The Pitt is a phenomenal show – but the fandom is ruining it As a fan of the show myself, I find these so-called ‘Pitt Bullies’ embarrassing.

wrote about The Pitt and fandom as moral responsibility (didn't write the headline, natch) metro.co.uk/2026/04/21/p...

you'd be better off asking literally anyone else

“Homicide: Life on the Street” and the Perverse Pleasures of Copaganda How do we come to terms with the undeniable pleasures of this blatantly ideological genre?

for @fullstopmag.bsky.social i wrote about binging Homicide: Life on the Street and the perverse pleasures of copaganda TV www.full-stop.net/2026/04/02/f...

“Homicide: Life on the Street” and the Perverse Pleasures of Copaganda How do we come to terms with the undeniable pleasures of this blatantly ideological genre?

for @fullstopmag.bsky.social i wrote about binging Homicide: Life on the Street and the perverse pleasures of copaganda TV www.full-stop.net/2026/04/02/f...

I despise when tech execs describe resistance to a new tech product or paradigm as "being scared" i.e. "I understand why musicians are scared but.." it's so condescending. being politically against something or exercising your right to opt out can come from many places other than "being scared"

there is a concurrent transformation occurring as media literacy dissipates at the same time as every art form deals with the abandonment of any sense of mass appeal that still existed. it's just most obvious on a cultural level with cinema

Gambling on War An insider made hundreds of thousands betting just before Maduro was kidnapped. This kind of behavior is becoming normalized.

wrote about Polymarket/Kalshi and the financializing of the tides of war www.liberalcurrents.com/gambling-on-...

Do you pay?

Eight Sci-Fi Books That Teach Urbanists the Dos and Don’ts of the Future Science fiction has long painted a picture of the city of the future. What if they’re our roadmap out of dystopia?

wrote about some of sci-fi's best cities of the future (written with urban planners in mind) www.planetizen.com/features/137...

i love getting fan mail

Folks, I'm in a position where I could really use any work. I'm an academic who can teach film, media & communications, and a writer who covers tech, film, and politics. Editors, etc hire me to do anything in those realms. Keep me in mind for anything you think I could be good for!

Hollywood Isn’t Directly Attacking Trump. It’s Doing Something More Interesting. Less “what we need right now” and more “what it feels like to be alive.”

Many Hollywood projects responding to Trump’s first term were “direct, if unsubtle, approaches” to the moment—but now, films and TV shows are exploring in different ways what being alive feels like during a tumultuous period, Jake Pitre argues:

Hollywood Isn’t Directly Attacking Trump. It’s Doing Something More Interesting. Less “what we need right now” and more “what it feels like to be alive.”

Wrote about the last year or so in mainstream political cinema, with the spectre of Trump haunting it all, and the films (and Tim Robinson) that look instead at what it means to "live through history." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Folks, I'm in a position where I could really use any work. I'm an academic who can teach film, media & communications, and a writer who covers tech, film, and politics. Editors, etc hire me to do anything in those realms. Keep me in mind for anything you think I could be good for!

very fair, I do think it rises above that even if it’s in conversation with it

The new doc on HBO, Neighbors, is pretty fascinating

AI expert-in-residence initiative helps artists shape the future of creative work | News - Concordia University Public conversations and a summer course examining AI and artistic agency coming to Concordia

Concordia University, known for its excellent Fine Arts Dept. rolling out the carpet to the AI bros. They might be interested to know that the Fine Arts students by and large reject AI for all the right reasons. This is enraging.
www.concordia.ca/cunews/finea...

the idiocy of AI boosterism in a sentence

The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

NEW from me today:

Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.

xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline.

I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.

Pulse, Demonlover, and Meanings of the Internet Two films clairvoyant in their skepticism of the internet.

wrote for @typebarmagazine.bsky.social about Pulse & Demonlover as the best films about the internet as a network of depersonalization www.typebarmagazine.com/pulse-demonl...

one year since David Lynch's passing. commemorating by seeing Part 8 "Gotta Light?" on the big screen tonight <3

when i reply to my gf "hi hungry i'm jake"

The '90s San Francisco cyber thriller that predicted online pizza orders Sandra Bullock's cyber thriller was years ahead of its time.

Sandra Bullock's cyber thriller was years ahead of its time.

The '90s San Francisco cyber thriller that predicted online pizza orders Sandra Bullock's cyber thriller was years ahead of its time.

i interviewed a bunch of the tech whizzes behind The Net (1995) for @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

This is funny because those are like months old on TikTok, you’re experiencing the dregs

Do newsrooms need a memeologist? In the age of meme-slop and digital newsrooms shuttering, internet culture reporters say mainstream media is ill-equipped to cover not just trends, but a radicalization that doesn't look how it used…

In the age of meme-slop and digital newsrooms shuttering, are mainstream newsrooms equipped to cover the internet? @jakeadampitre.bsky.social asked @taylorlorenz.bsky.social, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, and @samleecole.bsky.social to weigh in:

Do newsrooms need a memeologist? In the age of meme-slop and digital newsrooms shuttering, internet culture reporters say mainstream media is ill-equipped to cover not just trends, but a radicalization that doesn't look how it used t...

wrote about why the media is still so bad at covering internet culture & the lack of resources available to fix it, for @objectivejournos.bsky.social objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/do-n...

@karengregory.bsky.social reminded me of our little project!

recommended reading: Randy Martin, Knowledge LTD: Toward a Social Logic of the Derivative (2014)