A right-wing media chain tried to replace 47 newspapers with AI. They all died.

A right-wing media chain bought local papers, replaced their journalists with AI, and died. Now their communities are left to plug the gaps.

Two posts about writing

Ideas that spoke to me

Are frontier models really too dangerous?

To an increasingly authoritarian regime, the opportunity to shape how models describe the world may be too good to pass up on.

Notable links: June 26, 2026

To meet your community where it's at, you need to empower your people.

All you need to poison an LLM is 13 words.

"It really is just that simple. The way that you can attack these systems is usually so much dumber than you think it is, or than you think it needs to be."

To build resilient organizations, you need to empower your team to make decisions.

"That is not leadership. That is control. And it creates dependency, not growth."

Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself.

"In philosophy, we have a term for this: a logical fallacy. And right now, journalism is full of them."

Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines

The unusually long sentences criminalize being an anti-fascist activist, reading the wrong zines, and using the wrong communication apps. They're incredibly dangerous.

Notable links: June 19, 2026

Preparing for the fastest period of technical change in decades.

The European Commission falls for openness theater by working with W Social

The European Commission has moved its profiles to W Social. That's a terrible decision.

More people get their news from social media than anywhere else - globally. The platforms we use matter.

"For the first time, social media and video networks are, on average across the markets covered, more popular than both TV and owned news websites and apps as sources of news."

AI answers are a new vector for election disinformation

For years, people have used social media to seed disinformation in order to swing elections. Now, the answers our search engines and expert systems produce have become more vulnerable.