Brad Skillman

aiglossary.news A glossary of AI terms for journalists

For our #NICAR26 panel we threw together this free, open-source glossary of AI terms and foundational concepts that journalists should know.

We will be adding to this! (Forked from prior work by @palewi.re @dwillis.bsky.social et al)

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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

New project just dropped !

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees

From @shaw.al @bxroberts.org

projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

JW Marriott, home of the NICAR 2026 Conference, with Lucas Oil Stadium near by, home of the Indianapolis Colts

Are you ready for some NICAR!!!!
#nicar26 #nicar2026

Dashboard-style web app titled "NICAR 2026 Posts on Bluesky from Jan. 13 to Feb. 26." At the top are three large summary tiles showing total posts, unique authors, and total likes. A left sidebar lets you select a date range and filter by authors (with checkboxes) and optionally show only posts containing external URLs, plus a button to download the current dataset. The main area contains a searchable, filterable table of posts with columns for timestamp, post text snippet, author, likes, reposts, replies, and tags; entries include links to open the original post. [Alt text by ChatGPT]

Browse, search, and filter all the NICAR 2026 posts on Bluesky R Shiny app collects all the posts with the #NICAR26 or #NICAR2026 hashtags
App: apps.machlis.com/shiny/nicar2...
#RStats code: github.com/smach/bskyconf
#RShiny
[Did this for Twitter years ago, now updated]

US Postal Service Taps Restructuring Advisers Amid Cash Crunch The US Postal Service is bringing on restructuring advisers to help it address mounting financial problems that officials say could leave the agency out of cash within a year.

SCOOP > The US Postal Service has hired restructuring adviser A&M as it faces running out of cash within a year. Cailley LaPara has the story here > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

On the road to #nicar26. Chilling out now watching Red Sox-Yankees (alternating with checking FlightAware to see how much my trip from LGA might be delayed). Looking forward to catching up with old and new friends and seeing how AI is affecting your work for better or worse.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has given up enforcing the state public records law. #FOIA @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/04/m...

Wow, the Dem primary turnout among Hispanic voters in Texas is going to be giving the GOP sweats for the next 8 months.

Take Zapata County - turnout in the Dem primary there yesterday was 143% the total number of votes Harris won in the 2024 general election. That's wild.

The Weather Service is updating its severe storm outlooks. What that means for you. The agency is adding a “conditional intensity index” that predict how intense a storm might be.

The Storm Prediction Center is adding a “conditional intensity index” that will predict how intense a storm might be.

Here’s how the change might affect you:

Awesome update from an incredible tool for everyone who cares about redistricting -->

I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

Six accounts on Polymarket made around $1 million in profit by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28, according to analytics firm Bubblemaps SA. The accounts were all freshly created in February and had only ever placed bets on when US strikes might occur.

Charting the Global Economy: Trump Presses On With Tariffs After Court Loss US President Donald Trump is pressing on with his tariff agenda after a major setback from the Supreme Court, looking to use different avenues to enact the levies.

What happened to the global economy this week — in charts

What’s at Stake for Oil Markets as Trump Strikes Iran President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran creates new risks for a significant chunk of the world’s oil supply.

President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran creates new risks for a significant chunk of the world’s oil supply

Growing more complex by the day: How should journalists govern use of AI in their products? Journalists at the investigative outlet ProPublica have pledged to strike if negotiations for a contract don't take a turn — in what is believed would be the first such job action in the news industry...

Good AP story on a pivotal issue for journalism. How should news orgs govern use of AI in their products?

(Especially given that GenAI models are unreliable prediction engines that can make shit up and require human fact-checkers. Don’t fall for the Matt Shumer hype).

apnews.com/article/ai-m...

New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak Americans, including swing voters, see the Republican Party as 20 points more extreme than Democrats — and the Democrats as weak and ineffective. So why would the *Democrats* moderate?

Full link here:

Besieged Berkshire Utility Tries to Rewrite Who Pays for Wildfires Utility-ignited fires have become a thorny issue for Warren Buffett’s successor.

This much is clear: As climate change has made wildfires more frequent and destructive, the issue of who pays for their costs has come to a head.

My story with @alexrajbhandari.bsky.social on the all-out offensive to rewrite who pays for wildfires: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... 5/5

South Korea Clears Way for Google Maps to Fully Operate South Korea approved Google’s request to export detailed map data, reversing a longstanding restriction that made the tool largely nonfunctional.

South Korea said on Friday that it had approved Google’s request to export detailed geographic data out of the country, reversing a longstanding policy that had made Google Maps largely nonfunctional in the country. nyti.ms/4l4MbP8

NYC’s newest billionaire status symbol: a double-wide townhouse.

Ultra-wealthy buyers are combining 2–3 historic townhomes into mega-mansions designed to feel like suburban estates — in the middle of the Manhattan.

Here's the latest with @sooophie.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI versus accuracy? We're willing to make the trade-off. When asking AI about the news, readers “know the answers they are getting are not perfect.” They keep asking anyway.

When asking AI about the news, readers “know the answers they are getting are not perfect.” They keep asking anyway.

@klaudia.bsky.social @aisvarya17.bsky.social

www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...

How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century

The Guardian has a blockbuster analysis of rhetoric in the UK parliament. A very cool look into language and political debate:

www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

This is such a wonderful little piece www.wired.com/story/say-go...

The team behind Dark Sky launches a weather app for uncertain, low-trust times This seems fitting for a time when a lot of Americans aren't sure what to trust and say it's important to do their own research: A weather app from the folks behind the beloved app Dark Sky (sold to…

"Rather than pretending we will always be right, Acme Weather embraces the idea that our forecast will sometimes be wrong." www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

AI Lost Out to Traditional Models in Forecasting NYC's Blizzard Two days before New York's biggest snowstorm in a decade began, forecasters were still unsure how much snow would fall. One traditional US model had consistently predicted a major hit, while newer art...

@bloomberg.com colleague @laurenthal.bsky.social has a nice one on how it was the human, not the machine, that saved the forecast for the Great Nor'Easter of 26: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

#winter #climate

Preliminary Snow Totals: Feb. 22-23, 2026 A winter storm struck the Mid-Atlantic region Feb. 22-23. See 979 snowfall reports mapped, with a max of 27.5 inches.

Searchable, sortable snowfall totals for more than 1,300 locations across the northeast as the Blizzard of 2026 departs.

Big winner so far? Babylon, with 29.5"

NJ's top was Carlstadt in Bergen County with 27.9"

sstirling.github.io/snow-points/...

Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

If Canvas doesn't view this as an existential threat, they have no idea how ready I am to replicate college in the 1980s. companion.ai/einstein

I've got a new survey out today (part of private polling consulting work I do) that finds Trump's deportation agenda is eroding support for the GOP, and voters want the president to prioritize economics over deportations. W/ direct data on Trump defectors: morrispredictive.com/assets/surve...

Be safe peeps. I know it looks meh right now with very little sticking, but it will get a lot worse.

Palantir, Which Is Powering ICE, Says Immigration Crackdown May Hurt Hiring Regulation of immigration or work visas means "it could be more difficult to staff our personnel on customer engagements and could increase our costs," Palantir wrote.

There is an inherent irony in Palantir listing the immigration crackdown that it is powering as being a potential risk for the company.
www.404media.co/palantir-whi...

Last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin approved a proposal to establish a College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence funded by private corporations and philanthropy. Mnookin said the move was a response to the inevitable creep of artificial intelligence into all disciplines of academia. Rather than reject AI, she envisioned a university that capitalized on this change by making artificial intelligence a "hub" connecting the humanities to computer science.

On the first day of my economics elective this spring, my professor said we would be expected to use NotebookLM to pass his class. He had lengthened the coding assignments so that they would be doable only with the help of AI. The reading assignments were longer, too: ten 40-page papers per week, which he asked us to feed into AI for a summary rather than read ourselves. When it came to lectures, he told us to simply upload the slides to AI and ask it to teach us whatever he failed to explain properly in class.

BLEAK. Bleak. I’d been paying attention to Columbia selling out its governance to the Trump admin, not so much its stance on AI.
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...