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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 2d

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.
www.garbageday.email/p/a-slow-mov...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 4d

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.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-pressu...

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Adam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 6d

Not feeling too great about how things are going!!!
www.garbageday.email/p/a-slightly...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 8d

need a gooners' fortnite to mentally prepare for nofap

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 8d

"starting nofap in 1/2 months"

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 9d

Little Reichstag Fires Everywhere

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 9d

A perpetual Reichstag Fire for the 24-hour news cycle
www.garbageday.email/p/the-pressu...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 9d

A perpetual Reichstag Fire for the 24-hour news cycle
www.garbageday.email/p/the-pressu...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 10d

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.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 12d

This new wave of edgelord shooters is a beast of Trump administration's own making.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-rise-o...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 13d

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

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13d

It feels like this is becoming a more common mass shooter profile: Someone who's interested in politics but not as a vehicle to express clear values or a coherent viewpoint. He just wants to mock anyone who takes it seriously.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 14d

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.
www.garbageday.email/p/taking-tyl...

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Grant Irving @grantirving.bsky.social · 15d

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...

The Charlie Kirk memorial and what comes next

YouTube video by Garbage Day

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15d

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

www.garbageday.email/p/everything...

Everything's debateslop now

Read to the end for a very good X thread about planes

www.garbageday.email

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 17d

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.

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 17d

i've been thinking a lot about the historical record on this and how hard it will be to communicate that this guy was a fucking nobody

muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 19d

My militantly de-woked alma mater, which Charlie Kirk did not attend, might erect a statue to him, for the same reasons that Sinclair media will be airing a memorial for him tonight on local stations nationwide: Because fuck you, that's why.

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 17d

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...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 19d

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
www.garbageday.email/p/petty-powe...

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 19d

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

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 19d

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:

• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 20d

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.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 20d

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

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20d

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 20d

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.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 21d

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

jonniefivebikes.bsky.social @jonniefivebikes.bsky.social · 21d

The frantic rush to categorize Charlie Kirk’s killer into a political pole (L vs. R) lacks an understanding of the nihilism of GenZ young men. This is a great @pbsnews.org Hour interview with @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social who is an expert on internet and video game culture via @garbageday.email

A look into the online subcultures tied to Charlie Kirk’s accused killer

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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