well a livestream of three tiktok influencers halfheartedly trying to talk down a man who is in the process of slicing himself into ribbons has sealed it for me, vertical video should not exist
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The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.
I need a good morning post. Any suggestions? I have some ideas in the works.
New from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue www.404media.co/apples-priva...
Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses
Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.
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Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.
Very good piece here. The most consistent gimmick influencers are finding in the constant algorithm shifts and trend changes is being a shit-heel
Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · 5h agoThis is such an great feature (Rebecca is great!), and I've been thinking about it for a few days. IMO, "Influencer" in the ten-years-ago sense was really a LOT of jobs (spokesmodel/copywriter/etc.) but now it's morphing, at least in part, into "intentionally annoying person" which feels worse.
This is such an great feature (Rebecca is great!), and I've been thinking about it for a few days. IMO, "Influencer" in the ten-years-ago sense was really a LOT of jobs (spokesmodel/copywriter/etc.) but now it's morphing, at least in part, into "intentionally annoying person" which feels worse.
The Influencer Recession
Once upon a time, lifestyle influencers could post cute photos and make millions. Now they are forced to pivot.
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I guess your opinion on if Mystery Men has aged well is pretty hinged on if you think Hank Azaria is doing a satire of his own appropriation or not.
bluesky is an esoteric millennial cult centered around the messianic promise of returning to Forums
this wooks wike a wong document 🥺😭 do you want me to summawize it for you? 😳🫣
side note: it is such a tell that transphobes insist on using “trans” as a freestanding noun so they don’t have to say the word “people” alongside it
The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.
Some professional news ... I've been spending some time in the archives and am looking forward to having cake at all the events for this book.
"But every conversation, every document signed, every desultory email to our lawyer asking for updates, returned the same answer: Not Yet."
On Waiting: The Heartbreak at the Center of Kim Bo-Young’s “I’m Waiting for You”
On the unfortunate fragility of love.
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"It’s that same sickness that turned North American cities into sprawling miles of roads and parking lots and big box stores with no real center to gather in, no social or cultural or spiritual purpose but to sell you stupid shit and then shove you out..."
Hostile Architecture: Late Capitalism and Backrooms
The scariest thing about Backrooms is that we already live there.
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The story of how Big Tech annihilated the journalism industry
How Big Tech Destroyed Big Journalism
The story of a destructive tech industry that went from embryonic to hegemonic.
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Foreign Objects by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
Foreign Objects
Flash fiction by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
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Every site's review AI summaries: Some customers praise how well this item works, while others report that it does not work at all. Many enjoy the reliability, while some reviews state that it is not very reliable.
This thread now a better formatted and maybe slightly better written blog post for you and your friends. aramzs.xyz/microblogs/o...
oh no my taxes might help starving people get affordable food oh no oh no
The free market tried everything to get groceries to people in NYC and it failed. Now what?
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Aram Zucker-Scharff@chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 2d agooh no my taxes might help starving people get affordable food oh no oh no
If you kick my ass I make cartoon sound effects the entire time
New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.
Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · yesterdayTurns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Been waiting for this to bubble up to the surface. Again, any other time in American history when we had functioning news media, this would have been a five alarm scandal. There would be senate hearings. There would be consequences for everyone in the chain of command involved in this.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterdayHoly shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
This would make a wonderful storyline for a musical
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
David Ellison may think we are stupid, but we know who he is. We know what he has done to CBS. We know what he wants to do to CNN. Support independent media.
As a writer I try to remember that the fact that something annoys me personally does not necessarily make that thing important enough to write about
