Pelley and 60 minutes really were the gold standard for Serious Journalism and that they already felt the need to “balance” a story about the murder of innocent civilians by federal goons by implying they deserved it is an indictment of the entire industry

The directive from Bari Weiss to make the protesters killed by ICE look “more violent” came after Scott Pelley voluntarily had already gone to great pains to make them look violent in the first place:

The Pod Save America bros hosted one of the most transphobic columnists in mainstream media for a friendly chat. *groan*

OK! So my suspicion here is that the role of AI in this fiasco is overexaggerated because the company is trying to find a scapegoat that isn't "Korean Starbucks is run by conservatives and Korean conservatives' brains have rotted from the inside out."

The thing about the left needing a positive vision for masculinity to counter the right is … they don’t have one either. Their whole thing is “don’t be a woman” as arbitrarily defined by whatever they consider feminine. Apparently some people find this admirable and wish to imitate it

Real talk, if you’re using AI to generate feedback instead of grading student material yourself, resign. Just quit. You never wanted to be an educator in the first place.

“According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (6), food prices in the U.S. have increased 33.3% since the beginning of 2020, while housing costs are up 32.5% (7). Energy prices, meanwhile, have surged 48% (8) over that period.” Fuck the economy gaslighters claiming we just dont understand gdp

The more people learn about data centers, the more they hate them.

When we say "why isn't the media covering this" it's not because the media literally isn't covering it, it's because people know what full court press coverage looks like from recent stories like Biden's fitness and it's VERY TELLING that certain equivalent stories don't get the same scrutiny.

Haha, I remember this guy from when he was brought in as a thoroughly unqualified art director at New York Press. He behaved exactly the same way there, clearly honing his skills in the gutter league first.

Among the more useless opinions are those of soft millionaire's sons/Harvard grads telling us what "real men" are. If he's so insecure, Matt should quit his think tank job give away his assets and go live his truth as a roofer or a delivery driver. Then maybe he will realize Platner is also a fake.

I don't even think you can say the misogyny is subtextual at this point. It's just the text

Our shitty Mayor sucks so bad they are using more than a million dollars of our money for something that's completely useless because you can't fix how much he sucks and hates anybody who is not lining his pockets.

‘sacked after he asked questions’ is the universal sign that a whole lot more steps happened in this causal chain that’s not being reported on, which, from the sounds of it, will have involved a number of meetings wherein this glorified mobile info desk became increasingly confrontational and racist

This is itself a compromise instead of just rejecting masculinity as a discursive frame, but it's not much of one. I just think "you can be powerful and get an absolute baddie by being a sweet, quirked-up little guy" is a much better approach than "is this toxic enough for you???" flop sweat shit.

there's a real feeling of like...if a man did something horrible to me or someone i know that guys like this just wouldn't fucking care

I may be painting with too broad a brush here, but if you truly bought that a guy propped up by Obama-administration podcasters and Ryan Grim was an anti-establishment progressive, you probably shouldn't be allowed to drive a car.

This is just incel McKinsey

Early this morning, we received an email from @namecheap.com that the domain neocities.org was being suspended because of a court order from New Delhi, India (a jurisdiction we don't operate in), which was for an unrelated court order about a sports streaming site on a different domain.

I wanted to know if Ancient Roman streets were wide or narrow but I got autocorrected and the AI consequences were absolutely devastating

Apparently it’s more dishonest to write about facial-recognition code embedded in software distributed to tens of millions of people than it is to embed it there in the first place.

I admit, if you ignore where it says ‘unreleased’ right below the headline (and on our homepage), then skip past the part where we say it required a code review, and ignore paragraphs 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, and all the adjectives that mean undisclosed, it does read like an active feature.

Just absolutely sterling stuff from @polphilpod.bsky.social. He's dead on. Two excellent sections here:

The Art Institute of Chicago has censured a faculty member for making an assignment that has “anything with Palestine in it,” in this case just quite literally the existence of a Palestinian. US higher education is actively policing Palestinian existence as ‘antisemitism.’

Classifying not otherwise explained cocaine abuse after a COVID-19 infection as long COVID is…a data-analytic decision, I guess.

Ready to sincerely thank Platner for his public service in drawing *so* much shit into the light.

Very good burn on centrist accommodationism here from @polphilpod.bsky.social

This is the inflection point for the political momentum shift in the US

This is *such* a consistent feature of living in the UK - the actual day to day experience of people in this country is so much nicer than what the press or our leadership cadre would have you think - it is remarkable in a somewhat destabilising fashion just how stark the difference is.

The destruction of '60 Minutes' and the elevation of a Trump henchman at National Intelligence underscore the regime's expanding treachery…and the continuing war for America’s democratic future. www.americaamerica.news/p/the-waste-...

mamdani in particular is 100% a Nice Young Man! has absolutely zero of the affect that certain people are like "well ACTUALLY being ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES in this way is a SUBSTANTIVE SIGNAL OF GOOD POLITICS" with planter

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

props to @hellgatenyc.com @nickpinto.bsky.social for keeping on this incredibly elaborate, long-running Brooklyn saga. The Sulzbergers don't deserve your money and Bezos isn't worth your contempt. But local news gets the goods and this Hellgate is worker owned! Why don't you subscribe!

Hopefully Americans aren't too dense to realize this is just a full page testimonial ad for GLP1s masquerading as news. This is like the "Marty uses AI" story. We used to do this all the time at the ad firm. Pitch a fully 'reported' story to lazy writers who ran it as their own.

once more

"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year. The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."

"somewhere in Silicon Valley, a fruit fly is living its second life inside a computer, totally unaware that it is living in the insect Matrix." I cannot begin to tell you how utterly disgusted I am with the state of science reporting at the very few remaining venues with a veneer of respectability.

If you look at CNBC's own accounts here and on X, they get roughly the same amount of engagement, despite the fact that they have 5.7 million followers on X, and 53k here. They have 100x more followers there, and the same engagement as here. And Bluesky is the site that's failing, somehow.

WATCH: New footage from a home security camera in shows National Guard soldiers tackle a woman to the ground, put her in handcuffs, and detain her seemingly without any justification or provocation🧵

Platner very much is a discernible type, but it’s not “flawed but basically decent working class joe.” It’s “prep school creep with a sadistic streak and an ironclad confidence that it will never catch up to him.“

Lol. Really then why have you lied about your entire life and have spent your entire campaign explaining away the 10 million red flags you tried to keep secret so you could land in a Senate seat.

basically Platner issued vague denials and called everyone who talked to the Times liars, something that traditionally results in the journalists coming back and properly fucking you with even more sources and even more allegations

Lmao welp

with "allies" like these

(in the seventh month of defending a candidate who has slowly revealed himself to be a werewolf) so actually I think most guys get worse under the full moon

I’m straight up never going to trust anyone I see still defending Platner. I understand we need him for the Senate blah blah yes sure, and also this man is so fucking unfit and I’m furious that this kind of misogynist, abusive behavior is being brushed off or denied.

Dude needs to stop making me like a Biden.

Alright. I'm about to read this Platner article, but I gotta say that @aselrod.bsky.social has impeccable timing.

If for whatever reason you used to be a real piece of shit, and now you look back on that period of your life with regrets, that is good and laudable, and also, there might be some jobs that you shouldn't have. I do not find this to be especially complicated.

That's the first question everyone should be asking Marshall Herskovitz. He's a big-name Hollywood producer and director, and President Emeritus of the Producers Guild of America. And his position is that beating up your girlfriends is okay, as long as you only beat up HALF of your girlfriends.