Nate Goldman
@ungoldman.com
Internet person. Civil & human rights enthusiast. Geo, politics, journalism, nature, games. Past lives: FOSS, community organizing, philosophy, linguistics, pizza delivery.
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also as more "AI/delivery robots/Waymos is powered by low-paid foreign workers" inevitably comes to light, remember content moderation is done by people who are having their souls rended apart for low wages AND Zuckerberg backed away from moderating hate speech once Kenyan moderators unionized.
September 15, 2026 at 5:06 PM
also as more "AI/delivery robots/Waymos is powered by low-paid foreign workers" inevitably comes to light, remember content moderation is done by people who are having their souls rended apart for low wages AND Zuckerberg backed away from moderating hate speech once Kenyan moderators unionized.
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Scoop: The EPA is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
EPA Poised to Repeal Carbon Standards for Coal, Gas Power Plants
The US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
www.bloomberg.com
September 13, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Scoop: The EPA is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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“Israel’s culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of NAZA, a documentary about the country’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza, to be stripped of their citizenship, accusing them of “treason against the state”.
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA
Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2026 at 3:42 AM
“Israel’s culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of NAZA, a documentary about the country’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza, to be stripped of their citizenship, accusing them of “treason against the state”.
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tells 60 Minutes that news of a U.S. fighter jet being shot down over Iran woke him in the middle of the night. His first thought: “S***.”
September 14, 2026 at 2:18 AM
this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings
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We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights.
We all know that's some BS.
We all know that's some BS.
August 23, 2026 at 3:19 PM
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights.
We all know that's some BS.
We all know that's some BS.
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we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush
and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
September 11, 2026 at 12:06 PM
we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush
and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
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I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
www.forever-wars.com
September 11, 2026 at 12:57 PM
I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
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Overnight this ICE flight landed in Tel Aviv. This will have been a removal of Palestinians. On most ICE flights, passengers are unshackled shortly before landing, but previous groups here were transferred into Israeli custody still shackled, driven to the West Bank, and dumped.
September 10, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Overnight this ICE flight landed in Tel Aviv. This will have been a removal of Palestinians. On most ICE flights, passengers are unshackled shortly before landing, but previous groups here were transferred into Israeli custody still shackled, driven to the West Bank, and dumped.
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New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime
We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
www.404media.co
September 8, 2026 at 1:13 PM
New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime
We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
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“In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a ‘pre-crime’ approach… In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs.” @drboguslaw.bsky.social:
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
prospect.org
September 9, 2026 at 11:54 AM
“In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a ‘pre-crime’ approach… In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs.” @drboguslaw.bsky.social:
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To describe what LLM’s do as reasoning is a trap that plays to the difficulty of building intuition around probabilistic outcomes.
September 8, 2026 at 6:54 PM
To describe what LLM’s do as reasoning is a trap that plays to the difficulty of building intuition around probabilistic outcomes.
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Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
September 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
It’s never a bad idea to log off
September 7, 2026 at 6:50 PM
It’s never a bad idea to log off
one must imagine sysiphus and the boulder happy together
I’m not sure who said it first, but I’ve been thinking about this line all week
September 7, 2026 at 3:50 AM
one must imagine sysiphus and the boulder happy together
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throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
September 4, 2026 at 6:26 PM
throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
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I found where they’re conserving you
March 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I found where they’re conserving you
big portion of contributions go to @directrelief.org supporting earthquake recovery in venezuela
Arco (Steam) w/ 16 more games is $15 on Humble Indie's Support for Venezuela Bundle buff.ly/PJhPolI #ad
August 30, 2026 at 7:23 PM
big portion of contributions go to @directrelief.org supporting earthquake recovery in venezuela
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SCOOP: Pig-butchering scammers have used enterprise apps like Teams & Webex to defraud Chinese victims and erase evidence afterwards. Desperate victims then resolve to leave angry app store reviews: in the past 18 months, 30% of Teams' reviews and 71%❗of Webex's reviews are explicitly about fraud.
Microsoft Teams Has Become a Haven for Scammers in China
Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints.
www.wired.com
August 28, 2026 at 6:57 PM
SCOOP: Pig-butchering scammers have used enterprise apps like Teams & Webex to defraud Chinese victims and erase evidence afterwards. Desperate victims then resolve to leave angry app store reviews: in the past 18 months, 30% of Teams' reviews and 71%❗of Webex's reviews are explicitly about fraud.
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Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
imaginationlibrary.com
August 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Bad for climate in a way that's difficult to overstate. Folks brushing off anti-AI activism as naive aren't serious about the crisis we are in.
SCOOP: The Trump administration claims it will complete the entire federal environmental review for the biggest gas power project in the U.S. — the OpenAI-Nvidia data center in Ohio — within the span of only seven months.
Not kidding! Source in the reply. For @heatmap.news
Not kidding! Source in the reply. For @heatmap.news
Scoop: Trump to Permit Largest-Ever Gas Project in Just 7 Months
The facility will power OpenAI’s 10-gigawatt data center in Pike County, Ohio.
heatmap.news
August 21, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Bad for climate in a way that's difficult to overstate. Folks brushing off anti-AI activism as naive aren't serious about the crisis we are in.
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I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books.
www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
August 11, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books.
www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
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It’s cool how seemingly no one is hiring for policy and research jobs EXCEPT for this kind of blatantly twisted thing:
The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
August 12, 2026 at 9:37 PM
It’s cool how seemingly no one is hiring for policy and research jobs EXCEPT for this kind of blatantly twisted thing:
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Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
www.thenation.com
August 11, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Adults are evil.
“At immigration court for detained children in New York City on Wednesday, a boy named Diego represented himself in front of the judge, Lisa Ling.”
"I don’t know how to do it,” he said about an asylum form he was asked to fill out in English. “I don’t know if you can help me fill it out.”
"I don’t know how to do it,” he said about an asylum form he was asked to fill out in English. “I don’t know if you can help me fill it out.”
August 11, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Adults are evil.