#DarkState defend the #WWENXT Tag Team Title against #OTM tonight!

https://www.wwe.com/shows/wwenxt/2026-01-27

DETTE ER EN OFFENTLIG TJENESTEMELDING

I morgen er det hverdag og skole/jobb for de fleste av oss. Har du hatt ⏰alarmen⏰ avskrudd i påsken er det på tide å skru den på nå.

DETTE HAR VÆRT EN OFFENTLIG TJENESTEMELDING

#Norsktut #Allheimen #OTM #OffentligTjenesteMelding

Ed Zitron absolutely killed it in this @onthemedia interview, explaining how #DeepSeek is exposing American tech companies for what they are.

Zitron: "You want to know what the actual AI safety story is? Boiling lakes, stealing from millions of people, running and burning energy. . . The safety issue Sam Altman's talking about is what if ChatGPT wakes up and does this? It's marketing. Cynical, despicable marketing from a carnival barker. Sam Altman is a liar and it's disgraceful how far he's gone."

I love #otm for consistently elevating voices like his to a broader audience at just the right moment.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/brooke-talks-ai-with-ed-zitron

I'm up early, I just listened to OTM's midweek podcast, "How Trump Re-Wrote the History of January 6."

A while ago, I was talking to a friend of mine who lived in the Soviet Union as a child. He was asking me questions about what is happening in the US, and if it is true that Trump cannot serve another term.

I replied that the constitution is ultimately a piece of paper. People have to believe what is written on that paper and make the rules concrete through their actions. This is a practice, a culture. People have to want this culture to be preserved more than an individual outcome. This is why elected officials and the US military swear allegiance to the constitution.

People can choose to do something different, and if enough other people go along, then that is the new rule and the new culture.

He told me that this sounded like the Soviet Union.

You can't build a society on lies, not in the long term. Reality is the ultimate arbiter of truth. But you can run a society on lies for a long time, for multiple generations, entire individual lifetimes. I feel like that's what we're headed into now.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/how-trump-rewrote-the-history-of-january-6

#otm

@micahloewinger last week's #OTM, in which you discussed the unusual economic conditions of the day (low unemployment rate and other good macro-indicators but persistent bad vibes), then discussed how some journalists accelerated the growth of exploitative tech startups (e.g. uber, lyft, etc.) by amplifying hype, left me wondering:

What effect does the proliferation of "gig work" have on the U.S. unemployment rate?

Does the availability of gig work artificially inflate employment metrics because many who become unemployed — and, in prior recessions, would've filed for unemployment benefits — struggle to survive as gig workers rather than filing? It's my impression that many Americans are still too proud to accept public assistance unless absolutely necessary, and gig work is likely exacerbating this problem... plus, many states made the process harder to "prevent fraud" during the pandemic.

I'd love to hear reporting around this and understand what's being done by journalists/media to bring more context to the current state of "key economic indicators" like the unemployment rate.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/how-tired-tropes-drive-ai-coverage-plus-is-the-vibecession-back-or-not