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Dan Reinish
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Software engineer and former journalism teacher with a background in tech, English literature, and cognitive science. Occasional writer, photographer, and musician.

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Dan Reinish @teachernerd.com · Dec 19
Teachers! "Passing Time" is an iPhone app I created to help you pace your classes. Set up your schedule once. Then, add a complication to your Apple Watch that updates throughout the day to show how much time is left in the current period. Available on the App Store! apps.apple.com/us/app/passi...
An Apple Watch displaying a countdown timer for a teacher's second period Algebra 1 class. There are 28 minutes and 49 seconds left in the class. A meter illustrating elapsed time indicates that the class is two thirds of the way through.
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warwicksabin.bsky.social
Thanks to @sarabethb.bsky.social and @theajp.bsky.social for supporting local news efforts around the country and building public awareness about the progress that is being made. @deepsouthtoday.org is proud to be part of the AJP portfolio of nonprofit newsrooms.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
Opinion | Local Newspapers Are Closing. Local News Is Surviving.
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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baldurbjarnason.com
A recurring “AI” evangelist tactic is using it for tasks that were already solved by tech that is more deterministic, faster, and uses less energy, but has been downgraded or de-emphasised in recent years by software companies

Like, we genuinely used to have better search and spellcheck.
January 4, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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jwuphysics.bsky.social
To include some numbers here, StackOverflow in Dec 2025 had 3862 new questions. The last time SO had this few questions was in *Aug 2008*, the first full month that SO was in operations!

In its peak month (March 2014), SO had 207,493 new questions!
jwuphysics.bsky.social John F Wu @jwuphysics.bsky.social · Jan 4
the life and death of Stack overflow

Data from data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflo...
Graph showing Stack Overflow monthly number of questions, all time, starting from 0 in late 2008, linearly rising to about 200000 per month peaking in 2014, with a slow linear decline to about 100000 per month in 2023 (ChatGPT era), and then a rapid falloff to zero in late 2025.
January 4, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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charlesornstein.bsky.social
I wrote this column about the aggressive pushback our reporters have received for doing their jobs.

Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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statesnewsroom.com
Alabama’s two Democratic U.S. representatives want the University of Alabama to reinstate two student magazines suspended earlier this month.

via @alabamareflector.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/sewe...
Sewell, Figures urge University of Alabama to reinstate suspended student magazines
Alabama’s two Democratic U.S. representatives want the University of Alabama to reinstate two student magazines  suspended earlier this month.
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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janenorman.bsky.social
The newest "Stories from the States" podcast features Ayman Soliman, a former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplain who was detained by ICE for 73 days; AND our reporter from @statesnewsroom.com DC @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social -- listen here www.newsfromthestates.com/episode/73-d...
73 days in ICE detention: an Ohio hospital chaplain speaks out | News From The States
www.newsfromthestates.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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theatlantic.com
A non-profit has built a massive internet database—and served training data to AI firms despite pleas from publishers to stop, Alex Reisner reports:
The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
3 times in the past 2 weeks, a WashPost editorial "has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's editorial line landed in sync with its owner's interests"

Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include.

talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News
Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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statesnewsroom.com
THREAD 🧵

News overwhelm is real.

So we at States Newsroom are launching a podcast to help you make sense of the dizzying flurry of headlines coming from Washington and across the U.S.
October 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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niemanlab.org
“We called it the George Santos prevention program.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/rebu...
Rebuilding the research desk in local newsrooms
A merger between MuckRock and Sunlight Research Center will help slimmed-down newsrooms investigate local governments, public officials, and more.
www.niemanlab.org
October 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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janenorman.bsky.social
Take a dip into our @statesnewsroom.com live blog for #nokings day with reports from on the ground across the nation, state after state
www.newsfromthestates.com/live-feed/no...
No Kings protest coverage | News From The States
www.newsfromthestates.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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newsberg.org
Oh no. Zombie sites are resurging. I haven't seen much since the Daily Tidings story by @opb.org but it sounds like zombie sites are alive and well, according to @niemanlab.org.

Stay vigilant out there, readers.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/ai-g...
AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs
A new generation of content farms are harnessing AI to spin out clickbait — and they’re getting help from Google.
www.niemanlab.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
teachernerd.com
NPR’s Tom Bowman explains why media organizations on both sides of the ideological spectrum are refusing to sign the Pentagon’s new press agreement.
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...
www.npr.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
teachernerd.com
An incredibly detailed and informative review!
September 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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dnschmidt.com
I’m so glad all our electric bills are going up so we can have calculators that don’t work.
August 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
teachernerd.com
Original article: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/w...
A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia
www.nytimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
teachernerd.com
You read this headline and think to yourself, “What??” Then you read the secondary headline and you’re like, “Oh, okay. But also…what??”
Screenshot of a New York Times headline. The main headline reads, “A fish falls from the sky and sparks a brush fire in British Columbia.” The secondary headline reads, “Officials say a flying osprey dropped its catch, which then struck power lines, causing sparks that ignited dry grass.”
August 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
teachernerd.com
I decided to turn my blog into a "serverless," (mostly) static website to reduce costs and security/maintenance overhead. Read my latest post to see how I used a WordPress plugin, a Cloudflare Worker, and some JavaScript to replicate the original setup, including contact forms and a search function.
Cloudy with a Chance of Static
For my latest post, I’m going to talk a little bit about, well, this blog! Specifically, I’d like to share my recent project to convert it from a dynamic, WordPress-based application hosted on a tradi...
teachernerd.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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astrokatie.com
Just click on this: skyviewer.app/explorer #RubinTelescope
Explorer | Skyviewer
skyviewer.app
June 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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laraweber.bsky.social
Tune in now to our @statesnewsroom.com event w The Pew Charitable Trusts. Former Govs. Steve Bullock and Larry Hogan are talking w @wordsbywillis.bsky.social

www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/eve...
Federalism Tested: How States Are Navigating an Era of Uncertainty
States face a growing list of policy challenges and opportunities. The Pew Charitable Trusts and States Newsroom will host an event to explore key issues states are addressing today.
www.pewtrusts.org
June 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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vrubinobs.bsky.social
Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!

Can you guess these regions of sky?

This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪

#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black. A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars. A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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npr.org
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects. https://n.pr/405DN8P
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first images are stunning — and just the start
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects.
n.pr
June 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM