Zonker

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You keep pushing this story and still haven’t updated it with my very explicit denial on the phone and in writing to your editor, with receipts: This never happened. Jacob Siegel used you to prosecute his petty grievances and pop his book sales and you fell for it.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@thefreepress/post/DWqDGdajrIZ

The Free Press (@thefreepress) on Threads

A day after I published a book on the government-tech control of information, a positive review of it disappeared online. It was the epitome of the very censorship I had just documented, writes Jacob Siegel.

Threads

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tiffanycli/116291084252862983

If there's one piece you read on this make it @mmasnick's excellent breakdown. I wish I could highlight every word, but setting up a system to circumvent Section 230 is not a good thing https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/everyone-cheering-the-social-media-addiction-verdicts-against-meta-should-understand-what-theyre-actually-cheering-for/

"Technology, such as video games or social media, simply doesn’t influence dopamine receptors the way illicit substances do." https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/07/28/addiction_fiction_dopamine_is_not_why_kids_love_tiktok_1124276.html
Addiction Fiction: Dopamine Is Not Why Kids Love TikTok

Nowadays, it seems we can be addicted to anything – not just alcohol and drugs, but pornography, random Internet browsing, video games, and smartphones. Academic research papers have investigate

RealClearInvestigations
Very eager to hear people’s thoughts on this video. I think he explains the issues with the left’s current rhetoric surrounding AI very well https://youtu.be/Z75hlhgchQ4?si=7IeYT_-864BrrpaU
The Left Has An AI Problem

YouTube
Surf combines Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and other content into customizable open feeds on the web. I’ve been using it and love it. Let’s bring back the open web! https://www.theverge.com/tech/905929/flipboard-surf-fediverse-launch
Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader

It’s a product of the social web, also known as the fediverse. The idea is to make it easy for anyone to curate the content they want, wherever it comes from.

The Verge
I wrote about the new information landscape and how prediction markets are transforming media into a libertarian fever dream https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/prediction-markets-go-mainstream/
Prediction markets go mainstream

"If all of this sounds like a libertarian fever dream, I hear you. But as these markets rise, legacy media will continue to slide into irrelevance."

Nieman Lab

Ken Klippenstein has obtained and published Luigi's full manifesto.

"Many have illuminated the corruption and greed... decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.” https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

Exclusive: Luigi's Manifesto

Read the manifesto the media refused to publish

Ken Klippenstein
~ 393 gallons (1,488 liters).
~ 2,634 lbs (1,195 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $2,201 cost of fuel.
~ 4 tons of CO2 emissions.
“I majored in magazines at Syracuse’s journalism school. Every magazine I’ve worked for over the decades has joined the dustbin of history; I guess what I really majored in was obituary writing.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/21/sound-vision-magazine-closing
I founded a pioneering tech magazine. Tech killed it off

Sound & Vision was so revered that Apple brought its first iPod to its offices by hand. It’s now a victim of the industry it covered

The Guardian

🚨Inside the DNC’s influencer extravaganza 🚨

On this week’s Power User from Chicago I’m breaking down the Dem’s creator strategy, ups/downs, & whether they can maintain online momentum w/o policies to back it up, & talking to a YouTuber for Harris https://open.spotify.com/episode/02KxxtMgjVa3pZyEY35mEe?si=rAt2UF20TQ-mTxStXHMPFQ

Inside the DNC’s influencer extravaganza, from yacht partying to meme lounge

Episode · Power User with Taylor Lorenz · This week, Taylor is in Chicago along with hundreds of content creators for the Democratic National Convention. YouTube star Keith Edwards gives the scoop on the Democrats’ influencer strategy, what it’s like inside a creator yacht party and VIP meme lounge, and how the 2024 election has become one big battle for the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spotify