You gotta reclaim your weekend!

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I have many, many things to say about this, as someone who runs a media outlet

Like... the moment you do something like this is the moment you lose everything, because it's so cartoonishly evil that you can't even BEGIN to fathom the harms it will do to real, passionate, hard-working people.

One of the places I wrote reviews for has been doing something similar in search results. It puts my name on non-existent head-to-head articles generated deep in the bowels of its CMS.

JFC

So you went on a work trip, worked through the weekend, and worked on the plane…but it wasn’t work? 🤔 I question this logic! 😂😂😂😂😂

The hedge fund that owns McClatchy—Chatham Asset Management—also has a controlling interest in Postmedia, a Canadian news conglomerate that owns & prints over 130 news titles across 🇨🇦. I couldn’t find much about Postmedia’s AI use, so I wonder if 🇺🇸 papers are testing ground given this news:

Katie did you work on the plane 🧐

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I QT’d you with more background on this—it’s a good piece from @columjournreview.bsky.social —and I think the screenshot you posted is from this piece, if you want to read more.

McClatchy gutted its national news operation, firing the entire team in Nov, but they’ll fork over cash for AI slop

Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"

Evergreen

What’s funny is that the originator of the entire thread actually agreed with me on the entire thing so this guy is full of shit on several levels.

putting my old bargaining hat on to say that if you're in a unionized newsroom, this absolutely does NOT fall under status quo and should be prone to bargaining.

if you're a freelance journalist, make sure your contract reserves the right to pull your byline. They'll fight, but you have the right.

You’re right!

Every fucking time!!!!!

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First reaction: JFC, *McClatchy* is doing this?

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Ah. Bought in bankruptcy by a hedge fund in 2020.

One thing chatting with journalist unions have taught me is that management doesn't care about the quality of the news product.

Nor do they actual care about respecting actual journalists, it seems.

The sheer contempt publications have for their employees is absolutely gushing out of their pores. It’s bad enough that they’re insisting on doing this and debasing people’s names but that evil is compounded by how fucking nasty and mean their tone is about it.

It’a bad enough that they’re doing it, it’s salt in the wound that they’re being so fucking nasty about it.

Mcclatchy is a publisher. They own 26 papers across the country.

Deezer says AI song uploads have nearly overtaken human music AI-generated music uploads are outpacing human ones.

Behold the inevitable outcome of any user-generated system that allows bots to post content.

Claire journalism is dead and it is devastating.

This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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The only person in my life who knows the difference is my autocorrect and I just say fuck it and do what the autocorrect tells me to do.

If this were truly a party of AOCs and Zohran Mamdanis and Ilhan Omars and Rashida Tlaibs, this wouldn’t be an issue.

But it’s a party mostly of folks like Booker, who like to be seen as opposition but don’t have the stomach for actually being it.

His message is essentially: “You should have sucked it up. It’s your fault we lost.”

In the absence of substance, this is all Dems like Booker can muster.

People have been begging the Democrats for a decade to give them something to vote FOR rather than just against.

This has been the response.

I love how Michael Showalter has made an career out of commercial voice overs and if you’re a certain age you recognize his voice immediately and know the guy telling you about this Buick is also famous for lines like “Sometimes I wonder, if I was stranded on a desert island, would I eat my feet?”

A baby raccoon

A baby raccoon

Meanwhile
A timeline cleanse:

I went to change my snow tires to summer tires this afternoon...

And discovered I've got a raccoon nursery in my shed.

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