Out now in Comm & Sport. @patferrucci.bsky.social and I looked at the metajournalistic discourse of Terry Rozier's sports gambling arrest. We extend paradigm repair by proposing "peripheral mending," the legitimizing of journalism and its object of coverage. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Saber finally added the AI disclosure to Steam for Rideshare “Stimulator” and it’s even worse than I said it was. I can see why the CEO crashed out when I pointed it out.

“I have to be blunt here: Our critics are really fucking stupid, and we’ve given them way too much leeway to conjure senile fantasies out of their own illiteracy. We need to stop taking their trolling in good faith, and we need to stop apologizing for our work.” This is exquisite on The Discourse.

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For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...

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Some NFL pundit is going to be real weird about this statement.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5d ago

Travis Kelce called his wedding to Taylor Swift "the best night of my life" at the Kansas City Chiefs training camp. #TravisKelce #TaylorSwift #TaylorSwiftWedding #Chiefs

A new essay in Journalism History on the role of redbaiting and ideological steering in the early field of communication. Used to "discipline the discipline," it left a lasting imprint on media research and is especially timely to reflect on today. Link to the PDF: victorpickard.com/wp-content/u...

Sports can be a diversion from "real life" and it's totally fine to view them this way. But any notion that they are "supposed to be" this ignores the lived reality of any sports league, team, player, or fan. You can't celebrate Jackie Robinson as a hero and say "sports are a diversion."

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 6d ago

Sports are supposed to be a diversion, something we consider fun, a reprieve from real life. But the constant cycle of WNBA controversies has made it feel like psychological warfare just to engage with the league: nyti.ms/4gp53HA

It is so cowardly as a writer to cite a meaningless poll so you can bypass grappling with the bigotry that is causing all these “distractions” in the first place.

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 6d ago

Sports are supposed to be a diversion, something we consider fun, a reprieve from real life. But the constant cycle of WNBA controversies has made it feel like psychological warfare just to engage with the league: nyti.ms/4gp53HA

I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Out now in Comm & Sport. @patferrucci.bsky.social and I looked at the metajournalistic discourse of Terry Rozier's sports gambling arrest. We extend paradigm repair by proposing "peripheral mending," the legitimizing of journalism and its object of coverage. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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I’m sorry. This is surreal.

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 3w ago

Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 4w ago

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last mo.

what a fucking asshole

Lmao here's the goal from Freese's perspective, courtesy of the BBC's 3D World Cup thing

You can't call the future of US Soccer bright when this sport is still a sport for the elite in this country. If you can't afford to play football in this country, in most cases, you won't play. That's just not how it is in the rest of the world.

The AI powered team whose president bribed FIFA just lost 4-1

John Muller@johnspacemuller.com · 2mo ago

Wish AI could see my body language right now

The game industry is so fucking back

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The Boston Celtics finally found another team serious about trading for Jaylen Brown. Following a couple of weeks where everyone offered their own opinion about the star’s true value, the…

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I am surprised hardly anyone is pointing out how hostile this decision is for people who already own a large amount of PS4/5 discs already. If the PS6 is backwards compatible it will surely not support a disc drive. Which means 1 in 5 people cannot play their library on new hardware.

Stephen Totilo@stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: Sony to end production of discs for all new PlayStation games (first and third party) as of January 2028 Full news and analysis at the link: www.gamefile.news/p/sony-drops...

It was a really gratifying night to work with so many wonderful journalists at @denverpost to cover consequential primaries — and a rush to do so with print deadlines still a thing. We got the biggest news on the front page just in the nick of time as print closed.

The Denver Post@denverpost.com · 2mo ago

The most nationally resonating story of Colorado’s primary election was Melat Kiros’ defeat of 15-term U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette. But several other dynamics became clear in Tuesday’s results.

Also, obviously: “these parents see their kid’s best shot of going to college as an athletic scholarship” is pointing at a bigger, solvable problem with tuition costs than just “let’s remove the imaginary obstacle to your delusional goal.”

There’s obviously a lot that’s wrong here but one major component here is the delusion among a surprisingly large portion of parents that their kid is gonna get an athletic scholarship and go to the Olympics, and a truly courageous public official _might_ find a way to break the bad news to them.

Study: 27% of sports parents believe their child will get a college scholarship

Study reveals that most American parents have realistic expectations about their child's athletic future, despite some optimistic outlooks.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."

Affordability is a real concern, but … Washington State Univ, eg, admits 87% of applicants and annual costs are about $11,500 for a median income family. Anyone who has the wherewithal to do travel sports but tells you that an athletic scholarship is their only way to college is full of shit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."

ok I have not been a fan of Zlatan as an on-air presence but he just justified his existence for the whole World Cup "I'm gonna block Alexi because he has no clue what he's talking about"

Boggles the mind that the entire world saw ICE execute defenseless people in the street and somehow there are still sitting Democrats who have a wide open flank on abolishing the agency

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: Melat Kiros has won the Democratic primary in Colorado’s 1st district. The democratic socialist has unseated the district’s 29-year incumbent by running on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, ending forever wars and more.

Decision Desk HQ projects Melat Kiros wins the CO US House 1 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 10:31 PM EDT

useless, totally unable to meet the moment they were one vote from overriding the fourteenth amendment retire and give your job to someone who understands the stakes

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 2mo ago

Despite Trump’s best efforts to bully them, the Supreme Court just reaffirmed that if you are born in America, you belong in America.

literally one day apart. goldfish would scoff at this lack of object permanence

There’s a journalism ethics textbook from about 10-12 years ago that had a case that looked at DC-journo buzz around “hot young bloggers” Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, etc. and asked students to really think about who gets elevated into the best careers and who don’t. I think about that case a lot.

IGN is reporting that your GTA 6 character can only access healthcare in the Ultimate Edition