Mastodawn

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.

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Taylor Lorenz 4d ago

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/

Zonker 1d ago

Taylor Lorenz 4d ago

"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

Zonker 1d ago

Taylor Lorenz 3d ago

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

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Zonker 1d ago

@taylorlorenz Interesting

Zonker 1d ago

Taylor Lorenz 1d ago

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.

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Zonker Dec 27, 2024

@renee.diresta If a lot of people look at the sky a lot of people are going to see things

Zonker Dec 26, 2024

@[email protected] @taylorlorenz

I'm not saying it's not possible, it is however incredibly convenient
when you consider how much tougher it would be to prosecute
without the evidence he kept on him.

The killer did a good job of planning this out. Hard to believe that
he didn't already plan for how to dispose of the murder weapon

Zonker Dec 10, 2024

@[email protected] @taylorlorenz
Why would a guy who was smart enough to get as far as he did, hold on to the gun and a manifesto that is practically a confession. It makes no sense. All they had was he looked like a picture of someone who was in the area and matched witnesses description of his clothing. Why was the wife quick to comment about threats the police weren't told about

Zonker Dec 10, 2024

Taylor Lorenz Dec 10, 2024

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

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