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Trust Fund Media Brunchlords Can Only Fail Upward

The only thing likely to save us from billionaire domination of media is the incompetence of the brunchlords and nepobabies failing ever-upward.

Selling You The End Of The World

AI sci-fi doomsday scenarios exist to misrepresent what modern software is capable of, and spook lawmakers into embracing terrible laws, written by rich and terrible men, that will free them from oversight, ethics, and accountability.

Would You Just Look At This Shit

Even if you put AI ethics and tech's support of fascism aside (which you shouldn't), the quality control at major tech companies has become an embarrassing and dangerous mess as they try to justify years of hype.

Privacy-Eroding Corruption Is Literally Killing U.S. Troops

The U.S. lacks privacy protections because it's too corrupt to function, but the consolidated press is too broken to make that clear to anyone.

Jeff Bezos Is Afraid Of What Comes Next

What comes after authoritarianism and the golden age of corruption? Billionaires are desperate to abuse their control of mass media to convince you it's anything other than good faith, popular, progressive reform.

AI Rage Is Inextricably Fused With Justified Loathing Of The Extraction Class. 'Deal With It'

Commencement AI booing reflects growing class revolt now tightly tethered to AI -- whether the technology's biggest proponents like it or not.

Brunchlord Patty Cake

Corporate business and political journalism is increasingly being devoured by artifice, helping to normalize corrupt and terrible men.

Broadband And Racism

The U.S. almost got close to acknowledging systemic racism in broadband deployment. Then a coalition of corrupt shitgoblins sent the country spiraling backwards.

The Billionaires Are Afraid

The Washington Post's recent wave of billionaire agitprop demonstrates how terrified the extraction class is of informed consensus and the looming possibility of meaningful reform.

You Can't Build Useful Alliances With Fascists, Dumbass

I hope we all now understand that forging strategic policy partnerships with fascists is like trying to develop an intimate relationship with a running chainsaw.

Your Software Is Not Sentient

Software simulacrum is not true consciousness, the stripper at the strip club doesn't actually love you, and nearly all of the biggest problems with "AI" have very ordinary human origins.

Mickey Mouse Versus The Fascists

The Trump FCC wants to saddle corporate media with so many costly legal headaches that they pre-emptively censor voices critical of our mad, idiot king.

Ticketmaster Finally Faces Accountability For Being A Shitty Monopoly (Maybe)

Why did it take a generation for an obvious monopoly to be held semi-accountable? Comical levels of U.S. corruption.

A Broken Press Gathers This Weekend To Normalize Fascism Over Cocktails

The brunchlord American press gathers every year to pretend they hold power accountable. This year it teeters out of unethical farce and into complicity.

CBS Just Can't Stop Kissing Donald Trump's Ass

What's left of U.S. corporate media is utterly dedicated to demolishing whatever's left of their already soggy, feckless reputation. It's a cascading failure, driven by corruption, that shows no sign of slowing down.

AI, Artifice, And Authenticity

The era of badly-automated homogenized engagement slop is upon us. I desperately want to believe there's a renaissance for authenticity on the other end.

Orban Loss Shows Fascist Propaganda Has Its Limits

Orban's Hungary was a template for America's shitty right wing zealots. But the propaganda-fueled bullshit machine now sits at the bottom of the sea, drowned by an electorate finally fed up by 16 years of rampant corruption.

Whoops, The Tech Press Mythologized Another Unethical Asshole

Lazy access journalism is pathologically obsessed with helping unremarkable, unethical weirdos cultivate elaborate supergenius engineer mythologies while covertly undermining the public interest.

Tim Cook Is An Embarrassing Coward

Apple CEO Tim Cook represents soulless, rudderless contrition, unburdened by consistent ethics or any sort of overt moral compass, desperate to delude you into believing that fascism can be a reasonable partner open to meaningful dialogue.

Streaming Video Is Devouring itself

Nepobaby dysfunction and mindless consolidation are about to deliver a fatal blow to a streaming video sector that's experiencing textbook enshittification.

"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism

"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.

Merger Promises Are Worthless

Pointless media consolidation is always prefaced by a parade of meaningless lies that get parroted and paraded about by a lazy access press, itself the broken result of this same pointless consolidation.

Mark Zuckerberg Set $83 Billion On Fire Pretending To Be Interesting

U.S. tech billionaires are not remarkable, innovative, or even interesting. But, aided by a lazy access press, they're willing to spend vast fortunes in desperate pretense to the contrary

MAGA Demands Unwavering Media Support For Their Shitty, Unpopular War

U.S. authoritarians won't be satisfied until the U.S. press is 100% pure propaganda, slathering the extraction class with relentless praise for a rotating platter of violent and terrible ideas.

Jack Dorsey Is A Pointless Dipshit

Jack Dorsey continually demonstrates he is, at best, oblivious to his role in enabling the authoritarian dismantling of democracy and informed consensus. Ethical tech publications should stop mythologizing the unremarkable extraction class.