Decca Muldowney
@deccamuldowney.bsky.social
editing at @newint.bsky.social & @bayareacurrent.bsky.social | alum of The Daily Beast, ProPublica, The Real Deal | here to burden the conscience of the affluent
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📰 🗞️ Personal news 🗞️ 📰
On Sept 1 I’m starting at @newint.bsky.social as a co-editor. It’s a magazine w a serious internationalist perspective I’ve admired for a long time. I’ve written for them on Kneecap, Irish, Palestine, art as resistance and lots more. Can’t wait to start!
On Sept 1 I’m starting at @newint.bsky.social as a co-editor. It’s a magazine w a serious internationalist perspective I’ve admired for a long time. I’ve written for them on Kneecap, Irish, Palestine, art as resistance and lots more. Can’t wait to start!
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Fuck Waymo—Long Live Kit Kat!
A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. Kit Kat's murder fits into the long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground — at our expense. But the Bay has had enough.
Read @alexhanna.bsky.social's searing take: bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...
A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. Kit Kat's murder fits into the long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground — at our expense. But the Bay has had enough.
Read @alexhanna.bsky.social's searing take: bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...
Fuck Waymo, Long Live KitKat
A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough.
bayareacurrent.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Fuck Waymo—Long Live Kit Kat!
A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. Kit Kat's murder fits into the long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground — at our expense. But the Bay has had enough.
Read @alexhanna.bsky.social's searing take: bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...
A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. Kit Kat's murder fits into the long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground — at our expense. But the Bay has had enough.
Read @alexhanna.bsky.social's searing take: bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...
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New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @deccamuldowney.bsky.social and I write about OpenAI's transparent attempt to shift accountability.
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OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @deccamuldowney.bsky.social and I write about OpenAI's transparent attempt to shift accountability.
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buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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🎧 NEW: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast episode 65 - 'Crunching The Numbers' 📈
@emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social talk to journalist @deccamuldowney.bsky.social about how so-called AI tools are infiltrating newsrooms, particularly when it comes to data analysis.
🔗 Below ⬇️
@emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social talk to journalist @deccamuldowney.bsky.social about how so-called AI tools are infiltrating newsrooms, particularly when it comes to data analysis.
🔗 Below ⬇️
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🎧 NEW: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast episode 65 - 'Crunching The Numbers' 📈
@emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social talk to journalist @deccamuldowney.bsky.social about how so-called AI tools are infiltrating newsrooms, particularly when it comes to data analysis.
🔗 Below ⬇️
@emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social talk to journalist @deccamuldowney.bsky.social about how so-called AI tools are infiltrating newsrooms, particularly when it comes to data analysis.
🔗 Below ⬇️
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 65:
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
… in which @deccamuldowney.bsky.social joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to talk about what it means to actually do journalism.
Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
… in which @deccamuldowney.bsky.social joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to talk about what it means to actually do journalism.
Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!
October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 65:
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
… in which @deccamuldowney.bsky.social joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to talk about what it means to actually do journalism.
Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
… in which @deccamuldowney.bsky.social joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to talk about what it means to actually do journalism.
Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!
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“The drive to adopt AI is, of course, part of a much longer story about the decline of quality journalism across the world, driven by the dramatic reduction of advertising revenues, the consolidation of media companies, & the loss of trust in media as an institution.”
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
Meta to Mine Media for More “AI” Training Data
We read this week in the Wall Street Journal that Meta is on the prowl for more content to train its ever-hungry AI tools and chatbot.
buttondown.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“The drive to adopt AI is, of course, part of a much longer story about the decline of quality journalism across the world, driven by the dramatic reduction of advertising revenues, the consolidation of media companies, & the loss of trust in media as an institution.”
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
Every podcast ad: “you need our new AI product to enhance your productivity/launch your business/save your job!!”
Every podcast: “…and then ChatGPT told him how to tie the noose”
Every podcast: “…and then ChatGPT told him how to tie the noose”
September 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Every podcast ad: “you need our new AI product to enhance your productivity/launch your business/save your job!!”
Every podcast: “…and then ChatGPT told him how to tie the noose”
Every podcast: “…and then ChatGPT told him how to tie the noose”
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The latest on the Mystery AI Hype 3000 newsletter: Back to School is Better Without AI
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social
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w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social
Back to School is Better Without "AI"
It’s that time of year again, when fall is in the air and “AI” is back and worse than ever, creepy-crawling into every corner of our education system.
buttondown.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The latest on the Mystery AI Hype 3000 newsletter: Back to School is Better Without AI
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social
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"Stop Hiring Humans" billboards menaced SF workers with messages of automation and unemployment. The ads were strategic: by pissing working-class people off, the tech company received the kind of attention that venture capitalist investors love.
🔗 bayareacurrent.com/ai-tech-comp...
🔗 bayareacurrent.com/ai-tech-comp...
September 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Stop Hiring Humans" billboards menaced SF workers with messages of automation and unemployment. The ads were strategic: by pissing working-class people off, the tech company received the kind of attention that venture capitalist investors love.
🔗 bayareacurrent.com/ai-tech-comp...
🔗 bayareacurrent.com/ai-tech-comp...
📰 🗞️ Personal news 🗞️ 📰
On Sept 1 I’m starting at @newint.bsky.social as a co-editor. It’s a magazine w a serious internationalist perspective I’ve admired for a long time. I’ve written for them on Kneecap, Irish, Palestine, art as resistance and lots more. Can’t wait to start!
On Sept 1 I’m starting at @newint.bsky.social as a co-editor. It’s a magazine w a serious internationalist perspective I’ve admired for a long time. I’ve written for them on Kneecap, Irish, Palestine, art as resistance and lots more. Can’t wait to start!
August 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
📰 🗞️ Personal news 🗞️ 📰
On Sept 1 I’m starting at @newint.bsky.social as a co-editor. It’s a magazine w a serious internationalist perspective I’ve admired for a long time. I’ve written for them on Kneecap, Irish, Palestine, art as resistance and lots more. Can’t wait to start!
On Sept 1 I’m starting at @newint.bsky.social as a co-editor. It’s a magazine w a serious internationalist perspective I’ve admired for a long time. I’ve written for them on Kneecap, Irish, Palestine, art as resistance and lots more. Can’t wait to start!
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"These ads might not be for you, but they do have a message for you nonetheless. And the message is this: if you do not understand these billboards, this city is not for you." bayareacurrent.com/the-billboar...
San Francisco's Billboards Aren't For You
Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley, explains what those weird tech billboards are really saying
bayareacurrent.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"These ads might not be for you, but they do have a message for you nonetheless. And the message is this: if you do not understand these billboards, this city is not for you." bayareacurrent.com/the-billboar...
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"The more complicated answer – the ecstatic truth, if you will – is that billboards are the windows to the soul of a region."
The great Wendy Liu on the awful AI billboards dotting the US 101 in San Francisco.
The great Wendy Liu on the awful AI billboards dotting the US 101 in San Francisco.
Ever wonder what the hell SF's weird tech billboards are saying? Wendy Liu—@dellsystem.bsky.social—tells us that while the billboards aim to sell to other businesses, they have a hidden social meaning:
This city is not for you: SF belongs to tech ruling class. bayareacurrent.com/the-billboar...
This city is not for you: SF belongs to tech ruling class. bayareacurrent.com/the-billboar...
San Francisco's Billboards Aren't For You
Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley, explains what those weird tech billboards are really saying
bayareacurrent.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"The more complicated answer – the ecstatic truth, if you will – is that billboards are the windows to the soul of a region."
The great Wendy Liu on the awful AI billboards dotting the US 101 in San Francisco.
The great Wendy Liu on the awful AI billboards dotting the US 101 in San Francisco.
Reposted by Decca Muldowney
Ever wonder what the hell SF's weird tech billboards are saying? Wendy Liu—@dellsystem.bsky.social—tells us that while the billboards aim to sell to other businesses, they have a hidden social meaning:
This city is not for you: SF belongs to tech ruling class. bayareacurrent.com/the-billboar...
This city is not for you: SF belongs to tech ruling class. bayareacurrent.com/the-billboar...
San Francisco's Billboards Aren't For You
Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley, explains what those weird tech billboards are really saying
bayareacurrent.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ever wonder what the hell SF's weird tech billboards are saying? Wendy Liu—@dellsystem.bsky.social—tells us that while the billboards aim to sell to other businesses, they have a hidden social meaning:
This city is not for you: SF belongs to tech ruling class. bayareacurrent.com/the-billboar...
This city is not for you: SF belongs to tech ruling class. bayareacurrent.com/the-billboar...
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it's a crazy time to launch a new publication, but i'm proud to be tech editor for @bayareacurrent.bsky.social, an outlet for working-class stories and perspective
we have some bangers already up on the site and many more coming
we have some bangers already up on the site and many more coming
It’s a BAD DAY for the Bay’s tech and real estate oligarchs, and a VERY GOOD DAY for those of us who pay rent, work shifts, jump the turnstile, argue with the CalFresh guy, and wait forever for the god damn bus. Why? Because
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
Why We're Launching Bay Area Current
Because workers deserve everything.
bayareacurrent.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
it's a crazy time to launch a new publication, but i'm proud to be tech editor for @bayareacurrent.bsky.social, an outlet for working-class stories and perspective
we have some bangers already up on the site and many more coming
we have some bangers already up on the site and many more coming
Reposted by Decca Muldowney
Check out BayAreaCurrent.com, a new site covering working class perspectives. It launched today!
@bayareacurrent.bsky.social
@bayareacurrent.bsky.social
Bay Area Current
Bay Area Current covers the news unabashedly from the left and highlights working-class issues too often ignored by the media.
BayAreaCurrent.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Check out BayAreaCurrent.com, a new site covering working class perspectives. It launched today!
@bayareacurrent.bsky.social
@bayareacurrent.bsky.social
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The @bayareacurrent.bsky.social launch is even better than expected. Check out this fantastic article on the "abandoned" Greyhound bus station in Oakland. bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
Why Venture Capitalists Are Leaving Oakland’s Iconic Greyhound Station to Decay
Oakland’s downtown Greyhound bus station was a center of working-class life for decades. Now it's owned by the “Uber of buses.”
bayareacurrent.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The @bayareacurrent.bsky.social launch is even better than expected. Check out this fantastic article on the "abandoned" Greyhound bus station in Oakland. bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
Reposted by Decca Muldowney
Oakland's historic Greyhound bus station exemplifies how venture capital works: the more our cities decay, the more they profit. The iconic station has been left to rot — like so many other spaces in Oakland — in the gamble for future profits.
bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
Why Venture Capitalists Are Leaving Oakland’s Iconic Greyhound Station to Decay
Oakland’s downtown Greyhound bus station was a center of working-class life for decades. Now it's owned by the “Uber of buses.”
bayareacurrent.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Oakland's historic Greyhound bus station exemplifies how venture capital works: the more our cities decay, the more they profit. The iconic station has been left to rot — like so many other spaces in Oakland — in the gamble for future profits.
bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...
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Second: Coyote Media Collective: givebutter.com/coyotemedia
They're trying to raise $80k in order to launch in late summer!
They're trying to raise $80k in order to launch in late summer!
Launch Coyote Media Collective
A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area
givebutter.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Second: Coyote Media Collective: givebutter.com/coyotemedia
They're trying to raise $80k in order to launch in late summer!
They're trying to raise $80k in order to launch in late summer!
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We are living in tough media times. So it's warmed my heart to witness the launch of not one, but TWO new Bay Area news orgs founded by journalists I deeply admire.
I encourage yall to join me in supporting them!
1) Bay Area Current: @bayareacurrent.bsky.social bayareacurrent.com
I encourage yall to join me in supporting them!
1) Bay Area Current: @bayareacurrent.bsky.social bayareacurrent.com
Bay Area Current
Bay Area Current covers the news unabashedly from the left and highlights working-class issues too often ignored by the media.
bayareacurrent.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We are living in tough media times. So it's warmed my heart to witness the launch of not one, but TWO new Bay Area news orgs founded by journalists I deeply admire.
I encourage yall to join me in supporting them!
1) Bay Area Current: @bayareacurrent.bsky.social bayareacurrent.com
I encourage yall to join me in supporting them!
1) Bay Area Current: @bayareacurrent.bsky.social bayareacurrent.com
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LA's Burning Waymos have become symbols for a growing anti-deportation movement. Some cry chaos—but @veenadubal.bsky.social argues that the flaming robo-taxis represent something else: the public’s fury at tech companies' interests trampling the common good. bayareacurrent.com/the-torched-...
The Torched Waymos: Burning Effigies of Tech Oligarchy
When protesters burned Waymo vehicles in the streets of Los Angeles it wasn’t wanton destruction. It was a direct message from the working class.
bayareacurrent.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
LA's Burning Waymos have become symbols for a growing anti-deportation movement. Some cry chaos—but @veenadubal.bsky.social argues that the flaming robo-taxis represent something else: the public’s fury at tech companies' interests trampling the common good. bayareacurrent.com/the-torched-...
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I’ve got something coming out with them soon too! So happy there’s a new Bay Area news publication, especially one that focuses on the lives and needs of working class people. Long live Bay Area Current!
June 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I’ve got something coming out with them soon too! So happy there’s a new Bay Area news publication, especially one that focuses on the lives and needs of working class people. Long live Bay Area Current!
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I’m pumped for this! Some are going to dismiss it because it’s openly left wing.
But I don’t think reporting should be or even can be unbiased.
What’s important is to be accurate, honest, and curious about why the people you may agree and disagree with think what they think.
But I don’t think reporting should be or even can be unbiased.
What’s important is to be accurate, honest, and curious about why the people you may agree and disagree with think what they think.
It’s a BAD DAY for the Bay’s tech and real estate oligarchs, and a VERY GOOD DAY for those of us who pay rent, work shifts, jump the turnstile, argue with the CalFresh guy, and wait forever for the god damn bus. Why? Because
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
Why We're Launching Bay Area Current
Because workers deserve everything.
bayareacurrent.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I’m pumped for this! Some are going to dismiss it because it’s openly left wing.
But I don’t think reporting should be or even can be unbiased.
What’s important is to be accurate, honest, and curious about why the people you may agree and disagree with think what they think.
But I don’t think reporting should be or even can be unbiased.
What’s important is to be accurate, honest, and curious about why the people you may agree and disagree with think what they think.
some ~(un)professional news~~
I'm proud to be managing editor of @bayareacurrent.bsky.social, alongside a team of great writers, thinkers and organizers who believe the Bay deserves a local news site for the people.
Let's get it
I'm proud to be managing editor of @bayareacurrent.bsky.social, alongside a team of great writers, thinkers and organizers who believe the Bay deserves a local news site for the people.
Let's get it
It’s a BAD DAY for the Bay’s tech and real estate oligarchs, and a VERY GOOD DAY for those of us who pay rent, work shifts, jump the turnstile, argue with the CalFresh guy, and wait forever for the god damn bus. Why? Because
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
Why We're Launching Bay Area Current
Because workers deserve everything.
bayareacurrent.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
some ~(un)professional news~~
I'm proud to be managing editor of @bayareacurrent.bsky.social, alongside a team of great writers, thinkers and organizers who believe the Bay deserves a local news site for the people.
Let's get it
I'm proud to be managing editor of @bayareacurrent.bsky.social, alongside a team of great writers, thinkers and organizers who believe the Bay deserves a local news site for the people.
Let's get it
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Great piece about Karen England - Queen of the Book Bans by @deccamuldowney.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/karen-englan...
Meet the Woman Training Parents How to Get Books Banned
Karen England is successfully teaching people how to remove books from school libraries, even outside of their school districts, starting with refusing to use the term “book ban.”
www.thedailybeast.com
November 14, 2024 at 4:54 AM
Great piece about Karen England - Queen of the Book Bans by @deccamuldowney.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/karen-englan...