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A newsletter by Karl Bode covering tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
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Ticketmaster Finally Faces Accountability For Being A Shitty Monopoly (Maybe)
https://karlbode.com/ticketmaster-finally-faces-accountability-for-being-a-shitty-monopoly-maybe/
Published: April 27, 2026 16:00
Why did it take a generation for an obvious monopoly to be held semi-accountable? Comical levels of U.S. corruption.
A Broken Press Gathers This Weekend To Normalize Fascism Over Cocktails
https://karlbode.com/the-u-s-press-gathers-this-weekend-to-normalize-fascism-over-cocktails/
Published: April 23, 2026 15:54
The brunchlord American press gathers every year to pretend they hold power accountable. This year it teeters out of unethical farce and into complicity.
CBS Just Can't Stop Kissing Donald Trump's Ass
https://karlbode.com/cbs-just-cant-stop-kissing-donald-trumps-ass/
Published: April 20, 2026 17:00
What's left of U.S. corporate media is utterly dedicated to demolishing whatever's left of their already soggy, feckless reputation. It's a cascading failure, driven by corruption, that shows no sign of slowing down.
AI, Artifice, And Authenticity
https://karlbode.com/ai-artifice-and-authenticity/
Published: April 16, 2026 17:00
The era of badly-automated homogenized engagement slop is upon us. I desperately want to believe there's a renaissance for authenticity on the other end.
Orban Loss Shows Fascist Propaganda Has Its Limits
https://karlbode.com/orban-loss-shows-fascist-propaganda-has-its-limits/
Published: April 13, 2026 16:59
Orban's Hungary was a template for America's shitty right wing zealots. But the propaganda-fueled bullshit machine now sits at the bottom of the sea, drowned by an electorate finally fed up by 16 years of rampant corruption.
Whoops, The Tech Press Mythologized Another Unethical Asshole
https://karlbode.com/whoops-the-tech-press-mythologized-another-unethical-asshole/
Published: April 9, 2026 16:27
Lazy access journalism is pathologically obsessed with helping unremarkable, unethical weirdos cultivate elaborate supergenius engineer mythologies while covertly undermining the public interest.
Tim Cook Is An Embarrassing Coward
https://karlbode.com/tim-cook-is-an-embarrassing-coward/
Published: April 6, 2026 17:08
Apple CEO Tim Cook represents soulless, rudderless contrition, unburdened by consistent ethics or any sort of overt moral compass, desperate to delude you into believing that fascism can be a reasonable partner open to meaningful dialogue.
Streaming Video Is Devouring itself
https://karlbode.com/streaming-video-is-devouring-itself/
Published: April 2, 2026 16:00
Nepobaby dysfunction and mindless consolidation are about to deliver a fatal blow to a streaming video sector that's experiencing textbook enshittification.
"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism
https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/
Published: March 30, 2026 15:19
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
Merger Promises Are Worthless
https://karlbode.com/merger-promises-are-always-worthless/
Published: March 26, 2026 17:00
Pointless media consolidation is always prefaced by a parade of meaningless lies that get parroted and paraded about by a lazy access press, itself the broken result of this same pointless consolidation.