Jeff Howe
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Jeff Howe
@crowdsourcing
Northeastern Journalism Prof. Formerly Wired magazine, Nieman, Media Lab. Married to the Talented @AlysiaAbbott. Books: Crowdsourcing, Whiplash.
Home of the Bean and the Cod Katılım Ağustos 2007
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Overheard at LaGuardia just now: “I asked AI who would be in the Super Bowl next year and it said the Jets. So I think it’s going to happen.”
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Big DOJ favor for Erdogan: Trump killing a longstanding case against Turkey's Halkbank for laundering $billions for Iran. h/t Adam Klasfeld bsky.app/profile/klasfe…
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A few months before he passed away in 2003, a 74 year old children’s television host sat down in the same studio where he had filmed 895 episodes over 33 years and recorded one last message. It wasn’t for children. It was for the adults who had grown up watching him.
Fred Rogers hosted Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on American public television from 1968 to 2001. For over three decades he walked into the same set, changed into a cardigan and sneakers, looked directly into the camera, and spoke to children as if each one of them was the only person in the room. He never raised his voice, never talked down to his audience, and never rushed a single moment.
In that final recording, he looked into the camera one last time and said “I’m just so proud of all of you who have grown up with us. And I know how tough it is some days to look with hope and confidence on the months and years ahead. But I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger. I like you just the way you are.”
He passed away from stomach cancer on February 27, 2003. He was 74.
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@AdrienneLaF How is Dave Epstein, aka @growingwisdom, not already on this list? He's the snow obsessive's obsessive.
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Hello people of the internet! Hoping for some collective wisdom here: Who are your most-trusted meteorologists in Boston, New York, Philly, D.C.? I'm trying to understand this absurd snow situation.
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I don't know this for a fact, but I think this is the first time in history that the current FIFA Peace Prize winner became the Undisputed Champion of Coal.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
"Sir, to show our appreciation, the trophy says 'the undisputed champion of beautiful, clean coal'"
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@rkylesmith I don't know; I had this same pet peeve for years then read a column by a lexicographer who gave the whole decimation=10% a big shrug. Language evolves I guess.
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Also as Dylan notes here, this phenomenon isn't limited to the political right in the way the NYT article suggests. This was probably a relatively fragile speech norm all along.
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I think a key clue on why the word "came back" lies in this paragraph: *many* terms once used to refer specifically to clinically-diagnosed intellectual disability are in wide use as ways to call people stupid. People like to have stinging ways of calling people stupid!
dylan@narrenhut
New NYT story on the resurgence of the 'R-word' unfortunately focuses solely on its usage on the right when I think the more interesting question is why it's become popular on the left, coming into common usage among young people who are otherwise quite averse to causing offence
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@crowdsourcing His family has said it's him. archive.is/brRn2
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To the extent that it's relevant at all to the murder investigation, this video casts even more doubt DHS's fantasy that Alex brought his gun on the day he was killed for a massacre, since it wasn't unique for him to carry, and he didn't even attempt to use against agents even after these agents tackled him, let him go and gave him a clear opportunity to shoot them
Steve Guest@SteveGuest
MUST WATCH: Footage of an a man who looks like Alex Pretti with a gun in his waistband, spitting on and attacking federal law enforcement officers and kicking the tail light of their vehicle on January 13. Bombshell report from the BBC. Important context: Pretti was not a peaceful protester.
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@Noahpinion Thought it was just me, and was wondering if I was the outlier. Flew a lot this year. Security lines seemed shorter, had virtually no delays, and love that United lets you change your flight for free after checking in.
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Democracy doesn’t require perfect truth—but it does require something more fragile: independent voices. The “wisdom of crowds” depends on independence between judgments. If a single actor can speak through thousands of inauthentic accounts, the apparent consensus of the crowd stops being informative.
The most dangerous outcome is not a single viral lie—it is synthetic consensus: the illusion that “everyone is saying this,” which can quietly bend beliefs and norms.
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@valerie_reads @SohrabAhmari @ethannadelmann @EJDionne Fair enough, and I went through the same terror. But we know prohibition won't substantially reduce availability. How would it turn back the clock on FrankenWeed? Honest question—I've been searching for ditchweed for years to no avail.
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@SohrabAhmari @ethannadelmann @EJDionne Oh I wish I could go to this. It's terrifying to have a 14-year-old boy who can buy 95% THC pro-psychotics at every deli. The pro-legalization people do not understand the science on young brains, and that it's not the ditchweed we grew up fine with.
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Next month at UPenn: Join me and @ethannadelmann for a debate on marijuana legalization at the federal level.
I take the anti-legalization side, of course, and the great @EJDionne moderates.
Details and registration: collegiuminstitute.org/calendar/legal…
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@Great_Chumpion @MattZeitlin This. Chuckleheads outside PNW may think this is oh-so-drolly-provincial, but the health of the Columbian River salmon stock is a huge issue in WA3. Shocking that "sympathizing with constituents" should comprise brilliant politics in 2025 but here we are.
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@MattZeitlin You say this as a joke but I believe the reason why MGP overpreforms isn't the GOP-friendly votes, but the stuff like this
She listens and goes with her constituents for even hyper local issues, which should be the lesson learned here, not "moderate mindlessly no matter what"
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A common thread among over performing democrats is supporting greater freedom to kill marine life
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez@RepMGP
Southwest Washington has a serious predatory pinniped problem — tens of thousands of massive invasive sea lions are venturing further and further up the Columbia River and its tributaries to gorge on our local salmon. I'm pushing to explore more effective lethal removal options.
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It's hard to imagine a more important conversation in journalism right now.
nxthompson@nxthompson
My read on how A.I. companies view revenue sharing with publishers: - Some just want our businesses to die. - Some don’t want the hassle of dealing with us. - Some want to pay us, but they don’t want to be the only ones. We need to find a way to get all of them on board. It wouldn’t just be the right thing to do—it would be good business. YouTube did this years ago. The platform is now worth half a trillion dollars. I had a riveting chat with @Bill_Gross about how to fix A.I.’s fairness problem. Listen to our full convo here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… Produced by @atlanticrethink, The Atlantic's creative marketing studio, in collaboration with @PwC.
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Lion dance is more than just performance - it's a living tradition of identity, history, and resilience. For over 50 years, Boston's Wah Lum Kung Fu & Wah May Lion Dance Team has brought this art form to life.
@MattCData #liondance #china #festival
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@DamonLinker Exactly. I was outraged—Srsly? Dersh?—then watched the video. RTFA, because these days the summary is almost always gamed for maximum spin.
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I wrote an incredulous post last night in response to this one. The context of Weiss’s invocation of Dershowitz and Loesch is very different than what’s implied here. So I’m going to delete.
Drop Site@DropSiteNews
Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”
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