Andrew Zolides, Ph.D.
@zolides.bsky.social
Associate Professor specializing in Digital Media Industries
I live in The Medium Place (Cincinnati, OH)
Everything I say is me saying it, not my employer… which should be obvious
(Profile art by Angel Trazo)
I live in The Medium Place (Cincinnati, OH)
Everything I say is me saying it, not my employer… which should be obvious
(Profile art by Angel Trazo)
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you view it like professional wrestling:
They go in front of the audience and beat each other up and hit each other with chairs… and then they go backstage, high five, and hang out.
Most politics isn’t sport - it’s sports entertainment.
They go in front of the audience and beat each other up and hit each other with chairs… and then they go backstage, high five, and hang out.
Most politics isn’t sport - it’s sports entertainment.
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Jeffrey Epstein said Trump was worse than gross. Jeffrey Epstein.
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Jeffrey Epstein said Trump was worse than gross. Jeffrey Epstein.
As an elder millennial, the most amazing thing about these Epstein leaks is how many friends he had and how often they stayed in touch. Incredible stuff
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
As an elder millennial, the most amazing thing about these Epstein leaks is how many friends he had and how often they stayed in touch. Incredible stuff
American politics makes a lot more sense when you view it like professional wrestling:
They go in front of the audience and beat each other up and hit each other with chairs… and then they go backstage, high five, and hang out.
Most politics isn’t sport - it’s sports entertainment.
They go in front of the audience and beat each other up and hit each other with chairs… and then they go backstage, high five, and hang out.
Most politics isn’t sport - it’s sports entertainment.
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you view it like professional wrestling:
They go in front of the audience and beat each other up and hit each other with chairs… and then they go backstage, high five, and hang out.
Most politics isn’t sport - it’s sports entertainment.
They go in front of the audience and beat each other up and hit each other with chairs… and then they go backstage, high five, and hang out.
Most politics isn’t sport - it’s sports entertainment.
Reposted by Andrew Zolides, Ph.D.
The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick
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This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.
Amna… get the hell out of there!
![• The NYT announced the lineup for the Andrew Ross Sorkin-anchored
DealBook summit, which included one curious name: Erika Kirk. [NYT]
• A panel on journalism hosted by Michael Barbaro will include: Charlamagne Tha God, Jon Favreau, Amna Nawaz, David Remnick, Stephanie Ruhle, Andrew Schulz, and Ben Shapiro.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cvhu7p2bziajywpce7yrlevy/bafkreicn7lw6rvcuzeggxpnhbut62ogrvpbikaomwvfq2qsel3sx777uoq@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Amna… get the hell out of there!
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“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
If the caucus you lead is not following your lead, then you aren’t really a leader, are you?
OR - they are following your lead and you just think we’re morons…
You are either incompetent or lying. Either way, you should resign.
OR - they are following your lead and you just think we’re morons…
You are either incompetent or lying. Either way, you should resign.
I will not support the Republican bill that’s on the Senate floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If the caucus you lead is not following your lead, then you aren’t really a leader, are you?
OR - they are following your lead and you just think we’re morons…
You are either incompetent or lying. Either way, you should resign.
OR - they are following your lead and you just think we’re morons…
You are either incompetent or lying. Either way, you should resign.
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The reason we continue to see Democrats literally capitulating with fascists at key moments where actual continued resistance would have fractured the fascists power is because fracturing the systemic powers that support fascism would also destroy neoliberalism and its theater in place of action.
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The reason we continue to see Democrats literally capitulating with fascists at key moments where actual continued resistance would have fractured the fascists power is because fracturing the systemic powers that support fascism would also destroy neoliberalism and its theater in place of action.
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In a nutshell, this is it. They will try to destroy any leftist takeover, like they did with Bernie, even if this means more power to the GOP. *Nothing* that Trump has done (ICE, Cecot, tariffs, USAID, frivolous prosecutions of Trump oponents, even the murder of the Hortmans) matters to them.
Schumer and his friends want Trump to have power because they hate you. They are furious Mamdani won in a landslide and are afraid of repeats all over the country. Their solution is open capitulation to the far right.
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
In a nutshell, this is it. They will try to destroy any leftist takeover, like they did with Bernie, even if this means more power to the GOP. *Nothing* that Trump has done (ICE, Cecot, tariffs, USAID, frivolous prosecutions of Trump oponents, even the murder of the Hortmans) matters to them.
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We are going to be forced to remove both parties and their entire infrastructure to actually being about democracy again in the future that’s the reality.
As I have been saying both publicly in speaking engagements as well as in written pieces. Neoliberalism was always a threat as real as fascism.
As I have been saying both publicly in speaking engagements as well as in written pieces. Neoliberalism was always a threat as real as fascism.
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
We are going to be forced to remove both parties and their entire infrastructure to actually being about democracy again in the future that’s the reality.
As I have been saying both publicly in speaking engagements as well as in written pieces. Neoliberalism was always a threat as real as fascism.
As I have been saying both publicly in speaking engagements as well as in written pieces. Neoliberalism was always a threat as real as fascism.
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Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
Guys, I don’t think we can vote our way out of this… The United States is a thoroughly entrenched plutocracy, and it must be obliterated at the root.
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Guys, I don’t think we can vote our way out of this… The United States is a thoroughly entrenched plutocracy, and it must be obliterated at the root.
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Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
When you know you are doing something popular…
Vote could be as early as 8 pm but probably will happen late at night/early morning to minimize people paying attention
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
When you know you are doing something popular…
Then he won the negotiation!!! Jesus Christ!
Some Senate Ds told @mkraju.bsky.social they folded because Trump said he wouldn't negotiate
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Then he won the negotiation!!! Jesus Christ!
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Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.
In other words, the GOP federal government plans to punish states for feeding children with those states’ own money.
Breaking News: The Trump administration told states to undo any steps to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if the states do not comply. It was unclear how that would affect the program.
Trump Live Updates: Airport and SNAP Benefit Disruptions Amid Shutdown
nyti.ms
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
In other words, the GOP federal government plans to punish states for feeding children with those states’ own money.
Amazing recent texts from my father
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Amazing recent texts from my father
If he wasn’t destroying the world and an absolute monster, I’d almost feel sorry for him. This is truly, utterly pathetic.
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If he wasn’t destroying the world and an absolute monster, I’d almost feel sorry for him. This is truly, utterly pathetic.
Wait, I thought food lines were the result of Communism, not Capitalism…?
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Wait, I thought food lines were the result of Communism, not Capitalism…?
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.
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Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.