rare good news these days:

I appreciate this piece and the illustrations are great and also the question "Why did the Ayn Rand–loving heroes of tech become Donald Trump’s bootlickers" kind of answers itself imo

"the microplastics in our bones" sounds like a lost Death Cab for Cutie 7 inch

this moment of western powers recognizing palestine is precisely the moment we must not let them normalize the hypocritical status quo where they speciously nod to palestine and simultaneously criminalize advocacy against the genocide of palestine. we must see this as an opportunity to keep pressing

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Thinking about how much the decoupling of the stock market from the everyday conditions of consumer public was driven by changes in investment rules for pension funds, ostensibly a promise to the future enabling the cancellation of the future

I'm sorry, I just burst out laughing at this Wikipedia entry

Man that cultural hegemony do be enforcing itself with violence in the wake of increasingly splintered media publics huh

placing.technology/working-thro... still blogging through the dissertation, because I have to write the bitchy flippant version before I code switch it into academic prose

Of all the lines in the Bo Burnham song "That Funny Feeling" to resonate years later I did not expect "the surgeon general's pop up shop, Robert Iger's face"

Why did I think I could do stuff the day after getting the flu and covid shot duo

Just realized Benny and Chuck Johnson are different guys, wow

Holy hell. Alexandria, LA, is now the Heathrow of tearing families apart.

Building data centers is a way to (territorially) rebuild/maintain empire, as fossil fuel gets (necessarily) replaced by solar energy — I can see no other reason to invest in AI infrastructure, as a technology it has no business model …beyond worldbuilding….

So cool they replaced a promised bustling factory with some high-rent storage units

@tiffanycaban.bsky.social arrested outside of 26 Federal Plaza along with dozens of other protesters - including faith leaders and other elected officials - demanding ICE get out of NYC

The Summer I Turned Marxist-Leninist

Remembering the video of the guy at an open mic who talked about being an intern at Fox News in college (he was reasonably ashamed of this to be clear). His main job was attending to talking heads guests and he talked about how he built rapport with Karl Rove bc they both watched Bojack Horseman

'food scarcity, poor crop yields and rising prices, with some hard-hit regions already experiencing tensions and migration' River basins, breadbaskets of the world - hit hard by climate change, sand mining + dams blocking replenishing sediment. share.google/H0AKSWKmBQNl...

AC Newman voice: I said my, my fast descent / into authoritarianism it went

FCC Chair Brendan Carr was asked last night by @status.news to comment on ABC benching Kimmel, following his demands. He texted back, “😀.”

www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitions/... went to see this video installation my friend Rob worked on at SculptureCenter tonight and there's an opening for another show happening at the same time and honestly felt like I was losing it watching this while a bunch of people network around abstract art

They should put the horrible eye from Alien Earth in charge of things, she seems to know what she's doing

do you remember when new outlets would embed tweets in their stories online & people would change their twitter username or alter their content so that it pointed out how their post was used without consent or misrepresenting what they originally intended? do you have... screenshots. or examples

Me writing an insanely long dissertation chapter: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me incorporating committee feedback on the chapter: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Can someone please paste John Yoo's face onto the We're All Trying To Find The Guy That Did This meme

Someone I interviewed for my dissertation talked about writing code for these terminals, omg

wow you can really watch me give up on getting a job in academia in real time with each dissertation chapter

thinking a lot about what a mistake it was on the part of media theory lit to conflate "access to a given digital electronics consumer product" and "democratizing"

Hearing the curb your enthusiasm theme when I see Ezra Klein op eds these days

My next book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, comes out in one month from Bloomsbury. It's about the rise of the tech right, crypto corruption, the 2024 election, and Silicon Valley complicity in MAGA authoritarianism. linktr.ee/gildedrage

The grotesque.

pretty bad vibes out there today huh

Do I really need a citation to make the statement in my dissertation that historically, no one has ever successfully made "good" software

congrats to these guys & a great story to launch w/

Pour one out for a true legend

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3/ Mathias Larsen and Xiaokang Xue NZIPL policy brief offers the first comprehensive overview of China’s surging overseas green manufacturing footprint, in our groundbreaking new database Read our report netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-... & Bloomberg news story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hate that I am going to have to explain groyper to my mom

Just did a 4 hour interview for the dissertation with the person who led Rand McNally's efforts to build custom navigation hardware for truckers

www.wsj.com/business/ent... look millennials in tech in the 2010s were cringe with the doggo and awesomesauce stuff but dang at least we gave ourselves permission to feel joy

So what I'm getting from the posts is Kash Patel did not "get" Fury Road

Felt pretty weird to see all the instances of "we're going to have a moment of silence for this pundit who definitely did awful things and has no relationship to this specific place or institution" on actual 9/11

it's too bad I run a newsletter of "perfect sentences" and not "what is going on with these sentences" because wow

nonsequitur timeline cleanse: i was trying to figure out the origins of the concept of "enterprise software" and this marketing campaign for enterprise software featuring Commander Riker from TNG is not it, but it is really something blog.trekcore.com/2013/10/excl...

Speaks to my filter bubble I guess but am sort of surprised by exactly how famous this guy really was, like before yesterday I knew about him as a concept and part of the fascist apparatus but had never seen a picture of his face

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

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