basic oddity

Slack is extremely funny

Very crazy day to work for a local news organization in chicago

Eve L. Ewing And Friends Unite To Buy South Side Cafe Build Coffee Author and scholar Eve L. Ewing, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist trina reynolds-tyler and media-based organizer Andrea Faye Hart will take over the shop in June. It will undergo a slight rebrand to ...

trina reynolds-tyler, Andrea Faye Hart and Eve L. Ewing, three "day-one" friends of Build Coffee, will take over the Woodlawn café and bookstore as "volunteer owners."

The trio says they want to be a model for running a "politically and community-oriented" shop. blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/05/e...

Really not surprised at this happening at a&m but super disappointed and honestly scared for the minorities who go there

some good news for chicago 💕💕 These women are so so so cool to me

A list of bad-news headlines wrapped up with an Atlantic article headlined “Why are young people everywhere so unhappy?”

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

omg

Gm again. audience editors, do any of u have ideas on other places i can share my work in/any general advice how to ~build an audience~~? i hate substack notes feed but i feel like maybe i need to be using it more?

Where'd all the time go? What slow games, quiet platforms, and weekly rituals can teach us about time

i wrote about time perception and what animal crossing, are.na, and THE PITT can teach us about how we feel time online.

if looking at your screen time makes you want to walk into the sea, this one’s for u.

would love it if u read it + sent to a friend who creates things online worth remembering<3

saw marie davidson last night and she was fucking amazing

Gm again. audience editors, do any of u have ideas on other places i can share my work in/any general advice how to ~build an audience~~? i hate substack notes feed but i feel like maybe i need to be using it more?

Gm this made me feel good and was a pause my brain needed. i hope it makes you feel good too ☀️☀️

Gm

This is your brain on content 🍳 We weren’t built for millions of tiny emergencies.

i launched new blog series today: THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON CONTENT

my first post is about how information online is frying our brains and how we need to design for recovery not engagement.

first post’s live: aditi.substack.com/p/a-million-...

i’d love for you to follow along!

i see google search trends, AI query trends, and in app visitation behaviors influencing what recipes (and as a result, ingredients) get recommended. they would want to maximize the likelihood of people actually making a purchase so personalizing it on those things would be safer i think

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed.

Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance.

My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

When i develop my writing voice it’s over for u hoes

omg what a compliment 🥹🥹

Venturing out.. Why are legacy media companies launching venture funds and what is their goal with them?

hi!! i started a blog! my first post is about robinhood and wtf their media strategy is and my latest (published today) is on legacy media companies getting into vc and why it might be... smart? subscribe, tell a friend, etc! would love to hear your thoughts! aditi.substack.com/p/venturing-...

Semafor "Innovating To Restore Trust In News" event headliners include Fox News' Bret Baier, NBC Universal Chair Cesar Conde, Zeteo CEO Mehdit Hasan, NY Times' Joe Khan, Megyn Kelly, and CNN Chairman Mark Thompson.

@semafor.com 's February "Innovating to Restore Trust In News" event features some of the most widely criticized companies in news right now (Fox News, NYT, CNN)...and known right wing propagandist Megyn Kelly

keep up the great work innovating, guys

a gas station convenience store, the sign says "food center, open 24 hrs." and the windows say diary [sic] drinks lotto snacks cigarettes

diary drinks
avondale, chicago (2023)

What is insane is that Semafor has legitimately great reporters and this kind of package makes them look worse

Sorry Not Sorry: The Media's Hollow Year-End Ritual Semafor's latest "mistakes" roundup proves accountability is dead.

. @parkermolloy.com wrote a great piece on how that atrocious Semafor piece about “what the media got wrong” is literally everything thats wrong with the legacy media www.readtpa.com/p/sorry-not-...

I have to see Doechii live bruh

where are y’all watching ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT

winter in a midwestern city where you don't have community is brutal fyi