jaz workman

i distinctly remember a decade+ ago when all the creative jobs started going out the window being told to “learn to code”

Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so,

No one, no matter their age, should have to hand over their passport or driver’s license just to access legal information and speak freely. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Ignorance is how we got here. Sigh.

i know i’m getting old when a minivan is starting to look impressive to me 🫠

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

But at least I’m off from work for the next 8 days

being pregnant with gd this summer is robbing me of one of my greatest loves—endless tomato sandwiches 🍅🥪

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) .@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

This thread is incredible.

Local Journalist Index 2025 | Muck Rack Where are the journalists? For the first time, we’ve mapped how many local journalists cover each U.S. county, revealing in stark detail the stunning coll…

25 year ago the United States had about 40 journalists per 100,000 residents on average. Now, the equivalent number is 8.2 Local Journalist Equivalents, about a 75% decline. Which is great for corruption (and also in keeping people uninformed)

This belief is a huge part of what has gotten us here: An obsessive insistence that “debate” should take precedence over all other values, including the *merits of the thing being debated.*

It is a value antithetical to journalism and they keep pretending it is the only thing journalists should do

Exactly.

I’m pretty sure they said the ozone was done and couldn’t be saved and we reversed its damage.

It’s not too late.

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please be sure to play the national anthem at least once today

youtu.be/VYOjWnS4cMY

To jump on this point, here are places that have implemented some of these radical ideas:
City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas
Free buses: Akron, Ohio
Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota

People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated

btw we have less than 2 weeks before glitch.com project hosting shuts down on july 8th. i don’t work there anymore but i am here to help with your export/migration questions, as is the glitch engineering team and rest of the community on support.glitch.com

I cannot believe I have to explain this but just FYI, Indian muslims are not arabs

This is a fucking outrage.

It’s not 2003 anymore anywhere in America except for CNN, Fox News, and the New York Times opinion page.

The Democratic Party leadership isn't about winning elections at all these days. They're expending all of their efforts just to keep their place as leaders. They have chosen holding on to power while things go to hell rather than acknowledging that they're not the leaders we need and stepping aside.

how can you be a director at a company who has had RIFs and not know what RIF stands for? 🫠

me 2 you

Denver showed up today.
#NoKings #WhichSideAreYouOn

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party Amazon, Oracle and Coinbase are top sponsors, while Meta’s involvement is unclear.

🫠

not being able to stress eat whatever the hell i want rn is truly just icing on the cake

All the people I still know in LA laugh and laugh when they hear that "Los Angeles is burning." I made a couple of maps to show just how tiny and localized the protests are. GOPers are working really hard to make an excuse for declaring martial law. People should be very wary of that.

They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

he says strong action is needed. critics say the emergencies don’t exist. who’s right? that would require an investigative journalist or a human with eyes and ears and we pivoted to AI-powered substack-sourced op-eds last week so we got nothin to spare.

News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools Chatbots are replacing Google’s traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers.

This WSJ story about the decline in search traffic because of AI summaries is so grim. Every single outlet spent 15+ years contorting their coverage to cover the same things as everyone else trying to grab SEO, only for Google to rugpull them, just like social networks did.
tinyurl.com/bdpzc399

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines