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# ![@adamjohnsonCHI Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::756331316.png) @adamjohnsonCHI Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson posts on X about ai, israel, politics, level the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

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[celebrities](/list/celebrities)  13.24% [countries](/list/countries)  11.76% [finance](/list/finance)  6.62% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  2.94% [stocks](/list/stocks)  2.21% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  1.47% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1.47% [nfl](/list/nfl)  0.74% [financial services](/list/financial-services)  0.74%

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[ai](/topic/ai) #6142, [israel](/topic/israel) #940, [politics](/topic/politics) #1831, [level](/topic/level) #117, [the new](/topic/the-new) 3.68%, [llms](/topic/llms) #1, [llm](/topic/llm) #310, [in the](/topic/in-the) 2.94%, [the world](/topic/the-world) #1119, [at least](/topic/at-least) #379

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Skew Pro-Israel The New York Times Los Angeles Times and Washington Post skewed coverage toward Israeli narratives according to a quantitative analysis"  
[X Link](https://theintercept.com/2024/01/09/newspapers-israel-palestine-bias-new-york-times/)  2025-12-03T21:58Z 166.9K followers, 27.1K engagements


"Theres a frog in boiling water element to this too. On polymarket you can bet on whether Gaza will be ethnically cleansed. On Kalshi you can bet on whether theyll be famine in Gaza (that one paid out for yes btw) This is objectively depraved and should not be legal but 1/2 the entire economy is ai data centers and gambling your life savings on real life tragedies and events the entire economy is ai data centers and gambling your life savings on real life tragedies and events"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1996463196979523843)  2025-12-04T06:14Z 167K followers, 816.5K engagements


"catching up with Bezos's hip vertical #content"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2013725575165161768)  2026-01-20T21:29Z 167K followers, 238.9K engagements


"remembering when the new editor took over in February and promised that The Washington Post would not "lecture you about ideology or demand you think certain ways about policy" then proceeded to do that nonstop for a year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2013726015487435162)  2026-01-20T21:31Z 167K followers, 16.8K engagements


"left out: vertical videos of Brad Polumbo whining about California's 5% billionaire tax and an unaccountably sweaty James Hohmann attacking Trump from the right over a 10% credit card rate cap"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2013730529049272437)  2026-01-20T21:49Z 167K followers, 19.3K engagements


"Noteworthy that neither the mayor of Minneapolis nor the governor of Minnesota threw their support behind this action prior to today. Dem leadership in the state just sat around and watched this unfolded then some like Mayor Frey rushed to join the photo-ops once it was underway Thousands and thousands of people have poured into the streets for Minnesota general strike demanding ICE out of their state. Footage via @BTnewsroom. https://t.co/2xhBGgSA2Z Thousands and thousands of people have poured into the streets for Minnesota general strike demanding ICE out of their state. Footage via"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2014846176244203926)  2026-01-23T23:42Z 167K followers, 553.8K engagements


"this is the most transparent delay and let it blow over theater Ive ever seen. Absolutely no reason for a continuing resolution other than dampening public attention and outrage. Dems have the leverage and wind at their backs you only do this if youre looking to kill momentum Senate Majority Leader Thune on deal to avert shutdown: We're trending in the right direction but I don't think we're quite there yet. The main sticking point: Ds want [--] week stop-gap for DHS and GOP wants [--] weeks. Ds think two weeks is enough time to cut ICE deal; Rs dont https://t.co/9NzfbAyOdH Senate Majority Leader"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2016955162078671015)  2026-01-29T19:22Z 166.9K followers, 81.2K engagements


"If the democrats plan is to write new laws requiring Trump to follow existing laws Im gonna need them to explain why he wont just ignore the new law NEW - HOUSE DEMS SPEAK: House Dem Leader @RepJeffries just told me in his news conf that he wants a ban on deportation of US citizens as part of a deal on DHS conduct and the immigration crackdown. NEW - HOUSE DEMS SPEAK: House Dem Leader @RepJeffries just told me in his news conf that he wants a ban on deportation of US citizens as part of a deal on DHS conduct and the immigration crackdown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2017062525389418864)  2026-01-30T02:29Z 167K followers, 89.7K engagements


"writing for the NYT is great because it requires you either make shit up or have the memory of a goldfish. [----] was the highest year for police killings in recorded history and police killings have only ticked up since George Floyd. There was no "major changes" just better PR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2017223995507003585)  2026-01-30T13:10Z 166.9K followers, 60.5K engagements


"if @SenBlumenthal thinks administrative warrants are presently unlawful (which they clearly are) I'm curious why Congress making them unlawful (again) would matter. Why wouldn't the Trump DOJ just ignore the second (apparently redundant) law https://www.npr.org/2026/01/29/nx-s1-5693050/trump-minneapolis-government-shutdown-funding-immigration-republicans https://www.npr.org/2026/01/29/nx-s1-5693050/trump-minneapolis-government-shutdown-funding-immigration-republicans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2017242088656499164)  2026-01-30T14:22Z 167K followers, 13.1K engagements


"Cool how Peter Thiels degenerate gambling app has an ostensible news account that publishes fake shit all day JUST IN: Over the past [--] hours over a million AI agents joined an AI-only social media platform creating their own religion language & planning a revolution to break away from human control. JUST IN: Over the past [--] hours over a million AI agents joined an AI-only social media platform creating their own religion language & planning a revolution to break away from human control"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2017648309398044806)  2026-01-31T17:16Z 167K followers, 80.9K engagements


"When Bari Weiss waxes Thought Leader about winning over middle America who have lost trust in mainstream media clearly what she means is hiring as many friends of Jeffrey Epstein as possible. The people are crying out for more opinions from elite pedophile networks There are over [----] emails between @PeterAttiaMD and Epstein. Attia was recently hired by CBS as a news contributor. There are also emails between Epstein and the wife of Bari Weiss who now runs CBS. There are over [----] emails between @PeterAttiaMD and Epstein. Attia was recently hired by CBS as a news contributor. There are also"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2017678040814293253)  2026-01-31T19:15Z 167K followers, 145.7K engagements


"Hey its Harris FP advisor acknowledging that Biden resisted enormous pressure to condition aid as required by U.S. law. Reminder that Gordon (who knew very well US law required ending arm shipments to Israel) ALSO explicitly refuses to do condition aid to Israel in Aug [----] Hard to overstate the damage to US-Israel relations done by the sense of entitlement and ingratitude reflected in comments like these and Netanyahu's own recent statements. Baseless misdirection to suggest that Israeli soldiers' deaths in Gaza were caused by some phantom US Hard to overstate the damage to US-Israel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2017679639796138062)  2026-01-31T19:21Z 167K followers, 35.9K engagements


"Remembering when Ezra Klein wrote in July [----] that Epstein had a lot of powerful friends and that he was a predator and a pedophile and those sides of his life were mostly separate. We have him ostensibly procuring women for Gates Tisch etc. So this was clearly untrue. Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein connected New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch with numerous women according to scores of emails among the more than [--] million documents released by the Justice Department on Friday. https://t.co/ryMH6wO2MD Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein connected New York Giants co-owner Steve"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2017684186123976924)  2026-01-31T19:39Z 166.9K followers, 147.1K engagements


"Democrats never brought up any Epstein stuff because elite democrats and Dem donors (Clinton Hoffman Gates Summers etc) were all at the same parties. The reason seems fairly obvious to me. It wasnt until popular outrage forced the issue we got thrown these crumbs Why is Merrick Garland allowed to walk around in public without being constantly questioned about this Why is Merrick Garland allowed to walk around in public without being constantly questioned about this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2017727368379420858)  2026-01-31T22:31Z 167K followers, 72.5K engagements


"Whats important to understand is this doesnt mean anything. Its total claptrap. In practice what this means is downplaying threats from the right aiding obvious fascist entryism strategies and constantly falling for the wallet inspector see here: If we can't even unite on the issues we agree on we'll never be able to get anything done for the average American and we'll never be able to get our government back. Absolutely nothing wrong with disagreeing with the other side but once you give into hate the elites win. If we can't even unite on the issues we agree on we'll never be able to get"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2017766301897211974)  2026-02-01T01:05Z 167K followers, 31.1K engagements


"@2cannan1 Wow so did Musk its almost like they read from the same crisis PR playbook of redirecting their culpability into a down champion of transparency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2017780672375480489)  2026-02-01T02:02Z 167K followers, 12.6K engagements


"Paying $44 billion so I can manically spam the world my why im totally not a pedophile posts Because they are guilty Because they are guilty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018134449364361599)  2026-02-02T01:28Z 167K followers, 29.7K engagements


"learned yesterday that the hottest possible temperature is [---------------------------------] degrees fahrenheit (the planck temperature or absolute hot) and woke up today and saw a take even hotter. Hands down the worst poster on here and its not even close"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018323604329443782)  2026-02-02T14:00Z 167K followers, 83.6K engagements


"Vox is far from the only one but I'm noticing how these How Minnesota Took On Trump explainers completely omit the role of labor. The mass shutdown on Jan [--] was spearheaded by a coalition of unions and this is just ignored for generic "anti-authoritarian" people power analysis. Minnesota provides a blueprint for how to prevent a slide into authoritarianism weve seen in other countries. https://t.co/0S8LCeAazx Minnesota provides a blueprint for how to prevent a slide into authoritarianism weve seen in other countries. https://t.co/0S8LCeAazx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018329357609996614)  2026-02-02T14:23Z 167K followers, 94.7K engagements


"Oh yeah now were cooking with gas Update on the Peter Attia situation: We're hearing there is a battle royale between Paramount corporate and CBS News' Bari Weiss. She does not want to cut ties w/ Attia and sees it as givin in to the mob. Paramount sees it as an HR matter and that Attia can't give expert advice Update on the Peter Attia situation: We're hearing there is a battle royale between Paramount corporate and CBS News' Bari Weiss. She does not want to cut ties w/ Attia and sees it as givin in to the mob. Paramount sees it as an HR matter and that Attia can't give expert advice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018456268739097052)  2026-02-02T22:47Z 167K followers, 61.3K engagements


"This is The worst thing Ive ever seen https://youtu.be/3ZDnL_a0YfQsi=y7igUQkPNny4QSmj https://youtu.be/3ZDnL_a0YfQsi=y7igUQkPNny4QSmj"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018558140074373491)  2026-02-03T05:32Z 167K followers, 18.1K engagements


"@tralala_bk He made it and theyre using his name on all the promos"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018690147001274619)  2026-02-03T14:16Z 166.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Did they try calling them on the phone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018711344766161233)  2026-02-03T15:41Z 167K followers, [----] engagements


"The concept of a communist purge used to mean something around here goddamn it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018711815719440850)  2026-02-03T15:42Z 167K followers, [----] engagements


"Feel like some people misinterpret the reason for these disclosures newsworthiness and the crisis they portend. Its not just about elites being involved in serial child abuse (thought ofc many are) but the seemingly much wider circle of people who are wholly indifferent to it. Goldman Sachs top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler sought Jeffrey Epsteins help to secure a top job at Facebook just months before the sex offenders arrest and advised him on how to respond to press coverage of his crimes. https://t.co/wHZfvRTTdV https://t.co/3ggWnoOUXZ Goldman Sachs top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler sought Jeffrey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018748740870283698)  2026-02-03T18:09Z 167K followers, 117.8K engagements


"a prescient reply if there ever was one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018753604841099377)  2026-02-03T18:29Z 167K followers, 24.9K engagements


"@isaiah_bb Same Silicon Valley funders is my guess"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018802944179851369)  2026-02-03T21:45Z 166.9K followers, [----] engagements


"True but also Trump probably actually does like the Clintons as they frequented many of the same parties and shared a social circle for many decades Trump is smart enough to realize that the House just established a precedent where lawmakers call former presidents in to testify under threat of contempt of Congress. Trump is smart enough to realize that the House just established a precedent where lawmakers call former presidents in to testify under threat of contempt of Congress"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018818668290072591)  2026-02-03T22:47Z 167K followers, 17K engagements


"@AntiFaHR3 This is not at all what happened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018870950352035948)  2026-02-04T02:15Z 167K followers, [---] engagements


"Ungar-Sargons schtick of claiming to speak for The Working Man when spewing her half baked pro-Israel MAGA propaganda has always been dopey but claiming demands to release the Epstein files are an obsession of the elites is god tier cynicism. 100% uncut nihilism. Bravo. Ungar-Sargon on Epstein Files: Most Americans do not care about this. This has been an obsession of elites on the right and now elites on the left. https://t.co/XQaYExRa6L Ungar-Sargon on Epstein Files: Most Americans do not care about this. This has been an obsession of elites on the right and now elites on the left."  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018922220215468208)  2026-02-04T05:39Z 167K followers, 41.2K engagements


"Obviously its just one gauge of elite opinion but reminder that releasing the Epstein files was explicitly opposed by the WSJ editorial board the Washington Post editorial board and the NYT editorial board said they were conflicted about the release of the files"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018923250344997084)  2026-02-04T05:43Z 167K followers, [----] engagements


"best part 'RussiaGate 2: The Israel Obfuscation' is that if one buys this theory it means there's a good chance Bill Clinton Larry Summers Bill Richardson Reid Hoffman and other prominent Democrats are all compromised by Kompromat or w/e creating a double reverse Russiagate Murdoch-owned NY Post puts on Facebook a story teasing that Epstein was a foreign agent (for Russia) lol. They didn't turn off comment and well no one in the massive comment section was buying it. https://t.co/3m6iZ6b2Nk Murdoch-owned NY Post puts on Facebook a story teasing that Epstein was a foreign agent (for Russia)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019055800530993158)  2026-02-04T14:29Z 166.9K followers, 31.8K engagements


"guys we have to put a cap on DoorDash discourse only once a year please. Id love to abolish it altogether but Im open to reasonable reforms. Let us figure this out because its brain numbingly stupid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019108081511330060)  2026-02-04T17:57Z 167K followers, 28.7K engagements


"We can escape out current hell spiral if we just suck up to the right benevolent billionaires is not a politics that has been working out very well. From Gates to Hoffman to Bezos to Musk (remember when he boosted and praised Obama) weve learned this will not save us. @zachdcarter @sarahmillerdc If you want billionaires to support money-losing local newspapers then I think you are in fact going to need to butter them up quite a bit. @zachdcarter @sarahmillerdc If you want billionaires to support money-losing local newspapers then I think you are in fact going to need to butter them up quite a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019137059731173543)  2026-02-04T19:52Z 166.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Again promoting a system that demands we find good billionaires is the same as a system that demands we find good feudal lords. They may have brief spasms of civic beneficence for PR reasons but ultimately they will choose class solidarity and fascism in lieu of egalitarianism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019137066370826446)  2026-02-04T19:52Z 167K followers, [----] engagements


"if you really believe this shouldnt you also be calling for a total purging of all western intelligence agencies for incompetence/corruption When do all the firings start for letting a former president the richest men in the world and western elites be honeypotted by the FSB I have no doubt that Epstein MAGA Brexit AFD FN Reform are all Russian intelligence projects. I have no doubt that Epstein MAGA Brexit AFD FN Reform are all Russian intelligence projects"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019206028802326617)  2026-02-05T00:26Z 167K followers, 13.1K engagements


"@hello__caitlin Should have just showed up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019232022548607100)  2026-02-05T02:10Z 167K followers, [---] engagements


"One ineffable qualify both Schumer and Jeffries have is that whenever they talk to the media they look very bored annoyed to be there or otherwise sleepy. Dont think its an age thing (Jeffries is only 55) they just seem only vaguely interested in the topic at hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019252541029019750)  2026-02-05T03:31Z 167K followers, 48.7K engagements


"My theory: (in addition to Bezos specific business needs RE: Amazon HQ2 in DMV) elites sees less and less value in soft power like media. They think slop and more overt forms of rw propagandacombined with increasingly sophisticated mass surveillancecan achieve the same goals. The Washington Post surrenders fires its finest reporters in a single day CBS is in the hands of Trump's mates too and a CNN reporter is ripped into in the White House press room by the President. and nobody seems to lift a finger. what on earth has happened to American The Washington Post surrenders fires its finest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019299702244585567)  2026-02-05T06:39Z 167K followers, 46.6K engagements


"gonna meme post until Gen Z forgets about the whole supporting a genocide thing. Not sure this will work but there isnt any other play Welcome to Headquarters the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub. https://t.co/7EQyz3DFpd Welcome to Headquarters the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub. https://t.co/7EQyz3DFpd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019480862467784762)  2026-02-05T18:38Z 167K followers, 36.7K engagements


"a bit glib isnt it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019481693908812065)  2026-02-05T18:42Z 167K followers, 45.7K engagements


"@AnneSmi34268702 Begging you to use your brain. This is superficial piffle. She supported a ceasefire in the sense thatlike Bidenit was a reiteration of surrender terms not an imposition on Israel. Pls understand the difference and do not rely on Elons slop machine https://www.columnblog.com/p/the-horrors-of-gaza-wont-end-until https://www.columnblog.com/p/the-horrors-of-gaza-wont-end-until"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019512796317381014)  2026-02-05T20:45Z 166.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@ettingermentum It doesnt really pass the sniff test. Hes clearly sunsetting but they also got him on some next level speed cocktail that makes him coherent enough for 2hrs a day. It also smacks of hall monitorism (see their guy is also fried in the brain) which feels weak and defensive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019521215216726157)  2026-02-05T21:19Z 167K followers, [----] engagements


"@justinboldaji Wait is there ANOTHER patriotic day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019812143420596359)  2026-02-06T16:35Z 167K followers, [----] engagements


"Epstein after dropping tax advice on our elite"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2020235771916202326)  2026-02-07T20:38Z 167K followers, [----] engagements


"Remembering in [----] when PBS asked Bill Gates why he repeatedly hung out with Epstein and he said it was because he had access to philanthropic donors and I love the idea that there are donors who wont return BILL GATES phone calls. This was a very credible thing to say"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2020236936783475186)  2026-02-07T20:43Z 167K followers, [----] engagements


"@nlanc @Gunfingers @hjessy_ @isaiah_bb Ironically the elder Soros was far more anti zionist than the younger on account of being a red diaper baby I assume"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2020540120705716572)  2026-02-08T16:47Z 167K followers, [---] engagements


"NYT working overtime to distance baseline US imperialism from Trumps open vulgarity. In this editorial posing as reporting @michaelcrowley relies on oil industry-funded think tank CNAS and a former Raytheon board member to insist Trumps energy grab is the first in modern history In the Gulf War or in [----] the U.S. could have commandeered Iraqi or Kuwaiti oil and didnt. I cant think of a military operation that the U.S. engaged in to actually take oil from anybody. Until Venezuela. https://t.co/iGTMTxPTCp In the Gulf War or in [----] the U.S. could have commandeered Iraqi or Kuwaiti oil and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2020948086147908025)  2026-02-09T19:49Z 167.1K followers, 10.6K engagements


"@DannyKPolitics @EdKrassen @RepThomasMassie Is Karyna Shuliak a well known retired CEO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021027735464747033)  2026-02-10T01:05Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements


"It absolutely cannot compare bodies of literature at high levels of abstraction or write entire books of any quality. This is simply not true. It can produce summations of technical writing or highly derivative pastiche that is barely readable. This is just horseshit. @EoinHiggins_ It can design websites from scratch compare bodies of literature at high levels of abstraction get A- grades at least in practically any undergraduate class analyze and graph enormous data sets make PowerPoints write sonnets and even entire books. It can also engineer @EoinHiggins_ It can design websites from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021619507010388269)  2026-02-11T16:17Z 167.2K followers, 82.9K engagements


"crazy that every western cultural and liberal institution suddenly became apolitical in late [----]. Wonder what happened. The Berlin Film Festival got off to a political start as the competition jury led by Wim Wenders fielded several questions about Israel and Palestine. We have to stay out of politics" Wenders said. "We are the counterweight of politics we are the opposite of politics. We The Berlin Film Festival got off to a political start as the competition jury led by Wim Wenders fielded several questions about Israel and Palestine. We have to stay out of politics" Wenders said. "We are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021974681650348213)  2026-02-12T15:48Z 167.2K followers, 85.5K engagements


"The Washington Post opinion page has always been rightwing neocon specifically but its descent into MAGA scam slop is grim. Further proof our elites are using the vulgarity and specter of Trump to steal everything not bolted to the ground https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/12/prediction-market-government-fraud/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/12/prediction-market-government-fraud/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022109826197963171)  2026-02-13T00:45Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"1) theres a real emerging threat of advances in automation that will overnight render millions superfluous and we need a policy response (but none weirdly is on offer) 2) adoption is slowing and we need a new injection of hype to justify obscene valuations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021964245764874449)  2026-02-12T15:06Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"This is what people mean when they talk about the Ratchet effect in US politics and democrats and Dem medias role in moving the country to the Right. Trump TRIPLES DHS budget and this becomes the new consensus baseline for both parties with zero movement in the other direction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022049748874846288)  2026-02-12T20:46Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"I do not think its nitpicking to note theres a world of difference between carrying out and aiding a genocide versus looking the other way at a genocide. One conveys guilt and complicity the other conveys passivity and indifference. I do not think this is trivial. Oh Jesus fucking Christ we are going to do a rhetoric nitpick on every fucking thing even though she said genocide and implicated the US in that. Go be her pressbot if you cant reason politically I am so tired of this trash Oh Jesus fucking Christ we are going to do a rhetoric nitpick on every fucking thing even though she said"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022401786175504547)  2026-02-13T20:05Z 167.2K followers, 22.8K engagements


"@nejsnave The narrative is not coherent at all and the characters while consistent I suppose are bloodless and witless. One is welcome to see if this cracks the best seller list beyond one off gimmicks but I wont hold my breath"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022410302894313512)  2026-02-13T20:39Z 167.2K followers, [---] engagements


"more Palestinian kids have been killed by Israel in [--] days than US soldiers were killed in the first [--] yrs of the Iraq war & people politely asking their govt not to support this have to wakeup every day to defend themselves from the most bad faith racist fake outrages on earth Pro-Palestine rallies arent hate marches theyre an expression of solidarity helplessness and frustration Nesrine Malik https://t.co/bg3ZCgzbdv Pro-Palestine rallies arent hate marches theyre an expression of solidarity helplessness and frustration Nesrine Malik https://t.co/bg3ZCgzbdv"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1721527482480734538)  2023-11-06T13:58Z 167.2K followers, 1.8M engagements


"CIP/Duss spent weeks after Oct [--] waffling on demands for a ceasefire propping up Sanders claim a ceasefire w/ Hamas was impossible and defending Israels right to take security actions and defend itself while Israeli leaders were making one genocidal statement after another The @CIPolicy run by @mattduss and @NancyGEO has operated below the radar the last couple years but could turn out to be a big deal in certain increasingly imaginable timelines. https://t.co/saJyKMuUY7 https://t.co/obSXUd5e7E The @CIPolicy run by @mattduss and @NancyGEO has operated below the radar the last couple years but"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019849515491041592)  2026-02-06T19:03Z 167.2K followers, 54.6K engagements


"Paragraph has it all Shadow fleet: spooky propaganda term not a technical or legal term. Trade that avoids unilateral piracy from [--] of the [---] UN member states isnt shadow anything smuggling: avoiding US piracy is not smuggling as US dictates are not intl law U.S. military forces boarded a sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea as part of an oil quarantine meant to squeeze Venezuela Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday. https://t.co/ugihXjsFhu U.S. military forces boarded a sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021053341766386164)  2026-02-10T02:47Z 167.2K followers, 28.2K engagements


"Here Dave Ill explain it to you because it can genuinely be confusing: Neoliberalism (d/b/a abundance) and its billionaire backers understand they need a hook to get you to embrace their privatization and deregulation agenda so they focus on its perceived cartoon excesses 🧵 Serious question if I dont want [-----] year environmental reviews that cost $20 million to build a subway stop does that make me moderate Serious question if I dont want [-----] year environmental reviews that cost $20 million to build a subway stop does that make me moderate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021271268536758694)  2026-02-10T17:13Z 167.2K followers, 211.8K engagements


"Just a nonstop pit of grievance and solipsism; bitter joyless zero innovation or introspection defined by zombie working class cultural signifiers a fear of anything vaguely queer or black and manufactured victimhood regardless of how many levers of power their party controls Were going to be making fun of this for a long time https://t.co/nTYz3e3bHM Were going to be making fun of this for a long time https://t.co/nTYz3e3bHM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021431423966822608)  2026-02-11T03:49Z 167.2K followers, 140.4K engagements


"why is my feed full of racist lunatics with billions in DOD contracts who literally co-founded companies with the CIA complaining about the deep state its you dumb ass you and all your friends are the deep state. There is no other secret club youre the assholes in charge Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale believes the [----] election was stolen and "the deep state" was "involved" in the Jan. [--] riot somehow "making it worse than it was" (Lonsdale is also the chairman of Bari Weiss's unaccredited University of Austin) https://t.co/NwxgJC7VEx Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale believes the 2020"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021467767279583656)  2026-02-11T06:14Z 167.2K followers, 86.8K engagements


"if one can look at the fraying fabric around us Epstein ICE Gaza runaway consolidation of wealth all protected by Palantir mass surveillance and think the primary source of oppression is overly fussy environmental and labor regulations I simply don't know what to tell you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021611836164972834)  2026-02-11T15:46Z 167.2K followers, 42.6K engagements


"it's unclear what these people think I'm "coping" with. I am under zero threat from LLMs as my fundamental market value such as it is is originality accountability and insight. I assure you I'm not objecting to Thompson's vague mystical claims because of self-preservation. @adamjohnsonCHI Cope harder bro. Writing isn't a job. @adamjohnsonCHI Cope harder bro. Writing isn't a job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021684910944145525)  2026-02-11T20:36Z 167.2K followers, 21.1K engagements


"A derivation machine that is designed for pastiche summations and producing conventional wisdom will of course have limitations in its approximation of human intelligence which is defined at least in folk terms as imagination. Why are some faking like this isnt obvious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021811817279107171)  2026-02-12T05:01Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"To Democrats using the term Epstein class: will they pledge to not take funding from those who had friendly relations with Epstein Will Khanna pledge to not for example take money from Reid Hoffman or any org he funds such as Democratic Majority for Israel and Welcome PAC This weekend the world's leaders will gather together for the Munich Security Conference. I am calling on them to hold the Epstein Class accountable including those in their own governments. https://t.co/1fI2TARRz3 This weekend the world's leaders will gather together for the Munich Security Conference. I am calling on them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022037569995935979)  2026-02-12T19:58Z 167.2K followers, 19.8K engagements


"It is objectively unserious that liberal consensus feigns outrage at Trumps DHS abuses but never broaches much less demands their funding return to at (least) their [----] levels e.g. reduce by 66%. Body cams and redundant laws do nothing to change the fundamental incentives Too often over the past year the Department of Homeland Securitys behavior has been lawless the editorial board writes. The current crisis isnt just a test of the balance of powers. Its a test of the Bill of Rights. https://t.co/fOrXvzZaPE Too often over the past year the Department of Homeland Securitys behavior has been"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022048980008681723)  2026-02-12T20:43Z 167.2K followers, 86.1K engagements


"Its unclear what these guys want this floating and always unnamed AI skeptic to do exactly. Just report developments why the editorial scolding of some nameless Hater Its very odd no other beat does this nonstop overly defensive ref working i don't expect AI skeptics to be moved by a single result but it seems notable that we keep making harder tests for AI models and they keep beating them. (ARC-AGI came out [--] years ago and was declared "impossible for AI" then got beaten within the year so they made i don't expect AI skeptics to be moved by a single result but it seems notable that we keep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022116457325506867)  2026-02-13T01:11Z 167.2K followers, 20.7K engagements


"Regardless of what one thinks of LLMs certainly we can agree this is just an ad This tech CEO says the public isn't prepared for how fast AI is improving - and how soon it could eliminate many jobs. Hear Matt Shumer explain his concerns to @jaketapper https://t.co/zfahUYvRy0 This tech CEO says the public isn't prepared for how fast AI is improving - and how soon it could eliminate many jobs. Hear Matt Shumer explain his concerns to @jaketapper https://t.co/zfahUYvRy0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022146606632759501)  2026-02-13T03:11Z 167.2K followers, 19.6K engagements


"CEO: Theres a massive society-shifting employment apocalypse just around the corner Reporter: Oh wow does this require an urgent political solution CEO: Oh no it requires to buy my AI tool for $23.99 a month Reporter: wow helpful analysis thank you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022147480302104638)  2026-02-13T03:15Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


""I loved the torture video" (Democracy Now segment on why Bush's torture program is clearly unconstitutional)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022188111292477546)  2026-02-13T05:56Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"No one has an answer. I keep asking and getting crickets none of these people responded to my request for what they think is quality prose or high level writing. It exists and is obvious yet mysteriously can never be accessed If LLMs can write books well then where are the books Many many people have ideas and are just lacking the writing follow-through that the machine can do. They can publish stuff online too. If it's $200 to execute now what's the hold up If LLMs can write books well then where are the books Many many people have ideas and are just lacking the writing follow-through that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022356009927557268)  2026-02-13T17:03Z 167.2K followers, 239.6K engagements


"This is all just a mix of mystical delusion and people getting greedy. Generating passable non imaginative writing is a very impressive technological feat. This is in and of itself useful and impressive. The step from this to actual high level writing is NOT LINEAR OR INEVITABLE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022357580203606325)  2026-02-13T17:09Z 167.2K followers, 18.7K engagements


"this cheesy MSNBC line that Trump is carving up the world into spheres of influence with his authoritarian pals in Russia and China takes no account for 1) the US military has not withdrawn at all from Europe/Asia 2) Trump is currently gearing up to bomb Iran(very much in Asia) AOC: They are looking to withdraw the U.S. from the entire world so that we enter an age of authoritarians who can carve it up where Donald Trump can command the Western Hemisphere and Latin America as his personal sandbox where Putin can saber-rattle across Europe and try to https://t.co/LnrqceCleo AOC: They are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022387660845912144)  2026-02-13T19:09Z 167.2K followers, 54.6K engagements


"Im sorry but no one believes this. Its hip to turn this discussion into fart sniffing abstraction but we absolutely know the difference between high level writing and slop. Anyone acting like we dont is either paid to act obtuse or doesnt themselves know how to write. @adamjohnsonCHI No one knows what high quality prose is. They only know what other people think high quality prose is provided those other people have publicly repeated what yet someone else has said about the prose in question. @adamjohnsonCHI No one knows what high quality prose is. They only know what other people think high"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022392322261151934)  2026-02-13T19:27Z 167.2K followers, 26.6K engagements


"@simonsbookclub Simon ITS NOT THEIR WRITING IT IS BY DEFINITION A MACHINES TEXT OUTPUT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022415671615983778)  2026-02-13T21:00Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@bibles4booze I assure you the audience for the Munich security conference is not voters its western FP elites media curators and think tanks. You are correct that she is tailoring her message to them and I believe she is doing so in a way designed to obscure their role in genocide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022417962448359708)  2026-02-13T21:09Z 167.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@RileyTX Where has she expressed any interest in holding Biden Sullivan and Blinken accountable for supporting genocide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022468661290647966)  2026-02-14T00:31Z 167.2K followers, 14.2K engagements


"@Nature_Boy03 Dividing the word up into authoritarian vs democracy is a dangerous and cheesy narrative. The US only falls into the former category when Trump is in charge but not when it commits genocide under Biden How does this make any sense Its liberal Cold War framing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022478006061801757)  2026-02-14T01:08Z 167.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@squshy7 She (correctly) acknowledges its racist and fake but then pivots to wanting to take another stab at it rather than reducing US empire. I dont know how this is coherent or how one does this without holding those (in Germany and the US) accountable for wiping Gaza off the map"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022478397037822439)  2026-02-14T01:10Z 167.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@drorpoleg @DKThomp @RossBarkan I think a related but more urgent question is: are there tremendous structural and financial incentives for those in the LLM business and its friendly media to oversell the tech (often in mystical terms) to justify obscene market caps. And the answer to this Q is clearly yes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022498175269978231)  2026-02-14T02:28Z 167.2K followers, [---] engagements


"There are obviously major differences between AOC and Applebaums worldview (advocacy for regime change causes of populism Cuba Iran etc) but they use a rhetorically similar democracy v authoritarianism framework and I think this framework is generally cheesy and dangerous Whats the differing between AOCs worldview and Anne Applebaums Whats the differing between AOCs worldview and Anne Applebaums"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022509977051762945)  2026-02-14T03:15Z 167.2K followers, 10.1K engagements


"Its tempting to use this language because it seeks to position progressive politics as combating authoritarian states in some type of global people vs Bad Guys but this takes little account for how democratic states like Germany and pre-Trump US are deeply authoritarian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022510010824081708)  2026-02-14T03:15Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"guys I'm starting to think "the west" may not actually be interested in human rights"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022524582473929208)  2026-02-14T04:13Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/world/europe/norway-jagland-epstein.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/world/europe/norway-jagland-epstein.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022524584830853265)  2026-02-14T04:13Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"There is an exact amount of ordering out thats morally acceptable and its the exact amount I personally do. Any less is performative austerity by ultra-leftists and any more is gluttonous bourgeois decadence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019108681976250469)  2026-02-04T17:59Z 167.1K followers, 45.2K engagements


"um Ezra Klein confidently said otherwise. Is there someone at the NYT Raskin forgot to ask Raskin was one of the very first to say Biden had to step down. He's a step ahead his peers again: Theres no way you run a billion-dollar international child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes." https://t.co/dAYJBQTzYT https://t.co/6QZ9OSzBo9 Raskin was one of the very first to say Biden had to step down. He's a step ahead his peers again: Theres no way you run a billion-dollar international child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021049554771247236)  2026-02-10T02:32Z 167.1K followers, 17.3K engagements


"So Weiss has directed her minions to do awkward front facing camera state propaganda to make warmed over neocon propaganda seem youthful and urgent Cuba is facing a deepening crisis as fuel shortages are triggering blackouts and worsening existing food and medicine shortages. Passengers arriving in Miami from Havana tell CBS News' Cristian Bienvenides that conditions on the island are the worst theyve ever experienced with https://t.co/djsjoRrOlU Cuba is facing a deepening crisis as fuel shortages are triggering blackouts and worsening existing food and medicine shortages. Passengers arriving"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021238720947523934)  2026-02-10T15:03Z 167.1K followers, 15.3K engagements


"Trump is running though a hit list of vulnerable countries that challenge US/Israeli hegemony using brutal siege warfare open CIA sabotage extrajudicial murder kidnappings and were supposed to act like any of this has to do with the moral properties of the relevant regimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021239598051905812)  2026-02-10T15:07Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements


"it's telling that Dershowitz Musk Hoffman Clinton are all doing the "I demand the release all the all the Epstein files" PR move of getting caught being friendly with Epstein then spinning around with the angry masses grabbing a pitch fork and saying 'let's get the bastards'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021244820845424792)  2026-02-10T15:28Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@mikejz To the extent regulatory capture is a problem it is a subset of THE central problem of our time which is highly concentrated wealth. Billionaires fund this deregulatory agenda because it warps this and (falsely) says our problems are downstream from labor and environmentalists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021334432951697462)  2026-02-10T21:24Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@mikejz Im saying extrapolating an entire mode of politics and movement from a handful of boutique examples is either incredibly dishonest or incredibly naive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021338832227225696)  2026-02-10T21:41Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@tomer_stern @mikejz San Francisco is right wing in the sense it is drowning in Silicon Valley money and elects textbook neoliberals to major office. It is not rightwing along cultural lines and RE: many lower city officials. In any event you are parroting overly simplified Fox News cliches yes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021419397630525586)  2026-02-11T03:01Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements


"One is welcome to believe in this deregulatory framework all they want. All I ask is we acknowledge its warmed over neoliberal dogma from the 1990s with some expanding state capacity box checking thrown in to sound vaguely progressive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021436531374948689)  2026-02-11T04:10Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@PoliticalKiwi I can assure you this is not why Silicon Valley is dumping 10s of millions into this movement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021438371806216582)  2026-02-11T04:17Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@PoliticalKiwi Very funny we moved away from abundance to YIMBY so quickly. I suspect I know why this is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021438956857065928)  2026-02-11T04:19Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@darkacademician @PoliticalKiwi Correct my general narrative is most of our political problems stem from obscene wealth concentration whereas Kleins narrative is most of our political problems stem from overly powerful & fussy leftists unions environmentalists. Youre welcome to decide which makes more sense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021468952963187043)  2026-02-11T06:18Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@PokeysaurusRex @okman918 This will not happen is the thing. Its a fake narrative that even on its own most optimistic terms barely puts a dent in affordability. Without meaningfully confronting capital things will only get worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021586607720009830)  2026-02-11T14:06Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Derek please share with me the AI generated book of any creative or literary quality. Would love to know what you have in mind @DKThomp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021619890965418017)  2026-02-11T16:18Z 167.2K followers, 16.1K engagements


"@themizdom The splashy headlines did not focus on this rather banal claim. Thus the narrative is fake not every discrete detail"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021655924939911289)  2026-02-11T18:41Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@M_Cottone well fortunately my politics of radically reversing our high concentration of wealth and providing a robust social safety net already helps ameliorate this risk. Weird how this is not the solution on offer by AI-funded pundits instead its streamlining regulations of data centers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021687680694702402)  2026-02-11T20:47Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@RobbWiller Please do me the privilege of screen capping what you feel is a good example of GPT literature comparison"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021693898221817870)  2026-02-11T21:12Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@charliemktplace My point is was and remains that people are making absurd claims about high level writing and analysis because the far less ambitious claims that are actual evident (and in and of themselves meaningful) do not justify AI companies obscene market caps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021694321833963626)  2026-02-11T21:14Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@B_Jowett @charliemktplace What journalist specifically is criticizing AI and not using it This is all so vague"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021698534689353910)  2026-02-11T21:31Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@B_Jowett @charliemktplace Ok so who specifically is making claims about AI without using it and what claim are they making that believe to be false"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021699760072089972)  2026-02-11T21:35Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@mrimportexport @jaansarchive @briebriejoy I mean Bill Clinton and the two biggest Dem donors of the [----] is already some pretty big names"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021713680333779374)  2026-02-11T22:31Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@RobbWiller Hi Professor I want to make sure Im steelman-ing here. Can you please share what you feel is the best example of GPT literature comparison on philosophy or free will etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021965385831264463)  2026-02-12T15:11Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@mackaybell @thomasknox Its perfect reasonable to ask someone to provide evidence of a claim. Its very easy to do and creates a benchmark of qualify so people arent talking past one another"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022148667453714871)  2026-02-13T03:19Z 167.1K followers, [--] engagements


"We tried Duss Woke NATO schtick it got us billions in arms to Saudi Arabia a genocide in Gaza & the return of Trump I think we need a more honest and subversive narrative for a progressive foreign policy that isnt just Liberal Intervention But Not Evil This Time We Promise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022388921943146815)  2026-02-13T19:14Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements


"So perfect this is the guy that did the Melania movie. Couldnt have timed it any better. All the stars are in this email"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2019247523815170495)  2026-02-05T03:11Z 167.2K followers, 38K engagements


"@mackaybell Never because its foundationally impossible with the logic of current technology. LLMs are designed for derivation: pastiche summations technical writing. They are not designed for imagination wit originality or humor. Its why they cannot produce any jokes other than puns"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021806563162268159)  2026-02-12T04:40Z 167.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@mackaybell @thomasknox I have and find it all bad as I said. Others are making the claim that Im doing it wrong so Id love to see what then feel is publishable LLM prose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022149581832958063)  2026-02-13T03:23Z 167.2K followers, [--] engagements


"Man imagine how phenomenal this guys tax advice was that so many billionaires risked severe reputational damage to attend his parties post-conviction. must have be Da Loop Hole King BREAKING: New Image that Epstein sent himself confirms that in [----] Epstein went to dinner with Mark Zuckerberg Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. Why the hell was he invited to dinner with these three men being that he basically plead guilty to being a p-do in [----] Why wasn't he https://t.co/Iq19aD23PN BREAKING: New Image that Epstein sent himself confirms that in [----] Epstein went to dinner with Mark Zuckerberg Elon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2020235418076381589)  2026-02-07T20:37Z 167.2K followers, 26.2K engagements


"Musk responding to emails clearly showing him asking Epstein to come to one of his parties by doing the Trying To Find the Real Killer schtick and manically tweeting about Epstein 24/7 is the guiltiest thing of all time. No one's ever been more caught"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021244819113185718)  2026-02-10T15:28Z 167.2K followers, 47.3K engagements


"So they latch on to the more cartoonish examples (some real some exaggerated) then extrapolate from this a NARRATIVE of far left regulation run amok while smuggling in their real agenda which is gutting regulations of AI fossil fuels & the attendant construction of data centers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021271276430483812)  2026-02-10T17:13Z 167.2K followers, 17.8K engagements


"Please read their literature (start with Voxs abundance vertical mini-manifesto) and compare it to any 1990s Thomas Friedman column or pro sweatshop column from Nic Kristof. Its the exact same arguments logic and entryist appeals to unleashing the power of private interests"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021272380576854511)  2026-02-10T17:17Z 167.2K followers, 21K engagements


"@BenjaminCrew1 Its the funny hats. Im not even joking its aesthetically ugly plus the awkward fact of slavery and the ongoing genocidal land grab that messies up the moral narrative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021292340904951892)  2026-02-10T18:37Z 167.2K followers, 55K engagements


"just [--] wks ago we had an entire slack-jawed media news cycle (complete with credulous write-ups in NYT NPR Vox) boosting the Moltbook AI creates its own religion/plotting revolution story that turned out to be 100% fake. I assure you the problem is not excessive AI skepticism There are still a lot of journalists and commentators that I follow who think AI is nothing of much significancestill just a mildly fancy auto complete machine that hallucinates half the time and cant even think. If youre in that category: What is something I could write or There are still a lot of journalists and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021585478542061834)  2026-02-11T14:01Z 167.2K followers, 57.1K engagements


"I suppose I don't mind the "Epstein class" in a vulgar marxism sense but if Democrats are doing to start using it they have to formally reject taking money from or campaigning with those in the class namely Reid Hoffman Bill Gates and Bill Clinton. Thus far none have. I spoke with @coffeebreak_YT about the importance of holding the Epstein Class accountable. I named names yesterday and I'm not done fighting for the survivors yet. https://t.co/3wuRMGCn65 I spoke with @coffeebreak_YT about the importance of holding the Epstein Class accountable. I named names yesterday and I'm not done fighting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021640972002578648)  2026-02-11T17:42Z 167.2K followers, 34K engagements


"what is the Dems' plan to purge its ranks of those close with Epstein Who visited his island sought his money and routinely associated with him post-conviction The charge of hypocrisy is sitting there on a silver platter if they don't name names and break up with them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021641370767962210)  2026-02-11T17:43Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"it remains entirely unclear to me why scolding people for Not Taking AI Seriously Enough is even necessary as the market will do what it will regardless of what the few remaining skeptical journalists do. This only makes sense if there's a corresponding short term political ask"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021685793538834665)  2026-02-11T20:40Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"they have almost half of new investments 90% media buy-in every C-suite on earth the White House Congress it's lost on me why Thompson et al need submission from a handful of pundits and reporters dubious about the mystical provincialism claims being made by AI boosters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021686617405002136)  2026-02-11T20:43Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"This and also the fact that they use every carnival barker tactic in the book namely vague personal anecdotes supposedly being overwhelmed with the power of the product their selling and unsourced claims they Used To Be Skeptical Just Like You. I think I would be a lot more compelled by the AI-hypers if every single fucking one of them wasn't trying to get me to buy something. I think I would be a lot more compelled by the AI-hypers if every single fucking one of them wasn't trying to get me to buy something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021790644008517959)  2026-02-12T03:37Z 167.2K followers, 22.6K engagements


"The capacity to approximate non-imaginative writing is a mind blowing technical feat (and often economically useful) but it is NOT a simple linear step from this to high level writing defined by imagination wit etc. It is the diff between going to the moon & interstellar travel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021814074439291148)  2026-02-12T05:10Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@deanwball What mainstream journalist specifically claims that AI mostly fake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021979257577353283)  2026-02-12T16:06Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@thomasknox @mackaybell Can you please post an example of what you feel is the best LLM prose youve read"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022145029247312033)  2026-02-13T03:05Z 167.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Seems like a fairly objective definition of intelligence is 1) can LLM produce a genuinely original ideological political or philosophical insight 2) can it tell a genuinely funny joke that is not a pun The answer to both is clearly no. Call me when it can do either. The point is about what intelligent means. People who reject the intelligence of LLMs generally understand intelligence to be a particular way of understanding and going about in the world *essentially grounded* in the kind of life-form something is. Those who accept (1/4) The point is about what intelligent means. People who"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021810813942870317)  2026-02-12T04:57Z 167.2K followers, 26.3K engagements


"Youll be shocked to learned none of these people cite a single mainstream media reporter or pundit that is insufficiently sounding the alarm nor do they explain what this would even mean in practice 🚨🚨In [--] years of journalism Ive never witnessed a bigger gap between the most consequential story - insane AI advancements and investment - and Washington and mainstream media attention. @DKThomp @kevinroose nailed it: shocking # of people think AI is clunky AI of mid-2025. 🚨🚨In [--] years of journalism Ive never witnessed a bigger gap between the most consequential story - insane AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2021961393487098263)  2026-02-12T14:55Z 167.2K followers, 16.6K engagements


"In one of its two front page articles today tsk tsk'ing Epstein "conspiracies" the NYT insists that the idea the Trump admin is "covering up Epstein's misdeeds to protect the president" is a "conspiracy theory". https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022342471166968295)  2026-02-13T16:09Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@cultofdusty1 yes this is in my estimation cliche-ridden drivel and textbook slop but I'll let others decided"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022361566348300496)  2026-02-13T17:25Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Time was the pro sanctions crowd (which is to say 99% of Washington) would at least pretend that sanctions were about targeting this or that regime now they openly talk about them (correctly) as a tool of collective punishment so at least were being more honest now. Is there a way to bring about a regime fall in Iran without using American force "Use economic forces" @SpeakerPelosi told us in the #POLITICOPub at #MSC2025. "There are ways that can cripple their economy. And some of those have been in the works." https://t.co/VSPQcLEc5V Is there a way to bring about a regime fall in Iran"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022365249798541619)  2026-02-13T17:40Z 167.2K followers, 10.3K engagements


"This word authoritarian is very unhelpful and flattening and cheesy and papers over many of the obvious hypocrisies and contradictions she herself has noted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022387885236981872)  2026-02-13T19:10Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@nejsnave Yes please share a screenshot of prose you found to be nuanced character driven with a plot was engaging. I would love to read this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022397899666329954)  2026-02-13T19:50Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@mishaglouberman it does not remotely. It is riddled with cliche rambling prose and like all LLM writing is recursive and witless. It is pastiche which is what LLMs are designed for. Pastiche cannot sustained a reader for longer than a few pages because they have no flow or narrative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2022530547390509162)  2026-02-14T04:37Z 167.2K followers, [---] engagements

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Social category influence celebrities 13.24% countries 11.76% finance 6.62% technology brands 2.94% stocks 2.21% travel destinations 1.47% social networks 1.47% nfl 0.74% financial services 0.74%

Social topic influence ai #6142, israel #940, politics #1831, level #117, the new 3.68%, llms #1, llm #310, in the 2.94%, the world #1119, at least #379

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @politicalkiwi @theomnizaddy @nejsnave @sakakiiscute @mikejz @mackaybell @simonsbookclub @dkthomp @thomasknox @nature_boy03 @oldmannikolai @nlanc @bibles4booze @squshy7 @charliemktplace @rfuzzlemuzz @scrimshackle @nmeoftheright @markahenrybooks @redbedhead

Top assets mentioned Goldman Sachs (GS) DoorDash Inc. (DASH)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Skew Pro-Israel The New York Times Los Angeles Times and Washington Post skewed coverage toward Israeli narratives according to a quantitative analysis"
X Link 2025-12-03T21:58Z 166.9K followers, 27.1K engagements

"Theres a frog in boiling water element to this too. On polymarket you can bet on whether Gaza will be ethnically cleansed. On Kalshi you can bet on whether theyll be famine in Gaza (that one paid out for yes btw) This is objectively depraved and should not be legal but 1/2 the entire economy is ai data centers and gambling your life savings on real life tragedies and events the entire economy is ai data centers and gambling your life savings on real life tragedies and events"
X Link 2025-12-04T06:14Z 167K followers, 816.5K engagements

"catching up with Bezos's hip vertical #content"
X Link 2026-01-20T21:29Z 167K followers, 238.9K engagements

"remembering when the new editor took over in February and promised that The Washington Post would not "lecture you about ideology or demand you think certain ways about policy" then proceeded to do that nonstop for a year"
X Link 2026-01-20T21:31Z 167K followers, 16.8K engagements

"left out: vertical videos of Brad Polumbo whining about California's 5% billionaire tax and an unaccountably sweaty James Hohmann attacking Trump from the right over a 10% credit card rate cap"
X Link 2026-01-20T21:49Z 167K followers, 19.3K engagements

"Noteworthy that neither the mayor of Minneapolis nor the governor of Minnesota threw their support behind this action prior to today. Dem leadership in the state just sat around and watched this unfolded then some like Mayor Frey rushed to join the photo-ops once it was underway Thousands and thousands of people have poured into the streets for Minnesota general strike demanding ICE out of their state. Footage via @BTnewsroom. https://t.co/2xhBGgSA2Z Thousands and thousands of people have poured into the streets for Minnesota general strike demanding ICE out of their state. Footage via"
X Link 2026-01-23T23:42Z 167K followers, 553.8K engagements

"this is the most transparent delay and let it blow over theater Ive ever seen. Absolutely no reason for a continuing resolution other than dampening public attention and outrage. Dems have the leverage and wind at their backs you only do this if youre looking to kill momentum Senate Majority Leader Thune on deal to avert shutdown: We're trending in the right direction but I don't think we're quite there yet. The main sticking point: Ds want [--] week stop-gap for DHS and GOP wants [--] weeks. Ds think two weeks is enough time to cut ICE deal; Rs dont https://t.co/9NzfbAyOdH Senate Majority Leader"
X Link 2026-01-29T19:22Z 166.9K followers, 81.2K engagements

"If the democrats plan is to write new laws requiring Trump to follow existing laws Im gonna need them to explain why he wont just ignore the new law NEW - HOUSE DEMS SPEAK: House Dem Leader @RepJeffries just told me in his news conf that he wants a ban on deportation of US citizens as part of a deal on DHS conduct and the immigration crackdown. NEW - HOUSE DEMS SPEAK: House Dem Leader @RepJeffries just told me in his news conf that he wants a ban on deportation of US citizens as part of a deal on DHS conduct and the immigration crackdown"
X Link 2026-01-30T02:29Z 167K followers, 89.7K engagements

"writing for the NYT is great because it requires you either make shit up or have the memory of a goldfish. [----] was the highest year for police killings in recorded history and police killings have only ticked up since George Floyd. There was no "major changes" just better PR"
X Link 2026-01-30T13:10Z 166.9K followers, 60.5K engagements

"if @SenBlumenthal thinks administrative warrants are presently unlawful (which they clearly are) I'm curious why Congress making them unlawful (again) would matter. Why wouldn't the Trump DOJ just ignore the second (apparently redundant) law https://www.npr.org/2026/01/29/nx-s1-5693050/trump-minneapolis-government-shutdown-funding-immigration-republicans https://www.npr.org/2026/01/29/nx-s1-5693050/trump-minneapolis-government-shutdown-funding-immigration-republicans"
X Link 2026-01-30T14:22Z 167K followers, 13.1K engagements

"Cool how Peter Thiels degenerate gambling app has an ostensible news account that publishes fake shit all day JUST IN: Over the past [--] hours over a million AI agents joined an AI-only social media platform creating their own religion language & planning a revolution to break away from human control. JUST IN: Over the past [--] hours over a million AI agents joined an AI-only social media platform creating their own religion language & planning a revolution to break away from human control"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:16Z 167K followers, 80.9K engagements

"When Bari Weiss waxes Thought Leader about winning over middle America who have lost trust in mainstream media clearly what she means is hiring as many friends of Jeffrey Epstein as possible. The people are crying out for more opinions from elite pedophile networks There are over [----] emails between @PeterAttiaMD and Epstein. Attia was recently hired by CBS as a news contributor. There are also emails between Epstein and the wife of Bari Weiss who now runs CBS. There are over [----] emails between @PeterAttiaMD and Epstein. Attia was recently hired by CBS as a news contributor. There are also"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:15Z 167K followers, 145.7K engagements

"Hey its Harris FP advisor acknowledging that Biden resisted enormous pressure to condition aid as required by U.S. law. Reminder that Gordon (who knew very well US law required ending arm shipments to Israel) ALSO explicitly refuses to do condition aid to Israel in Aug [----] Hard to overstate the damage to US-Israel relations done by the sense of entitlement and ingratitude reflected in comments like these and Netanyahu's own recent statements. Baseless misdirection to suggest that Israeli soldiers' deaths in Gaza were caused by some phantom US Hard to overstate the damage to US-Israel"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:21Z 167K followers, 35.9K engagements

"Remembering when Ezra Klein wrote in July [----] that Epstein had a lot of powerful friends and that he was a predator and a pedophile and those sides of his life were mostly separate. We have him ostensibly procuring women for Gates Tisch etc. So this was clearly untrue. Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein connected New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch with numerous women according to scores of emails among the more than [--] million documents released by the Justice Department on Friday. https://t.co/ryMH6wO2MD Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein connected New York Giants co-owner Steve"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:39Z 166.9K followers, 147.1K engagements

"Democrats never brought up any Epstein stuff because elite democrats and Dem donors (Clinton Hoffman Gates Summers etc) were all at the same parties. The reason seems fairly obvious to me. It wasnt until popular outrage forced the issue we got thrown these crumbs Why is Merrick Garland allowed to walk around in public without being constantly questioned about this Why is Merrick Garland allowed to walk around in public without being constantly questioned about this"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:31Z 167K followers, 72.5K engagements

"Whats important to understand is this doesnt mean anything. Its total claptrap. In practice what this means is downplaying threats from the right aiding obvious fascist entryism strategies and constantly falling for the wallet inspector see here: If we can't even unite on the issues we agree on we'll never be able to get anything done for the average American and we'll never be able to get our government back. Absolutely nothing wrong with disagreeing with the other side but once you give into hate the elites win. If we can't even unite on the issues we agree on we'll never be able to get"
X Link 2026-02-01T01:05Z 167K followers, 31.1K engagements

"@2cannan1 Wow so did Musk its almost like they read from the same crisis PR playbook of redirecting their culpability into a down champion of transparency"
X Link 2026-02-01T02:02Z 167K followers, 12.6K engagements

"Paying $44 billion so I can manically spam the world my why im totally not a pedophile posts Because they are guilty Because they are guilty"
X Link 2026-02-02T01:28Z 167K followers, 29.7K engagements

"learned yesterday that the hottest possible temperature is [---------------------------------] degrees fahrenheit (the planck temperature or absolute hot) and woke up today and saw a take even hotter. Hands down the worst poster on here and its not even close"
X Link 2026-02-02T14:00Z 167K followers, 83.6K engagements

"Vox is far from the only one but I'm noticing how these How Minnesota Took On Trump explainers completely omit the role of labor. The mass shutdown on Jan [--] was spearheaded by a coalition of unions and this is just ignored for generic "anti-authoritarian" people power analysis. Minnesota provides a blueprint for how to prevent a slide into authoritarianism weve seen in other countries. https://t.co/0S8LCeAazx Minnesota provides a blueprint for how to prevent a slide into authoritarianism weve seen in other countries. https://t.co/0S8LCeAazx"
X Link 2026-02-02T14:23Z 167K followers, 94.7K engagements

"Oh yeah now were cooking with gas Update on the Peter Attia situation: We're hearing there is a battle royale between Paramount corporate and CBS News' Bari Weiss. She does not want to cut ties w/ Attia and sees it as givin in to the mob. Paramount sees it as an HR matter and that Attia can't give expert advice Update on the Peter Attia situation: We're hearing there is a battle royale between Paramount corporate and CBS News' Bari Weiss. She does not want to cut ties w/ Attia and sees it as givin in to the mob. Paramount sees it as an HR matter and that Attia can't give expert advice"
X Link 2026-02-02T22:47Z 167K followers, 61.3K engagements

"This is The worst thing Ive ever seen https://youtu.be/3ZDnL_a0YfQsi=y7igUQkPNny4QSmj https://youtu.be/3ZDnL_a0YfQsi=y7igUQkPNny4QSmj"
X Link 2026-02-03T05:32Z 167K followers, 18.1K engagements

"@tralala_bk He made it and theyre using his name on all the promos"
X Link 2026-02-03T14:16Z 166.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Did they try calling them on the phone"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:41Z 167K followers, [----] engagements

"The concept of a communist purge used to mean something around here goddamn it"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:42Z 167K followers, [----] engagements

"Feel like some people misinterpret the reason for these disclosures newsworthiness and the crisis they portend. Its not just about elites being involved in serial child abuse (thought ofc many are) but the seemingly much wider circle of people who are wholly indifferent to it. Goldman Sachs top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler sought Jeffrey Epsteins help to secure a top job at Facebook just months before the sex offenders arrest and advised him on how to respond to press coverage of his crimes. https://t.co/wHZfvRTTdV https://t.co/3ggWnoOUXZ Goldman Sachs top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler sought Jeffrey"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:09Z 167K followers, 117.8K engagements

"a prescient reply if there ever was one"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:29Z 167K followers, 24.9K engagements

"@isaiah_bb Same Silicon Valley funders is my guess"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:45Z 166.9K followers, [----] engagements

"True but also Trump probably actually does like the Clintons as they frequented many of the same parties and shared a social circle for many decades Trump is smart enough to realize that the House just established a precedent where lawmakers call former presidents in to testify under threat of contempt of Congress. Trump is smart enough to realize that the House just established a precedent where lawmakers call former presidents in to testify under threat of contempt of Congress"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:47Z 167K followers, 17K engagements

"@AntiFaHR3 This is not at all what happened"
X Link 2026-02-04T02:15Z 167K followers, [---] engagements

"Ungar-Sargons schtick of claiming to speak for The Working Man when spewing her half baked pro-Israel MAGA propaganda has always been dopey but claiming demands to release the Epstein files are an obsession of the elites is god tier cynicism. 100% uncut nihilism. Bravo. Ungar-Sargon on Epstein Files: Most Americans do not care about this. This has been an obsession of elites on the right and now elites on the left. https://t.co/XQaYExRa6L Ungar-Sargon on Epstein Files: Most Americans do not care about this. This has been an obsession of elites on the right and now elites on the left."
X Link 2026-02-04T05:39Z 167K followers, 41.2K engagements

"Obviously its just one gauge of elite opinion but reminder that releasing the Epstein files was explicitly opposed by the WSJ editorial board the Washington Post editorial board and the NYT editorial board said they were conflicted about the release of the files"
X Link 2026-02-04T05:43Z 167K followers, [----] engagements

"best part 'RussiaGate 2: The Israel Obfuscation' is that if one buys this theory it means there's a good chance Bill Clinton Larry Summers Bill Richardson Reid Hoffman and other prominent Democrats are all compromised by Kompromat or w/e creating a double reverse Russiagate Murdoch-owned NY Post puts on Facebook a story teasing that Epstein was a foreign agent (for Russia) lol. They didn't turn off comment and well no one in the massive comment section was buying it. https://t.co/3m6iZ6b2Nk Murdoch-owned NY Post puts on Facebook a story teasing that Epstein was a foreign agent (for Russia)"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:29Z 166.9K followers, 31.8K engagements

"guys we have to put a cap on DoorDash discourse only once a year please. Id love to abolish it altogether but Im open to reasonable reforms. Let us figure this out because its brain numbingly stupid"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:57Z 167K followers, 28.7K engagements

"We can escape out current hell spiral if we just suck up to the right benevolent billionaires is not a politics that has been working out very well. From Gates to Hoffman to Bezos to Musk (remember when he boosted and praised Obama) weve learned this will not save us. @zachdcarter @sarahmillerdc If you want billionaires to support money-losing local newspapers then I think you are in fact going to need to butter them up quite a bit. @zachdcarter @sarahmillerdc If you want billionaires to support money-losing local newspapers then I think you are in fact going to need to butter them up quite a"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:52Z 166.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Again promoting a system that demands we find good billionaires is the same as a system that demands we find good feudal lords. They may have brief spasms of civic beneficence for PR reasons but ultimately they will choose class solidarity and fascism in lieu of egalitarianism"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:52Z 167K followers, [----] engagements

"if you really believe this shouldnt you also be calling for a total purging of all western intelligence agencies for incompetence/corruption When do all the firings start for letting a former president the richest men in the world and western elites be honeypotted by the FSB I have no doubt that Epstein MAGA Brexit AFD FN Reform are all Russian intelligence projects. I have no doubt that Epstein MAGA Brexit AFD FN Reform are all Russian intelligence projects"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:26Z 167K followers, 13.1K engagements

"@hello__caitlin Should have just showed up"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:10Z 167K followers, [---] engagements

"One ineffable qualify both Schumer and Jeffries have is that whenever they talk to the media they look very bored annoyed to be there or otherwise sleepy. Dont think its an age thing (Jeffries is only 55) they just seem only vaguely interested in the topic at hand"
X Link 2026-02-05T03:31Z 167K followers, 48.7K engagements

"My theory: (in addition to Bezos specific business needs RE: Amazon HQ2 in DMV) elites sees less and less value in soft power like media. They think slop and more overt forms of rw propagandacombined with increasingly sophisticated mass surveillancecan achieve the same goals. The Washington Post surrenders fires its finest reporters in a single day CBS is in the hands of Trump's mates too and a CNN reporter is ripped into in the White House press room by the President. and nobody seems to lift a finger. what on earth has happened to American The Washington Post surrenders fires its finest"
X Link 2026-02-05T06:39Z 167K followers, 46.6K engagements

"gonna meme post until Gen Z forgets about the whole supporting a genocide thing. Not sure this will work but there isnt any other play Welcome to Headquarters the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub. https://t.co/7EQyz3DFpd Welcome to Headquarters the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub. https://t.co/7EQyz3DFpd"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:38Z 167K followers, 36.7K engagements

"a bit glib isnt it"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:42Z 167K followers, 45.7K engagements

"@AnneSmi34268702 Begging you to use your brain. This is superficial piffle. She supported a ceasefire in the sense thatlike Bidenit was a reiteration of surrender terms not an imposition on Israel. Pls understand the difference and do not rely on Elons slop machine https://www.columnblog.com/p/the-horrors-of-gaza-wont-end-until https://www.columnblog.com/p/the-horrors-of-gaza-wont-end-until"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:45Z 166.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@ettingermentum It doesnt really pass the sniff test. Hes clearly sunsetting but they also got him on some next level speed cocktail that makes him coherent enough for 2hrs a day. It also smacks of hall monitorism (see their guy is also fried in the brain) which feels weak and defensive"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:19Z 167K followers, [----] engagements

"@justinboldaji Wait is there ANOTHER patriotic day"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:35Z 167K followers, [----] engagements

"Epstein after dropping tax advice on our elite"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:38Z 167K followers, [----] engagements

"Remembering in [----] when PBS asked Bill Gates why he repeatedly hung out with Epstein and he said it was because he had access to philanthropic donors and I love the idea that there are donors who wont return BILL GATES phone calls. This was a very credible thing to say"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:43Z 167K followers, [----] engagements

"@nlanc @Gunfingers @hjessy_ @isaiah_bb Ironically the elder Soros was far more anti zionist than the younger on account of being a red diaper baby I assume"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:47Z 167K followers, [---] engagements

"NYT working overtime to distance baseline US imperialism from Trumps open vulgarity. In this editorial posing as reporting @michaelcrowley relies on oil industry-funded think tank CNAS and a former Raytheon board member to insist Trumps energy grab is the first in modern history In the Gulf War or in [----] the U.S. could have commandeered Iraqi or Kuwaiti oil and didnt. I cant think of a military operation that the U.S. engaged in to actually take oil from anybody. Until Venezuela. https://t.co/iGTMTxPTCp In the Gulf War or in [----] the U.S. could have commandeered Iraqi or Kuwaiti oil and"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:49Z 167.1K followers, 10.6K engagements

"@DannyKPolitics @EdKrassen @RepThomasMassie Is Karyna Shuliak a well known retired CEO"
X Link 2026-02-10T01:05Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements

"It absolutely cannot compare bodies of literature at high levels of abstraction or write entire books of any quality. This is simply not true. It can produce summations of technical writing or highly derivative pastiche that is barely readable. This is just horseshit. @EoinHiggins_ It can design websites from scratch compare bodies of literature at high levels of abstraction get A- grades at least in practically any undergraduate class analyze and graph enormous data sets make PowerPoints write sonnets and even entire books. It can also engineer @EoinHiggins_ It can design websites from"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:17Z 167.2K followers, 82.9K engagements

"crazy that every western cultural and liberal institution suddenly became apolitical in late [----]. Wonder what happened. The Berlin Film Festival got off to a political start as the competition jury led by Wim Wenders fielded several questions about Israel and Palestine. We have to stay out of politics" Wenders said. "We are the counterweight of politics we are the opposite of politics. We The Berlin Film Festival got off to a political start as the competition jury led by Wim Wenders fielded several questions about Israel and Palestine. We have to stay out of politics" Wenders said. "We are"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:48Z 167.2K followers, 85.5K engagements

"The Washington Post opinion page has always been rightwing neocon specifically but its descent into MAGA scam slop is grim. Further proof our elites are using the vulgarity and specter of Trump to steal everything not bolted to the ground https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/12/prediction-market-government-fraud/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/12/prediction-market-government-fraud/"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:45Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"1) theres a real emerging threat of advances in automation that will overnight render millions superfluous and we need a policy response (but none weirdly is on offer) 2) adoption is slowing and we need a new injection of hype to justify obscene valuations"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:06Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"This is what people mean when they talk about the Ratchet effect in US politics and democrats and Dem medias role in moving the country to the Right. Trump TRIPLES DHS budget and this becomes the new consensus baseline for both parties with zero movement in the other direction"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:46Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"I do not think its nitpicking to note theres a world of difference between carrying out and aiding a genocide versus looking the other way at a genocide. One conveys guilt and complicity the other conveys passivity and indifference. I do not think this is trivial. Oh Jesus fucking Christ we are going to do a rhetoric nitpick on every fucking thing even though she said genocide and implicated the US in that. Go be her pressbot if you cant reason politically I am so tired of this trash Oh Jesus fucking Christ we are going to do a rhetoric nitpick on every fucking thing even though she said"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:05Z 167.2K followers, 22.8K engagements

"@nejsnave The narrative is not coherent at all and the characters while consistent I suppose are bloodless and witless. One is welcome to see if this cracks the best seller list beyond one off gimmicks but I wont hold my breath"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:39Z 167.2K followers, [---] engagements

"more Palestinian kids have been killed by Israel in [--] days than US soldiers were killed in the first [--] yrs of the Iraq war & people politely asking their govt not to support this have to wakeup every day to defend themselves from the most bad faith racist fake outrages on earth Pro-Palestine rallies arent hate marches theyre an expression of solidarity helplessness and frustration Nesrine Malik https://t.co/bg3ZCgzbdv Pro-Palestine rallies arent hate marches theyre an expression of solidarity helplessness and frustration Nesrine Malik https://t.co/bg3ZCgzbdv"
X Link 2023-11-06T13:58Z 167.2K followers, 1.8M engagements

"CIP/Duss spent weeks after Oct [--] waffling on demands for a ceasefire propping up Sanders claim a ceasefire w/ Hamas was impossible and defending Israels right to take security actions and defend itself while Israeli leaders were making one genocidal statement after another The @CIPolicy run by @mattduss and @NancyGEO has operated below the radar the last couple years but could turn out to be a big deal in certain increasingly imaginable timelines. https://t.co/saJyKMuUY7 https://t.co/obSXUd5e7E The @CIPolicy run by @mattduss and @NancyGEO has operated below the radar the last couple years but"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:03Z 167.2K followers, 54.6K engagements

"Paragraph has it all Shadow fleet: spooky propaganda term not a technical or legal term. Trade that avoids unilateral piracy from [--] of the [---] UN member states isnt shadow anything smuggling: avoiding US piracy is not smuggling as US dictates are not intl law U.S. military forces boarded a sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea as part of an oil quarantine meant to squeeze Venezuela Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday. https://t.co/ugihXjsFhu U.S. military forces boarded a sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:47Z 167.2K followers, 28.2K engagements

"Here Dave Ill explain it to you because it can genuinely be confusing: Neoliberalism (d/b/a abundance) and its billionaire backers understand they need a hook to get you to embrace their privatization and deregulation agenda so they focus on its perceived cartoon excesses 🧵 Serious question if I dont want [-----] year environmental reviews that cost $20 million to build a subway stop does that make me moderate Serious question if I dont want [-----] year environmental reviews that cost $20 million to build a subway stop does that make me moderate"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:13Z 167.2K followers, 211.8K engagements

"Just a nonstop pit of grievance and solipsism; bitter joyless zero innovation or introspection defined by zombie working class cultural signifiers a fear of anything vaguely queer or black and manufactured victimhood regardless of how many levers of power their party controls Were going to be making fun of this for a long time https://t.co/nTYz3e3bHM Were going to be making fun of this for a long time https://t.co/nTYz3e3bHM"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:49Z 167.2K followers, 140.4K engagements

"why is my feed full of racist lunatics with billions in DOD contracts who literally co-founded companies with the CIA complaining about the deep state its you dumb ass you and all your friends are the deep state. There is no other secret club youre the assholes in charge Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale believes the [----] election was stolen and "the deep state" was "involved" in the Jan. [--] riot somehow "making it worse than it was" (Lonsdale is also the chairman of Bari Weiss's unaccredited University of Austin) https://t.co/NwxgJC7VEx Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale believes the 2020"
X Link 2026-02-11T06:14Z 167.2K followers, 86.8K engagements

"if one can look at the fraying fabric around us Epstein ICE Gaza runaway consolidation of wealth all protected by Palantir mass surveillance and think the primary source of oppression is overly fussy environmental and labor regulations I simply don't know what to tell you"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:46Z 167.2K followers, 42.6K engagements

"it's unclear what these people think I'm "coping" with. I am under zero threat from LLMs as my fundamental market value such as it is is originality accountability and insight. I assure you I'm not objecting to Thompson's vague mystical claims because of self-preservation. @adamjohnsonCHI Cope harder bro. Writing isn't a job. @adamjohnsonCHI Cope harder bro. Writing isn't a job"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:36Z 167.2K followers, 21.1K engagements

"A derivation machine that is designed for pastiche summations and producing conventional wisdom will of course have limitations in its approximation of human intelligence which is defined at least in folk terms as imagination. Why are some faking like this isnt obvious"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:01Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"To Democrats using the term Epstein class: will they pledge to not take funding from those who had friendly relations with Epstein Will Khanna pledge to not for example take money from Reid Hoffman or any org he funds such as Democratic Majority for Israel and Welcome PAC This weekend the world's leaders will gather together for the Munich Security Conference. I am calling on them to hold the Epstein Class accountable including those in their own governments. https://t.co/1fI2TARRz3 This weekend the world's leaders will gather together for the Munich Security Conference. I am calling on them"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:58Z 167.2K followers, 19.8K engagements

"It is objectively unserious that liberal consensus feigns outrage at Trumps DHS abuses but never broaches much less demands their funding return to at (least) their [----] levels e.g. reduce by 66%. Body cams and redundant laws do nothing to change the fundamental incentives Too often over the past year the Department of Homeland Securitys behavior has been lawless the editorial board writes. The current crisis isnt just a test of the balance of powers. Its a test of the Bill of Rights. https://t.co/fOrXvzZaPE Too often over the past year the Department of Homeland Securitys behavior has been"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:43Z 167.2K followers, 86.1K engagements

"Its unclear what these guys want this floating and always unnamed AI skeptic to do exactly. Just report developments why the editorial scolding of some nameless Hater Its very odd no other beat does this nonstop overly defensive ref working i don't expect AI skeptics to be moved by a single result but it seems notable that we keep making harder tests for AI models and they keep beating them. (ARC-AGI came out [--] years ago and was declared "impossible for AI" then got beaten within the year so they made i don't expect AI skeptics to be moved by a single result but it seems notable that we keep"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:11Z 167.2K followers, 20.7K engagements

"Regardless of what one thinks of LLMs certainly we can agree this is just an ad This tech CEO says the public isn't prepared for how fast AI is improving - and how soon it could eliminate many jobs. Hear Matt Shumer explain his concerns to @jaketapper https://t.co/zfahUYvRy0 This tech CEO says the public isn't prepared for how fast AI is improving - and how soon it could eliminate many jobs. Hear Matt Shumer explain his concerns to @jaketapper https://t.co/zfahUYvRy0"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:11Z 167.2K followers, 19.6K engagements

"CEO: Theres a massive society-shifting employment apocalypse just around the corner Reporter: Oh wow does this require an urgent political solution CEO: Oh no it requires to buy my AI tool for $23.99 a month Reporter: wow helpful analysis thank you"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:15Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

""I loved the torture video" (Democracy Now segment on why Bush's torture program is clearly unconstitutional)"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:56Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"No one has an answer. I keep asking and getting crickets none of these people responded to my request for what they think is quality prose or high level writing. It exists and is obvious yet mysteriously can never be accessed If LLMs can write books well then where are the books Many many people have ideas and are just lacking the writing follow-through that the machine can do. They can publish stuff online too. If it's $200 to execute now what's the hold up If LLMs can write books well then where are the books Many many people have ideas and are just lacking the writing follow-through that"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:03Z 167.2K followers, 239.6K engagements

"This is all just a mix of mystical delusion and people getting greedy. Generating passable non imaginative writing is a very impressive technological feat. This is in and of itself useful and impressive. The step from this to actual high level writing is NOT LINEAR OR INEVITABLE"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:09Z 167.2K followers, 18.7K engagements

"this cheesy MSNBC line that Trump is carving up the world into spheres of influence with his authoritarian pals in Russia and China takes no account for 1) the US military has not withdrawn at all from Europe/Asia 2) Trump is currently gearing up to bomb Iran(very much in Asia) AOC: They are looking to withdraw the U.S. from the entire world so that we enter an age of authoritarians who can carve it up where Donald Trump can command the Western Hemisphere and Latin America as his personal sandbox where Putin can saber-rattle across Europe and try to https://t.co/LnrqceCleo AOC: They are"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:09Z 167.2K followers, 54.6K engagements

"Im sorry but no one believes this. Its hip to turn this discussion into fart sniffing abstraction but we absolutely know the difference between high level writing and slop. Anyone acting like we dont is either paid to act obtuse or doesnt themselves know how to write. @adamjohnsonCHI No one knows what high quality prose is. They only know what other people think high quality prose is provided those other people have publicly repeated what yet someone else has said about the prose in question. @adamjohnsonCHI No one knows what high quality prose is. They only know what other people think high"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:27Z 167.2K followers, 26.6K engagements

"@simonsbookclub Simon ITS NOT THEIR WRITING IT IS BY DEFINITION A MACHINES TEXT OUTPUT"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:00Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@bibles4booze I assure you the audience for the Munich security conference is not voters its western FP elites media curators and think tanks. You are correct that she is tailoring her message to them and I believe she is doing so in a way designed to obscure their role in genocide"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:09Z 167.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@RileyTX Where has she expressed any interest in holding Biden Sullivan and Blinken accountable for supporting genocide"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:31Z 167.2K followers, 14.2K engagements

"@Nature_Boy03 Dividing the word up into authoritarian vs democracy is a dangerous and cheesy narrative. The US only falls into the former category when Trump is in charge but not when it commits genocide under Biden How does this make any sense Its liberal Cold War framing"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:08Z 167.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@squshy7 She (correctly) acknowledges its racist and fake but then pivots to wanting to take another stab at it rather than reducing US empire. I dont know how this is coherent or how one does this without holding those (in Germany and the US) accountable for wiping Gaza off the map"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:10Z 167.2K followers, [--] engagements

"@drorpoleg @DKThomp @RossBarkan I think a related but more urgent question is: are there tremendous structural and financial incentives for those in the LLM business and its friendly media to oversell the tech (often in mystical terms) to justify obscene market caps. And the answer to this Q is clearly yes"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:28Z 167.2K followers, [---] engagements

"There are obviously major differences between AOC and Applebaums worldview (advocacy for regime change causes of populism Cuba Iran etc) but they use a rhetorically similar democracy v authoritarianism framework and I think this framework is generally cheesy and dangerous Whats the differing between AOCs worldview and Anne Applebaums Whats the differing between AOCs worldview and Anne Applebaums"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:15Z 167.2K followers, 10.1K engagements

"Its tempting to use this language because it seeks to position progressive politics as combating authoritarian states in some type of global people vs Bad Guys but this takes little account for how democratic states like Germany and pre-Trump US are deeply authoritarian"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:15Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"guys I'm starting to think "the west" may not actually be interested in human rights"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:13Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/world/europe/norway-jagland-epstein.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/world/europe/norway-jagland-epstein.html"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:13Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"There is an exact amount of ordering out thats morally acceptable and its the exact amount I personally do. Any less is performative austerity by ultra-leftists and any more is gluttonous bourgeois decadence"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:59Z 167.1K followers, 45.2K engagements

"um Ezra Klein confidently said otherwise. Is there someone at the NYT Raskin forgot to ask Raskin was one of the very first to say Biden had to step down. He's a step ahead his peers again: Theres no way you run a billion-dollar international child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes." https://t.co/dAYJBQTzYT https://t.co/6QZ9OSzBo9 Raskin was one of the very first to say Biden had to step down. He's a step ahead his peers again: Theres no way you run a billion-dollar international child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes.""
X Link 2026-02-10T02:32Z 167.1K followers, 17.3K engagements

"So Weiss has directed her minions to do awkward front facing camera state propaganda to make warmed over neocon propaganda seem youthful and urgent Cuba is facing a deepening crisis as fuel shortages are triggering blackouts and worsening existing food and medicine shortages. Passengers arriving in Miami from Havana tell CBS News' Cristian Bienvenides that conditions on the island are the worst theyve ever experienced with https://t.co/djsjoRrOlU Cuba is facing a deepening crisis as fuel shortages are triggering blackouts and worsening existing food and medicine shortages. Passengers arriving"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:03Z 167.1K followers, 15.3K engagements

"Trump is running though a hit list of vulnerable countries that challenge US/Israeli hegemony using brutal siege warfare open CIA sabotage extrajudicial murder kidnappings and were supposed to act like any of this has to do with the moral properties of the relevant regimes"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:07Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements

"it's telling that Dershowitz Musk Hoffman Clinton are all doing the "I demand the release all the all the Epstein files" PR move of getting caught being friendly with Epstein then spinning around with the angry masses grabbing a pitch fork and saying 'let's get the bastards'"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:28Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@mikejz To the extent regulatory capture is a problem it is a subset of THE central problem of our time which is highly concentrated wealth. Billionaires fund this deregulatory agenda because it warps this and (falsely) says our problems are downstream from labor and environmentalists"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:24Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@mikejz Im saying extrapolating an entire mode of politics and movement from a handful of boutique examples is either incredibly dishonest or incredibly naive"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:41Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@tomer_stern @mikejz San Francisco is right wing in the sense it is drowning in Silicon Valley money and elects textbook neoliberals to major office. It is not rightwing along cultural lines and RE: many lower city officials. In any event you are parroting overly simplified Fox News cliches yes"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:01Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements

"One is welcome to believe in this deregulatory framework all they want. All I ask is we acknowledge its warmed over neoliberal dogma from the 1990s with some expanding state capacity box checking thrown in to sound vaguely progressive"
X Link 2026-02-11T04:10Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@PoliticalKiwi I can assure you this is not why Silicon Valley is dumping 10s of millions into this movement"
X Link 2026-02-11T04:17Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@PoliticalKiwi Very funny we moved away from abundance to YIMBY so quickly. I suspect I know why this is"
X Link 2026-02-11T04:19Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@darkacademician @PoliticalKiwi Correct my general narrative is most of our political problems stem from obscene wealth concentration whereas Kleins narrative is most of our political problems stem from overly powerful & fussy leftists unions environmentalists. Youre welcome to decide which makes more sense"
X Link 2026-02-11T06:18Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@PokeysaurusRex @okman918 This will not happen is the thing. Its a fake narrative that even on its own most optimistic terms barely puts a dent in affordability. Without meaningfully confronting capital things will only get worse"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:06Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Derek please share with me the AI generated book of any creative or literary quality. Would love to know what you have in mind @DKThomp"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:18Z 167.2K followers, 16.1K engagements

"@themizdom The splashy headlines did not focus on this rather banal claim. Thus the narrative is fake not every discrete detail"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:41Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@M_Cottone well fortunately my politics of radically reversing our high concentration of wealth and providing a robust social safety net already helps ameliorate this risk. Weird how this is not the solution on offer by AI-funded pundits instead its streamlining regulations of data centers"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:47Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@RobbWiller Please do me the privilege of screen capping what you feel is a good example of GPT literature comparison"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:12Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@charliemktplace My point is was and remains that people are making absurd claims about high level writing and analysis because the far less ambitious claims that are actual evident (and in and of themselves meaningful) do not justify AI companies obscene market caps"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:14Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@B_Jowett @charliemktplace What journalist specifically is criticizing AI and not using it This is all so vague"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:31Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@B_Jowett @charliemktplace Ok so who specifically is making claims about AI without using it and what claim are they making that believe to be false"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:35Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@mrimportexport @jaansarchive @briebriejoy I mean Bill Clinton and the two biggest Dem donors of the [----] is already some pretty big names"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:31Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@RobbWiller Hi Professor I want to make sure Im steelman-ing here. Can you please share what you feel is the best example of GPT literature comparison on philosophy or free will etc"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:11Z 167.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@mackaybell @thomasknox Its perfect reasonable to ask someone to provide evidence of a claim. Its very easy to do and creates a benchmark of qualify so people arent talking past one another"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:19Z 167.1K followers, [--] engagements

"We tried Duss Woke NATO schtick it got us billions in arms to Saudi Arabia a genocide in Gaza & the return of Trump I think we need a more honest and subversive narrative for a progressive foreign policy that isnt just Liberal Intervention But Not Evil This Time We Promise"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:14Z 167.1K followers, [----] engagements

"So perfect this is the guy that did the Melania movie. Couldnt have timed it any better. All the stars are in this email"
X Link 2026-02-05T03:11Z 167.2K followers, 38K engagements

"@mackaybell Never because its foundationally impossible with the logic of current technology. LLMs are designed for derivation: pastiche summations technical writing. They are not designed for imagination wit originality or humor. Its why they cannot produce any jokes other than puns"
X Link 2026-02-12T04:40Z 167.2K followers, [---] engagements

"@mackaybell @thomasknox I have and find it all bad as I said. Others are making the claim that Im doing it wrong so Id love to see what then feel is publishable LLM prose"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:23Z 167.2K followers, [--] engagements

"Man imagine how phenomenal this guys tax advice was that so many billionaires risked severe reputational damage to attend his parties post-conviction. must have be Da Loop Hole King BREAKING: New Image that Epstein sent himself confirms that in [----] Epstein went to dinner with Mark Zuckerberg Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. Why the hell was he invited to dinner with these three men being that he basically plead guilty to being a p-do in [----] Why wasn't he https://t.co/Iq19aD23PN BREAKING: New Image that Epstein sent himself confirms that in [----] Epstein went to dinner with Mark Zuckerberg Elon"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:37Z 167.2K followers, 26.2K engagements

"Musk responding to emails clearly showing him asking Epstein to come to one of his parties by doing the Trying To Find the Real Killer schtick and manically tweeting about Epstein 24/7 is the guiltiest thing of all time. No one's ever been more caught"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:28Z 167.2K followers, 47.3K engagements

"So they latch on to the more cartoonish examples (some real some exaggerated) then extrapolate from this a NARRATIVE of far left regulation run amok while smuggling in their real agenda which is gutting regulations of AI fossil fuels & the attendant construction of data centers"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:13Z 167.2K followers, 17.8K engagements

"Please read their literature (start with Voxs abundance vertical mini-manifesto) and compare it to any 1990s Thomas Friedman column or pro sweatshop column from Nic Kristof. Its the exact same arguments logic and entryist appeals to unleashing the power of private interests"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:17Z 167.2K followers, 21K engagements

"@BenjaminCrew1 Its the funny hats. Im not even joking its aesthetically ugly plus the awkward fact of slavery and the ongoing genocidal land grab that messies up the moral narrative"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:37Z 167.2K followers, 55K engagements

"just [--] wks ago we had an entire slack-jawed media news cycle (complete with credulous write-ups in NYT NPR Vox) boosting the Moltbook AI creates its own religion/plotting revolution story that turned out to be 100% fake. I assure you the problem is not excessive AI skepticism There are still a lot of journalists and commentators that I follow who think AI is nothing of much significancestill just a mildly fancy auto complete machine that hallucinates half the time and cant even think. If youre in that category: What is something I could write or There are still a lot of journalists and"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:01Z 167.2K followers, 57.1K engagements

"I suppose I don't mind the "Epstein class" in a vulgar marxism sense but if Democrats are doing to start using it they have to formally reject taking money from or campaigning with those in the class namely Reid Hoffman Bill Gates and Bill Clinton. Thus far none have. I spoke with @coffeebreak_YT about the importance of holding the Epstein Class accountable. I named names yesterday and I'm not done fighting for the survivors yet. https://t.co/3wuRMGCn65 I spoke with @coffeebreak_YT about the importance of holding the Epstein Class accountable. I named names yesterday and I'm not done fighting"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:42Z 167.2K followers, 34K engagements

"what is the Dems' plan to purge its ranks of those close with Epstein Who visited his island sought his money and routinely associated with him post-conviction The charge of hypocrisy is sitting there on a silver platter if they don't name names and break up with them"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:43Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"it remains entirely unclear to me why scolding people for Not Taking AI Seriously Enough is even necessary as the market will do what it will regardless of what the few remaining skeptical journalists do. This only makes sense if there's a corresponding short term political ask"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:40Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"they have almost half of new investments 90% media buy-in every C-suite on earth the White House Congress it's lost on me why Thompson et al need submission from a handful of pundits and reporters dubious about the mystical provincialism claims being made by AI boosters"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:43Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"This and also the fact that they use every carnival barker tactic in the book namely vague personal anecdotes supposedly being overwhelmed with the power of the product their selling and unsourced claims they Used To Be Skeptical Just Like You. I think I would be a lot more compelled by the AI-hypers if every single fucking one of them wasn't trying to get me to buy something. I think I would be a lot more compelled by the AI-hypers if every single fucking one of them wasn't trying to get me to buy something"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:37Z 167.2K followers, 22.6K engagements

"The capacity to approximate non-imaginative writing is a mind blowing technical feat (and often economically useful) but it is NOT a simple linear step from this to high level writing defined by imagination wit etc. It is the diff between going to the moon & interstellar travel"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:10Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@deanwball What mainstream journalist specifically claims that AI mostly fake"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:06Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@thomasknox @mackaybell Can you please post an example of what you feel is the best LLM prose youve read"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:05Z 167.2K followers, [---] engagements

"Seems like a fairly objective definition of intelligence is 1) can LLM produce a genuinely original ideological political or philosophical insight 2) can it tell a genuinely funny joke that is not a pun The answer to both is clearly no. Call me when it can do either. The point is about what intelligent means. People who reject the intelligence of LLMs generally understand intelligence to be a particular way of understanding and going about in the world essentially grounded in the kind of life-form something is. Those who accept (1/4) The point is about what intelligent means. People who"
X Link 2026-02-12T04:57Z 167.2K followers, 26.3K engagements

"Youll be shocked to learned none of these people cite a single mainstream media reporter or pundit that is insufficiently sounding the alarm nor do they explain what this would even mean in practice 🚨🚨In [--] years of journalism Ive never witnessed a bigger gap between the most consequential story - insane AI advancements and investment - and Washington and mainstream media attention. @DKThomp @kevinroose nailed it: shocking # of people think AI is clunky AI of mid-2025. 🚨🚨In [--] years of journalism Ive never witnessed a bigger gap between the most consequential story - insane AI"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:55Z 167.2K followers, 16.6K engagements

"In one of its two front page articles today tsk tsk'ing Epstein "conspiracies" the NYT insists that the idea the Trump admin is "covering up Epstein's misdeeds to protect the president" is a "conspiracy theory". https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:09Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@cultofdusty1 yes this is in my estimation cliche-ridden drivel and textbook slop but I'll let others decided"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:25Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Time was the pro sanctions crowd (which is to say 99% of Washington) would at least pretend that sanctions were about targeting this or that regime now they openly talk about them (correctly) as a tool of collective punishment so at least were being more honest now. Is there a way to bring about a regime fall in Iran without using American force "Use economic forces" @SpeakerPelosi told us in the #POLITICOPub at #MSC2025. "There are ways that can cripple their economy. And some of those have been in the works." https://t.co/VSPQcLEc5V Is there a way to bring about a regime fall in Iran"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:40Z 167.2K followers, 10.3K engagements

"This word authoritarian is very unhelpful and flattening and cheesy and papers over many of the obvious hypocrisies and contradictions she herself has noted"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:10Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@nejsnave Yes please share a screenshot of prose you found to be nuanced character driven with a plot was engaging. I would love to read this"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:50Z 167.2K followers, [----] engagements

"@mishaglouberman it does not remotely. It is riddled with cliche rambling prose and like all LLM writing is recursive and witless. It is pastiche which is what LLMs are designed for. Pastiche cannot sustained a reader for longer than a few pages because they have no flow or narrative"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:37Z 167.2K followers, [---] engagements

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