Scott Klein
@kleinmatic.bsky.social
Already living in the future of news at Newspack. Board at @muckrock. Former @propublica. Hoping for the best.
Just catching up on my former colleague @jeremybmerrill.com's terrific coverage of the TikTok algorithm. You should stop doomscrolling and check it out. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
Are you in TikTok’s cat niche? What 121,000 videos reveal.
We re-created TikTok’s algorithm based on 1,100 users’ feeds. Explore which topics are in your feed and see what the algorithm is least likely to show you.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Just catching up on my former colleague @jeremybmerrill.com's terrific coverage of the TikTok algorithm. You should stop doomscrolling and check it out. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
OK let's see what you got, Nano Banana Pro.
December 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
OK let's see what you got, Nano Banana Pro.
🚨 New news app drop from some fine journalists at ProPublica.
THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool.
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
December 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🚨 New news app drop from some fine journalists at ProPublica.
Following up on my Nieman Lab prediction that news will return to its open-source ways, I’ve revived my old bot that posts new repos from newsrooms.
@openjournalism.bsky.social
@openjournalism.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Following up on my Nieman Lab prediction that news will return to its open-source ways, I’ve revived my old bot that posts new repos from newsrooms.
@openjournalism.bsky.social
@openjournalism.bsky.social
Bringing a second monitor is the new WeWork flex.
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Bringing a second monitor is the new WeWork flex.
This time they’ve gone too far. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman
A cable from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This time they’ve gone too far. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
There were times, when my dad was in the hospital, that ChatGPT was the only one listening to us, or answering our questions at all.
Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don’t www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don’t www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don’t
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
There were times, when my dad was in the hospital, that ChatGPT was the only one listening to us, or answering our questions at all.
Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don’t www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don’t www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
Eventually you will have detailed opinions about the cafeterias at the hospitals near your elderly parents.
September 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Eventually you will have detailed opinions about the cafeterias at the hospitals near your elderly parents.
Nothing galvanizes New Yorkers quite like the rest of the country telling us what to do. open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...
Mayor Mamdani and the News Judgments That Provokes
Careful about religious bigotry and brandishing “socialism”
open.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nothing galvanizes New Yorkers quite like the rest of the country telling us what to do. open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...
Reposted by Scott Klein
The @nytimes.com just posted an updated version of their detailed map of the 2024 election results, with the data available for download. This is invaluable in part because funding constraints have slowed down academic efforts at releasing precinct-level results. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election
See how your neighborhood voted on our interactive, precinct-level results map of the presidential election.
www.nytimes.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The @nytimes.com just posted an updated version of their detailed map of the 2024 election results, with the data available for download. This is invaluable in part because funding constraints have slowed down academic efforts at releasing precinct-level results. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Are there dead experts who can identify inspect species? Buried lede.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.
A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus
The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus
June 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Are there dead experts who can identify inspect species? Buried lede.
But I want to write in the Carroll Street bridge over the Gowanus Canal. Oldest retractable bridge in the U.S.
Some ranked choice! Smh.
Some ranked choice! Smh.
@hellgatenyc.com has an incredibly fun game which visualized how ranked-choice voting works -- the 2025 New York City Bridge Primary. Forward to your NYC-voting friends!
Cast your vote!
Check out this election! Create your own ranked-choice voting elections at www.rankedvote.co
app.rankedvote.co
June 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
But I want to write in the Carroll Street bridge over the Gowanus Canal. Oldest retractable bridge in the U.S.
Some ranked choice! Smh.
Some ranked choice! Smh.
Time to play another thrilling episode of Hide the Yankee Game. Spoiler alert: It’s on Prime Video.
June 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Time to play another thrilling episode of Hide the Yankee Game. Spoiler alert: It’s on Prime Video.
Worth the (long) read!
We at the Tow Center have a major report out on AI in the newsroom - (absent any funding influence from the providers or users of the technology). ‘Journalism Zero’ is not too much of a stretch from the abstraction created by LLMs
summary from @niemanlab.org
www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/were...
summary from @niemanlab.org
www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/were...
“We’re the providers of information…but Google now wants to be the distributor”
A new 84-page report from Peter D. Brown and Klaudia Jaźwińska, researchers at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, sketches out the state of play between big tech platforms a...
www.niemanlab.org
May 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Worth the (long) read!
This is not a thing.
May 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is not a thing.
Why does this article not link to the website that is its subject until the 22nd paragraph?
I am so happy and proud that more people are noticing the great work being done at @abovethelaw.com :)
The Website Where Lawyers Mock ‘Yellow-Bellied’ Firms Bowing to Trump
www.nytimes.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Why does this article not link to the website that is its subject until the 22nd paragraph?
Terrific project about the neighborhoods funding the NYC mayors’ race. I just wish it used the Times’ own “extremely detailed” neighborhood map instead of Streeteasy’s. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Terrific project about the neighborhoods funding the NYC mayors’ race. I just wish it used the Times’ own “extremely detailed” neighborhood map instead of Streeteasy’s. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Springtime in Prospect Park brings the rebirth of the cherry blossom, the yellow magnolia, and the Brooklyn Leica.
April 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Springtime in Prospect Park brings the rebirth of the cherry blossom, the yellow magnolia, and the Brooklyn Leica.
I lowkey want a local LLM rig just for the cool terminal apps. lambda.ai/blog/keeping...
April 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I lowkey want a local LLM rig just for the cool terminal apps. lambda.ai/blog/keeping...
Deep Cogito v1, the self-referential comedian.
April 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Deep Cogito v1, the self-referential comedian.
Reposted by Scott Klein
There's a bunch of historical data sets in the {HistData} 📦
friendly.github.io/HistData/
Would be fun to see these used in #30DayChartChallenge
friendly.github.io/HistData/
Would be fun to see these used in #30DayChartChallenge
April 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
There's a bunch of historical data sets in the {HistData} 📦
friendly.github.io/HistData/
Would be fun to see these used in #30DayChartChallenge
friendly.github.io/HistData/
Would be fun to see these used in #30DayChartChallenge
Reposted by Scott Klein
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.