What we measured, and how, in the GGWash indicators map View this post on ggwash.org

Check out an interactive choropleth map aggregating 23 indicators across a variety of DC geographies.

Who Owns ‘Let Them’? Years before Mel Robbins published her best-selling self-help book, a struggling writer posted a poem with a similar message.

“The Let Them Theory,” by Mel Robbins, was the best-selling book of 2025—but many people are now questioning the origins of its core idea, @olgakhazan.bsky.social writes.

You have one week to get those Pride month pitches cooking. While you're at it, check out our newly revamped Write for Us page. Pitches will open on Monday, April 27.

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Verge headline: Laid-off lawyers, history PhDs, and scientists are now part of a miserable gig economy in which they’re teaching AI how to do their old jobs. If you’re still employed… Illustration of a series of workers at desks distorted, being processed by a computer

Verge headline: You could be next by Josh Dzieza Art by Samar Haddad Illustration continues, a distorted assembly line

Over the last few years, a new type of AI company has emerged, staffed by former white-collar workers. Their job: teach AI to do the work they once did.

Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

And no wonder the idea of letting AI replace the voice of humans is so attractive to news publishers. Those relying on “AI-assistance” claim that these stories are not replacing the work of stylists, but are put to use only in cases where the reader simply wants to consume information, be it a scoop or description of some development. All people want is the facts! This argument reflects something I’ve often heard from Silicon Valley techies who probably avoided English classes at Stanford. When I was writing my book about Google, Sergey Brin began one interview with a lecture about how books were an inefficient way to explain things. (That didn’t stop Google from scanning millions of books for its search business.) Crypto magnate Samuel Bankman-Fried, in a hagiographic profile funded by the VC firm Sequoia, said, “If you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.” (Maybe prison has changed his mind, and he’s now plowing through Robert Caro biographies.) Implicit in this viewpoint is the assumption that human expression gets in the way of pure information, and any human seepage into reporting is to be avoided. The ultimate spokesperson for that point of view is Marc Andreessen, who said in a podcast last month that the act of introspection was a recent and unwelcome development in the human experience.

Get em, Steven www.wired.com/story/backch...

At this point is there a cabinet member who’s not drunk

The evidence gathered in the inspector general’s investigation, along with the related police report and civil rights complaints, painted a picture of an executive office in which younger female staff members often fielded inappropriate requests and messages from Ms. Chavez-DeRemer, her family and her close aides. Young women in the executive office were also instructed to “pay attention” to the secretary’s husband and father, people familiar with the matter said. In one 2025 text message exchange reviewed by The Times, a female staff member apologized Dr. DeRemer for not being in touch, and promised to check in. “You better,” Dr. DeRemer, an anesthesiologist, responded. “I was feeling forgotten. I figured you were still in church repenting after your exposure to the demon state of Oregon.”

Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, said senators, who will vote to confirm her replacement, needed to do a better job vetting Trump administration nominees. “I think what we have to do is anywhere where benefit of the doubt was given in the past, you’ve got to doubt,” he said.

Truly beyond parody (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

Kotaku hires Rebekah Valentine as Senior Reporter as site expands under new ownership Owner Keleops says that traffic has doubled in under a year; further hires planned to drive further growth

I work at Kotaku now! :)

You can go watch back today's KFGD to hear me talk about it a little if you want. You could also read my alma mater @gibiz.bsky.social to learn more! www.gamesindustry.biz/kotaku-hires...

FBI director Kash Patel files $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic | CNN Business FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that alleged Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”

Two thoughts: 1) Truth is a complete defense to an allegation of defamation and 2) discovery is going to reveal a lot that Kash Patel wants to keep hidden.

Please, The Atlantic, do not settle for a nuisance fee. Free press depends on you.

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In two months, Trump’s Cabinet has lost three women Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi were ousted by the president; now the Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who has been embroiled in scandals, is resigning.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is the third woman in two months to leave Trump’s Cabinet in the past two months 19thnews.org/2026/04/wome...

The Trump Administration and Maryland Are Both Suing DC Water Over Potomac Sewage Spill The suit marks a change in target for Trump, after he had initially blamed Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for the spill.

NEWS: Both the Trump administration and Maryland are separately suing DC Water over the disastrous Potomac Interceptor spill.

Both suits dropped today. They allege significant failings by the utility.

What we lost when we lost Self magazine The almost 50-year-old publication was a lifeline for chronically ill readers.

After Condé Nast's decision to close SELF, I spoke to chronically ill women about what the women's health site meant to them.

"We have to acknowledge chronic illness as a politically, culturally, and socially marginalized category"

Latest for @motherjones.com.

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ASK A D.C. CANDIDATE: A MAYORAL FORUM MONDAY, APRIL 20 6:30 – 8:30 P.M. MLK LIBRARY AUDITORIUM PRESENTED BY: THE 51ST, THE WASHINGTON INFORMER, SPOTLIGHT DC, AND THE DC PUBLIC LIBRARY SOLD OUT LIVESTREAM TIX AVAILABLE

Our mayoral forum tonight is livestreaming, thanks to @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social!

Hear from @garygoodweather.bsky.social, Ernest E. Johnson, @janeese4dc.bsky.social, @kenyanmcduffie.bsky.social, Vincent Orange, Rini Sampath, and Hope Solomon.

Watch here at 7pm ET: www.youtube.com/live/a-5xBFX...

Ranking the best players in the women’s NCAA transfer portal: Audi Crooks, Kymora Johnson, more Iowa State's Audi Crooks tops the names of players who can make an impact in new programs.

looks like only Addy Brown, Sa'Myah Smith, and Gracie Merkle remain from this list of top transfers www.nytimes.com/athletic/717...

Audi Crooks joins Oklahoma State women’s basketball out of transfer portal Audi Crooks is heading to Oklahoma State. After signing the All-American, Jacie Hoyt's Cowgirls are winners in the women's basketball transfer portal.

ICYMI:

From late last night, Audi Crooks is now at Oklahoma State.

John Stockton spent 19 years in the NBA and played all 82 regular-season games 16 times.

And still, LeBron has played almost 20,000 more career minutes than him.

#NBABarRaces

Durant was a partial participant in practice, will be a game time decision per Udoka

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Solutions Visuals - CBNI | Solutions Journalism Network Program Years: 2024-Current

The Solutions Visuals program is @soljourno.bsky.social's first dedicated visuals program, created to train newsrooms in producing solutions-focused photos, videos and multimedia stories. Applications open through April 24, 2026. www.solutionsjournalism.org/program/solu...

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated | TechCrunch Deezer says consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, between 1-3% of the total streams, and that 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and are demonetized.

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

WhatsApp is testing a premium subscription, put it is mainly cosmetic | TechCrunch WhatsApp is testing a subscription after Meta debuted a similar subscription for Instagram earlier this year

WhatsApp is testing a subscription after Meta debuted a similar subscription for Instagram earlier this year

Chapter Leaders The Uproot Project Chapter Leaders program brings together regional ambassadors in the Uproot network to support and advocate on behalf of Uproot members. As a Chapter Leader, you’ll share…

Meet your 2026-27 Uproot Chapter Leaders. Chapter Leaders are regional ambassadors in the Uproot network who support and advocate on behalf of Uproot members. uprootproject.org/about/chapte...

"In this market, it's one of those things where it's trial and error," she says. "You don't just want to keep throwing something at the wall that's not going to stick."

CNec make it WORK 30-year-old recruiter applied 10 times at her company before landing her current job: 'You never know what's going on' Published Wed, Apr 15 2026•9:45 AM EDT Sarah Jackson @IN/SARAH-JACKSON1

Girl, what? lol www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/3...

Good lord, Wemby contests the shot, gets the rebound, the ball handling is unbelievable and finishes it with a spin and dunk.

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

""They’re trying to spread political messages and give an illusion of a consensus,” said Andrew Yoon, a member of the technical staff at CivAI." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

Independent Bookstore Day is Sat 4/25! Visit 6+ stores for a prize! 🏆 We'll have free ARCs, the @libro.fm Golden Ticket, raffles & more!

You can visit 3 bookstores in one stop at the Takoma Metro! (People's Book, Busboys and Poets, & Laurel Leaf) @wmata.com

Grab your map at dcbookstorecrawl.com/

Washington Biz Journal seeks a reporter - Talking Biz News The Washington Business Journal is seeking a reporter to cover suburban Washington. The reporter will specialize in real estate, land use, economic development, transportation, business regulation, th...

Washington Business Journal seeks a reporter: talkingbiznews.com/biz-news-hel...

Duolingo’s CEO Sparked Backlash Over Performance Reviews — Now He’s Changing Them Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn altered performance-review metrics after employees raised questions.

Duolingo gives up on the idea of tracking AI usage as part of performance reviews.

This sounds like common sense and the surprise is they thought this was a good idea in the first place.

On this day 9 years ago, the first preview of the Temple Hideout DLC stage for Street Fighter V was released. Screenshots of the stage are displayed below.
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Gonna say it once more in case the point is lost on some, can y’all please just fucking hire some black women and femmes? I promise you your pub’s coverage will benefit from it