89% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators 23% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

So here's super fun thing AI agents are being trained to do (I'm in the trenches). They synthesize data from your company email, Asana, Hubspot, calendar, and other tools and give your boss a detailed report on what you're doing, how efficient it is, and what you SHOULD be doing to meet your goals

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while

Trump is saying a different thing every time someone asks him because his brain is fucking melting and he can't hold the same thought for more than a few moments at a time. Being manipulated by whoever the last person he spoke to was. It's really not more complicated than that.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

I still suspect you'll see a homogenized flattening of tone, voice, and substance caused by AI that puts a distinct premium on authentic people who actually have something useful and interesting to say

I sort of love how many articles these days are "Here's a counterintuitive take - what if conventional economics is applicable to the modern world?"

What's crazy is the media is responsible for making Musk influential in the first place and giving him the power/cash to buy Twitter and now they all swim in his dookie pool and tell everyone it's the town square. If we know Musk is stupid, what does that say about the people who put him there?

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

Pretty cool how white collar criminals suddenly started behaving so much better under Trump! 🤷🏼 It probably definitely isn’t that they just get away with everything now

damn those critics

over at the newsletter I wrote about how media consolidation is uniformly harmful, merger promises are meaningless, and the press should stop being a useful idiot for the extraction class

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, top Dem on the House appropriations panel, says DHS is *choosing* not to pay TSA workers while paying its other employees. She says: 85% of ICE + CBP are being paid 75% of Secret Service 0% of TSA workers "The Department made that decision," DeLauro says on the House floor.

fruit slop microdramas

Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Woman in Cambridge, MD hired some contractors and then called ICE on them just before they finished so she wouldn't have to pay them the $10k she owes them. She even provides ICE a ladder to help them get the contractors.

Every new media merger gets sold as a win for jobs, audiences, and journalism. What follows instead is layoffs, debt, and a weaker press. That’s not a bug, it’s the system decades of market-first media policy has created. 🎯 from @karlbode.com—and more from us on our nation's journalism crisis ⬇️

being honest about what Republicans actually are upsets Republican sources, readers, event sponsors, and ownership, costing corporate media money so you get this bizarre kayfabe where Republicans are given bottomless credibility they never had to earn

c'mon now

in so many ways he's perfect for America, a country being devoured by artifice

over at the newsletter I wrote about how media consolidation is uniformly harmful, merger promises are meaningless, and the press should stop being a useful idiot for the extraction class

oh good, there are now cryptic teasers for whatever blistering dipshittery our dim autocrats are cooking up

We just launched Unbuffered - our new podcast on Technology and Local Self-Reliance - with our first episode featuring @dougdawsonccg.bsky.social @gbsohn.bsky.social @karlbode.com and @seangon.bsky.social - watch it or listen... same in-depth discussion on tech and the public interest.

get ready for a "CEO said a thing!" news cycle at a scale we've never seen before

Various media and academic elites: Serious people are all still on X. X:

ethical people should not be using right wing propaganda websites owned by white supremacists

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

The Atlantic achieves its platonic ideal of campuses where institutional crackdowns, external advocacy group pressure and brutal state repression have shut down all forms of student protest and free speech and they still aren’t happy.

30% is effectively 0%, since 30% of people think the earth is flat and that all politicians are lizard people, which means the first 30% is simply a noise floor.

the electorate really hasn't even truly started to feel the real impact of trumpism yet, including the lobotomization of all environmental, consumer, safety, and labor regulators

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it's almost as if people don't want to read a bunch of lazy corporatist right wing agitprop cobbled together by unremarkable dullards with zero original ideas

movie about all the world's nations working together to stave off an environmental apocalypse succeeds by completely avoiding politics

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95% of the "news" coverage of this FCC plan to "ban routers" just parroted the Trump administration's justifications, despite Brendan Carr having absolutely zero credibility on anything, really @theverge.com was thankfully an exception

If the FCC really wanted to do something to improve router security, it would ask Congress to pass our model end-of-life disclosure act, which requires companies to disclose how long they support their connected devices, and then proactively notify consumers when those devices actually reach EOL.

Why the heck is the United States banning routers? Here is a 2,000-word explainer that should entertain and enrage you. www.theverge.com/tech/899906/...

Includes a killer quote from @karlbode.com:

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I am very proud to say that I worked for months as an expert witness on this case. I am very pleased by the outcome.

Mark's ride-or-die comms bro is tweeting through it -- because having a jury find you've endangered the mental health of millions isn't a big deal apparently if it doesn't impact your bottom line.

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C-SPAN caller to Rep. Pete Sessions: "Your party has given the power of the presidency to an insane, pedophelic serial killer"

I'm really fascinated by this sort of pseudo-journalism corporate America now churns out that pretends to be useful and informative, but generally exists as a sort of simulacrum, comically avoiding central parts of stories that might threaten billionaire or corporate power

I affectionately call it "CEO said a thing!" journalism, but I'm sure there's better names for it

Bari stormed the scene claiming to have grand insights into the modern virality of social media, but it turns out she's just shitty at everything, including agitprop

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When twitter was perceived as liberal it was a bubble and people should not take it seriously. But now that it's a cesspool of right-wing propaganda it's the Soul of America and the libs ignore it at their peril