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2026 63
- The New York Times Is Simply Not A Credible Newspaper
- Google AI Search Refuses To Say Who Won The 2020 Election
- Casey Newton And John Gruber Slink Back To Elon Musk’s Right-Wing Propaganda Machine
- The Problem Is Right Wing Extremism, Not 'Polarization'
- Trump's New 'AI Guardrails' Are Worthless Gibberish Propped Up By A Shitty Press
- Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
- Lazy Journalism At The 'End Of The World'
- Feckless Dems Wimp Out On Paramount Merger
- AI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of Control
- Auto Giants Want Congress To Ban Cheap Chinese Electric Cars To 'Protect Consumer Privacy'
- Never Forget How Eagerly Apple And Google Coddled Fascism
- Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation
- The Hulk Hates Fascist Media Consolidation
- The U.S. Press Starts Showing The Hint Of A Backbone
- U.S. Anti-China Tech Protectionism Is Sloppy, Corrupt, And Stupid
- AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired
- Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda
- Why is Naomi Klein Funding Substack’s Hate Machine?
- The Lies They're Telling Towns And Tribes About The Benefits Of AI Data Centers
- The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us
- Musk Tries To Bribe Memphis So They'll Overlook His AI Data Centers Are Killing Black Toddlers
- Midterm Media Bedwetting Over 'Socialism' Has Truly Begun
- It's The Corruption, Stupid
- Big Tech: AI Data Center Opposition Is An UnAmerican Criminal Conspiracy
- The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster
- Trust Fund Media Brunchlords Can Only Fail Upward
- Selling You The End Of The World
- Would You Just Look At This Shit
- Privacy-Eroding Corruption Is Literally Killing U.S. Troops
- Jeff Bezos Is Afraid Of What Comes Next
- AI Rage Is Inextricably Fused With Justified Loathing Of The Extraction Class. 'Deal With It'
- Brunchlord Patty Cake
- Broadband And Racism
- The Billionaires Are Afraid
- You Can't Build Useful Alliances With Fascists, Dumbass
- Your Software Is Not Sentient
- Mickey Mouse Versus The Fascists
- Ticketmaster Finally Faces Accountability For Being A Shitty Monopoly (Maybe)
- A Broken Press Gathers This Weekend To Normalize Fascism Over Cocktails
- CBS Just Can't Stop Kissing Donald Trump's Ass
- AI, Artifice, And Authenticity
- Orban Loss Shows Fascist Propaganda Has Its Limits
- Whoops, The Tech Press Mythologized Another Unethical Asshole
- Tim Cook Is An Embarrassing Coward
- Streaming Video Is Devouring itself
- "CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism
- Merger Promises Are Worthless
- Mark Zuckerberg Set $83 Billion On Fire Pretending To Be Interesting
- MAGA Demands Unwavering Media Support For Their Shitty, Unpopular War
- Jack Dorsey Is A Pointless Dipshit
- Elon Musk's X Rots Your Brain
- Polling Shows Democrats Aren't Too 'Woke,' They're Too Weak
- Monopoly With A Heaping Side Of Extra Racism
- Oligarchs Are Building The World's Biggest Propaganda Machine. Their Success Isn't Guaranteed.
- The Press REALLY Doesn't Want AOC To Be President
- The U.S. Press Loves To Pretend Widespread Corruption Doesn't Exist
- The New CBS Is A Clown Show
- The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings
- The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology
- Corruption Killed The U.S. Government And The Press Was Complicit
- Substack Still Has A Nazi Problem (And Doesn't Care)
- Prepare For Republicans To Start Whining Incessantly About Netflix
- Marsha Blackburn Blames Nashville's Strained Power Grid On Minorities And 'Wokeness'