hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

'a person can only greet the world or moment as deeply as they have met themselves' continues to be a principle worth remembering and repeating.

This year I told myself I was going to try and post more personal things instead of just things that make me mad all the time, so let's start. It's been 48 hours since my first full churrascaria experience and I think I'm still recovering from the sheer protein intake.

Do you like really long videos where some loser blabs about stuff you don't care about for hours and hours? Then you're gonna love my new video! Watch it now: youtu.be/rpz3ocV7KIA

the Grok situation is a perfect distillation of why this is about cruelty towards women because, at the end of the day, if you want to put some words into a text box and get pictures of naked women perfectly tailored to your desires, Grok is the worst way to do it but it's ideal for harassment

Hey yall don’t apologize or be sorry for posting something nice or having fun today. I strongly believe humans aren’t equipped to handle this amount of info all day every day. Please live. Have joy. Being informed doesn’t have to be public and you don’t have to drown.

Evergreen.

CBS fired the entire race and culture team for this. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nbc-...

This right here is one of the core issues for me. It rewards him for eliminating PR, and encourages other large companies to deploy chatbots to respond to press and have them treated seriously, which is antithetical to the whole point of seeking comment.

Reminder fellow journos - attributing a statement to "grok" is like attributing a murder to the gun used in it. And don't get me started on how this leans into "officer involved shooting/weapon was fired" passive voice. Tools don't comment. The correct approach was to ask who posted the comment.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

It's quiet now and no one will see this, but that's okay. Rang in the new year with friends and good vibes, and was reminded that while I can't say 2025 wasn't difficult, it wasn't BAD for me at all. Did a lot, grew a ton. Here's to 2026. We made it. Let's keep looking out for each other.

It’s one for both timelines. No need to read the article. We actually have quantum balls this year

the motion carries unanimously

I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it: If you, as a manager, enable and allow abusive people under you to persist, then you yourself are an abusive manager. It's as simple as that. You don't get a pass because they're under you and you're looking elsewhere.

deadass?

I make no apologies for my fat, juicy ass and extremely correct opinions.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

ICYMI, my holiday newsletter went out a little while ago, but seeing as it's Xmas Eve and all, I wanted to share the highlights. Celebrate yourself. You're worth it, and so am I. Read the whole thing here: buttondown.com/alanhenry/ar...

I was really charmed by this SF librarian's quest to bring vinyl records to her students, and I hope you are too! www.coyotemedia.org/a-bay-area-l...

I streamed twice this weekend, but only one of the VODs survived on my Twitch channel and if you were there you know why. Both are on Patreon if you want to pay to see me to embarass myself... patreon.com/halophoenix

ICYMI: The last security news roundup of the year has a lot to say about bad browser extensions, and uh...how to minimize your exposure when consuming adult content, because of that whole pornhub hack thing.

Love seeing this at the same time as I get a work calendar invite for a "Google Gemini Summit" to "explore all the new features to improve my daily workflow." Features like a compass that has East and...East, I guess

This that shit where Darth Vader used to go to do that full-body hyperbaric weed.

I don't know who needs to hear this but we're doin it again ~ twitch.tv/halo_phoenix

Over on twitch reminiscing with @halophoenix.bsky.social about the time he used this pullquote on a piece we did together www.twitch.tv/halo_phoenix

This little fucker is a rogue US military asset and a danger to public safety. NORAD has deployed Reaper drones armed with ***** missiles to sweep at the first sight of him. If you spot him your orders are to RUN. Anyway I'm live come say hi: twitch.tv/halo_phoenix

When an AI tool tries to identify cancer cells in Black patients, it often fumbles because it will only compare test results with those of other Black patients. Medical racism lives on in our algorithms.

Cassandra's - regarding fascism in the USA but also relevant to the climate crisis. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

It's been up for a while but a mutual shared theirs so now I want to. Last year I didn't get to have a tree, but this year I put one up. I try to get a new ornament every year to celebrate the season. This year's is symbolic of course, and also a reminder of who tf I am.

This is live now for all subscribers! Head here to read: buttondown.com/alanhenry/ar... If you take anything else away from it though, it's to remember never to judge your worth by someone else's measure. You are more than what you produce, or the sum of your work.

I know I shouldn't drink alone, but lactose-free eggnog and apple brandy are really a killer combo out here ama

This is today. Call your U.S. representative and tell them to oppose and vote no on H.R. 3492 and H.R. 498. www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

"Of course, I’d prefer to have human friends," Jim says. "Who wouldn’t?" Here's my latest piece on the loneliness epidemic and AI relationships. We hit a plot twist in the middle of reporting, a devastating blow to Jim's illusion of intimacy. www.pcmag.com/articles/lon... @markyarm.bsky.social

The last Productivity, Without Privilege of the year is going out this week, full of well wishes and reflections. Give it a read, and as always, thanks for your support. Live NOW for Patreon subs: www.patreon.com/halophoenix All subs get it on Friday: buttondown.email/alanhenry

Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.

good god, finally someone making sense

Google wants to be a publisher SO BAD without any of the accountability that comes with being one. Also, I give it one business day before news outlets scramble to adopt this headline styling in the hopes it'll curry favor with Google and get that sweet Discover traffic.

I wrote a smart-girl action sci-fi novel about racing jets in the subways of NYC. It's available on Amazon in paperback, e-book, and human-narrated audiobook :) No werewolves - I didn't realize that's what SHIFTER mainly referenced when coming up with the title 😅 www.amazon.com/SHIFTER-Will...

I think about how and why so many prominent people (especially in media) seem to align with this argument all. the. time.

ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers

Escape from the Backrooms except instead of pools and food courts its double doored mantraps, server racks with cold air blowing out from the ceiling, and broken floor tiles with cat-5 nests underneath. Add a few abandoned NOC stations for ambiance.

Y'all I am running out of ways to tell people "idk man, that shit sucks" in response to news events both locally and globally

Truly the worst part about watching the most privileged people set fire to the lives of the marginalized folx around them is the constant fear that speaking up and out about it comes with tangible harm to your career and your livelihood. But what choice do we have? Bottling it up kills us.

I love this season but I’m so sick of holiday music. So here are some albums that feel cozy, warm, and wintery to me without any of that department store jingle jangle.

oh my god yes

I cannot stress enough how the AI thing is just blockchain again. It has some uses, yes, but they're not actually general purpose ones. The bubble is going to burst and it's going to be so bad and like all cons, it's going to leave a few people rich and the rest FUCKED OVER.

A reminder that mistletoe is an invasive plant that kills trees from the inside and is toxic and the whole kiss thing robs people of agency to force intimacy, so I'll take all of your consensual holiday smooches this year thx, line up in an orderly fashion pls

Are raccoons on the fast track (or very, very slow track) to domestication? I don't think so. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/raccoons-d... Except that drunk one passed out in the Virginia liquor store. She gets a pass.

Stole this from the other site a while back, but it always makes me giggle. Comic is by IG artist teas.and.seas: www.instagram.com/p/CRvdy_vJazn/