DAME TIME

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

"Melania is not only terrible, it’s also frustrating—but not because it’s technically incompetent, visually unappealing, or even boring. It’s frustratingly facile, an insult to self-awareness and a dead-eyed rebuke to irony." robin givhan doesn't miss! www.thecut.com/article/mela...

"We’ve screwed up a whole generation of people with this idea that you need to overly self-actualize before you can be in a relationship." www.wired.com/story/justin...

In summary:

another @thiccreese.bsky.social banger www.wired.com/story/i-infi...

"right-wing creators ... have been going after a number of California’s social welfare programs, making unsubstantiated accusations of fraud—and potentially laying the groundwork for a similar federal crackdown in the nation’s largest Democrat-run state." www.wired.com/story/republ...

Here’s my @thenation.com post on the arrest of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, the violation of the First Amendment, and Trump’s ongoing attempts to change the face of his victims and spark a race war.

"The videos, which have millions of views on Facebook and Instagram, offer a blend of revisionist justice that imagines a digital multiverse where the ICE agents are just like us: not above the rule of law."

truly a man of the people

“Unless something dramatically changes, regulators around the globe are building a legal infrastructure that will require most websites and apps to be age-authenticated.” www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

the war is at home www.wired.com/story/how-ic...

“This, on a grand scale, has become the defining feature of the current phase of American preeminence: robbery.” nymag.com/intelligence...

people voted for this

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

The shooting in Minnesota is a reminder that while authoritarian governments may justify abuses of power by directing them at scapegoats or vulnerable populations, the goal is ultimately to deploy them against anyone they wish to www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

congrats to all the periplus fellows. excited to return as a mentor this year lithub.com/announcing-t...

mr. scorsese was five hours long and still too short. marty forever

what day is it?

holy shit ant

espn+ not streaming the nba christmas day games is very stupid

“In America, one can never escape the inevitability of race. It’s happening now, as you read this—that inevitability, the one built on old power imbalances and a racial hierarchy, is pushing industries to the brink” reckoning with the reality of DEI for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/dei-di...

“In America, one can never escape the inevitability of race. It’s happening now, as you read this—that inevitability, the one built on old power imbalances and a racial hierarchy, is pushing industries to the brink” reckoning with the reality of DEI for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/dei-di...

“One of the more slippery slopes of our time will have been all those people who surrendered affection for efficiency by offering machines an intimate place of dignity and grace simply because they appeared to make doing hard things look easy” www.playboy.com/read/advice/...

the wemby era is gonna be so much fun

the knicks are hooping

i think my issue with pluribus, which i’m liking less and less as the season progresses, is how much it tonally mirrors breaking bad and better call saul. the panoramic shots, the color palette, the long stretches of quiet despair and swirling paranoia. beyond the concept nothing feels original

new from me: are data centers going to wipe out water supplies? how much water does ChatGPT really use? and what's going on with that big correction in Empire of AI? i went long on the conversation around AI and water, and how it's actually about what we want resources to be used for:

vince for president m.youtube.com/watch?v=3w07...

“if I’m going to do the fucking thing, if I can be a sore thumb within the thing, just by making the music a little bit more difficult to just sit there ... Why not do that?” dijon made one of the year's best albums. get into it pitchfork.com/features/cov...

“Starting next year, OpenAI will be able to use Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Ariel, and Yoda in its Sora video-generation model… None of this makes much sense—unless Disney was fighting a battle it couldn’t win.” www.wired.com/story/disney...

summer in december

“Industry celebrates the accomplishment of capitalist dominance while also provoking disgust at the emptiness of capitalism’s excesses. Being on the yacht feels like Heaven; being on the yacht feels like Hell.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"As the fears around the future of AI continue to mount, the subtext of Altman's interview was patently obvious: Technology can help people better understand their kids. We should welcome it. The timing of that particular message was not by mistake" me for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/sam-al...

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

The $83 billion deal gives the streamer a century’s worth of prestige television and movies, from Batman movies to Game of Thrones. It also ends the streaming wars. www.wired.com/story/netfli...

warner bros had arguably the most impressive run of any studio this year and now netflix is gonna swallow them whole because streamers are desperate for old hollywood legacy even as they uproot the entire industry

"When Black creators reach the highest levels of visibility while asserting structural autonomy, their success is not simply celebrated. It is managed — the institutional framing shifts from recognition to risk assessment." hyperallergic.com/whos-afraid-...

i’m only 8 minutes into the diddy netflix doc and i am riveted

Missouri’s age-gate law took effect earlier this week, meaning 25 US states have passed a form of age verification. “The thing that people misunderstand most about age verification is that it actually applies to all of us ... Everyone will have to interact with this.” www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

it’s been that kind of year

you probably had the same reaction i did when you found out there were 21 million people on facebook dating www.wired.com/story/who-th...

the wilderness by angela flournoy mean boys by geoff mak (pub'd 2024)

eating sweet potato pie for breakfast because i’m grown

how have scammers not run out of phone numbers yet

I'm deeply skeptical of mainstream disinformation discourse, and it's pretty clear that most of the foreign X accounts are just engagment farming. But to the extent they're politically important, it's to X's gathered elites, not the masses nymag.com/intelligence...

NEW: After Donald Trump was elected again, I started talking to trans, leftist, and anarchist gun enthusiasts and YouTubers. I wanted to know how they felt about community defense when it feels like rights, particularly for trans folks, are being stripped away: www.wired.com/story/the-ha...

wemby versus draymond is appointment tv

for the love of everything that is good and right in the world please no more colored courts @nba.com

taxing the rich WORKS