1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

we have nothing to fear except brain-poisoned terminally online gamers with nothing to live for and access to firearms

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

this is partly because of overexposure to porn, and partly because sex scenes in the mid 2000s-2010s (when most young people were growing up) were often rapey and filmed a lot like porn, to the point where GoT clips were immediately posted on pornhub etc

gofundme for four of the people abducted by ICE in East Somerville this weekend: gofund.me/8d1b7e782

the courts are too cowardly to do it in his lifetime, but when Trump dies, we need to reposses his bribes

yes but jimmy kimmel didn’t say he’s the exact same kind of communist I am

wait late night is WHEN

appoint a terrier

it would be really cool if something nice happened

funny time for everybody to be talking about autism when I’m wondering about my place on the spectrum. I don’t think tylenol did it but I think maybe being a high-functioning girl meant nobody attributed it as such

(laughing) i love football (eyes turn black)

announcers trying to justify that non-field goal like the NYT trying to justify trump

everybody stop telling me this is a good game. this is a good game for people whose teams occasionally win super bowls

📣 Nonviolent Civil Disobedience 🪧 Shutdown Trump's Procession to the UN 📆 Sept 23 ⏰ 7:30AM 📍 NYPL, 476 5th Ave, NYC Trump speaks at UN Sept 23. Let's give him the welcome he deserves. This will be a non-violent civil disobedience action. RISK OF ARREST. Bring your I.D. More info on site.

you know what, say what you like about the national socialists of the past—they weren’t total wusses like these dipshits lol

suspect this was a long con to make me watch kimmel

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

The New York Times is the most influential source of right wing propaganda in the entire world. This shit is just absolutely absurd. We’re going to see our rights gone and be killed because of this newspaper.

the actual problem here is that GRRM fundamentally doesn’t understand Tolkien’s project. when you’re aiming for literature, not realism, you don’t care about things like this. the Shire is (partly) a loving sendup of the bourgeois English country novel, where characters are always curiously sexless

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

a version of this was happening some years back with novel readers/tv viewers, who would notice a Problematic Thing in a book/show & react in outrage—but with no eye for context, whether Problematic Thing was being problematized on purpose. they did remember afterward, only to regurgitate “Text Bad”

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

incredibly late to the party, but omg Sinners is fucking amazing. clever, creative, emotionally wide-ranging, takes huge risks. Ryan Coogler continues to be one of the most thoughtful & interesting filmmakers around

<seeing a post I disagree with> chilling... this is exactly what George Orwell wrote in his classic work titled "Posts I Disagree With"

I just so happened to unearth this article from 2007—Hollywood didn’t suddenly become franchise-centric in response to the 2010 superhero movie boom, it was happening well before that (and peep which property they were trying to keep alive then lol) www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

tbh given the way so many evangelicals/certain catholics have abandoned actual christian teachings, they were ripe for a new god anyway and I guess it’s charlie kirk

support independent media!—but do your homework, don’t support peter thiel-funded orgs, third way fronts, anti-woke grifters, union-busters/co-op busters, etc

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

i've subscribed to: rolling stone WIRED 404 media defector the handbasket chicago journalism i subscribed to: unraveled block club it's time to support media directly so they don't fall into the hands of fascists, the replies to this post have additional great news media i recommend supporting

the internet isn’t real life, the internet ate real life. it’s all posting etiquette and memes, acted out through violence and economic consequences

some people out there operating like they’re never going to lose power and it’s going to be so, so funny when they do

<throwing my voice across the room> and that book is called DANGEROUS FICTIONS, which has a paperback now available for preorder! bookshop.org/p/books/dang...

it’s weird seeing a lot of posts like “but disney made andor” “doesn’t disney’s behavior render andor’s message meaningless” “when will disney take down andor”when I wrote about this in my book a year ago lol. these things are both more and less complicated than they appear

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Fun fact: Texas is a one party consent state when it comes to recording conversations, which means that you can legally record any conversation of which you are a part — and can share it with a journalist, such as me

By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.

yeah I guess I understand the people saying “we’ll just have to move to zines,” but I also think you guys are sort of part of the problem. we need to fight for control of institutions because you’re not going to rebuild them in our lifetimes

most people just want nice things and tv. trump is taking away things and tv

this is jimmy kimmel’s fault for not showing the proper retroactive deference to our brand-new lord and savior, charlie kirk

many people have been reading klein generously (he naively thinks a conversation is possible) but my read is that he wants to have a prominent career and be successful. he says want he knows he needs to say

polling clearly shows that all this sucks and americans don’t like it. polling doesn’t show how or where this ends

FYI!

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

sisko is the best captain, sorry to the haters

okay so they’re going to try to sell that tyler robinson shot kirk because of kirk’s hateful views on gay and transgender people—but what were those views? weren’t they hateful? isn’t this kinda going to come across as a foolish young guy protecting his partner, however unwise it might have been?

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we have @philipchristman.bsky.social on to talk about his book Why Christians Should Be Leftists www.patreon.com/posts/139047...

hello, we’re the republican party. we’ll ruin the economy and disappear your neighbors. also we’ll get you fired if you disrespect this dead guy you’ve literally never heard of before