What's going on at Vox? New York bizarrely gets in bed with Substack, and now they've sold Polygon to Valnet.

Bad times in media are just getting worse every day. 😞

Seeing Sinners tonight in a rare theater outing, catching it before it gets bumped off the (fake) IMAX screens tomorrow because my son insists that's a must. (He saw it in 70mm.)

Can it live up to the hype? 🤞

"We don't actually have to follow along with the narratives that tech tycoons make up for each other. We choose the tools that we use, based on the utility that they have for us...

It's telling that the creators of so many of the AI tools don't even have enough confidence in their offerings to simply let users choose to adopt them, and are instead forcing them into users' faces in every possible corner of their apps and websites."

@anildash 💯

https://www.anildash.com/2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/

Ugh. I want to reflexively dismiss this outright but Lanier's involvement makes me curious... 🤔

(You Are Not a Gadget is one of my all-time faves.)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/natasha-lyonne-jaron-lanier-ai-movie-uncanny-valley-1236202957/

The Diamond situation is a total mess, but having gone through a similar corporate bankruptcy before, I feel bad for the regular employees who had nothing to do with these shenanigans.

Many are caught in a no-win scenario: stick around and hope they have a job under new owners, or find something else fast in an industry that's struggling?

Shame the execs, but have some grace for everyone else.

#comics #publishing