In 2019, an NYC pulmonologist I interviewed for a Univision 41 local TV news segment showed me medical pictures of vapers who had worse lung damage than chain smokers. "Honestly, it would be better off if they just smoked cigarettes," he told me when the camera stopped rolling.

A new study found that sycophancy is a pervasive function of leading chatbots, which are likely to give users bad/antisocial advice when asked about real-world interpersonal conflicts -- warping users' judgement and promoting dependence. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Robots, if you're listening: STOP trying to write my articles and START figuring out how to do my laundry

seeing a lot of moral abandonment and dereliction of duty by people who just wanna stay employed and wondering how much this would be happening if healthcare and insurance could be decoupled from employment

It’s oh so quiet

Small update from my attorneys -- you don't need to do anything to be added to the class action. Anyone who was included as an expert in Grammarly Pro will automatically be a member of the class once it is certified by the court. Updates on the case will be posted here prf-law.com/current-case...

Run it under hot water, bang it on the kitchen counter a few times at a very specific angle, then try again

The cheese manufacturer said Nah i'm good

“It fractured a lot of things for me. My body is like, not functioning at all.” - a double-shift data labeler and sex bot worker in Nairobi / Such important reporting from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

tl;dr -- Buy the Daily News: get your news from where the TV guys get theirs.

It's a very good day for accountability at the @cpsc.gov! and for keeping this deadly toy out of the hands of kids and babies.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

I guess we are going to have to find a way to copyright ourselves so that we have the right to demand automatic takedowns of bots that steal our identities…

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!! Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough. www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Join me (and some of the scientific experts at Consumer Reports) on Reddit in a half hour, where we will be discussing the findings of our latest infant formula investigation - Ask Us Anything! www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

When I go out drinking with the other reporters and we start designing the outlet we’d make if someone handed us a check, the two recurring things on the wishlist are more court reporters and a revival of the Arts and Culture section

With our app, you can do deep searches across entities that show up in the data. Here's a way to search for everyone who mentioned these Elon Musk-connected companies in their disclosure forms: xAI OR "X Corp" OR Twitter OR Tesla OR Neuralink OR "Boring Co" projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

Just found a piss-poor rewrite of this article by an "AI" "reporter" so I'm going to re-up it again. Because while LLMs can write as poorly as the best of us, only we humans can get the info in the first place.

It's been a year since the FDA promised to increase oversight over the infant formula industry. “So far, there has been a lot of sound and fury associated with this initiative in the form of declarative press statements, but it hasn’t translated into any meaningful action,” says CR's Brian Ronholm.

So honored that @consumerreports’ “Beauty Justice” series is an ASME finalist! asme.memberclicks.net/national-mag...

"I think the Daily News could very well be a successful newspaper," the unit chair of the Daily News Union told Hell Gate. "It was in the past, and could be again, if they were owned by somebody that actually cared about the newspaper and the journalists."

Goddammit

honestly a little embarrassed I let the pitch get as far as it did, but I’m fine with that if this helps any other tiny pubs avoid getting scammed.

One of my kids asked if the stars we see are still there, because they know light takes time to travel so we are seeing the past, and so what if the stars are all gone and we are already alone in the universe

Check out @projectsaltbox.bsky.social, a volunteer effort to collect public data on DHS acquisitions of warehouses for ICE -

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

guys we're gonna win (we = reporters)

WaPo: We laid off a third of staff NYT: We sent a dog on a cruise

Love and support you always, Cincinnati Enquirer (support local media), but esp today This is a Midwest daily paper. About as middle of the road as you can get & they understand that this is an objective, straight news headline, in the context of a planned Trump/GOP onslaught in Springfield, etc

In today's paper, @richiefife.bsky.social call's Alden Capital's NYDN Font Gate "another visible marker of a paper steadily abandoning its identity, its readers, and its responsibility to this city."

Everybody's saying it

If I had even a fraction of Bezos's money I would fund so much unprofitable shit and let it absolutely rip.

I think about this a lot www.notus.org/trump-white-...

"At least 20 states do not test private wells for PFAS outside of areas where problems are already suspected...." and "While utilities can rely on centralized treatment facilities, restoring safe water for well owners must be done household by household." apnews.com/article/pfas...

Great resource from Nicole at @consumerreports.org, and a reminder of why it's a good to go fragrance-free www.consumerreports.org/product-safe...

A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half. ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers. Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

I know this might seem silly -- but the Daily News has long been the news in a New York accent. The fonts of this storied tabloid are immediately recognizable from across a crowded subway car. To have them changed on us with no warning feels like having our voice taken from us.

My @propublica.org colleague @peterdicampo.bsky.social & I reported from Minnesota last week, amid the federal immigration crackdown. This is what we saw: www.propublica.org/article/minn...

Oregon Trail ass 2026

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Thank you @miasato.bsky.social for a new term that will likely be the Word of the Year for 2026: "slopagandist"

The Portland Press Herald is on the ground covering the ICE surge in Maine without a paywall as a public service.

Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

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