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"Weâre living through an age of mass deletion, a moment when entertainment and media corporations see themselves not as custodians of valuable cultural history, once freely available, but as ruthless maximisers of profit." @zachschonfeld.bsky.social
The amount of media being wiped from the internet is worrying for viewers, and industry workers who need the exposure, says journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld
Issues they lost on on April 9 1865 and September 2 1945.
I wrote on the shockingly bad CBS interview of Ta-Nehisi Coates, the watering down of âantisemitism,â and the fear, dread and confusion of this yearâs Jewish high holidays and upcoming U.S. presidential election. Itâs a lot. But maybe it resonates with you, too. LâShanah Tovah.
Thatâs why as we approach this high holiday season, which in 2024 contains the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks on Israel and falls one month before the U.S. presidential election, I have never felt more alone, more upside down or more fearful for the next year.
"Today's guest is the moral and intellectual heir of DuBois and Baldwin. Our most ignorant garbage clown will begin the conversation..." Absolutely unserious and disqualifying for all of CBS.
Ragged right is the hill I will die on đ
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There are many perfectly sound and relevant critiques of generative AI. The water usage thing just does not hit, though. Stick to the 10,000 strong and factually sound critiques.
You may be underestimating how profoundly unhinged it is to frame mass deportation as a 'housing policy', which NYT and CNN have now done. You don't get quite that far into Nazitown with only the prosaic press failure modes. And that's without even getting into Moonves' straightforward admission.
YES Alice Wong gets a Macarthur!! Among many things I could say, it occurred to me recently that I could probably teach an entire Disability Studies class based on episodes of her podcast with accompanying readings/etc (disabilityvisibilityproject.com/podcast-2/www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
Increasing the political and cultural visibility of people with disabilities and catalyzing broader understandings of disability.
absolute moral depravity from a mainstream broadcast network
