their ducks: not even in a row. in disarray. shambles our ducks: slowly arranging themselves into uncountable phalanxes

Bari Weiss going from firebrand individual contributor to directly-accountable manager of a huge bureaucratic organization facing secular decline… gosh has anyone ever seen this movie before

the person who published this is about to run CBS

The broadcasters here will do what the social platforms never had the courage to do - loudly state that they can make whatever programming decisions they want and the gov should stay out of it. This is because they are not also defense contractors :(

Just a tiny leap from “broadcasters have to use their spectrum in Trump’s interests” to “AT&T and Verizon have to manage content on their wireless networks in Trump’s interests because they operate on public spectrum”

it ought to be interesting to see how everything shakes out

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

fucking hell

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

All shootings are bad. All of them.

@jonbois.bsky.social i just left the screening in ny and had a question. do playoff games, like pete carroll games, possess a weirdness that begets a disproportionate amount of scorigami’s?

sorry if this is a tough pill but a society that allows a massive media corporation to shove microphones and cameras in the face of a traumatized ten year old correlates neatly with a society that allows scores of children to be shot at at school

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

hey @reckless.bsky.social i found something for you in r/iphone

Congratulations, Tim Cook

it’s true imo that the median bluesky user is a little too AI skeptical but we also get none of the slack jawed sycophants posting shit like “gpt-5 just revolutionized how we manage our nanny.” ultimately a good trade.

this is how i learned emil bove isn’t even 45 years old

The comments on Bret Stephens’ latest NYT column, “No, Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza,” are really something.

I simply cannot figure out why the Pot thinks that the kitchen—or the whole house—is in need of his opinions about the color black, writes the Kettle

in a broad sense i've observed a collapse in pro-social norms around engaging in public that likely bleed over into the interpersonal. i believe this is most observable in the time since Mid-March 2020, wonder if anything was going on then....

Merrick Garland you dumb bitch

the conspiracists are going to LOSE THEIR MINDS

This is extremely disappointing. When you've just admitted that a genocide is happening, it's bizarre to spend the rest of your post criticizing the manners and motives of the people trying to stop it.

Gaby Del Valle at @theverge.com has been on an absolute heater recently.

AI may deskill labor in the coming years, just as tech has done for many trades. But even if the human hand may not always produce a better product, it may be special for the sake of craft. Either way, when shopping for a suit, now you know to flip over the lapel to see if there are dimples.

one of the best, most comprehensive pieces i've read about this problem. hoooooooly shit lol

"There is an inherent imbalance between what gets attention and what deserves attention in our American media and news ecosystem." It has been a few weeks since I've written for my newsletter, but I'm back.

There's still a case that free buses are worth it and implementing them in NY won't doom the city to ruin or anything. But the idea isn't as straightforwardly beneficial as it sounds. This is the kind of political coverage we want, not the columbia-admissions bullshit.

the parent of a trans kid in missouri begged the new york times not to use an audio clip in The Protocol podcast of a verbal confrontation with professional transphobe Jamie Reed out of fear of safety for her kid and NYT management refused her request.

If you can’t tell the difference between two bad things, skill issue.

I can’t say I always live up to my moral values but I can confidently say that I did zero favors for Nazis this week

this one weird trick will get the NYT to actually link to your independent publication (be a white supremacist)

i, for one, think every god damn nazi eugenicist who gets their work cited in the new york times should have their full fucking name published but maybe that’s just me

There’s no universe where JD Vance’s vetting materials are not newsworthy but a fucking college application is.

Always curious to see who gets to be an anonymous source!

the worst infinity stones

“IT’S TIME FOR US TO RETURN THE FAVOR” this dude has BARS

a political consultancy that does what now?

one of the things that's so invigorating about Mamdani's win is how upset the right seems to be. it shouldn't matter to them what flavor of Democrat runs New York City, but they're unnerved because they know that his style of progressive populism has broad appeal.

The important thing to remember is that they would've been doing this if a white centrist won the primary. Literally everyone with a "D" next to their name is a fascist socialist Marxist terrorist Muslim anti-Semite. They would be saying shit like this if Don Mattingly were the nominee.

it turns out that embracing a multi-racial, multi-faith democracy is the best path towards peace in this chaotic world.

i probably would be more sympathetic than the average bsky user to the idea that there's a time and place for totally unrestricted intellectual inquiry, to let ideas go wherever inferences might take us. but anyone who thinks that that time and place is the front page of the newspaper is delusional

this just in: water wet

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

An important thing to know about Donald Trump is that very few people actually like him! The structure of his support at this point is a relatively small number of psychotic groypers and a much larger swathe of the public who have been convinced by right-wing propaganda that Democrats are worse.

it is genuinely so heart warming to see the cringe, the online, and the normies all hitting the streets together