data visualization is my passion.

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft.

Technically, they’re Remains now.

US investigative journalism title The Lever has increased free subscribers by 66% since 2025 after slowing its output in response to the frenetic pace of news during the second Trump presidency

This is enraging! This technology is actually taking us backwards, making us more primitive!

The AI rollout is an incredible test case for the power of capital to overrule everything in its way. An overwhelmingly stupid, obscenely polluting, and wildly dangerous set of technologies are being brute-forced into every part of our lives because money says so.

By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

They fired Scott Pelley, because of course they did, the cowards.

Uninterested in leading a pile-on but no, AI does not “have access” to everything ever published. Not archival material, obviously, but not secondary material either. Nor across times nor languages. AI is not human knowledge personified. It’s exactly not that, in fact. It’s not even a search engine.

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

Yup. I started wearing a mask on planes well before COVID. I just wanted to stop having my vacations ruined by a cold I picked up on the plane. It's so annoying that masks got politicized and that I now get dirty looks!

pretty crazy how blatant the ending of the late show is just an act of government censorship lol

if someone does a coverup, that's consciousness of guilt and so Objective Journalists have an alibi for critical coverage. but if you just shoot someone in broad daylight, Peter Baker's hands are tied

So much of the AI-hyping LinkedIn fare is clearly written by AI. AI writing about itself, post after post. It's the world's first self-hyping technology, a perpetual motion machine of nonsense. (Potentially also a self-inflating economic bubble)

This is abhorrent. Trans students from the US are possibly being denied hormonal therapy in Canada because of a Trump executive order. Is Canada a sovereign country or not?

For years, Edith Eger kept quiet, refusing to speak about the atrocities she faced and saw in Auschwitz. But by the time she was in her early 50s working as a clinical psychologist, she knew she had to heal herself first to truly help her patients.

See the left of the graph, when monthly job creation was high? A terrible economy that should be described negatively. And on the right side, where the line has sloped down, and even a relatively high month is lower than the average under Biden? That’s good, and merits positive words like “solid.”

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

I'm currently looking for a new journalism role. It's funny how bad LinkedIn is, especially when other languages like French are involved. It frequently sends me alerts for exciting "journalier" jobs. These are day laborer jobs like laying bricks or moving heavy equipment or yard work 👍

Apartment, for some reason. Or is it appartment? (This may be a Quebec-specific problem.)

This should be the standard for all news orgs. Here’s a useful exercise to judge a news org’s bias Do they quote ppl from [insert population group] in stories all about [insert same population group]?

The French government opposes the ban on trans women in Olympic women’s events, saying enforced genetic testing is an invasion of privacy 👉 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-the-lgbtqia-news-26/#%F0%9F%8F%83%F0%9F%8F%BC-olympics

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/