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.
Elon Musk's X Rots Your Brain Data indicates that Elon Musk's X algorithms indisputably drive users into right wing propaganda rabbit holes from which they may not be able to untether themselves.
Polling Shows Democrats Aren't Too 'Woke,' They're Too Weak The idea that Democrats are weirdly and extremely obsessed with "identity politics" and pronouns is a right wing propaganda fiction not supported by polling data, and Democratic party leaders should not be perpetuating it.
Monopoly With A Heaping Side Of Extra Racism The Trump administration isn't just rubber stamping all sorts of terrible mergers. They're demanding that the merged companies be extra racist and sexist if they want to grow pointlessly gigantic.
Oligarchs Are Building The World's Biggest Propaganda Machine. Their Success Isn't Guaranteed. America's wealthiest, shittiest people are trying to hoover up the entirety of new and old media companies in a bid to pummel the plebs with propaganda. But what they want, and what they actually get, may not be the same thing.
The Press REALLY Doesn't Want AOC To Be President The corporate press is already busy working hand in hand with bad actors to make life hell for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her crime? Being a progressive minority woman.
The U.S. Press Loves To Pretend Widespread Corruption Doesn't Exist Despite widespread U.S. corruption being anything but subtle, its presence consistently remains absent from corporate media narratives surrounding most U.S. dysfunction.
The New CBS Is A Clown Show The denigration of CBS is best viewed as just part of a broader effort by oligarchs to create a propaganda-coddled permanent autocracy, propped up by a broad array of highly-paid, useful idiots.
The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings The problem with AI isn't going to be Skynet. It's going to be amoral extraction class assholes applying half-cooked automation at scale onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country too corrupt to have functioning regulators.
