Media Bits and Bytes — February 3, 2026
Portside
The net is tightening
The net is tightening
The net is tightening
Sunday Science: Why Consciousness Is the Hardest Problem in Science
Scientific American
Will brain science deliver answers about consciousness or hit another wall?
Media Bits and Bytes — January 20, 2026
Portside
Using and abusing AI
King of Cannibal Island
London Review of Books
Today, each of the ten biggest companies in the world is worth more than $1 trillion. Only one of them, the Saudi oil monopoly, Aramco, has nothing to do with the future value of AI. Is it a bubble? Of course it’s a bubble. What happens next?
Media Bits and Bytes — January 6, 2026
Portside
The broadcast landscape changes — fast
Dispatches From the Culture Wars — December 30, 2025
Portside
“The day of peace is dawning” — Eugene V. Debs
Media Bits and Bytes — December 23, 2025
Portside
Mainstream media keeps Trump afloat
Friday Nite Videos | December 19, 2025
Portside
Sam Altman Is Shilling for OpenAI. The DOJ's Epstein File Stunt. Europe's Great Power Move: Ukraine Funding. Cover-Up | Laura Poitras Investigates Seymour Hersh. Geothermal Energy’s Massive Leap Forward.
Sam Altman Is Shilling for OpenAI
Sam Altman wants to make a deal with us: he'll give us a utopian future, if we give him... everything. $750 billion in investment. Electricity. Our data. And if that utopia never comes, he'll profit off of the damage.
poetry
The View From Poland
Poet and activist E. Ethelbert Miller considers what it's like to be caught in the crosshairs of two superpowers.
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