Adam Rogers
@jetjocko.bsky.social
Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Hosted a podcast about an Alien TV show. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors.
Signal: @jetjocko.15
https://adam-rogers.net
Signal: @jetjocko.15
https://adam-rogers.net
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Adam Rogers
@jetjocko.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Here’s my booze book:
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And here’s my color book:
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bookshop.org/p/books/proo...
And here’s my color book:
bookshop.org/p/books/full...
Lotta fans got mad that this comic, used in an episode of the new Star Trek, looked like AI. It wasn't AI.
I'm happy I finally have time time to feature the "Tales from the Frontier" comic, seen in #StarfleetAcademy's "Come, Let's Away".😊 I have assembled all the pages seen in the episode but as a special gift, here's the cover and back page of the comic, provided to me by its designer: Stu Pearce! 🧵 1/4
February 19, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Lotta fans got mad that this comic, used in an episode of the new Star Trek, looked like AI. It wasn't AI.
Guy Learns Stuff, Changes Mind
After Researching Tenure’s History, Tennessee Lawmaker Drops Bill to End It
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
After Research, Tennessee Lawmaker Drops Bill to End Tenure
Tennessee’s House Higher Ed Subcommittee chair has withdrawn his bill to end tenure in public universities after saying he “stumbled into a little bit of the history” and “got a little deeper than I t...
www.insidehighered.com
February 19, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Guy Learns Stuff, Changes Mind
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today was the The Internet Is A Privately Owned Public Space lecture in my big undergrad class. a student came up afterwards and started by asking me if i had heard of cyberpunk and ended by asking me if violent insurrection was the only way forward
February 19, 2026 at 9:10 PM
today was the The Internet Is A Privately Owned Public Space lecture in my big undergrad class. a student came up afterwards and started by asking me if i had heard of cyberpunk and ended by asking me if violent insurrection was the only way forward
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NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
February 19, 2026 at 3:09 PM
NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
Los Angeles spent most of the 20th century trying to convince everyone that it was the megacity of the future of tomorrow, and now its ruling class spends huge amounts of political energy pretending it is just a wee small town.
California told LA to allow apartments near transit.
LA's answer: a 70-page delay strategy.
What an insult.
cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2...
LA's answer: a 70-page delay strategy.
What an insult.
cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2...
February 19, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Los Angeles spent most of the 20th century trying to convince everyone that it was the megacity of the future of tomorrow, and now its ruling class spends huge amounts of political energy pretending it is just a wee small town.
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Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
February 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
Ooh, those are the new Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive ones!
www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...
www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...
Zuckerberg's courthouse entourage showed up in Meta Ray-Bans
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in Los Angeles about social media's impact on youth. The judge cracked down on smart glasses in court.
www.businessinsider.com
February 18, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Ooh, those are the new Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive ones!
www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...
www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...
Passengers
fun question: what’s the maddest you’ve ever been leaving a movie theater? not necessarily worst movie you’ve seen, but the one that just pissed you off the most. mine is Batman v Superman
February 18, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Passengers
The reporter getting main-charactered for saying on here that he'd rather be on X, on the same day as the Nature paper showing that time on X reliably shifts people's politics to the right, is very shot-chaser. But I don't know which one is which.
February 18, 2026 at 8:44 PM
The reporter getting main-charactered for saying on here that he'd rather be on X, on the same day as the Nature paper showing that time on X reliably shifts people's politics to the right, is very shot-chaser. But I don't know which one is which.
A big package on data centers that I was part of right before getting laid off from Business Insider just won a Polk Award. Nice! Congrats to that whole team—I mostly just did some writing, but they all did a *ton* of investigative and data work. www.businessinsider.com/business-ins...
Business Insider wins first George Polk Award
Business Insider has won the Polk Award for The True Cost of Data Centers, an investigation revealing the hidden costs of the AI boom.
www.businessinsider.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:43 PM
A big package on data centers that I was part of right before getting laid off from Business Insider just won a Polk Award. Nice! Congrats to that whole team—I mostly just did some writing, but they all did a *ton* of investigative and data work. www.businessinsider.com/business-ins...
When it opened, Anchor was a revelatory small distillery. This is just a sad ending.
I wrote about the closing of Hotaling’s distillery. Lots more info didn’t make it in. Let me see if I can get a gift link.
www.sfchronicle.com/food/article...
www.sfchronicle.com/food/article...
The company previously known as Anchor Distilling to close San Francisco distillery
Hotaling & Co., previously Anchor Distilling, is no longer in the distilling business.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:40 PM
When it opened, Anchor was a revelatory small distillery. This is just a sad ending.
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I imagine this is directionally accurate, and that’s a terrible trend.
But I continue to be confused by any organization evaluating media trends without incorporating online news sources in 2026.
i.e. “131 newspapers, radio, and television outlets.”
But I continue to be confused by any organization evaluating media trends without incorporating online news sources in 2026.
i.e. “131 newspapers, radio, and television outlets.”
The world has never needed climate journalism more than it does right now. Yet last year climate got less coverage than at any point since the pandemic
www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...
www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...
Climate change media coverage fell 14% in 2025
Despite rising impacts, climate change received less attention in media around the world in 2025. CU Boulder sociologist Max Boykoff shares the reasons and
www.colorado.edu
February 18, 2026 at 5:28 PM
I imagine this is directionally accurate, and that’s a terrible trend.
But I continue to be confused by any organization evaluating media trends without incorporating online news sources in 2026.
i.e. “131 newspapers, radio, and television outlets.”
But I continue to be confused by any organization evaluating media trends without incorporating online news sources in 2026.
i.e. “131 newspapers, radio, and television outlets.”
AI leveraged by lobby shop to ratfuck a SoCal initiative to fight global warming, is what this says. Thousands of emails sent to agency, can't tell if humans really sent them or not. AI spam vs. the planet. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.
www.latimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:54 PM
AI leveraged by lobby shop to ratfuck a SoCal initiative to fight global warming, is what this says. Thousands of emails sent to agency, can't tell if humans really sent them or not. AI spam vs. the planet. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Would like the ads and the LinkedIn brains to stop talking about people’s “journeys.” Hair thickening is not a journey.
February 18, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Would like the ads and the LinkedIn brains to stop talking about people’s “journeys.” Hair thickening is not a journey.
It’s a real trap, I think—critics go after how a technology spreads, or gets sold, or is made, and the tech’s adherents accuse the critics of being anti-tech instead of, like, anti-capitalist or anti-racist or whatever. Technology is super-cool! Poverty and oppression, not so much.
February 18, 2026 at 2:39 AM
It’s a real trap, I think—critics go after how a technology spreads, or gets sold, or is made, and the tech’s adherents accuse the critics of being anti-tech instead of, like, anti-capitalist or anti-racist or whatever. Technology is super-cool! Poverty and oppression, not so much.
Guys if the limbs were connected you wouldn't be having this problem
Oakland police were investigating whether the limbs were connected to dismembered remains found two weeks ago.
Decomposing human limbs found in East Oakland
Oakland police were investigating whether the limbs were connected to dismembered remains found two weeks ago.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Guys if the limbs were connected you wouldn't be having this problem
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I've know these people for years. They've worked for Kamala Harris, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Antonio Villaraigosa, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, etc. Now they are working for crypto and venture capital, as vc and crypto underwrite Trump fascism.
February 17, 2026 at 11:07 PM
I've know these people for years. They've worked for Kamala Harris, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Antonio Villaraigosa, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, etc. Now they are working for crypto and venture capital, as vc and crypto underwrite Trump fascism.
One cool thing about this is, the blue line going NE-SW? The bright spot near Culver City, at the 10, is at La Cienega Blvd, an old, old LA north-south street whose name means "the swamp." A "cienega" is a wetland.
You can see the buried waterways of Los Angeles-Orange County in www.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
@awalkerinla.bsky.social
@awalkerinla.bsky.social
February 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM
One cool thing about this is, the blue line going NE-SW? The bright spot near Culver City, at the 10, is at La Cienega Blvd, an old, old LA north-south street whose name means "the swamp." A "cienega" is a wetland.
I like this, but I do kinda favor this one:
February 17, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I like this, but I do kinda favor this one:
Hello from the Bay Area of California, where I am being hailed on.
February 17, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Hello from the Bay Area of California, where I am being hailed on.
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Great show. Season One might be a bit clumsy, but 2-4 are just amazing. Also the later arc is depressingly relevant to our current situation in the US. If you’ve never watched this show I’d strongly recommend it.
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Great show. Season One might be a bit clumsy, but 2-4 are just amazing. Also the later arc is depressingly relevant to our current situation in the US. If you’ve never watched this show I’d strongly recommend it.
Elon M could give each of America’s 17,000 public library branches, including bookmobiles, $28 million—and he’d *still* be the richest guy on this list.
February 16, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Elon M could give each of America’s 17,000 public library branches, including bookmobiles, $28 million—and he’d *still* be the richest guy on this list.
Interesting way around the thus-far successful defense of “we just dug the stuff up and sold it; not our fault if you burn it.”
New lawsuit accuses Big Oil not of deceiving consumers or misrepresenting climate change risks, but of driving up energy costs by colluding to suppress competition from cleaner and cheaper technologies like solar power and electric vehicles. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Michigan antitrust lawsuit says oil companies hobbled EVs and renewables
The energy industry is pressing for laws that would ban climate liability lawsuits.
arstechnica.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Interesting way around the thus-far successful defense of “we just dug the stuff up and sold it; not our fault if you burn it.”
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Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project
February 16, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project