Nitish Pahwa
@nitishpahwa.com
staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and Council Member for Online Media @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, Brooklyn Magazine, Complex, and POW Mag. he/him. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. if it's major, hit me on my pager.
this is what peak user experience looks like. you may not like it, but this is the ideal of interaction design.
onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 13h agoThis is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...
"An LP called $TARFACE, attributed to the human hip-hop artist Tyga, might aptly be described as the most banal, cynical, and uninspired collection of recorded music I have ever heard." An incredible essay on the new Tyga and AI music from @ocksportello.bsky.social www.powmag.net/p/tyga-new-a...
Sim City, Bitch: Tyga, Artificial Intelligence, and the End of Art
Bots are listening to $TARFACE. Are you?
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a visa overstayer from Chad who wants to be an American is more American than anyone who puts on the ICE mask
Semafor@semafor.com · 8h ago“Based on its extraordinary success in slashing overstays from bonded countries to near zero, the State Department has made the Visa Bond Program permanent,” a State Department spokesperson told Semafor.
gotta say it’s pretty weird how the official Trump insta page has become devoted to this weird trolling of musicians who hate his guts
15th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street coming up in September. 18th anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse. Relevant, for those who view politics on timescales longer than election cycles
Shri Thanedar Is Ousted by a Democratic Socialist in a Michigan House Primary
Representative Shri Thanedar is among a wave of Democratic incumbents in Congress whom primary voters have sent packing in a surge of anti-incumbent fervor this cycle.
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this was absolutely a paid-for group-chat-coordinated campaign, none of them freaked out when Biden said the word years back
✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 10h agostarting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”
In Bari Weiss' Free Press, Olivia Reingold reported from El-Sayed's watch party that "there were keffiyehs as far as the eye could see ... keffiyehs on heads, keffiyehs as belts, keffiyeh-printed phone cases." Not a single one made it into images from Reuters, a local ABC station, or Detroit News.
“Race, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. And Harry’s boyhood travels between Jamaica and New York fed his understanding of both.” How ideas of race and place both influenced Harry Belafonte’s music. lithub.com/how-harlem-a...
How Harlem and Jamaica Inspired the Music of Harry Belafonte
The cultivation of sweet-tasting foodstuffs has shaped Caribbean history for five hundred years. And in the late 1800s, after slavery’s end in the British islands, sugar was joined by another cash …
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It’s the 50th anniversary of the time Eric Clapton went onstage and told everyone who wasn’t British to leave the room and the country, and was the impetus for Rock Against Racism
A new YouTube series from POW MAG. "Why Are We Here" hosted by Justin Lain youtu.be/wXicEDP-4-w?...
Why is dehtajae at a skate park?
YouTube video by POW Mag
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This was one of the most fun podcasts I’ve done in years. I could have talked with Dave for hours …
Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 12h agoToday on The Fingers Podcast, I'm joined by @risenc.bsky.social to discuss the humble beginnings, inglorious grotesques, and latter-day deflations of the country's bourbon boom.
for reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
Love this series from NYT & Marcus J. Moore—nice shout-out for title track on "Search"! Adding that his Blue Train contributions are marvelous, and don't sleep on Infinity, which was shelved for nearly two decades. Feel lucky to have nabbed the posthumous 1972 2-LP set years ago on the cheap
Blue Note Records@bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 9h agoNY Times: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Lee Morgan www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/a... "technically dazzling, melodically direct and fearless in his pursuit of swing." Browse Lee Morgan vinyl on the Blue Note Store: store.bluenote.com/collections/...
Lede headline in the Springfield, Ohio, newspaper, as TPS ends for Haitians: "At the mercy of God" www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/at-the...
‘At the mercy of God’: Springfield Haitians await next steps after TPS officially ends
The official end of temporary protected status for Haiti leaves many Haitians in Springfield “at the mercy of God,” said Haitian Community Help and Support Center President Vilès Dorsainvil.
springfieldnewssun.com
anticipating this with caution www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Animated Bollywood-Focused Musical ‘Diya’ in the Works at Paramount From Producers Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley (Exclusive)
Nitya Mehra is attached to direct the feature that has set Jaydeep Hasrajani and Jake Goldman to write the script.
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I hate sounding like a conspiracy person but there’s a reason that this Sophie Cunningham thing is on like day 7 of discourse and how there’s absolutely very little trans staff writers driving the news coverage of it.
BBC Radio 6 Music Emily Pilbeam Now Playing Madness One Step Beyond
Loved this piece on the relationship between Kubrick and Jim Thompson by @magonzales.bsky.social over at @crimereads.bsky.social - crimereads.com/kubrick-jim-...
Sinners, Saints and Screenplays: On Jim Thompson and Stanley Kubrick
Recently I’ve been watching my former Chelsea, NYC neighbor Ethan Hawke in the cool FX neo-noir series The Lowdown, which is streaming on Hulu. Though I won’t get into the plot of this sizzling sou…
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Meek Mill put his home state's governor in his newest video www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwKb...
Meek Mill - Nightmares To Dreams (Official Video)
YouTube video by Meek Mill
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I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
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Adam Yauch, dead 14 years, still left a helluva legacy w/the Beastie Boys. He would've celebrated a birthday. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2020/05/27/i...
It’s the neeewww style: The best of Beastie Boys
No band in America was ever more laddish in its first blush of success — they boasted about smashing the nerds glasses on one of their sharpest songs! I grew up with these boys. And I mean bo…
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I know we are chalking the success of some leftist candidates almost entirely to the DSA. However, it seems like the more common theme is that these are candidates with organizing experience?
the "funny" thing is, the Free Press landed one of the first interviews with Sarah Wynn-Williams before she was hushed by Meta's arbitration process. but I don't imagine Bari cared too much (or even clocked) the stories about Sandberg in Careless People
Sarah Szalavitz💡@dearsarah.bsky.social · yesterdayLean In To Fascism
