Technology columnist at The Washington Post. Previously tech reporter at The New York Times and The Atlantic
News and opinions about #technology, #internetculture, #media, #news, #tech, #twitter #journalist
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Last Notes npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "Teenagers have reported seeing pornographic material more on X than on adult sites. Research from the UK children’s commissioner found that 41% of teenagers reported seeing pornography on X, versus 37% for dedicated adult sites." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/04/x-twitter-porn-policy-under-18-opt-in npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz He says Meta has a pattern of bias against Palestinians, saying the company deleted content that mentioned deaths of relatives in Gaza, conducted investigations into use of 🇵🇸 flag emoji. Ppl who used the Ukraine or Israel flag weren’t subject to the same investigations npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz A former Meta engineer is speaking out against Meta’s bias in handling of content related to the attacks on Gaza, claiming in a lawsuit that Meta fired him for trying to fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinian IG posts npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz On this week’s Power User podcast, @gilduran and I go deep on Balajis, “Tech Zionism” and his dystopian plans for San Francisco. npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Breaking: npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz The World Record Egg has come out in support of Palestine npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz All my tech/online culture commentary is on YouTube now!! npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz On this week's Power User podcast @npub1sfj…u45j joins me to go deep on Balaji, "Tech Zionism", and billionaire VCs plans to transform S.F. into a sovereign state https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kpZdrv1P-U npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz TikTok executives proposed giving the Biden administration control over its U.S. operations and a kill switch if things went south. npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz All my tech/online culture commentary is on YouTube now!! npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “For most millennials, the old material markers of midlife, like owning a home or spending 20-plus years at one job, are a nostalgic fantasy. Even as we negotiate gray hairs and a changing body, little has changed in our career, home, and money prospects.” https://www.thecut.com/article/millennials-midlife-crisis-money-job-security.html npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “We know that it’s up, & it’s up earlier” npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Subscribe to my YouTube channel today! :D I'm working on a big series about kids and technology that will drop next month https://www.youtube.com/taylorlorenz npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Thank you!!! Subscribe to my YouTube channel today! :D I'm working on a big series about kids and technology that will drop next month https://www.youtube.com/taylorlorenz npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "If a strain other than JN.1 is selected [for the updated vaccine] this late in the development process, a protein-based option will not be available for the U.S. population," Novavax said https://www.yahoo.com/news/novavax-awaits-fda-decision-whether-201925046.html npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz @npub1msn…ps8n oh damn I don't think so sadly, that's annoying it's not mobile optimized npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz How debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-sexual-violence-zaka-ca7905bf9520b1e646f86d72cdf03244 npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “There was a lot about this condo that was really unique,” Nick says. “All of these unique things are unique because they’re illegal.” https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/05/23/they-bought-a-new-dc-luxury-condo-it-could-collapse/ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz All my tech/online culture commentary is on YouTube now!! npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "Dr. King said that in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Sadly, medically vulnerable people are under no illusion that the Democrats are any kind of friend. But their silence is surely loud and clear." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/biden-cdc-silent-as-north-carolina npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "After 50 years of crime without punishment, in many ways the violent settlers and the state have become one" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “At some point — whatever the justification — you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.” npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Revealed: US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house. Guardian investigation identifies Jonathan Keeperman, a former lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, as ‘Lomez’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/far-right-twitter-identity-revealed npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz SCOOP w/ @npub1e2d…c6dt: TikTok creators sue U.S. government over potential ban. The lawsuit is the second legal challenge to the new law, which creators say violates their First Amendment rights. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/14/tiktok-creators-lawsuit-ban/ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/13/campus-gaza-protests-student-protesters-role-history npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Nearly all Gaza campus protests in the US have been peaceful, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/peaceful-pro-palestinian-campus-protests npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “It explains why you get pathologized and called everything from a doomer to a snowflake for caring about anything but yourself” https://www.okdoomer.io/thebadguys/ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Pro-Israel counter-protesters at UCLA previously took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across Southern California. npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Arms manufacturers have embedded themselves in STEM programs across the country, creating engineering degree to defense industry pipelines. In 2020, the government gave more money to Lockheed Martin than the Department of Education https://inthesetimes.com/article/lockheed-martin-recruiting-military-industrial-complex-student-debt npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "Crushing the symbols of human creativity to produce a homogenized branded slab is pretty much where the tech industry is at in 2024" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/08/apple-ipad-ad-tim-cook-backlash/ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “We found the company's phony authors and their work everywhere from celebrity gossip outlets like Hollywood Life and Us Weekly to venerable newspapers like the Los Angeles Times.” https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “Breaking the solidarity that had arisen between liberals/leftists with disabled people… also involved reframing the most vulnerable as annoying, bad, possibly crazy, and definitely mean. We see that perception echoed everywhere today among leftists” https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/does-the-public-understand-that-variant?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “The point at which COVID proved it would continue to evade our vaccines was the point at which liberals (and many leftists) decided harming vulnerable people was ok, after all.” https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/does-the-public-understand-that-variant npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz MrBeast is cutting ties with Night media and taking personal control of his business https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2024/youtube-star-mr-beast--management-company-night-media npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “The media loves talking to PR people when it comes to corporations,” Piker said. “They have no problem talking to the media liaison when it comes to the NYPD or the LAPD and writing down everything they say without even asking remotely contentious questions. But when it comes to students, they don’t treat these students as an organized entity at all.” https://wapo.st/3y2WMp3 npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Twitch streamers are providing real-time unfiltered coverage of the student protests in a way that challenges mainstream media narratives. https://wapo.st/3y2WMp3 npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "The videos showed counterprotesters attacking students in the pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours, including beating them with sticks, using chemical sprays and launching fireworks as weapons. No arrests had been made in connection with the attack" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz @npub1nfm…qdx8 it's not Putin funded! It's literally just backed by Marc Andreessen and all the other usual right wing rich people who back things like this npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Even Elon is sick of her shit npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “‘Morning After the Revolution’ is an object lesson in irresponsible reporting.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/05/02/morning-after-revolution-nellie-bowles-review/ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “This CNN segment on Wednesday about the pro-Palestine student protest movement is one of the most jaw-dropping, poisonous pieces of propaganda I have ever seen on a U.S. news outlet.” npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “The real reason for the protests is being ignored in favor of stories about encampment crackdowns or overblown allegations of antisemitism.” https://newrepublic.com/article/181107/college-protests-israel-gaza-media-coverage-shameful npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “The reason so much of the news media sucks is they aren’t writing for you. They’re writing for their sources in Washington, for the industries they cover, for rich people, and for fancy awards committees.” https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resigning-from-the-intercept npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “We later found out that Hamas had offered on October 9 or 10 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip, but the government rejected the offer.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-doubt-netanyahu-preventing-hostage-deal-charges-ex-spokesman-of-families-forum/ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz All my tech/online culture commentary is on YouTube now!! npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "It is incumbent upon lawmakers to seek the declassification and urgent publication of as much of the intelligence related to TikTok and its potential use as a tool by the Chinese government as possible. The public deserves more than hypotheticals, and eventually, a court will demand the specifics" https://www.techpolicy.press/the-us-government-must-show-its-cards-on-tiktok/ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Only someone who does not think critically about the function of police under capitalism would use the word ‘police’ or ‘cops’ for sick and disabled people” https://jacobscheier.substack.com/p/among-the-mask-police-why-expert?triedRedirect=true npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz New episode of @poweruserpod is out!! @npub1a6c…2755 joined to chat about the TikTok ban then I talked to MKBHD about his viral AI pin takedown https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xATydXM2BZstGdmkWDnvg? npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Stanford Professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who advocates for mass COVID infection, rails against masking and who has cast doubt on the utility/safety of the mRNA COVD vaccines, just won an award with major prize money from one of the most powerful right-wing foundations in America. https://www.importantcontext.news/p/covid-contrarian-doctor-scores-big npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "The WHO, rather than demonstrate humility and contrition in the face of a world-circling failure that sent us down an infection control dead-end, continues to double down on excusing itself." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-whos-claim-that-covid-wasnt-airborne npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz David Leonhardt is once again using his perch at the NYT to spread outright misinformation, now about TikTok. Here's a great debunking of the nonsense study Leonhardt is promoting, that the NYT wrote up despite the fact that it's easily disproven https://www.cato.org/blog/lies-damned-lies-statistics-misleading-study-compares-tiktok-instagram npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “These emails tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Bodies were found with hands and feet tied “and there were signs of field executions. We do not know if they were buried alive or executed. Most of the bodies are decomposed.” https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/middleeast/khan-younis-nasser-hospital-mass-grave-intl/index.html npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz The 25 most-cited news organizations in the U.S. lost 75% of their total user engagement on Facebook and 58% of interactions on Instagram between 2022 and 2024. npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “They found that, relative to patients who had fully recovered, those with Long Covid showed a pattern of immune system activation indicating inflammation of myeloid cells and activation of a family of immune system proteins called the complement system.” https://scitechdaily.com/blood-biomarkers-reveal-the-hidden-world-of-long-covid/ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Another excellent debunking of a VERY awful study about TikTok blindly championed by the mainstream media https://matzko.substack.com/p/when-you-cant-believe-your-eyes npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz @npub1l0k…2u9u with all due respect, this is a deeply deeply ableist thing to say. I hope you can gain some empathy and learn about mental illness npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz The internet is 24/7 Gamergate and the media has learned nothing I fear! npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "The precipitous decline in traffic to conservative publications raises a larger and possibly unanswerable question: Did these operations ever really hold the political and cultural clout that critics ascribed to them at their peak?" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conservative-digital-media-traffic/678055/ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “I strenuously object to the idea that spending time away from your phone is somehow more virtuous.” https://www.businessinsider.com/i-love-my-smartphone-use-more-not-less-iphone-why-2024-4 npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz They need to start selling chocolate chip cookie dough without the chocolate chips. The chips only detract from the dough/cookie! In this essay I will npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz The latest episode of Power User podcast is out! danah boyd and I debunk Jonathan Haidt's moral panic around kids and technology, what's actually driving mental health issues, and why raising the age of social media use is a bad idea npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz @npub1rv0…xuyz completely agree with all your comments! npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “The existence of these uninspired and uninspiring people occupying the very best jobs in their industry is evidence of the limits of the ideals that liberal society purports to value.” https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/columnists-and-their-lives-of-quiet npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz @npub10d2…fy4f sure, but those same people now are the mainstream (which is scary!) npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "The story of COVID normalization is ultimately a story of breaking solidarity. We went from embracing a social model of public health that prioritized the safety of vulnerable people as the greatest priority, to one that explicitly denies them safety and promotes harming them." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-joined-conservatives-to npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "Fundamentally, anti-vaxxers believe that some people should survive, and others should not. Some people should have rights and privileges, others should not. Some people are superior, others inferior. npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Anti vaxxers believe illness is good for you, disease mitigations can harm you, and public health is a personal choice npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz NewsGuard, which rates news orgs for credibility and quality, has downgraded the NYT for the first time bc it so often falsely presents opinion pieces as news columns. npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz In a newly released deposition, Elon Musk admits he used a burner account to tweet as his toddler https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-didnt-want-his-latest-deposition-released-here-it-is_n_66133d2ce4b0d81853f9a766 npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz I wrote about Link Lauren, a 25 year old content creator who’s behind some of RFK Jr’s most viral content https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/08/rfk-tiktok-link-lauren-campaign/ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "Today’s parents are suffering from anxiety about anxiety, which is actually much more serious than anxiety...Some parents actually worry if their student isn’t anxious." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/opinion/teen-mental-health-college.html?pvid=upeCn3jZUTX9VHVGLrXFmk_X&ugrp=c&smid=tw-share npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “These organizations’ digital influence has been significantly diminished in recent years, driven primarily by changes to Facebook’s algorithm, a decline in X/Twitter usage, and an industry-wide failure to embrace TikTok.” https://www.fwiw.news/p/progressive-advocacy-groups-face npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz A new survey highlights how fear-based parenting drives phone-based childhoods. https://reason.com/2024/03/27/parents-dont-want-schools-to-confiscate-kids-phones/ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz @npub15d6…q8t7 yeah he lost the plot pretty bad it's sad npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Unsurprisingly, the first issue tries to debunk a study that shows Covid itself is more harmful to the heart than the Covid vaccine by quoting disinfo purveyor/covid denialist/anti vaxx hero Vinay Prasad. npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Bari Weiss's media company, which has pushed npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has raised over $1.3 million from Super Chat donations npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz THIRD EPISODE OF Power User podcast IS OUT!!! npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE for new tech and online culture stories and commentary http://youtube.com/taylorlorenz npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz @npub1qng…2r39 that didn’t happen 🤷🏻♀️ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz NYC's AI weapon scanners produce 85% false positives https://hellgatenyc.com/nyc-ai-weapons-scanners-pilot-false-positives npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz According to the lawsuit that X is funding, this is one of the political opinions expressed by the X user that was posted and allegedly resulted in them getting fired from their job npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz EPISODE 2 OF MY PODCAST IS OUT!!! We're talking about kindness influencers and poverty porn, and the Andrew Huberman revelations. npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Looks like he's pursuing the exact strategy I talked about yesterday on @poweruserpod!! Take a listen where we break down the Huberman backlash and how he will likely play things: https://open.spotify.com/episode/219EKphXddO6PLFyTDiIGz npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz The second episode of @poweruserpod is out! npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Had a great time chatting with Kara Swisher and @npub1jwp…dfde about the TikTok ban! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-with-kara-swisher/id1643307527?i=1000650339934 npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz In one Instagram post, a trans person’s body is shown twisted on the ground while being beaten to death w stones, which have been replaced with the laughing emoji. The caption reads: “[trans flag] people are devils.” npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Media Matters and GLAAD looked at a full year New York Times coverage of anti-trans legislation: npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz “On the internet, you can post anything you want. The question is, when this is not hurtful or illegal, it’s just someone making a claim, who gets to say whether any particular claim is valid or not?” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/24/birding-online-community-10000-species npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Emails obtained via FOIA by The Intercept show Elon Musk's Twitter/X was selling user data for government surveillance at the exact same time it was fighting government surveillance in court https://theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elon-musk-x-dataminr-surveillance-privacy/ npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "For years we have wondered what the world might look like when we crossed the threshold into a fully online world. Well, we did. [...] And it is already too vast and complicated and all-encompassing to blame any one individual for how it functions." https://www.garbageday.email/p/got npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Oop! https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fewer-people-using-elon-musks-x-struggles-keep-users-rcna144115 npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Beijing might see Congress' divest-or-ban TikTok bill "as a pretty substantial propaganda victory ... It would play into Beijing’s hands to say that the U.S. has been talking about free speech for a long time — and using that as a stick to beat China over its human rights record — but this illustrates that the U.S. is a hypocrite ... and that makes our actions more legitimate" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/business/dealbook/tiktok-us-china.html npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Most people panic about political deepfakes, but 98% of deepfakes are porn, and 99% of those targeted are women/girls. npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Members of Congress who voted for the TikTok divest-or-die bill last week "may own between $29 million and $126 million worth of stock in competing tech companies" https://gizmodo.com/politicians-who-voted-to-ban-tiktok-may-own-as-much-as-1851356203 npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz "Maybe the most significant effect of that Russian op was to give American elites what Kevin Baker calls 'psy-op brain' -- the belief that any online political expression with which they are uncomfortable must be the product of a foreign psychological operation. ... Israel, portrayed badly? Gotta be a psy-op!" https://maxread.substack.com/p/four-unpersuasive-arguments-against npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Please share widely!! 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz DOES ANYONE KNOW ANY GOOD TECH/BUSINESS EDITORS??? npub1d9nndmy3lx6f00cysrmn2v9t6hz280uwycw0kgcfdhvg99azry8sududfv Taylor Lorenz Facebook made a UI tweak to bring back the "Poke" button, and found that use of Pokes went up 13x -- mostly among users 18-29, who had probably never even used Poke the first time around https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-poke-feature-gen-z-2024-3
