Lisa Schmeiser
@lschmeiser.bsky.social
Editor in Chief, No Jitter; podcast @ The Incomparable; writer of an intermittent Substack (lschmeiser.substack.com); parent/partner/community volunteer/aspiring long distance swimmer.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Food prepped for tomorrow, phone gently smoking from the furious pace of texting between friends and family, volunteer slot confirmed for our community dinner … time to sit on the couch and breathe in gratitude for my community and my people. Be well, BlueSky folks.
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Food prepped for tomorrow, phone gently smoking from the furious pace of texting between friends and family, volunteer slot confirmed for our community dinner … time to sit on the couch and breathe in gratitude for my community and my people. Be well, BlueSky folks.
Kudos to the Guardian piece for putting this particular incident into a broader pattern. It's helpful for readers.
Trump calls Times reporter ‘ugly’ days after branding another journalist ‘piggy’
Trump calls Times reporter ‘ugly’ days after branding another journalist ‘piggy’
In a Truth Social post, the president lashed out at journalist Katie Rogers after a Times article questioned whether he was slowing down
Donald Trump lashed out on Wednesday against a New York Times reporter, calling her “ugly inside and out” in his latest personal insult against female members of the media after last week calling another “piggy”.
In a Truth Social post, Trump criticitized the newspaper for an article suggesting he was running low on energy in his 80th year, insisting he has “never worked so hard in my life”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Kudos to the Guardian piece for putting this particular incident into a broader pattern. It's helpful for readers.
Can we send Isaac Chotiner to talk to Ryan Lizza Y/N?
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Can we send Isaac Chotiner to talk to Ryan Lizza Y/N?
Finally turned on the heat this past weekend and now PG&E is sending me emails all, “YOUR GAS CONSUMPTION INCREASED BY 50% OMG OMG OMG.”
Chill, utility titan — we’re still keeping the thermostat at 65 and timing it to go off at 19 p.m.
Chill, utility titan — we’re still keeping the thermostat at 65 and timing it to go off at 19 p.m.
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Finally turned on the heat this past weekend and now PG&E is sending me emails all, “YOUR GAS CONSUMPTION INCREASED BY 50% OMG OMG OMG.”
Chill, utility titan — we’re still keeping the thermostat at 65 and timing it to go off at 19 p.m.
Chill, utility titan — we’re still keeping the thermostat at 65 and timing it to go off at 19 p.m.
Reading through the latest dispatch and so far, the line making me gasp is:
"In June, Olivia was working on two big things:"
Because what luxury to be a working journalist in 2024 and only have TWO THINGS to do in a month! The mind boggles.
"In June, Olivia was working on two big things:"
Because what luxury to be a working journalist in 2024 and only have TWO THINGS to do in a month! The mind boggles.
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reading through the latest dispatch and so far, the line making me gasp is:
"In June, Olivia was working on two big things:"
Because what luxury to be a working journalist in 2024 and only have TWO THINGS to do in a month! The mind boggles.
"In June, Olivia was working on two big things:"
Because what luxury to be a working journalist in 2024 and only have TWO THINGS to do in a month! The mind boggles.
True love is when @philipmichaels.bsky.social interrupts you while you're chopping up veg & fruit for the cornbread dressing with the news that "There's a part three up and it's all about the catch and kill operation."
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
True love is when @philipmichaels.bsky.social interrupts you while you're chopping up veg & fruit for the cornbread dressing with the news that "There's a part three up and it's all about the catch and kill operation."
The Internet Hot Take Machine crapped all over the headline framing in this story, but the main reporting -- about infrastructure costs & how bad infrastructure affects how well people can work -- is really solid: www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Internet Hot Take Machine crapped all over the headline framing in this story, but the main reporting -- about infrastructure costs & how bad infrastructure affects how well people can work -- is really solid: www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
Sure, the lede is what (understandably) catches attention but I'm awed at how tartly and elegantly @brianphillips.bsky.social lands the final sentence in this piece: www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Sure, the lede is what (understandably) catches attention but I'm awed at how tartly and elegantly @brianphillips.bsky.social lands the final sentence in this piece: www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...
Reposted by Lisa Schmeiser
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
Reposted by Lisa Schmeiser
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Lisa Schmeiser
please leave the nazi bar. you don't have to be there.
Twitter's new geolocation tool reveals not only how many men are interacting with fake accounts pretending to be attractive women, but highlights a disturbing and persistent issue that has long plagued the site:
Coordinated inauthentic behavior.
Coordinated inauthentic behavior.
Twitter's foreign influence problem is nothing new
The platform's just-debuted geolocation tool illuminates a disturbing and persistent issue.
www.motherjones.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
please leave the nazi bar. you don't have to be there.
I am not taking lessons in comportment from anyone who voluntarily participated in an MTV reality show.
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I am not taking lessons in comportment from anyone who voluntarily participated in an MTV reality show.
What the whole DOGE atrocity should demonstrate is that, when given unfettered access to talent and resources, and an opportunity to create something new that is wholly original and from his own brain, Elon Musk could not deliver. All he managed to do was break other people's work.
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
What the whole DOGE atrocity should demonstrate is that, when given unfettered access to talent and resources, and an opportunity to create something new that is wholly original and from his own brain, Elon Musk could not deliver. All he managed to do was break other people's work.
Just in case anyone was wondering why there has been a spate of articles in legacy media urging women to just *settle* and stop thinking of their own happiness while the male loneliness epidemic is in full swing, etc.
The sharp decline in US teenagers’ aspiration to get married and have kids…
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Just in case anyone was wondering why there has been a spate of articles in legacy media urging women to just *settle* and stop thinking of their own happiness while the male loneliness epidemic is in full swing, etc.
I’m watching “Jeremiah Johnson” on my favorite streaming service (Tubi, genuinely amazing) and wow, there was no need for “Dances With Wolves” when this nonsense exists.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I’m watching “Jeremiah Johnson” on my favorite streaming service (Tubi, genuinely amazing) and wow, there was no need for “Dances With Wolves” when this nonsense exists.
Also if I’m understanding this correctly, it’s time for Ryan Lizza to meet with New York magazine and give them everything he has on 2023-2024, because what he’s alleging about their writer’s catch-and-kill & strategy memos overlaps with some big pieces they ran on both Biden and Trump.
So if I’m understanding this correctly, two leading American political journalists conspired to do or cover up catch-and-kill reporting during the 2024 election, neither has experienced any significant professional repercussions.
November 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Also if I’m understanding this correctly, it’s time for Ryan Lizza to meet with New York magazine and give them everything he has on 2023-2024, because what he’s alleging about their writer’s catch-and-kill & strategy memos overlaps with some big pieces they ran on both Biden and Trump.
So if I’m understanding this correctly, two leading American political journalists conspired to do or cover up catch-and-kill reporting during the 2024 election, neither has experienced any significant professional repercussions.
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
So if I’m understanding this correctly, two leading American political journalists conspired to do or cover up catch-and-kill reporting during the 2024 election, neither has experienced any significant professional repercussions.
No, you do NOT have to hand it to the rats fleeing a sinking ship.
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
No, you do NOT have to hand it to the rats fleeing a sinking ship.
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
So as I wait here, a crowd of be-suited young people has just come in with a guide who said, "And this is where our ORs are."
To my disappointment, nobody has replied, "Oh, are they?"
To my disappointment, nobody has replied, "Oh, are they?"
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
So as I wait here, a crowd of be-suited young people has just come in with a guide who said, "And this is where our ORs are."
To my disappointment, nobody has replied, "Oh, are they?"
To my disappointment, nobody has replied, "Oh, are they?"
My teenager, who loved prowling the makeup aisles at Target and getting "Starbies" with her friends, is lowkey furious that her mom (who was raised on Nestle boycotts) is all, "IN THIS HOUSE, WE DON'T CROSS PICKET LINES AND WE DO BOYCOTTS."
"Facing Unprecedented Labor violations, Starbucks Workers Overwhelmingly Agree to Strike Indefinitely"
Now that's what we call a headline! 🤭 #NoContractNoCoffee
inthesetimes.com/article/star...
Now that's what we call a headline! 🤭 #NoContractNoCoffee
inthesetimes.com/article/star...
Facing Unprecedented Labor Violations, Starbucks Workers Overwhelmingly Agree to Strike Indefinitely
Unfair wages, chronic understaffing and hundreds of ULPs have led to a Starbucks Workers United super-majority vote to strike.
inthesetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My teenager, who loved prowling the makeup aisles at Target and getting "Starbies" with her friends, is lowkey furious that her mom (who was raised on Nestle boycotts) is all, "IN THIS HOUSE, WE DON'T CROSS PICKET LINES AND WE DO BOYCOTTS."
I'm spending the day in the surgery-level waiting room at Highland Hospital -- and while I work, I'm listening to the family next to me all attempt to decode what it means when someone the twentysomething daughter is texting replies with, "Hey ..."
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I'm spending the day in the surgery-level waiting room at Highland Hospital -- and while I work, I'm listening to the family next to me all attempt to decode what it means when someone the twentysomething daughter is texting replies with, "Hey ..."
Spent last night happily drawn into "My Life and Hard Times in the Junior League," published in 1979 in Texas Monthly, and it is a phenomenal and specific piece of reporting from Prudence Mackintosh: www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
My Life and Hard Times in the Junior League
“In the League, you’ll run into a little tradition, some noblesse oblige, and a lot of talk about diets, dyslexia, designer dresses, and divorce.”
www.texasmonthly.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Spent last night happily drawn into "My Life and Hard Times in the Junior League," published in 1979 in Texas Monthly, and it is a phenomenal and specific piece of reporting from Prudence Mackintosh: www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...