Andrew Hayward
@ahaywa.bsky.social
journalist/editor since '06 prev: managing editor at decrypt chicago + shitposts mostly haywarda@gmail.com
holy fuk www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/b...
Forbes Fired Top Editor After Discovering He Received Secret $6 Million Payment
Randall Lane, the magazine’s chief content officer, received the money from the founder of Shook Research, which has partnered with Forbes on content about wealth advisers.
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Glad cancel culture came back to collect this body specifically
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterdayHe just got kicked off a con appearance and he’s pretending like he doesn’t know why
Missed the eighth anniversary of Chance the Rapper buying Chicagoist and making a lot of big promises of what he’d do with it. The website remains dormant.
Chance the Rapper owns Chicagoist—now what? - Chicago Reader
Chance announced he'd bought Chicagoist via a single he dropped late last night, but what do we know about his ability to bring the site back to life?
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I don't think people really understand that there's people in his inner circle who showed him an AI generated image of a child receiving a vaccine from a comically large syringe and he believes it 100% that that is a real image.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."
“What part of the worldwide economy crash are we at?” “A run on the cheese banks”
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d agoYou can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam
Rideshare "Stimulator" - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
YouTube video by PlayStation
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Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.
Jim Swift@jimswift.bsky.social · 2d ago
I am coming to believe we need a better quality of AI booster www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
An AI future of sleek, streamlined, and totally empty relationships.
theverge.com
I’m here in my X-Men readthrough. Finished New Mutants and Muir Island saga, catching up on side bits before starting 90s X-Men and X-Force.
I got to draw icons Emma Frost and Miss Piggy for this variant celebrating The Muppet Show's 50th anniversary! X-MEN UNITED #7, out September 30!
Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.Oof. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
smartphones and the internet, man. they might have destroyed journalism, driven people insane by the tens of millions, fueled a rise in global fascism, and literally touched off genocides, but at least they seem to have caused a global collapse in relationship formation too
The Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.
I liked the Spider-Man a fair bit but that’s too much movie! Enjoyable yet oddly exhausting?
whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w agoProsecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job
Trump is on the side of Iran and not Minnesota. Congratulations everyone. Apparently J6 wasn't proof enough that he was a danger to the country. Lol
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
404media.co
Kinda wild that @jamellebouie.net is the only person saying this clearly in a high-profile media outlet, but I'm so glad he is.
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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