David Slack
TV Writer - Person of Interest, Law & Order, Teen Titans, Jackie Chan Adventures, etc. Proud WGA Member. Pro-Democracy. Anti-Evil.
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- Reposted by David SlackINBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
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- Reposted by David SlackWASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
- Reposted by David SlackA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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- Reposted by David SlackThe behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do
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- Reposted by David SlackOperation Metro Surge is not making Minnesota safer. Today's announcement is a step in the right direction, but we need a faster and larger drawdown of forces, state-led investigations into the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and an end to this campaign of retribution.
- Reposted by David SlackThe headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota." Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota." This presser worked like a charm.
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- Reposted by David SlackIf you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286
- Reposted by David SlackJoseph Menn has been writing about cybersecurity since well before most journalists even understood it as a beat. Big loss for the Post and its readers, but also for the industry and the wider public, who will be less informed - and less safe - as a result.
- Reposted by David SlackThe hallmark (the “brand”) of the Washington Post has been accountability journalism. Thus, today’s staff decimation is Bezos’s greatest gift to Trump, so much more valuable than the Melania movie, inauguration money, etc. This disaster began, for real, with the Harris endorsement he killed.
- Reposted by David SlackThe owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.
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- Reposted by David SlackPeople keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience
- Reposted by David SlackPamela Jo Bondi is protecting pedophiles. She is disgusting and needs to be investigated.
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- Reposted by David SlackThis is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all. "Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact." people.com/ballerina-fa...
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- Reposted by David Slack‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
- Reposted by David SlackStriking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- ‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
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- MORE OF THIS PLEASE #AbolishICE
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- We don’t have to imagine it, Mike. It’s in the Constitution, and we’ve been doing it for 235 years.
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- Reposted by David SlackThe Pitt got greenlit for a season 3, out next February, and the announcement has very funny comment from HBO chairman Casey Bloys that’s like “yeah, turns out if you just make a TV show like how we used to make TV shows you can have a 15+ episode season every year 🤷♂️”
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- Republicans are not fiscal conservatives and never have been. They are fascists who use fear of wasteful spending to trick voters into giving them power.
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- Reposted by David SlackFIRED? Who gives a fuck about “fired”?!? How about “send them to jail for life”? And I mean ALL of ‘em.
