www.theverge.com/podcast/9321... "Substack is probably the biggest union-busting development that exists, even though that’s not its intention." LMAO... Jonah, buddy... I have some news for you
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Anil Dash
the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
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Exclusive: Jonah Peretti explains why he sold BuzzFeed | The Verge theverge.com
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I will also say, I went in very ready to be annoyed with Ezra on this one, but hearing him raise the (VERY NEEDED) topic of publicly-owned tech infrastructure for things like data centers and AI was *excellent*, and is well worth a listen as well. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…
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The AI content licensing market is putting news publishers in a “double bind," according to a new Open Markets report. The same big tech companies stripping news publishers of traffic are the ones dictating what alternative revenue will look like. www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/the…
anildash.com/2026/04/28/o... I think we’re probably close
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For many years, people asked me, “How come Prince didn’t allow people to upload his music to YouTube?” It used to take a long time to explain it, but now that Big AI platforms are extracting everyone’s content without consent… everybody suddenly gets it. Which is interesting.