@lynj
Using futures to change the present. Researcher, teacher, foresight learning experience designer, citizen; works at Institute for the Future. Currently drawn to walking in forests, cooking, scruffy dogs, China, California, and New England 💚💚
Cannot recommend taking the time to read this article more strongly. Truly compelling reporting that does the best work I have seen in a long time depicting the jobs that AI is creating: precarious data works. Huge congrats to @joshdzieza.bsky.social.
AI companies are paying screenwriters, lawyers, and other white-collar professionals to produce the training data needed to automate their jobs. I spoke with more than 30 workers about conditions inside this fast-growing and extremely secretive new gig economy.
Stunning, important reporting. Thank you for this.
“…the worn old barn…”!
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Incredibly inspiring bravery and must have been difficult to work on for you. Hopefully he will be able to get steady employment and treatment for PTSD.
Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials.
Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.
🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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Nothing to see here. Just the president of the United States declaring that an ethnic group consistently votes against him, that their votes are illegitimate, and that they should leave the country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNQo...
He will use force if he wants to use force. Nothing he says can be taken at face value.
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
Good to get some new combos together.
ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
Thank you for this sweet tribute, apt metaphors of stitching and gluing.
But Wharf Rat, mawkish?! 😢
Interesting and helpful approach, thank you!
Agree completely.
An editor who thinks novelty is having a town hall with Alan Dershowitz, or publishing the thousandth anti-woke story, doesn’t think having first hand testimony of migrants suffering abuse because of US decisions is newsworthy.
And did she file a false FBI report and did RFK get her to file a false restraining order. Why is he not taking any heat for this?
Thank you. I don’t understand the jaded and/or holier than thou attitude that some journalists seem to be exhibiting toward this whole thing.
Should @nytimes.com edit headlines/make substantial rewrites w/o informing readers?
Should they document edits?
Here’s an egregious example of a post-publication rewrite + our analysis.
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...
To me this framing and response shows so clearly their belief that other people—readers of the newspaper—aren’t capable of correctly assessing what’s happening in the world. That we need the NYT to challenge our narrow confirmation biases. More than a tinge of messianic arrogance.
Went to NYT and WSJ to see if either had reported this, was expecting to be disappointed, and was. Reporting on this level of vitriol and mental instability is not “validating the views” of those dislike the president. In the future, a timeline of all the stories not reported will be instructive.
Which as we know now is a complete lie
The name of this platform is secret desire.AI. It’s not just “an AI Chatbot and image platform,” it is an AI porn platform.
Insufferable
“therein” … 😳