I also write a weekly newsletter about tech and culture called The Torment Nexus, which is published via Ghost, Substack and on my website and is free to read, although donations are gladly accepted. You can find it here: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com
If you’re looking for something to read on the weekend, try my newsletter of interesting links called “When The Going Gets Weird,” which I publish with Ghost, Substack and on the web — it’s free but donations are gratefully accepted newsletter.mathewingram.com
Based on past DoJ antitrust cases like Microsoft, where the remedy came long after the technology world had already moved on, what this filing really means is that Google is quickly becoming irrelevant www.techmeme.com/241121/p5
In my newsletter The Torment Nexus, I argue that — believe it or not — Elon Musk has made a good point in this one specific and limited case: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/elon-musk…
Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” previously unseen footage of the JFK shooting sells for $137,000 and a German paraglider was sucked into a lightning storm and pushed higher than Mount Everest newsletter.mathewingram.com/previousl…
I wrote about how Bluesky has a lot of potential as a Twitter replacement, but people like Cory Doctorow still have some concerns, and ultimately federation could allow many Twitters to bloom torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-bluesk…
I’ve been going through some of my older columns and I came across this piece from 2017 in which I argued that we should use the L word when Trump lies. It seems almost quaint now mathewingram.com/work/2017…
Bankruptcy judge halts The Onion’s purchase of Alex Jones’ InfoWars citing a lack of transparency news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptc…
Elon Musk’s X sued to block a California law aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming the measure is an unconstitutional affront to free speech. www.bloomberg.com/news/arti…
Hi @manton – keep getting errors when crossposting to Bluesky, and it seems to have something to do with the image. Is this on your end or theirs? Error says “Cross-posting exception: 49713940” and refers to MiniMagick. Sorry to keep bugging you about this, just curious
There’s been a lot of attention on Bluesky lately, so for this week’s edition of The Torment Nexus I looked at whether Bluesky is the new Twitter, and whether we need one at all: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-bluesk…
I encourage you to read the entire thing, but my favourite fact in my piece about Bluesky at The Torment Nexus is that CEO Jay Graber’s given name is “Lantian,” which means “blue sky” in Mandarin torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-bluesk…
Today in my “When The Going Gets Weird” newsletter, some heart transplant recipients show changes in personality, and a New York real estate queen who had a secret newsletter.mathewingram.com/heart-tra…
Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” the untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb, nicknamed The Emperor Bomb, and the special mud that the MLB rubs on its baseballs is said to have magical properties newsletter.mathewingram.com/the-untol…
I still don’t think Trump knows or cares about most of the things he was supposedly elected for. He’s a figurehead just like Reagan or Nixon — the big question is who is pulling the strings. Who is the Henry Kissinger of 2024?
A reminder that I write two newsletters – one daily collection of interesting links called “When The Going Gets Weird,” and a weekly column on tech called “The Torment Nexus.” Both are published via Ghost and Substack, and all content is also posted to mathewingram.com/work
There’s been lots of commentary about how social media swung the election for Trump via disinformation etc. In this week’s Torment Nexus newsletter, I wrote about how that is a tempting theory but likely incorrect torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/social-me…
New at The Torment Nexus: “Social media is a symptom, not a cause” torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/social-me…
Trump’s win is unlikely to affect me much personally, since I’m Canadian. But I have trans friends and gay friends who use IVF and women who are afraid for their reproductive rights and friends who are immigrants, and I am worried for all of them in this new America
I wrote about a project I ran for a number of years at the Columbia Journalism Review called Galley – a “podcast but with typing.” I wish it was still around mathewingram.com/work/inde…
Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” a legendary gambler who won and lost a fortune several times over, and a mysterious 60-ton iron sphere is discovered in Bosnia: newsletter.mathewingram.com/he-was-a-…
Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” how trying to avoid peanut allergies actually made them worse, and the strange life of a forgotten founder of the band Fleetwood Mac newsletter.mathewingram.com/how-tryin…
Need something to read? I publish two free newsletters (payment is encouraged but not required). When The Going Gets Weird is random odd or interesting news items, and The Torment Nexus is thoughts and analysis about technology. More info and links to both at my blog mathewingram.com/work
Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” the Stanford Prison Experiment was faked, and no one knows why it’s called a monkey wrench newsletter.mathewingram.com/the-famou…