Novelist. Proud Montrealer/Fier Montréalais. Beer league hockey. Habs. Board member Access Copyright. A "Certified Elder.” Brand/content consultant. Host The Full Bleed, a podcast about the future of (print) magazines. https://linktr.ee/arjunbasu
Yes. And video is making them worse. (I host a pod) www.compactmag.com/article/how-...
How Podcasts Ruined America“I was just speculating for a podcast. I had no personal information. I was just speculating for a podcast.” This was the testimony of Howard Lutnick, the sitting Secretary of Commerce, to the House O...www.compactmag.com
After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.
Elon Musk’s tired schtickWhy does the media keep debasing itself for a man who despises them?disconnect.blog
A century ago, white nationalists were saying the exact same things about Rep. Rulli's Italian ancestors -- they weren't white, they were criminals, they could never assimilate to "our" country
Aaron RuparRep. Michael Rulli on reports that ICE is preparing to mass deport of Haitians from Ohio: "Let's get them out of here. Let's get 'em all out of here, and let's start from the beginning."
I was a guest on a podcast about "success and failure" but mostly we talked about magazines and "legacy" and attention and advertising. And how young people are in the process of saving everything. As they should. Because there's a lot to save. open.substack.com/pub/startups...
The internet didn’t kill magazines. We did.I had one of my favourite conversations in a long time this week with writer and Full Bleed podcast host Arjun Basu.open.substack.comOne can only hope
Here’s why India’s cockroach protests were such a success – and why the Mamdani effect means more to come | Mukul KesavanThe young leaders are eloquent and organised – and now they know what victory looks like. That could be a huge headache for Narendra Modi, says Dehli-based essayist and author Mukul Kesavanwww.theguardian.comWe are living in a time where grown ass people have to say stuff like this in an actual court to protect their own work.
Only humans can be ‘authors’ say Canadian music publishers in test case on copyright status of AI-generated worksThe debate over the copyright status of AI-generated works continues, and in Canada there’s a key court battle as part of that debate centered on an AI-generated artwork. The precedent set in that cas...completemusicupdate.comIf Canada had half a spine we would open the gates and let them in. But Carney doesn’t. So we won’t.
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Denniearound 350,000 Haitians will officially lose their Temporary Protected Status today, as part of the Trump admin's ethnic cleansing operations this is v clearly illegal and immoral I wrote about the Supreme Court decision that's allowing it to happen anyway ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...
The majority of this new wave of people who could be deported thanks to the Supreme Court and Trump are fully employed, have American-born children, homes, businesses. They are law-abiding taxpayers doing jobs that other Americans believe are too hard, underpaid www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
Employers Fear Labor Shortage as Many Immigrants Lose Protected Status (Gift Article)A recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to end a humanitarian program that has allowed about one million immigrants to work legally in the U.S.www.nytimes.com5 seasons done for The Full Bleed, the podcast about the future of magazines. From the smallest/niche indies to global heavyweights, I've talked to super talented people who are in love with the most engaging media format ever created. Get off the screen and read a magazine. Podcast is everywhere.
Facebook was created to bypass consent. It’s in the DNA.
HypervisibleFWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.
“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...
Musa OkwongaThe editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.
