I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

The key to making something that doesn't fucking suck, is to care about the process and think about it.

Not giving a shit, not even bothering to think about it, guarantees the thing will be useless dogshit.

On a more boring, technical note, as I like to describe research/reporting methodologies whenever I do a story: I read a big chunk of the diaries just old-school style of taking notes while watching the video with the pages being flipped through. Eventually, I used Google Pinpoint.

Ok, let's do this, with the caveat that I'm also going to include ebooks.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

feels like part of this is because it's much easier for elected democrats to do some gym videos than to learn how to talk to people who aren't rich in a way that doesn't come off as an alien completely new to earth, a condescending dickhead who loathes seeing regular people in public, or both

Please help Yazan's family survive Israel's genocide in Gaza. They're severely sick & malnourished, & being starved & attacked:

As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

Opus Dei members told to brace for “dramatic, traumatic, historic and revolutionary” changes as Pope Leo XIV tackles decades of abuse inside the organisation

A THREAD 🧵

New article! NEW ARTICLE!!!

Let's talk about the ways that plagiarists and AI are trying to automate sociopathy and why copyright might actually be a powerful tool to fuck with 'em.

And, how do we make a world where even copyright is no longer necessary?

docseuss.medium.com/copyright-ru...

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.

They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵

Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

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