Ryan Singel

NYTimes will do absolutely anything to avoid linking. It’s a fetish, a sickness. They have people whose job includes typing out smarmy statements explaining why previous work published on a subject is not worthy of a link and send it to you with a straight face puck.news/media/2026/1...

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This is an important story but it's complicated so here's a thread. tl;dr: Trump is using broadband funding grants to stop enforcement of all state-level internet regulations for 14 years. California (which is due $1.4 billion) is the last state to decide whether to go along. It's Newsom's call. 🧵

But one law prof thinks there's still a chance: if California sues *before* accepting the money they can say they're suing over the general policy, not the individual grant. Gov. Newsom has until Nov. 1 to decide. A decision is expected this week. Read, share! prospect.org/2026/10/19/t...

The art of the deal: if California accepts a 1.4b federal broadband grant, the nations biggest ISPs get free money and get to avoid affordability and disaster prep protections for 14 years, thanks to an illegal condition added by the Trump admin prospect.org/2026/10/19/t...

Bestselling author Annalee Newitz invites us to explore a large and not-so-lonely universe in this science fiction adventure about what happens when the alien becomes familiar–and beloved. A Wall is Also a Road is available now!

Woke up very early in Florida this a.m. and saw this nuttiness in the sky

X and Substack are run by edgelord fascists and there is zero good reason for anyone to continue using either platform whilst plenty of alternatives exist www.theverge.com/report/10066...

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"About 5.2 million Americans like Covelli have lost SNAP benefits since the OBBBA was enacted..."

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

Good to know, America.gov

oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”

Oh to live in a world where people are instead obsessed with Deadwood, sticking it to the powermad cocksuckers, and making something good out of this combative earth

Good luck banning kids from social media lmaooo

If you can correctly guess which venue has appeared the most times on the calendar over the past year, I will send you a prize! DM me or email your guesses to calendar@coyotemedia.org

I'm sorry but I simply don't know how I'm supposed to take someone seriously who *starts* a Substack in 2026.

A Taiwanese English Lit major working on an masters, while also doing his military service, paid me to tape record academic papers about Foucault to listen to on his commute to the base. It was hard! I had no experience or real equipment. And academic prose about theory is hard to sight read.

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Sic transit gloria

Can you imagine being a journalist who writes this headline up as if it were real? Does one just pretend they didn't write the same shit two weeks ago and four weeks ago and two months ago, etc etc etc? At long last, do you have no sense of dignity?cà

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Deep breath: do not get annoyed about people calling blog posts blogs. Deeper breath: do not get annoyed and post about it Deepest breath: stop being a snob and just be happy people write stuff on their own site and other people read it

I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all

“The more people play alongside trans athletes, the more they can see their assumptions were wrong.”

I wrote about the game

My TV remote died in the middle of the semifinal game. But we live in the future and with a few clicks in an app, this awesome tech specialist came to the rescue

If you did not see the third place World Cup game, hide your phone, avoid all news and have some set up a replay and watch it straight through

If you need a DYI air purifier, here is a great recipe. Build Your Own — Common Humanity Collective share.google/GsVz9W3S6Adp... You don't need a corsi box, and you could do this recipe with just the fan, filter and bands Also Hurricane brand window fans have higher throughout than Lasko ones.

i genuinely think that maga hates america. they hate america because america makes them feel small.

i'm proud of the book and am also a little scared about how prescient it continues to be www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

Marcus Thompson writing about Flo Balogun. Hell yes. Unlocked link www.nytimes.com/athletic/741...

"Send the Mexicans home, make the blacks work." The "philosopher" of the tech-fascist movement