This makes some good points about the kind of traffic getting devoured by AI search results, and where wins will be in the future, but I disagree that explainers are "dead" — the audience appetite has just shifted to vertical video instead of SEO-optimized text www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/sorr...

A """funny""" thing I've noticed is that if you see a buckwild and totally made up claim on Reddit and then search that claim on Google, trying to source it, the Gemini AI summary will be like "oh, yeah, that totally happened, and my source is that three hour old Reddit thread you were just reading"

SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

How grim that my first thought was "at least it isn't Paramount and Saudi oil money"

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

Something profoundly depressing and anti-human about this Meta/Facebook AI slop prompt

Blue Jays should definitely be proud though. That was some damn good baseball.

I'm a Dodger fan and can't help but be thrilled that they won. But those Blue Jays were something else and deserve all the kudos. As one wag said on BSky when they beat the Yankees "Any team that beats the Yankees is America's team.If that's the Toronto Blue Jays, so be it. I don't make the rules."

Truly epic. Everyone is gonna remember that time Will Smith shocked everyone on live TV

I need someone to clip and post all of the bleeping out Fox did as Will Smith came back to the dugout

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here

Yuppp. I was working the night of Cubs World Series Game 7 in 2016 and my BuzzFeed News co-workers, bless them, let me stand 2 feet from the giant TV and I did not do a single ounce of work for 4 hours and 28 minutes through a rain delay and extra innings bsky.app/profile/pete...

Fox Sports should probably go interview the managers again right now. They’d love it.

I said in the group chat before this game started that it had the chance to be the second or third greatest World Series Game 7 ever, or at least in recent memory, and now here we are

YES Roku I am still watching!!! What timing

I LOVE BASEBALL SO MUCH

I am having all-too-vivid flashbacks to Cubs Game 7 World Series a decade ago and oh my god, I love baseball so much this is so stressful

This is such good baseball, i hate it so much

I love sports announcers: “In a game full of MVPs, who could imagine it would be a total fucking loser who would hit a home run to tie the score in the top of the 9th”

Fox News has now changed the headline and completely rewritten the story (without a correction). It makes no sense as a story anymore.

"ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight" "The Trump administration has contracts with Clearview AI, a firm banned from doing business with Illinois police agencies" chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

What historic reference for this. For the endless videos. For the schools on lockdown because - not because the police are outside chasing gunmen or whatever - but because there are convoys of men stopping people demanding papers and using chemicals to disperse anyone who presses them too hard.

So of all the scenes and work over the years, nothing has felt so out-of-body as watching everything from the past month. Brighton Park, gas. Suppressive. Casual violence. East Side after they wrecked. Gas, because a kid hit someone with an egg.

It's been maybe six or seven years since have felt this disoriented by events. At one place with one way of viewing and having to operate and be on point then the scene dissipates and you're back left with your world as it was just before, almost. This is different obviously.

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

There is a non-zero chance we only learn the US has completed its first underground nuclear weapons test in decades after an automated USGS earthquake social media account suddenly starts posting about an extremely shallow seismic event in Nevada

Just received a timely news alert from Google

i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling

Probably just a coincidence my FYP on the Other App is wall to wall racist posts about Mamdani as early voting kicks off

I would love to know the thought process behind Fox choosing Death Cab's Transatlanticism for the soundtrack to their hype video opening World Series Game 2

Can't be mad at the Cubs. They came back from 2-0 to force Game 5 against the team with the best record. Cubs looked good, but those stranded runners were brutal. Milwaukee was relentless. Still! This season was a blast. Hope springs eternal. 166 days until Opening Day

...and that is why we call them the Cardiac Cubs

"The temporary ruling comes after four Block Club journalists were indiscriminately hit by pepper-spray bullets and tear-gassed by federal agents; an independent journalist was arrested; and a TV reporter’s vehicle was hit with a pepper ball" blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/09/j...

You can't convince me Chicago isn't the most beautiful city in the world

internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*

A quick update: A few weeks ago, I left my role as Social Media Director at CBS News after a great run navigating 2024 and first chunk of 2025. I learned a lot and am very thankful for the opportunity to work with an incredible social team, but it was time for something different 🧵

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

Is Taylor wearing Sony MDR7506s? Great headphone choice, they have been my gotos for six or seven years ever since Sennheiser retired the HD202s

With great sadness, we share that Ryne Sandberg has passed away today.

wow: "67,000 fewer vehicles are entering Lower Manhattan each day" gothamist.com/news/numbers...

CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab explained how his team gained access to Iran in the days after U.S. strikes—and what it was like reporting amid government surveillance and uncertainty. Details in Status: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-i...

For the first time in this war, I wrote in the first person. Here is what it's like to experience an air raid in Kyiv, to negotiate between bombs and normality, and to come out of shelter into the smoky aftermath. Free to read: www.wsj.com/world/gaming...

BREAKING: Vance Boelter, the man who authorities believe shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, is now in custody, multiple sources have confirmed to @WCCO. https://cbsn.ws/3HF5q1X

god I love these Mets so much, doing everything I can to not scream and wake up my significant other (or neighbors)

Recently, a seasonal edition went out to Sun-Times newspaper subscribers. It was intended to be a supplemental value to our readers alongside our own journalism. Instead, it detracted and distracted from our work, Chicago Public Media CEO explains:

Very good condition 1992 Sears Christmas catalog discovered at Grandma's house... untold Reddit karma and social media engagement in the palm of my hands...

Froze my butt off at Sox Park with a 90 minute rain delay tonight but I got to see the Pope Leo 2005 World Series tribute wall AND a White Sox winner

Andor has been an incredible romp and a brilliant look into what Star Wars could be in the right hands, I am not ready for it to end tomorrow It defied all expectations for the kind of mature storytelling you can do with a 50-year-old fantasy series for kids while still staying true to its roots ✨

It was a beautiful early afternoon for some Mets/Cubs baseball

These two pope posts are basically the same thing if you are familiar with Chicago Southland