We can't frame questions around how AI will impact the journalism industry. It needs to be framed around how executives at the helm of major news organizations continue to make awful decisions that do not serve readers despite union pushback.

Much respect to bicyclists

The Onion and GMG Unions are saddened to report that our colleagues at Gizmodo Español, a site that once housed original, quality Spanish-language reporting, have been replaced en masse by an AI translation service.

Great piece from Hannah Weinberger ([email protected])

invw.org/2023/08/31/ami…

*bleeding out on a hill* “it’s pronounced REE-SEES PEE-SEES not REE-SEZ PEE-SEZ”

RIP to an all star

Men will literally put the entire future of the planet in the hands of electric car manufacturers instead of demanding a nice little walk to the grocery store

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It’s hard to appreciate how big Smashmouth was 20-25 years ago. “All Star” was used as a needle drop in four major movies in two years, and every time people lost their shit.

For the first time in ~a decade, Bethesda-Heads will instinctively recede from society to process a new realm, from which they’ll emerge in deep winter for food. Don’t approach from behind as they complete this demanding and inexplicable stage of their life cycle. #Starfield

Please reach out to all of your Bethesda-head friends and let them know you want to catch up before they go MIA for the next few months playing Starfield

Relatedly, this is what incarcerated firefighters are facing on the job: crosscut.com/investigations…

TYSM Dr. Samantha Montano and Walter Hickey for including our piece about wildland firefighter respiratory safety in your newsletters this week!
1. Disasterology, about all things disaster: disasterology.substack.com/p/disasterolog…
2. Numlock, a newsletter about numbers in the news: numlock.com/p/numlock-news…

5 years ago we had the mayor bike to school with my 6 year old and within the first :30 seconds they were almost hit by a driver on live TV. Every leader should be required to ride a bike (if able) with a 6 year old before they provide any insight/direction on bike infrastructure

. Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources’s state forester, who I spoke with for this piece:

Me and who