if you haven't made the transition yet, you are now formally behind the curve

New scoop: Palantir, the surveillance tech company with ties to the CIA, is courting advertising agencies, pitching its AI platform.

This comes as the ad industry tries to shed terms like 'tracking' and 'surveillance advertising'

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Apparently Barnes and Noble is offering 25 percent off preorder books for its 'Premium' and 'Rewards' members (with the promo code PREORDER25). Please consider preordering my forthcoming UNC Press book on Ryan White and the AIDS epidemic. barnesandnoble.com/w/the-life-and…

collin yost walked

I had a long conversation with Ralph Nader about third-party politics, Democrats campaigning on 'democracy,' and the failure of the media
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Last Wednesday, I went to the launch of “Praxis Magazine” (yes, from the company/aspiring crypto nation known for its young founders + far right politics)

Extremely weird event. I also read the magazine, and did not like it. For Hell Gate *subscribe today!*:
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I took a buyout at the LA Times a few weeks ago.

It was a wild five-year ride, and I'm going to miss working with the LAT's incredible journalists (and the L.A. Times Guild 🦅 crew ✊)

I've got some projects in the works, but freelance assignments and job leads appreciated!

seeing a lot of ~safetyism~ about looking into the sun the timeline today. stuff like this is why american technological progress has been slowing

Hi all. I barely use Twitter any longer. In large part because of the story we told in our latest film for Netflix. But “The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem” is out now on Netflix. Please give it a spin netflix.com/us/title/81456…

this is v tight. model home is severely underrecognized even within dc

interviewed the academic peter turchin for his theory why people's capacity for political violence seems like it's increasing and why everything generally feels so fraught right now motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

after the great 2015 purge white guys with dreads have been making a silent comeback.

making fun of some friends for playing a set at the bar a block from my college dorm with then little known shakey graves and making fun of shakey graves’s name by doing jazz hands and saying “shakey graves” in a mocking voice

Happy Dow 10,000 Day to all who celebrate. (working on getting a domain name to post links) coletteshade.substack.com/p/happy-dow-10…

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was just sentenced to 25 years in prison.

In 2022, Ali Breland spoke with several users of the now defunct crypto exchange, all of them saying they hadn’t just lost money—but a shot at financial security. motherjones.com/politics/2022/…

people on threads are complaining about how ugly the kim k donald judd knock off table is. more proof that that site just haven’t the juice and that we’re all just stuck here

pretty amazing that the people who named 'postmodernism' knew in advance that the future would be all about posting.