“The drive to adopt AI is, of course, part of a much longer story about the decline of quality journalism across the world, driven by the dramatic reduction of advertising revenues, the consolidation of media companies, & the loss of trust in media as an institution.” buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Every podcast ad: “you need our new AI product to enhance your productivity/launch your business/save your job!!” Every podcast: “…and then ChatGPT told him how to tie the noose”

The latest on the Mystery AI Hype 3000 newsletter: Back to School is Better Without AI buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social

"Stop Hiring Humans" billboards menaced SF workers with messages of automation and unemployment. The ads were strategic: by pissing working-class people off, the tech company received the kind of attention that venture capitalist investors love. 🔗 bayareacurrent.com/ai-tech-comp...

📰 🗞️ Personal news 🗞️ 📰 On Sept 1 I’m starting at @newint.bsky.social as a co-editor. It’s a magazine w a serious internationalist perspective I’ve admired for a long time. I’ve written for them on Kneecap, Irish, Palestine, art as resistance and lots more. Can’t wait to start!

"These ads might not be for you, but they do have a message for you nonetheless. And the message is this: if you do not understand these billboards, this city is not for you." bayareacurrent.com/the-billboar...

"The more complicated answer – the ecstatic truth, if you will – is that billboards are the windows to the soul of a region." The great Wendy Liu on the awful AI billboards dotting the US 101 in San Francisco.

Ever wonder what the hell SF's weird tech billboards are saying? Wendy Liu—@dellsystem.bsky.social—tells us that while the billboards aim to sell to other businesses, they have a hidden social meaning: This city is not for you: SF belongs to tech ruling class. bayareacurrent.com/the-billboar...

it's a crazy time to launch a new publication, but i'm proud to be tech editor for @bayareacurrent.bsky.social, an outlet for working-class stories and perspective we have some bangers already up on the site and many more coming

Check out BayAreaCurrent.com, a new site covering working class perspectives. It launched today! @bayareacurrent.bsky.social

The @bayareacurrent.bsky.social launch is even better than expected. Check out this fantastic article on the "abandoned" Greyhound bus station in Oakland. bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...

Oakland's historic Greyhound bus station exemplifies how venture capital works: the more our cities decay, the more they profit. The iconic station has been left to rot — like so many other spaces in Oakland — in the gamble for future profits. bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...

Second: Coyote Media Collective: givebutter.com/coyotemedia They're trying to raise $80k in order to launch in late summer!

We are living in tough media times. So it's warmed my heart to witness the launch of not one, but TWO new Bay Area news orgs founded by journalists I deeply admire. I encourage yall to join me in supporting them! 1) Bay Area Current: @bayareacurrent.bsky.social bayareacurrent.com

LA's Burning Waymos have become symbols for a growing anti-deportation movement. Some cry chaos—but @veenadubal.bsky.social argues that the flaming robo-taxis represent something else: the public’s fury at tech companies' interests trampling the common good. bayareacurrent.com/the-torched-...

I’ve got something coming out with them soon too! So happy there’s a new Bay Area news publication, especially one that focuses on the lives and needs of working class people. Long live Bay Area Current!

I’m pumped for this! Some are going to dismiss it because it’s openly left wing. But I don’t think reporting should be or even can be unbiased. What’s important is to be accurate, honest, and curious about why the people you may agree and disagree with think what they think.

some ~(un)professional news~~ I'm proud to be managing editor of @bayareacurrent.bsky.social, alongside a team of great writers, thinkers and organizers who believe the Bay deserves a local news site for the people. Let's get it

Great piece about Karen England - Queen of the Book Bans by @deccamuldowney.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/karen-englan...