Dr. Will X. Uly
@wellactually.bsky.social
rhetoric sun. media rising. gender moon. assistant professor of communication studies, recovering marketer, and award-winning drag king. thinking about neoliberalism & gender performance in consumer culture. they/them.
the views expressed here are my own.
the views expressed here are my own.
Oh, I’m sure it’s not the best solution for sure. But there has to be away for folks to pay for individual reporting without having to commit to a larger recurring payment because nobody is going to pay for it (esp for one-off articles in local papers). There are just too many subscriptions now.
October 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Oh, I’m sure it’s not the best solution for sure. But there has to be away for folks to pay for individual reporting without having to commit to a larger recurring payment because nobody is going to pay for it (esp for one-off articles in local papers). There are just too many subscriptions now.
Also, just in response to the actual post I quoted, I think journalists should get paid for their work and it is absolutely rude too whine to them about not wanting to pay them. I just think the industry needed to have changed a long time ago to make that happen more effectively.
October 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Also, just in response to the actual post I quoted, I think journalists should get paid for their work and it is absolutely rude too whine to them about not wanting to pay them. I just think the industry needed to have changed a long time ago to make that happen more effectively.
I’ll gladly pay a couple of cents or even a buck to read one article. Especially for an article that goes viral, that stuff will add up. Way better for the industry than people relying on gift articles or simply reading the headline and forming an opinion…
October 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I’ll gladly pay a couple of cents or even a buck to read one article. Especially for an article that goes viral, that stuff will add up. Way better for the industry than people relying on gift articles or simply reading the headline and forming an opinion…
I’m so sick of AI boosters saying that we have to just accept this. I do not accept this. This is making everything harder and worse.
October 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I’m so sick of AI boosters saying that we have to just accept this. I do not accept this. This is making everything harder and worse.
Instead of making us more productive, AI companies have given us more work to do in the form of questioning every single frame of a video or triple checking that ChatGPT can’t write the exact same essay as a student. It’s already been shown to make corporate work worse with work slop too.
October 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Instead of making us more productive, AI companies have given us more work to do in the form of questioning every single frame of a video or triple checking that ChatGPT can’t write the exact same essay as a student. It’s already been shown to make corporate work worse with work slop too.
The media ecosystem doesn’t work where democratic messaging reaches anyone who doesn’t already mostly align with it. I think we have to rethink how “messaging” works, tbh.
September 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The media ecosystem doesn’t work where democratic messaging reaches anyone who doesn’t already mostly align with it. I think we have to rethink how “messaging” works, tbh.
Exactly. It’s why the idea of “debate” or “persuasion” through messaging is a fiction now. And I’m so tired of hearing folks on the left waste time bickering over semantics as if that will effect substantial change…
September 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Exactly. It’s why the idea of “debate” or “persuasion” through messaging is a fiction now. And I’m so tired of hearing folks on the left waste time bickering over semantics as if that will effect substantial change…
But journalists and pundits and researchers need to get real: the messaging war was lost a long time ago. No amount of yelling on YouTube and TikTok or finding a Joe Rogan of the left or shaming the New York Times is going to convince someone who is experiencing a different reality to come back over
September 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
But journalists and pundits and researchers need to get real: the messaging war was lost a long time ago. No amount of yelling on YouTube and TikTok or finding a Joe Rogan of the left or shaming the New York Times is going to convince someone who is experiencing a different reality to come back over
Y’all, there is no messaging that’s going to change minds. There is no active voice that will convince them otherwise. There is not even a shared media ecosystem. The only thing that fixes this is the end of social media and a return to shared news sources, and I don’t think that’s gonna happen.
September 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Y’all, there is no messaging that’s going to change minds. There is no active voice that will convince them otherwise. There is not even a shared media ecosystem. The only thing that fixes this is the end of social media and a return to shared news sources, and I don’t think that’s gonna happen.