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Parker Molloy
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Parker Molloy writes The Present Age, a personal blog at readtpa.com about politics and culture. Since 2023, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Grok Can't Apologize. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Parker Molloy's posts as sources, mainly for a transcript of Jimmy Kimmel's monologue, Grok's child-safety failures, and Congress's kids-online-safety bill (KOSA).
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- Grok Can't Apologize. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-02
What Hacker News says?
> Jimmy Kimmel making gags about Kirk Please point out where Jimmy Kimmel did that. I'll help, here's a transcript: https://www.readtpa.com/p/read-the-jimmy-kimmel-monologue-th...
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on “Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case”Submitted Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion as a story · 187 points
HN discussion> Kimmel's comments supported a narrative that justified the murder of a US citizen for his opinions Please point out where Jimmy Kimmel did that. I'll help, here's a transcript: https://www.readtpa.com/p/read-the-jimmy-kimmel-monologue-th...
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on “Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case”Submitted Media's AI Anthropomorphism Problem as a story · 70 points
HN discussionI wouldn't say that I'm arguing in bad faith so much as recognizing yet another situation like this: https://www.readtpa.com/p/innuendo-studios-card-says-moops-s... Let's look at "rich flight" through the lens that is not colored with difference to the affluent. The idea here is that, if you make rich folk pay more taxes, they'll pack up their hoard pile of gold, jewels, and dwarf skeletons and fly away to somewhere…
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on “A ChatGPT Pro subscription costs 38.6 months of income in low-income countries”Submitted Grok Can't Apologize. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHaidt is a fearmonger playing upon the currents of the moment to sell fear. That's always been his schtick. He's a conservative, founding projects like the Heterodox Academcy to force "viewpoint diversity" on campuses even when it contracts the facts, and that's basically how he writes his work. He's had numerous researchers say he's mis-representing the work, has generally been a man of kevlar letting actual facts…
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on “Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video]”Submitted Twitter's Tumble as a story · 4 points
HN discussionActual public service. This guy is such a tosser, exploiting the public's weakness to Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. An annoying brash "hide your children" conservativism, preaching the fear, regardless of facts. 'Let not the realities hinder your FUD-making' nonsense. His writings keep getting taken to the woodchipper, the researchers he cite saying that's not what they said, and his response is always that the story…
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on “Meta discussed 'whisper strategy' against social media critic Jonathan Haidt”Submitted Space Camp and the X-Men-Ification of Trans People as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Grok says no. no it didn't. https://www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-apologize-grok-isnt-sent... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468414
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on “Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X”Submitted Chicago Sun-Times Published an AI-Gen Summer Reading List Full of Fake Books as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlso what I find this bill infurating is that groups such as the Heritage Foundation have openly stated out loud that KOSA, if passed will allow them to censor content they deem unsuitable for young people, which would include LGBTQ content. (1) (1) https://www.readtpa.com/p/congress-is-about-to-pass-a-very
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on “Senate panel advances bills to childproof the internet”Submitted The New York Times Needs to Do Something About Its Headlines as a story · 1 points
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