Damon Kiesow

Who am I following here? People who create, develop and protect knowledge. Who study history and democracy. Who take a critical eye to technology. Who monitor public health, labor, supply chains.

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Aporopriate decision by The Plain Dealer to make an exception to its 'no endorsements' policy but it raises questions already answered by my "We only make endorsements when it is really important" t-shirt.

RJI Fellow Nikita Roy shares how the direct relationships newsrooms already have become the strategic foundation for journalism in the AI era rjionline.org/news/first-p...

Unconvinced this detail should wait till the 10th paragraph.

I would simply not tell this to the newspaper.

“Our Student Innovation Fellows are the future of our industry, as they are not only talented journalists but product developers, engagement architects, community listeners and tool builders,” Duncan said. rjionline.org/news/back-in...

We do not.

So much removal of “friction” just took Decisions away from people with a connection to real life and shifted it to algorithms designed and run by sociopaths. The decisions are still made by humans, just worse ones.

“Google Zero” or as the historians call it, “25 years ago.”

The business reason (I.e. amoral) for having a diverse staff is that problem solving is a process of rapid experimentation and pattern matching of problems and solutions and you want as broad a heuristic set on the team as possible.

Every problem is a human problem. Tech just accelerates our arrival at the human problem portion of the process or amplifies it.

So Liverpool is only 3 points out of actual first place in the table.

I would like to congratulate LinkedIn for turning its feed into Reels but for cubicle dwellers. I read it much less now.

That's half a Scaramucci .

Random fact: The eduroam in the Cape Town airport works.

The primary affordance of a screenshot in your feed from another social media platform is the complete scrubbing of any sarcasm from the intended message.

ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”

Coming up on the 4-year anniversary of Twitter’s death, so redesigned my archive: tweets.kiesow.net/t/1

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Used to be terms of sale were settled AT the sale and could not be changed. Now everything is subscriptions and TOS so Big Tech will continue to unilaterally change the terms in its own favor at its own whim until it is legally made to stop.

One take here is that we should figure out how to allow people to spend more time exposed to news, not less, and that we have been trying the fast food version of journalism on the web for 20 years and a less labor-intensive summarizing tool is probably not the fix.

Physician heal thyself: Anthropic’s new TOS tells users they are explicitly responsible for any actions their agents take "through tools, browsers, or connected systems.”

Turns out a global pandemic is traumatic and that is going to cost us what, the next 30 years of political retrenchment?

Fox “News” is not journalism.

In the Premiere League, one point contributes about $1 million in revenue based on the final table. ManCity’s cheating added about $1 billion over 9 years to their budget so seems fair to dock them 111 points from each year for 9 years.

This story does not note the only relevant denominator: not 3,000 layoffs from 420k total but from 8,000 corporate staff. If you think you can reduce staff by 37% with AI you are delusional, using AI as a cover story or running an incompetent corporate office. abcnews.com/Business/wir...

The best time to extract yourself from AirTable dependency was in August. The second-best time is today: www.businessinsider.com/airtable-lay...

Lol from @reckless.bsky.social “Maybe the only anti-trust policy this country needs is to make it illegal to buy Warner Bros.”

Media literacy is tech literacy is civic literacy.

I appreciate Dan giving this issue exactly the right amount of grace and nuance that it deserves. dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...

I like Markdown, but not enough to excuse Twitter apologia.

The great thing about arguing with complete strangers online is it creates all of the emotional stress of a real fight but without any of the interpersonal cues, nuance or duration that might lead to participants learning anything or changing their positions.

Netflix cracked-down on password sharing in May 2023.

The sustainability of these sports betting companies is clearly evident by the number of ads they need to run hourly to feed the grift.

No, you are collaborators with a company undermining democracy globally. www.fastcompany.com/91608398/usa...

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

In what possible fictional version of reality could this policy be necessary? Unless Claude is 5,000 offshore technicians in a trenchcoat.

This delusion is both Narrative Pareidolia and a touch of Jerusalem Syndrome:

A thought experiment is to wonder what it is like to work at a job where decisions are made daily that hurt people. And then too look around to make sure you are not in that job.