In Serbia, a leaked recording has raised fears of political attempts to weaken independent media. As the country adopts the EU’s DSA, a question looms: Will this law protect press freedom—or be misused to suppress it? 👉 Read more from @ewrightwy.bsky.social: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.

It’s weird to me that people keep starting new Substacks and still don’t know that Substack is extremely bad news Please get off Substack 😭 www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...

GPT-5 is so amazing it can make 52.8 higher than 69.1 on a bar chart It can even make 69.1 and 30.8 THE SAME SIZE

The real secret about genius is that it refers to an emotional experience in the perceiver, not a quality in the perceived. It's an amazing feeling, when someone lights up your brain with their skill. It's why I love my job. But it is a feeling, not an objective event

I finished reading "The AI Con" last week and I'm going to be sitting with it for a long time. As a researcher it affirms my frustration with the slipperiness of "AI" as a term. All the research shows that people don't understand it consistently.

What do news organizations actually need to know about AI & journalism? A new briefing from @cnti.bsky.social's Global AI & Journalism Research Working Group synthesizes 80+ research studies. cnti.org/article/aij-...

🥇 Black: The good, normal way to have coffee 🥈 Milk, no sugar: Not bad at all, but superfluous (unless the coffee is too strong) 🥉 Milk and sugar: Fine if I think of it not as coffee, but as a coffee-flavoured dessert (affogato lite?) 💩 Sugar, no milk: O gods this is vile, why would you do this

What do news organizations actually need to know about AI & journalism? A new briefing from @cnti.bsky.social's Global AI & Journalism Research Working Group synthesizes 80+ research studies. cnti.org/article/aij-...

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

Setting aside the ethical and environmental concerns of AI, I'm really offended by a bunch of elite dudes telling us our minds aren't good enough when they've had to steal everything human minds have created to create their pretend mind and it doesn't even work right!

Now Anthropic is strongly considering weekly limits on Claude Code. Users making it clear they won't accept this or pay more than $200 a month. I am confident this happens because as my analysis suggests they are losing tons of money on each user! www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode...

What do we know about how journalists and the public think about "journalism" and the people who create it? This was fun to work on -- my colleague Sam is so, so smart! journalistsresource.org/media/what-j...

Speaking as both a NYC voter and a media researcher, I think this is well worth a read.

I'm not going to reskeet the skeet that made me feel the need to say this but: NYC is a very Jewish city - public schools are closed for Yom Kippur. It's also a very Muslim city - public schools are closed for Ramadan. It's also one of the most Catholic cities in the nation.

Sweet relief is coming soon:

This series is so powerful and so hard to read and so, so, so important right now.

The next letter in @cnti.bsky.social 's press freedom series is up today. It's a beautiful meditation on what Nigeria can teach the US: cnti.org/guest-essay/...

I'm so excited about @cnti.bsky.social 's series of "letters from the field" on press freedom. Today's letter comes from Serbian journalist Teodora Ćurčić: cnti.org/guest-essay/...

@rukhshanamedia.bsky.social continues to tell the stories the Taliban don’t want to be heard. In our first "Letter from the Field," @zahrajoya.bsky.social explains what American journalists can learn from her experiences fighting for #pressfreedom in Afghanistan. bit.ly/4kvRfLk

Journalists in the US are facing new threats, but this has been the reality for reporters in other countries for decades. Over the next month, @cnti.bsky.social will share stories from award-winning journalists from around the world with their advice for US journalists. Follow along: bit.ly/3FCLagN

How do you feel about this story, @monscience.bsky.social ? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/n... (Personally, I feel like we had this idea two years ago: gothamist.com/news/why-bac...)

Does building flatpack furniture together count towards an Erdös number? 🤔 (@ergodicwalk.bsky.social 's is 3!) Otherwise I can get there in ~10, as I learned from a conversation about @kirbyconrod.bsky.social numbers!

I enjoyed their polling explainer at the end -- especially right on the tail of @aapor.bsky.social #AAPOR25. gothamist.com/news/liz

CNTI's @drnycnerd.bsky.social and Samuel Jens shared how people differentiate the admittedly fuzzy categories of "news" and "journalism" at #AAPOR25. Missed it? Read about their presentation here: aapor.org/newsletters/...

Really enjoying #AAPOR25. If you're interested in research on journalism & technology, please come say hi!

My 40+ advice is *don't buy shoes you can't return after the first outdoor wear"

In love, house-hunting, and (if possible) your professional life, do NOT give in to the pressures of scarcity. There are many right options and it's so easy to get trapped in the wrong ones.

Join CNTI and CJID Africa for an exciting panel on AI and journalism in Africa! 🗓️ Tuesday, April 15 🕔 5:00pm WAT/ 12:00pm ET Register 👉 bit.ly/3G3jZvs Ft. CNTI's @asmitchell.bsky.social and @drnycnerd.bsky.social.

Spouse brought home a tamal before knowing about this post. I have successfully received my snack.

This is a huge loss for access to information.

Policymakers and technologists alike are stuck in a “solutionism” trap—but particularly with AI, we need to focus on intervention, not “solutions.” New essay by moi: www.techpolicy.press/we-need-an-i...

Having assembled an expert panel of top journalists created from the cosmic legends of the universe, it’s been decided that the “-gate” suffix needs to be retired. Some suggestions instead of #Signalgate: • Signal-Contra • The Crossed Signal Caper • The Not-So-Silly Signal Slip-up

Senior U.S. government officials just included a journalist in their private Signal chat. @cnti.bsky.social found that 15% of journalists primarily communicate w/ sources via peer-to-peer encrypted apps (like Signal). Read the full report: innovating.news/2024-journal...

People with glasses and contacts have to realize that we have a disability that just happens to be highly accommodated for in modern society and that accommodation is the only reason why poor eyesight is not considered a disability.

OUT NOW: CNTI’s new comprehensive reports about our surveys of journalists and news audiences around the world, providing new insights on evolving perceptions & behaviors surrounding the digital journalism ecosystem as part of our #DefiningNewsInitiative. Read them here! mailchi.mp/innovating.n...

Tbh I’m never rawdogging the air on a plane again for the rest of my natural life

I just think EVERYONE should know that math can actually be VERY SILLY and FUN and we have been PURPOSEFULLY DENIED an avenue of JOY bc wealthy white men with zero going for them need to feel like gods. #Mathsky #ITeachMath I am dead serious and I wish it mattered.

OMG BLUESKY IT’S OUT! ISH! 😭 When I was pregnant, I was really angry. My queer community was holding me together while my doctors were not. I tried to make that anger ethnographic. It turned into this piece, with the incredible help of @drnycnerd.bsky.social and co-editor Linda Callejas.

Final edits, so important. And yet, this is actually fine too, in its own way...

Apparently Al Gore is a great dancer. I mean, he has soooooo many rhythms.

My kingdom for an election analysis that takes turnout seriously and focuses on the shift in who voted rather than a shift in who they voted for. (I don't have a kingdom.)

Calling #linguistics #langsky folks: Leo is looking for scholarship explaining how persuasion and rapport works in conversation, particularly in the context of political discourse. Please see thread below!

Truly amazing autotranslate fail. In general, I find that Spanish-English autotranslate works less well when someone uses more pragmatically interesting word order. (This should say something like, "if it's still there on Tuesday, I'll come for it")

Progressive media, on the other hand, is by definition plural. It amplifies many voices, through a variety of platforms and publications. This creates meaningful dialogue and debate. It is, dare I say it, a "checks and balances" model. (2/3)

Linguists have we seen this excellent data visualization? 🐦🐦

Good Guardian reporting. This is how they jeopardize our security: Trump officials to receive immediate clearances and easier FBI vetting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty Linguist: could you say "cup" again? Where did you grow up?