They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story. "The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Nah this rules, actually www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Sora flopping, bleeding cash on pro subscriptions, lawsuits left and right accusing the company of inventing the emotional torment nexus, age verification lobby with a stranglehold on the adult internet... pivoting to porn is masterful gambit www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

OpenAI has chosen the worst, weirdest possible time to embrace the fact that people want to fuck chatbots www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

this is really the key insight. it's why the best attacks against them highlight that these violent, sadistic racists are not really able to coexist in society - they aren't just offensive, they're deeply off-putting: weirdos, creeps, etc. bsky.app/profile/junl...

like, this is the type of behind the scenes chatter that ultimately produces stuff like the ASMR shackle tweets

watching the government's social media accounts spit out groyper stuff on main this whole last year, this is how i imagined the behind the scenes chats were going

It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.

“Watch my podcast on Netflix” sounds like something you say right before having a stroke

Useful reminder that Gen X racism was never going to just "die out" as a new crop of young people grew up

Can confirm: Z-A is good (I keep staying up until 3 am to play and I LOVE sleeping)

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act. I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

Missed the embargo because a certain video game company waited until the very last minute to send codes out to press. Was worried that Pokémon Legends: Z-A might not live up to my expectations, but am very pleased to say the game has all the heat and then some. My review:

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

"If queer and trans folks are going to survive, we’ll need to once again embrace the underground, and learn when to be visible and when to shut the fuck up." Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Hello~ i wrote something for @theverge.com about the surreal horror of online transness in a fascist surveillance state. it’s time to change tactics and make ourselves less legible to this machinery of death — but *without* sacrificing our connection and community.

This kinda stuff used to depress me, but now

They canceled my work on race and media. So I built a @resistanceschool.bsky.social instead. Now we are teaching over 600 students. Week 2 of Race, Media and International Affairs starts today. We move ✊🏾💪🏾

[BELEAGUERED] let's get this mf bread, then

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out futurism.com/artificial-i...

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

This kind of partisan political message, under the guise of a public service announcement, is illegal on several levels.

Hollywood has no idea what to do about AI

NEW: Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It Wrote a bit about the content mill for consensus the Trump administration has created to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda. More here: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

If you're interested in learning more about Reconstruction and the fascinating era this game would have covered, you can get a terrific primer via @jamellebouie.net's appearance on the You're Wrong About podcast yourewrongabout.buzzsprout.com/1112270/epis...

One person involved in the game said it was meant to show how racial tensions can be manipulated as a means to control a society—a valuable subject to explore... But that concept, they believe, came to be viewed by management as too politically sensitive, dooming the project by mid-2024

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Extra funny when you think about how Sinners, which features Michael B. Jordan gunning down Klansmen in broad daylight in slow-mo, is the 10th highest-grossing R-rated film of all time - higher than The Hangover, 300, Logan, John Wick 4, etc....

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there. wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

There isn't much to say about Iron: Ares, a movie that for some reason decides to frame Jared Leto as its star when Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Gillian Anderson are right there just waiting for something to do. My review:

just going to speak this into the world: I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall for her first meeting with standards and practices. if you know anything, I'm very easy to reach xo

Really wanted this to be a new Geist 😔

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

“finish adding a feature” we literally all thought was there from the get go. “finish adding a feature” when jay yelled at all of us to shut the fuck up and federate if we wanted change. unbelievable

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

There isn't much to say about Iron: Ares, a movie that for some reason decides to frame Jared Leto as its star when Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Gillian Anderson are right there just waiting for something to do. My review:

The Newsroom (2012) was a mistake

"You have elected to take a job where the primary purpose is for you to eat shit and own the death of broadcast TV news, a thing that is going to die no matter what you do. Nice work!" Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/business/793...

Sending strength to everyone who is about to have to explain to all the elders in their lives who Bari is

Weapons (2025)

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Amazed at the number of guys who are willing to give interviews about how since they didn’t find love with women they found love with the computer that’s poisoning people in black neighborhoods

Wrote about the entertainment industry trades trying to will this nonsense into existence

I think often about the Amazon engineer who wrote in an open letter to the company that Ring was “incompatible” with a free society.

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Weapons (2025)

“All of this feels ridiculous because that’s exactly what it is. But the larger goal is to inure you to the strangeness of it all so that when these products — be they movies, shows, or TikToks — finally come to market, your reaction is ‘Sure, why not?’”