Richard Kendall
@richardkendall.bsky.social
Experienced Product Manager worked on news websites, content/CMS/taxonomies/site builds/AI, formerly local news digital+social editor; https://linktr.ee/rkendall
👍 music, photography, environment, cricket.
📍Now: Peterborough, UK. Orig: Devon
👍 music, photography, environment, cricket.
📍Now: Peterborough, UK. Orig: Devon
Imagine being so mad about a broadcaster publishing a badly edited documentary about you, but waiting over a year, and until someone else mentioned it, before threatening to sue... in order to assert your bigly power over media coverage
Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Imagine being so mad about a broadcaster publishing a badly edited documentary about you, but waiting over a year, and until someone else mentioned it, before threatening to sue... in order to assert your bigly power over media coverage
Climate change is real, UK is committed to action...
"Late last night Downing Street confirmed that the UK would not be putting taxpayers’ money towards a flagship global fund to protect the world’s remaining tropical forests" BBC News
We've bottled it, and failed our children's futures again...
"Late last night Downing Street confirmed that the UK would not be putting taxpayers’ money towards a flagship global fund to protect the world’s remaining tropical forests" BBC News
We've bottled it, and failed our children's futures again...
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Climate change is real, UK is committed to action...
"Late last night Downing Street confirmed that the UK would not be putting taxpayers’ money towards a flagship global fund to protect the world’s remaining tropical forests" BBC News
We've bottled it, and failed our children's futures again...
"Late last night Downing Street confirmed that the UK would not be putting taxpayers’ money towards a flagship global fund to protect the world’s remaining tropical forests" BBC News
We've bottled it, and failed our children's futures again...
2028 is too late, our children need better online guidance now richardkendall.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/2...
2028 is too late, our children need better online guidance now
“As part of the new lessons children will learn things like how to spot fake news, including AI, identify misinformation and disinformation, and develop critical thinking skills to help prote…
richardkendall.wordpress.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
2028 is too late, our children need better online guidance now richardkendall.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/2...
Reposted by Richard Kendall
“When the use is this concentrated — a.k.a tens of thousands of videos from one creator — it feels less like incidental inclusion and more like large-scale extraction of intellectual property without consent," said progressive YouTuber David Pakman.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/hund...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/hund...
Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models
YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance.
www.niemanlab.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“When the use is this concentrated — a.k.a tens of thousands of videos from one creator — it feels less like incidental inclusion and more like large-scale extraction of intellectual property without consent," said progressive YouTuber David Pakman.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/hund...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/hund...
Who knew. The Web, built on links
X makes overtures to journalists with new feature designed to improve reach for links www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/x-ma...
X makes overtures to journalists with new feature designed to improve reach for links
Have you left Twitter? Would a new "link experience" be enough to lure you back?
The platform formerly known as Twitter announced it was testing a new way to boost engagement for posts with links on ...
www.niemanlab.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Who knew. The Web, built on links
I mean, who knew.... oh everyone
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson has said AI companies are making a "fundamental miscalculation" by not paying enough for content because they "need news to keep the AI engines fresh" www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
October 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I mean, who knew.... oh everyone
"the price rises Trump is so worried about will be dwarfed by those from crop failures and extreme weather if climate action is not taken seriously" - King Apprentice Trump is the biggest threat to all our futures www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Landmark global shipping deal abandoned under US threats
President Trump intervened in the talks calling the deal a
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"the price rises Trump is so worried about will be dwarfed by those from crop failures and extreme weather if climate action is not taken seriously" - King Apprentice Trump is the biggest threat to all our futures www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Working blog post title: The gamification of school homework apps
October 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Working blog post title: The gamification of school homework apps
"OpenAI also announced the formation of a council on “well-being and AI” to help shape OpenAI’s response to “complex or sensitive” scenarios..."
Surely. Horse. Bolted. But still, let's maximise engagement while we're here...
Surely. Horse. Bolted. But still, let's maximise engagement while we're here...
The lifecycle of software objects
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
October 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"OpenAI also announced the formation of a council on “well-being and AI” to help shape OpenAI’s response to “complex or sensitive” scenarios..."
Surely. Horse. Bolted. But still, let's maximise engagement while we're here...
Surely. Horse. Bolted. But still, let's maximise engagement while we're here...
I think we've hit peak ladybird infestation. Presuming a seasonal/temperature related migration? They love our youngest's bedroom window, warmest part of the house, so having to regularly shepherd a group out😬🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞
October 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I think we've hit peak ladybird infestation. Presuming a seasonal/temperature related migration? They love our youngest's bedroom window, warmest part of the house, so having to regularly shepherd a group out😬🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞
Spoiler alert: "this isn’t true, according to both the government and the company in question"
Absolutely astonished @hignfy.bsky.social just stated that Multiverse will be running the government's digital ID scheme
An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking
fullfact.org/technology/d...
An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking
fullfact.org/technology/d...
Has Euan Blair’s company Multiverse been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme? – Full Fact
Multiverse is an “upskilling company”, not a software developer, and both it and the government say there’s no truth to viral claims linking it to the scheme.
fullfact.org
October 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Spoiler alert: "this isn’t true, according to both the government and the company in question"
I've unsubscribed from so many email newsletters and connections this week it's been refreshing, so many missed or never returned-to emails just wasting away on servers, using up more data, energy, water etc...
October 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I've unsubscribed from so many email newsletters and connections this week it's been refreshing, so many missed or never returned-to emails just wasting away on servers, using up more data, energy, water etc...
Just dealing with the annual 🐞 autumn migration to our youngest's bedroom window. Adorable little creatures. Hopefully all safely back out in the wild #animalmigration
September 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Just dealing with the annual 🐞 autumn migration to our youngest's bedroom window. Adorable little creatures. Hopefully all safely back out in the wild #animalmigration
Short film from @ft.com.web.brid.gy by @realbaddiel.bsky.social Recall Me Maybe, on how we will use AI and the ethics involved, and what is truth, how we all need to understand bias in our own lives, our memory's version of our life, added to the guesstimating of AI tools www.ft.com/video/a4d2ba...
Recall Me Maybe | FT Drama
Stephen Fry and Gemma Whelan star in a new FT drama written by David Baddiel, exploring AI, memory and truth. Fry plays a grandfather with dementia who uses AI to fill in gaps in his memory. While rev...
www.ft.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Short film from @ft.com.web.brid.gy by @realbaddiel.bsky.social Recall Me Maybe, on how we will use AI and the ethics involved, and what is truth, how we all need to understand bias in our own lives, our memory's version of our life, added to the guesstimating of AI tools www.ft.com/video/a4d2ba...
So we're ruling there shouldn't be a big tech monopoly by mildly restricting a big tech company... and thus keep its monopoly? What did I miss here??
The biggest antitrust case against Big Tech in decades turned out to be kind of a flop www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...
The biggest antitrust case against Big Tech in decades turned out to be kind of a flop
When a monopolist's stock price goes <em>up</em> after a court announces its "remedies" — as Google's just did — don't expect radical change. "You don’t find someone guilty of robbing a bank and then…
www.niemanlab.org
September 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
So we're ruling there shouldn't be a big tech monopoly by mildly restricting a big tech company... and thus keep its monopoly? What did I miss here??
"As things get worse online [an increase in misinformation], in other words, trusted news organizations may have more opportunities to forge strong connections with readers..."👀
"If something — let’s say trustworthiness — becomes really scarce, then it becomes very valuable."
Subscriber retention and daily visits increased after readers were confronted with AI-generated images.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/trus...
Subscriber retention and daily visits increased after readers were confronted with AI-generated images.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/trus...
Trusted news sites may benefit in an internet full of AI-generated fakes, a new study finds
An economics paper found subscriber retention and daily visits both increased after readers were confronted with a difficult quiz with AI-generated images.
www.niemanlab.org
August 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"As things get worse online [an increase in misinformation], in other words, trusted news organizations may have more opportunities to forge strong connections with readers..."👀
Reposted by Richard Kendall
Parents blame ChatGPT for son's suicide in lawsuit against OpenAI
Parents blame ChatGPT for son's suicide in lawsuit against OpenAI
The parents of a 16-year-old California boy who died by suicide have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company's ChatGPT chatbot fostered a months-long relationship with their son and ultimately provided explicit guidance that contributed to his death.
www.lemonde.fr
August 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Parents blame ChatGPT for son's suicide in lawsuit against OpenAI
"surveys repeatedly indicate that the public would increase prioritization of NASA’s research in Earth and climate science above other areas, which currently receive significantly more funding at the space agency"
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
#NASA #EarthScience #Climate #ClimateChange
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/nasas-acting-chief-calls-for-the-end-of-earth-science-at-the-space-agency/
#NASA #EarthScience #Climate #ClimateChange
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/nasas-acting-chief-calls-for-the-end-of-earth-science-at-the-space-agency/
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.
arstechnica.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
"surveys repeatedly indicate that the public would increase prioritization of NASA’s research in Earth and climate science above other areas, which currently receive significantly more funding at the space agency"
One for every editor who uses freelancers. Needs to be near the top of your to-read pile... Via @pressgazette.co.uk
- dealing with chatbot written PRs is one thing, but another if the story and author are also an AI guestimating reality, or just made up: pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
- dealing with chatbot written PRs is one thing, but another if the story and author are also an AI guestimating reality, or just made up: pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles
Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.
pressgazette.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
One for every editor who uses freelancers. Needs to be near the top of your to-read pile... Via @pressgazette.co.uk
- dealing with chatbot written PRs is one thing, but another if the story and author are also an AI guestimating reality, or just made up: pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
- dealing with chatbot written PRs is one thing, but another if the story and author are also an AI guestimating reality, or just made up: pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
"it’s not that we can’t focus; it’s that we’re trying to focus inside environments designed to fragment us. Too much structural noise... the attention crisis...: Can we trust the environments we spend our lives in to support the kind of thinking we value?" Rachel Botsman on Trust/distraction
August 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"it’s not that we can’t focus; it’s that we’re trying to focus inside environments designed to fragment us. Too much structural noise... the attention crisis...: Can we trust the environments we spend our lives in to support the kind of thinking we value?" Rachel Botsman on Trust/distraction
Good 📰, on digital publishing's journey viewed from education: www.andydickinson.net/2025/08/04/2..., HT @adders.blog
"How can we get students and colleagues in academia to respect journalism for what it is and how we do it if the industry throws that against the wall for short-term gain?"
"How can we get students and colleagues in academia to respect journalism for what it is and how we do it if the industry throws that against the wall for short-term gain?"
Some thoughts that occurred to me as I get ready for my 25th year teaching journalism - www.andydickinson.net/2025/08/04/2...
25 years of journalism teaching
This coming academic year will be my 25th academic year. Here are a few observations on universities and journalism at university.
www.andydickinson.net
August 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Good 📰, on digital publishing's journey viewed from education: www.andydickinson.net/2025/08/04/2..., HT @adders.blog
"How can we get students and colleagues in academia to respect journalism for what it is and how we do it if the industry throws that against the wall for short-term gain?"
"How can we get students and colleagues in academia to respect journalism for what it is and how we do it if the industry throws that against the wall for short-term gain?"
Good 📰, on digital publishing viewed from education, www.andydickinson.net/2025/08/04/2... by Andy Dickinson, HT @adders.blog
"How can we get students and colleagues in academia to respect journalism for what it is and how we do it if the industry throws that against the wall for short-term gain?"
"How can we get students and colleagues in academia to respect journalism for what it is and how we do it if the industry throws that against the wall for short-term gain?"
25 years of journalism teaching
This coming academic year will be my 25th academic year. Here are a few observations on universities and journalism at university.
www.andydickinson.net
August 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Good 📰, on digital publishing viewed from education, www.andydickinson.net/2025/08/04/2... by Andy Dickinson, HT @adders.blog
"How can we get students and colleagues in academia to respect journalism for what it is and how we do it if the industry throws that against the wall for short-term gain?"
"How can we get students and colleagues in academia to respect journalism for what it is and how we do it if the industry throws that against the wall for short-term gain?"
Reposted by Richard Kendall
pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
“The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”
www.404media.co
August 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
Rachel Botsman: "I’m not anti-AI... I’m using it to do incredible things in my own work. But research is mounting: AI, like many technologies before it, may be making us dumber and mentally lazier. I can see it in myself. It’s so easy to let the tool think for you": www.media.mit.edu/publications...
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine…
www.media.mit.edu
August 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Rachel Botsman: "I’m not anti-AI... I’m using it to do incredible things in my own work. But research is mounting: AI, like many technologies before it, may be making us dumber and mentally lazier. I can see it in myself. It’s so easy to let the tool think for you": www.media.mit.edu/publications...
Some that think we should just give in to big tech's drive to monetise our children's attention as soon as possible, because a device-driven, video-driven future is... inevitable... spoiler: it's not, if we, the real people, don't let it - real world experience+perspective underpins tech use
August 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Some that think we should just give in to big tech's drive to monetise our children's attention as soon as possible, because a device-driven, video-driven future is... inevitable... spoiler: it's not, if we, the real people, don't let it - real world experience+perspective underpins tech use