Objectively, this statement by a sitting president is an impeachable offense.
Fred Vultee@fredvultee.bsky.social · 1h agoCorrupt, senescent felon lays groundwork for another assault on voting. Film at 11.
Damon Kiesow
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Knight Chair in Journalism at Mizzou. Authored first textbook for News Product Management. Previously: Director of Product at McClatchy. Big @newsproduct.org fan.
Fred Vultee@fredvultee.bsky.social · 1h ago“The anthropomorhizing of AI serves to further mystify rather than clarify the technology.” In a study “Paradigm Destruction: How Journalism Casually Contributes to Its Own Credibility Debacle” presented at AEJMC by Kevin Lynch an undergrad at University of St Thomas.
NPR reporter: The US military has struck more than 15,000 targets in Iran since the war began. Host: Wow. Other reporting: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Military strikes on water facilities in Iran may constitute a war crime, experts say
Strikes on Bemani damaged key water reservoir for 20,000 people living in area amid a historic drought in the country
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Flight attendant said we were to put bags in the overhead oriented like a taco, not a stack of pancakes. And reader, it took me a ponder to decipher the analogy.
Bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal: DHS has been tracking down Americans at work and on the road who are critical of immigration policies, spending millions on contractors to surveil First Amendment protected speech and create political dossiers. Outrageous. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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Re-Watching O Brother and it is a much better adapatation than Nolan's Odyessey.
What is great about using AI to manage critical tasks is that in the face of any ambiguity in data, direction and process, or if context bleeds over from another case, the LLM will roll the dice and confidently guess wrong.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago“The AI assistant, which Kinney Drugs named Burt, after its founder, was built by a third-party AI pharmaceutical company, Synerio. In the pharmacy’s terms, Kinney Drugs states that ‘Burt may not be accurate, complete or up-to-date and may be misleading or contain errors and omissions.’”
Vindictive prosecution is a punishment in itself and I hope the eventual multi-million dollar settlement mitigates the damage.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
Missed it in June but love the top of @dicktofel.bsky.social newsletter linked here. Brand said 'Information wants to be free' at a Hacker's Conference and it has been wildly misunderstood by journalism. I feature it in my chapter on 'The Business of Content.' dicktofel.substack.com/p/on-ai-pred...
A thing I have always hated about “report this post” features is how they are so clearly designed not to conflict with the platform’s business model or internal stakeholder politics. “AI Slop” is a great option.
Edd Coates | Game UI Database@eddcoates.bsky.social · 6d agoLinkedIn added an "AI slop" button. The U-Turn is happening, expect to see a lot more of this from other tech companies.
An attempt by the Missouri Attorney General and Secretary of State to shut down a public library’s “rainbow storytime” for children by threatening to withhold state funds, “grossly mischaracterizes” the event to force an “ideological agenda,” PEN America said today. pen.org/press-releas...
Zuck has been telegraphing this since before the last election. The real lesson is that as a social media platform you either die young or live long enough for your CEO to go full fascist.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.AYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...
The news media need to treat context as an element of truthfulness - as opposed to the object impermanance reflected in these headlines.
Philipp Markolin@philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · last wk.Honestly, the mainstream press is among the most gullible and easily manipulated... Look at the headlines, none of which describes the actual reality of somebody refusing to participate in a partisan witchhunt, irrespective of their idiotic questions (bill gates, IVM, vaccine, lockdowns, origins)
That is a big loser of a legal argument. The law must survive 'strict scrutiny' which requires demonstrating a compelling state interest in protecting personal privacy and a narrowly tailored impact that targets only the harmful speech acts. Seem like, yeah the state can prove that?
Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · last wk."A company with a thousand violative images could be fined up to $500 million. And a business whose users created a hundred thousand images...could owe an eye-popping $50 billion dollars." The statute, "burdens both xAI’s and its users’ right to free expression under the First Amendment."
Such fascinating calculus to leave a good job to join a team destorying a national monument.
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last wk.Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press, once owned by the legendary Adolph Ochs, returns to local ownership. www.chattanoogan.com/2026/7/26/52...
Report: Local Group Buying Chattanooga Times Free Press From Arkansas Owners
A group of investors led by Chattanooga businessman and media specialist Craig Fuller is planning to buy the Chattanooga Times Free Press newspaper from its...
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The only thing “difficult to control” here are tech CEOs.
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last wk.The 'singularity' refers to the point at which AI outpaces human intelligence and becomes difficult to control.
Inside you are two wolves. One enjoys building solutions the other enjoys having solutions.
The best tech literacy education is to try and build something useful to your own productivity that has an LLM in the data pipeline and then watch how often it just straight up 'makes things up' (by probabilistically guessing and providing an entirely wrong sequence of words).
The goal is to satisfy the *emotions* behind every information need without providing real information.
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · last wk.The cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.
Just a reminder that banks are FDIC insured. This isn’t
southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · last wk.As in it was your money. Now it’s your ex-money.
Fascinating ethical failure here: metrophiladelphia.com/stories/will... I am always suspicious of any story about AI because tey seem to over-0index for being written by AI. But in this case it is an advertorial: 1/2 metrophiladelphia.com/stories/will...
Will AI Text Detectors Become Obsolete as AI Writing Gets Better? - Metro Philadelphia
AI text detectors were introduced to help identify content generated by artificial intelligence and these tools were considered an effective way to distinguish between human and AI-written text. …
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There are so many password creation rules (# of characters, symbols, capitals) that these are basically just API keys now.
