This was informative (and aligns with what you describe): www.wired.com/story/broadc...

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Trump has escalated his attack on Portland by deploying more Feds to Portland for the purpose of intimidating and silencing our community, so that we comply in advance with his fascist regime. Don’t acquiesce. Join an org, talk to your neighbors and build solidarity networks to keep each other safe.

Kaleb Horton was an incredible writer with each new piece appointment reading, but I personally was so inspired by his photography. I had an album of his photos saved on my phone that I’d use as inspiration when writing myself. I needed him to put out that book.

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Oh no. A good dude and thoughtful writer, who was openly going through it for quite some time. I chatted with him via DMs about such stuff (and the Bakersfield sound) for a bit on the other app. Thinking about his friends and family.

kept on asking my colleagues when hearing "AI literacy" being repeated all the time: literacy of what? the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

As I’ve been saying: what really just happened is that the institutional right just tried to flex the power of the affiliate system that they spent the past decade plus capturing to be used against the networks. We just witnessed a struggle for power between two arms of capital, not “your” 1A

Natalie wrote about the movie here, read it: www.dontrocktheinbox.com/robert-altma...

This was a lot of fun!

NEW EPISODE: @natalieweiner.bsky.social and the lads talk about NASHVILLE, a Robert Altman movie about Nashville. Or something. CHECK IT OUT: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

They hung a bunch of new art in the lobby of my apartment building. Look at this shit lol

I am starting to feel like I felt in the weeks leading up to Covid when I was watching it start to hit Seattle unbeknownst to everyone else

does anyone use an Asana-like app for task management that is free? Or at least a one-time fee and none of this subscription crap

I was quoted in this piece on the AI bubble amidst great company!

See?!?!?!?

I literally hit @corbinsmith.bsky.social and did the Leo pointing meme when Yang drops the Tokyo Story shot towards the end of YI YI

The Kimmel Incident should be seen first and foremost not as a struggle over the first amendment but a battle over a subset of capital attempting a takeover of traditional broadcasting infrastructure. It has more to do with the Ellison/Weiss takeover of CBS than it does “free speech.”

Incredibly detailed analysis of law enforcement helicopters flying over Washington, D.C. neighborhoods from August 7–September 7. Plus a comparison with 2024. Gift link! (They require a working email address to access the story.)

lmao oh buddy, you really thought that was going to work?

Żuławski's The Third Part of the Night--his surreal debut about growing up in the aftermath of a world war. Man uhhhh this stuff is....actually pretty scary now that it feels like......................................well, yknow...

The rule of thumb is that if you see any stock analysis accompanying a screenshot of Google or Yahoo Finance you should disregard it immediately. Only the pristine monospaced orange and white on black of a Bloomberg Terminal by Bloomberg LP signals the necessary gravitas to be worth your attention.

This sublimation of political action into consumption is more depressing than the Adbusters 90s stuff. Influencers who have turned “politics” into a media genre or branding isn’t even the worst of it: it’s that many Americans, feeling helpless and scared, cannot conceive of action outside the market

My latest newsletter is about how Internet culture died, and why the centralization of the web around a handful of large platforms is responsible for making the web a duller, more boring place. whatwelost.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Helpful to remember two things when the dread overtakes you: 1. The Trump era is only 10 years old. It may have remade our society but it went by in a flash. 2. Over the next 10 years, most of our geriatric leadership will age out of power. What comes next is anyone's guess!

Well sure but they aren't committed to liberal democracy, they just say that stuff because it makes their consumer base feel good! This should be an opportunity for us to see the situation more clearly, not wish our overlords were less hypocritical

buy BUY, BUY!!!! BUY THE RIGHT THING!!! SHOP CORRECTLY!!!!!!

you don't need more economics training to start to think like Trump's team, you just need to start watching paranoiac YouTube videos by crank investors

excellent and comprehensive story about what's happening at Texas A&M www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

The Heritage Foundation is going after me this morning calling me a terrorist because I am accurately stating what they are intending to do. Michael Knowles at CPAC explicitly called for the "eradication of transgenderism." I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.

Broadview, IL - The crowd assembled outside of Broadview Detentiom Center getting chemical munitions from federal authorities as a white can leaves the facility. At least two arrest. (1)

somewhere out there, there has to be ONE guy who watched this and briefly thought to himself "wait.....they think we're that dumb?" before it quickly passed, confirming

This is probably one of the most important stories in the world rn:

Fascinating analysis. Tectonic shifts happening every day now.

"mom, why is JD Vance an autocrat?" "because people didn't like his movie, dear. now put the sandbag up on the street."

The @theguardian.com article on Tyler Robinson's online persona cites my June 2023 @gwupoe.bsky.social report on generations in online radicalization, which (for whatever reason!) has had a good life. extremism.gwu.edu/third-genera...

I don't mean this to downplay what happened yesterday but really, seriously, the idea cancelling a TV show is the moment when fascism finally arrives is the kind of thing too-online leftists have been making fun of liberals for since 2016

an entire generation and everyone coming up after them have essentially been making pirate tv stations for each other on repurposed video game streaming websites for like about a decade now. if we had the money that demonic old baby boomers have poured into nasty jesus creeps you would be astonished

if we're doing the historical flattening thing (why?), even this is off. yes, there are more mediating institutions now, and we periodize ourselves w/documented historical memory. but I think plenty of people in history have experienced everything they know collapsing when their village got raided!!

wouldn't know what any of that is like

I know things are crazy rn but check out an episode of TPNWICMFP in which we discuss Celine and Julie Go Boating from the floor of the Rose City Comic Con in PDX. It was a surreal experience, not unlike the movie itself. Give us a listen in the embed and read @corbinsmith.bsky.social in the replies

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Reading Virno's Ten Theses of the Multitude, from 1979: "The disproportion between the role accomplished by knowledge and the decreasing importance of labor time has given rise to new and stable forms of power, rather than a hotbed of crisis." Give it a minute, man! lol

Everyone is prefacing each new bit of information on the shooting with “It seems clear that…” No it doesn’t! Nothing seems clear. Nobody can agree on the intended meaning of any of the signifiers in this case. There is no shared hermeneutic! The signifiers are doing all the lifting.