Amy Goodman did a taping in the small college town I moved to for my first management role. We had three reporters and a few stringers, and one reporter expressed interest ... bad idea (this is the same reporter I had to ban from using spellcheck, as he selected the first option each time, meaning everything was spelled correctly -- essentially a 2004 version of autocorrect where the spelling is impeccable, but the words are wrong ["party with a causal atmosphere" was my first concrete tip that something was going wrong, because his idiolect didn't include "causal"]).

He got back to the office fawning like he'd just met Elvis, and the story he wrote reflected that stance. Honestly one of the tougher pieces I've edited, because he wrote a column, and I had to turn it into a news story. In any other circumstance, I'd have thrown it back to him, but here, there was no guarantee that what came back wouldn't be worse than the first draft.

I am somewhat disappointed that the advertised Part 2 of the Doctorow interview isn't available yet.

Reduce, substitute, avoid

Everyone here is already doing it. If only we could get the millions on all the shit platforms to do the same.

I’m listening to the book now, about halfway through. If you’ve been on places like Lemmy or Reddit the past several years you’ve likely heard most of the anecdotes he presents to support his claims, but there’s some new ones I hadn’t heard that are interesting.

Didn't know about the Google McKinsey guy, wow. How long do we have to suffer until things change...?

"Bleepification" because the FCC. We live in Afghanistan apparently.