Jeremy Childs
Earnest journalist in LA, perennial millennial online 🏳️🌈
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsOne more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsFederal immigration agents shot dead a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, officials said -- the second fatal shooting of a civilian in the city, sparking fresh protests and outrage from state officials. u.afp.com/SB6F
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsWe have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsNEW: I spoke to Jonathan Blow about his ambitious new puzzle game and why it took ten years to make. Then, days after the announcement, three designers came out denouncing Blow for his views on Trump (pro), vaccines (anti), and more. Here's the whole messy story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
- Surprisingly happy with the Oscar noms this year!! (And not just because of my Vulture Movie League bracket!)
- Reposted by Jeremy Childs11 stunning moves by Trump in his first year back in office www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsBack then, wannabe dictators either declared dictatorship or staged a coup. Today wannabe dictators use “electoral autocracy” — they come to power via elections but then hollow out the electoral system through voter suppression, banning rivals from running for office, intimidation, & other tactics.
- Reposted by Jeremy Childsvery good piece which confirms that weiss is both exceptionally arrogant and totally out of her depth. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsAnd loads of us lost our jobs because of it.
- Google traffic to publishers dropped by ONE THIRD in 2025 pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
- Reposted by Jeremy Childsthank you @ethangach.bsky.social for writing about the new website i'm cofounding with @zoehhannah.com! you can get some insight into our post-polygon journey towards creating @mothership.blog here: kotaku.com/mothership-i...
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsThe rise and fall of the Sprinkles empire that made cupcakes cool
- This season of #TheTraitorsUS is like tailor-made for gay guys
- Colton's spray tan is soooooo bad #TheTraitors
- Bugonia lowkey the comedy of the year
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsA self-identified “engineer” went viral on Reddit (& on social media) w/damning allegations about one of the food delivery apps. Then they circulated a legit-looking “internal document” to journalists, including me. The whole thing was an AI-generated scam intended to smear Uber. Here’s the story
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsI wrote about podcasting’s ongoing pivot to video, and the power of listening without also watching:
- It is crazy to see someone say they had a good 2025, it's like literally how???
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsThe Black Dahlia killer…was the Zodiac killer??!! What the www.latimes.com/california/s...
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsIt's not great how much each detail evokes visions of either Pyongyang or an Iannucci script.
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsRob Reiner, 'When Harry Met Sally' director, 'All in the Family' actor and political activist, dead at 78
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsThe cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsA father-and-son team toting long-barrelled guns shot and killed 15 people including a 10-year-old girl at Sydney's Bondi Beach, authorities say, labelling it an antisemitic terrorist attack on a Jewish festival ⤵️ u.afp.com/S7Eg
- Gayest thing about Heated Rivalry is having multiple Feist needledrops
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- Reposted by Jeremy Childsprediction markets like polymarket and kalshi are the sports betting craze taken to its furthest logical endpoint. users can gamble on anything: netflix/WB, the US bombing venezuelan ships, and of course, the game awards, which have seen nearly $40 million in activity. it’s as grim as it sounds
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsVIDEO: 🇫🇷 🎮 French indie video game ‘Clair Obscur’ vies with global giants for top award Runaway success this year for indie hit "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" could be crowned with a Game of the Year title at the Game Awards in Los Angeles, the industry's equivalent of the Oscars
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsJust really sucks that so many of us are barely getting by (if that), and the people who stole from us are rewarded with billions. It's hard to put into words how demoralising that is.
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsNew! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsA new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsAnthony Jeselnik is starting a book club in 2026. “I’d like to go a bit deeper than just holding up a book and saying, ‘This month we’re reading this,’’’ he says, “and then never mentioning it again.”
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsMonumental loss for RS, but you should subscribe immediately to @ohheybrittany.bsky.social newsletter, because there’s really no one in the biz doing it like her open.substack.com/pub/brittany...
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsThere was some big news in Hollywood today. Netflix agreed to buy Warner Bros. in an $82.7-billion deal. @MegJamesLAT has been on the story all day. www.latimes.com/entertainme...
- Reposted by Jeremy Childs!!! The Post obtained hot mic comments by the chair of RFK Jr.'s CDC vaccine committee. "We feel like a little bit like puppets on a string as opposed to really being an independent advisory panel" wapo.st/4atob4M
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsFamed architect Frank Gehry, whose daring and whimsical designs from the Guggenheim Bilbao to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles captivated fans and critics, has died at his home in California. He was 96.
- Everyone "extending" Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales...it's giving recession indicator ☹️
- Some incredible Black Friday ads being served on TruthSocial
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsThousands of delegates at the UN climate conference stayed on diesel-powered cruise ships, embodying a contradiction at the event. Infrastructure reshaped parts of the Amazon, raising concerns about environmental trade-offs. MelodyGutierrez in Brazil www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsI spoke with BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg about his wonderful new Netflix comedy Long Story Short, which tells the story of a Jewish-American family throughout different stages of their lives:
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsThe idea is to run this feature in the fall every year, not as a part of year-end list season, but with the relaunch we didn't get around to it until kinda late. Anyway, here are some good new bands ("new" and "bands" are flexible terms here).
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsIt begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States. Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011: "i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsDespite the ravages of age and an internet steeped in misinformation, your eyes – in this one case – do not deceive you: Website different. It’s taken an immense amount of time and effort, but welcome to Aftermath version 2.0: aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...
- Fun fact: the band After is called that cuz Spotify autoplays their music *after* every song :)
- Went to a music festival/street fair in Highland Park last night, and I gotta say, tramp stamps are back in a HUGE way
- The concept of a New York City mayor who knows who Kim Petras is
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsNew from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)
- Reposted by Jeremy Childs“To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.” Zohran won big tonight, then took the fight to Trump. He won amid a blue wave, as voters rejected Trumpism across the country. New at @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/zohran-mam...
- Reposted by Jeremy Childsthank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
- LA CHIMERA / THE MASTERMIND Josh O'Connor double feature gonna go brazy one day
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsChatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
- Crazy how he keeps finding new ways to make Twitter worse
- Emma Stone 3rd Oscar incoming I fear...
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- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsSCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average. This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything. Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsTrump Is Turning the White House Into a ‘Branded Estate’ My latest on gaudy aesthetics and trite visual metaphors www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsWhile David Zaslav is working overtime to project momentum and prompt a bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery, it’s questionable whether there really is a serious, more attractive bid in the wings than David Ellison’s roughly $24-a-share offer. More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/warner-bro...
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsTrump & Vought have been saying they’re firing federal workers because of the shutdown. But today in a court filing they said the firings have nothing to do w/ the shutdown & they’ve been planning it for a while (duh). Common Trump thing: say one thing publicly but say a different thing in court.
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- Supreme Court VRA news literally has me sick to my stomach this morning
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsIf the Supreme Court strikes down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which has been interpreted to require the creation of majority-minority districts, Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South. Here's how.
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsFULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
- Reposted by Jeremy Childs🏅 🇻🇪 The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Venezuela's opposition leader and democracy activist Maria Corina Machado, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. ➡️ u.afp.com/Sm6x
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsHappy 40th birthday to the talented MARINA.
- Reposted by Jeremy ChildsJB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...
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View full threadReposted by Jeremy ChildsPritzker/Newsom see it as a defining fact of the moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily and using it to subjugate Blue America like an enemy nation within. Other Dems should stop the Beltway-speak about Trump laying "traps" for them and engage. newrepublic.com/article/2014...
