Over the weekend, JD Vance said: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore.” That’s a longtime theme of white supremacists in America, as Vance no doubt knows. In this thread, I cite similar racist rhetoric using the “apology” theme. 1/6 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵

A Columbia professor on what AI is already doing to the advertising biz www.wsj.com/opinion/ai-i...

New at Media Nation: Two weeks after a hopeful sign from "60 Minutes," Bari Weiss cancels a story and trashes the brand. dankennedy.net/2025/12/22/t...

In case it's eluded you, here's my Best Journalism Linkers list. "The top 40 or so BlueSky accounts most likely to give good link about journalism and its struggles." I use it to keep track of what's being reported about both the media industry and the journalism world. bsky.app/profile/jayr...

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

Wrote about the Epstein Files. The redactions,the political point scoring, an administration that has long lost the benefit of the doubt, and why this very real conspiracy (with victims who deserve real accountability and transparency) won’t go away

In 2026 executive coaching helps leaders work across cultures, lead with empathy and resilience and make evidence based decisions while using AI as a support tool. www.the-leadership-coaches.com/post/leaders...

“Most senior White House officials parse their words and speak only on background,” reports Vanity Fair writer Chris Whipple. “But over many on-the-record conversations, [Susie] Wiles answered almost every question I put to her.”

Throughout the first year of Donald Trump’s second administration, Vanity Fair writer Chris Whipple has interviewed Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, amid each moment of crisis. His insider’s account of Trump 2.0 joins the photography of Christopher Anderson for a portrait of power—and peril.

"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.

We have reached the “begging us to come back” stage of X’s decline

In case you have never seen this.

We’re at the desperation stage. Altman on Fallon, Huang on Rogan. They have no idea what to do anymore

a very concise and helpful post about Elon's incoherent views on 'free speech' www.techdirt.com/2025/12/09/t...

and this doesn't even mention tiktok!

The pandemic. The strike. The sale of Fox. “.. Box office experts say 15 to 20 percent of regular moviegoers have simply never returned ..” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I am pleased to announce another no-talent year!

Wrote about Deepak Chopra’s new AI model, AI guru slop, and how none of this is really shocking because we already turned spirituality into a commodity. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/this-was-i...

Here's the CEO of Nvidia calling Trump a "genius" for "saying what's on his mind" when he called a reporter piggy. Just total cowardice and moral bankruptcy from people who know better.

“I have not seen a harm manifest so quickly from a technology.” New pod today with the great @kashhill.bsky.social on the AI chatbot delusion crisis (and how tech billionaires have, in a sense, democratized their yes men entourages with these chatbots) youtu.be/i-Hu3p7SJVI?...

Yep. I have a term for it. Used in this way, "some say" and "critics say" are signals warning us that what comes next is not truth-seeking but refuge-seeking behavior. "Depends on you ask" operates in similar fashion.

Your influence begins with how you sound. Content matters, yet delivery shapes the room. Your tone sets the temperature. I wrote about how Communication Personas help choose the sound that fits the moment, from calm authority to deep listening to forward energy. www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/communi...

Might be telling us something... But what? Reddit boss Steve Huffman said the platform is moving away from r/popular: "For a long while, we were known as the ‘front page of the internet,’ but we’ve outgrown a singular front page for everyone.” [The Verge] www.theverge.com/news/837780/...?

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Five years after Meta's Oversight Board its first five cases, it's clear that its ambitions to become Facebook's Supreme Court have failed. I talked to insiders about where it goes next: www.platformer.news/meta-oversig...

This is smart — clean data, research money and safety www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Caleb Hearon on AI: "They're in the process right now of manufacturing consent for this technology and when ... they offer you hundreds of thousands of dollars to do an ad deal for them, they are doing that because they need your help to manufacture consent for this."

Like...shut up! shut da fuck up www.forbes.com/sites/pialau...

A novel new study finds you can reduce polarization on X simply with a simple change to the algorithm. I spoke with the researchers: www.platformer.news/stanford-pol...

I've written a short comment regarding this new MIT study that is being passed around and why it is horseshit. "11.7% of US workforce is being replaced by AI" my ass. Thought that might be of interest. Also - thanks for all your work, you are one of the best resources out there.

Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy

Yikes. You're gonna want to read this. @rollingstone.com with yet another well-researched piece‼️👍 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"Their expertise ranges from ordering war crimes to covering up sex crimes to engaging in all manner of financial criminality. They’re a diverse bunch, from tough guys outfitted in combat gear and masks, to smooth operators in tuxedoes who mingle at state dinners." www.thebulwark.com/p/sex-crimes...

"Where you fall on this rapture-to-bullshit continuum likely tracks with how optimistic you are for the future. But you are waiting nonetheless—for a bubble to burst, for a genie to arrive with a plan to print money, for a bailout, for Judgment Day." - @cwarzel.bsky.social

McLuhan once said that every augmentation is also an amputation. What do we lose when we outsource thinking to AI? My latest for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

A six-generation workforce holds incredible potential, and this post shows leaders how to turn age diversity into a source of clarity, creativity, and stronger performance. More here: falkrehkopf.substack.com/p/this-blind...

I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...

📻 The show is up! @cwarzel.bsky.social on X’s recent update that revealed a swarm of overseas accounts posing as Americans; @librarianjones.com on fighting book-banning activists; @elysegraham.bsky.social on the scholars and librarians who helped win WWII. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

European nations to fund military-grade surveillance network in space on.ft.com/4isSJFQ

China's top economic planning agency warns about the risk of a bubble forming in the booming humanoid robotics industry; 150+ manufacturers operate in China (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Managing Up isn't about pleasing a boss, that's a small game. At senior levels, it's about shaping the system: reducing cognitive load, influencing power, and keeping decisions flowing cleanly. Most leaders never make this shift and it caps their impact. More: www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/managin...

Seeking to kneecap states and hand even more power over to his big tech cronies, the ever power thirsty and David Sacks gets ratioed. For now at least — this group is like mold and always returns www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

It's simply never too late to quit X www.reuters.com/business/med...

I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.

“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.” @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

This isn't even internally coherent. Piker, Carlson, and Fuentes have built their own audiences without the help of mainstream media, so it's not like CBS News could sideline them.

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.