My current favorite short-form serial drama is the dude emailing for the past month to sell me a video borescope. Please always maintain that unwarranted optimism, Junk Folder Joel.

Google Gemini going low with the comparative advertising and implying Google has a better business model than OpenAI. That is the kind of trash talk that really resonates with Gen Z.

So Igor Tudor leaves Spurs with an undefeated record vs Liverpool. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Just saw a MSFT Copliot ad suggesting the old guy running the local downtown pizza place should ask AI how much to charge for a slice. And at the suggested $1, I figure he is losing $6 per pie?

This photo is fake. Many people have pointed it out in the replies but the person running this account just keeps hiding the replies. Block this account.

I think this is the “loss aversion” cognitive bias. The result of the RW playing the refs for decades is being “wrong” about anti-Trump protests is less a risk than being wrong about Anti-Obama protests.

✨ Updated preprint ✨ Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂

This is true. They philosophically believed the president should be white.

Apparently I will be rooting for the ref as he is the only kit I can differentiate. #usmnt

I have a NotebookLM filled with my book and course materials and it is quite useful instructional tool. Then I added a custom gem in Gemini and confusion reigns. When every interface is a chatbot - every Chatbot is going to be assumed to operate by the same rules, and they do not.

Why Tracie Powell is demanding a power shift in media funding rjionline.org/rji-fellows-...

Worthwhile read from @felixsimon.bsky.social about AI - summary with my take superimposed: 1) AI threatens role self-perception by journalists. 2) Top-down mandates from execs are more about productivity and volume. #1 is not a reason to reject the tech, #2 is. open.substack.com/pub/felixsim...

Building trust begins by listening — But it only grows when newsrooms give back rjionline.org/news/buildin...

Headed to ONA26 next week? Our RJI Fellows are leading some powerful sessions you should get on your schedule:

"Books save lives.They have saved mine." @thebloggess.bsky.social thebloggess.com/2026/03/25/t...

There’s an upside-down “H” on the facade of a Frank Lloyd Wright building in Illinois. Here’s a deep dive into how it got there. [inconspicuous.info]

There is a huge tactical gap between “having the right philosophy” and “doing the right thing” but believing in something still works better than believing in nothing.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

“News” accounts tied to betting markets are filling a demand for breaking news on X with false, misleading and unattributed claims. New analysis by @cj-robinson.bsky.social of @towcenter.bsky.social. Read more: www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...

AI companies - ‘helping’ journalism…. by borrowing authority without bothering to fix citation . Me in CJR www.cjr.org/tow_center/d...

Which is why forcing the sale of TikTok was a scam. You don’t need to own an app to get people’s data.

A media trust / media literacy test: Show respondents a headline revealing a new fact then note the original source and ask if they trust the claim, question the claim, would click?

Media Literacy is tech literacy and critical thinking enables us to Contain, Correct or Curtail our use of GenAI for journalism. kiesow.net/tech-literac...

This is such good writing:

"How do you ask a CEO to be the last CEO to invest a billion in OpenAI? How do you ask a man to be the last man to invest in a bubble?"

It is good and healthy that Meta can find itself caught in consumer liability suits like any big industrial concern might. But $375 million is less than two day’s profit.

Society is still not prepared for industries that can spin billion dollar products up and down for a global audience inside a year because zeros and ones are cheap and servers can be repurposed.

More than three dozen coop, staff-run nonprofit, and other democratic newsrooms are listed, with detailed looks inside 24 and counting (your newsroom can join the list here). rjionline.org/news/announc...

Somewhere on a continuum of “five years for your grandmother” to “five seconds for some rando on the internet” is the correct amount of time before blocking someone for anti-social behavior.

BREAKING: A New Mexico jury finds Meta violated a state law in failing to disclose the risks of its platforms to children's mental health.

In solidarity with my colleagues at BU, I've put up a Pride flag in my office window at Northeastern, facing Leon Street. Trans rights are human rights.

Maybe I am old (yes) but there is something off in the vibe of professional broadcast journalists leaning into the wide-angle camera and doing vertical video to talk about a runway tragedy in 45 seconds or less.

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

It is so dangerous to use AI for topics you do not already have some grounding in. Like when Gemini just tried to tell me Alicia Keys and Bill Witherspoon were “blue-eyed soul” because words are just numbers to a machine.

I am now planning to start a copy editing business in which I will offer a tier of service named “Grammarly” which will not impersonate but rather will be inspired by the brand name software.

The decision to keep my 1996 U.S. Robotics 56k dial-up modem finally paying off. If I can find the box.

Everyone madly Googling, "where was my router made" before asking ChatGPT if "artisenal local router" is a booth at the Farmer's Market on Wednesday. www.fcc.gov/supplychain/...

Please tell the Canvas people that the "low value" tasks I need automating are changing dates each semester and shuffling related lectures and course materials after a snow day. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Considering a back-up retirement plan after the textbook royalties were about $100 last winter.

Self-serving delusion.

"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

For this week's Tech Policy Press podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke to Boston University's Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey about their forthcoming law review paper, "How AI Destroys Democratic Institutions." They say the "affordances of AI systems extinguish" key features of democratic institutions.

Ten Missouri headlines this month:

Former Red Neco Williams had more goal involvements (2 assists) himself this week than #LFC as a team had last week.

"ChatGPT, one of the most widely used models, covered distinctive content in 54% of responses but almost never credited the originating newsroom." www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/chat...

Rose are Red. The FCC is corrupt. Localism is Dead. And small towns will suffer.

I watched the new Peaky Blinders movie and you should not bother if you loved the original series.

For journalists who want a voice and a vote in their newsroom, plus the first newsroom database launches. rjionline.org/news/announc...

So public shaming is both cheap and effective.

This is why Thiel invested in buying a vice presidency.