There wouldn't be a sign if there hasn't been a problem.

A six year old just showed me how he can count: 37, 38,39, 50! … which is kinda how the path to turning 50 felt.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Unfortunately my broadcast engineering consulting business has not worked out as I hoped. Not enough new clients, and about lose two more due to circumstances beyond our control. Looking for FT work. Resume is on this page: landrbroadcastservices.com/who-is-lr/

@scottmeyer.bsky.social I've worked in news media, in one form or another, for nearly 25 years. Never as a reporter, but close enough to see the sausage being made on a daily basis. This is DISTURBINGLY analogous to the morning news meeting at most journalism outlets.

Rarely has a go-to expression of mine ever been so relevant, but Jesus H Christ on a Sidecar. These idiots would fuck up a two-car funeral, even if you spotted them the hearse. (Also thanks to Ankaret for the funniest thread I've read in years!)

What interests me about this is how many tech admin types I personally know who work in local school systems and they are GUZZLING the AI koolaid.

Accurate.

@dankennedy.net Don't know if you saw this. Apologies if you already did.

Hot take: so many pols, developers, landlords and bigwigs in Providence are freaking out over rent control isn't b/c it'll stifle new housing construction (although it will do that). It's b/c it makes it THEIR economic problem instead of dumping it all on residents in the form of high housing costs.

Every. Goddamn. Company.

Also in new writing today: this month's column for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, in which a brilliant student of mine and I figure out how AI can accelerate our research... which sometimes means doing dumb shit really fast: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

@peterneronha.bsky.social you better not be letting #RIenergy be getting away with this b.s. Ditto @whitehouse.senate.gov

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

BREAKING: Workers at CBS are walking out. The unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are going on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco. The walkout comes after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

This is very important and a major pet peeve of mine. If you don’t know what you’re doing- and if you learned on the internet, then sorry, you don’t know what you’re doing- please leave old gravestones well enough alone.

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶

Wait, what? In the deluge of atrocities, I missed one that makes my head spin. As a girl, I thought if armed forces were gender integrated they’d be less rapey. Turns out women joining the force doesn’t solve the patriarchy problem

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this: all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral. BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

This has been our experience as well. The bottom line is if you are running a publication and want an audience of people who actually read things, this is...basically the only option at the moment. Reddit sort of works. It's great for driving traffic. But not really an overall substitute.

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post. We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts. Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert. Subscribe below.

This might be worth a story, @carfreepvd.bsky.social It's not perfect; I see it says my street is plowed when it's really "half-plowed" at best. But it's better than nothing. And props to the mayor for promoting it on his FB page.

@celesteheadlee.bsky.social It's enraging to me that a white dude...possibly the whitest dude...is absolutely schooling a black woman. I get that she's probably worried about her job, but christ what a terrible look.

This guy gets it.

And yet notice that she decided to lock all replies to the thread immediately after I posted this. 🤔

This one clip from John Oliver's episode on Weiss and the Free Press back in Oct really captures their usual disingenuousness and deceit. It isn't just the casual dismissal of racism it's the way they don't tell you what the article was so people can assume it was not as obviously racist as it was

France has ended up in a strange position after using some €250bn of tax-payer money to build a fleet of nuclear power stations. Wind and solar power is merrily entering the French power market at prices nuclear production can't match, resulting in huge surpluses of power. 1/

This is why I moved off Substack to Ghost. The Nazis will migrate to any big platform but when a platform actively promotes them, that is a choice

Gubernatorial campaign accounts by # of households they could pay 12 months of rent for at the 2-bedroom at market rate (via NHLIC's 2025 Out of Reach report: nlihc.org/oor/state/ri ): Shekarchi: 221 Foulkes: 143 McKee: 56 Guckian: 2

Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.

Mayor Smiley promised us the “best run city in America,” and we are curious when exactly we’ll make progress toward that goal. Here’s what he said when announcing his run for mayor in 2022, from a ProJo article by Amy Russo. ⤵️

I deleted TikTok back when the Oracle purchase was announced but if you've still got it, you GOTTA dump it. Especially for trans folks. It straight up says in the new TOS that they--Oracle, the company that has active ties to the Trump admin--are monitoring and documenting trans and NB users.

Worth noting given your current efforts! @rifoundation.bsky.social

Plese repost & share: "The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education." www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Kicking it old school. @npr.org I saved these out of Time or Newsweek some 25 years ago, framed them, and held onto them ever since!

The headline is bad, but don’t be fooled. The arguments presented in the article are also very bad.

I love passing this bridge and realizing that if a whole city can be this petty, I am not holding onto too many grudges.

This is a suddenly ubiquitous scam: the AI-generated email from a "book club" that can get your book into a couple hundred or couple thousand new hands. It's bullshit! Don't do it!