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Thomas Germain
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I'm a Senior Reporter at Gizmodo covering privacy, AI, and life on the internet. I read the terms of service so you don't have to. Have a tip? Reach out by email, or ask for my Signal contact info.

Isn’t the point where memes don’t make sense to you, also the point where you are now no longer “in with it”?

Grandpa Simpson warned us... Read more

Most of that younger Lennon footage is deepfaked, yeah? It looks so creepy and unnatural. Read more

Seriously this was dumb. Ok with the song, given that it was a demo track and duets/ long awaited masters to demos have been done in the past, but the beatles never did music videos.  Read more

This whole photo is telling me a story and I don’t quite have the words. But it does leave me profoundly meloncholy and morbid scraps of feelings about our mortality swirl in my chest. Read more

The word “radiation” often brings images of mushroom clouds to mind

You can’t sign up for an account on a desktop browser but for whatever reason, you can view people’s accounts if you click a link to them. I don’t know all the techno elf magic wizardry going on there but it seems like if you can view pages, you aught to be able to sign up for an account.
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You already have a place (or two) for burner accounts. Read more

On the Instagram app you can choose between “Following” and “Favorites” as the steam in your feed. Read more

Musk simps in 3... 2... 1...

Wait, people actually thought Elon bought Twitter to promote or save free speech? Yikes, what dummies.  Read more

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Slanderous! Everyone knows Nazis love milkshakes!

Reminder to everyone that you can get Twitter to refer to it’s owner as a piece of sh!t with one simple email:
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I couldn’t find your articles about when Twitter suspended and silenced accounts that featured articles concerning Hunter Biden’s laptop, just weeks before the election. Could you repost them? Since you’re all against “silencing free speech and all”. That would be great! Thanks! Read more

This site will censor you.  The Mafia is Nazi in origins (Catholic). Read more

You don’t even have to look forward into the future to spot the hypocrisy.  He ran entirely on the “lock her up” platform against Hillary AND strengthened the punishment for the very crime he’s being accused of.
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