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Five years ago we faced new direct competition in five major cities. It made us better. "You’d think that competition between newspapers would be a cutthroat affair. But in an era of decline... Your town’s paper actually has better odds when nearby communities keep theirs."

While the Musk-Trump meltdown is entertaining, it doesn’t solve anything. "Trump and Musk deserve whatever is coming, good and hard. But don’t let the schadenfreude of this psychodrama distract you from the fundamental point — America has fallen into a deep pit of corruption"

"For us Europeans, this is particularly significant... Just two days ago, [Trump] was boasting about how his threats had encouraged accelerated EU trade negotiations. Well, that leverage has just evaporated."

Hvad er reglerne: Skal Nartey nu betale royalties til Michael Laudrup for det mål? #agfbif

Al begyndelse er svær.

Amazing. Ann Telnaes just won a Pulitzer Prize for her work at The Washington Post --- which she resigned from after they refused to run this cartoon.

NEW: Dow plummets almost 1000 points, wiping $1.4 trillion off stocks. Dollar falls again; now at a 3 year low. Bond yields rise. Capital is fleeing. The US stock market is heading for its worst April since the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs & the Great Depression.

Sounds weirdly familiar 🤔 "From almost the moment Adolf Hitler took office as chancellor of Germany, tariffs were at the top of his government’s economic agenda."

Probably not, but you can certainly make a concerted effort

Advertising revenue will likely be the first casualty of the tariff madness. (It’s not like we’re in a great spot, as it is.) "If I were a media company that relies on advertising, I'd be making sure my contingency plans are ready to go and preparing my cutbacks and layoffs right now"

Don't worry, protectionism will fix this. Obviously, the tariffs just aren’t high enough. "The economic uncertainty induced by Trump tariffs could become the single largest barrier to American AI supremacy"

Not exactly surprising given the current political environment, but important nonetheless. "it’s not the personalities of politicians we hate that fuel polarization—it’s the dark personality traits of the politicians we actually support that widen the political divide"

Jon Stewart admits folks here were right & he wasn't: "I did not think he would get this authoritarian this fast. I really didn't. I'm sorry. Who could have known? Maybe if someone out there had yelled at me on Bluesky about this, I would have known. But no one did. Except every day. In all caps."

🚨TARIFF UPDATE: Tariffs are non-negotiable, negotiable, but not a negotiating tactic. They are permanent until they are paused but they will never be paused, until they are paused which means they increase. Permanent exemptions already announced are temporary, but nothing has been announced. 🤡🎪

Just visited X for the first time in ages. Everything seemed very on brand 👍

1. målmand karantæne 2. målmand karantæne 3. målmand skadet Hvem skal stå de næste to kampe? 😳 #Brøndby

Can’t believe I’m saying this - but Trump might’ve actually caught China off guard this round.

It’s becoming increasingly essential for journalists to be able to do more than just report what’s happening. "We saw interesting stuff in the data that sometimes community members didn’t care that the newsletters were AI-generated, said Wilson"

AI scrapers and crawlers led to a significant increase in invalid traffic in the second half of 2024. "In addition to the scrapers that were easily identified, there were 'more evasive scrapers operated by individuals/organizations who intentionally disguised them as human visitors'"

It's such a dystopian nightmare that the world's most powerful men are spreading misinformation at a time when reliable information is critical for local citizens. "Elon Musk suggested that the fires were spreading due to the city fire chief’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion"

Rookie mistake. Never get high on your own supply. "Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product"

ICYMI: I made an advent calendar on how to leverage user data. The thread is stupendously long, so here's an index that lets you jump right to the parts that interest you: 1 Beware of Goodhart's Law 2 Look for Patterns 3 Identify the user’s needs 4 Never take data personally 🧵

This is a good opportunity to ask readers to support your work, e.g., by buying a subscription, even if they don’t need one to access content. We did this during COVID and saw some of the best months for subscription sales in that period, even with the paywall lifted.

A new year, a new hope: Revisiting things that were envisioned to save journalism over the last 15 years 🧵 We're starting off hopeful in 2009 with Silicon Valley, blogs, broadband internet, and news cabals 🤞

I'm not sure if watching screenshots on Bluesky counts towards the algo, but I'm actually doing unregretted user-seconds for the first time in Musk's reign.

The real reason Trump thinks getting Greenland and Canada is a strategic necessity.

For the third year in a row, our total number of digital subscribers grew by 40%. In a challenging time for local media, that is a source of hope "And we are just as ambitious for 2025."

Looking through all the interesting @niemanlab.org predictions for 2025, there's one thing that makes me hopeful for the future: I can't find a single mention of micropayments. 😀 I take this as a sign that we can grow as an industry and not be distracted by dead ends.✌️😅

There really should be a law against distributing data in PDFs. It requires so much work, and you need to be extremely careful not to corrupt the data when cleaning it for analysis.

Read-worthy explainer on the scaling challenges of making LLMs handle larger amounts of information. Also, I appreciate honesty like this 😅 "I’ll be frank: I struggled to understand the original Mamba and have not figured out how Mamba-2 works."

OpenAI has made at least two month-long training runs in a so far unsuccessful attempt to build GPT-5. "Future AI models are expected to push past $1 billion. A failed training run is like a space rocket exploding in the sky shortly after launch." Eventually, someone has to pick up the bill.

Yup, add to that declining search traffic, along with the misrepresentation of reporting "most publishers will not get any meaningful revenue from licensing content to technology companies, and that those who do are likely to be large publishers who get at most a few percent of incremental revenue"

Be nice to the people you meet on the way up; they're the same people you'll meet on the way down

Casey Newton’s predictions for 2025 include: * The bro-ligarchy collapses, as Trump comes to resent being seen as a tool of Silicon Valley * “Apple Intelligence” flop results in the company scrapping its existing strategy * AI will show continuous incremental improvement, but no exponential leaps

Waymo's robotaxis are significantly safer than human-driven cars, according to study "robotaxi vehicles with Waymo Driver demonstrated better safety performance compared to human-driven vehicles, achieving an 88% reduction in property damage claims and a 92% reduction in bodily injury claims"

Europe is healing "Tesla fans have been pointing out that the entire EV market is down in Europe, but now that we have the full data, it’s clear that Tesla is the issue more than EVs."

I don't think we're doing this gen AI thing right 😳 "Almost 80% of workers who use generative AI in their jobs said it has added to their workload and is hampering their productivity, as they spend more time reviewing or moderating AI-generated content"

Interesting. Flipboard launches an app that lets you create custom feeds from the decentralized web. "In Surf, the basic organizing principle is custom feeds—ongoing streams of content that can weave together items from Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, RSS feeds, podcasts, and YouTube videos."

I'm biased, but I agree. "Audience engagement is not just about cultivating your audiences, optimizing distribution, or leveraging platforms. It must be at the core of everything you do, beginning with your editorial strategy"

More Bond villain stuff from Musk. "If donors have to worry about being identified and sued by billionaires or corporations... they may stop supporting journalists’ work. That would be ruinous for the media ecosystem"

Agree: Paywalls are the safest way to guarantee journalistic jobs and incentivize the right editorial decisions "The beautiful clarity of being a subscription-led business is that most decisions only need to answer one question: ‘Will this make consumers more or less likely to pay for our content?"

Spain announces bill requiring digital platforms to correct false information targeting users with large followings "These outlets and the platforms that host them must have a mechanism to facilitate citizens’ right to ask that false or inaccurate information that harms them be corrected publicly"

I hope there are lockdown-free prevention lessons to be learned from this. "Kids who were in eighth grade at the start of the pandemic will be graduating from high school this year, and this unique cohort has ushered in the lowest rates of substance use we’ve seen in decades"

"Factual accuracy is a necessary but insufficient goal of professional journalism. Journalists need to compile facts into a vision of reality that is more compelling than that offered by right-wing media and by Donald Trump."

Please leave a note outside your house if you don't want me to steal your stuff "The U.K. government is consulting on an opt-out copyright regime for AI training that would require rights holders to take active steps if they don’t want their intellectual property to become free AI training fodder"

Congrats to Google, Boeing, and CrowdStrike for deservedly making the list of 2024's 8 worst tech failures.

Impressive milestone for Musk's tireless attempts at making Twitter unusable. "Zuckerberg shared Monday that Threads has more than 300 million monthly active users"

"Much as faith in elections is central to the concerns around American government, the steep decline of newspaper subscriptions and revenues is central to concerns about the media industry today. This article provides individual-level support for the idea that these are linked"