Watching [@dwillner.bsky.social](
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Dave Willner (@dwillner.bsky.social)
Co-Founder at Zentropi. Formerly Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, of Community Policy at Airbnb, and of Content Policy Facebook. Strictly cold takes.
 ) give a keynote at TSRC framed around why he hates my impossibility theroem because it's right. But also why there is reason for optimism, in part because of new tech that might provide an answer to it [www.techdirt.com/2019/11/20/m...](
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Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well
As some people know, I’ve spent a fair bit of time studying economist Kenneth Arrow whose work on endogenous growth theory and information ec...
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Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well
As some people know, I’ve spent a fair bit of time studying economist Kenneth Arrow whose work on endogenous growth theory and information ec...
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PSA: If you yell at me for reposting someone else's quippy joke comment that I found amusing, asking me "why are you reposting this bad take" you are going to get blocked very, very quickly.
Sorry for yet another Kimmel post, but there's a lot of news on that beat today... RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Donald Trump Immediately Returns To Threatening Disney Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Speech We’ve repeated over and over again that anyone who believes...
I mean, of course he is. Trump basically tweeted out that this had to happen or people would get fired. Doesn't mean they actually have a case. RE:
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Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social)
BREAKING on MSNBC: Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted in the coming days in the Eastern District of Virginia, where a pros...
Random story but 15ish years ago, Michael Rapino emailed me out of the blue asking to get coffee. As we were unlikely to be in the same place at the same time, he asked me to call him instead, and we proceeded to have an hour long "conversation" in which I'm pretty sure I didn't say anything at all. RE:
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Culture Crave 🍿 (@culturecrave.co)
Ticketmaster boss Michael Rapino says concert tickets are 'underpriced' "In sports, I joke it’s like a badge of honor to spend 70 grand for a K...
"triple sabotage" RE:
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Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)
“A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday — Not one, not two, but three very sinister events! First, the escalator going up t...
This administration is made up of the pettiest people you can imagine. Setting aside tickets for a Kennedy Center performance to a MAGA group to heckle an artist who criticized the admin is such weak, pathetic shit. [www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/23/l...](
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Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian
Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.
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Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian
Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.
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Had to spend a lot of time working on my first Techdirt post of the morning. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Hey Brendan Carr, Try Censoring This Since we know that FCC Chair Brendan Carr sometimes reads what we write here at Techdirt, I figured I'd post...
Great great great [@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social](
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Josh Johnson (@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social)
Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple https://linktr....
 ) on the whole Kimmel thing and the importance of fighting for free speech. I will note that even though the first 30 minutes don't seem to be about Kimmel, they're (1) hilarious and (2) set up the Kimmel stuff... [www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYd...]( ) [This Kind of Freedom Will Leav...]( )
Looks like it's about to break a million views in just one hour... So much for low ratings. RE:
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Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel.com)
As I was saying… https://youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY