More of this please.

I feel like this is the "I'm ok, but my discretionary income has damn near vanished and things are not as fun" class.

It really is just a compliment machine, made by and for guys who weren't getting compliments anymore.

I’ve said it before, but as a kid/teen of the 80s, I really miss Peter Jennings.

30 yrs aftr Norman Finkelstein wrote this article, “First the Cherokee, now the Palestinian,” nothing has changed. Current Affairs re-released the essay, which shows the similarities between tactics used against my Cherokee ancestors & Palestinians today.

Thought this said SCREAMING instead of streaming and thought, how could you not this week? Anyway, dyslexia is fun and this is why I reread everything.

Just saw over on Instagram that @firestorm.coop, a really awesome worker-owned radical bookstore and mutual aid hub in Asheville, NC, is struggling financially and needs support to stay open. I highly recommend buying books from them, and becoming a sustainer on Patreon if you can!

wow, looks like a rough patch for stocks AND bondis

Man…when I was coming up as an investigative reporter at Fortune, the writing and editing process was grueling (and rewarding!). What an embarrassment this is for a brand that meant so much to us.

Happy new music from @deadpioneers.bsky.social day to all who celebrate. #indigenouspunkrock

There are dozens of us

L’Oréal. Because he’s worth it.

No.

ICYMI: My wife wrestles with the option of being informed, but traumatized. But for journalists like me, it's our job to stay plugged in. How can we learn to cope with an exhausting 24-second news cycle? www.poynter.org/business-wor...

🆕 New from me this morning on @poynterinstitute.bsky.social Is there a responsible news diet for journalists to keep our sanity? Or, should you stay off the news for a while? Here's some ways Poynter journalists are managing their media intake. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

The amount of gambling ads I hear is ridiculous. Just another way to move wealth to the tech ruling class.

But seriously, how fucking dumb do you have to be to run a dark money influence op on a professional influence op researcher and her influence op former reporter boyfriend? Just insane dummies. Vote Kat and she'll out this shit in Congress constantly.

I completely empathize with him, I need a year to recover from reading anything about Morrissey.

@404media.co is doing incredible journalism and I should see if I can get them to pay for my blood pressure medication since every post they make spikes it.

Poynter leadership alums know I mention Parkinson’s law several times throughout the week. Might have to add this.

I am so excited to announce the First America Indigenous Futures Writing Workshop Series as part of a project I’ve been working on for the past year. Applications due by March 31, apply soon, and please share with any Indigenous youth that you know! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New on Poynter: A better approach to AI content. Paying for product. What a novel concept. "But If I have to pay I can't operate," is probably the tech response in a lot of cases. To that I say, maybe you shouldn't exist then.

The amount of media/journalism people in my feed reposting the Fugazi/Albini mix is higher than I thought it would be. Journalism definitely attracts a certain kind of person.

Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

The world is on fire, but we have a new Metric single, so maybe it’s not so terrible.

At least once a week I read something that absolutely turns my stomach. This is it for now. I can't imagine myself participating in something so awful and so very disappointed it exists.

I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.

Rarely say this, but stop what you're doing and read this. Powerful words. Thank you for sharing. My wife lost both her parents in her late 20s and there's just so little resources for, as you said perfectly, just being an adult.

What happens when you speak for a bit too long at a city council meeting in opposition to a data center being built in your town? In Claremore, Oklahoma, a man was arrested and charged with trespassing. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/man-opposing...

I clicked my mouse and hit my keyboard 237 times before realizing I took my laptop out of the dock into a differnt room last night. So, that's how my morning is going.

Oh, and we should probably talk about the enormous costs (environmental destruction, pollution, death, violence, and despair) of AI “innovation” and whether that’s actually worth the perceived gains from even the best case scenarios of the technology

And sure, we can talk about how all AI isn’t a scam but the stuff that has come to define the industry, the stuff its richest and most influential leaders are pushing, and the stuff we encounter enshittifying our day to day lives? That’s the scam

I guess I do agree that AI is a big deal in the sense that it’s going to make everything worse for the foreseeable future against all reason, logic, and evidence of it largely being a scam staring all of us in the face

Gloves-off Ben is very fun to listen to and hang out with. 10/10 would recommend.

And Reservations and/or Tribal Lands

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

thanks, i hate it. ALL of the WaPo layoffs suck today, but this one stings because the arts are usually the first thing to go. GIVE ME MORE MUSIC CRITICISM (from insanely talented writers), YOU COWARDS.

The targeting of Native Americans by ICE is so widespread, tribal governments all over are responding. To protect tribal citizens from ICE raids, tribes are holding events to help citizens get updated IDs and even speeding up the printing and processing times.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

Who else has noticed the enshitification of resealable plastic zippers on food packaging? I swear it's getting harder to close everything from shredded cheese to our dog's treats. All to save a fraction of cent to get max profits. I nearly threw a bag of tortillas across the kitchen out of anger.

All my family lives on tribal land scattered across Oklahoma and I am so frustrated and angry it's come to this.

My nihilism is at an all time rate.

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

Went to an EdTech conference earlier to talk to esports people. Was having a brew when a guy on the table next to me said "this is literally innovation 2.0, so how do we take it to the next level... innovation 3.0". I didn't know people actually spoke like this. Now I'm annoyed and a little afraid

I watch a lot of woodworking videos on YouTube on Saturday morning and OH MY GOD THESE ARE THE NEW VERSIONS OF NETWORK FISHING SHOWS.

As someone who works in news, it is 100% okay to turn off the news and have something else on in the background. As someone who is chronically online and scrolls, it's also a reminder to turn off auto-play on videos.

if you do not want to watch the video, go to settings > content and media and uncheck the "autoplay videos and gifs" box right now