Great news for Press Freedom: Marion County, Kansas, agreed Monday to pay $3.05 million for its role in disavowed raids on the Marion County Record newsroom and two homes in 2023. The county agreed to apologize, concede wrongdoing likely occurred, and more. marionrecord.com?display+coun...

CBS just paid a $16 million bribe to Trump over a false accusation of lapse in judgement, so of course why would a news division need lawyers or standards?

First day of writing an academic journal article: Never going to hit 7,000 words on this. Last day before deadline: Never going to get this trimmed down to 9,000 words.

Meanwhile, Bill Clinton once said hello to the Attorney General at an airport.

The betting industry has a baseball problem.

Have at it, friends:

Did I miss the meeting where we decided the polite newspaper word for racism, extremism et al was “populism?”

So this Toyota commercial is basically arguing to avoid nature and just drive over it in roaming packs of 3.5L twin-turbo V6.

An actually essential piece of journalism from the times: "We interviewed 40 of the men who were imprisoned: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide." 1/2

Do this to me more than once and I will walk out and not return. www.wilx.com/2025/11/07/t...

Unbound by the friction of materiality, digital products let harm scale massively ahead of society’s ability to recognize or respond.

Writing a paper and using more em-dashes than usual just out of spite.

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The government shutdown is an extreme example and reason for reducing air traffic to major hubs. But also the result of running more and more flights into hubs and eliminating a lot of regional-to-regional capacity: www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/t...

If I am reading the precedents correctly: You CAN'T throw tear gas. You CAN throw sandwiches. You probably CAN'T throw around tariffs.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

Chicago judge reading the feds to filth rn

The Local News Impact Coalition’s Newsroom Census toolkit is now live on the website and registration is open for tomorrow’s webinar: www.localnewsimpact.org/2025/11/06/n...

At what point during the post-production on Tenet do you think they realized watching the same fight scene in reverse was boring but it was too late to change the script.

You: Actually, most states allow cities to cross county borders and exist in both counties. Me.... You: No really. Me:

I feel like you shouldn't be a public university administrator if you fealty is to shareholders not students.

Still one of my favorite work mugs. But end of an era. Was originally the Knight Ridder bureau.

Honestly, it is bad for the populist tabs to be in power. They are much better screaming harmlessly but joyfully from the cheap seats.

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Legacy media is doing what it's always done - serve a specific cross-section of the community. The fact that people have tried to say they serve more than that has long been the bigger problem.

Usually by being overqualified and highly credentialed.

That is wishcasting, not news.

Legacy media is going extinct—out of money, out of meaning, or both

1) Math teachers get to make math jokes at Halloween 2) They wore the same costume last year 3) It would be in poor taste (but not illegal) to mock a murder victim 4) They were not 5) They are getting death threats anyway www.wired.com/story/arizon...

Liverpool has a chance to return to Champion's League next season if they can just play a team set up like Real Madrid each week in the league.

Actually, ChatGPT is a pretty decent thesaurus. ChatGPT’s not bad as a thesaurus. ChatGPT works as a decent thesaurus. ChatGPT’s basically a live thesaurus. ChatGPT makes a solid thesaurus. ChatGPT: surprisingly thesaurical.

From a WhatsApp image scam in India to “lost luggage” phishing networks in Kenya, and bot-driven propaganda in the Philippines, these investigations show how digital threats are global and evolving. 🔗

The hundred-year flood events of journalistic self-sabotage are now occurring daily. www.axios.com/2025/11/04/t...

Mainstream media is not meeting this moment at all.

I do think the blocklists need better user management tools.

Doing quality, award-winning (even Pulitzer-winning) journalism valued by a community is not enough when corporate decides they need either more profit or more friends in office.

As a journalist, there is no more condescending response to criticism than, "We are not here to protect your filter bubble." Not every critique requires a reply - but responding with, "we are fair/objective nyah, nyah, nyah, nyaah nyah" is not it.

Using GenAI for some software development and it is amazing how good it is at some things and how bad/lazy at others. If a unit test is failing, it will prefer to delete the test so CI passes rather than actually fix the test.

Happy ICA Day to all who celebrate.

Seems significant the LAT portrays the victim’s story first here, with ICE in rebuttal. www.latimes.com/california/s...

YESEO launches three new paid features. Sign up to be one of 10 newsrooms that gets to test them for free. rjionline.org/news/yeseo-l...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

There is a local TV ad that runs constantly that uses a generic AI voice and the uncanny valley of it is like nails on a chalkboard.

Friction can be a barrier to use but it can also be a cost which demands investment by creator and consumer thereby a market-based investment/quality threshold that filters out bad actors.

These same administrators have somehow completely lost the plot, and bought into the belief that universities can and ought to be run like hierarchical businesses with administrators as management and faculty as employees. This relationship is upside down.

Gary Neville in a British accent being obviously forced to read vacant promos for NBC entertainment programming is a specific type of dystopia.

Adding this to the list of reprehensible things state governments are doing in support of a segregationist presidential administration: awfulannouncing.com/nfl/terez-pa...

If you translate this into English it says: "We are selling outrage, not journalism. Don't trust us to say anything truthfully."

Crazy that I am entirely skeptical of the likely value of this interview as a journalistic enterprise. But that's what happens when your corporate parent is a collaborator. apnews.com/article/trum...