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Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda

Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.

Why is Naomi Klein Funding Substack’s Hate Machine?

Writers of good conscience should not be building new media companies on the back of a platform that opportunistically coddles white supremacy.

The Lies They're Telling Towns And Tribes About The Benefits Of AI Data Centers

Unregulated AI data centers will not, surprisingly, turn your struggling rural West Virginia town into a modern techno-Utopia.

The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us

The massive chasm between AI hype and reality is finally reaching the breaking point.

Musk Tries To Bribe Memphis So They'll Overlook His AI Data Centers Are Killing Black Toddlers

Elon Musk's business decisions routinely leave minority populations lodged squarely under his white supremacist bootheel.

Midterm Media Bedwetting Over 'Socialism' Has Truly Begun

The extraction class media will spend all summer and fall telling you that very ordinary and popular public interest reforms are the very worst form of extremism.

It's The Corruption, Stupid

A generational opportunity to bridge the digital divide was hijacked by Republicans and converted into a giant slush fund for the country's richest technofascists.

Big Tech: AI Data Center Opposition Is An UnAmerican Criminal Conspiracy

The wheels are in motion to frame legitimate backlash to extractive and racist technofascism as radical, dangerous, unAmerican criminality.

The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster

Once again a broken U.S. press couldn't bother to convey the truth to the public when it comes to America's shittiest rich person.

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.