Every ep of Posting Through It is a banger (except the 2025 ep bc it stressed me out lol). But their best stuff is their paywalled eps because they let their true feelings out.

This crazy 441 page deck is oddly a summary what I've been teaching (see: preparing students for this future) for the last decade. docs.google.com/presentation...

Kirkification should be a warning for any of the influencers who think of themselves too iconic to meme. Wrote about it on New Media Homework

We are being ruled by absolute losers

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Ah fuck we got the Philip K Dick future 😞

xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:

we're living through one of the greatest technological revolutions in the history of mankind and it's not AI

I’m still not over the fact that there was an extremely popular award-winning movie over a decade ago about the perils of falling in love with a chatbot and a company decided to make the chatbot in the image of the movie’s chatbot and now quite a few people have decided to date it

These two revel in video game style militarism and remote death. Comically evil. WSJ: Look at this cute bro reunion 😍🥹

We’re at a point where the dems are so useless that Wall Street had to step in and help out

In the latest episode of QAA, we interview @milesklee.bsky.social about his chilling article on ChatGPT encouraging religious psychosis in its users, and I explore how the Christians who claim AI is demonic are wrong, but not *wrong* wrong on.soundcloud.com/UmtjAVCbA3xk...

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The years long panic about this is about a couple people getting their feelings hurt in circumstances that likely didn’t even occur. It simply doesn’t matter. They’re throwing academics and students out of the country with masked thugs by force. Get some priorities.

Absolute cinema

Reminder, don’t take advice from lottery winners

A public school district is considering whether to ban my book on tech billionaires, Survival of the Richest, for violating Trump's order on ridding DEI from schools. (I do not argue for giving tech bros equity/inclusion, so I'm not sure what the fuss would be about...) patch.com/illinois/lag...

This stock market crash thing is so confusing. On one hand you have every economist and bank in the free world freaking out. On the other, there are some blue check accounts on Twitter with ancient statues as their profile pics doing 20 part threads on why down is the new up. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I feel like I should be getting royalties that are backdated to the 17th century. That would put my earnings at nearly 3 figures. I want my back pay

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

The future history of now will include something along the lines of "social media put billions of people worldwide in the same room together for the first time in history and it drove them absolutely insane"

“Yeah, but I'm saying that TruCoat. You don't get it, you get oxidation problems. It'll cost you a heck of a lot more than $500.”

I wrote about the White House X account — which is steeped in the sociopathic posting style of far-right extremists — and seems to get more sinister and cruel with its posts each week of the administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade

Another reason I think conservatives are leaning into such dramatic artificial-looking appearances via tanning, surgery, filler, etc is because it creates an engaging visual aesthetic for social media video content. It’s the same culture of influencers and reality TV. Attention over substance

Easily some of the most important books to understand our era

Was literally talking to a friend about this last night. The majority of what went viral before The Dress went viral because it reflected some kind of consensus — this is good, this is interesting, this is relatable. After The Dress, virality was permanently changed into a measurement of conflict.

the internet would be so cool if it wasn't evil

It’s pretty fucked up that a guy from an island that gonna suffer massive climate change issues is the guy who is eager to usher in the collapse of his region

Who knew Lee Zeldin would be the worst of Trump’s ghouls, become death, destroyer of this world? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...

"Lively vs. Baldoni: How Right-Wing Influencers Are Weaponizing the Fight to Take Down #MeToo" Taylor Lorenz writes that conservative commentators are leveraging the high-profile case to dismantle support for #MeToo and amass unprecedented audience growth.

The Tate brothers are just an updated viler version of those Pickup Artists that were so popular about a decade ago. This is what happens when a meaner, more violent woman hating misogynist takes the roadmap. That he is platformed by so many is a disgrace to every woman and girl in the nation

Colin Robinson ass politician except less interesting and more monstrous

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

The arc from “freedom fries” to “hitler fries” is a good encapsulation of how American conservatism has evolved in my lifetime

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.

Yet another dedicated scientist and public servant, this time from US Fish and Wildlife, showing up unpaid after she was fired to volunteer to protect an endangered species. What are we even doing here. 🎁 link: 🧪

I think this too. It’s possible trump truly believes the country let him down by not reelecting him in 2020. We already knows he holds is own followers in contempt, imagine how he feels for the rest

New pro-Trump group, the State Leadership Initiative (SLI), is “writing the blueprint for dismantling bureaucracy in every red state.” Nate Fischer—a founder of New Founding, which is backed by DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen—is an SLI co-founder. The board includes Heritage president Kevin Roberts. 1/

I knew it would come to this

To go along with our piece today, we published an extensive list of folks associated with DOGE. It builds off and adds to the strong work that Wired, WaPo, ProPublica and other pubs have been doing. The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

What are the Vegas odds that it’s Vance who eventually invokes the 25th?

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

I’m sure there are sci-fi films that our tech leaders didn’t take the wrong lessons from. I just can’t think of any right now

Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers

Qanon basically came true. a cabal of pedophile sex traffickers has seized control of the state news.sky.com/story/andrew...

A transphobic hate campaign forced theater and TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney to rethink her memoir — and how she navigates fame. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...