Founder of Garbage Media, where I write the award-winning Garbage Day newsletter about web culture and host the Panic World podcast. They're both really good.
Joined December 2008
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Jun 5
And we carry the flame
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Ryan Broderick retweeted
The ancient texts (Your Scene Sucks) are still out there...
look, i'm not humorless so i can get behind jokes looking back on the hipster era just as much as the next girl who spent too much money at american apparel. But people have GOT to stop associating that scene with stomp clap lumineers shit. it's inaccurate!
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Ryan Broderick retweeted
It is seriously so good. And if you followed the voting rights rally in Montgomery over the weekend, this expands on that a lot
Awesome! New season of Rebel Spirit is out there, hosted by @AkilahObviously Go check it out!
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May 19
It's kind of wild that the only "fantasy" series to really take a risk moving the story forward like this is Avatar The Last Airbender, which I think actually kind of crushed it with Legend Of Korra's Bender Hong Kong/Gilded Age. Even if the actual story had some issues.
May 19
It's weird how the Game of Thrones people can't figure out how to move the story forward. GRRM just regimagines classic moments of English history:
HotD = The Anarchy
AKoSK = Ivanhoe
GoT = War of the Roses
Make a GoT Tudors. Do Sansa as Elizabeth. Or timeskip and have Sam Tarly's grandson be a Cromwell figure. Flip the Hundred Years' War and have Westerosi Joan of Arc. Keep going until you have a midwife riding a dragon to Fleabottom.
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May 19
idk I think they're probably booing because every single AI company has used the line "we will create a permanent underclass and there's nothing you can do to stop us" as their main marketing line since 2022 and that isn't exactly attractive to young people entering the workforce
May 19
I watched the video of grads booing former Google CEO Eric Schmidt during his Airzona commencement speech when he mentioned their ability to shape AI.
Why boo though? I think it's cause they read @Andrey4Mir's book and know that media shapes humans, not the other ay around.
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Ryan Broderick retweeted
Season 2 of my award-winning podcast, Rebel Spirit, about the re-confederatization of the *UNITED STATES* and general loserliness of the lost cause starts today. Go listen and subscribe wherever you get podcasts.
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May 18
So I'm 36 years old and, you know, out of touch with what's going on at colleges, so maybe this is a dumb question, but did every school in the country lose their fucking minds lol. Why have all these universities baked AI into their graduation ceremonies? What fuck is going on?
May 18
College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names
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May 16
The glut of stupid clipping takes from media outlets is really just them telling on themselves. They're admitting, first, that they were using short-form videos as a lazy way to measure popularity and, second, that they never even considered promoting themselves the same way.
May 16
i don't understand this argument that people aren't "actually" popular if their content is mainly consumed via clips than through their own programming...people see the clips!
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Not everything is a psyop, but there are massive digital operations with budgets that dwarf major news agencies who are happy to do whatever it takes to reach an audience and don't care about the purity of like freebooting a video or tweetdecking. Welcome to the internet!
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May 16
The driving force of all these "everything popular online is fake" stories is an existential panic that newsrooms can't just open up Twitter or TikTok and count the number of videos about the same thing and file a story about how it's a trend. Sorry it actually takes some effort.
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May 15
I liked Gen V a lot (especially the first season) but it's clear that it being a cinematic universe spinoff has added to the confusion around the final season of The Boys. I honestly wonder if it should have just been added to the main show as a subplot across two extra seasons.
Eric Kripke was asked if he would do anything differently with the ‘GEN V’ crossover in #TheBoys Season 5 if he had known it was going to be cancelled.
“This is The Boys finale, and they deserve to have their story told. But maybe there would have been a way through dialogue or something to hint at something with a little more finality. To prepare everyone, we leave the Gen V kids heading off into more story…. Even in Episode 7, we’re hinting at some really interesting notions of issues and problems that Marie still has to deal with because we were hoping we could”
(Via:@Collider)
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May 15
Either these spinoffs matter or they don't. And if they don't, they need a reason to exist separate from the main story. Gen V has its own characters and plot, for the most part, but each season tied into the main story in ways that seemed like they mattered.
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May 7
I am a huge Southland Tales defender and think it has one of the clearest visions of the future (our present) I've ever seen in a scifi movie. But I also rewatched for the first time in 15 years last month and man is it a tough watch lol. A truly bizarre mess of a film.
May 7
last week, i called Richard Kelly while he was killing time at the airport to talk about how Southland Tales predicted the future gq.com/story/richard-kelly-s…
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Apr 30
I like season 5, but I think the biggest issue is that Kripke and co made a final season of a TV show from a different era. S5 has mostly been "here's the last chance to hang out with these characters," rather than, "here are satisfying conclusions to all the plot threads."
this week's cameo-heavy episode of THE BOYS: a reminder of how far this show has strayed from what it originally was, and an indication of the kind of satire it increasingly cannot pull off. @vulture:
vulture.com/article/the-boys…
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Apr 30
Boys fans, who have always had a complicated relationship with the show, hate this season. The subreddits are in meltdown. But if the next three episodes veer back into the plot, I think these quieter/sillier episodes will feel a lot better in context.
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Apr 30
But also my POV is a little different from the average viewer I think. I read The Boys comic before the show came out (I wouldn't recommend it lol). So I know they're still on track for the comic ending and I know for a fact it doesn't really need 8 hours of build up.
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Apr 29
"An unceasing portal into a desolate Other America dictated by Bang Bus physics... a 12-year-old boy’s psychosexual fever dream of what life must be like outside of his gamer nest."
- This week's Garbage Day read on short form video clipping 👏 @broderick garbageday.email/p/spending-…
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Apr 27
Oh? This was the weekend you and everyone you know decided to become violently xenophobic gangsters who terrorized immigrants? That was this weekend?
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Apr 20
Congrats, Silicon Valley, you built an infinite Jerry Springer machine and no one wants to use it anymore because it makes them look like Jerry Springer. Me on the inevitable death of "clipping" and, probably, the entire short-form video industry.
garbageday.email/p/what-happ…
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