The president has created an environment where no culpability is allowed for any official act so the atrocities will escalate until mainstream public passivity breaks.

“Community is the new product” says an unnamed person under Chatham House Rules who was definitely not @nikitaroy.bsky.social talking about innovation and AI.

Life is unpredictable.

Every time I hear someone from any c-suite talk about GenAi I become more convinced it is a bubble. Doubly so if they point to valuations.

This kind of thing is going to require alternative accreditors, which is only gonna work till the next administration takes office.

The NYT ought to ask itself why just by random luck it so frequently ends up whitewashing the activities of people who dabble in eugenics and don't mind drinking in Nazi bars. (Not linking to the story - it is a dating service.)

I did not realize pasty were a thing in Arizona, but apparently miners? Anyway, just had a good one.

In Phoenix and local news radio seemed miffed about Mark Kelly getting his pay cut but they also called it the "Department of War" so mixed messages.

The “we asked them not to use the machine we made for the thing we made it to do” defense.

Alternate headline: CDC recommends more kids suffer, die.

As tech companies try to sell us on the idea that life itself is an inconvenience, "an orientation toward friction is really the only defense we have against the life-annihilating suction of technologies of escape," @kjezermorton.bsky.social writes. www.thecut.com/article/broo...

Perhaps the best way to frame this: When you buy a physical good - you made a one-time transaction for a thing. When you buy/use a digital platform service you have entered into a lifetime relationship with the CEO’s best or worst instincts and politics.

I had to Google it but this seems to be a direct quote and reference to: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/america...

Since Business Insider seems to have left off the url to the original blog: www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/figh...

What the CoMo airport needs before they add any more daily flights is a parking garage out front. The parking in the fields and aisles and everywhere is chaos.

We previously believed people got big national platforms to speak from because of meritocracy which was as true (meaning half true) then as it is now, but in digital the "merit" is different and possibly no better or worse, just different. The system adjusting to that is what causes friction.

Well this is great:

Bezos is an absolute train wreck of a news media owner.

“Web 4.0” will be the strip-mining of the collaborative spaces of the web, enclosure and privatization, followed by the managed decline of those commercial platforms once there’s no fresh feedstock to extract. bsky.app/profile/anne...

Until the tech stack changes enough that the LLMs are no longer able to provide useful answers for a lack of training materials.

Much local journalism is 'service journalism' but when it targets the needs of a racial/ethnic majority, the label becomes invisible and if interrogated is found simply to be "objective."

Maybe this is Bluesky-centric discourse but arguing the NYT and WaPo ought to report in advance on troop actions they judge to be illegal is not the debate I expected.

160 Days till the World Cup opens in three countries barely on speaking terms. Assuming we don’t invade one or more by then.

I want the oral history of the minimum-wage food&beverage staffer who was in charge of draping those tables with clean linens this morning.

plot twist

Our rural revenue transformation workshop is open for applications! This hands on workshop includes a local hotel, 2 meals a day and sessions focus on actionable, useful learnings to take home with you bit.ly/ruralrevenue

Going back in time and banning rural data centers...

I dislike media effects theories not for the theory as much as the labeling. They academically label as "elites" anyone from a politician, TV anchor, community leader or friend. The key being people follow hueristic cues to form provisional opinions about topics they don't follow closely themselves.

Fun fact: in 1908 the U.S. supported a coup in Venezuela to get access to its oil fields. Probably not relevant. Oh, and supported a dictator there in the 1940s there for his anti-communism. And oil.

You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.

This is dumb enough I have to repost it again.

It’s striking how amenably institutions align with reactionary and ahistorical: freedom is good in principle, except for this one out-group, who obviously will never get public support.

The new CBS: Remember Murrow, Cronkite, Stahl? Buncha losers and partisan hacks.

When you wonder about the inevitability of Big Tech’s vision for the world, remember that AOL dominated for a decade and was just bought by Bending Spoons.

This is an objectively funny name for a snowplow.

The exonerative tense in coverage of GenAI: kiesow.net/my-calculato...

I hate this phrasing and how it buys into what is essentially a falsehood about the autonomy of chatbots that is RIGHT NOW deforming our entire law and society. Grok doesn't say anything. That's like saying 'Microsoft Word apologized for losing everyone's files' www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

"Just checking the till here, Tony, and it seems you're short a few million" www.cbsnews.com/news/tony-do...?

So “American Ultra” is basically just “Stoner Bourne Identity.“

First.

FYI @brianboyer.net @joe.germuska.com www.reddit.com/r/Journalism... And happy new year.

Time is a flat circle. *I am being told that is just my watch. Happy New Year.

Only two in-progress but unfinished books of 2025: How We Think - Dewey Critique of Pure Reason - Kant

One practical reason to deprecate Federal services the States depend on is for political extortion. Occam‘s Razor.

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

Read local news. Support local news.

New Year thought: how long before your SmartTV pauses the ads when you mute the audio?

It is crazy the Journalism has such a specialized division of labor as to have departments responsible exclusively for holding power to account and others for repeating official statements without credulity. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

I had forgotten all the carnage that followed the slow-speed dissolution of MSNBC (MS divested of the website in 2012) - Everyblock closed in 2013 - BreakingNews.com - 2016 - Newsvine in 2017

Burning a $billion a month means you have to speed run the stages of platform decay just to maintain credibility with investors.