Gerald Rich
@gerald.bsky.social
Hacker journalist with @BigLocalNews at @Stanford geraldrich at protonmail dot com
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Journalists: Build your skills by signing up for a February session in ProJourn’s safety training series!
Co-presented by @theajp.bsky.social and IWMF, this virtual series helps journalists + newsrooms understand their legal rights and how to protect themselves while reporting.
RSVP links👇
Co-presented by @theajp.bsky.social and IWMF, this virtual series helps journalists + newsrooms understand their legal rights and how to protect themselves while reporting.
RSVP links👇
January 7, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Journalists: Build your skills by signing up for a February session in ProJourn’s safety training series!
Co-presented by @theajp.bsky.social and IWMF, this virtual series helps journalists + newsrooms understand their legal rights and how to protect themselves while reporting.
RSVP links👇
Co-presented by @theajp.bsky.social and IWMF, this virtual series helps journalists + newsrooms understand their legal rights and how to protect themselves while reporting.
RSVP links👇
steve…le…waaaahhh
In retrospect, le poisson steve was probably the best thing to happen in 2025
January 5, 2026 at 11:24 PM
steve…le…waaaahhh
Tons of police activity at 19th & Valencia, anyone know what’s going on? @missionlocal.org @kqednews.kqed.org @sfstandard.com @sfchronicle.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Tons of police activity at 19th & Valencia, anyone know what’s going on? @missionlocal.org @kqednews.kqed.org @sfstandard.com @sfchronicle.com
vibe code more good things in 2026, folks! make small, helpful shit for neighbors!
The very specific Half Moon Bay PG&E outage map I vibe-coded in the shower this morning is suddenly coming in handy tools.simonwillison.net/pge-outages-...
PG&E Outage Map - Half Moon Bay Area
tools.simonwillison.net
December 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
vibe code more good things in 2026, folks! make small, helpful shit for neighbors!
2025 was interesting. It was my full year with diagnosed depression/anxiety, and also my first full year listening to my body. Looking forward to a happier, gentler, and kinder 2026 for all 💙 So glad I know more now than I did before
December 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
2025 was interesting. It was my full year with diagnosed depression/anxiety, and also my first full year listening to my body. Looking forward to a happier, gentler, and kinder 2026 for all 💙 So glad I know more now than I did before
My new favorite pastime is watching Waymos get stuck. This one had an existential crisis when it saw someone had painted over the Slayer tee on the 20th St mural and just stopped for a half hour
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
My new favorite pastime is watching Waymos get stuck. This one had an existential crisis when it saw someone had painted over the Slayer tee on the 20th St mural and just stopped for a half hour
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Anyone know what's up with the helicopter circling Dolores Park in San Francisco?
October 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Anyone know what's up with the helicopter circling Dolores Park in San Francisco?
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It's pretty amazing that I've played more than 200 hours of Civilization VI (say nothing of previous versions) and am still incredibly shit at it
September 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
It's pretty amazing that I've played more than 200 hours of Civilization VI (say nothing of previous versions) and am still incredibly shit at it
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Got to nerd out a little about world maps. www.npr.org/2025/08/21/n...
African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.
www.npr.org
August 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Got to nerd out a little about world maps. www.npr.org/2025/08/21/n...
Superman (2025) gets extra journalism points for this. @mccartney.bsky.social punched each other and cheered when we saw separate buttons for "Copy Ready," "Web Ready," and "Publish" on The Daily Planet's CMS
This jumped out at me in “Superman.” The workflow and the “copy ready” /“web ready” buttons were adopted by NYT developers for the new CMS around 2010-11 after many meetings. Still in use there and elsewhere. In theory you could publish from a chopper. comicbookclublive.com/2025/07/12/s...
'Superman' Finally Gets CMS Right | Comic Book Club
One thing Superman, the new movie from James Gunn, got totally correct? The way it used the Daily Planet's CMS.
comicbookclublive.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Superman (2025) gets extra journalism points for this. @mccartney.bsky.social punched each other and cheered when we saw separate buttons for "Copy Ready," "Web Ready," and "Publish" on The Daily Planet's CMS
Big news at @biglocalnews.bsky.social! So excited to be working with @ryanpitts.bsky.social biglocalnews.org/content/news...
Ryan Pitts joins Big Local News as managing director
Data, tools and collaborations that empower journalists to better cover their community. A project at Stanford University.
biglocalnews.org
August 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Big news at @biglocalnews.bsky.social! So excited to be working with @ryanpitts.bsky.social biglocalnews.org/content/news...
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Because this database is for everyone. Victims of police violence, law enforcement hiring officials, civil rights advocates, researchers, attorneys and journalists can now investigate these once-secret records for themselves. 6/
CLEAN - San Francisco Chronicle
Search California public records about law enforcement violence and misconduct.
clean.sfchronicle.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Because this database is for everyone. Victims of police violence, law enforcement hiring officials, civil rights advocates, researchers, attorneys and journalists can now investigate these once-secret records for themselves. 6/
Hey! I helped make this and you should check this out. Interested in expanding this to your state? Reach out to @biglocalnews.bsky.social
We’ve launched a database with about 1.5 million pages of once-secret records detailing when law enforcement officers in California seriously injured someone or an agency found an officer violated policy with @kqednews.kqed.org, @sfchronicle.com @latimes.com @calmatters.org 1/
CLEAN - KQED News
Search California public records about law enforcement violence and misconduct.
policerecords.kqed.org
August 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Hey! I helped make this and you should check this out. Interested in expanding this to your state? Reach out to @biglocalnews.bsky.social
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Redwood City’s slogan of “Climate Best by Government Test” turns 100 years old this year and it still goes hard
July 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Redwood City’s slogan of “Climate Best by Government Test” turns 100 years old this year and it still goes hard
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Great to see @sharonlurye.bsky.social’s incredible @apnews.com reporting on missing students across the US at the @biglocalnews.bsky.social conference projects.apnews.com/features/202...
Millions of kids are missing weeks of school as attendance tanks across the US
School attendance has hit record lows since the pandemic. More than a quarter of kids were chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year.
projects.apnews.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Great to see @sharonlurye.bsky.social’s incredible @apnews.com reporting on missing students across the US at the @biglocalnews.bsky.social conference projects.apnews.com/features/202...
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Here's the handout for my "Cutting-edge web scraping techniques" workshop at #NICAR2025 this morning github.com/simonw/nicar...
Plus some extra notes on the custom software I built to support the workshop: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/c...
Plus some extra notes on the custom software I built to support the workshop: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/c...
Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR
Here's the handout for a workshop I presented this morning at [NICAR 2025](https://www.ire.org/training/conferences/nicar-2025/) on web scraping, focusing on lesser know tips and tricks that became po...
simonwillison.net
March 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Here's the handout for my "Cutting-edge web scraping techniques" workshop at #NICAR2025 this morning github.com/simonw/nicar...
Plus some extra notes on the custom software I built to support the workshop: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/c...
Plus some extra notes on the custom software I built to support the workshop: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/c...
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Kicking off #NICAR25 by learning more about @biglocalnews.bsky.social with @zstumgoren.bsky.social, @gerald.bsky.social & co
March 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Kicking off #NICAR25 by learning more about @biglocalnews.bsky.social with @zstumgoren.bsky.social, @gerald.bsky.social & co
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I think everyone who has an opnion, good or bad, about LLMs, should read how @simonwillison.net has summer up what’s happened in the space this year. He’s the most credible, most independent, most honest, and most technically fluent person watching the space. simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …
simonwillison.net
December 31, 2024 at 9:37 PM
I think everyone who has an opnion, good or bad, about LLMs, should read how @simonwillison.net has summer up what’s happened in the space this year. He’s the most credible, most independent, most honest, and most technically fluent person watching the space. simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...
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"If you’re producing news, people aren’t going to like you. Like, literally," writes @juliachanb.bsky.social
People won’t “like” you
"Likes are one of the very few ways audiences send us signals across platforms and I don’t think we can count on those hearts in 2025."
buff.ly
December 19, 2024 at 8:31 PM
"If you’re producing news, people aren’t going to like you. Like, literally," writes @juliachanb.bsky.social
Uhhh tsunami warning for the Bay Area?
December 5, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Uhhh tsunami warning for the Bay Area?
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If you also did not know this, I highly recommend reading @oriion.bsky.social's incredible profile on Sarah McBride and Andy Cray. It is comprehensive, compassionate, and well worth your time: 19thnews.org/2024/10/sara...
November 24, 2024 at 4:29 PM
If you also did not know this, I highly recommend reading @oriion.bsky.social's incredible profile on Sarah McBride and Andy Cray. It is comprehensive, compassionate, and well worth your time: 19thnews.org/2024/10/sara...
still one of my favorite sessions that i share with colleagues often
I just uncovered a critique guide I wrote for a SRCCON session some years ago and I think it still holds up
November 21, 2024 at 1:38 AM
still one of my favorite sessions that i share with colleagues often
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Thanks to JSK alum @dansinker.com for jumpstarting this starter pack. #journalism bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 19, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Thanks to JSK alum @dansinker.com for jumpstarting this starter pack. #journalism bsky.app/starter-pack...