Damon Kiesow

Remembered at last, by lines of code.

For context: The coal industry employs about 40,000 people.

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

Ah. The pop-up Nazis got popped.

It is 2025 and we have escalated all the way to "why critics say.."

Spun up another simple script to create a Ghost curated list-of-links post/email from any RSS feed. Github link is in the post:
kiesow.net/working-syst...

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

The closing of CPB could result in a 10% loss of local stations speculates @joshshepperd.bsky.social (mostly likely in rural already under-served regions.)

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/c...

This happens constantly. Where do those absurd misspelling suggestions even come from.

Quick, someone ask ChatGPT "What do plants want?"

Amazing how garbage science finds a perfect product-market fit in tools that produce garbage knoweldge.

Been working with GitHub Copilot for a few weeks to see how it works. And, the same as trying to write with GenAI, the tools are only useful scaffolding if you already know how to build the house.

McGowan: He seems to be getting rid of statisticians and climate people and weather experts and scientists and anyone who doesn't agree with what he wants to tell or what he wants to say.

GitHub - dkiesow/BookTrack: A basic Python application to scrape book listings from a Big Bookseller and save results to a local SQLite database.You can also export the database contents to an XLSX fi... A basic Python application to scrape book listings from a Big Bookseller and save results to a local SQLite database.You can also export the database contents to an XLSX file. - dkiesow/BookTrack

Out of curiosity of the changing prices, a quick script I am using to track the formats, prices and category ranks in categories for my textook from a popular online bookseller: github.com/dkiesow/Book...

When we rebuild our public media up from the ashes it will need to be much bigger, bolder, and better funded -- not so dependent on private capital and corporate sponsorships, but truly public. It will need to be more democratic, more independent, and capable of withstanding two-bit fascist regimes.

You have to hate Americans to try and kill what minimal funding public media receives: cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Raise your hand if you were practically raised by Corporation for Public Broadcasting content ✋

Today, the corporation announced its closure.

He feels disrespected. Fairly sure that is his only motivation/de-motivation.

Sorry André, hope this can be resolved.

The White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles said the following: "President Trump is a builder at heart and has an extraordinary eye for detail.

It is pathological how every public statement from the WH is required to include this type of base obsequiousness.

They literally took history and “restored it to an earlier version.” There is a term for that.

Appears a bug only on the local device I uploaded from. But odd / disquieting.

So, explain this. I took a screenshot of a spam email (first image) and shared it in a Slack (second image.)

So why does the preview in Slack display the bottom half of the original email which is not what I uploaded. When clicked it shows the correct version.

Would be great if people did not leave Billionaire-funded corporate media to join Fascist-funded independent media.

That would make an interesting HOA meeting.

And what is the name of this gated community with so many Elon fans? Lol.

Google has a market cap of $2 trillion dollars but instead of just raking in profits for another generation or so they decided to sabotage the internet.

bsky.app/profile/benj...

Consumer explications of trust in journalistic methods, incentives and past performance: A participant observer study of Premier League transfer windows on Reddit.

Getting a name wrong in a story used to be an 'F' on the assignment in our intro to newswriting.

I won’t “hand it to him” but the best outcome of this chapter is the broad elimination or complete restructuring of course evaluations.

bsky.app/profile/damo...