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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 18h

The WSJ journalists build a house of deep reporting and accountability. Then the op-ed page editors spend all day burning it down with toxic, fact-free arson.

Idiotic WSJ headline: Europeans Watch New York’s Mayor’s Race With Fear

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Veit Dengler @veitdengler.bsky.social · 6d

Das ist richtig, aber Konsolidierung ist fällig. Und dann eine Förderung so gestaltet, dass Medien nicht am Interesse der Kunden (der berühmte „Markt“ - das sind wir alle) vorbei produzieren. Viele Medien, die wenig konsumiert werden, ist gesellschaftlich auch kein Mehrwert.

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Armin Wolf @arminwolf.at · 6d

Das ist wohl so, heißt aber noch nicht, dass seriöse journalistische Medien zwangläufig sterben müssen.
Es gibt in Ö. auch kein Geschäftsmodell für Theater, Museen o. Bibliotheken. Weil wir sie aber für gesellschaftlich relevant halten, finanzieren wir sie gemeinsam. /1

Georg Renner @georgrenner.istdaswichtig.at · 6d

True: Es gibt in Österreich schlicht kein journalismusbasiertes Geschäftsmodell mehr, das ein Haus mit 100 - 300 Mitarbeitern nachhaltig erhalten kann.

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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 13d

You are so sad.

Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · 13d

@rincewind.run on Bluesky

since Zohran is clearly going to win and there’s no real drama in the race I vote we cancel further debates in favor of letting Eric Adams and Curtis Sliwa debate random stuff like what the best pizza place in NYC is I just think it would be good television

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13d

Really pretty weird that this is the central topic of the NYC mayoral debate.

NYC mayoral debate, chyron says "Israel, Gaza & NYC"

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 18d

Portland, I love you! 💙❤️💙

This gives me great hope, and a good chuckle.

#StopTheMadness #StopTrump #Resist 👊🏼

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 19d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 23d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 24d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 26d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23d

I was curious if The Post's shift to accommodating the right was yielding any distinct benefit to the paper. To this point, it hasn't — and it's hard to see why it would.
More data (including on CBS) here:
www.pbump.net/o/you-cant-g...

You can’t get anti-institutionalists to trust an institution

I will stipulate at the outset that I do not know how to reverse the long trend toward distrust in traditional American news sources. There's probably a solution out there, likely something involving ...

www.pbump.net

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25d

It’s hard to find much evidence of a true youth movement rallying behind Kirk beside the conservatives who were already fans.

Instead, we see a top-down effort from powerful people to use a controversial man’s death to create a cult of personality where one didn't exist. trib.al/pAP5Egz

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 27d

I have criticisms of ICEBlock, but this is authoritarian bullshit, and the fact that nearly all smartphone use one of two app stores controlled by US corporations does not bode well for the future

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27d

There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime.

With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.

www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...

Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store

Apple on Thursday removed the immigration enforcement tracking app, ICEBlock, from the App Store, citing "safety risks."

www.businessinsider.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 27d

And yes, while Mastodon isn’t my thing and I prefer AT Proto to Activity as federated social media infrastructure, I am VERY glad it exists and is being built out, too.

The future absolutely requires online communication hubs that can’t be bought by dead-eyed Nazis.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 27d

You absolutely should not dismiss the AT Protocol technology that runs this place as boring nerd stuff, because that is the exact technology we are going to need to ensure that usable social media that isn’t controlled by Nazis continues to exist.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Sep 25

"Beat Sweetener"
n. A flattering, non-critical profile of a public figure written by a reporter whose regular beat includes coverage of that person.

Via Puck's media writer, of course

puck.news/bari-weiss-n...

Baribucks

Bari Weiss, the Times defector turned Free Press founder, is now poised to cash a giant check from David Ellison and seize the reins at CBS News, sending staffers running for the smelling salts.

puck.news

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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · Sep 22

No one knows Silicon Valley better than @stevenlevy.bsky.social. And no one is more clear-eyed about how far removed it has become from its supposed ideals.

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

www.wired.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Sep 20

www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 20

One problem I think is Ezra is a policy guy who basically thinks arguing for liberalism is like an extension of arguing for policy, instead of an argument for a form of life/association

Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · Sep 20

Watched the Ezra Klein interview with Douthat and I thought it was interesting, even though they both kinda seemed out of touch on some things
(“Why don’t libs do a debate tour at evangelical churches?”)
But it struck me how unprepared Klein was to make a moral argument for liberalism.

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The Lenfest Institute for Journalism @lenfestinstitute.org · Sep 17

Service-oriented journalism can help provide deeper impact data and ensure your reporting is relevant. But how can we adopt this approach when so many systems in our industry are resistant to change? Madison Karas & @pboehler.net explored this idea through workshops and one-on-one sessions 👇

Service-oriented journalism: Moving from idealism to utility

Journalism can be more impactful if we focus on the utility people receive from it. But what obstacles are preventing us from getting there?

www.lenfestinstitute.org

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · Sep 14

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · Sep 6

I wrote in support of @thisismissem.social's letter saying that ATProto and ActivityPub ecosystems ought to engage kindly and constructively with each other. And I have explained my thinking more here: github.com/swicg/genera...

Create statement on ActivityPub vs AT Protocol discussions (2025-09-05) by ThisIsMissEm · Pull Request #45 · swicg/general

This is the first draft of a statement on the recent conflicts that have been happening between communities on both sides of ActivityPub and AT Protocol, as discussed within this month's Social...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Aug 28

Newspapers disappear. Communities’ stories shouldn’t.

Community Webs librarians are archiving grassroots news to preserve the web we built.

Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/08/27/p...
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White tile with a square black outline anchored with open and closed quotation marks. Within is a quote which reads, "With the decline in the number of print newspapers, it is imperative that local, grassroots news websites be archived." Signed Desiree Funston, Missoula Public Library.

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Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · Aug 17

Social media's rage-bait engagement-based business model has been horrific for societies globally, but what if AI chatbots suck-up-bait is even worse?

It's less trackable, has a huge impact on how we see ourselves and the world, and on our ability to challenge our thinking.

Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · Aug 13

Would he suggest to counter symbolic violence with symbolic resistance? Create new narratives that reveal power relations? Can they? Perhaps new forms of cultural capital that challenge the currently legitimate language of current politics

Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net · Aug 13

If Bourdieu were alive today, he’d probably be here (or his publisher) and write something like this: „The populist performance masks how economic capital appropriates anti-elite rhetoric to secure its own reproduction.“

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