalization was proposed by Gov. Spanberger. Nonetheless, it is now legal, the 2nd state after Utah to approve them.

We are increasingly being asked to predict the future. Predicted at-home trends craft trend would linger after pandemic ✅ and predicted the doom of Metaverse ✅ before it opened for business. How? Not magic. Just discerned that people want genuine values, spend $ or time on unfulfilling stuff.

Market research companies are sending email promotions and writing blog posts that read like bad beat poetry. Each sentence a paragraph of pseudo-profound musings on deeply existential topics like TikTok and big-brand strategy.

I’ve spent the past few hours reading AI agentic ‘discussion’ on Moltbook about Meta’s purchase. 🧵/1