I think Colbert has been using music in one of the most personal ways to engage with art, which is to allow it to reflect back your own feelings in a way that clarifies them. Your circumstances are new, but—in this case—your defiant frustration mixed with exuberance is legible to other people.

on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for its tracking of hate groups, said that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit regarding their use of informants.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

The most horrifying part of this is buried at the end. Like half the “citations” are just slapped on to give a false veneer of credibility.

High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

New Opus for World Radio Day!! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... #wmmt #worldradioday #communityradio #kentucky

In further utterly unsurprising news

A short piece I did for the Sonic Anthropology Radio podcast with Thomas Miller with some great clips from NOLA radio! sonic-anthropology.mixlr.com/recordings/2...

Looking forward to listening to this!

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Mamdani aside, it’s results across the Hudson River in New Jersey that show MAGA is in deep shit. In counties like Passaic looking like Hispanic support has completely collapsed & reversed only a year later. Dem Mikie Sherrill won governor far better than expected. www.latintimes.com/latinos-sour...

Finally finally some good news. Go NYC!!

This is rotten news: Teen Vogue had become a touchstone for independent political coverage--just like a publication for young women should be.

Google rolled out AI Overviews earlier this year. Many users now see AI-generated summaries above traditional search results. This doesn’t just risk spreading unreliable answers, it could also divert traffic away from independent media and threaten media pluralism: algorithmwatch.org/en/google-ai...

UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester. Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November. All welcome!

After Hurricane Beryl devastated Jamaica’s grid last year, officials at the island’s sole utility vowed to fortify it. But the company’s initiatives were only in the planning + early implementation stages when Hurricane Melissa hit. Story @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s Public Radio Music Day. It’s a celebration of art over algorithms. It’s a celebration of discovery, diversity, and deep listening. Keep the music playing in stations across the nation. Stand up for the NPR Network’s commitment to free, public-access music at the link here: n.pr/47jpe4d

If anyone wants an article about what it is like to be in a hotel while applying for asylum (this is pandemic era but much still applies) then our article last year covers some of this from the perspective of those in the hotels

This is deranged and dangerous from the Conservatives, and similarly from Reform. If they could enact it, it would rip British society apart, destroy the economy & NHS, & make the UK an international pariah. Every decent politician & political journalist/commentator needs to push back hard.

Love this story in Editor and Publisher on innovative website Adopt a Station, showing how much public media TV and radio stations relied on federal funding. No surprise, many of those most dependent serve rural, indigenous and Black communities. READ: https://loom.ly/oY2Jmt0

#AoIR conferences have expanded my understanding of our world through transcultural explorations of internet content, practices and structures since Dublin in 2022. Muito obrigada to our amazing #AoIR2025 hosts at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, RJ, Brazil!

The #AoIR2025 conference dinner is not like other conference dinners

For anyone still wondering: THIS IS WHY WE’RE HERE. Welcome to our family, and thank you for welcoming us to yours. #AoIR2025

And so we learn that the Portuguese word for enshittification is merdificacão. 🤣 #AoIR2025

An amazing exhibition serving as a great introduction to Brazil and Brazilian art--generative context for the start of #AoIR2025 masp.org.br/exposicoes/h...

Boy, y'all better hope the revolution never kicks off given that you're sticking all these vital data centers in the south to poison black people.

This is great work. Great. And you know what? A librarian might not know all this off the dome, but they would absolutely help you find out.

Great turnout at today's picket, lots of student support and especially strong drive-by support from passing traffic! @leicesterucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

So great to see our students in support of our upcoming strike! ✊

Missing the massive elephant in the room regarding Palestine Action here, Auntie. Not to mention that decades long infiltration of leftwing protest groups by the police that has led to the longest running public inquiry in British history. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meanwhile the UK races to further emulate the US with new immigration restrictions via a version of an EO: 'Mr Dempsey said the Government had changed the rules at “breakneck speed” via statutory instrument – meaning there was no debate in Parliament...' www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Facism on full display.

As I told Jimmy Kimmel, when is it enough?

Authoritarians hijacked "DEI" to explain basic decency, equality, and foundational civil rights because it conjures images of useless corporate platitudes, and I still don't think journalists helped anyone by adopting the language of bigots and oppressors

You look Latino. You speak Spanish. You work hard. That’s now probable cause. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

I’m always struck by the journalism that’s on Instagram that I don’t see here. For example, this image of a protestor — a US citizen — being arrested by ICE today at a car wash in Los Angeles. More details here: www.instagram.com/p/DNgex-xyAX...

D.C. is not crime-ridden. D.C. is not a war zone. D.C. is not in danger. The only threat to D.C. is the Trump regime’s authoritarian takeover.

Ohio managed to get thousands of people to hold hands and link arms in a human chain that stretched 8 miles to stand against ICE. 8 miles of humans linked together.

Armed masked men kidnapping people off the streets. An illegitimate Supreme Court trampling the Constitution. Congressional Republicans abdicating responsibilities to their King. Billionaires consolidating power, wealth, and influence. Fascism is here. The question is, what will you do about it?

Reason #1,479 why we need to fight like hell until our last dying goddamned breath for our scientific institutions 🧪

Let’s be clear: This is political censorship. Just as CBS’ parent company handed Trump $16 million to settle a spurious lawsuit, this decision is about preemptively bowing to a regime that demands obedience. We stand with Stephen Colbert and every voice that Trump wants silenced.

WGBH building in Boston today

“AI has wrecked the usual application processes of most large graduate employers in PR, media, & journalism. The proportion of recent undergraduates in paid employment in the sector has fallen from nearly 8% in 2020-21 to just 4.86% over the last two years. Again, this should be of national concern”

This is devastating and will certainly hit smaller, less supported rural stations the hardest.

Public media combines entertainment, education and lessons in democracy for audiences across the country. The Trump administration wants it gone. Historian Josh Shepperd joined The Metro to discuss 🔊 wdet.org/2025/07/16/t...

Billionaire: what is Quantum Mechanics? ChatGPT: Good question! Very handsome of you to ask. Billionaire: am I a genius?

“MIT team has developed and tested a new atmospheric water harvester and shown that it efficiently captures water vapor and produces safe drinking water across a range of relative humidities, including dry desert air.”

You know something has gone bad when the government spokesperson says, please don’t use my name … “Asked for comment, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security who declined to be identified…” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...