I'll be doing a talk at the Oakland Public Library next month, chatting with librarian Ian Hetzner about the state of local journalism, what it's like covering the city these days, and lots more. Come through and join the discussion. oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/69278...

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Zuck continues to back away from causes he previously championed. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

This is re: TikTok and X — and Meta, having long employed former Republican operative and Kavanaugh pal Joel Kaplan, just hired right-wing influencer Robby Starbuck to help it ferret out bias in its AI systems. Neat.

This headline starts unremarkably, and ends with me seeing red. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Look a lot of people were at the Lucifer Foundation's annual Billionaire Vision Brunch in 2011. I didn't talk to all of them. Some of us just find the work the Lucifer Foundation does to be interesting.

Oh my god…

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

three of these coulda been my choice but i went with @lizpelly.bsky.social's Mood Machine

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The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

It's so jarring to see how truly out of touch executives and upper management are, not just with what the public wants and expects, but with what their organizations actually even do

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post

*tearfully looking up at a portrait of the guy who illegally sold weapons to Iran and used to profits to fund right-wing death squads in Nicaragua*

Sucks shit that everything good about collaborative human endeavor to better understand and survive our future can be set on fire by the aronist in chief because he's mad about wind or whatever. There will be feasting and dancing when our lives are no longer bent to his petty whims.

patron called needing a late night computer to work on a school project and the term internet cafe does not mean what it used to mean so like where does one go after the library closes if they need a computer? where's the nearest pay phone? how old am i? send help

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

everything is terrible but this will be fun (even if it will be the two people talking about how everything is terrible). @adambecker.bsky.social at the oakland public library wed, feb 4th at 6pm (the main one, by the lake, 125 14th st)

USDA plans to give Palantir a no-bid contract for AI "data integration" for the National Farm Security Action Plan which notably highlights SNAP 'fraud.' So Palantir AI will ingest "key user data previously submitted by applicants" to "conduct security checks." It'll cost up to $300 million.

it’s interesting to see so many MAGA folks acting shocked at Trump’s statement, which is basically the same as every Trump statement I’ve ever seen

Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it

Private equity must be stopped. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

A display and community memory book for coach John Beam are on the first floor.

New from 404 Media: DHS’s immigrant-hunting app just got removed from the Google Play Store. Let’s local cops do facial recognition on people, app says to contact ICE or not. I’m told Google workers took issue with app in an internal report. We revealed app in Nov www.404media.co/dhss-immigra...

i dislike the holidays more and more as i age but hearing my aunt and mother talk about johnny mathis' hotter brother who worked as a toll taker at the golden gate bridge was worth all the other bs "you always tried to spot him and get in his lane"

everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas

reference question of the day: what's captain crunch's real name?

i hate everything about this but somehow "private pilot" in the byline is what has me steaming

can’t fucking catch a breath make it stop

Beam said, "My wins are going to be off the field.” He was right.

Imagine looking around America in 2025 and thinking, "What we need less of is morality."

Good Ray Ratto blog here: defector.com/coach-john-b...

great. just what I need, my tax software telling me to kill myself

We need libraries for so many reasons. www.11alive.com/article/news...

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

wait the applalachian trail guy???

Everyone has lost their minds www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

it's so freaking on the nose that we can't get rid of spam calls but we CAN have government phone numbers that get incorrectly identified as spam all the time (my office number at the library, the kid's school that just called me, etc.)

(Exchanging information with Jeffrey Epstein in my capacity as a journalist) Hey Jeff. Buddy. I gotta get to work real fast. Zohran Mamdani has an aunt who isn’t an aunt or whatever. Hard to explain. We’ll talk pedophile stuff later. That’s all secret by the way.

If I were an illegally detained migrant laborer, I would simply come up with $1,500 in ransom after weeks/months of imprisonment in a wildcat internment camp. This, to me, is proof that we can trust the process, regardless of how slow and inadequate, as it marches inextricably towards justice.

It's entirely fitting that one of the first big AI-generated music producers is a Deloitte consultant.

Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all. Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.