Mindy McAdams
@macloo.bsky.social
Didn’t always live in Florida. Loves to travel. Taught journalism students to code. Reads novels. BritBox fan. https://mindymcadams.com/
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🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files
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November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
I don’t need any programming books (Python, JavaScript, etc.) at the moment, but all my favorites came from No Starch Press, and their current sale is 42% off everything they have. I know we’re boycotting and not buying, etc. But I honestly love this publisher. Ends Dec. 2. nostarch.com
No Starch Press
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November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I don’t need any programming books (Python, JavaScript, etc.) at the moment, but all my favorites came from No Starch Press, and their current sale is 42% off everything they have. I know we’re boycotting and not buying, etc. But I honestly love this publisher. Ends Dec. 2. nostarch.com
I keep thinking about the immigrants who have been sent away to countries not their own, where maybe they don’t even speak the language. How will those people ever get justice? A hearing of any kind? The U.S. is shipping them off to be imprisoned forever, killed, or enslaved.
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I keep thinking about the immigrants who have been sent away to countries not their own, where maybe they don’t even speak the language. How will those people ever get justice? A hearing of any kind? The U.S. is shipping them off to be imprisoned forever, killed, or enslaved.
There have been many essays written by professors about students cheating with AI. I like the thoughts expressed in this one. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating
"I am no stranger to students trying to cut corners by copying and pasting from Wikipedia, but the introduction of generative AI has enabled them to cheat in startling new ways."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
There have been many essays written by professors about students cheating with AI. I like the thoughts expressed in this one. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
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We have all normalized it at this point because it never stops, but it is fucking psychotic that the mayor elect of New York City who has never said an anti-Semitic thing in his life has to answer "what do you say to Jews who feel unsafe" as a condition of doing any interview.
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We have all normalized it at this point because it never stops, but it is fucking psychotic that the mayor elect of New York City who has never said an anti-Semitic thing in his life has to answer "what do you say to Jews who feel unsafe" as a condition of doing any interview.
Whenever “engagement” is rewarded with payments, many people will create schemes to churn out more content that gets more engagement. Studies have shown that hate and anger generate the most shares on social media. What results is obvious and logical — and horrible.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Whenever “engagement” is rewarded with payments, many people will create schemes to churn out more content that gets more engagement. Studies have shown that hate and anger generate the most shares on social media. What results is obvious and logical — and horrible.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
The newest “deal” to end the war in Ukraine is a nightmare.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...
November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The newest “deal” to end the war in Ukraine is a nightmare.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...
There’s a weird dynamic in the visual of Trump seated behind the desk while Mamdani stands, just to his right. I’m sure there was a Trumpist logic behind it, but it doesn’t make Trump look strong, and Mamdani looks like an adviser or a No. 2. Plus Trump keeps looking _up_ at Mamdani.
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
There’s a weird dynamic in the visual of Trump seated behind the desk while Mamdani stands, just to his right. I’m sure there was a Trumpist logic behind it, but it doesn’t make Trump look strong, and Mamdani looks like an adviser or a No. 2. Plus Trump keeps looking _up_ at Mamdani.
I’d love to see this proposal get a lot of discussion. One thing I’ve learned about “just giving money” to people (from reports on UBI in other countries) is that people will spend it— and that benefits the local economy. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
Rep. Tlaib’s Economic Dignity for All Agenda Would Bring Economic Security for Millions
The agenda would lower poverty by 42% and child poverty by two-thirds.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I’d love to see this proposal get a lot of discussion. One thing I’ve learned about “just giving money” to people (from reports on UBI in other countries) is that people will spend it— and that benefits the local economy. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
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This is quite interesting as it ends the CTC and EITC and creates a big child allowance (5600/y), a 2k baby bonus and a 3k/y UBI for adults 19-67. The Policy Engine (CC: @maxghenis.bsky.social )folks did an analysis of the net impacts...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
Rep. Tlaib’s Economic Dignity for All Agenda Would Bring Economic Security for Millions
The agenda would lower poverty by 42% and child poverty by two-thirds.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This is quite interesting as it ends the CTC and EITC and creates a big child allowance (5600/y), a 2k baby bonus and a 3k/y UBI for adults 19-67. The Policy Engine (CC: @maxghenis.bsky.social )folks did an analysis of the net impacts...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
Who thinks this president would happily stand on a platform wearing a fake military uniform covered with fake medals and survey a mass hanging or firing squad to eliminate a bunch of his “enemies”?
We have read the dictator playbook.
We have read the dictator playbook.
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Who thinks this president would happily stand on a platform wearing a fake military uniform covered with fake medals and survey a mass hanging or firing squad to eliminate a bunch of his “enemies”?
We have read the dictator playbook.
We have read the dictator playbook.
The Coast Guard makes distinctions between “hatred” and “divisiveness” because a lot of folks who love the Confederate flag, the Nazi swastika, and nooses (!) claim their use of those symbols does not mean they hate anyone.
Pause.
They absolutely do hate very specific human beings.
Pause.
They absolutely do hate very specific human beings.
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Coast Guard makes distinctions between “hatred” and “divisiveness” because a lot of folks who love the Confederate flag, the Nazi swastika, and nooses (!) claim their use of those symbols does not mean they hate anyone.
Pause.
They absolutely do hate very specific human beings.
Pause.
They absolutely do hate very specific human beings.
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A (good) update on the Coast Guard story.
Coast Guard reverses course on policy to call swastikas and nooses 'potentially divisive'
The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just hours after it was publicly revealed that it made plans to describe them as...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
A (good) update on the Coast Guard story.
If ANY university EVER sends you a list of “prohibited words,” you damn well better cancel that speaking engagement.
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
If ANY university EVER sends you a list of “prohibited words,” you damn well better cancel that speaking engagement.
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Health experts are alarmed as Republicans degrade the country’s pivotal HIV programs — and break promises made during Trump’s first term.
America’s most basic HIV protections are in danger as a decade of progress unravels
Health experts are alarmed as Republicans degrade the country’s pivotal HIV programs — and break promises made during Trump’s first term.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Health experts are alarmed as Republicans degrade the country’s pivotal HIV programs — and break promises made during Trump’s first term.
I just had a shock: I learned that a Big Mac or a Quarter Pounder with cheese at McDonald’s (in my town) costs almost $8. Ever since the pandemic I only eat at/order from local restaurants, and their prices have gone up—but this? McDonald’s has such bad food AND now it’s not cheaper than good food?
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I just had a shock: I learned that a Big Mac or a Quarter Pounder with cheese at McDonald’s (in my town) costs almost $8. Ever since the pandemic I only eat at/order from local restaurants, and their prices have gone up—but this? McDonald’s has such bad food AND now it’s not cheaper than good food?
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Last week, Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters wrote a letter to their board. Their editor-in-chief had secretly been using ChatGPT and inserting hallucinated quotes into their drafts.
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.
www.niemanlab.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Last week, Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters wrote a letter to their board. Their editor-in-chief had secretly been using ChatGPT and inserting hallucinated quotes into their drafts.
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
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An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
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Chicago has had one 9/11 worth of people disappeared since the attacks began in September. Los Angeles has had two 9/11s since June.
November 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Chicago has had one 9/11 worth of people disappeared since the attacks began in September. Los Angeles has had two 9/11s since June.
Today I heard a news report saying a team of student researchers “used AI” to assist in finding “which U.S. youth might be most vulnerable to becoming tobacco users in adulthood.” It’s a prediction based on data about the subjects’ lifestyle habits and other factors.
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today I heard a news report saying a team of student researchers “used AI” to assist in finding “which U.S. youth might be most vulnerable to becoming tobacco users in adulthood.” It’s a prediction based on data about the subjects’ lifestyle habits and other factors.
I like the idea that now we call all generative AI “slop generator.”
“Oh, you used a slop generator to help you write this report?”
“Oh, you used a slop generator to help you write this report?”
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I like the idea that now we call all generative AI “slop generator.”
“Oh, you used a slop generator to help you write this report?”
“Oh, you used a slop generator to help you write this report?”
Some days I think every world leader is laughing their ass off at the idiocy of Trump and plotting how to exploit it, to the benefit of their country or maybe just the the benefit of their own bank accounts.
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Some days I think every world leader is laughing their ass off at the idiocy of Trump and plotting how to exploit it, to the benefit of their country or maybe just the the benefit of their own bank accounts.
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Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.
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My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...