lmao

as a local journalist, seeing my colleagues get their pitches rejected when they boil down to "amplify this issue within the city" (by providing a local angle) hurts me deeply. major +1 to the entire thread before me

At my college newspaper, when we would vote on a new photo editor every year, the two questions that we always asked were "what is the greatest rock and roll album of all time" and "let's say you had a cityscape picture that would only work if you moved the moon a few inches. Do you move the moon?"

on the other app i see Meg Brock of the Daily Caller making a fool of herself w/r/t the Vanity Fair debacle. but what concerns me the most is this comment under the post and how little pushback she's getting from other photojournalists in the thread. like ?????????????

can i give a major shoutout to the folks at the Illinois State Archives, who took my shot-in-the-dark "do you maybe possibly have this obscure thing and does this obscure thing have this data" and responded with "yes, yes, and we digitized it for you for free"? 💜💜💜

reminder that hyphens suck

i like this blog post a lot, even being outside of the tech space. being told "you make me want to reconsider my job of choice" by other freelance journos summons possibly the most uncomfortable feeling i can actively recall really good, @jyn.dev! one for the bookmarks :)

every day i see something like this, i wonder how many reporters didn't take an introductory J-school reporting course. 'not both-sidesing issues,' 'not editorializing false dichotomies,' and 'using neutral terminology unless appropriate' are all essential topics. what the hell happened?

one day all your favorite publications will write transparency meta-articles and finally teach their readers that the reporters don't write the headlines

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

ASN: AS812 Rogers Communications Canada Inc. Country: CA City: Willowdale State: Ontario Scanned: 2025-05-06T22:39:46 https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse#id/23981179 #vnc #infosec

just had a foia come back with redactions in white. lmao

Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours. New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEW investigative report: "Things will get really nasty." Hedge funds. Brokerages. Billionaires. Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties on and off Wall Street were broader than previously known, a cache of emails @bloomberg.com obtained earlier this year reveals 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

it's a surreal experience being up early and seeing all the australian news. like god damn what are they DOING to yall over there?? the government is projecting their murdoch slogan onto a bridge????

I have some news: I am helping my friends at @404media.co make a zine. I just knocked out the layout last week. It was awesome and I hope to do more stuff like it. www.404media.co/404-media-is...

Quite the passage from NOTUS about Trump's pardon of Henry Cuellar. "Wow." mailchi.mp/notus/secret...

Is your head coach's girlfriend filing FOIA requests on your school's top comms official a good look? Asking for a friend

this blurb alongside @pitchfork.com's aoty pick this year is brilliant, satisfying, and above all remarkably clear in the project's impossible complexity. stunning @jeremydlarson.bsky.social

In the last year, DDoSecrets' publicaitons has exposed everyone from governments, to surveillance operators, and even Jeffrey Epstein. If you want to support our one-of-a-kind work, consider donating to help us keep publishing this #GivingTuesday: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

my early take on part 4: not every album can be a banger, but i think folks will look back on it like the beatles' revolver. some decent hits but overlooked by other greater works

no i'm sorry this sucks. these shows suck in particular. but also lots of journalists suck and are pieces of shit. and we are totally fair game.

over the weekend, @aspyn.gay and @hue240.art ran two unrelated URLfests in support of Doctors Without Borders. i'm giddy to say that their combined-fest total raised for MSF is exactly $1,100.00 — a monumental success :)

Thank you all for an awesome first day!!!! We've raised $300 for Doctors Without Borders / Medicin Sans Frontiers (MSF) already :D We'll see you tomorrow for another awesome day!

i'm no longer looking for NM sources because it turns out this issue has a simple answer: NM has already stopped providing GAC, as @transitics.substack.com first reported earlier this month. i've verified her reporting per a source. transitics.substack.com/p/northweste...

in this agreement, NU formally says it will define "sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities" by sex assigned at birth.

corinne the president does not have the authority to just order around national guard troops to hold people at gunpoint to enforce specific behaviors he wants

on style: there is no one set of rules you must write within. but there are some tips so essential that they simply make your voice clearer, and your editors have less of a headache. those are Strunk and White's tips. sometimes, style guides also help you sort out things you aren't an...

picked up a hardcover copy of a classic

13,000 of the DDoSecrets-released Epstein emails are now public. (again: these are DISTINCT from the Congress-released ones.) ddosecrets.com/article/epst...

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8

new day new ridiculous bloomberg scoop

journalists: anyone ever dealt with Law No. 9 (2022) in Qatar, which is as close as they get to a FOIA statute? there's a kinda insane — and wholly unsurprising — clause prohibiting media publication without consent in Article 16. it's also... confusing. if anyone's ever submitted a request, lmk!

told me the article needed to be wholly reframed and i ended up writing my favorite thing ive ever written. editors 💜💜

The forensic audio analysis by Rob C. Maher of the 2024 Trump assassination attempt has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. This is great news for visual and audio investigations! aes2.org/publications...

a *gigantic* release at this early hour: 20 thousand unredacted emails from Epstein's Yahoo email (by request only/for journalists and researchers). these are from the same trove that Bloomberg has been going through — not the Congress-released ones. keeping eyes peeled for the reporting :)

Othman Mekhloufi has admitted to being the principal OneBC comms staffer for the past month and a half. He has also admitted to being the principal person behind Expose Charlie's Murderers.

This chart (which applies even more to social media than it did to TV) lives in my head rent free. Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.

em is a terrific, terrific friend and person and colleague and reporter. throw along some money if you can spare any please 💜💜

making note of this awesome @spj-posts.bsky.social post that hasn't seemed to circulate over to bluesky yet :P

Red (Marjorie Taylor’s Version) Showgirl Greene gave MAGA men wood, even if they knew she was trouble. Now that she’s never ever getting back together with Donald, she’s proving to be more than just a blank space. by Maureen Dowd

A reminder of the courage it takes to tell the truth and why we keep fighting for press freedom. #gijc25 @gijn.org @pressfreedom.bsky.social

this hed lmfao

november 30th @ 12pm CST / 6PM GMT. 19 sets. supporting MSF. discord below

started reading smith's dissent and lost my shit in this public library

i've seen multiple very cool articles utilize LLMs to do sentiment analysis and categorization. i'm a little skeptical on, you know, confidence in the produced data, though. isn't it, like, a black box? how can i source a black box?

download this please :))

Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.

🎁 With 6 weeks left in office, Eric Adams responded to a request I made nearly 3 years ago for the gifts he received as mayor. The release covers only half his term. It features an engraved belt buckle, an artillery shell, dozens of books, and, yes, a box of saltines.

some more personal news: playing music here on the 29th! it's online on twitch! you can just put it on in the background! all proceeds to Doctors Without Borders! you may even know some of the other performers! they're all really good! be there please!