Lowkey, I can get a lot of work done sitting at an airport gate. I think it's the coffee shop effect.

Turkey and dressing. With the little apple cobbler.

If there's room for social responsibility, it would be cool to have a side effect of adult media literacy. People learn about being lied to by being taught how to lie in a satirical way.

The art of the dogwhistle.
How to make your AI less detectable.

That kind of thing.

3/ Democracy took work. And it took everyone. No one wanted to miss out.

I miss those days.

2/ That meant once a month I got a Swanson frozen dinner (such. a. treat.) and my beloved babysitter Nancy (So cool! In high school! AND her family ran the pizzeria!) because no one would miss the chance to be heard on these decisions.

Nancy and I would listen to the meeting on the clock radio.

I spent some childhood in a small New England town that was governed by town meeting. This meant decisions were made by the adults going once a month to yell at each other in the high school gym until they figured out what to do about gas for the police car, street lights, pot holes, etc.

3/ Statement in audience question: "Us, as journalists, we have to invest 10 times more in fact checking when we listen to a speech by Donald Trump"

2/ "A lot of the fact-checking sites are a little bit scholarly in their presentation, so they don't have a lot of impact." 💯

This was interesting, and would make a great discussion starter for the "meet the media" intro class in J-school. A few quotes I noted:

"We have created a monster with social media. I think we all know that now."

Try writing a bit in someone else's voice. Make an outline of what you want to say and write it in Hemingway or Dave Barry or Kingsolver or whatever floats your boat. You can go back and revoice it later.

This is a screenshot of a skeet from Ken Jennings. (I realize Jennings is not the wikipedia editor, but is making a joke about it.) Embedded text reads: "Feud with the Pope' is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Grumpy rant: A feud requires that both sides are fighting.

What you are seeing is a Pope pontificating about war and peace and a President feeling called out by statements that don't even mention him and quixotic yelling.

The fighting frame lures clicks and sows discord, so it gets magnified.

Image of a catwalk wtih people on it on top of three very large vessels filled with a glowing liquid. There is a large camera on a boom pointing at the people, suggesting this is a movie being filled. Embedded text reads: Gotham would have a lot less supervillans if they had more safety rails and sh*t around giant chemical vats. That city doesn't need Batmant it needs OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration). Grammatical errors are original.

Sunday sillies: Government matters edition.

2/ Even clicking to watch them helps them. I know you're curious. I am, too. But maybe if you feel like you just have to share about it, just share a text description?

a couple of lego figures standing next to each other with the words `` you 've gotta stop pretending everything is awesome '' ALT: a couple of lego figures standing next to each other with the words `` you 've gotta stop pretending everything is awesome ''

When you share things, even to dunk on them, you are still sharing them and that helps the creator.

Even true for recent videos.

Always a tough day to talk about this with students. You have to understand the risk you are taking on when you promise anonymity.

Aw heck, I'm grumpy today. BUT

I talk to my students about how numbers-based stories are often important, but you have to work to get the audience's interest.

Still, why is this man yelling so much?

(I usually mean focus on impact to people, add context and use charts)

🙄 I dislike poll stories because they feel like the outlet is manufacturing news. This is an entirely new level.

I am on a bus and laughed so loudly at this that people are staring at me....

"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three... Three shall be the number... Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two.."

"Trademark smarm". Band name. Called it.

Photo of teaching kitchen featuring kitchen appliances and tables and chairs. There is more seating outside.

Hosting a research seminar this summer and may "borrow" this idea for field testing...

Why not both? Closing session open to public...

Co-sign. We have a teaching kitchen in the student union...🤔

NC to feed voter data to Homeland Security under new noncitizen removal rules The state could begin uploading voter data to DHS as early as Friday.

Ooh, not happy about this...[Gift Link]

www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Perhaps I am entering my fuddy duddy* years, but I think the gov. using photos of bombing as sick meme social media posts (or videos of same over music) is unseemly. Like murder as entertainment.

*Also, autocorrect likes neither fuddy nor duddy, so perhaps I should drink my coffee and shut up.

2/ Well-done steak is tough.

"The chef should not comment on things like food quality."

Candy is sweet.

"The confectioner has clearly forgotten about lemon drops."

Air is mostly nitrogen.

"The scientist should stay in her lane. Many people in hospitals receive oxygen."

Fascinating: how someone making a neutral statement like "X is bad" would be assumed to be making a statement about you

& you have enough guilt or can't take criticism, so you find yourself arguing that X must be good and throwing ad hominem attacks at someone who might not be talking about you.

Love it - thank you!

Thanks for the paper - I'll look at it for UnSpun Journal Club!

11/ What to do? Stop letting algorithms feed you news. Build lists of quality sources and check those accounts directly before scrolling your feed. And if you DO subscribe to news outlets, use your gift links and share them.