Rare opportunity: the wonderful nerds at the @opentechfund.bsky.social are hiring three program managers! www.opentech.fund/jobs/working...

Working at OTF

OTF is an independent non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting internet freedom globally to ensure that all people can access information, communicate, and associate freely online without fear of...

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The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

The most shadow banned post in the history of posts lol

Bezos laid off the people who win the Pulitzers. He’s funding the people who lose the subscribers. trib.al/upvkjLt

Nobody Asked for This Washington Post Podcast

Bezos’s new opinion section has 515 YouTube subscribers. CBS News is at historic ratings lows. The Daily Wire is shedding audience. The billionaires paying for all of it say it doesn’t matter.

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Performing virtue for clout and status is the most transparent thing. Everyone can see the price tag.

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"The importance of local knowledges, identity, and difference in confronting epistemicidal AI lies, therefore, in the capacity of these knowledges to resist the imposition of a single model of rationality and to affirm diverse ways of interpreting and organizing the world." ip.rec.br/en/blog/epis...

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Seen in Logan Square

“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails it, as usual

AI as the new avatar of American capitalism

Why "AI populism" is just "populism"

bloodinthemachine.com

The “social media” platforms we demonize today are actually multiple suspects. danah boyd (@zephoria.bsky.social) and Ben Werdmuller (@werd.io) have unpacked the term in ways that could have major benefits for both the child safety debate, and the case for democratic representation online. 1/6

Social media vs. parasocial media vs. social networking

The “social media” platforms we demonize today are actually multiple suspects in a trench coat. Separating out key use cases makes it easier to talk about practical ways to reduce harm and take back c...

platformocracy.com

The headline is fun, the study points at a more interesting question about how prompt framing shapes model outputs. The gap between AI headlines and AI research could be a great #tbd/con conversation; pitch your session: ask.gazzetta.xyz/tbdcon26 www.wired.com/story/overwo...

The political influencer landscape is so gross. So many of them are being paid by campaigns and don't disclose it. They present themselves as journalist-adjacent, but don't bother with ethics.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3mo ago

New: The liberal billionaire @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social's campaign has been paying influencers to champion his run for California governor - and many are doing so without disclosure. One big TikToker, who called the 68-year-old a "vibe," didn't mention he'd been paid $10,000 wapo.st/4twTpOh

My piece on government AI in Public Technology today www.publictechnology.net/2026/05/13/s... As more AI systems are used in government, we need to get better at asking questions about them and getting meaningful answers.

We need to get better at asking questions about government AI systems

As the use of LLMs and other automated tools grows across public services, citizens, civil society and external experts must be engaged in democratic oversight, argues Louise Crow of mySociety ...

publictechnology.net

Something by @pboehler.net that matters very much today. www.gazzetta.xyz/journalism-v...

Let's make sure that people continue to have access to tools that shield them from surveillance. #FundInternetFreedom @securedrop.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy @guardianproject.bsky.social @openarchive.bsky.social @unredacted.org @osservatorionessuno.org

Blueprint for Free Speech@bpfreespeech.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Digital surveillance of journalists has gone industrial, as this study shows. Finding new ways to fund internet freedom tools, including those we build, has never been so pressing Will you join us? May 19 #FundInternetFreedom @torproject.org @ifjglobal.bsky.social buff.ly/ymoJiQ5

Overheard someone wondering aloud why anyone would want to make it appear that the reflecting pool is filled with the blood of a thousand Smurfs.

Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈@timlongman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are living through the stupidest time line.

#tbd/con review crew applications close May 31. 🥁 We want a wide group with a range of temperatures. 🥁 Bring your own context window. 🥁 No tokens required, just curiosity. 🥁 Attention is all we need. Kickoff June 17, July-August window, credit on the program. ask.gazzetta.xyz/tbdcon26

Get involved

we want talks that end with open questions. technical depth, social critique, and wild prototypes welcome.

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Scoop by Swedish public service news: ”Hide the pain Harold” celebrating Péter Magyar swearing in as prime minister. www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...

Här firar ”Hide the pain Harold” efter att Magyar svurits in i parlamentet

”Hide the pain Harold” är ett av världens mest kända memes. Han heter egentligen András Arató och var på plats och firade Magyars valvinst. – Jag är väldigt glad att jag som 80-åring får vara med och ...

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#tbd/con update #1 is out. Free virtual conference Sept 23-24. Review crew applications close May 31. gazzetta.xyz/tbdcon-update-1 AI isn't arriving cleanly and the conversation about it shouldn't be either. The future is to be determined, to be dreaded and to be dreamed. We should talk about it.

CNews en chute libre passe derrière BFM et LCI. Pourtant ses méthodes, ses discours politiques et ses vedettes sont recrutés partout. www.liberation.fr/economie/med...

CNews rétrogradée à la troisième place des chaînes d’info

Battue par BFM TV et LCI selon les chiffres Médiamétrie dévoilés ce lundi 4 mai, l’antenne du milliardaire d’extrême droite Vincent Bolloré a perdu une bonne partie de son audience ces derniers mois.

liberation.fr

the kind of thing we'd like to see a session on at #tbd/con, Sept 23-24: tbdcon.ai

my late, latest, late monthly newsletter, on navigating fraught systems

Re:filtered #28: Radical acceptance

We navigate complex systems. Our power is limited. Starting anywhere else is how you burn out.

refiltered.leaflet.pub

News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️ Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out. Add your name. Stand for preserving the news. ✍️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!

savethearchive.com

#tbd/con is a free virtual conference for people who have more questions than answers about AI. Sept 23-24, 2026. 5 circles: thought, information, security, practice, garage. Attend, pitch, or review: www.gazzetta.xyz/tbd-con/

Announcing tbd/con

A virtual conference for people who have more questions than answers about AI. September 23-24, 2026, on gather.town. Free.

gazzetta.xyz

incroyable

Mr. Dan Zak@mrdanzak.com · 3mo ago

The 85-year-old widow “was chained by her wrists and ankles to other inmates and loaded onto buses and a plane ‘like a potato sack.’ After two weeks in detention in Alabama and Louisiana, she said, she feared she might die.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Scoop: Rednote (aka 小红书/Xiaohongshu) is taking steps to separate its Chinese and international users. Users report being redirected to new intl web domain, whose separate privacy policy, updated in late March, says intl user data will be stored in Singapore. www.wired.com/story/rednot...

Rednote Draws a Line Between China and the World

As the platform expands abroad, it’s taking steps to separate Chinese users from the international audiences it once brought together.

wired.com

Taking my newsletter to @leaflet.pub

Re:filtered #27: The house sets the odds

What stands between journalism and the people it seeks to serve.

refiltered.leaflet.pub

“There are a lot of things we don't see because they have not been submitted or that we might not be able to appreciate because people have not known how to articulate the value of their work.” Patrick Boehler, founder of Gazzetta.

Rethinking journalism awards

Everyone loves to win awards. But what does it mean to reward good journalism?

lighthousereports.com