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Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.

Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...

With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week.

wow i don't think he likes his gf's american family

i think you gotta do an anime fandub-type of thing here

🎙️ON AIR:

We're talking to @morgansung.bsky.social, @sfgate.com's Stephen Council, and @kjezermorton.bsky.social about friction-maxxing and how doing things the hard way can bring us more joy, serendipity and human connection.

❓How do you friction-maxx?

📻 Listen:
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an event flyer depicting stacks of vintage computers. the screens show the following: 1. the close all tabs logo 2. two hands holding glasses of beer 3. a labubu head with glowing eyes 4. the galaxy brain meme 5. an envelope 4. a waymo on fire 5. hitchbot 6. an error icon the text on the flyer says: CHRONICALLY ONLINE: a powerpoint party with close all tabs march 5, 2026 7:00 p.m. the commons at KQED

with special guests Candice Lim and Aidan Walker

SF!! we're throwing a party and you're invited!!

close all tabs is hosting its first live event: a powerpoint party where @aidanwalker.bsky.social and @candicelim.bsky.social and i present our favorite internet lore :)

and! you can present your own! there will be prizes!
www.kqed.org/event/5937

Are You Allowed to Record ICE? | KQED When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, it became an instant flashpoint in the ongoing escalation of federal law enforcemen...

Do you have the right to record ICE? Criminal justice reporter @cjciaramella.bsky.social explains to @morgansung.bsky.social how the Trump administration is working to create a chilling effect around filming law enforcement. www.kqed.org/news/1206959... via @kqednews.kqed.org @goosenaut.bsky.social

How to Protect Your Information Online in 2026 | KQED What are some easy digital habits you can pick up in the new year that can protect your privacy online?

You don’t need to guard yourself against every threat unless you're willing to “live as a hermit on a 🏔️ and fling all of your devices into the sea,” says the #cybersecurity director at the @eff.org. www.kqed.org/news/1207040... via @kqednews.kqed.org @morgansung.bsky.social @goosenaut.bsky.social

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

it's a first amendment right but DHS has been retaliating against anyone exercising that right. close all tabs just put out a whole episode about this! wherever you get your podcasts!

www.kqed.org/news/1206959...

like they're going after authors who post "too frequently" and write too eloquently because they can't fathom that someone with creativity and drive can pump out 20k quality words a week

maybe we should gatekeep ao3. far too many normies posting ai generated yaoi and now readers are witch hunting actual writers for using the em dash

bodes well for woke 2.0 that fujos are mainstream but it also means that fanfiction discourse is reaching new heights of Annoying

ok rewatching industry right now and the whole show makes soooo much more sense now that i know that a short is when you gag the market

new close all tabs episode with @cjciaramella.bsky.social, all about the right to record and share information about ICE, and how the trump administration is trying to stop people from exercising that right

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uhhh sir you aren't allowed to shoot us until we scan your code

they can't even scan your concert tickets if your phone brightness isn't high enough

it took like three tries to scan the menu bar code on a dimly lit, but stationary, bar table last night. how will this work with a highly combative ice agent who can just. move

"sir if you could stop threatening me for two seconds, your badge details are almost done loading"

imagine getting phished bc you scanned the ice qr code

incredibly techbrained solution here. they're detaining people and smashing their phones just for taking pictures right now but somehow they'll stand still enough for an observer to scan their qr code??

Are You Allowed to Record ICE? | KQED When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, it became an instant flashpoint in the ongoing escalation of federal law enforcemen...

wherever you get your podcasts and all that
www.kqed.org/news/1206959...

new close all tabs episode with @cjciaramella.bsky.social, all about the right to record and share information about ICE, and how the trump administration is trying to stop people from exercising that right

tr.ee/_QLi_jEzEZ

unfortunately with the trajectory of internet speak, the yaoi discourse will resurface as the phrase "fujoshing out" goes mainstream. i predict takes like "Is Fujoshing Out Problematic?" and "How To Fujoshi Out Respectfully" within the next six weeks

not to nitpick but when did "fujoshing out" becoming a thing. the term is "fujoing out." this is context collapse in action, and as the mainstream internet absorbs fandom vernacular, it'll forget the og fujos who carved this depraved path for everyone else. and that's my ted talk

Also holds up the idea that white people are the *only* people capable of cooly and fairly assessing fraught issues without any prejudice or bias.

impeccable take

ooh def adding this to my list! trying to go somewhere new every time i'm back

love going to the one in the mission!

uber driver picked me up in a tesla and we're chatting about bands we like. he taps something and goes "hey grok, what genre is this band?" then he asks grok to weigh in, inviting it into our conversation lol. anyway i'm in SF for five more hours, where should i get coffee?