Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military esports, video games, and gender theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military esports, video games, and gender theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
· Jan 9
Public Relations in Times of Dissensus
Public relations are entering an era marked by increasing societal dissensus, where shared narratives are breaking down and contentious communication defines th…
www.bloomsbury.com
Yay! Thrilled that the volume I co-edited with Saima Kazmi and Burton St. John is available for pre-order: Public Relations in Times of Dissensus: Narratives, Artifacts, and the Challenges of Meaning. It’s a pretty timely exploration of how we can communicate with the public when we all disagree.
Guys that Tyra Banks docu series is WILD
February 18, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Guys that Tyra Banks docu series is WILD
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It is a cult.
The AI Apocalypse - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I’ve wanted to understand a bit about AI before I wrote about it. My gut feeling was that this is something we don’t want generally although it may have a few specific uses. That remains my partially ...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:26 PM
It is a cult.
AI companies are phagocytizing the entire economy and a lot of folks look at it and go “the future is cool”
That reads more like a cult than an economic sector to me.
That reads more like a cult than an economic sector to me.
Seagate and WD just declared they've finished selling their stock for the year and won't be stepping up production early. Drives out on retail have doubled in cost this week. There's the rest of the year ahead.
February 17, 2026 at 11:22 PM
AI companies are phagocytizing the entire economy and a lot of folks look at it and go “the future is cool”
That reads more like a cult than an economic sector to me.
That reads more like a cult than an economic sector to me.
“This weekend, it’s hosting a free clinic courtesy of Remote Area Medical, a nonprofit like Doctors Without Borders, but for places in the United States where the health outcomes are as grim as those in many developing countries.”
I will never understand why ordinary people defend this system.
I will never understand why ordinary people defend this system.
Trump has betrayed the people of coal country. They love him anyway.
Trump has betrayed the people of coal country. They love him anyway.
“He thinks our people are idiots.”
www.motherjones.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:03 PM
“This weekend, it’s hosting a free clinic courtesy of Remote Area Medical, a nonprofit like Doctors Without Borders, but for places in the United States where the health outcomes are as grim as those in many developing countries.”
I will never understand why ordinary people defend this system.
I will never understand why ordinary people defend this system.
I’m on day, like, 11 of trying to recover from a vial infection and while I’m not feverish anymore I just feel like ass constantly, unable to rest. I know that happens sometimes but it’s really frustrating.
February 17, 2026 at 9:52 PM
I’m on day, like, 11 of trying to recover from a vial infection and while I’m not feverish anymore I just feel like ass constantly, unable to rest. I know that happens sometimes but it’s really frustrating.
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This is indistinguishable from right-wing anti-SJW agitprop
Confessions of a Former Body Positivity Influencer
YouTube video by New York Times Opinion
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:00 PM
This is indistinguishable from right-wing anti-SJW agitprop
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The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
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Obituary: Sega Console designer Hideki Sato has passed away
Obituary: Sega Console designer Hideki Sato has passed away
Sato had a major role in shaping nearly all of Sega's consoles, including the Dreamcast and Saturn.
www.gamedeveloper.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Obituary: Sega Console designer Hideki Sato has passed away
The Democrats cementing themselves as the party that hates fun by banning this app — in an election year! — is maybe the height of the leadership’s pea-brained normalism under Biden. Just an unnecessary, catastrophic mistake.
I don't know how you can read this reporting and not wonder if, since they knew that a Trump win would save the company, did TikTok juice the algorithm to boost him in the run up to the 2024 election?
www.axios.com/2026/02/17/t...
www.axios.com/2026/02/17/t...
How Trump saved TikTok: Backstory of a 2-year campaign
One chart, cleverly plopped on the first page, jumped out at Trump. "I'm more popular than Taylor Swift," he crowed.
www.axios.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The Democrats cementing themselves as the party that hates fun by banning this app — in an election year! — is maybe the height of the leadership’s pea-brained normalism under Biden. Just an unnecessary, catastrophic mistake.
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today in "campus free speech":
U of North Texas Cancels Exhibit With Anti-ICE Art
The University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design removed an art exhibit that includes anti-ICE artwork, the artist told The Denton Record-Chronicle.
www.insidehighered.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:41 PM
today in "campus free speech":
Jain is one of the most bigoted, dishonest hacks out there.
Consider: interracial marriage didn’t have majority support until 1997. Should liberals have opposed it in 1996? I think we all agree that would have been immoral. Yet, that’s his project. He isn’t just unethical; he is an immoral person.
Consider: interracial marriage didn’t have majority support until 1997. Should liberals have opposed it in 1996? I think we all agree that would have been immoral. Yet, that’s his project. He isn’t just unethical; he is an immoral person.
there's a new class of "data bros" like Jain who believe in nothing and also have no theory of power. they're a pure content play, just dead-eyed guys with a laptop and ggplot, composed entirely of engagement metrics and consultant dollars.
Lakshya Jain and the Argument fled this website because they couldn't take the criticism and now he's advocating for Dems to abandon trans issues with polling about 'gender surgery for minors' a thing that is not real
February 17, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Jain is one of the most bigoted, dishonest hacks out there.
Consider: interracial marriage didn’t have majority support until 1997. Should liberals have opposed it in 1996? I think we all agree that would have been immoral. Yet, that’s his project. He isn’t just unethical; he is an immoral person.
Consider: interracial marriage didn’t have majority support until 1997. Should liberals have opposed it in 1996? I think we all agree that would have been immoral. Yet, that’s his project. He isn’t just unethical; he is an immoral person.
Yes but a renowned white nationalist stole the unsuccessful college application documents of a minor child that accurately answered poorly-constructed demographic questions, and isn’t that more important.
Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan
AP: Zero
NYT: Zero
WashPost: Zero
Reuters: Zero
Politico: Zero
Axios: Zero
AP: Zero
NYT: Zero
WashPost: Zero
Reuters: Zero
Politico: Zero
Axios: Zero
Major corporations bankroll political ad featuring white supremacist slogan
Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), who is running to replace Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, released his first television ad earlier this month.
popular.info
February 17, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Yes but a renowned white nationalist stole the unsuccessful college application documents of a minor child that accurately answered poorly-constructed demographic questions, and isn’t that more important.
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And yet, every day, our most prominent Democratic politicians, scholars, public intellectuals, universities & university leaders, & other civil society organizations continue to use his platform as their primary social media outlet. One cannot help but notice this & draw conclusions.
The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.
February 17, 2026 at 2:44 PM
And yet, every day, our most prominent Democratic politicians, scholars, public intellectuals, universities & university leaders, & other civil society organizations continue to use his platform as their primary social media outlet. One cannot help but notice this & draw conclusions.
My kingdom for outlook letting me open calendar in a second window
February 17, 2026 at 4:01 PM
My kingdom for outlook letting me open calendar in a second window
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this is downstream of the fact that their reporters are all still on X! they're marinating in fascism! they think it's the air!
It is 2026 and the NYT is still doing Democratic gaffe coverage based on which bad-faith attacks are "rocketing around conservative social media."
I simply cannot.
I simply cannot.
February 17, 2026 at 2:09 PM
this is downstream of the fact that their reporters are all still on X! they're marinating in fascism! they think it's the air!
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I wrote about the Epstein files and how they illustrate the fact that the oligarchs are not exactly rigorous thinkers. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Epstein Class Clowns
One key revelation in the wide correspondence of the late pedophile: the rich and powerful just aren't all that bright.
www.thenation.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM
I wrote about the Epstein files and how they illustrate the fact that the oligarchs are not exactly rigorous thinkers. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One way to identify right-wing dominance of the US media environment: This is much more direct, egregious government censorship than the biggest claims of the “Twitter Files”—including ones they made up that had no evidence behind them—and will get a small fraction of the attention and outrage.
Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.
Colbert Says CBS Pulled Guest Over FCC Scrutiny; Posts Interview to YouTube Instead
Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.
dlvr.it
February 17, 2026 at 1:18 PM
One way to identify right-wing dominance of the US media environment: This is much more direct, egregious government censorship than the biggest claims of the “Twitter Files”—including ones they made up that had no evidence behind them—and will get a small fraction of the attention and outrage.
Don’t mind me, I just got into the shower with my glasses on and didn’t realize it until I tried to wash my hair.
February 17, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Don’t mind me, I just got into the shower with my glasses on and didn’t realize it until I tried to wash my hair.
I haven’t seen this for decades and it still gives me chills. What an extraordinary man. RIP.
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
February 17, 2026 at 12:42 PM
I haven’t seen this for decades and it still gives me chills. What an extraordinary man. RIP.
This is a genuinely horrific example of censorship, but also of the amateurship Skydance has put in place at CBS. Maybe they shouldn’t have announced firing Colbert so far in advance, you know? What are they gonna do to him about it? Why would they expect him to listen?
NEWS: CBS blocked Stephen Colbert from airing an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico and ordered him not to mention the cancellation over fear of FCC chair Brendan Carr.
Colbert went on air and revealed it anyway.
“He was supposed to be here, but… 1/
Colbert went on air and revealed it anyway.
“He was supposed to be here, but… 1/
February 17, 2026 at 12:17 PM
This is a genuinely horrific example of censorship, but also of the amateurship Skydance has put in place at CBS. Maybe they shouldn’t have announced firing Colbert so far in advance, you know? What are they gonna do to him about it? Why would they expect him to listen?
Someone check his search history
Noah Rothman on the Epstein files: "It is a witch hunt. It‘s a moral panic."
February 17, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Someone check his search history
“In 18 months, none of our customers will have jobs.”
I mean, does that sound like something a business executive would really believe or work to accomplish?
I mean, does that sound like something a business executive would really believe or work to accomplish?
The tech's current capabilities include telling people to walk instead of drive to get their car washed, but, sure, within 12-18 months it'll perform at the level of "a lawyer, or an accountant, or a project manager, or a marketing person."
Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months — ‘We’re going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks’
And now, the end is near...
www.tomshardware.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:42 AM
“In 18 months, none of our customers will have jobs.”
I mean, does that sound like something a business executive would really believe or work to accomplish?
I mean, does that sound like something a business executive would really believe or work to accomplish?
I’d check the editor’s search history at once
Chicago Magazine named Nick Fuentes #7 in its list of Top 50 powerful Chicagoans of 2025.
February 17, 2026 at 11:38 AM
I’d check the editor’s search history at once