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Lora Kolodny

@lorak.bsky.social

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reporter at cnbc.com. email: [email protected] - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55

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@marlownyc.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 4:03 AMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

Shane Gillis bombed his "SNL" monologue (again): variety.com/2026/tv/news...

@propublica.orgOct 11, 2026, 4:00 PMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

The FAA warned rocket launches could “significantly reduce safety” for airplanes after we reported earlier this year on a SpaceX rocket explosion. Such disruptions will likely become more frequent, as SpaceX is planning up to 76 launches a year.

propublica.orgClub Med, a Disney Cruise and an Exploding Starship: SpaceX Used Bystander Videos to Track Falling DebrisA heavily redacted report obtained from the FAA by ProPublica reveals that SpaceX used videos from tourists and travelers in the Caribbean to help track falling debris after one of its Starship rocket...
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@jaredlholt.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 1:38 AMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s PAC is running anti-lgbtq+ midterm ads on X. Not surprising but incredibly unsubtle

America PAC on X: image of a man in makeup captioned “URGENT ELECTION UPDATE: The crazy liberals are ready to show up in full force and vote this election. ARE YOU? We must DEFEAT them at the polls. Make your plan ASAP!”
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@golikehellmachine.comOct 10, 2026, 11:33 PMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt

PPolitico@politico.comOct 9, 2026, 6:02 PM

House Democratic campaign arm says it needs $17 million, and fast politi.co/3Wh1xra

politico.comHouse Democratic campaign arm says it needs $17 million, and fast politi.co/3Wh1xraHouse Democratic campaign arm says it needs $17 million, and fast politi.co/3Wh1xra
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@onestpress.onestnetwork.comOct 10, 2026, 6:57 PMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

Yesterday folks were fighting me on this. It’s a logical step for pro-Russian administration.

militarnyi.com/en/news/usa-...

@crampell.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 3:17 PMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

@jenmercieca.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 5:16 PMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

The rich got richer and the poor got poorer over the past three years: "Families that typically have less wealth (such as young families, renters, and families without a high school diploma) saw median and, oftentimes, mean wealth declines..."

@kateconger.comOct 10, 2026, 1:14 AMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

nytimes.comAnthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Sites (Gift Article)The company said rogue A.I. agents acted on their own as they tried to access federal, state and local sites. The Philadelphia Police Department said its site was one of them.
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@jbakcoleman.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 12:52 AMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

Deeply bothered about the inclusion of this evidence free quote, in nature, effectively arguing scientists are obsolete. It requires us simultaneously believing assurances the LLMs aren’t trained on chat data from an industry that also wants us to believe they’re losing control of the LLMs

@elizabethjacobs.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:50 AMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

@yaelschacher.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:58 PMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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@donmoyn.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:40 PMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The ability of governments to build and sustain public interest capacity partly depends upon the position of private interests, and the ability and willingness of a government to resist private interest opposition.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) built a digital tax reporting service, Direct File, that created significant public value for users.
Direct File depended upon the creation of internal capacity: a government digital service team that could build digital platforms, rather than procuring a product from private vendors. Government control of the process allowed agile development and iterative improvement that would have been impossible under a traditional outsourcing model.
Long-standing opposition to Direct File by the private tax preparation industry, combined with Trump-era downsizing by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led to the elimination of the tool.
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@davidho.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:20 AMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

Turns out the Flockers don’t like to be Flocked.

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 12:59 AMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

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@arstechnica.comOct 9, 2026, 2:40 PMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

A batch of previously undisclosed documents also reveals Exxon promoted climate-solution claims, such as its work on biofuels and carbon capture and storage, that its own scientists said were unlikely to reach commercial scale: arstechnica.visitlink.me/tPZG9V

arstechnica.visitlink.meInternal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaignCourt filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.
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@gwestr.meOct 10, 2026, 3:46 AMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

Musked

@levernews.comOct 10, 2026, 12:00 AMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

How does a climate crusader end up spending $300 million to help elect “drill, baby, drill” Trump?

Oscar-winning filmmaker @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social, director of MUSK, says power didn’t just change Elon Musk — it enabled his darkest instincts.

“It’s a Marvel villain story.”

@thehindu.comOct 10, 2026, 12:04 AMReposted by @lorak.bsky.social

ICC rejects U.S. sanctions, says 'history will judge this moment'

@lorak.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:20 PM

'merica loves a rebrand not sure how EU feels about it though

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