I've been waffling about whether to look up what this is about. Thanks to @anthonyha.bsky.social for saving me work.

You just hate Tilly Norwood because she’s uhhh. I mean it’s ummmmm. Uhhhhhhhhh

Rule of thumb is always if they're actually out there getting the shit beat of them by government or by police then 99% of the criticism is from Do Nothing and Cry Anyway Award winners

“All of this feels ridiculous because that’s exactly what it is. But the larger goal is to inure you to the strangeness of it all so that when these products — be they movies, shows, or TikToks — finally come to market, your reaction is ‘Sure, why not?’”

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

The AI boom is starting to look a lot like the internet’s early years. Not every investment will pay off, but even the “extra” servers usually find a purpose. @anthonyha.bsky.socialand @mzeff.bsky.social unpack OpenAI’s $100B push, the tech talent shuffle, and more on @equity.bsky.social.

New York City, US capital of hating AI 😎 www.adweek.com/brand-market...

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

now having spent a few years learning to suss out "what kind of 'terrorism expert' is this?" in the course of my reporting, I appreciate this thread

What’s happening: Napoleon is master of Europe. Go deeper: Only the British Fleet stands before him.

the alien earth finale was ok, but boy they really should have killed more characters

“'Free speech culture' means that you can call for censorship, disproportionately abuse other people for speech, chill and deter people for speech, even call for violence against others so long as you do it in certain ritualized and stylized ways ..." www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Lots of people who would never otherwise have tuned in to Jimmy Kimmel will tune in on Tuesday. It will be the most listened-to monologue of his career. Good luck, man! Say something memorable. Celebrate your newly restored First Amendment rights by putting them to good use.

Rewatched All the President's Men last night and man that movie is a showcase of great phone acting - Redford and Hoffman, of course, but also actors building offscreen characters from just a few lines like "how DARE you call and ask ME about a 25 thousand dollar check??"

i've been thinking a lot about the historical record on this and how hard it will be to communicate that this guy was a fucking nobody

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up

god i love richard brody www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

You know how every podcast is a video now? Well ... If you like seeing my face when I talk about tech news, then today is your LUCKY DAY. (Better still, you get to see @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social + @mzeff.bsky.social) techcrunch.com/2025/09/19/t...

who says criticism is dead?

Reading through One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This a second time with a pencil in hand and I really gotta say it’s standing out to me even more this round that this book is saying some piercingly real shit about much more than Gaza and genocide

"But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

bro just one more billionaire funded group arguing for milquetoast centrism. bro please just one more, we'll throw gay people to the wolves this time too bro, not just trans ones. bro im begging you

also very funny that they all agreed to take a photo looking as joyless and miserable as possible

Have you *ever*, in all the thousands of shootings in America, heard a word about a friend, roommate or partner of a shooter?

how curious. how strange. how odd

*Elon Musk turns up the MechaHitler dial.*

It is our patriotic duty, all of us, to mock these pathetic fucking simps everywhere they go. They shouldn't have a single waking moment free of mockery.

Ruin a song by adding the word "literally" to the title Literally Like a Rolling Stone

My Australian friends who work for American companies are saying that they are no longer going to the US for work, because they don't want the free add-on trip to El Salvador. It started off with a joking tone. It's become a lot more serious as of late.

This morning in @techcrunch.com, I look at a surprising scenario for how major labs like OpenAI and Anthropic could fail even as the overall AI industry succeeds. It’s a very popular idea in the industry right now, although people are wary of laying it out in public. 🧵

people love to be like "I didn't agree with all his viewpoints" so which ones did you agree with? which ones specifically?

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

We briefly lived in an age of wonder and we just threw it all away before we knew how good it was. Pearls before swine

Speaking of speaking ill of the dead, he called George Floyd a “scumbag” minnesotareformer.com/briefs/haged...

Defector has outlived these things: defector.com/things-we-ha...

I guess my point, and this goes from media types to poll dorks to John Fetterman, is that if you genuinely believed the way to save America was to make concessions to authoritarians or even thought authoritarians were a problem, your main driving force would not be “someone on the left was annoying”

Huh, running someone who comes across as a nice and decent person, on a platform that offers to make people's lives better, fascinating approach

"I found out quickly that even at the most tech-minded gatherings, the thing was a complete taboo. After the device started to ship to users, one person on X said there should be a slur for people who wear AI devices that record those around them."

It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.

I know we call a lot of things Nazi shit these days but this is pure Nazi shit. "Don't show the Fuhrer in an unflattering light!!!"