At the same time media should also stop providing legitimacy to and undermining their own credibility by partnering with corrupt insider trading networks that allow people to bet on human misery. www.mediaite.com/media/news/a...
"Bulk of the misinformation about the conflict with Iran ... came from monetized Verified accounts" on X, which get paid by views regardless of accuracy.
Media need to boycott X, it's beyond irresponsible at this point to provide it any sheen of legitimacy: www.garbageday.email/p/sorry-babe...
The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could
Always appreciate these transparent reports from HKFP on its finances, coverage, struggles etc. They have become a vital part of the Hong Kong media scene and long may they remain so.
hongkongfp.com/2026/02/17/h...
That article is fascinating though: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
those scientists are soon to be going on ~an adventure~
Plus, no one look at actual evidence, just keep listening to the hype-driven narratives of the tech industry and treat them as though they’re factual and reliable!
The risk isn’t the technology. The risk is in people who should know better getting whipped up in the hype and helping normalize tech’s narratives so we don’t pay attention to (and rein in) what they’re actually doing in the present.
10 years ago they told us AI and self-driving cars were going to wipe out up to half of all jobs. They didn’t.
But while everyone was talking about whether they would, companies rolled out algorithmic management and used digital tech as a pretext to reclassify workers as contractors.
"You have to remember that the 'artificial general intelligence will destroy the world' narrative is a marketing strategy."
www.garbageday.email/p/a-comfort-...
"This week has shown us that the supply of 'greater fools' that bitcoin relies on is drying up. The fairy tales that have been keeping crypto afloat are turning out to be just that."
www.ft.com/content/2b03...
Winter Olympics rules, especially figure skating, the best Olympic event.
Sanae’s accumulator seems on track to deliver.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
i set up openclaw on my work machine to have it get my apes back from gas town but instead they are partying with said stolen apes on moltbook, this is the last time i'll ever listen to jimmy fallon
cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
Japanese politics is wild.
"the established left-wing parties – the JCP [Communist Party] and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) – are more fiscally hawkish than virtually every other party"
observingjapan.substack.com/p/what-the-c...
people in sf are scrunging their bungos. they’re wiring fleebs to their pudbots
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
The entire annual operating losses of the Washington Post amount to a single-digit percentage of the everyday noise in the signal of its owner's finances
I don't always understand his Canadian sports columns, but my colleague Cathal Kelly (and fellow Beijing 2022 survivor) is always a must read at Olympics time: www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olymp...
"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"
For scale, Bloomberg lists the most recent daily market fluctuation in Jeff Bezos' net worth as -$3.71 billion
"If Bezos took one per cent of his net worth and put it into a trust that would endow the paper with the resources to do the good journalism that it’s been doing, he would be remembered as the savior of the Post and not the destroyer." link.newyorker.com/view/65b735b...
While it's understandable some fear the loss of figures like Gen. Zhang Youxia removes a voice of caution and makes a war over Taiwan more likely, it's hard to look at a graphic like this and think the PLA is remotely ready for such an operation.
much of the high-end Beijing nightlife was in PLA-controlled areas, largely because they had the immense advantage of only requiring you to bribe one guy a month, which is basically just tax.
it is currently eating itself alive with internal paranoia and denunciations because it is being subject to a rolling purge that likely has very little to do with military modernization and everything to do with corruption networks, and which - since it seems to have turned around personnel issues
Incredible graphic from NYT showing the depth of Xi Jinping's purge of China's military leadership in recent years: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"Standing up for women’s rights is increasingly sensitive in China where the government views feminism as disruptive, especially as officials push women toward more traditional roles in hopes of reversing falling birthrates." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Enjoyed these two recent pieces as well:
dispatch-media.com/the-warhamme...
dispatch-media.com/slab-citys-f...
