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TR's #EmTech 2025 conference getting underway at the @medialab.bsky.social, with @mathonan.com taking the stage.

Incredible kicker www.404media.co/whats-the-di...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Well this is ridiculous www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

top tier french

Please listen to @mathonan.com be smart and charming

Thank you, @missionlocal.org missionlocal.org/2025/10/sf-h...

Today @technologyreview.com has a new series filled with doom and (perhaps surprisingly) fun about *~conspiracies~* and how we survive this wild moment. Read about AGI, weather control, Mandela effects, whale necropsies & some fascinating conspiracy history: www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/t...

Tucked into this incredible story from @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social arguing that AGI is, effectively, a conspiracy theory is a fantastic short history on the idea of AGI itself www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

Everything is a conspiracy now www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/t...

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

Business Insider wrote up a story on how some of their past investigative work led to a new California law. The story is strangely unbylined. The reason perhaps? The publication recently laid off the reporter behind that investigation, Matt Drange. www.businessinsider.com/california-e...

Folks in or around the Boston area, I'm pleased to be speaking at Lesley University Thursday October 23 as part of their Thought Leadership series! Talking comics & thinking as I do! Open to the public - registration link coming soon! lesley.edu/about-lesley...

I spent a good amount of time in section 8 housing when I was a kid. These rules would have resulted in me being a homeless child.

Ismail Ibrahim worked as a fact checker for an unnamed magazine (it was the New Yorker). “Friendly members of the editorial staff informed me that some of my older colleagues were calling me a terrorist sympathizer.” [bidoun.org]

The new version of iOS makes me feel ancient and bad at computer

Pitches for @technologyreview.com's Crime issue are due Friday!

I’m launching Sources, a new publication about the tech industry’s inside conversation, and Access, a tech interview podcast with my friend @hamburger.bsky.social. The first issue of Sources drops tomorrow, featuring an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, which airs in full on Access this Thursday.

1. I am so excited about @coyotemedia.org! 2. I really really miss alt weeklies! I had a story in one of the SFBG issues pictured here (the April 4 2000 issue; I wrote the April Fool’s story!) 3 yes: “ I don’t want Burning Man art littering Golden Gate Park. We can do better”

❤️🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESSES! 🔥❤️ COYOTE Media Collective is live!! We’re so incredibly proud of this smart, fierce, unapologetic Bay Area media project. Dive in, see what we’ve been building, read our stories, and join the pack! coyotemedia.org

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

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The guns are the problem. Whether it’s high school students or Charlie Kirk or anyone else getting shot, this country has to crack down on guns and pass actual gun control laws to protect everyone’s safety.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. This video explores how much energy AI uses, from a single query all the way up to a huge network of data centers: youtu.be/v3Q_uC5P1hE

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later

This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.

Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

In case, like me, you were instantly curious about the watch www.hodinkee.com/articles/tay...

As @sashamtl.bsky.social says, it's good we have these numbers, but there is much more that we need & deserve. www-technologyreview-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.tech... >>

60 years ago to the hour my parents were at this concert. (FWIW inflation calculator tells me it woulda cost $46.15 to see The Beatles)

REPORTER: President Putin, will you stop killing civilians? PUTIN: *taps ear*

🎧 Listen to the podcast! @wired.com's @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and @technologyreview.com's @mathonan.com spoke with join @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the ways the AI industry is reshaping our world. 🔗: buff.ly/xXDoijT

Had a good roundtable chat with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, and @mathonan.com about the AI bubble, GPT-5, and Trump's Nvidia dealing on KQED this morning www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

WED at 9AM: @wired.com's @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and @technologyreview.com's @mathonan.com join to help us take stock of the way the AI industry is reshaping our world. ❓ Is the huge investment in AI good for the economy?

Good one from @mathonan.com. “…hours before OpenAI’s GPT-5 announcement, Altman teased it by tweeting an image of an emerging Death Star floating in space.” www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1...

From the white supremacist book the official DHS account is referencing: "The point is to reveal organized Jewry as a world power entrenched in every country of the White man’s world, operating freely across every nation’s frontiers, and engaged in a ruthless war for the destruction of them all."

A SUPERB piece about what the GPT-5 release tells us about the state of the chatbot hype cycle and Sam Altman. "In some ways, the AI hype cycle has to be out of hand...There is so, so, so much money at stake." From @mathonan.com www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1...

This sounds glib but “prominent people being mocked online and hating it” is suchhh a driver of so many things in media/politics right now!

I wrote about tech CEOs and lobtailing www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1...

Look I know nobody wants *the brands* on Bluesky, but I’m kind of a one man band here and I got rent to pay and this shit is really really good. ☕️➡️📬