Mike McCue

In any case, every day the company more closely resembles the social products that they have so vocally disdained. They built a network; they grow it through engagement-based algorithms and push notifications; they apologize when they inadvertently amplify hate speech. And when it comes to content moderation, on Substack as on any other social network, your rights come down to the whims of the co-founders and a handful of their employees. It turns out that most venture-backed consumer internet companies ultimately take similar shapes. I'm under no illusion the Substack founders will take this moment to re-think their policies on Nazis. But it would be nice if it taught them some humility.

The Substack founders bragged that they were building a different kind of platform. But when they promoted a Nazi this week, they revealed that they have become a social network like any other www.platformer.news/substack-naz...

i think the worst thing that happened to RSS was people believing that Google Reader WAS RSS

Google Reader died, RSS did not

reports of RSS’s demise are greatly exaggerated

if RSS is dead, how is it that i’ve been heavily using it for the last twenty years?

Trust and safety workers had a LOT to say after the column I wrote last week asking why more don't speak out publicly. Here's what they say I missed: https://www.platformer.news/trust-and-safety-workers-respond-censorship-free-speech/

Trust and safety workers had a LOT to say after the column I wrote last week asking why more don't speak out publicly. Here's what they say I missed: www.platformer.news/trust-and-sa...

SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community."

Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog, by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social www.usermag.co/p/substack-s...

Definitely

iPadOS 26 Turns the iPad Into a Sort of 'Mac Jr.' It's not bad, but it's also not really for me. Maybe that's the point.

With iPadOS 26 now in public beta, my thoughts from earlier builds are still the same. The ever-more-hybrid approach makes the iPad now feel like using a 'Mac Jr.' of sorts...

Inflatable Elon Musks doing a Nazi salute outside the Tesla diner in Hollywood

🎥 johngreenla | TW

Black Eyed Peas members will.i.am and Taboo dish on vegan tacos, their new track, and "third-world" style ICE raids.

Full story: lataco.com/my-favorite-...

By Erick Galindo
Shot by Megan Tan

Yes please

Nice

ah back to school commute is here

The Mayor of #NBAThreads, @yorush.bsky.social, has created the definitive guide to the NBA.

bsky.app/profile/yoru...

The crazy lady who was banned from Uber and Lyft for ranting about Muslim drivers is now welcome at the Trump White House and the Trump State Department.

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Hungary: “The lesson of Hungary is this: We cannot claim to care about democracy only when it costs nothing. Trump, like Orban, no doubt believes everyone can be bought. America’s elites are proving him right.”

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

"After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence."

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

So far ~3,000 Surf beta testers have made over 10,000 feeds with hundreds published to Bluesky. Now you can browse these in @blueskydirectory.com and pin your favorites to your home on Bluesky.

‘You Could Throw Out the Results of All These Papers’ RFK Jr.’s vaccine-safety investigator has already disqualified himself.

"Thanks to Kennedy, Geier seemingly is being handed the keys to the same database he’s proved himself unfit to study."

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

404 is just excellent. You should subscribe if you don't!

Oh it's gross revenue alright

Ozzy Osbourne dies just weeks after farewell show The heavy metal star reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates on stage at Villa Park earlier in July.

Ozzy Osbourne has died at the age of 76, his family says

This casket is grown entirely from the root structure of mushrooms. It’s part of a growing green burial movement. Conventional US burials use millions of gallons of embalming fluid and tons of concrete and hardwood each year. Loop Biotech, a Dutch startup, is now bringing a greener alternative to the US for the first time. Read more at TheVerge.com Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: https://goo.gl/7ZeLvX Follow on TikTok: http://bit.ly/42VeCVU Watch The Vergecast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/40RFRkg The Vergecast Podcast: https://bit.ly/3WQDexZ Decoder with Nilay Patel: http://apple.co/3v29nDc More about our podcasts: https://www.theverge.com/podcasts Read More: http://www.theverge.com Community guidelines: http://bit.ly/2D0hlAv Wallpapers from The Verge: https://bit.ly/2xQXYJr Shop our Verge merch store here: https://bit.ly/4kPCmEc Subscribe to The Verge: https://bit.ly/3FT6n5S Subscribe to The Vergecast on YouTube, new episodes on Tuesday and Friday: https://bit.ly/3I6nJtz If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may receive a commission without exerting any influence on editorial content. For more information about our ethics policy, visit: https://www.theverge.com/ethics-state... This casket is grown entirely from the root structure of mushrooms. Read more at TheVerge.com

I have to say this is pretty cool and so much better for the environment.

www.youtube.com/shorts/Epxgc...

Remember a couple of weeks ago when Border patrol raided McArthur park, LA?
Well yeah, here’s their propaganda video. Using Kendrick as a soundtrack in LA is a choice!

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

The trailer for Mstyslav Chernov’s new film “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” which will premiere at Film Forum NYC on July 25th, and elsewhere August 1st. Chernov is doing incredible work documenting the war in Ukraine. H/T Tetyana Denford, who worked on the translations.

Scott’s done so many remarkable, thoughtful things in his career — when he says this one stands out, you know it’s special.

We Deserve Better: A New Social Media Bill of Rights Earlier this year, I was a part of a CNN documentary, Twitter: Breaking the Bird, which gave me much pause for reflection about the state of social media and how we got here. This year alone we&#82…

We deserve better & we can build it!

Using social media we should demand these basic rights!

Don't use systems that don't uphold these rights.

Don't build systems that go against our interests and users.

Why we need a social media bill of rights!

www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/w...

I think like many, many people I find the idea that CBS has just cancelled Colbert out of the blue like this for financial reasons *highly* implausible. He’s the most viewed late night host on TV, and his ratings have been going up.

Colbert has the highest ratings of any late night host.

"Financial reasons" my ass. This is political.