matene

tech and power journalist • culture critic • fact-checker

[matene @itsmatene]

For @WIRED, I wrote about the Viral ‘DoorDash Girl’ Saga and how it revealed a growing problem of bot accounts on TikTok using AI blackface to sow discord, and profit off black creators' likenesses and social capital. https://t.co/Jtix3LxRMo

[Metrograph @Metrograph]

“Our objective is to empower the diaspora to exchange knowledge about the cultures, traditions, and societal inner workings depicted in the films we spotlight.”

Jollof Films founders talk to @itsmatene about their ethos and FAAT KINÉ, screening @Metrograph on Sep 27.

[jourdain searles @judysquirrels]

vanessa! redgrave!

[matene @itsmatene]

@Andrew_Stuff LOL 😂

[matene @itsmatene]

I feel like “super intelligence” sounds faker lmao

[Techmeme @Techmeme]

In his UN General Assembly speech, President Trump says the US is "officially" renaming AI to "super intelligence" because "artificial" makes it sound fake (@rjcc / The Verge)

(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

[gnocchi @zainab_twt]

Malick Sidibé: Creative Force of African Culture

[Dylan Ali @dylanali_]

I know Peter Thiel mad af he gotta kick Clavicular to the curb and groom another racist nerd with body dysmorphia from scratch

[Nora Barrows-Friedman @norabf]

The best way to “help the Palestinian people” is to leave Palestine. Renounce your citizenship (as many anti-Zionists have done). Support the armed resistance with your full chest. Report your sources committing genocide to the Hind Rajab Foundation and The Hague.

[⋆.˚ harley ⋆.˚ @2fast4_freedom]

apple tv really is worth every penny

[gabriel @unityopposite]

To insulate cross-border value chains, the US state works with apartheid South African security contractors and Israeli tech firms to corral and maim migrants crossing the Rio Grande. I delve into the historical geography of these bordering technologies for @VersoBooks

[seasters jones. @seastersjones]

Stop sharing news/info from gambling companies. Fuck.

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

One of the most infuriatingly bizarre things about NAZA and the mainstream reaction to it is that an active genocide is treated as an historical curiosity to be reflected upon, as if the criminals aren't still in post and directing mass murder. As if justice isn't the imperative

[jennine @jennineak]

meth-addled streamer from hoboken new jersey famous for smashing face with hammer to look like gigachad weighing in on islamic jurisprudence was not on my 2026 bingo card

[Natasha Lennard @natashalennard]

So honoured to be speaking w genius @alybatt
about my new book On Un/Certainty (@versobooks)
on Oct 14th in Brooklyn at Community Bookstore. Come by! https://t.co/kEM5LgDzk4

[smoker of cryptic weed @WASJAPPIN]

lmao that ed sheeran played himself into this corner bc he apparently didn't realize he was touring w the irish palestinian solidarity movement

[Chase Mitchell @ChaseMit]

Oh he pissed off like all of Ireland

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

‘SLOW HORSES’ has been renewed for Season 8.

[Natasha Lennard @natashalennard]

We can waste a lot of time speculating abt the apocalyptic worldviews of tech billionaires. Whatever they believe, talk of existential risk is a convenient way to not address known harms produced by AI systems overseen by fascist billionaires @theintercept https://t.co/TF7dti5B3K

[lovia @simplylovia]

spent some time with yahya this summer for the cut <3

[People @people]

Black Woman, 29, Found Hanging from Tree Is Being Investigated as Homicide Pending Autopsy Results, Police Chief Says https://t.co/glAZvqk1uB

[New York Film Festival @TheNYFF]

We’re excited to announce the New York premiere of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING to the Spotlight section of #NYFF64! The film will screen on September 30 at Alice Tully Hall with Fielder and Oppenheim in attendance. Learn more: https://t.co/23klUxDe6E

#NYFF64 is presented in partnership with @ROLEX.