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Kyle Monson

@kmonson.bsky.social

I run a great little agency called Codeword.

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Kyle Monson@kmonson.bsky.social · 21h ago

Gorillaz at MSG was intense last night. Been a Damon fan my whole life but never seen him live, and the whole show was this wild outpouring of creativity. C and I just kept looking at each other like “WTF are we watching?”

Kyle Monson@kmonson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Back in January, C and I made a New Years resolution to go dancing every week of 2026. The NYC house music community is super welcoming to olds, and we have a bunch of DJs we love that perform all the time. So we’re really crushing our partymaxxing goal this year.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 2d ago

it really helps that el-sayed genuinely appears to loathe mike rogers, which is not something you can say about way too many democrats and their republican counterparts. that transmits to voters who are angry and need an outlet for that anger right now.

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 6d ago

the self-driving analogy is so perfect: Google is actually developing these things, albeit at tiny, experimental scale, and meanwhile Elon Musk is raising billions off the hype that they're right around the corner

“We don’t expect, to be perfectly frank, that we’ll have anything usefully operational in the next few years,” he said, comparing the mission to the company’s early efforts to build driverless cars. “Remember how Google was researching for like 15 years, before anything showed up? I think this is going to look like that.”
kate conger@kateconger.com · 6d ago

Next week, Google is putting an experimental satellite into orbit that is the first step towards building A.I. data centers in space. This technology is all still very speculative, but tech leaders are increasingly adamant that this is the future of compute. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/t...

Lauren Goode@laurengoode.bsky.social · last wk.

My latest feature for @wired.com is out, and it’s part of our epic issue on the state of women in Silicon Valley, and I can’t wait for you to read it and enjoy this art 🙌💗 bsky.app/profile/wire...

WIRED@wired.com · last wk.

For our WIRED Women cover, Patti Harrison plays five (well, actually six) of the current masters of the universe—Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos (with Lauren Sánchez Bezos by his side). 🔗 www.wired.com/tag/wired-wo...

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2w ago

you used to have to leave the house and go to a physical library and sort through physical archives and maybe sit at a desk with a weird whirring optical machine on it to read something without paying for it

jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social · 2w ago

"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 2w ago

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families. The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that. Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened. Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues. Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me. And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability. I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation. When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic: لا شكر على واجب "La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty. That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human. Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
Kyle Monson@kmonson.bsky.social · 3w ago

The problem with the blog discourse is we're stuck saying "things were better back then!" and it sounds like typical boomer shit, but in the case of the internet, it's 100% true.

Kyle Monson@kmonson.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is also true. The internet took a terrible turn when we collective decided closed platforms for shorter-form content are better. They aren't!

@10milestereo.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s super frustrating to have been an adult during the golden age of blogging, only to have (usually younger) people tell you how much blogs sucked. I much preferred my Google Reader feed to the social media endless scroll. If it were still an option, I’d abandon this app in a second.

Kyle Monson@kmonson.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is the truth. I was at a popular news weekly in 2004, and even then it was clear the blogs were going to eat the publishing industry. The blogs were so much faster, and I would argue that obsession beats professionalism in the news and content world.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

Blogs so didn't suck at scale that they, arguably and defensibly, ate the news environment and publishing. We are still living in the age of the blogger, present company included. To be clear. Your influencer/independent journo/networked politico etc etc -- blogging.

Kyle Monson@kmonson.bsky.social · 3w ago

I've been on a foldable for two years, never going back to a regular slab phone. IME the aspect ratio of the front display (which gets 95% of the use) is soooo much more important than common worries like having a crease in the display.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Regime change! OK, no regime change. Unconditional surrender! OK, no surrender. Nuclear deal! OK, no nuclear deal. But we control Hormuz! OK, we don’t control Hormuz. But we’re squeezing them economically into concessions! OK, no concessions. But maybe a future president can get something, IDK.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Chris Wright now says there may be no deal with Iran after all: "There may not be a nuclear agreement. It may be simply destroying their capabilities to do it. An agreement may await the next administration in Iran. We simply don't know that."

Kyle Monson@kmonson.bsky.social · 4w ago

The YouTube algo got my kids into rollercoaster content a year or so ago. We made our first pilgrimage to Cedar Point this week, and they know all the rides, the design firms that made them, the total airtime, all the stats, it's really fun to watch them nerd out.