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@forbes.com calls @cusick.bsky.social "this woman"

too bad acey ain't in charge no more
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"Your first draft isn’t an unoriginal idea expressed clearly; it’s an original idea expressed poorly, and it is accompanied by your amorphous dissatisfaction, your awareness of the distance between what it says and what you want it to say. That’s what directs you during rewriting, and that’s one of the things lacking when you start with text generated by an A.I." Ted Chiang
November 21, 2023 at 5:55 AM
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"The best science on these issues is complex, happening in silos, and left in peer review journals, making it largely inaccessible to everyday Americans. Until recently, there was no easy, accurate way for individuals to understand how environmental changes impact them personally."

firststreet.org
Four colored charts of the continental United States. Clockwise from the upper lefthand corner: Overall Insurance Bubble, Wind Bubble, Fire Bubble, Flood Bubble. The impression all four charts give together is that there will be very few places in the United States that are "safe" from climate-related risks in the near future.
October 5, 2023 at 4:08 AM
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got a little "private equity firms have always been nice to me personally" schmutz mixed into your optimism there, jim

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/07/1192579398/publishing-company-simon-schuster-was-sold-for-1-62-billion-to-investment-firm-k
A quote in NPR from Jim Milliot, editorial director of Publishers Weekly, about the Simon & Schuster sale to private equity firm KKR: MILLIOT: "Well, I know there's going to be a lot of initial reaction to, oh, no, a private equity firm has bought it. And I understand that. You know, private equity firms don't have the greatest reputation for the way they treat companies and, you know, may not care all that much about the literary value of S&S. But I think in the end, it'll work out."
August 8, 2023 at 3:29 PM
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"By doing their art, a whole lot of time suddenly returned. Their art didn’t need more time; their time needed their art."

— Mandy Brown, "Energy makes time"

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/energy-makes-time/
An excerpt from the linked post, written by Mandy Brown. The first and last paragraphs read: It turns out, not doing their art was costing them time, was draining it away, little by little, like a slow but steady leak. They had assumed, wrongly, that there wasn’t enough time in the day to do their art, because they assumed (because we’re conditioned to assume) that every thing we do costs time. But that math doesn’t take energy into account, doesn’t grok that doing things that energize you gives you time back. By doing their art, a whole lot of time suddenly returned. Their art didn’t need more time; their time needed their art. [...] The question to ask with all those things isn’t, “how do I make time for this?” The answer to that question always disappoints, because that view of time has it forever speeding away from you. The better question is, how does doing what I need make time for everything else?
August 5, 2023 at 6:38 PM
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"The bot accounts in our analytical sample were identified by self-revealing tweets they posted by accident."
A screenshot of a tweet showing how the human team found this tell by using an extremely advanced investigative reporting technique: searching "as an AI language model" on Twitter
August 2, 2023 at 5:01 PM
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i need a rita
Screenshot of an image post from a Golden Flake "brand account" on Mastodon. A woman in a blue shirt wearing a hairnet is standing beside a conveyer belt, which is conveying thousands of chips from (probably?) a frier to wherever their final destination may be. The woman is patting down the chips with disposable gloves. The caption reads: "At the Golden Flake factory, Rita gently massages the chips. This is to ensure that they are entirely content and can begin to accept their fate. #GoldenFlake"
August 1, 2023 at 3:44 AM
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This is spot on.

Organizations are paperwork. They're contracts. Agreements with terms, at most. Paperwork is not capable of trust, no matter how many humans sign on.

How might we increase confidence in Person <> Entity contracts? Most orgs can't (won't?) introduce genuine protections soon enough.
"In an interaction with a news organization, I'm a person but not always. I am calculated as a page view, an impression, a potential ad click, a subscriber or potential subscriber, a donor or potential donor, a newsletter signup, a "community" member, an engagement. I'm in the funnel or on the ladder. I'm always on the precipice of converting or churning. "I could trust your reporter. The person who has spoken with me. The person who has hopefully treated me as if I'm an actual human being. I could even trust a team of yours that I've interacted with. I could trust the person who responds to a message I send or a comment I make. I could trust you as a founder. I could trust you as a publisher. I could trust your people." Heather Bryant Read more: hbcompass.io/im-never-going-to-trust-your-news-organization
July 28, 2023 at 10:36 PM
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The Paper (1994)

"You're not a columnist. You're a reporter who writes long."
Marisa Tomei holds up the front page of the Daily News, which reads: "Welcome to New York — YOU'RE DEAD"
July 28, 2023 at 6:18 PM
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
The muppets reading Variety with the NYC skyline in the background. Animal is wearing an I <3 NY t-shirt.
July 28, 2023 at 6:09 PM