Six months after Australia’s youth social media ban, other countries are already learning lessons to better address platform harms. Legislation in Brazil and Canada pairs age limits with design standards, including an opt out if platforms are “safe by design.” It’s not perfect, but it’s progress.

Elon did not invent space flight, satcomms, or AI but he has happily used decades of government funded research and resources to build his own private companies and wealth and greatly benefited from the privatization of these things

When people become trillionaires you're actually allowed to hunt them for sport. Don't look at me, it's in the fine print.

*Since October, his net worth has doubled *His net worth is now equivalent to more than 3%, 5 million times that of a typical family *Households in the top 10% of income hold less than .001% of Musk's net work

A nice piece on fathering — I’ve really enjoyed reading his memoir and learning about his efforts to grow as a person. www.vulture.com/article/jet-...

Live feed of Trump's name being removed from the Kennedy Center, for a heartwarming time. www.youtube.com/live/icQVE8v...

We also have hundreds of thousands of people dead from Musk destroying USAID, many more going to die because of DOGE cancelled biomedical research and your taxpayer money has subsidized all of his companies but sure I guess we’d never have space flight .. oh wait we would!

Wow, Dragon Striker on Disney+ has some amazing animation, like Avatar with a much bigger budget and more of a Miyazaki and Final Fantasy influence youtu.be/qVeikhEKaY0?...

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US

"Samsung Electronics narrowly averted a walkout by nearly 48,000 workers this week, after executives agreed to a tentative deal over bonus payments."

Didn't intend to have two Letterboxd articles about Spielberg movies go live in the same week, but I'm certainly happy it worked out that way. For its 45th anniversary, I looked back at RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and what makes Indiana Jones a trailblazing hero.

Oh I'm sorry I thought this was America

This week on the @engadget.com Podcast, @nitishpahwa.com joins us to break down the many questions around the SpaceX IPO, as well as how the finance world seems to be ignoring Elon Musk's blatant racism www.engadget.com/2192937/enga...

"art is a way of processing life, that's inherently what it's supposed to be... I don't see the value of outsourcing any of that" just Kane Parsons, 20 year old director of BACKROOMS, with the smartest, most succinct rebuttal of AI in art that I've yet encountered www.youtube.com/shorts/MwUnK...

it's really "cool" to see how many people see a headline like this and immediately go "fuck IGN" as if the general concept of IGN—including all its ass-busting union workers and their colleagues—is the issue

Worst Run War in American History —and the most Orwellian war of my lifetime

Remember how mad all these guys were about the 1619 Project

Stop putting up with the lying and the abuse https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/12/trump-insults-female-journalists?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

So glad to hear people are digging Disclosure Day. Haven't seen it yet, but those trailers were all awful. Hope people actually show up for it

Fuck this guy and fuck you if you voted for him.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

“it’s good that you did that Donny. real good!”

I haven’t been sharing the social clips of the interviews I’ve been conducting lately on this platform and I’m not entirely sure why, so here’s a Jason Momoa for your troubles.

A career in journalism really equips you for the skills to succeed.

Hatred of migrants will destroy this country - unless it’s stopped. An honour to write my first column for the newly launched @zeteonews.co.uk 👇 zeteonews.co.uk/p/belfast-ri...

"WIRED reviewed hundreds of public Grok Imagine links hosted on Grok.com and found dozens led to sexualized AI images and videos, including those created without the subject’s consent." really difficult but important work from @mattburgess1.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

I’m going to lose my mind

it continuously stuns me how rightwingers don't know how anything works at all on a systematic level so they assume nothing should be done about anything ever

On The Filmcast podcast AFCC member Devindra Hardawar (@devindra.bsky.social ) makes a case for #MastersOfTheUniverse audioboom.com/posts/891393... #AFCC #MovieReview #ForTheLoveOfMovies

My big WWDC takeaway: I'm glad Apple isn't hyping up agentic AI like everyone else. For now, anyway www.engadget.com/2192124/im-g...

David Ellison tapped Bari Weiss because she’s a lying enabler of far right authoritarians & a creator of right wing propaganda. He had no illusions at all about her skill level.

Hooooooooly fucking shit

A # of top/down trend pieces on BACKROOMS/OBSESSION's recent box office successes boil down to GEN Z PROCESSES THE WORLD THIS WAY WHILE MILLENNIALS DO IT THIS WAY. No and also how do you know? The creepypasta/liminal horror aesthetics isn't purely generation-divided either. Bad approach. Read this.

It was great to reminisce about the Game Boy Advance, the first piece of tech I imported from Japan

In March, I went to watch France and Brazil play a pre-World Cup game—half the game from an on-field VIP club, half from the cheap seats. Today I’ve got an essay out about what live sports are for, which seems like something a lot of us are thinking about right now. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This month, action cinema history is being written. If THE FURIOUS is showing near you, go. Go witness a new aesthetic of astonishment. letterboxd.com/headexposure...

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

Since 60 Minutes is effectively dead, maybe it's a good time to suggest watching one of the greatest movies you've probably never seen and it's about 60 Minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-_Z...

It’s getting increasingly hard to explain new memes to my wife. “Yes, this is based on a cartoon about birds dancing to Michael Jackson’s Chicago, which is also sort of based on real life bird mating dances. Also that’s Hideo Kojima, he’s a video game man…” www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBHSeSrw/

I see raw milk is in the news. Allow me to introduce you to my favorite moment in West Virginia legislative history: www.eater.com/2016/3/9/111...

This thread makes me think that in-universe, the Earth of Star Trek must've had their own generative AI boom and collective realization that sycophantic, corny robot interactions get old extremely fast, which is why all the Federation computers speak so perfunctorily www.reddit.com/r/TNG/commen...

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This lady had something to say y’all. Rep Mike Flood (R-NE) held a town hall and let’s just say it didn’t work out so swell for him. I would like to know the answer to her question as well, how much does it cost us, the tax payers to become a fascist country? #CantAffordTrump

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

There is a problem with the stories we tell & the way we perceive how change happens. The Union of Pinnacle Tenants, the largest tenant-led union in NYC—are the reason Mamdani took action. Organized people power is pivotal. Top down stories of elected heroes (even ones we like) are not sufficient.

This week on the Filmcast, I make the case for Masters of the Universe as a fun time that DOESN’T hate its source material audioboom.com/posts/891393...

Doctor Who should return in 10 years with an even rougher looking Tom Hardy dressed like this

Don't look away from this. Fascists setting neighborhoods on fire. Dragging people out of their houses. We need to recognize that this isn't just something happening elsewhere, this is what the future looks like if we don't change it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wteI...