Nathan Grayson

I vote we put them in the ufc octagon

A little background here on the very long, very intense investigative work Aftermath published this week on the gamblification of gaming sites. Glad that the reporting has resonated with people and hope to see more support for independent media grinding it out.

SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, March 12th will be STELLATHON: A FUNDRAISER FOR YOUR COOL ONLINE FRIEND.

Games streamers! Artists! Storytellers! Giveaways, baby! Participants will be revealed throughout the next week.

Let’s get @antlervel.vet her money back!

Poster by @yotsuben.bsky.social.

inconclusive! I know sites like defector have been working to develop a reddit strategy, so I’m guessing it does something, lol. if anyone wants to share aftermath stories on reddit, feel free. certainly can’t hurt

Great journalism takes time — a lot of time. If you want more of it, there’s really only one option: You’ve gotta support it. @jacksonwryan.com, who just published an eight-months-in-the-making report on a secretive gambling company, explains:

Our tiny little website currently has the 4th-placed story on r/all, which is doing all kinds of weird and beautiful things to our monthly traffic (which doesn't normally operate at anywhere near that scale)

Amazing work from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social, as always!

aftermath.site/nintendo-tar...

so-called

I probably deserved it

Read the complaint here. Aftermath has reached out to Nintendo of America, the White House, Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Treasury, Office of the United States Trade Representative, Customs and Border Protection, and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

got to reach out to all my close friends today

NINTENDO OF AMERICA INC., Plaintiff, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY; SCOTT BESSENT, Secretary of the Treasury; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; KRISTI NOEM, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; OFFICE OF UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE; JAMIESON GREER, U.S. Trade Representative; U.S. CUSTOMS & BORDER PROTECTION; RODNEY SCOTT, U.S. Customs & Border Protection Commissioner; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE; HOWARD LUTNICK, Secretary of Commerce, Defendants

kristi noem lost her job and got sued by nintendo in the same week. rough

Let’s a-go (to court)

in america’s bleakest hour, when all seemed lost, one voice rose up to say “it’s-a me, i’m-a gonna win”

bombshell from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social: nintendo is suing the US government over tariffs it deems “unlawful”

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

I've been really excited about and energized by these conversations, and also want to shout out how good @chasecarter.bsky.social is at running meetings

AI shouldn’t be anywhere near a warzone because AI can’t be sentenced to death at a tribunal.

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

You can use this tool to contact your lawmakers: badinternetbills.com

Read more about what this case means for press freedom in this op-ed by @seth-stern.bsky.social in @theintercept.com, published in Nov.

I think what's struck so many people about the White House CoD meme--or at least what struck me--is how, unlike Pokemon or Halo, there's way this one, in a fucked-up way, makes "sense," which says as much about games as it does about the 12-year-olds in our government.

is there any way they can unmake it instead of reviving it

we're live!

Come to think of it, like 80% of my “games journalism” intake these days is from a spread of independent sources…

And it’s been pretty damn great.

a gdc graphic displaying pictures of me and the other panelists (also perrin kaplan, the moderator, who is neither a journalist nor on bluesky, which is why I did not tag her). date: march 9. time: 3:10-4:10 pm. location: room 3005, west hall

I’m gonna be on a gdc panel next week alongside @stephentotilo.bsky.social, @grubb.wtf, and @deantak.bsky.social! come listen to us talk about the most interesting thing in the world: journalism

On today's stream, we're joined by @jacksonwryan.com to discuss his months-in-the-works investigation of Clickout Media, the secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI, that he published on Aftermath. NOTE: Starting early today, at 3 PM ET

www.twitch.tv/aftermathdotsite

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

I continue to be less concerned about people getting duped by obvious AI lies and more by instances of mass psychosis in which AI lets people see what they want to see

everything is so stupid

this combination of words will never be cool to say ever again