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If today's community call is any indication, I'm very excited by the potential about working on better gatherings for journalists. Thanks @pboehler.net and @madraekaras.bsky.social for leading that discussion.
And here's a refresher in case you didn't catch their piece in Source.
A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah.
It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
Six years after the ‘Be Water’ rebellion, in 'Forever Hong Kong' Ching Kwan Lee interrogates the historical conditions and precedents that precipitated the 2019 revolt, reinterpreting Hongkongers’ political resistance as acts of decolonial defiance. A conversation with @sharonyamsy.bsky.social.
This research from Gazzetta comes at a moment where it will be needed.
If you are a journalist, I strongly advise you to read the results of this Gazzetta research as it could HEAVILY impact your career going forward.
www.gazzetta.xyz/iran-persian...
Thinking back to how many times we picked up a new information tool (and often put down an old one)…
Also, announcing EM Lewis-Jong from @mozdatacollective.bsky.social as a speaker for #PfP✨London
Plus shoutouts to:
@hackshackers.com
@standard.site
@sphericalcowconsulting.com
@werd.io
@pboehler.net
HNY 2026! Looking forward to more @protocolsforpublishers.com this year
also true - at every point in Bari’s career she has been determined to make herself a star and this is the biggest platform she’s ever had to do it on and she is fucking it up and it is very funny and you will not take that away from me
The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.
The real issue isn’t immigration, it’s the feedback loop: platforms amplify anxiety → voters feel it → politicians chase it → hollow policy follows. Until we break that cycle, we won’t get functional decisions or functional democracy.
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
Duolingo Arabic course sentence: New York is a weird city.
Weird is beautiful
I've had the immense pleasure of meeting and working with some of the folks at the Gazzetta journalism lab and they recently published this based on some of their efforts: www.gazzetta.xyz/ai-worker-ri...
I strongly encourage you to read this.
Just to pre-empt the pundits, I absolutely believe you could run a Mamdani in middle America and win
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Idiotic WSJ headline: Europeans Watch New York’s Mayor’s Race With Fear
The WSJ journalists build a house of deep reporting and accountability. Then the op-ed page editors spend all day burning it down with toxic, fact-free arson.
Das ist richtig, aber Konsolidierung ist fällig. Und dann eine Förderung so gestaltet, dass Medien nicht am Interesse der Kunden (der berühmte „Markt“ - das sind wir alle) vorbei produzieren. Viele Medien, die wenig konsumiert werden, ist gesellschaftlich auch kein Mehrwert.
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You are so sad.
NYC mayoral debate, chyron says "Israel, Gaza & NYC"
Really pretty weird that this is the central topic of the NYC mayoral debate.
Portland, I love you! 💙❤️💙
This gives me great hope, and a good chuckle.
#StopTheMadness #StopTrump #Resist 👊🏼
"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades
“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”
I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
I was curious if The Post's shift to accommodating the right was yielding any distinct benefit to the paper. To this point, it hasn't — and it's hard to see why it would.
More data (including on CBS) here:
www.pbump.net/o/you-cant-g...
It’s hard to find much evidence of a true youth movement rallying behind Kirk beside the conservatives who were already fans.
Instead, we see a top-down effort from powerful people to use a controversial man’s death to create a cult of personality where one didn't exist. trib.al/pAP5Egz
I have criticisms of ICEBlock, but this is authoritarian bullshit, and the fact that nearly all smartphone use one of two app stores controlled by US corporations does not bode well for the future
And yes, while Mastodon isn’t my thing and I prefer AT Proto to Activity as federated social media infrastructure, I am VERY glad it exists and is being built out, too.
The future absolutely requires online communication hubs that can’t be bought by dead-eyed Nazis.
You absolutely should not dismiss the AT Protocol technology that runs this place as boring nerd stuff, because that is the exact technology we are going to need to ensure that usable social media that isn’t controlled by Nazis continues to exist.
