Ryan Broderick

The thing that no AI company has officially communicated to anyone is that the minute there's decent enough agentic AI — an AI using apps for you — you will never be able to buy anything of any value online ever again. Unless, of course, you use their agentic AI...

The key innovation of Trump's second term is figuring out how to both scale the localized MAGA frenzy beyond just him and his rallies and, also, most importantly, figure out a way to force it on blue states.
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The MAGA machine evolved at lightning speed this year and you need to know how the pieces interact.

-They will arrest you
-They will harass and intimidate you online
-Their TV stations will distort reality
-And their extralegal militants will target you

All the pieces are connected now.

Chicago, Portland, and everywhere else. This is how it's going to work now: ICE raids, National Guard occupation, far-right militias, spree shooters, and constant digital static. It's not a question of if the Trump meat grinder will come to town, it's when.
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Despite this, there’s one source of news about the shooting that’s gotten a lot of attention in September: Us, apparently. According to Graphtreon, Panic World was the fastest-growing Patreon in September for the “podcast” category, with over 1,300 new subscribers this month. Our own reckoning puts as as number 12 across the whole website — first place, of course, goes to a porn game with over 3,300 new Patrons — but we’ve never even come close to making our own lists before, so we think we’ve earned the brag.

Every month, we write about the most popular content around the internet. For the first time, I'm proud to say that we're on our own list! @panicworld.com was Patreon's fastest-growing podcast last month.

Not feeling too great about how things are going!!!
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need a gooners' fortnite to mentally prepare for nofap

"starting nofap in 1/2 months"

Little Reichstag Fires Everywhere

A perpetual Reichstag Fire for the 24-hour news cycle
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I've had to take very strong allergy medication before bed lately, which has resulted in weird dreams. I also started my yearly fall horror movie binge. So last night I had a vivid dream that I worked at a "Babadook reserve." People kept bringing me their Babadooks and I had to manage them in a zoo.

One Battle After Another basically feels like if Martin Scorsese directed Southland Tales (complimentary)

This new wave of edgelord shooters is a beast of Trump administration's own making.
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Basically, we have a lot of young people that have only ever known a world flattened by viral content, where everything is constantly getting noticeably worse all the time, and understand that mass violence gets the same reaction that a meme or shitpost does and view them as basically the same thing

The idiotic Tylenol/Autism annoumcement this week has made the playbook very clear: Wait for Trump to spew bull shit, use TikTok as way to make liberals look ridiculous for not believing it and dox as many random people as you can to shut up dissent.
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YouTube video by Garbage Day The Charlie Kirk memorial and what comes next

As someone who’s already a professional podcaster, this is humiliating to type, but today I became a streamer. @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social and I discuss Kirk fall out and if the admin pushed too far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ay...

Everything's debateslop now Read to the end for a very good X thread about planes

Real honour to make my debut in @garbageday.email today. I wrote about London’s Speakers Corner, Charlie Kirk and how Debate Slop took over all forms of online discourse

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Kirk was a nobody to normal people, but it's now clear how important he was to the right. The dream of post-Steve Bannon conservativism: An influencer presidential candidate. A homegrown Trump. The panic we're seeing is a movement realizing they have nothing to replace Trump's cult of personality.

For @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social (whose Garbage Day newsletter is absolutely essential these days) about radicalization and what mainstream outlets get wrong about internet culture and memes. Really enjoyed this one: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Every journalist, pundit, and entertainer in the country that doesn't want to bend the knee to Trump needs to figure out a way off corporate platforms ASAP
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More for your consideration:

Welcome to Hell World @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
The Handbasket @marisakabas.bsky.social
How Things Work @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
@garbageday.email @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
Expedite @kristenhawley.bsky.social
The Food Section @hannaraskin.bsky.social

Do you have thoughts on how to do this? On how to make the Dropout of news/news-ish video? DM me! I want to talk.

The media company that can figure out how to produce news or news adjacent video content without relying on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, broadcast TV, cable, or corporate streamers will make a billion dollars and probably help save American democracy — or exist long enough to document its end

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Went on PBS NewsHour last night to talk about Gen Z accelerationist violence

The meme aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death (1/2)

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme Podcast Episode · Panic World · 09/12/2025 · Bonus · 1h 11m

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Thank everyone who read @garbageday.email this week. Our Friday issue was read 500,000 times.
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Our coverage wouldn't be possible without @bumas.bsky.social, @cates.bsky.social, @ellievhall.bsky.social, @grantirving.bsky.social, and @joshfjelstad.bsky.social.

Here's what comes next
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Anyone wanting actually-gets-this-shit type analysis of the internet-side of this situation, I recommend this and his new podcast episode ...

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