How Jordan LaFlure of The Onion thinks about AI: “I run a newsroom of comedians not journalists. Comedy is art and we should all be reluctant about art made by machines.”

@felicarrique.bsky.social of @newsproduct.org #ijf26 argues that AI is not creating strategic/tactical misalignment in newsrooms as much as moving so quickly as to reveal historically embedded misgovernance

A good rule for many contexts:

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Perhaps we should tax billionaires slightly more so other people may live.

There are THREE jets parked at gates at COU at the SAME time. And all are departing in the next 45 minutes. Record-breaking traffic.

There is a significant Reddit trend which looks like: OP: Here is a hilarious stupid people video I just took. First reply: That is AI Second reply: No, it is five years old.

As I recall, the current Pope has not pardoned any drug dealers, fake electors, seditionists, securities fraudsters or corrupt politicians.

I don’t know if AI has an inherent fascist aesthetic, but the fascists sure like it. One hypothesizes it is the detachment from reality and the talentless depiction of a fantasized future.

We are going to blockade the blockade in order to unblockade the blockade that was unblockaded before the bombing started. apnews.com/article/iran...

“Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their mark Make everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It’s easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred”

The meter and stress pattern bugs me every time and I would like to propose the lyric should be: “All but disappears”

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

Passenger at the AA lounge desk: Do you take American Express Platinum? AA: No. Passsenger: Are you sure? Oh, I guess you are trained to know.

Triumph over what? Will?

@melissabell04.bsky.social argues (correctly) we shoveled our legacy journalism products online without considering how digital is different and ceded the convening function to digital platforms.

A government service does not “lose money” but also: the war is costing us $2 billion daily.

The U.S. Postal Service, which lost $9 billion in 2025, recently warned that it could run out of money within 12 months.

It’s not that news is faster, just the headlines change hourly while the slow truth takes a day to show up.

“We are only as free as our First Amendment is strong.” Maribel Pérez Wadsworth @knightfoundation.org at the Press Forward Illinois summit today in Chicago.

CNN still dedicated to getting played.

Seems bad. futurism.com/future-socie...

We have one of those 'just walk out' stores in the airport with NO staff by design. Except they now offer beer so apparently they need a college student to sit there all day watching YouTube to guard the 300 square foot space.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'suddenly' that I wasn't previously aware of.

I think we would now call this mental models and heuristics.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Depluralize a movie: Rocky

Me watching the team introductions for UCLA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbdc...

Faux News headline tomorrow: Ex-president fails latest test, fails to launch expletive-laden threats on Easter Sunday.

This PR-speak about why you are raising my bill is more than enough to convince me to cancel.

A team can cannot give up like this and expect the manager to survive the summer. #LFC

Cackles

The tangible ways in which commerce always has and does format creativity is always fascinating.

I wrote ab a surreal conversation w/ The Free Press about how Jacob Siegel’s article came to be: apparently his nutjob email to me demanding my emails with other people, also served as the factchecker outreach 👀. That’s the editorial standard to publish a smear. open.substack.com/pub/reneedir...

This is a pathetic subhead. The NYT ought to be embarassed.

No, they didn’t.

Schrödinger’s tortoise

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.

NASA is honestly one of the greatest things humans have ever created, the stuff of math and dreams

H6 is indisputably the best gate at ORD. IYKYK.

And yet I keep seeing a certain person's social people posts about how well negotiations are going...

OMG, yes! "But the true holy grail of newsletters, the thing that would give readers the closest thing to a bespoke magazine without making them pay full price for a bunch of individual subscriptions, is the bundle," writes @neeldhanesha.com: www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/thre...

As a news organization, "If achieving your business goals and your civic mission are in conflict, you have the wrong business model." - Sydney Lewis @svlewis02.bsky.social

The clock on my phone and my Mac are off by 1 minute and a few secnds. How is that possible.

Dialing into class from a hotel mezzanine and the 30-foot ceiling and 20-foot windows make an amazing set.

Yes. Individuals grounded in empirical reality are likely to express skepticism or disapproval.

Housekeeping apparently did not recognize the international symbol for "empty bottle of shampoo."

There will absolutely be a Boston Tea-Party-Related gaffe during this visit. "Most people don't know that we drink Tea here. We even had banners about it, protesting taxes. But not in Boston."

Matthew Conaty and I have a new article out that pulls together and analyzes existing historical data on the US newspaper industry's reliance on advertising revenue. We also assess long-standing concerns about democratic harms caused by ad-driven media. victorpickard.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Apparently it's based on LLM-simulated users (and LLM judges). I generally think highly of the FT's reporting but this is is nonsense