I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Cory Booker Subjected Rosario Dawson to the World’s Longest Bedtime Story About World War II!

I’ve long been fascinated by Cory Booker reading out entire novels to his girlfriends on the phone (www.thecut.com/2019/10/cory...). Romantic? Yes. A little insane? Yes. Now I wonder, all this time, was he just practicing to give this marathon speech?

Drake is the all-time biggest loser of a rap feud and that includes people who have gotten shot and died as a result of rap feuds

Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.

This is such great news. For so long Amazon has had a chokehold on ebooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

I would love to quit Meta’s platforms but I’m locked in by their use by schools as an update platform. I can quit but then I opt out of photos of my kid at school. It is also very hard to advocate for schools to use an alternative platform.

For example, a company can provide a paid identity verification service and provide a verification list users can subscribe to. I could also subscribe to a list from the New York Times of all their verified journalists. This would add some visual indicator to their profile on Bluesky.

What about expanding the moderation list architecture to create verification lists that users can subscribe to? This centralizes verification within AT Protocol and creates "composable" verification.

Exploring the full bluesky firehose, in three dimensions: firehose3d.theo.io

They also spend significant resources on painting spaces outside of their echo chambers as echo chambers, creating a false equivalency. This factionalized version of media is what they want.

Wtf is this?

Karen Smith being sworn into her new position. She has her right hand in the air and left hand on a stack of books that have been banned in her area. Two men stand to her left, one holding the stack of banned books.

Karen Smith being sworn in to the Central Bucks school board, a district near Philadelphia. For her oath she chose to place her hand on a stack of frequently challenged & banned books. 📚
www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/l...

You’ve gotta give Elon Musk some credit: Sure, he transformed Twitter into a haven for misinformation where the worst people on earth can pay to be first in your replies, but at least it doesn’t work

A headline and subheading of an article in the Atlantic magazine, with the byline Jacob Stern. Headline is “Killer Whales are Not Our Friends” and subheading is “Stop rooting for the orcas ramming boats”

not the first complaint about violent orcas to come from a stern in the atlantic

My latest for The Atlantic, about the chaos era of social media, and how the debates over decentralization are reminiscent of debates over the U.S. Constitution. And yes, I talk about Habermas and the public sphere!

Do you know where you can get the source data for this graph?

Sadly she didn’t like that response

I feel like this is the social media equivalent of that moment in the horror movie where the guy says “wow that was close”