Archive your queer history y'all. Store your material in a COOL, DRY space. Create two backups of all your digital archival material and store a copy in a separate location in case of fire or a natural disaster. Digitize your physical material.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

alarming to realize how long it’s been, but also rewatching 30 rock now really does feel like traveling back to a far simpler, less cynical time

still holding out hope that he grows up to be a startlingly normal, extremely boring adult (the funniest possible outcome)

ok I had to pop back on here to say that I was like "lemme look at @aftermath.site - I don't look enough, and if I like it, I should subscribe" and so I looked and read and was like YEAH I SHOULD SUBSCRIBE, and then it turned out that ... I've been a subscriber since April. Snort. #IndieMedia

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

another reason I believe in notes app supremacy

Most Americans don’t know that the U.S. violently colonized the Philippines in 1898, through 1946. An estimated 600k Filipinos were killed in the years after U.S. annexation, to crush resistance to colonial rule.

foundational to my music taste and life. perfect front to back. taught me that album names can — and always should — be longer

I'm starting to get texts about this now so I guess I need to say something: There is a fundraiser going around about a "preservation disaster" raising money right now that I highly advise you to stay very far away from. A particular British tabloid is running with it unquestioningly. Thread:

this feels like an inflection point: more and more world events are happening as a result of terminally online people, and the “normal” world — which is shrinking and becoming a niche, rather than the default — is being forced to catch up

A reminder that we run a LOT of freelance, and pay $300-$500ish (depending on work/size). We'll take pitches from anyone! BUT: please please PLEASE think about what you're pitching. It needs to be the kind of story we would want to run.

before i went on @aftermath.site's stream yesterday, my mom insisted on hanging up her close all tabs tote lol

Following Charlie Kirk’s killing, the government is scapegoating video games again — and completely missing the mark. @nathangrayson.bsky.social and @morgansung.bsky.social explain:

hi, hello, here's a story. nintendo of america is ending hundreds of customer support contracts in the U.S., and is outsourcing those jobs to south america ahead of switch 2's first holiday season: www.ign.com/articles/nin...

sorry, still not enough for me to even consider buying it

Stephens, Tucker, Rove, Kristol, you gotta stop boosting the lot of them. They know what they are doing, if they handwring enough they can launder their past support for reactionary politics and be part of whatever comes next. We shouldn’t let them and we shouldn’t be posting “look even so and so!”

it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible aftermath.site/silksong-hol...

homophobia and transphobia are a reaction against bodily autonomy and happiness itself. they want to torture us as an extension of the way they torture themselves.

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of worker-owned cooperative news sites that you might want to support: www.404media.co/membership/

If you are a journalist — or know one — who has been attacked, seriously threatened, denied access by a public official or targeted with a legal order in the course of reporting, let us know. You can now submit tips in English or Spanish. Email: tips@pressfreedomtracker.us

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we're talking shitposts and censorship, come watch!!

On today's stream, we're joined by @morgansung.bsky.social of KQED's Close All Tabs podcast to talk shootings as shitposts and censorship of media following Charlie Kirk's death. Then @papapishu.bsky.social is going to give us his appraisal of Silksong. Live at 4 PM ET www.twitch.tv/aftermathdot...

i love independent journalism

Took the money I'm saving from Hulu/D+/Marvel Unlimited and subscribed to @assignedmedia.org, @theflytrapmedia.com and @aftermath.site.

Our colleagues across Zenimax showing that the best defence against layoffs is a strong union! ✊

Stepped outside of my comfort zone to write this story about a really cool group of players in a military simulation video game! Absolute pleasure to work with @aftermath.site and @rcmacleod.bsky.social. Please give it a read!

The regime is now directly stepping in to influence the media. Companies see what’s happening and they’re paying to play. The classic fascist arrangement — an alliance between corporate and government power to kill democracy and attack the left — is in full swing. www.jphilll.com/p/full-blown...

personally I care way more about this than jimmy kimmel but hopefully people who care about kimmel realize how it’s connected to mahmoud

This parallel infrastructure that Ben is talking about already exists in the form of the Onion, @defector.com @aftermath.site @404media.co @dropout.tv @marisakabas.bsky.social and many others including the site I helped found @rascal.news

Independent media is the only media we will have that will not be beholden to The State This means it will not have the same reach, influence, or attention as traditional models developed. This will like be both very good and extremely difficult to maintain.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

I am terrified for the future of this country, but glad that at least we started building @aftermath.site a couple years ago — before shit really hit the fan. we’re beholden to nobody but ourselves. no execs can sacrifice us at the altar of a merger, and no bad faith mobs can get us fired

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

start organizing your tech workplace now. you and your coworkers will not only be able to bargain over the terms of severance with a recognized union, you will have built a structure that allows you to take care of each other when the worst happens. because it will.

ever since microsoft's layoffs in early july, the two zenimax unions have been fighting for impacted employees following the cancellation of the elder scrolls online studio's unannounced mmo. they've won laid-off workers more time (aka more pay), better severance, recall rights, and saved some jobs

Whenever you read complaints about a lack of "age verification", you should substitute it with "easily hacked third-party database of selfies and driver license scans"

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

I wrote about the leveling and deranging effects of the Trumpist snitchscape, and the awful content creation imperatives governing this awful moment. defector.com/the-united-s...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize?” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Seven weeks from Election Day, & voters are still hard pressed to find any evidence that Cuomo has found the passion necessary to convey he actually wants to lead a city of 8.5 million people through a deeply uncertain, turbulent period in history. NEW MAYORAL SPEW! hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

This plus requiring Americans to migrate to a separate app would mean driving TikTok into the ground but exclusively for the United States.

This is the vital journalism I subscribe to Aftermath for 🙏 (Also the answer is both. Both are really really hard.)

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

it was always coming to exactly this www.404media.co/michigan-por...

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.