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Adam J. Simon
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Writing about culture and technology.

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adamjsimon.bsky.social
As someone who watched all the doc shorts, the only correct choice was The Devil Is Busy. All the Empty Rooms is not a good doc, and clearly won solely because of the subject matter, not the actual film.
March 16, 2026 at 1:20 AM
adamjsimon.bsky.social
Oh so the Oscars Red Carpet is streaming on Hulu on Disney+, but the Oscars isn’t streaming on Hulu on Disney+, just on Hulu on Hulu, the app that Disney keeps saying you don’t need anymore. Cool. Makes sense.
March 15, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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lillywachowski.bsky.social
always happy to be supporting money going to queer artists!
lots of kick ass cool people associated with this org!
Alan Cumming, Bowen Yang Help Launch Necessary Foundation to Support LGBTQ Filmmakers
"There is, in this moment, enormous political pressure to delete queer people from American media, and that includes young filmmakers who are being shut out of the industry,” said executive director A...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
March 6, 2026 at 4:56 PM
adamjsimon.bsky.social
Some clips from my interview on TBPN earlier this week. 🧵

1. Why the future of entertainment is off the screen and into the real world
March 6, 2026 at 7:03 PM
adamjsimon.bsky.social
So proud of @theadamgoldman.bsky.social and the work he’s doing with The Necessary Foundation! Congratulations on the launch!!! 🥂🚀

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…
Alan Cumming, Bowen Yang Help Launch Necessary Foundation to Support LGBTQ Filmmakers
"There is, in this moment, enormous political pressure to delete queer people from American media, and that includes young filmmakers who are being shut out of the industry,” said executive director Adam Goldman. “Now it's time to push back."
www.hollywoodreporter.com
March 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM
adamjsimon.bsky.social
I’ll be live on TBPN today to talk about Netflix’s big win, why Warner Bros. is a cursed object, and why the future of entertainment is bigger than a screen.

Tune in today at 1:40 PT!
www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive
TBPN
Technology's daily show.
www.youtube.com
March 2, 2026 at 5:18 PM
adamjsimon.bsky.social
My annual look at how consumer behaviors in tech and media are shifting — please have a read and let me know what you think! medium.com/@adamjsimon/ou…
Outlook 2026: Adding Friction
For the past decade, I’ve started the year with an Outlook report, detailing changes I saw in early-adopter behavior that I thought would…
medium.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
January 27, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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margaret.bsky.social
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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naomialderman.bsky.social
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:

zombiesrungame.com

observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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paris.nyc
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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lorak.bsky.social
Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.
September 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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moryan.bsky.social
Rich people, especially rich people in the media & entertainment industries right this moment:

The point of having fuck you money is saying “fuck you” when it counts.
a rainbow colored shooting star with the words the mo you know above it
ALT: a rainbow colored shooting star with the words the mo you know above it
media.tenor.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
adamjsimon.bsky.social
Iger returning to Disney was the final finger closing on the money’s paw. He’s really going to wish he’d sailed off into the sunset.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Sep 18
wow, difficult decision! do the right thing and cement your legacy as a hero in history books. or make a lot of money!

tough!!
jaketapper.bsky.social Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · Sep 18
One other wrinkle to consider as Bob Iger makes his decision about Jimmy Kimmel
September 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
adamjsimon.bsky.social
If I fill out a form on a website and you call me immediately, you've just lost my business. Psychotic, desperate behavior.
September 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
1/ Popping back in with another #fallvaccine update. 👇

In case you missed it, Friday (or soon after) the FDA is expected to license the Covid-19 vaccine. Word is that the label will be restricted to adults 65+ and people at high risk.

But a few organizations have made different recommendations.
August 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.
July 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.

That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:

Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
An Onion front page with the headline: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice Who will stand up for our democracy? This question, fraught in even the most peaceful times, has only grown more pressing as our country approaches its 250th anniversary. Each passing day brings growing assaults on essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process. Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against peaceful protesters. We teeter on the brink of collapse into an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing. Members of Congress, now more than ever, our nation desperately needs your cowardice. Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can too easily be lost. Our Founding Fathers, in their abundant wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power and taking zero action as this precious inheritance was stripped away—and that is where we have finally arrived. Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone on about what’s happening to their precious democracy. This is the time for getting down on all fours and grov- eling. Now is not the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and have the tough conversations about resisting the ongoing assaults on American liberty. This is the time to let the wave of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think about getting a really nice renovation to your house in Kalorama. But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask.
June 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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jeradwalker.bsky.social
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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jamescdownie.bsky.social
"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history to help cut taxes for the richest people in the country....all without hearings, debate or public input." wilderness.org/articles/med...
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
wilderness.org
June 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
adamjsimon.bsky.social
At this rate, Jamie Lloyd is going to invent live television by 2030. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
Paying Evita audience upset as Don’t Cry delivered offstage to West End passersby for free
Paying audiences divided over staging in which they get video feed of Rachel Zegler singing on balcony to passersby
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*
gelliottmorris.com G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · Jun 15
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM