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Miles Howard

@MilesPerHoward

Outdoor author and urban trail builder, @NatGeo @BostonGlobe @WBUR @NewRepublic @BostonMagazine | he/him | Creator of Mind The Moss, a newsletter about walking

Boston, MA Katılım Haziran 2011
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Miles Howard@MilesPerHoward·
For @WBUR, I wrote about something that I would love to see in more American cities; an all-night winter party with minimal cost barriers that brings people together during the loneliest, darkest time of the year. This is Montreal’s version, Nuit Blanche. wbur.org/cognoscenti/20…
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins@daniel_dsj2110·
""There should be a simple rule for being a thinker," says Cal Newport. "Don’t let AI write anything for you. Writing is to cognitive health what steps are to physical health"": chronicle.com/article/why-it…
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Nida Kirmani@NidaKirmani·
There are many reasons to resist AI (e.g. environmental harm, the power it gives to states/corporations, intellectual theft), but perhaps the biggest one for me is that, despite it all, I still believe that the human intellect is miraculous, irreplicable, & worth fighting for.
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ben peek@nosubstance·
The answer is that the industry needs to invest in its editors. For years they’ve been cutting them back and giving them the workloads of five. Is it a surprise that AI can get published? You don’t need AI detector programs. You just need well read, happy editors.
Becki is Agented!!!@roo_richardson

re: the AI book being pulled at Hachette - though I agree we shouldn’t let AI ‘books’ be published, how are they making sure to be absolutely 100% certain it was indeed written with AI? Because if there isn’t a definitive system in place this could become very messy for authors

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melissa lozada-oliva@ellomelissa·
"you will be left behind if you dont start using AI in your writing" where are you all going ... i don't want to join you i don't want to be there.
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Brian Merchant
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant·
Absolutely not. If you are using AI to write you should 100% be ashamed. Shame is one of the last bulwarks against a total slop apocalypse.
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Miles Howard@MilesPerHoward·
This is probably the simplest and cleanest explanation of why “just start a Substack” is not a sustainable solution to our media crisis. That wave has crested and subscription fatigue is spreading
Cora Harrington@CoraCHarrington

I want to support good journalists and good writers but there is simply no way to subscribe to every article or newspaper or magazine or newsletter, and it sucks for everyone because writers want readers for their stuff and readers want to read, but normal people can’t afford to.

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Miles Howard@MilesPerHoward·
This is not meant to be a doomer post because I believe in fighting back with everything you've got, no matter how bleak things are. But I really can't remember a time in my life (as a 37-year old) when things have felt this bleak. Stupid war. AI infestation. Cost of living. FFS!
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Graham Platner for Senate
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine·
Thank you, Bernie Sanders, whose relentless and often lonely fight for the last 40 years has been a beacon of hope to millions. I am humbled to stand with you and to carry your legacy and our movement forward. We will stand together in the Senate and pass Medicare for All.
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Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)
Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)@JPHilllllll·
It’s just a weird sickness at some point, this level of greed. You have $200 billion dollars. You could wipe your ass with $100 bills and keep getting richer every day. Why kill thousands and thousands of jobs at this point?
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS

Jeff Bezos has begun the process of raising $100 billion for a new fund that would buy up manufacturing companies and then use AI to automate production.

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Miles Howard@MilesPerHoward·
Recently re-watched SPOTLIGHT and the part where Michael Keaton explains that sometimes the team spends months just finding their next story hit me like a train. This is becoming impossible in the modern media landscape. The new norm is constant slop production. It’s really bad.
Deepa Seetharaman@dseetharaman

This is the work that can’t be replicated by AI or pursued by a reporter with a Substack. It requires time - during which a reporter isn’t producing a lot of copy. Building trust with sources so you can tell sensitive stories, that’s a process that doesn’t scale.

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Jared Henderson
Jared Henderson@jhendersonYT·
At a writers’ group, an older journalist mentioned that she used to write an article for $2,000 and live off of that (this was probably in the 70s-80s). She asked some freelancers what they make now, and she could not believe that the rates had stayed static or gone down.
traurigsten Muthes@mcmansionhell

I genuinely think writers over 40 don’t realize how bad things are for those younger than them. There’s a fundamental disconnect happening here in terms of not only rates but networking, practical knowledge, and things like housing costs and debt. Two ships passing in the night.

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Miles Howard@MilesPerHoward·
At what point do we move beyond indirect phrases like “gaming the system” and call this what it is? Robbery. There is a finite amount of wealth being generated and almost all of it is being sucked up by guys like Zaslav.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm

David Zaslav will receive $887M as compensation for the Paramount/Warner Bros merger. Meanwhile, thousands of people are expected to lose their jobs in layoffs after the merger closes. (Source: Deadline)

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Nate Rogers
Nate Rogers@Nate_Rgrs·
It sounds like an exaggeration but you really do regularly come across people in LA over the last few years who will straight up tell you that it’s no longer viable to work in film/tv and they’re looking for a new career. $900 million against that backdrop is unconscionable
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm

David Zaslav will receive $887M as compensation for the Paramount/Warner Bros merger. Meanwhile, thousands of people are expected to lose their jobs in layoffs after the merger closes. (Source: Deadline)

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Pat Dennis
Pat Dennis@patdennis·
lots of dem staff think successful comms is "nobody yells at you" but successful comms is "the right people yell at you" the only world where nobody yells at you is where nobody cares about what you're saying
Parker Butler@parkerpbutler

One reason Democrats struggle to break through is many teams are designed to avoid risk at ALL costs. The result is bland messaging that doesn’t compete for today’s most valuable commodity: attention. The best thing folks on 2026 campaigns can do right now is change this

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Miles Howard@MilesPerHoward·
I've found this to be true as well. It's hit-and-miss, but a number of these niche magazines with smaller but very enthusiastic subscriber bases sometimes have proper money to spend on words and images. And it's these magazines that will likely survive the rise of generative AI.
Daniella@DaniellaMazzio

I think actual writing pay advice is that the real money (and accessible money) is in technical/industry/community magazines with reader bases you had no idea even remotely existed

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