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Burt Herman

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Intersection of journalism, technology and community. Founder @hackshackers.com, leading conversations about the potential of AI. Former AP correspondent, co-founder Storify

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Having been on the ground in other countries the U.S. has claimed to run in the wake of military action (Iraq, Afghanistan), having American officials actually there taking over the government and military is usually a prerequisite -- although in no way assures the U.S. actually runs anything

03.01.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Who is on the ground in Venezuela from the US to β€œrun the country” according to Trump’s statement?

03.01.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Strava is one of the best social networking experiences - people supporting each other in athletic achievement. Nextdoor is one of the worst - neighbors griping, jumping to conclusions, bickering, bringing politics to unrelated issues, borderline or outright racism and prejudice.

19.12.2025 16:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Despite crowning himself the headliner, Trump couldn’t win over Charlie Kirk’s mourners At Kirk’s memorial service, Christian nationalism upstaged the president’s vindictiveness.

This angle from The Verge seemed missing from much of the other coverage
www.theverge.com/policy/78370...

24.09.2025 12:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Apple found a new person to say β€œa-loo-min-ee-um”

09.09.2025 17:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Car with a personalized license plate that reads β€œSEMAFOR”

Car with a personalized license plate that reads β€œSEMAFOR”

Spotted in the neighborhood recently, whose car could this possibly be? @semafor.com @semaforben.bsky.social

02.09.2025 14:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Spotted in front of the Cobble Hill funeral home. I wonder who died?

08.08.2025 14:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The AI overview feature in Google is so shockingly bad, it’s amazing that the company has released it to users. It regularly confabulates and hallucinates results, mixing facts together, undermining confidence in Google altogether β€” and likely is driving people even more to other AI products.

07.08.2025 18:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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EPA's chief saboteur, Lee Zeldin, announces plan to delete climate science Zeldin announced plans to end the EPA's "endangerment finding," which is the scientific recognition that climate pollution harms humans.

Some of the best writing about the self-sabotaging and hypocritical acts of the current US administration come from @electrek.co and specifically @jamesondow.bsky.social electrek.co/2025/07/29/e...

29.07.2025 22:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle β€˜60 Minutes’ Lawsuit

A sad day for press freedom in the United States. This was a frivolous lawsuit and the payment being described as a β€œsettlement” is more accurately labeled a payoff. Trump’s presidential library will be a permanent monument to Paramount’s surrender. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

02.07.2025 10:12 πŸ‘ 106 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Wikipedia

Nothing new here that rising authoritarianism eventually leads to a clash between the regime and oligarchy -- see Russia in the early 2000s, Khodorkovsky: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail...

08.06.2025 16:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

After AI can do all the jobs, at least us humans will still have CAPTCHAs to keep us busy

02.06.2025 19:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the Creators of Shortcuts, Sky Extends AI Integration and Automation to Your Entire Mac Over the course of my career, I’ve had three distinct moments in which I saw a brand-new app and immediately felt it was going to change how I used my computer – and they were all about empowering peo...

This looks like what Apple Intelligence should have been by now: www.macstories.net/stories/sky-...

28.05.2025 23:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What a tool Eric Adams is for just getting free plane tickets. Next time he should’ve just asked for the whole plane.

13.05.2025 12:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A movie theater marquee showing the Hacks/Hackers AI X Journalism Summit

A movie theater marquee showing the Hacks/Hackers AI X Journalism Summit

We are live at the first-ever @hackshackers.com AI x Journalism Summit! Thanks to @therealnews.com for hosting us in Baltimore. Here’s our program for the next two days: bit.ly/hh-ai-journa...

07.05.2025 14:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send β€˜No Confidence’ Signal β€” The Wall Street Journal Few think administration’s negotiations with trade partners will yield results soon enough to ease the strain

The words β€œpolicy structure” are doing a lot of work here …

β€œIt’s impossible to commit capital to an economy that is unstable and unknowable because of policy structure.”

stocks.apple.com/Ah5l2eW48RRu...

22.04.2025 13:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

β€œA groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection... But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

22.04.2025 01:20 πŸ‘ 876 πŸ” 473 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 33
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Makes America’s Showers Great Again UNDOING THE LEFT’S WAR ON WATER PRESSURE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and make

This is not The Onion: www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

10.04.2025 14:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The only certainty is that nothing is certain. The only stability is the lack of stability. The only principle is there are no principles. The only way to make sense of things is to assume nothing makes sense. We are living in the upside down world.

09.04.2025 12:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t forget that we are also every day on the brink of a constitutional crisis too, whatever that means

09.04.2025 11:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There's no logical or moral or strategic defense for what we're doing right now. It's an idiotic plan being implemented with a level of incompetence that has no possible explanation.

09.04.2025 11:14 πŸ‘ 627 πŸ” 145 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 11
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AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

Big win for @apnews.com for standing up for the First Amendment, a lesson for many others who bend the knee apnews.com/article/trum...

08.04.2025 22:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm hoping you are joking? The amount lost in the markets is far more and just getting started β€” even if you were to believe the claimed DOGE "savings" ... and before considering the amount these "savings" will cost the U.S. long-term in conflict, disease, tax evasion, lost tourism, etc.

06.04.2025 22:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat Internal investigation cleared the national security adviser Mike Waltz, but the mistake was months in the making

National security officials … they’re clueless about tech just like your parents, clicking whatever pops up on devices without reading it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

06.04.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump's tariffs could increase the cost of an iPhone 16 Pro by almost $300. Who pays for it? Us or Apple?

And if we moved iPhone manufacturing to the U.S.? Let’s just say… get ready for a bajillion-dollar iPhone.

We broke down the bill of materials. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

05.04.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 293 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 7

Because the last month as the worst in the markets in years wasn't enough recognition of "America's renewed strength"

02.04.2025 13:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pics or it didn't happen

02.04.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I can hardly wait to be "liberated" today from my own retirement savings and investments, then pay more for everything, so that we can be "liberated" from our allies and friends across the world. The goal is clearly the opposite - to subjugate citizens and isolate the U.S.

02.04.2025 13:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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After DOGE Targeted V.A., an Iraq Veteran Faced Uncertainty and Crisis A veteran who returned from Iraq injured and transformed, Joy Marver is now facing a crisis at home.

Heart-wrenching story that shows the real suffering by people who served their country and deserve far better, victimized by the reckless chainsaw of DOGE (also see comments with replies from reporter Eli Saslow): www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...

01.04.2025 11:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Scoop: White House to take charge of briefing-room seating chart It's the latest effort by the White House to take a heavier hand in shaping who covers Trump.

Does any actual news come from these White House briefings? Are any substantive questions answered or new information revealed? www.axios.com/2025/03/30/w...

31.03.2025 14:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0