This is such a fun idea to put together I spent a few hours at the weekend replicating it on @cloudflare.social
An open source 'Manosphere Report' you can deploy to your own newsroom today with a single command, track any podcast & generate summaries.
Link & demo below ⤵️
The New York Times is using LLMs to transcribe and summarize episodes of more than 80 podcasts that are part of the "manosphere." The resulting email digest lands in journalists' inboxes every morning.
I spoke with @zachseward.com about the tool for @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...
I regret this now
The new version of notification summaries for news apps in iOS 26 solves the problem of introducing errors by being as boring as possible.
Today is the 10th anniversary of Apple forcing that U2 album on everyone’s iTunes, and let it be known that, to this day, my two-year-old loves the HomePod because every time he touches it, it plays U2.
Good point, sports talk radio, too!
MSNBC aired several hours of Nicolle Wallace’s podcast on TV last night, thus completing the media singularity. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
FaceID not recognizing you is the new someone saying you look tired
"GPT-4o wouldn’t do that." @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com talked to ChatGPT users in parasocial relationships with a specific model about what they did when it suddenly went away. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...
On the internet, nobody knows you're a pelican riding a bicycle.
Incredible deep dive into one man's three-week delusional spiral caused by ChatGPT. @kashhill.bsky.social and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com analyzed the chats, totaling more than a million words, to explain why this keeps happening and demonstrate that all the major chatbots do it.
Fascinating analysis shows how conservative influencers made a mountain out of American Eagle’s molehill www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...
What kind of chaotic-evil pasta does not provide a recommended cooking time?
Strati are in
I’ve read a hundred stories about the grass at Wimbledon in my lifetime, and I’ll gladly read a hundred more on.ft.com/4lFmDHm
Remembering my dad this weekend, a year after his death. www.zachseward.com/stephen-clar...
By building tools based on repeated patterns, @nytimes.com is strategically applying AI as a force multiplier for investigative journalism – while maintaining traditional journalistic standards of accuracy and verification, explains @zachseward.com.
wan-ifra.org/2025/05/divi...
I spoke to @nikitaroy.bsky.social about the newsroom AI team at @nytimes.com and what we’ve learned after a year exploring latent space. www.newsroomrobots.com/p/how-a-five...
Live sports on Amazon Prime Video: When you can’t find the game anywhere else, it’s on Prime.
My contribution to this collection is a mood. www.cjr.org/feature-2/ho...
What a world
Loved this ode to Skype, for the memories and the chance to hear that amazing ringtone, which "was created using a blend of natural sounds like wind, water, and even a human breath to make it feel both familiar and abstract." restofworld.org/2025/skype-s...
You may leave here for four days in space
But when you return, it’s the same old place
The pounding of the drums, the pride and disgrace
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace
www.theguardian.com/science/live...
For @longlead.com's Depth Perception, I spoke with the @nytimes.com's first editorial director of artificial intelligence, @zachseward.com, about how the paper is—and is not—using AI. depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/zach-sewar...
I’m quoted in this thoughtful @newyorker.com essay, “Will A.I. Save the News?” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
Yours was among the most important coverage Quartz ever did. Thank you!
Quartz, the business news startup I worked on for a dozen years, through the height of digital media and the sector's crash, has fired all its writers and been sold to its fifth owner. So it felt like time to reflect. www.zachseward.com/what-was-qua...
Not enough attention is being paid to the legality of Trump’s tariffs. If the Supreme Court rules the administration overstepped its power, which seems likely to me, then everything from the market reaction to essays about the end of globalization will seem silly in retrospect.
