Anne-Sophie Bolon

Anne-Sophie Bolon

@asbolon.bsky.social

Wandering word processor and apostrophe defender. 178 in journalism years.

85 Followers 393 Following 23 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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The Tony Award-nominated “Good Night, and Good Luck” will air live on CNN and CNN International and stream live without requiring a cable login via CNN.com/GoodNightGoodLuck and on connected TVs and mobile apps beginning at 7 p.m. ET.

It will also stream live on Max across all subscription plans.

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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

Over the past 20 years, the French capital has limited vehicle traffic while adding bike lanes and green spaces. These maps show what it did to air quality. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

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Some people think AI writing has a tell — the em dash. Writers disagree. Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That’s not quite true.

The search for a silver bullet to identify AI-generated writing has been underway since tools like ChatGPT became available. Some people think AI writing has a tell — the em dash. Many writers disagree. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Tariffs are coming for my . . .  nuclear warheads? Imports boom

Quite the typo www.ft.com/content/7688...

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Air France Markets New First Class as Suite Fit for Private Jet Air France unveiled a redesigned first-class cabin dubbed La Première, seeking to attract well-heeled customers with a travel experience that it says is akin to stepping onto a private jet.

“It’s crazy what people are willing to spend,” Air France-KLM CEO Ben Smith said of Air France’s new first class offering, which will cost about €10,000 to fly from Paris to New York.

Not sure that’s the best PR/Marketing pitch. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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It Was a Work of Staggering Genius—and a Sensation. Then It Went Away. What Happened? Dave Eggers’ debut made us all lose our minds. Now we’ve mostly forgotten it. Maybe we shouldn’t have.

For fans of Dave Eggers on the 25th anniversary of the incredible and fittingly named “Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” slate.com/culture/2025...

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The Terrifying Ride of Copter 17 (Gift Article) A former Army pilot. An aging helicopter. Furious winds. The race to put out the Eaton fire tested Los Angeles County’s night-flying firefighters like never before.

The race to put out the Eaton fire tested Los Angeles County’s night-flying firefighters like never before. Mike Sagely, who has flown nearly 3,000 hours using night-vision equipment, likens it driving a car while looking through cardboard toilet-paper tubes. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...

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The Anti-Social Century Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

“Practically the entire economy has reoriented itself to allow Americans to stay within their four walls. This phenomenon cannot be reduced to remote work. It is something far more totalizing — something more like remote life."

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Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait predicts AI's impact on journalism: jobs will change, not vanish, reporting and breaking news will remain valuable, and more (John Micklethwait/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Banished Words | Lake Superior State University 2025 The wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University have released LSSU's newest annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.

Lake Superior State University has published its annual Banished Words List, a quirky tradition that dates from 1976. Among this year’s picks, “cringe,” “sorry, not sorry,” and “game-changer.”

www.lssu.edu/resources/ab...

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How to Help Victims of the Southern California Wildfires Raging fires have left five people dead, destroyed or damaged thousands of homes and other buildings and consumed thousands of acres. Here’s how you can help the victims.

Need even more motivation? Here’s The NYT guide nyti.ms/40tBuww

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How to help those affected by fires raging across Los Angeles County Those looking to assist residents affected by the Los Angeles County firestorm have a number of options to donate money, materials or their time.

The L.A. Times guide to organizations helping those affected by the fires
www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Apple TV+ announces free streaming weekend for its catalog of originals - 9to5Mac After several days of teasers, Apple TV+ today confirmed that the streaming service will be free for all this weekend....

Calling those of you who have yet to delight in “Severance,” “Slow Horses,” “Shrinking” and so much more. Binge time is this weekend!

9to5mac.com/2024/12/30/a...

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Every French person doing
the NYT mini crossword shaking their head today. #pulignymontrachet

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100 Notable Books of 2024 Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

The New York Times has published its list of 100 Notable Books of the year. (Also known as the list that will make even the most avid readers feel unaccomplished.) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Can a Comma Solve a Crime? — The Dial How forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases.

In France, the use of stylometry — the study of variations in literary styles — has largely been confined to academic circles. The Grégory case is the first time it has been applied in a major criminal investigation.
Will ChatGPT make this moot?
www.thedial.world/articles/new...

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2024 Holiday Gift Guide: 100 New Classic Luxury Gifts This year give them a traditional gift with a fresh twist.

Bloomberg’s holiday gift guide includes a $500,000 necklace from Boucheron, a $164,000 IWC watch and a $6,500 tablecloth set...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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ChatGPT is a poet. A new study shows people prefer its verses. A new study finds that people prefer poems written by ChatGPT, a chatbot, over those written by human writers.

Shall I compare thee to AI play?

A new study finds readers can’t distinguish between poems by Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot or Sylvia Plath and ChatGPT-3.5 emulating each writer’s style. On the other hand, readers preferred the AI-generated poems. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024...

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Three very helpful Bluesky add-on tools:
(updated with a preferred link)

* Find your old Twitter peeps on this platform:
sky-follower-bridge.dev
* TweetDeck equivalent:
deck.blue
* Delete old posts (skeets):
bsky.jazco.dev/cleanup

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The Ruse That Turned a Culinary Punchline Into One of London’s Hottest Restaurants Steakhouse chain mysteriously vaulted to the top of city’s rankings, leaving locals baffled; a ‘calamitous’ meal

Angus Steakhouse in London has seen its popularity shoot up, puzzling locals. There’s been a coordinated effort to recommend the chain in the hopes website scrapers will recommend it, so that influencers and tourists go there instead of where locals like to eat. www.wsj.com/business/hos...

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I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how. Sometimes it's healthy to do something you love less, and differently.

“I’ve spent the past few years reading tweets about articles, not full articles; reading screenshots of the bad part (highlighted); reading only the most outraging detail from a story.” www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...

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Invisible Women: not all men...but how many? “I saw him now and then in the bakery; I would say hello. I never thought he’d come and rape me.”

“This thinking, this behaviour, it flourishes in silence.”
A powerful and important read newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/invisible-...

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Technically, it’s a special section. That just means there’s more great stuff to honor him.

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The Wall Street Journal features a large blank section on its front page to represent the missing journalism of Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in Russia a year ago.

"A year in Russian prison. A year of stolen stories, stolen joys, stolen memories. The crime: journalism,"
#istandwithevan

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