Stopped by the @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social to chat about AI anxiety — from job market upheaval to community opposition to data centers, bad vibes around AI are on the rise. Big Tech execs have been optimistic on AI, but the average person isn't buying the message.
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New from me: across federal agencies, workers say religion—specifically Christianity—is showing up their workplace.
“The vibes are bad and people don’t like it.” @wired.com
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the peril of AI transcription
"Recent research from freelance platform Upwork found that 77% of business leaders say the AI era is increasing their need to hire contract workers with specialized skills."
You wouldn't believe how many fractional CMOs at the moment are pretending they prefer to be fractional CMOs at the moment.
Companies are refilling positions they eliminate due to AI — sometimes with cheaper workers, sometimes with contractors. It's a trend that could help companies save money and strip workers of benefits and job security. And it's very hard to quantify.
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"All this policy around keeping kids off the internet is couched in language of protecting them...But there is a piece of it that is inherently rooted in the idea that they have nothing valuable to add to society or that there's no point in listening to them." www.businessinsider.com/kids-parenti...
NEW from me and @leahfeiger.bsky.social: ICE is in the airports as funding for TSA remains frozen. And like I said in an earlier post: if you're at the airport and seeing ICE, @wired.com wants to know. DM me here or on Signal at Vittoria 89.82
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"Turning nothing into something is the challenge that helps people grow. It leads people to feel accomplishment and ownership. Too much friction and red tape at work or too many Zoom meetings are bad. But a few quiet, boring moments to tinker and organize can serve as little rituals that anchor us."
AI, execs say, will make you more efficient. It helps you beat the blank page, and takes on tedious tasks.
But the blank page and routine work can boost our creativity. We don't know what we lose when we give work to AI. My latest for @businessinsider.com.
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thank you!
Seeing people in the news industry say that articles should be AI-generated is absolutely bonkers and the antithesis of why so many of us became journalists in the first place—because we aspired to the art of reporting AND writing. I will never release AI slop under my byline.
"In a callous job market where it can feel like everyone's hungry and nobody's making it to the table, recruiters and job seekers alike are looking for a shakeup. But anytime the rules of the game change, there's bound to be new winners and losers."
The résumé is dead. Companies are advertising jobs saying they won't read them. They're shifting to skills-based hiring and quiet recruiting for jobs.
Résumé evaluation was flawed. But as the rules of the hiring game change, so may the losers and winners.
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The feelings people have about data centers are tied to their own energy costs — a local issue that's not yet an indictment of the centers at large. But as more communities fight to defeat them, it's more bad PR for Big Tech. Politicians will take note.
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Big shoutout to the gay hockey boys and Bad Bunny for making 2026 the year i learned to feel again.
i wasn't sure if my Heated Rivalry hyper-fixation would ever be cured. then i discovered the Bad Bunny half time show.
eek ty for catching!
"keeping kids off the internet is couched in language of protecting them, keeping them safe ... But there is a piece of it that is inherently rooted in the idea that they have nothing valuable to add to society or that there's no point in listening to them." www.businessinsider.com/kids-parenti...
Hmmmmm, indeed.
It's a popular sentiment: social media is bad for kids. But as someone who grew up on and loved the OG social web, I looked deeper at the ways teens can benefit from social media — and what we all get when young people shape online culture and activism.
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SCOOP from me in this week’s @wired.com Inner Loop newsletter: A look inside a forum where users claiming to be ICE/CBP vent their frustrations and concerns about their jobs.
“This is going to be a train wreck that we may not survive.”
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a glorious rat coin purse
twitter comments that range from "oh! so contradictory - laugh & cringe" to "so curious to know who would want this - any ideas?"
twitter must be dead dead cause someone posted a rat coin purse that would have 2019 twitter losing its collective mind and most of the top comments are bots saying random words or people not nearly amped enough about the rat coin purse
people really trying anything to get in on the Heated Rivalry hype
A little guide to organizing secure Signal group chats... just in case you find yourself needing to securely organize a Signal group chat for your community. Gift link! tinyurl.com/bdx5affn
I've been seeing posts for comms roles on LinkedIn with salaries that seemed, to me as a journalist, staggering. I wondered why this was happening amid an AI boom. Turns out: there's a premium on good writing and creative thinking in the age of AI slop.
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I’ve been thinking about Dan non-stop, and what I’ve come to understand is just how much I admired him. Dan built his life and moved through the world in a way I wish I could emulate more easily. I’ll keep trying, and in moments when I succeed I’ll think of him again. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
shout out to Dan McQuade, who took me up on an offer to see Hannibal Buress at the Troc, pulled out his phone to record the Bill Cosby joke, and through the butterfly effect of the internet sent Bill Cosby to prison and kickstarted the #MeToo movement. He was one of the kindest guys I’ve ever met.
SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers.
More here:
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Forget trendy foods from TikToks and exclusive reservations. People want to become regulars at their own Gen Z versions of Central Perk or Cheers. And there are tech companies that want to get in on the trend by rewarding people for customer loyalty.
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Generative AI has turned everyone into an armchair expert. It's driving real experts crazy. Lawyers are inundated with inquiries after AI told them they had a case; doctors are dealing with second opinions generated by ChatGPT. Latest for @businessinsider.com
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