I'd start informing your friends and loved ones they're going to need to get off of TikTok it's indisputably going to be converted into yet another right wing surveillance and propaganda machine

Reading the article you’d never know that the gun range in question is operated by the Katy Police Dept.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

in retrospect it may have been a mistake to bet our national space exploration ambitions on a drugged-out maniac and his big dumb metal rocket www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:

I wonder if the statute of limitations are passed to sue all the stations that only showed the bad side of Osama bin Laden

scramble you little shits, scramble

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

One of the basic rhetorical trick of Trumpism is to frame "accountability" to "being elected" rather than being answerable for your actions (which Trump avoids). Governments build many (perhaps too many) accountability mechanisms for non-elected officials. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unelected-...

As chair of the Senate committee that oversees FCC, Ted Cruz could do something more about this than talk about it on his podcast www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

I blame the Bluesky silo for this

my wife and her whole team lost their jobs earlier this year at a Seattle nonprofit hospital due to Trump medicaid cuts Republican policy is literally killing people by making already shaky health care MUCH worse dems should follow my Senator's lead and hammer this subject every single day

I just can't stop watching it I love how they blame "Wi-Fi" and I like how they're pouring untold billions into "superintelligence," and their big bold idea of showing off progress is having it read a recipe in order which it can't do

yes please: give us the money you were going to give to mainstream media brunchlords

Democrats helped Trump sell the most successful video app in America to a bunch of his right wing zealot friends under the pretense of fixing privacy and improving national security

memestock cultists incensed that Berkley PHD leaving oligarch vaporware project for another, equally bad oligarch vaporware project

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

Obviously Democrats looked at this as a no win trap and I'm not going to waste much time on it, but it would be nice if they could have stood together on the message that it was a no win trap. If Dems don't get more comfortable calling out bad faith bullshit, we're never getting out of this mess.

For my latest, I wrote about how Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension is proof that when it comes to American media, it’s time to change absolutely everything:

again, ABC is actively lobbying the Trump FCC to eliminate some of our last remaining media consolidation rules that prevent the big four networks from merging That's WAY more valuable to them than ethics or democracy

I wrote a little bit more about the Kimmel firing, and how the "big four" major networks are being extra feckless right now because they've been lobbying for years to eliminate the few remaining media consolidation limits we have (including one major rule preventing them from merging)

The way out of this is a critical mass of the population turning against it. I don't know the necessary threshold, and yes, some people obviously have more public influence than others. But in general, that's the way out. Anyone who scoffs at declining Trump support as irrelevant is wrong.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

is this bad?

A judge just struck the complaint in Trump's suit against the Times because, and I am not exaggerating at all here, it was so shittily written

ok I regret wandering into the indivisible email circle jerk to try and point out that signing up for protest email lists is the very least of your worries in the data broker location data era, my sincerest apologies

fun fact the government only very recently gave up on claiming I committed a felony in the creation of this Sinclair Broadcast Group video in 2018

I wrote a little bit more about the Kimmel firing, and how the "big four" major networks are being extra feckless right now because they've been lobbying for years to eliminate the few remaining media consolidation limits we have (including one major rule preventing them from merging)

burn the entirety of traditional media and journalism to the ground and crowdfund ethical alternatives

“It was becoming increasingly clear in recent weeks that Sir Iger and the ABC executives would cut us loose in a second if they thought something we did might hurt attendance at Disney World or cost anyone their annual bonus,”

Kayleigh McEnany on Jimmy Kimmel's suspension: "For all the concern about the 'the First Amendment, the First Amendment,' what about all the amendments that Charlie Kirk lost? Because Charlie Kirk has no amendments right now. None."

"getting snatched off the street by armed agents of the state, sent to the gulag, and then deported is the same thing as a multi-millionaire having his show cancelled. I am very smart and get paid to share my ideas."

worrying about being on a protest email list is kind of adorable in an era where every government on Earth can simply buy your daily movement data (down to the meter), and elaborate profiles that track your browsing habits down to the millisecond

“I never experienced censorship or negative repercussions for my speech during my career in corporate media” is not so much a refutation of leftist arguments against media consolidation as it is a confession of squandered opportunity

It is also bad that one of our only supposedly center-left pundits did not muster the courage to say that no, jimmy kimmel is not more vulnerable than Mahmoud Khalil, or that perhaps Ben smith never experienced undue pressure from corporate media bosses bc he never challenged them

It is bad that our industry rewards people who go on TV to brag that they are stupid, unthoughtful and uncaring

Pew Research looks the same:

excited for the brogan and kill tony idiot verse's lengthy mea culpa for their role in helping install a fascist regime dead set on making comedy illegal

Just a reminder that the Washington Post fired its last black opinion columnist for criticizing bigotry and the news cycle barely lasted an afternoon

MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.

the core of MAGA government is giving resentful mediocrities to power to act as tyrants and dominate others

"reconsider their boundaries" is doing a lot of work here... www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

WEIRD, HUH.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

DOGE accidentally gave out 5 months of paid vacation to many federal workers. So efficiency.