Lisa Schmeiser
@lschmeiser.bsky.social
Editor in Chief, No Jitter; podcast @ The Incomparable; writer of an intermittent Substack (lschmeiser.substack.com); parent/partner/community volunteer/aspiring long distance swimmer.
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“Billionaires are considering“ = “billionaires called up a credulous NYT reporter to bitch without fear of contradiction”
December 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
“Billionaires are considering“ = “billionaires called up a credulous NYT reporter to bitch without fear of contradiction”
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it's me. the surprise character in Avengers Doomsday is John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats. I murder half the Avengers with my sick rhymes but you have to see the movie to find out which ones
New Rumor Claims the Third AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Teaser Trailer Will Focus on a Very Surprising Character
December 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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This just in! I asked Smuin about the piece on their Instagram page and here's their response (shortened for Bluesky): "The Sweater” was choreographed by Julia Adam -- who happens to be Canadian. She took as her inspiration an iconic Canadian’s children’s book, “The Hockey Sweater” by Roch Carrier.
December 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This just in! I asked Smuin about the piece on their Instagram page and here's their response (shortened for Bluesky): "The Sweater” was choreographed by Julia Adam -- who happens to be Canadian. She took as her inspiration an iconic Canadian’s children’s book, “The Hockey Sweater” by Roch Carrier.
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The internet is revolutionary to free speech because it empowers individuals and citizens to route around censorship in all its forms—even a captured “free” press.
This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.
This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The internet is revolutionary to free speech because it empowers individuals and citizens to route around censorship in all its forms—even a captured “free” press.
This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.
This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.
All right, reviving this story because it got lost on west coast Saturday night "THERE IS NO POWER IN SAN FRANCISCO!!!" Bluesky.
And I happened to have been in San Francisco that day ...
And I happened to have been in San Francisco that day ...
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
All right, reviving this story because it got lost on west coast Saturday night "THERE IS NO POWER IN SAN FRANCISCO!!!" Bluesky.
And I happened to have been in San Francisco that day ...
And I happened to have been in San Francisco that day ...
"We can't control our AI's hallucinations, so we aren't responsible for any libel it commits" might not be a banger of a legal defense when the inevitable lawsuits begin.
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"We can't control our AI's hallucinations, so we aren't responsible for any libel it commits" might not be a banger of a legal defense when the inevitable lawsuits begin.
Kind of amazing indeed given that April 2020 was peak "the economy has shifted; toilet paper and sourdough starters are now acceptable currencies" mindset.
Kind of amazing to see economic sentiment in October 2025 lower than it was in April 2020.
December 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Kind of amazing indeed given that April 2020 was peak "the economy has shifted; toilet paper and sourdough starters are now acceptable currencies" mindset.
I absolutely do mean to brag: I am completely done with wrapping all holiday gifts. And I used a table, not the floor, this year. And I already ordered refills on all supplies for next year. All stocking stuffers have been procured.
Truly, I have ascended to a new level of domestic competence.
Truly, I have ascended to a new level of domestic competence.
December 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I absolutely do mean to brag: I am completely done with wrapping all holiday gifts. And I used a table, not the floor, this year. And I already ordered refills on all supplies for next year. All stocking stuffers have been procured.
Truly, I have ascended to a new level of domestic competence.
Truly, I have ascended to a new level of domestic competence.
I was going to treat myself to a purchase of this movie to get in the mood for the season but alas, it's only available to rent.
December 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I was going to treat myself to a purchase of this movie to get in the mood for the season but alas, it's only available to rent.
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This holiday season isn’t quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feeling like the overall economy is stuck in a rut under President Donald Trump, a new AP-NORC poll finds. https://to.pbs.org/48Q4cL0
Consumers aren't having a very merry holiday season, AP-NORC poll finds
Roughly half of Americans say it’s harder than usual to afford the things they want to give as holiday gifts, and similar numbers are delaying big purchases or cutting back on nonessential purchases m...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This holiday season isn’t quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feeling like the overall economy is stuck in a rut under President Donald Trump, a new AP-NORC poll finds. https://to.pbs.org/48Q4cL0
We went to see the Oakland Ballet's Nutcracker performance at the Paramount Theater yesterday afternoon, and man, it only made me love Oakland even more. The crowd was a delightful, dazzling array of people, and everything about the Oakland Ballet's performance felt & looked fresh & dynamic.
December 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We went to see the Oakland Ballet's Nutcracker performance at the Paramount Theater yesterday afternoon, and man, it only made me love Oakland even more. The crowd was a delightful, dazzling array of people, and everything about the Oakland Ballet's performance felt & looked fresh & dynamic.
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
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as foretold by the prophesy
![Managing requires certain kinds of soft skills, ones I am not confident you possess. They weren’t necessary in your cushy Wall Street Journal op-ed job, or your cushier New York Times op-ed job. They were barely required at the publication you invented, The Free Press. So now you’re the head honcho at CBS News. [highlighted text] Let’s say you decide to skip levels to directly edit a 60 Minutes story. It doesn’t even have to be a controversial story to make all hell break loose — because you have neither the credibility nor the relationships required to take this kind of work on. And what’s more, you’ve got a news division composed exclusively of ambitious piranhas below you — not your handpicked cronies, like Tyler “I wish to see Hollywood virgins” Cowen. These people have decades in television, and you have a newsletter and a history of throwing your colleagues under the bus. [end of highlight]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j3tpb4iabrq3ukfaui6eymwf/bafkreiblgfxjkl4p7yos56wttujnqclubnwegqcdc7g74pdovoe24kzonu@jpeg)
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
as foretold by the prophesy
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Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
So my daughter and I went to see Smuin’s Christmas Ballet this afternoon. It’s an annual tradition. One of the things we love best about it is how the first half is classical dance, the second half, “the cool Christmas.”
December 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
So my daughter and I went to see Smuin’s Christmas Ballet this afternoon. It’s an annual tradition. One of the things we love best about it is how the first half is classical dance, the second half, “the cool Christmas.”
Human attention, expertise and judgment can rarely be automated; the labor of attention, expertise and judgment merely gets shifted without corresponding compensation.
Generative AI is also causing me more work as a college professor, in teaching, research, and admin work.
So far AI is causing me more work.
One of my main responsibilities is to use a database to find certain things. This database used to have humans look at the webpage of a thing and then write a description.
Bad AI descriptions have led to an increase in false positives I need to sift through.
One of my main responsibilities is to use a database to find certain things. This database used to have humans look at the webpage of a thing and then write a description.
Bad AI descriptions have led to an increase in false positives I need to sift through.
December 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Human attention, expertise and judgment can rarely be automated; the labor of attention, expertise and judgment merely gets shifted without corresponding compensation.
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It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. From the NPR archives.
NORAD's Santa Tracker began with a typo and a good sport
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born.
n.pr
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. From the NPR archives.
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Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Can confirm. Watching drivers around Yerba Buena center try to figure out the rules of four way stops is a real spectator sport.
There is a large power outage affecting parts of San Francisco, including Richmond, Sunset, Presidio, Golden Gate Park, and parts of downtown.
December 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Can confirm. Watching drivers around Yerba Buena center try to figure out the rules of four way stops is a real spectator sport.
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Me whenever I see the Data Nerds trying to tell people who have actually won elections and gotten real things done how to do politics
a man in a suit and tie is saying " go outside nerd "
Alt: Uncle Baby Bill from Righteous Gemstones saying " go outside nerd "
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December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Me whenever I see the Data Nerds trying to tell people who have actually won elections and gotten real things done how to do politics