Tech companies hate news and journalism, just like they hate climate action and renewable energy. Any impression otherwise has been a carefully curated con. futurism.com/future-socie...

Greatest. Correction. Ever.

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

A society with deep rot, what else is there to say

If a journalist published incorrect information one time out of ten, that journalist would be fired immediately (at least, in a functioning newsroom).

Oof

Yes and thank you. People are already exhausted by too much low quality journalism; GenAI promises even more, and even lower quality. No! I refuse! We need to be strengthening the human-to-human relationship with our audience. That's the future.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

I'm sceptical of any new idea that advertises itself with the current buzzword, AI. If it was a good idea, you could just describe what it does and everyone would understand and want it. Spare me the implementation details. That you feel the need to hook into the marketing hype is a red flag.

Again this demand that gender be determined not at birth or by self definition or cultural upbringing but by genetic testing is a major and radical demand for a new standard never, ever practiced by any culture in the history of the planet Earth.

yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

The deal with Google was always “we let you scrape all our websites and in return you send people to them.” Every AI slop feature they add is a violation of that deal. Ultimately we, meaning website makers, will have to make a hard decision about whether the deal is worth it anymore.

A reporter-free newsroom is just a room

The gutting of the professional non-partisan press and its replacement by a right-wing partisan press should be concern #1 for anyone who wants to live in a democracy.

This cartoon by @bonejail made my day. I want you to have a laugh too!

Community does not scale, programmatic advertising scales. Which business are you in?

I'm sick of tech-bro types who want to reinvent journalism from first principles, but who've never talked to journalists or academics much less reported out a story. "Move fast and break things" is exactly what got us into this problem in the first place.

That new Castlevania game looks exactly up my alley 🤩

So at WaPo, the British hacking scandal guy is out, to be replaced by the guy who ran Tumblr into the ground. I'm starting to think the problem might be one rung up the ladder.

I can't explain it, but Apple's "liquid glass" style has big "live, laugh, love" energy.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

I am horrified and disgusted by the lack out outrage on the part of the corporate media to the arrest of two Black independent journalists on Friday for doing journalism, Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. Where are the editorials? I'm mulling. In the meantime pls read: presswatchers.org/2026/01/jour...

WHERE ARE THE EDITORIALS??????

Dartmouth College's administration should be ashamed of themselves. You enlisted a student in a corrupt plan to undermine student journalism for the purpose of boosting a technology that is endangering the academic enterprise. Was there no one with a shred of decency in the administration to object?

Gen-AI is legitimately useful for coding, but that's one of the reasons tech companies get things so wrong. It's useful in coding because you want your code to perform its task in the most conventional way possible. Following conventions to produce readable code is hard and takes broad knowledge. 1/

New CBS contributors announced: Grand Moff Tarkin, Lex Luthor, Norman Osborn, Cruella De Ville, Javert, Titus Andronicus, Killmonger, and the Beastfly from Silksong.

All this tells me is that news executives continue to have no ambition and no strategy. They're sclerotic and reactive and grateful to eat the crumbs that fall off big tech's table. Journalists deserve smarter leadership! Not the types to fall for "pivot to video" over and over forever!

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1. It's been more than a day since 2 of America's most storied newsrooms, CBS and ABC, reported that killer ICE agent Jon Ross suffered "internal bleeding" based on unnamed sources Since then - No other news org has confirmed the story - No evidence (photos, medical records) has been produced

Exhausted readers are engaging in news avoidance. They need less, more useful, human-curated news. Yet when I talk to newsroom leaders they want to know how I'd integrate LLMs, a technology most suited to producing high volumes of low quality content. Folks, you have not understood the assignment.

New research undermines the idea that AI products “learn,” contradicting the industry’s basic explanation for how its technology works and raising what could be a massive legal liability: "The whole industry is staked on a shaky metaphor." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

As the right-wing meme page Canada Proud was posting calls to "DEFUND THE CBC," the same PR firm behind it was being indirectly funded by CBC journalists’ own union dues. Yeah. And that's not all. So I’m teaming up with my friends at @nationalobserver.com to tell you all about it:

Silicon Valley, sitting cross-legged in front of a pile of dystopian sci-fi novels, paralyzed by indecision: "Fuck it! We'll do them all!"

Much has been written about potential safety benefits of AVs. Given the lack of AV data transparency, I cannot speak to whether, or to what degree, AVs are safer than an average human driver. What I can say: This is the wrong question. 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Colonialism sucked the first time, thanks

Journalism people! I'm working on a classification scheme for journalism. The structure is intended to be descriptive and flexible, allowing for filtering on attributes that matter for readers. There's an explanation and a JSON schema. I'd love to get some feedback! gist.github.com/lajoiemedia/...

My blender has some thoughts on the Epstein files. Care to interview it, @reuters.com?

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

Every university hires on merit. The real debate is about what constitutes merit. How you did in your SATs (if you even did SATs — I didn't!) is not a useful metric for teaching/mentorship or research or administration abilities.

What the hell is this? Subject matter experts are the guardrails of journalism. They make sure we're not just endorsing popular prejudices and misconceptions. Bari Weiss wants to replace journalism with gossip.

NYT Opinion: Zohran has been mayor for nearly 12 hours and yet there are still problems.

The "ours" is doing so much work here. Weiss' work is certainly not the same as the journalists unfortunate enough to work for her. And I'd say it's Weiss that needs a refresher in journalism, except to be refreshed you need to have been familiar with it in the first place.

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This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I'm not crying. Shut up!

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

This article has lots of "Economists say..." but doesn't quote any economists. One economics professor is paraphrased, and an economics study is referenced, but both push against this writer's thesis! Total hackjob.

This. I am far from anti-technology, or anti-progress, but I refuse to sleepwalk into a less humane future. None of this is inevitable! We can and should fight to make sure these advancements aren't used to exploit or demean us. We must reject this twisted vision. It's a fight we can and must win!

People who worry about AI replacing writing or journalism are often missing an important point. It doesn't matter if AI gets "better" at writing than humans. People will still not want it. Think of it this way: how do you feel when you watch an adorable cat video but then learn it was AI? 1/