Karl Bode
@karlbode.com
💻I write about tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.🕺🙄🤦♂️
You're a business journalist and you didn't think to ask Sinclair Broadcasting any questions about whether its sagging revenues had anything to do with a historically clumsy attempt to censor a comedian on behalf of our dim president?
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
You're a business journalist and you didn't think to ask Sinclair Broadcasting any questions about whether its sagging revenues had anything to do with a historically clumsy attempt to censor a comedian on behalf of our dim president?
excuse me sir I think you don't understand
this is really about "principled engineering"
this is really about "principled engineering"
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
excuse me sir I think you don't understand
this is really about "principled engineering"
this is really about "principled engineering"
jack dorsey got lucky and is an unremarkable idiot, episode 7,000
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
jack dorsey got lucky and is an unremarkable idiot, episode 7,000
I find mainstream U.S. journalism so fucking feckless and weird.
Like why are you quoting Vivek Ramaswamy? You literally couldn't find any actual economists or academics to talk to who have spent an entire life studying consumer affordability issues?
Like why are you quoting Vivek Ramaswamy? You literally couldn't find any actual economists or academics to talk to who have spent an entire life studying consumer affordability issues?
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I find mainstream U.S. journalism so fucking feckless and weird.
Like why are you quoting Vivek Ramaswamy? You literally couldn't find any actual economists or academics to talk to who have spent an entire life studying consumer affordability issues?
Like why are you quoting Vivek Ramaswamy? You literally couldn't find any actual economists or academics to talk to who have spent an entire life studying consumer affordability issues?
The GOP's primary policies involve destroying corporate oversight, gutting consumer protection regulators, and demolishing labor rights. That's not an opinion.
Yet major outlets love to reprint their lies about this stuff unchallenged.
Yet major outlets love to reprint their lies about this stuff unchallenged.
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The GOP's primary policies involve destroying corporate oversight, gutting consumer protection regulators, and demolishing labor rights. That's not an opinion.
Yet major outlets love to reprint their lies about this stuff unchallenged.
Yet major outlets love to reprint their lies about this stuff unchallenged.
are editors aware that every single brain fart this weirdo has does not warrant an entire news cycle?
November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
are editors aware that every single brain fart this weirdo has does not warrant an entire news cycle?
my math is rusty but how many journalists is $10k a day?
November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
my math is rusty but how many journalists is $10k a day?
This week in "know your Trump administration assholes" we have Arielle Roth, a former Ted Cruz staffer and Hudson Institute "think tanker" promoted to head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for some incoherent reason.
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This week in "know your Trump administration assholes" we have Arielle Roth, a former Ted Cruz staffer and Hudson Institute "think tanker" promoted to head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for some incoherent reason.
and by "faulty assumptions" we mean lies
November 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
and by "faulty assumptions" we mean lies
like, this is messaging improvement
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
like, this is messaging improvement
This Daily Beast report has more detail, including the fact that CBS edited out the parts where Trump lied about the Kamala Harris interview, forced CBS to pay him for no reason, and then in this latest interview asked 60 Minutes to not air that part (so they didn't)
archive.ph/Ukt7c
archive.ph/Ukt7c
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This Daily Beast report has more detail, including the fact that CBS edited out the parts where Trump lied about the Kamala Harris interview, forced CBS to pay him for no reason, and then in this latest interview asked 60 Minutes to not air that part (so they didn't)
archive.ph/Ukt7c
archive.ph/Ukt7c
Every time I go to book a flight they've added some new enshittified monetization layer
A country with functioning regulators would ban the entirety of this predatory cack
A country with functioning regulators would ban the entirety of this predatory cack
October 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Every time I go to book a flight they've added some new enshittified monetization layer
A country with functioning regulators would ban the entirety of this predatory cack
A country with functioning regulators would ban the entirety of this predatory cack
Hiro and I are headed to the surface for reconnaissance, let me know if anybody needs anything
October 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hiro and I are headed to the surface for reconnaissance, let me know if anybody needs anything
Arc Raiders is a fun and entertaining video game software entertainment program
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Arc Raiders is a fun and entertaining video game software entertainment program
like this is not real or true thing that will occur, and Meta is likely the last company that's going to dominate in this emerging space given the nature of their duplicative cack
yet their mythologies are never seriously challenged by tech and business journalism
yet their mythologies are never seriously challenged by tech and business journalism
October 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
like this is not real or true thing that will occur, and Meta is likely the last company that's going to dominate in this emerging space given the nature of their duplicative cack
yet their mythologies are never seriously challenged by tech and business journalism
yet their mythologies are never seriously challenged by tech and business journalism
"ok maybe it's a bubble but we definitely aren't responsible for it"
October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"ok maybe it's a bubble but we definitely aren't responsible for it"
ok maybe it's a bubble, but we DEFINITELY had NOTHING to do with it
October 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
ok maybe it's a bubble, but we DEFINITELY had NOTHING to do with it
of course it's not a bubble, says man profiting from bubble
(bookmark all this media coverage and then revisit it, say, next summer around July or so)
(bookmark all this media coverage and then revisit it, say, next summer around July or so)
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
of course it's not a bubble, says man profiting from bubble
(bookmark all this media coverage and then revisit it, say, next summer around July or so)
(bookmark all this media coverage and then revisit it, say, next summer around July or so)
trump bootlicker Brendan Carr just completely making some shit up here
The Times could mention there's absolutely no evidence for these "public safety and security" claims, but doesn't
The Times could mention there's absolutely no evidence for these "public safety and security" claims, but doesn't
October 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
trump bootlicker Brendan Carr just completely making some shit up here
The Times could mention there's absolutely no evidence for these "public safety and security" claims, but doesn't
The Times could mention there's absolutely no evidence for these "public safety and security" claims, but doesn't
I don't know what this is but I like it and I hope it's a trend
October 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I don't know what this is but I like it and I hope it's a trend
these guys have been clearly, openly warning you about a bubble (they created) that's going to cause mass economic upheaval next year
they're getting lean not because AI is so great, they're getting lean because they know the check is coming due for their bad choices across AI and authoritarianism
they're getting lean not because AI is so great, they're getting lean because they know the check is coming due for their bad choices across AI and authoritarianism
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
these guys have been clearly, openly warning you about a bubble (they created) that's going to cause mass economic upheaval next year
they're getting lean not because AI is so great, they're getting lean because they know the check is coming due for their bad choices across AI and authoritarianism
they're getting lean not because AI is so great, they're getting lean because they know the check is coming due for their bad choices across AI and authoritarianism
I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net
October 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net
"y'all are talkin' about foundational female reproductive rights too much!"
October 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"y'all are talkin' about foundational female reproductive rights too much!"