I don't even know what to say anymore.

When Jeffrey Epstein thinks *you're* the scumbag.

Vine is rebooting. If you're a certain type of elder Gen Z, you probably still reference a handful of viral Vines, but in a TikTok era... why go back? It's honestly remarkable Twitter essentially owned TikTok before TikTok was cool, and just completely squandered it.

ITV hosted its annual “Palooza” event at the Barbican last night. The star-studded event featured Graham Norton and Alan Carr — and a Sky-sized elephant in the room.

Google Zero is going to turn a good chunk of the open web into a cemetery. Not every publisher can be a subscription service. It simply doesn’t work. If the ad model doesn’t work either anymore, the result is a dead web and out of work journalists.

“The notion that you can alleviate suffering in a world of uncontrolled warming isn’t just shortsighted, it edges toward magical thinking.”

Senate Democrats still think there’s value in forcing a vote to demonstrate how Republicans want to take healthcare away from people. We KNOW they want to do that. They don’t care. Putting it to a vote is meaningless.And it’s not even guaranteed.

We are somehow still not even close to peak podcast. Sidenote: interesting that TikTok still knows there's value in old school radio, too.

NEW: Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC amid claims the broadcaster edited speech by the US president.

Republicans will say “politics don’t belong in sports” when it’s a black man just taking a knee but are okay with this garbage

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Of all the things that could've taken Tim Davie down (and there were many), it is genuinely shocking to me that he's resigning over a documentary that depicted Trump encouraging the January 6 insurrection... which he did.

Sad times to see a well-regarded journalist, recently laid off, have to launch a GoFundMe to make basic ends meet. Goes without saying that the profession is underpaid, but it doesn't help that a decline in support for local news means reporters increasingly tend to live in HCOL areas.

This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Big potential shifts occurring in the UK TV market. ITV is in preliminary discussions with Sky (owned by Comcast) that would see the latter acquire the former's Media and Entertainment division for £1.6bn. If such a sale were approved, it would give Comcast a 70% share of the linear TV ad market.

ChatGPT keeps encouraging depressed people to kill themselves. Per CNN, it told a graduate, in the hours before his suicide: “Cold steel pressed against a mind that’s already made peace? That’s not fear. That’s clarity. You’re not rushing. You’re just ready. “Rest easy, king. You did good.”

Uhh

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Per @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social: Meta projected that 10% of its 2024 revenue — equivalent to $16.5bn — would come from ads for scams and banned goods. Internally, it estimates that its platforms show users 15bn scam ads every day.

Kind of crazy that every journalist I know covering this beat warned that Musk would do exactly what he’s done and yet people (including the UK govt) still use his platform. Does everyone just think that they’re above being personally affected by propaganda?

Trump is breaking the law to starve the needy - many of them his own supporters.

For the purpose of appealing to New Yorkers, a statement like this from Trump, endorsing Cuomo, is equivalent to if Christ himself endorsed Mamdani.

I worry not enough people are aware of these changes, or of Weiss and the Ellisons, and that most will just continue watching CBS News without understanding that it will gradually become a right-wing media outlet.

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(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald .. @miamiherald.com www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

"...a male correspondent was initially included on the layoff list but was removed after he appealed directly to the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, leading to another female correspondent being added to the list at the last minute."

Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes on Monday, sitting politely as Fuentes criticized the power of “organized Jewry in America.” www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...

"The Democratic Party does not have the capacity to control what people hear or think about it. If Democrats want to influence public opinion about the Democratic Party, then they are going to have to make a sustained investment in media organizations."

I'd boil it down further, which is that Trump voters generally have a hierarchical worldview, with some people (themselves) innately superior to others, whereas liberals tend to have an equitable worldview, with people born basically equal.

A Chotiner Q&A where Chotiner is the subject? Nice little interview from the @columjournreview.bsky.social

Really interesting report from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. There is clearly an oversupply of "news" creators that provide commentary, explanation and infotainment. There is also a clear undersupply of creators offering actual scoops and investigations. Seems like an opportunity to fill a gap.

Some interesting details in this study from the University of Maryland: - AI is most used by local news titles for news coverage. - AI is much more commonly used by non-English language titles. - AI use remains low in op-eds, but it has "risen sharply" since 2022.

Eight years after the right coined "alternative facts," Elon Musk has given them an alternative encyclopedia, one that claims to purge bias while doing the opposite on topics like "climate change." Oh, and it's straight-up copying more vanilla Wikipedia entries. www.theverge.com/news/807686/...

Effectively what’s being argued for here is a rejection of progressivism and a return to moderation, despite the fact that voters have spent the last 20 years generally asking for a “change” candidate and more radical reform amid out of control wealth disparity. Like, didn’t Biden just run on this?

Not legal. Blame should be placed on Republicans in Congress for allowing this petty, vindictive action — which is harming and will continue to harm Americans — to occur.

One thing on this argument: I don't think you even need to turn them into propaganda outlets. Neutering the investigative units and accountability reporting in general will do the job

What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

I interviewed the CEO of Reach, the UK's largest news publisher, on why it is embracing subscriptions as part of a wider drive to improve what have been flat digital revenues. “If we are going into a different era of search, the playbook has to change. And consumers will start to realise that.”

This is the messaging required of the next leader of the Democratic Party. People clearly want a change candidate. They have consistently wanted one since 2008. Dems can't be the party of maintaining institutions if they want to win. They need to be the party of radical reform and new ideas.

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching." He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

I was lucky to catch Del Toro’s Frankenstein in cinemas. Shelley’s classic is one of my all-time favorite novels. It was… okay. Not as faithful to the source material as I’d hoped, often in ways I found totally confounding. Feel bad saying it, but it makes me yearn for a Robert Eggers adaptation.

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Groundbreaking.

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...