I also endorse Obsidian.

If the news business wants young people to trust it, it needs to be honest about its failures, its limitations, and its power. At the very least it can help more people recognize that the news business is a business, one that is also sometimes a public service, and that often also does public harm.

There was a brief window when legacy media “discovered” they could acquire quick, discount talent by hiring people away from blogging. I benefitted! But if not for that… I don’t know. This business has not earned back lost trust from the 2000s, when these surveyed teens weren’t around.

I was on staff at my high school paper (technically I was the “features” editor). The 2000 election chaos, 9/11, the US lying its way into Iraq is what dominated the years of what would have been my early career, had I not come to the reasonable conclusion that the news biz then was not for me.

As I told a group at Cornell just yesterday, I think these AI Contributors are a betrayal of the promise of crowdsourced fact-checking.

If the end is to democratize moderation - or as Tarleton Gillespie might put it to enhance the "voice of the governed" - this moves us in the opposite direction.

Excellent! Wish I could have been there

So are rightwing trolls. Luckily the algorithm here doesn’t work as well for them

National Dem leadership are from NYC and they still couldn’t do the right thing. Jeffries weakly endorsed him late and Schumer didn’t even say he voted for the Democratic candidate when asked. Disqualifying to say the least.

Isn’t this just another example of Césaire’s Boomerang Effect? Cooper has reported on a lot of US foreign policy where that logic prevails