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.
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...
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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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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/...
Why did I get all choked up watching this?
When Border Patrol showed up across Charlotte, parents and neighbors rushed to Berryhill to meet kids at the bus stop. They stood watch, linked arms, and made one thing clear: if the city gets targeted, its children will not face it alone.
This is what community looks like.💙
This is what community looks like.💙
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Why did I get all choked up watching this?
Take a moment to read Rebecca Heineman's obituary. A genuine titan in the field of game development, and a real force for LGBTQ+ representation in gaming.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman dies at age 62
The gaming community mourns a beloved mentor and LGBTQ+ advocate with a storied career.
arstechnica.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Take a moment to read Rebecca Heineman's obituary. A genuine titan in the field of game development, and a real force for LGBTQ+ representation in gaming.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
A fun data experiment would be to analyze how often "little experience in governing" is both a. true and b. mentioned in headlines introducing a public servant to a wider media audience.
Katie Wilson, Seattle’s next mayor, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
Seattle Elects a Left-Wing Mayor With a Light Résumé but Mamdani Appeal
Katie Wilson, who narrowly defeated the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A fun data experiment would be to analyze how often "little experience in governing" is both a. true and b. mentioned in headlines introducing a public servant to a wider media audience.
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I wanna invent time travel and then require every high school student to take a class called "All The Shit We Fixed Before You Got Here" where they tour smog-filled US cities, polio wards, pre-vaccine hospitals, buildings with no safety regulations, kids working in mines, etc.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I wanna invent time travel and then require every high school student to take a class called "All The Shit We Fixed Before You Got Here" where they tour smog-filled US cities, polio wards, pre-vaccine hospitals, buildings with no safety regulations, kids working in mines, etc.
"Shoppers, strained by inflation, have shifted their spending to essentials and value items. They’ve switched to Walmart, Amazon, TJ Maxx and other chains instead."
An enterprising retail reporter can start tracking how many masstige brands that rose in the early 2000s are now seriously in trouble.
An enterprising retail reporter can start tracking how many masstige brands that rose in the early 2000s are now seriously in trouble.
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"Shoppers, strained by inflation, have shifted their spending to essentials and value items. They’ve switched to Walmart, Amazon, TJ Maxx and other chains instead."
An enterprising retail reporter can start tracking how many masstige brands that rose in the early 2000s are now seriously in trouble.
An enterprising retail reporter can start tracking how many masstige brands that rose in the early 2000s are now seriously in trouble.
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I stand by what I said. It's always worth noting the very different available opportunities and standards applied to non-white journalists, especially this year.
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I stand by what I said. It's always worth noting the very different available opportunities and standards applied to non-white journalists, especially this year.
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I think it's a kind of category error to use social media as an opinion barometer.
People vent opinions on social media in large part *because* they are not getting enough support for that perspective IRL. So the signal is not just unrepresentative of offline life; it's sometimes inverted!
People vent opinions on social media in large part *because* they are not getting enough support for that perspective IRL. So the signal is not just unrepresentative of offline life; it's sometimes inverted!
Working for a SaaS company and then logging into bsky is a surreal experience because bsky is all "no one wants AI, ever" and in the meantime like 90% of real customer feedback I read at my real job is like "where the heck is your AI? I'll cancel if you don't add it by next week"
There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I think it's a kind of category error to use social media as an opinion barometer.
People vent opinions on social media in large part *because* they are not getting enough support for that perspective IRL. So the signal is not just unrepresentative of offline life; it's sometimes inverted!
People vent opinions on social media in large part *because* they are not getting enough support for that perspective IRL. So the signal is not just unrepresentative of offline life; it's sometimes inverted!