The world is splitting into nationalist / fascist movements and more progressive / humanist movements.
It's weird to see tech do the same thing. Look at any job board and you can see the fascist-aligned startups and the progressive ones.
The funding, unfortunately, is disproportionately choosing the nationalist path.
We're looking for a journalist with development chops (or a developer with journalism chops) to join our news apps team and build new web-based interactive stories, databases, and experiences. It's a remote role; candidates must be eligible to work in the US.
Today my best buddy turned 3. We went to the zoo, he saw snakes and goats and fed a giraffe, we had his favorite tacos for dinner and a birthday cake, and he received many lovely gifts. And at the end of the day he just wanted to fall asleep in my arms. Could not have been more perfect.
βThe world's biggest academic association of genocide scholars has passed a resolution saying the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.β To say so is not to justify the Oct 7 attacks. But genocide is never justifiable.
To those who wonder why Americans are concerned about this war over others: itβs because weβre deeply involved. Our money is paying for this. Itβs a part of US foreign policy.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-is-committing-genocide-gaza-scholars-association-says-2025-09-01/
Can newsrooms become social platforms themselves? Should they?
The future belongs to organizations that understand their communities, not just their analytics. In this post, I dig into a reader question that speaks to the future of social, newsrooms, and AI.
If you have something you'd like to share with ProPublica's journalists, who deeply investigate abuses of trust and power in the public interest, here's how to that:
If we're thinking about building GitHub alternatives, let's build ones that host not just code but everything involved in building software, including the community work involved in validating assumptions and making sure we're solving real problems, equitably, for the people we're trying to help.
