morgan sung
internet explainer, yarn hoarder, professional yapper on Close All Tabs from KQED ❣️
- Reposted by morgan sung🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @morgansung.bsky.social, @sfgate.com's Stephen Council, and @kjezermorton.bsky.social about friction-maxxing and how doing things the hard way can bring us more joy, serendipity and human connection. ❓How do you friction-maxx? 📻 Listen: buff.ly/ft7P38H
- SF!! we're throwing a party and you're invited!! close all tabs is hosting its first live event: a powerpoint party where @aidanwalker.bsky.social and @candicelim.bsky.social and i present our favorite internet lore :) and! you can present your own! there will be prizes! www.kqed.org/event/5937
- Reposted by morgan sungDo you have the right to record ICE? Criminal justice reporter @cjciaramella.bsky.social explains to @morgansung.bsky.social how the Trump administration is working to create a chilling effect around filming law enforcement. www.kqed.org/news/1206959... via @kqednews.kqed.org @goosenaut.bsky.social
- Reposted by morgan sungYou don’t need to guard yourself against every threat unless you're willing to “live as a hermit on a 🏔️ and fling all of your devices into the sea,” says the #cybersecurity director at the @eff.org. www.kqed.org/news/1207040... via @kqednews.kqed.org @morgansung.bsky.social @goosenaut.bsky.social
- Reposted by morgan sungFor @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
- it's a first amendment right but DHS has been retaliating against anyone exercising that right. close all tabs just put out a whole episode about this! wherever you get your podcasts! www.kqed.org/news/1206959...
- bodes well for woke 2.0 that fujos are mainstream but it also means that fanfiction discourse is reaching new heights of Annoying
- maybe we should gatekeep ao3. far too many normies posting ai generated yaoi and now readers are witch hunting actual writers for using the em dash
- like they're going after authors who post "too frequently" and write too eloquently because they can't fathom that someone with creativity and drive can pump out 20k quality words a week
- ok rewatching industry right now and the whole show makes soooo much more sense now that i know that a short is when you gag the market
- incredibly techbrained solution here. they're detaining people and smashing their phones just for taking pictures right now but somehow they'll stand still enough for an observer to scan their qr code??
- imagine getting phished bc you scanned the ice qr code
- it took like three tries to scan the menu bar code on a dimly lit, but stationary, bar table last night. how will this work with a highly combative ice agent who can just. move
- they can't even scan your concert tickets if your phone brightness isn't high enough
- new close all tabs episode with @cjciaramella.bsky.social, all about the right to record and share information about ICE, and how the trump administration is trying to stop people from exercising that right tr.ee/_QLi_jEzEZ
- wherever you get your podcasts and all that www.kqed.org/news/1206959...
- not to nitpick but when did "fujoshing out" becoming a thing. the term is "fujoing out." this is context collapse in action, and as the mainstream internet absorbs fandom vernacular, it'll forget the og fujos who carved this depraved path for everyone else. and that's my ted talk
- unfortunately with the trajectory of internet speak, the yaoi discourse will resurface as the phrase "fujoshing out" goes mainstream. i predict takes like "Is Fujoshing Out Problematic?" and "How To Fujoshi Out Respectfully" within the next six weeks
- Reposted by morgan sungAlso holds up the idea that white people are the *only* people capable of cooly and fairly assessing fraught issues without any prejudice or bias.
- uber driver picked me up in a tesla and we're chatting about bands we like. he taps something and goes "hey grok, what genre is this band?" then he asks grok to weigh in, inviting it into our conversation lol. anyway i'm in SF for five more hours, where should i get coffee?
- in a college econ class i had to do a presentation with this girl. when we met up to work on it, she launched into a whole racist rant about how woke welfare programs destroyed the american economy. mind u, the assignment was about supply and demand in monopolies or something like that lol
- like this was her big economic manifesto, but it was an econ 201 mid semester group presentation. anyway she transferred at the end of the year after making a fb post about how nobody at our school wanted to hang out with conservatives
- by the way the close all tabs team won a media literacy award from NAMLE, which means my letterboxd takes are always correct from now on
- now the embargo has lifted i can finally post about how i went to a wicked 2 screening and was the only one in the theater who audibly gasped when they made their brooms scissor
- Reposted by morgan sungDrop everything: @morgansung.bsky.social x @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social on where games go when they die! Close All Tabs is an inspiration! The best in the game! overcast.fm/+AAHuu2Obdxo
- Reposted by morgan sungdo games go to heaven when they die? i talked to @morgansung.bsky.social on close all tabs about dead and dying games www.kqed.org/news/1206377...
- Reposted by morgan sungfortnite friday is a talk show that takes place entirely in fortnite, which has nonetheless pulled names as big as gavin newsom, george santos, and the rizzler. I’ve always wondered how @connoreatspants.bsky.social does it, and I finally got a chance to ask him
- prepping for tomorrow morning
- Reposted by morgan sung
- sex pest down i repeat sex pest down
- can a girl lib out for just one night
- ok now can we admit that this would go crazy as a halloween costume
- i am so patriotic only for the great nation of New York City
- first cutie patootie mayor thank god
- NEW YORK CITYYYY
- gonna brag about this episode that covers very important topics like political speech and censorship and sticky moderation, but also opens with tape from my 2am IG story of bbno$ getting 20 people to chant "fuck yeah, twitchcon" at a corporate streamer party
- I was on the most recent episode of close all tabs, @morgansung.bsky.social's excellent KQED podcast, talking about twitch's political reckoning. if you for some reason do not already get enough of me on aftermath hours, go listen! www.kqed.org/news/1206199...
- yes i got lots of other tape that weekend, no none of it was as funny as rapper/cosplayer bbno$ leading a "fuck yeah, twitchcon" chant at a brand event
- Reposted by morgan sungI was on the most recent episode of close all tabs, @morgansung.bsky.social's excellent KQED podcast, talking about twitch's political reckoning. if you for some reason do not already get enough of me on aftermath hours, go listen! www.kqed.org/news/1206199...
- Reposted by morgan sungDel Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
- i hate gay halloween what do you mean you're niche crackship nosferatu
- straight people at the halloween party kept going oooh you're genderbent nosferatu and i was like ok sure but this is also butchfemme drag
- i'm at the function yapping about queer subtext in vampire fiction
- my favorite part of diy halloween is scouring poshmark and buying ridiculous clothing that i would absolutely wear on a regular day but can't justify buying any other time of the year. every year my closet gets more eccentric and more vintage
- Reposted by morgan sungWe (@emilymbender.bsky.social and I) joined @morgansung.bsky.social and team on @kqednews.kqed.org to talk about our book and AI hype -- www.kqed.org/news/1205991...
- Reposted by morgan sungThis is a fantastic episode! Question the AI inevitability narrative and humans are more than their output! I continue to be a big fan of all the work that @morgansung.bsky.social @goosenaut.bsky.social and the entire team does over at Close All Tabs podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
- in case you missed it @milesklee.bsky.social came on close all tabs to talk about ai & religion & why people keep falling into delusions after asking chatgpt if god is real open.spotify.com/episode/664V...
- this is the kind of episode that's horrifying to report on but a joy to write and even more fun to listen to lol. wherever you get your podcasts!!
- Reposted by morgan sungjoined @morgansung.bsky.social on Close All Tabs at KQED to talk about the AI situation
- didn't get raptured once today this is sooo embarrassing
- Reposted by morgan sungNew: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
- Reposted by morgan sungnew from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
- before i went on @aftermath.site's stream yesterday, my mom insisted on hanging up her close all tabs tote lol
- listen here!! aftermath.site/aftermath-ho...
- and while you're at it, get the groypers & censorship breakdown here www.kqed.org/news/1205620...
