Nitish Pahwa
@nitishpahwa.com
staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and online media council member @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, and POW Magazine. he/him. blurry visionary, blue-pill mercenary
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Nitish Pahwa
@nitishpahwa.com
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His Cartoons Were Beloved. He Created a Gen X Icon. But His Controversies Tarnished It All.
While generations of fans may have loved “Dilbert,” its creator devolved into something unrecognizable as he embraced the MAGA age.
slate.com
wrote about Scott Adams, a once-brilliant and -incisive cartoonist whom I used to genuinely admire—and whose work and worldview, in retrospect, were always blinkered and constricted in ways that presaged his racist MAGA turn and second career: slate.com/business/202...
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Chappell Roan is now in Fortnite
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Chappell Roan is now in Fortnite
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Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school
A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
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Jay-Z's Jet (N44440) Landed in Van Nuys, California, United States. Apx. flt. time 51 min.
February 6, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Jay-Z's Jet (N44440) Landed in Van Nuys, California, United States. Apx. flt. time 51 min.
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Oh, these ones? Poor baby
February 6, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Oh, these ones? Poor baby
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Saddened to learn that First Monday will cease publication. It was a quality open-access journal that eschewed the traps of big publishing and promoted innovative thinking & research regarding tech and society. #academicsky
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First Monday @ 30
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February 6, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Saddened to learn that First Monday will cease publication. It was a quality open-access journal that eschewed the traps of big publishing and promoted innovative thinking & research regarding tech and society. #academicsky
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Gotta be honest: I'm still not convinced.
February 6, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Gotta be honest: I'm still not convinced.
WHAT?? SO SOON AFTER LOSING VERLAINE?? mannnnnnnnnnnn
RIP Fred Smith of Television — one of the coolest bassists of all time.
February 6, 2026 at 10:34 PM
WHAT?? SO SOON AFTER LOSING VERLAINE?? mannnnnnnnnnnn
would much rather go through another month of "will-he-won't-he" instead of having to accept this
A player in massive trade rumors owning part of a prediction market where people can bet on whether he gets traded is a MASSIVE conflict of interest.
This is so far beyond players doing sportsbook ads.
This is so far beyond players doing sportsbook ads.
February 6, 2026 at 10:31 PM
would much rather go through another month of "will-he-won't-he" instead of having to accept this
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Marshawn
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 6, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Marshawn
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me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall
tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get
…
tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text
tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get
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tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text
February 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall
tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get
…
tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text
tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get
…
tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text
this is a Sonic game, the crowd is winning those rings for having confronted the Eggman (Vance)
I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌
February 6, 2026 at 10:19 PM
this is a Sonic game, the crowd is winning those rings for having confronted the Eggman (Vance)
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Yeah when I think of "places I want to lend money to" it's a Hobbit-themed operation run by this guy.
Exclusive | Hobbit-Inspired Startup Becomes First New Bank Greenlighted by Trump 2.0
Erebor founder Palmer Luckey was one of the tech industry’s early Trump supporters and is known for his penchant for Hawaiian shirts.
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Yeah when I think of "places I want to lend money to" it's a Hobbit-themed operation run by this guy.
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I wish I could tell people like me, who first came to Bluesky and felt pummeled by performative scolding, that now it feels a lot less like that and a lot more like that brief window when Twitter was pretty good: useful, occasionally ridiculous, a place to discover new thinkers & writing
February 6, 2026 at 4:13 AM
I wish I could tell people like me, who first came to Bluesky and felt pummeled by performative scolding, that now it feels a lot less like that and a lot more like that brief window when Twitter was pretty good: useful, occasionally ridiculous, a place to discover new thinkers & writing
"summarized"
Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, in beta for Premium users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
February 6, 2026 at 9:50 PM
"summarized"
oh my god
Rapper Lil Jon’s son, 27-year-old Nathan Smith, is believed to be dead after police recovered a body from a Georgia pond
Lil Jon’s Son Believed To Be Dead After Police Recover Body From Pond Near Residence
www.huffpost.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:46 PM
oh my god
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I guess this is a provocation, but does it work when it's out of context like this, when it's affirmative instead of defensive, when the symbol isn't deployed a century ago as a means of securing Italian American whiteness? idk seems weak
Do you think this is the first time Bartolome de las Casas has been labeled part of the "woke mob"?
February 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I guess this is a provocation, but does it work when it's out of context like this, when it's affirmative instead of defensive, when the symbol isn't deployed a century ago as a means of securing Italian American whiteness? idk seems weak
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I liked "Blue Lips" when it first came out but I just revisited and that is one of my favorite albums of the decade. What a journey through sound, and Schoolboy's ability to wrap his flow and move through the varying personality of the sound is fucking brilliant.
February 6, 2026 at 8:36 PM
I liked "Blue Lips" when it first came out but I just revisited and that is one of my favorite albums of the decade. What a journey through sound, and Schoolboy's ability to wrap his flow and move through the varying personality of the sound is fucking brilliant.
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Your subscriber dollars at work: Aftermath has a new regular contributor and monthly columnist. Welcome @adashtra.bsky.social and @jmrivera.bsky.social to our regular rotation of writers!
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February 6, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Your subscriber dollars at work: Aftermath has a new regular contributor and monthly columnist. Welcome @adashtra.bsky.social and @jmrivera.bsky.social to our regular rotation of writers!
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aftermath.site/podcasts/after...
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The idea of making a name with a fine minute show that aired before the late news in the DC market is funny to us, but it's a good reminder that television's real parent isn't really film (though obviously, the latter could be aired on it), but radio - there was no reason for it to be otherwise
February 6, 2026 at 8:49 PM
The idea of making a name with a fine minute show that aired before the late news in the DC market is funny to us, but it's a good reminder that television's real parent isn't really film (though obviously, the latter could be aired on it), but radio - there was no reason for it to be otherwise
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The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 10:09 AM
The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
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I made this poll for the group chat to see who the real ones are but you can do it too if you want
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
boricua bowl
while many of you will be cheering "go hawks" or "go pats!" I will be cheering "go Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio and self-determination for Puerto Ricans"
docs.google.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I made this poll for the group chat to see who the real ones are but you can do it too if you want
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
love when Jack goes full "Icky Thump" mode
February 6, 2026 at 8:03 PM
love when Jack goes full "Icky Thump" mode
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The Post's announcement named Book World as a discrete entity being eliminated, which led to a lot of kind words, all of which are greatly appreciated. But other critics weren't in a section entirely eliminated (though what will remain of it, I have no idea), so I've seen much less about them. 1/2
February 6, 2026 at 7:16 PM
The Post's announcement named Book World as a discrete entity being eliminated, which led to a lot of kind words, all of which are greatly appreciated. But other critics weren't in a section entirely eliminated (though what will remain of it, I have no idea), so I've seen much less about them. 1/2