Shit. I was hoping we could save at least one corner of the republic from #MurdochMedia. Fox and Google reach a deal: Fox channels to remain on YouTube TV www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2... via @usatoday
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Shit. I was hoping we could save at least one corner of the republic from #MurdochMedia. Fox and Google reach a deal: Fox channels to remain on YouTube TV www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2... via @usatoday
Careful what you advise. Don't touch these Nazis.
If the police can use facial recognition, why can't the people. Unmask them. AI is unmasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it? www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Axios has decided to make itself headquarters for AI #MoralPanic. I dread VandeHei going on Morning Joe to drum up dread and dystopia about BS such as this. How AI can kill you www.axios.com/2025/09/01/a...
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
Good God: The #BrokenTimes tells Democrats occupying troops in the capital are just fine, then endorses Republicans sending troops into their crime-festering cities. Right-wing rag. Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
The typeface? No, just appropriate to time and place. But there is a good story about the official Nazi font, which I tell in my book, The Gutenberg Parenthesis (in paperback and audiobook now). jeffjarvis.com
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
It's a lovely paper
Deep hype: "overpromissory dynamic that constructs visions of civilisational transformation through a network of uncertainties extending into an undefined future, making its promises nearly impossible to verify in the present...maintaining attention, investment, and belief" arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19749
The greatest hubris among many held by the AI oligarchy is not beating humanity at its own game but rather the idea that human values can be distilled to an algorithm. Rethinking How AI Embeds and Adapts to Human Values: Challenges and Opportunities arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17104
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
Loss of labor + Increased taxes = ?
And just as the American economy is enduring a fascist takeover with tariffs, taxes, and creeping nationalization of industry, the #MurdochJournal chooses to celebrate our capitalism. Read the room, Rupe. 2/ How—and Why—U.S. Capitalism Is Unlike Any Other www.wsj.com/economy/us-c...
The editor of the #MurdochJournal declares that "arguably the country’s most distinctive characteristic" is not democracy, diversity, education, freedom of expression, or any of our other institutions dying with Murdoch's aid but instead: Capitalism. 1/ www.wsj.com/economy/why-...
It SHOULD have alarmed the wonderful @nytimes.com, as it was normalizing this deranged fascist 24/7 during the campaign -- and to this day, it refuses to use the term dictatorship or fascism as Trump persecutes dissidents, mobilizes the military against civilians, and acts the part every single day.
Another indictment of the #BrokenTimes, now by @charlesmblow.bsky.social : "My last years at the paper weren’t my most pleasant...The zombie thing that came to be published under my name had a dwindling trace of my breath in it. It was no longer fully my voice." substack.com/inbox/post/1...
German technologist Sebastian Majstorovic has taken it upon himself to save the data Trump and his henchmen are deleted in the US at portal.datarescueproject.org Ein Back-up der Realität www.zeit.de/2025/37/date...
Sinema: Even awfuler than ever. Taxes, Psychedelics, Crypto: Kyrsten Sinema Sees Opportunity Under Trump www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Back in the day, WordPress won because it enabled competitors to build instances and contribute to the open-source code base while Typepad tried to restrict competitors using its code. WordPress is now huge, Typepad gone. Typepad is shutting down everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08...
They don't express concern. They quote experts' concern. They hide.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Harris wouldn’t say the magic word. 🙄 I wonder if the price of eggs have come down or if the magic word was mentioned during the real estate talk and/or the wheeling and dealing.
Digital tokens. They’re gonna put genocide on the blockchain. Crypto grifter-style ethnic cleansing.
Yes, European media have been doing a better job of covering America's fall into fascism than America's news media.
Evil. *This* is end-stage capitalism: Genocide for profit.
The view from nowhere has contributed significantly to America's demise.
It's not Trump who normalizes autocracy. It's the rest of American news media. The Guardian can and should stand apart as the one outlet unafraid to declare autocracy is here. Stop asking. Declare. Has Trump succeeded in normalising American autocracy? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Journalists should see it, too. Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
Joe Biden is out buying ice cream while everyone is asking whether Trump is dead.
Congrats again, everyone
Current situation with COVID19 vaccines at CVS. ACIP is meeting September 18-19 so it will likely become available at pharmacies w/o a prescription then, unless ACIP pulls the rug out. Prescription requirement related to state laws requiring ACIP approval for pharmacist administration.
Put the shovel down. Stop digging.
Home-brew computing?
And if it's media history you want.... 😎 jeffjarvis.com
Here it is: 1/ www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-AR...
A century ago: Broadcasting -- Its New Day. Art or epidemic? 1925
Here's the complete first issue so you may answer the question, Which microprocessor for you? www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte...
Exactly 50 years ago: The first issue of BYTE, the dawn of a revolution: "Computers -- the World's Greatest Toy!" And more....
K Going to cvs
We must now get our news from other countries.
"On the couch watching TV, the brain ages really fast." „Auf dem Sofa beim Fernsehen altert das Gehirn besonders schnell“ www.faz.net/aktuell/karr...
Yup
(Mike Pence quietly waves from the corner)
And in the Süddeutsche: The oldest democracy in the West is slipping into autocracy. Oh, Freunde, we've slid all the way down that slope into full fascism. www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/komm...
One of @wegner.io's many great ideas: When @zeit.de Online turned 20, he invited a thousand people in their 20s to talk ideas at Z2X. The festival is now 10 years old. www.zeit.de/z2x/2025-08/...
CNN and FoxNews would have had the same owner.... John Malone held talks with Rupert Murdoch over Warner Bros-Fox merger www.ft.com/content/3a32...
Fascism. "If this were happening somewhere else – in Latin America, say – how might it be reported? Having secured his grip on the capital, the president is now set to send troops to several rebel-held cities, claiming he is wanted there to restore order..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starting? Did you forget that time he tried to get his own VP killed by an angry mob?
Everyone in his orbit goes under his bus tires. Even Elmo got run over.
Uh-huh. Chairman Trump: has the US turned its back on free-market capitalism? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Indeed. ‘Racist as hell’: Trump’s cabinet is almost all white, and he keeps firing Black officials www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Burn the bingo card. Senior Pentagon official had affair with ‘notorious’ astrologer who stalked him, lawsuit says www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How ignoring science and killing people is "pushing the boundaries of public health." Throw away your damned thesaurus, #BrokenTImes How the Trump-Kennedy Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Public Health www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
#FAFOfools My workers voted for Trump. Now they’re absorbing the impact. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
#FAFOfools Trump Is Starting to Turn on the People He Handpicked\ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump is wrong about Jimmy Carter: My grandfather trusted mail-in voting www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
I always admire Becca Rothfeld's nonfiction reviews. Here I particularly admire her persistence in reading the book. What a lede: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Throw the national news media into the hopper.
He's more powerful now for ONE reason: every single Republican, including 6 members of the Supreme Court, have effectively renounced everything they ever claimed to believe, and now care only about maintaining power by giving Trump whatever he wants. The End.
Yes, of course its the Democrats fault. Not the voters who gave Trump a lock on all three branches of government, not the GOP members in the Senate and House who roll over and comply with every request, not the courts who refuse to rein him in, its the Democrats fault
Attention, citizens.
or you yours.
Hey @govpressoffice-m.bsky.social, would you please copy your brilliance over on Bluesky? I know all the assholes here on Twitter and they need your education. But over on the civilized side, we could use a few knowing laughs.
Enjoy this fun read - jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/morning-jo...
Thank you, Jeff. A video of the Chicago performance is linked in this article: www.nme.com/news/music/w...
Thank you, Neil Young. More protest songs, please. www.youtube.com/watch?v=57WE...
As we were saying... Nearly 1,000 ‘worker over billionaire’ actions planned for Labor Day in US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#BrokenPost's first answer: The Democrats. The fascists have taken over all three branches of government, but they reduce everything, even this, to old politics. Why is Trump so much more powerful this time? wapo.st/3HWIw6E
Alternative perspective: The office activists have had it with all the bosses. The Boss Has Had It With All the Office Activists www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
Lovely pan of Yudkowsky's AI doom-mongering: "The book reads like a Scientology manual....Following their unspooling tangents evokes the feeling of being locked in a room with the most annoying students you met in college while they try mushrooms for the first time." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/b...
My wife just saw a headline that for some reason the new vaccines are delayed a month in Washington State. For what it's worth.
Is the new version in yet where you are?
Yup, for now....
I made an appointment for my next Moderna COVID vaccination before Kennedy, out of his militant ignorance, bans them and murders us all.
Good. Advance led the way in AL, NJ. Print is an anchor dragging to the past. I've argued for decades that news must be sustainable online before print is unsustainable. Print is unsustainable. Atlanta Journal-Constitution to Quit Print Cold Turkey www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/b...
Thanks. Now in paperback. 😎 www.bloomsbury.com/us/gutenberg...
Horst Wessel.
The mayor’s intentional support for an ongoing takeover of DC is reprehensible. bsky.app/profile/imda...
A Q&A with my own editor, publisher, & wise guide, Haaris Naqvi. I'm privileged that amid many duties, he squeezes in editing me. My third book with Haaris, Hot Type, is out next spring. We're working on something else at @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, revealed soon. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/l...
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
"Corporate staff will receive a 10% discount on Amazon.com for up to $100 a year." Well, that's a chintzy benefit. Coming Soon to Whole Foods Staff: A Job Offer From Amazon. www.wsj.com/business/ret...
And this morning in Joe's contincelebrationuing of the military takeover of the nation's capital, he--now with the returning Jackie Alemany--are praising DC Mayor Bowser for her hostage-video surrender to the dictator.
...pushed the optics of the presidency in a monarchical direction...as he remakes the contours of the presidency...telling his advisers that he is having fun...Trump era is marked by concentrating federal power in the Oval Office. 'I have the right to do anything I want to do'" 2/
So many ways not to say fascist in the #MurdochJournal: "Bolder President charges ahead...riffing on authoritarianism and ignoring caution...flirtation with a type of government that the U.S. shed at its founding, flexing federal muscle and busting through the norms... 1/
New Podcast Episode: Intelligent Machines: Gewgaw Google's 'Nano Banana' Model with @leolaporte.me, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social, @paris.nyc, M.G. Siegler
New episode of AI Inside podcast with me and @jeffjarvis.bsky.social ! 🤖 Hands-on with Pixel 10's AI features 📸 Deep dive into Gemini 2.5 Flash Image aka Nano Banana update 📉 Meta’s AI hiring freeze & Anthropic’s copyright lawsuit settlement youtube.com/live/20wb-7R...
Gift article: Trump Plans Takover of DC's Union Station www.bizjournals.com/washington/n...
The children were shot in church. How are your prayers going to help
He has been. That was why he backed Adams as NYC mayor: pro-cop.
I watch so you don't have to.
As the creator of a magazine of criticism--Entertainment Weekly--I now think it was mass-media hubris to believe that single critics, like me, could serve the diverse tastes of the nation. The death of the review? Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Oh, God. Mika tells Joe he should bring his Bible study to Morning Joe.
Joe's at it again this morning, ranting that Democrats must declare their love for cops. He brings in Sharpton--always ready to suck up to him on this topic--and right-wing Politico for backup. He whines again about CVS shoplifting while fascism marches.
Jeff is 100% right that the New York Times is trivializing both itself and the crisis in our country.
I agree, the NYT reporter's cool-kid eye-rolling and clever sarcasm just aren't the appropriate way to describe the deranged president and his entire wretched cabinet spending three hours flaunting their lawless contempt for the country they swore to protect and for the offices entrusted to them.
Just be blunt and straightforward: "During a televised 3-hour meeting, cabinet members took turns praising Trump as he spun falsehoods and complained about pet peeves".