taylorlorenz

taylorlorenz, 1 day ago to random

“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

taylorlorenz, 1 day ago to random

“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

taylorlorenz, 3 days ago to random

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

taylorlorenz, 4 days ago to random

“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

taylorlorenz, 4 days ago to random

Twitch streamers are providing real-time unfiltered coverage of the student protests in a way that challenges mainstream media narratives. https://wapo.st/3y2WMp3

taylorlorenz, 4 days ago to random

"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

taylorlorenz, 5 days ago to random

Even Elon is sick of her shit

taylorlorenz, 6 days ago to random

“‘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/

taylorlorenz, 7 days ago to random

“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.”
https://www.discourseblog.com/p/cnns-disgraceful-propaganda

taylorlorenz, 8 days ago to random

“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

taylorlorenz, 9 days ago to random

“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

taylorlorenz, 11 days ago to random

“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/

taylorlorenz, 11 days ago to random

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taylorlorenz, 12 days ago to random

"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/

taylorlorenz, 14 days ago to random

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

taylorlorenz, 14 days ago to random

New episode of @poweruserpod is out!! @nilay_patel joined to chat about the TikTok ban then I talked to MKBHD about his viral AI pin takedown https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xATydXM2BZstGdmkWDnvg?

taylorlorenz, 14 days ago to random

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

taylorlorenz, 14 days ago to random

"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

taylorlorenz, 15 days ago to random

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

taylorlorenz, 15 days ago to random

“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/

taylorlorenz, 16 days ago to random

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

taylorlorenz, 16 days ago to random

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.

"Where will people go for this information? Or will they just go without?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/21/social-media-trump-biden-politics-instagram-facebook/

taylorlorenz, 20 days ago to random

“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/