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Jeff Jarvis

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<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Journalism</span></a> prof: emeritus at CUNY, visiting at Stony Brook, fellow at Montclair State. Author of Hot Type, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, and Magazine from Bloomsbury. Co-host of the Intelligent Machines, AI Inside, and Breaking the News podcasts.</p>

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    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA to every incel shmuck I see driving Elon&#39;s penis. Gift link. Tesla Winding Down Production of Cybertruck, Musk Says https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-winding-down-production-of-cybertruck-musk-says-89df7158?st=CJqDR7&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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    If your 401K is bleeding today, like mine, find small solace in schadenfreude of Elon, Inc., losing a half-trillion in market cap. Poor Elon&#39;s worth only $789.5B. The &#39;Musk selloff&#39; deepens as Tesla and SpaceX combine for $456 billion two-day wipeout https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20261105309/the-musk-selloff-deepens-as-tesla-and-spacex-combine-for-456-billion-two-day-wipeout

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    RIP Salon. It was tortured with many attempts to find its business model. Even so, it survived 31 years. Goodbye from Salon https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/

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    The snipe hunt commences for the mythical Moderate. The #BrokenTimes is not Republican per se; it is anti-progress(ive), profoundly conservative in its defense of status-quo power &amp; institutions. Moderate Democrats Increase Their Numbers, and Their Clout https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/us/politics/moderate-democrats-midterms.html?smid=tw-share

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    The last time Democrats swept Texas was 1961. When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, he said the South would be lost for generations--about three, as it turns out: what it has taken to *begin* to beat back Nixon&#39;s racist Southern strategy. Much still to do.

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    WTF, Politico. &quot;Whole theory of power.&quot; He has no theories. He&#39;s just an authoritarian, would-be tin-pot dictator spray-painted gold: a fascist.

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    Democracy to Black, Hispanic, Muslim, young, and progressive voters - and women: THANK YOU. Democrats must not fail you again. As for uneducated, white, male voters: Go back to your caves or change your ways.

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    I am SO happy that our Rebecca Bennett is the victor and my new representative and we are rid of nepo-nothing Kean Jr. Brava!

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    &quot;Skirts&quot;. No, #BrokenTimes, he disobeys lawful orders, thereby undermining the rule of law in this wounded democracy. Say it.

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    Fuck off, #BrokenTimes. It insists on bothsidesing not a mutual meltdown but one that&#39;s entirely the odious Stevens&#39;, turning it into &quot;a major fissure coursing through the Democratic Party&quot; and &quot;an embarrassing and potentially costly drama.&quot; No, fools, it&#39;s unifying Democrats.

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    No, #MurdochJournal, sorry to ruin your wishful storyline, but the Democrats aren&#39;t infighting. They are unified against one former Democrat who&#39;s an odious asshole. Democratic Infighting Flares as Election Accelerates Battle for Party’s Future https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-infighting-flares-as-election-accelerates-battle-for-partys-future-6a42c706?st=jLhMt8

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    Billionaires, too. And maybe some chickenshit law firms and universities. Powerful executives cozied up to Trump. Now they fear a reckoning. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/10/26/silicon-valley-courted-trump-now-its-bracing-democratic-congress/

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    I&amp;#39;m coming to fear Larry Ellison could singlehandedly cause a crash. He&amp;#39;s a one-man Janga economy: Oracle over-building, sonny&amp;#39;s Skydance, collateralized investments in AI companies; any could bring his tower down, then much else with it. Larry Ellison Went on Borrowing Spree to Bankroll His Son’s Warner Bros. Bid https://www.wsj.com/finance/larry-ellison-warner-bros-loans-49918714?st=n19cMn&amp;amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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    Freudian typo in The Register: Yes, it&amp;#39;s AI&amp;#39;s gents that need taming even more than AI&amp;#39;s agents.

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    ALL polls are fake expressions of public opinion. This one did it to expose polls&amp;#39; BS. The Times had to cop to falling for it. Discovery of New Fake Polls Puts a Spotlight on Trust in Surveys https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/midterm-election-fake-polling-wedgewood.html?smid=tw-share

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    What weird #BrokenTimes willful political naivete here, treating the politics it takes to both win office and get things done there as hypocrisy. I see it as more testament to how good he is. I guess bothsidesing is OK in journalism, not in politics. And remember whom he&amp;#39;s facing! James Talarico Made His Name Fighting Republicans. He Made Laws With Them, Too. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/us/james-talarico-texas-republicans-legislative-record.html?smid=tw-share

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    The Murdochs&amp;#39; Journal thinks being progressive and/or Muslim is something to apologize for.

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    Here I thought Byers was looking in the mirror, but no... Bari Weiss Derangement Syndrome https://puck.news/why-media-reporters-cant-stop-covering-bari-weiss/

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    Peak media digital Calvinism from the Süddeutsche : &amp;quot;Unnet us!... A plea for the right to an analog life&amp;quot; Entnetzt uns! https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/analoge-lebensfuehrung-digitalisierungszwang-kurbelradios-katastrophenschutz-essay-li.3559761

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    Paris Martineau and I both love You Can See Everything and we&amp;#39;re dying to compare notes WITH SPOILERS this Sunday at 2p ET, playing Ebert &amp;amp; Siskel along with our @TWiT @TWiT pal @mikahsargent. Come watch...if you agree that We Can Talk About Everything. https://twit.tv/live

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    Not enough, they don&amp;#39;t. Not nearly enough.

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    Oh, hell, no. The tech-bro eugenicists want to muck with dog genetics to make the überpooch and get them killed. The Plan to Put Super Dogs on the Battlefield of the Future https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/the-plan-to-put-super-dogs-on-the-battlefield-of-the-future-02fbca9a?st=X5Sn9t&amp;amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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    I finished high school in three years and college in three. I was in a rush. I get it. But I don&amp;#39;t want to see an explosion of college lite for I fear vocational courses will win over humanities and social sciences; I wish I&amp;#39;d studied more of both. NYU: My university is proposing to offer shorter degrees. Others should follow suit. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/10/23/colleges-should-offer-three-year-degrees/

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    What feeble, scaredy-cat BS from the #BrokenTimes. It doesn&amp;#39;t take a &amp;quot;legal expert&amp;quot; to know this election interference is more than merely &amp;quot;dubious.&amp;quot; Democracy dies, its guardian shrugs. Why Legal Experts See the Justice Dept.’s Alaska Election Challenge as Dubious https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/alaska-senate-doj-lawsuit-trump.html?smid=tw-share

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    Let the voters speak. Prediction is not journalism. Throw away your dark and cloudy crystal ball, #BrokenTimes.

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    From the people who brought you the damned Needle (it still gives me PTSD) their continuing effort to stereotype citizens. Demographics are a fiction of pollsters &amp; marketers. Introducing a New Way to Understand the Election: Times Voter Trends https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/upshot/election-midterms-times-voter-trends.html?smid=tw-share

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    What a self-own by the Murdoch Journal: Yeah, the people I want to hear from are the wealthy of Greenwich.... I Went Home to Greenwich to Find Out What the Wealthy Want From the Midterms https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/i-went-home-to-greenwich-to-find-out-what-the-ultrarich-want-for-the-midterms-977acca0?st=zWH27C

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    Is journalism stuck with Rupert Murdoch? Is New York Stuck With Kathy Hochul? https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-new-york-stuck-with-kathy-hochul-c91e20a7?st=JiLUKT

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    An immovable one-third of America is: a) incurably insane b) willfully ignorant c) racist d) fascist e) who gives a shit; let&#39;s defeat them at the polls and send them back into their caves.