A subscription to the world’s most popular streaming service comes with artist exploitation, writes Cher Tan. But its business is also pseudoscience, surveillance and the funnelling of profits into the war machine. Read more:

Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism’s Plan: Academics against racism overland.org.au/2025/07/open...

Lmao older millennials who don't have zoomer friends need to stfu, you're becoming the boomers of our generation

汉堡的威胁

"Naarm"

They say brainrot we say big tech

Feels hard to look at whenever you see a friend masking but it's a comfort to know that when you do it they probably feel the same

All these big dogs suddenly showing sympathy for G*z* tells me that normalisation is coming big time

It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this

Remember kids: 'In a society ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehx4...

ChatGPT is to labubu is to Olivia Rodrigo is to mushroom lamps is to pure bred dogs

Zoomers are great at nostalgia for a past they've never known but what about some imagination for a future. Just maybe!!!!!!

My first piece for Deepcut substack.com/home/post/p-...

What's the point of being into digital cameras and then posting the photos onto instagram

YouTube has a full page ad in the Australian today on the first day of the new parliament as it continues to lobby against being included in the under 16s social media ban.

RIP 12ft.io, it was great being acquainted with you. For those adrift, removepaywall.net is your next port of call

Receiving a PS from your grants officer saying she enjoyed your debut book in a book club at a remote library location is kind of reverse katabasis

Has anyone tried to pitch interviews to @therumpus.net ? Do they expect full interviews alongside the pitch or wot

Journalists in "the west" have a lot of blood on their hands. May it keep you up at night and drive you to self-maiming

"At a certain point, it’s delusional not to be paranoid." removepaywalls.com/https://www....

Favourite and best smelling literary magazine

n+1 is 21! For the next 48 hours, subscribe for just $21. www.nplusonemag.com/21st-anniver...

On the unbridled sadism of despots such as Trump and Bukele, and how they provide a blueprint for aspiring dictators everywhere: jewishcurrents.org/marketing-au...

Now where have we heard this before......

This is like when rock bands have album covers that make the uninformed assume they play dungeon synth www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/b...

New from 404 Media: hacked data we obtained reveal dozens of unknown people on deportation flights to El Salvador. No acknowledgement from DHS. "We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know." We are publishing the names here: www.404media.co/flight-manif...

how much energy does your ChatGPT search really use? i wrote about the trials and tribulations of putting a number on AI emissions, & how some of the most powerful companies in the world could clear it up for us — but they're staying silent. feat a peek at new research from @sashamtl.bsky.social !

friends! we at @coyotemedia.org HQ are so very grateful for your support thus far! We have a few more days to hit our goal of $150k. Help us spread the word, won’t ya? givebutter.com/coyotemedia

"I think that’s one of the biggest problems of my lifetime: the devaluation of the things that I love and care about the most." Thank fuck for comrades thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

When they say "criticism is dead" they should clarify that they mean the liberal strain

Kinda insane that I've lived with 5 housemates consecutively now who don't have solitary hobbies. Is this just the world or wot...... srs question

If at this point in time you're able to cross the U$ border without trouble it says a lot about you :)

The new rounded edges igstory rollout is a natural inevitability of this age of soft edges peee ewww

Fiction writers I'm begging you to stop writing like it's an alt image desc. Just say you want your book to be optioned and GO

Nike dropping Tame is a pure example of delusions under capitalist realism

Something about Jom that makes me feel it's a version of +972

He/they fuckboy (derogatory)

An open letter from First Nations storytellers to the Queensland State Library and the Queensland Education and Arts Minister, in solidarity with our Martu sibling, Ren Wyld, and with our siblings at black&write!

We are honoured to receive the 2025 NSW Literary Awards "Special Award", offered in recognition of an exceptional contribution to the literary life of Australia, to a literary work not covered by the existing categories. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-l...

Lab*b* is like beanie babies for cashed up east asian gals and white women weebs lmao

Pretty nuts when you're simultaneously over and under qualified........ it's like you've stopped existing because capital doesn't believe you to fit into its categories

Finally the truth revealed, CONCLAVE was propaganda

"IQ is a perfect eugenic idiom for the information age, because it’s not primarily about human economic actors as laborers in the manual or physical sense." www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

"Because suffering doesn’t make us better. It makes us worse. But things that feel like they’re not possible sometimes painfully become possible." Wonderful convo between David Velasco & Sarah Schulman www.bookforum.com/print/3104/c...

My first piece in a major publication :) www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Most days now I'm like, fucking hell they are trying so hard to neutralise us into submission. Living is difficult

I wrote about Meta's unlicensed use of copyright material to train their AI tools for Crikey. Big thanks to @jodimca.bsky.social, Cher Tan, Yumna Kassab and Felicity Castagna for talking to me about their experiences being pirated and about teaching and writing in the age of LLMs.