Kalli Anderson

Nothing remains now We had a beautiful, warm house, full of peace. In front of it was a small piece of land where we planted vegetables, olives, and thyme. We had a room for raising poultry and a spot to sit in at the end of the day. Nothing remains now. No house, no land to plant. We are not only dying from bombings. We are dying from hunger too. Hunger has destroyed homes, made the elderly weep like children, and made bread a dream. We used to criticize the airdropped aid. It was dangerous and ineffective., On some occasions, the airdropped cans caused fatalities. But it turns out that it was more merciful than this current method of distribution, which takes dozens of lives every day. Humiliation. Disgrace. Killing. Thuggery. Blood. Sorrow. Grief. We are walking dead, wrapped in our shrouds. We are not okay. The author’s name has been withheld for security reasons.

An Amnesty International fieldworker in Gaza:

"Humiliation.
Disgrace.
Killing.
Thuggery.
Blood.
Sorrow.
Grief.

We are walking dead, wrapped in our shrouds.

We are not okay."

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...

More than 100 NGOs warn 'mass starvation' spreading across Gaza

u.afp.com/SgJo

But pivoting to AI is not a business strategy. Telling journalists they must use AI is not a business strategy. Partnering with AI companies is a business move, but becoming reliant on revenue from tech giants who are creating a machine that duplicates the work you’ve already created is not a smart or sustainable business move, and therefore it is not a smart business strategy. It is true that AI is changing the internet and is threatening journalists and media outlets. But the only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense whatsoever is one where media companies and journalists go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings, and that the work they are doing is worth supporting because it is human work that is vital to their audiences.

Found this @jasonkoebler.bsky.social story about why AI isn’t a viable business model for journalism to be extremely well done and oddly hopeful

www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

Have been in Toronto for 48 hours and strangers are so nice to each other here.
Gets me every time.

The first person sent to Alcatraz was there because he was gay. A group of Native people were there bc they refused to send their kids to assimilation school.
The point is “criminal” is a constructed category.

Ghoul Stephen Miller warns NYC is what happens when a society “fails to control migration”

Careful guys, if you don’t control migration you might turn out like <checks notes> the greatest, wealthiest city in the world.

'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:

Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.

A Left-Liberal Alliance Unpacking the state of the race as early voting starts in NYC

I am a non citizen and can’t vote, but I find it extremely refreshing to read coverage of the nyc mayoral primary that openly acknowledges the differences between leftists and liberals and what happens if they actually work together to defeat a common threat. cooperlund.medium.com/a-left-liber...

Wish i could attend this!

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds

Are you a journalist writing about a current heatwave?

The images you choose are critical to the story.

The @climateoutreach.bsky.social team have shown some ideas here which help stress the risks rather than the typical ice creams: www.climatevisuals.org/how-do-you-p...

Experts worry that DEIA bans are part of a push to undo the 1964 Civil Rights Act Civil rights experts worry bans on DEIA in education and government are part of a larger, ongoing push to undo the country's 1964 Civil Rights Act.

A thread:
Many of y'all know I left my position as a race and identity correspondent at NPR. Perhaps tellingly, a recent story of mine was just "reviewed" by NPR's new "content review" process (a new initiative that began last year).
Here's the story:

www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...

I’ve tried to hire for this position and folks are like “have you considered video” and “you should start a TikTok.” I’m not a moron.

Ok look I need a social media manager for me and The Dream who has new weird ideas and the itch to throw them out there into a pretty much empty space! Is it you? I pay well.

Thanks to all the friends and strangers who attended SEA CHANGE last week during Tribeca.
Still riding that sunset high of making a beautiful ruckus through the streets to the edge of this island.
Next stop XMTR fest in the UK in Sept!

I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan

NYT Editorial board effectively endorses Andrew Cuomo today in the most weaselly possible way. “Don’t rank Mamdani, and it will probably be either him or Cuomo, sooo…”

thanks for coming, friend!!

Annnnnd..
there it is.
"abundance" for whom.

No, in person only but I’ll
Share some documentation and recordings after

Tom Robbins, Versatile Muckraker for The Village Voice, Dies at 76

So terribly sad to lose my former CUNY colleague, a journalist and generous teacher students loved and learned from.
Tom Robbins, Versatile Muckraker for The Village Voice, Dies at 76 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

Join us on June 11 for a sound walk unlike any you’ve ever done before.
Details and rsvp tinyurl.com/seachangeswarm

(Boomers and their antecedents)

I call this the “noun” era of journalism and documentary, when boomers had fat expense accounts and made living wages selling a story 4 times over to analog outlets for which the pitch was just a single noun.

How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

you can contact @propublica.org securely. www.propublica.org/tips/

Audio Ancestors: Mary Margaret McBride - Transom Audio Ancestors: Mary Margaret McBride - Transom

If you would like to hear women talking about civil rights and debunking disinformation on air, in an era before these words were spoken on the radio, I have the thing for you. transom.org/2025/audio-a...

this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people