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New update from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition striving to with civilian ship break Israel's illegal siege against the population of the Gaza Strip of Palestine
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We are setting sail again. On July 13, 2025 our boat 'Handala' will depart from Siracusa, Italy to break Israelâs illegal blockade. This mission is for the children of Gaza.
Just weeks ago, Israeli forces illegally seized our boat 'Madleen' and abducted 12 unarmed civilians aboard her in international waters.
Since March, more than 6,572 Palestinians have been killed, over 23,000 injured, and hundreds shot while waiting for food. The children of Gaza now face famine, disease, and trauma few of us can imagine.
We are not governments. We are people taking action where institutions have failed. We are not backing down. đ”đž
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Freedom Flotilla Coalition
New update just now from the Freedom FLotilla:
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From less than 100 nautical miles off Gazaâs coast, Tan and Robert launched a hunger strike aboard the Handala. They participated in this action because the Australian government is complicit in Israelâs genocide and itâs time to demanded accountability.
âAs âAustralians,â we refuse to stay silent while our government arms Israelâs slaughter of Palestinians.â
They join 17 others in this collective action at sea.
Read their full letter.
Take escalated action for Gaza.
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New update from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition:
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The Freedom Flotilla Coalition confirms that upon arrival in Israeli custody, U.S. human rights defender Christian Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals. They choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back.
When his lawyer met with him, Christian was surrounded by six members of Israelâs special police unit. This level of force was not used against other abducted activists.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition condemns this violence against Chris and demands accountability for the assault and discriminatory treatment he faced.
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This, but also fascists being violently anti-trade-unionist, which to be fair is old news too. They are clearly trying to make an example to scare other solidaric union activists, but hopefully, like most of what the temporary zionist entity/death machine are doing in this year it will backfire magnificently
It is just a subconscious thing, I believe, that when people see "old" it automatically interprets it as at least partially "normal", while this can of course never be accepted as normal, by or unto anyone.
What is the flag of Handala? Denmark?
Then Israel committed a war act against Denmark by illegally boarding and stopping its vessel deep deep in international waters.
Whatever country's flag that was, it is being silent and quiet, instead of confiscating every Israeli asset and calling up its ambassador for apologies and reparations.
A vessel carrying a country's flag is a sovereign part of that state.
I accuse: I oppose Israel's war and occupation. Now, Israel's parliament is trying to expel me
I am accused of 'supporting terrorism' for advocating for peace. But the real terror supporters sit in the Netanyahu government, waging a war of annihilation in Gaza legitimized by the international community and by President TrumpAyman Odeh (Haaretz)
I'm about to start rebuilding my Mastodon server from the ground up. This is going to take a while and darkmoon.social will be down for the duration.
See y'all on the other side!
okay today i intend to accomplish 2 things with this box:
dyndns script
akkoma fe for mastodon
I wouldn't count on that working. The API difference are rather large now. And I don't think non Pleroma/Akkoma fallbacks are properly implemented.
El PaĂs:
«Otro error del juez Peinado aboca al archivo de la causa contra la supuesta secta de los âcriptobrosâ de IM Academy»
Otro de esos "errores" que no sorprenden a nadie. La sorpresa monumental serĂĄ el dĂa que tengan un "error" que beneficie acun polĂtico de izquierdas, a un sindicalista, a una familia en situaciĂłn precaria... eso sĂ que me sorprenderĂa si llegase a suceder algĂșn dĂa.
You Are in a Box
Link: jyn.dev/you-are-in-a-box/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4âŠ
you are in a box
your data is trapped inside the box that is your program. you can only see what the program author exposes.jyn.dev
How Trump plans to dismantle the Education Department after Supreme Court ruling
https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-department-scotus-layoffs-student-loans-f24637f2a1d57432f6dc24d082e95b9b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-AssociatedPress
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eksegersi.gr/diethni/oi-papadeâŠ
ÎÎč ÏαÏÎŹÎŽÎ”Ï ÏλÏΜ ÏÏΜ ÏÏÎčÏÏÎčαΜÎčÎșÏΜ ÎŽÎżÎłÎŒÎŹÏÏΜ ÎșαÏαγγÎÎ»Î»ÎżÏ Îœ ÏηΜ ΔγÎșληΌαÏÎčÎșÎź ÎŽÏÎŹÏη ÏÏΜ ÏÎčÏΜαζÎčÏÏÏΜ ÏÏηΜ ΀ΏÎčÎŒÏΔ ÏÎ·Ï ÎÏ ÏÎčÎșÎźÏ ÎÏΞηÏ
14 ÎÎżÏλ 2025, 06:56 - H TÎŹÎčÎŒÏΔ Î”ÎŻÎœÎ±Îč ÎΜα ÏαλαÎčÏÏÎčΜÎčαÎșÏ ÏÏÏÎčÏ ÎŒÎ” 1.340 ÎșαÏοίÎșÎżÏ Ï (αÏογÏαÏÎź 2017). ÎÏÎŻÏÎșΔÏαÎč ÏÏη ÎÏ ÏÎčÎșÎź ÎÏΞη, 15 ÏÎčλÎčÏΌΔÏÏα ÎČÎżÏΔÎčÎżÎ±ÎœÎ±ÏολÎčÎșÎŹ ÏÎ·Ï ÎΔÏÎżÏ ÏÎ±Î»ÎźÎŒ ÎșαÎč 12 ÏÎčλÎčÏΌΔÏÏα ÎČÎżÏΔÎčÎżÎ±ÎœÎ±ÏολÎčÎșÎŹ ÏÎ·Ï ÎĄÎ±ÎŒÎŹÎ»Î±.Eksegersi.gr (ÎÏηΌΔÏίΎα ÎÏΜÏÏα | Eksegersi.gr)
Adams Blasts Cuomo's Latest Decision in the NYC Mayoral Race
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent in the mayoral race, blasted Andrew Cuomo for...Leah Barkoukis (Townhall)
Pray for President Trump...some of the MAGA folks have to just shut up...or we will think they are merely pretenders...
declassified.live/p/how-the-epâŠ
How the Epstein Debacle Has Overshadowed Historic Success at the DOJ
The hollowing out of the 100,000+ workforce of the Department of Justice is drowned out by a cacophony of discord, demands, and empty promises over the "Epstein files."Julie Kelly (Declassified with Julie Kelly)
Spurs' Victor Wembanyama says he's been cleared to return following blood clot
https://apnews.com/article/victor-wembanyama-spurs-blood-clots-82964b7bb7e512c9e0666e310d876287?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Sports @sports-AssociatedPress
Russia Blasts Axios Iran Story as âDirty Ployâ
Russiaâs Foreign Ministry stated today that a story run by the news outlet [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2025/07/12/putin-iran-nuclear-deal-uranium-enrichment)ââScoop: Putin Urges Iran To Take âZero Enrichmentâ Nuclear Deal with U.S.Carl Osgood (EIR News)
Building Modular Rails Applications: A Deep Dive into Rails Engines
Link: panasiti.me/blog/modular-railsâŠ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4âŠ
Building Modular Rails Applications: A Deep Dive into Rails Engines Through Active Storage Dashboard | Giovanni Panasiti - Personal Website and Blog
Iâve been building Rails applications for the last 10 years on a daily base and almost all of them use active storage now. Users are uploading files and then...www.panasiti.me
x264 AV1 file, vlc and mpv on debian 12.11, problems to play it, what to do?
the x264 av1 file plays only audio on vlc but works with flaws on mpv: on mpv I get audio and video, but every 5 to 6 seconds it's like instead of getting 24 fps I get 22, the user noticing the missing frames.
Is this a hardware issue? software?
debian 12.11, vlc 3.0.21 flatpak, mpv 0.40.0 flatpak
what do I do?
Check using e.g. top
for your CPU (nvidia-smi
or amd-smi
for your GPU) or System Monitor on KDE if any of your resource is being maxed out. If so then most likely you found the culprit.
Regarding what the actual codec is being used you can use ffprobe
but anyway what matters if resource bottleneck and thus if you can have hardware acceleration for it.
It's probably worth investigating so that you don't keep on getting video files too big for your computer to handle. I imagine it's something very high resolution with very recent compression. If so, look for something less demanding, e.g. x265 720p and if that's still leading to performance hiccups the older x264 720p or even 480p.
It's rate that the media player itself, e.g. VLC or mpv, actually is the bottleneck.
Judge orders LA prosecutors to explain why Menendez brothers' conviction shouldn't be re-examined
https://apnews.com/article/menendez-brothers-murder-evidence-trial-aca7289952e2c49dd71f56d15ebc0eb7?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress
What do you wear while sleeping?
- Onesie (0%, 0 votes)
- Pyjamas (34%, 16 votes)
- Nightgown (8%, 4 votes)
- Shirt (26%, 12 votes)
- Underwear (41%, 19 votes)
- Nothing (26%, 12 votes)
- Socks only (wtf is wrong with you) (2%, 1 vote)
In order to protect a dying fossil fuel industry, the corrupt fascists in the US are doing grave harm to their own constituents, the economy, and the future of the country.
Note how the American version of oligarchic democracy fails: many people say that they despised both Trump and Biden.
youtube.com/watch?v=PlCjdqo-kOâŠ
He Voted For Trump. It Cost Him His Job
In Maine, trades workers are facing catastrophic layoffs.Why? Trump has cancelled hundreds of billions of dollars for clean energy projects to pay for tax cu...YouTube
Discussing the Five Eyes attempt to remove DJT. When DJT says, "we have it all," he means just that! Also relevant EO 13848.
Exec Order 13848âImposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election - Dec 12, 2018
presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/âŠ
Important to listen to all of this podcast, however, be sure to listen at approx 1:00:00 to listen about the Five Eyes collusion to take out DJT.
DECLAS with Burn Notice , Dave and Rambo
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DECLAS with Burn Notice, Dave and Rambo.
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Book review: The Naked Brewer: Fearless Homebrewing Tips, Tricks & Rule-breaking Recipes - Christina Perozzi & Hallie Beaune
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goodreads.com/review/show/5243âŠ
#bookreview #bookstodon #homebrew #homebrewing
Ramon van Dam's review of The Naked Brewer
3/5: This book is primarily a collection of a couple dozen homebrew recipes, with little else to offer. Given the title, I expected more in the way of tips, techniques, or brewing insights, but the brief explanatory sections lacked some depth.www.goodreads.com
@baskin@kafeneio.social@antones@kafeneio.social
gifs? no!
mkdir normalized_video
for f in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -y -i "$f" -vf "scale='if(gt(a,1),1024,-1)':'if(gt(a,1),-1,1024)',pad=1024:1024:(1024-iw)/2:(1024-ih)/2" -c:v libx264 -preset fast -crf 18 -c:a aac -b:a 128k "normalized_video/${f%.*}_normalized.mp4"; done
#then
cd normalized_video
for f in *.mp4; do echo "file '$f'" >> concat_list.txt; done
ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i concat_list.txt \ -vf fps=30 \ -c:v libx264 -preset fast -crf 18 \ -c:a aac -b:a 128k output_combined.mp4
Poet Andrea Gibson, candid explorer of life, death and politics, dies at 49
https://apnews.com/article/andrea-gibson-died-49-cancer-documentary-7fd829ad0acee18fe76614f9f1fdeae5?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Entertainment @entertainment-AssociatedPress
Homeland Security is removing protections that kept some Afghans from deportation
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-temporary-protected-status-expiration-bbecaa4ec919e2626fb88d9fc04b3292?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-AssociatedPress
Concentration camps and expulsion: Gaza is the laboratory of a privatized genocide - Réseau International
By Manu Pineda. Under the guise of food distribution, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation serves the Israeli project of transforming Gaza into a 21st-century archipelago of concentration camps.Réseau International
What's the deal with converting all the efficient pairs of one-way streets into two-way?!
In my town, all the 4+ lane one-ways are being converted to single-lane two-ways + bus-only lanes and bike lanes. I cycle a shiitload downtown, and this is fucking retarded. I'm less safe on my bike, and god forbid a car needs to turn: that one auto lane is now backed up.
I've assumed that this is all dipshit bureaucratic social engineering. They are ashamed of cars. Am I wrong?
But Israel will never see millions of millions of people to support its cause, because this cause is obviously against the oppressed people of the world. Israel's destiny is decomposition and dissolution.
All the bottom people of the world for a #freepalestine.
A terrorist entity like the zionist will never have the support of millions of bottom people. It's time for the bottom people to face the reality and turn against their authorities who support the colonial capitalist system to end this exploitive system. todon.eu/@dbattistella/1146599âŠ
Ps Know your enemy. mastodon.social/@SecoasecasMouâŠ
#classwar
SecoasecasMouse (@SecoasecasMouse@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 video Una multitud toma ParĂs exigiendo el fin del genocidio en Gaza.Mastodon
On the link you can see dozens of "professional failures" of zionazi army.
todon.nl/@prolrage/11126029629âŠ
#gazagenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #idf_babykillers #IOFLies
Say no to the whitewash of #warcrimes.
"We, the presidents of Gazaâs three non-profit universitiesâ Al-Aqsa University, Al-Azhar University-Gaza, and the Islamic University of Gaza â together accounting for the vast majority of Gazaâs students and faculty members, issue this unified statement to the international academic community at a time of unprecedented devastation of higher education in Gaza."
aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/âŠ
@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #education #academia
An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities
Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist.Ayman Sobh (Al Jazeera)
icewm running on wayback no Xserver
vtwm jwm lxde all tried on wayback
% wayback-session icewm-session
4th image to the right
sourceforge.net/projects/joborâŠ
#joborun #wayback #wayland #labwc #cage #xserver #xorg #wlroots #icewm
joborun linux
Download joborun linux for free. Like Arch built from ground up with runit. Arch as it was meant to be, simple, fast, secure, cutting edge - without the systemd labyrinth to choke it Utilizing runit (default) init and service supervisionâŠSourceForge
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This came at a cost, we had a batch of upgrades all related to a major perl upgrade, I was supposed to wait for perl to leave testing and go to stable before I synced, I copied the file into the sync directory to upload the bg didn't think that ALL the pkgs being upgraded were removed from the directory, so 1 bg up 15 files deleted đ
So I just went ahead and did the full upgrade, we are now all caught up with testing đ
Ohh... well ... at least we are not behind, we are ahead. Let's hope nothing breaks. If it does activate extra-testing and will all be OK again
Woofff... wooff ...
Thank you for the bg. I like dark backgrounds too for all the same reasons. It looks great with openbox and lxpanel setup.
so 1 bg up 15 files deleted đ
Yikes! Sorry about that. Salt on the wound: I just found the bg in the ~.config/setXbg file (with a curl command).
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Hydrocarbon lake and methane rain clouds on Titan
Jenny McElligott/eMITS
NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturnâs moon Titan.
Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface. However, Titanâs lakes and seas are not filled with water. Instead, they contain liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane.
On Earth, liquid water is thought to have been essential for the origin of life as we know it. Many astrobiologists have wondered whether Titanâs liquids could also provide an environment for the formation of the molecules required for life â either as we know it or perhaps as we donât know it â to take hold there.
New NASA research, published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, outlines a process by which stable vesicles might form on Titan, based on our current knowledge of the moonâs atmosphere and chemistry. The formation of such compartments is an important step in making the precursors of living cells (or protocells).
The process involves molecules called amphiphiles, which can self-organize into vesicles under the right conditions. On Earth, these polar molecules have two parts, a hydrophobic (water-fearing) end and a hydrophilic (water-loving) end. When they are in water, groups of these molecules can bunch together and form ball-like spheres, like soap bubbles, where the hydrophilic part of the molecule faces outward to interact with the water, thereby âprotectingâ the hydrophobic part on the inside of the sphere. Under the right conditions, two layers can form creating a cell-like ball with a bilayer membrane that encapsulates a pocket of water on the inside.
When considering vesicle formation on Titan, however, the researchers had to take into account an environment vastly different from the early Earth.
Uncovering Conditions on Titan
Huygens captured this aerial view of Titan from an altitude of 33,000 feet.
ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Titan is Saturnâs largest moon and the second largest in our solar system. Titan is also the only moon in our solar system with a substantial atmosphere.
The hazy, golden atmosphere of Titan kept the moon shrouded in mystery for much of human history. However, when NASAâs Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, our views of Titan changed forever.
Thanks to Cassini, we now know Titan has a complex meteorological cycle that actively influences the surface today. Most of Titanâs atmosphere is nitrogen, but there is also a significant amount of methane (CH4). This methane forms clouds and rain, which falls to the surface to cause erosion and river channels, filling up the lakes and seas. This liquid then evaporates in sunlight to form clouds once again.
This atmospheric activity also allows for complex chemistry to happen. Energy from the Sun breaks apart molecules like methane, and the pieces then reform into complex organic molecules. Many astrobiologists believe that this chemistry could teach us how the molecules necessary for the origin of life formed and evolved on the early Earth.
Building Vesicles on Titan
The new study considered how vesicles might form in the freezing conditions of Titanâs hydrocarbon lakes and seas by focusing on sea-spray droplets, thrown upwards by splashing raindrops. On Titan, both spray droplets and the sea surface could be coated in layers of amphiphiles. If a droplet then lands on the surface of a pond, the two layers of amphiphiles meet to form a double-layered (or bilayer) vesicle, enclosing the original droplet. Over time, many of these vesicles would be dispersed throughout the pond and would interact and compete in an evolutionary process that could lead to primitive protocells.
If the proposed pathway is happening, it would increase our understanding of the conditions in which life might be able to form.
âThe existence of any vesicles on Titan would demonstrate an increase in order and complexity, which are conditions necessary for the origin of life,â explains Conor Nixon of NASAâs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. âWeâre excited about these new ideas because they can open up new directions in Titan research and may change how we search for life on Titan in the future.â
NASAâs first mission to Titan is the upcoming Dragonfly rotorcraft, which will explore the surface of the Saturnian moon. While Titanâs lakes and seas are not a destination for Dragonfly (and the mission wonât carry the light-scattering instrument required to detect such vesicles), the mission will fly from location to location to study the moonâs surface composition, make atmospheric and geophysical measurements, and characterize the habitability of Titanâs environment.
News Media Contacts
Karen Fox / Molly Wasser
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
karen.c.fox@nasa.gov / molly.l.wasser@nasa.gov
Microsoft will not develop better software but better tools to fix the software before booting đ€đ«đ
Source: blogs.windows.com/windows-insiâŠ
Introducing quick machine #recoveryQuick machine recovery, a #feature introduced as part of the #Windows #Resiliency Initiative at Ignite 2024 â is available for Windows Insiders in the Canary Channel. When enabled, it automatically detects and fixes widespread issues on #Windows11 devices using the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). This reduces downtime and avoids the need for manual fixes. If a device experiences a widespread #boot issue, it enters #WinRE, connects to the internet, and #Microsoft can deliver a targeted fix through Windows #Update.
Next step is a tool to fix the tool you need to boot đ
#Software #os #bug #fix #Problem #vulnerability #future #news #tool #omg #wtf #bigtech #quality #development
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27898 (Canary Channel)
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27898 to the Canary Channel. We are also not planning to release SDKs for 27xxx series builds for the time being. WhatâsWindows Insider Blog
Does this mean that in addition to the automatic updates, these announcements are now also coming?
Please wait, WinRE is repairing your system.
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"The truth of the matter is that Israeli leaders have been pushing genocidal advocacy for many years. The genocidal thinking has always been a part of the Zionist project in one way or another, fueled by its settler-colonial logic of elimination. But these genocidal tendencies have often had to be balanced with a semblance of democracy, just like in the case of its apartheid.
But now, Israel seems to have unleashed itself from such constraints to a much greater degree. It appears that Israel no longer sees the need to put on the perfume of democracy."
mondoweiss.net/2025/07/poll-ovâŠ
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Zionism #Genocide #HumanRights
Poll: Overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis share genocidal belief there are âno innocent people in
A Hebrew University poll shows an overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis agree with the genocidal idea that there are âno innocents in Gaza.âAdam Horowitz (Mondoweiss)
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Intel bombshell: Chipmaker will lay off 2,400 Oregon workers
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This silliness is very age-appropriate, and also very incorrect. He glimpses the reality, but doesn't grasp it.
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David Collier is a zionist thug who should be nowhere near BBC policy decisions.
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The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
On May 23, we got a very interesting email from Ghost, the service we use to make 404 Media. âPaid subscription started,â the email said, which is the subject line of all of the automated emails we get when someone subscribes to 404 Media. The interesting thing about this email was that the new subscriber had been referred to 404 Media directly from chatgpt.com, meaning the person clicked a link to 404 Media from within a ChatGPT window. It is the first and only time that ChatGPT has ever sent us a paid subscriber.
From what I can tell, ChatGPT.com has sent us 1,600 pageviews since we founded 404 Media nearly two years ago. To give you a sense of where this slots in, this is slightly fewer than the Czech news aggregator novinky.cz, the Hungarian news portal Telex.hu, the Polish news aggregator Wykop.pl, and barely more than the Russian news aggregator Dzen.ru, the paywall jumping website removepaywall.com, and a computer graphics job board called 80.lv. In that same time, Google has sent roughly 3 million visitors, or 187,400 percent more than ChatGPT.
This is really neither here nor there because we have tried to set our website up to block ChatGPT from scraping us, though it is clear this is not always working. But even for sites that donât block ChatGPT, new research from the internet infrastructure company CloudFlare suggests that OpenAI is crawling 1,500 individual webpages for every one visitor that it is sending to a website. Google traffic has begun to dry up as both Googleâs own AI snippets and AI-powered SEO spam have obliterated the business models of many media websites.
This general dynamicâplummeting traffic because of AI snippets, ChatGPT, AI slop, Twitter no workie so good no moreâhas been called the âtraffic apocalypseâ and has all but killed some smaller websites and has been blamed by executives for hundreds of layoffs at larger ones.
Despite the fact that generative AI has been a destructive force against their businesses, their industry, and the truth more broadly, media executives still see AI as a business opportunity and a shiny object that they can tell investors and their staffs that they are very bullish on. They have to say this, I guess, because everything else they have tried hasnât worked, and pretending that they are forward thinking or have any clue what they are doing will perhaps allow a specific type of media executive to squeeze out a few more months of salary.
But pivoting to AI is not a business strategy. Telling journalists they must use AI is not a business strategy. Partnering with AI companies is a business move, but becoming reliant on revenue from tech giants who are creating a machine that duplicates the work youâve already created is not a smart or sustainable business move, and therefore it is not a smart business strategy. It is true that AI is changing the internet and is threatening journalists and media outlets. But the only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense whatsoever is one where media companies and journalists go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings, and that the work they are doing is worth supporting because it is human work that is vital to their audiences. This is something GQâs editorial director Will Welch recently told New York magazine: âThe good news for any digital publisher is that the new game we all have to play is also a sustainable one: You have to build a direct relationship with your core readers,â he said.
Becoming an âAI-firstâ media company has become a buzzword that execs can point at to explain that their businesses can use AI to become more âefficientâ and thus have a chance to become more profitable. Often, but not always, this message comes from executives who are laying off large swaths of their human staff.
In May, Business Insider laid off 21 percent of its workforce. In her layoff letter, Business Insiderâs CEO Barbara Peng said âthereâs a huge opportunity for companies who harness AI first.â She told the remaining employees there that they are âfully embracing AI,â âwe are going all-in on AI,â and said âover 70 percent of Business Insider employees are already using Enterprise ChatGPT regularly (our goal is 100%), and weâre building prompt libraries and sharing everyday use cases that help us work faster, smarter, and better.â She added they are âexploring how AI can boost operations across shared services, helping us scale and operate more efficiently.â
Last year, Hearst Newspapers executives, who operate 78 newspapers nationwide, told the company in an all-hands meeting audio obtained by 404 Media that they are âleaning into [AI] as Hearst overall, the entire corporation.â Examples given in the meeting included using AI for slide decks, a âquiz generation toolâ for readers, translations, a tool called Dispatch, which is an email summarization tool, and a tool called âAssembly,â which is âbasically a public meeting monitor, transcriber, summarizer, all in one. What it does is it goes into publicly posted meeting videos online, transcribes them automatically, [and] automatically alerts journalists through Slack about whatâs going on and links to the transcript.â
The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times are doing all sorts of fucked up shit that definitely no one wants but are being imposed upon their newsrooms because they are owned by tech billionaires who are tired of losing money. The Washington Post has an AI chatbot and plans to create a Forbes contributor-esque opinion section with an AI writing tool that will assist outside writers. The Los Angeles Times introduced an AI bot that argues with its own writers and has written that the KKK was not so bad, actually. Both outlets have had massive layoffs in recent months.
The New York Times, which is actually doing well, says it is using AI to âcreate initial drafts of headlines, summaries of Times articles and other text that helps us produce and distribute the news.â Wirecutter is hiring a product director for AI and recently instructed its employees to consider how they can use AI to make their journalism better, New York magazine reported. Kevin Roose, an, uhh, complicated figure in the AI space, said âAI has essentially replaced Google for me for basic questions,â and said that he uses it for âbrainstorming.â His Hard Fork colleague Casey Newton said he uses it for âresearchâ and âfact-checking.â
Over at Columbia Journalism Review, a host of journalists and news execs, myself included, wrote about how AI is used in their newsrooms. The responses were all over the place and were occasionally horrifying, and ranged from people saying they were using AI as personal assistants to brainstorming partners to article drafters.
In his largely incoherent screed that shows how terrible he was at managing G/O Media, which took over Deadspin, Kotaku, Jezebel, Gizmodo, and other beloved websites and ran them into the ground at varying speeds, Jim Spanfeller nods at the âboth good and perhaps badâ impacts of AI on news. In a truly astounding passage of a notably poorly written letter that manages to say less than nothing, he wrote: âAI is a prime example. It is here to a degree but there are so many more shoes to drop [...] Clearly this technology is already having a profound impact. But so much more is yet to come, both good and perhaps bad depending on where you sit and how well monitored and controlled it is. But one thing to keep in mind, consumers seek out content for many reasons. Certainly, for specific knowledge, which search and search like models satisfy in very effective ways. But also, for insights, enjoyment, entertainment and inspiration.â
At the MediaPost Publishing Insider Conference, a media industry business conference I just went to in New Orleans, there was much chatter about AI. Alice Ting, an executive for the Daily Mail gave a pretty interesting talk about how the Daily Mail is protecting its journalism from AI scrapers in order to eventually strike deals with AI companies to license their content.
âWhat many of you have seen is a surge in scraping of our content, a decline in traffic referrals, and an increase in hallucinated outputs that often misrepresent our brands,â Ting said. âPublishers can provide decades of vetted and timestamped content, verified, fact checked, semantically organized, editorially curated. And in addition offer fresh content on an almost daily basis.â
Ting is correct in that several publishers have struck lucrative deals with AI companies, but she also suggested that AI licensing would be a recurring revenue stream for publishers, which would require a series of competing LLMs to want to come in and license the same content over and over again. Many LLMs have already scraped almost everything there is to scrape, itâs not clear that there are going to consistently be new LLMs from companies wanting to pay to train on data that other LLMs have already trained on, and itâs not clear how much money the Daily Mailâs blogs of the day are going to be worth to an AI company on an ongoing basis. Betting that this time, hinging the future of our industry on massive, monopolistic tech giants will work out is the most Lucy with the football thing I can imagine.
There is not much evidence that selling access to LLMs will work out in a recurring way for any publisher, outside of the very largest publishers like, perhaps, the New York Times. Even at the conference, panel moderator Upneet Grover, founder of LH2 Holdings, which owns several smaller blogs, suggested that âa lot of these licensing revenues are not moving the needle, at least from the deals weâve seen, but thereâs this larger threat of more referral traffic being taken away from news publishers [by AI].â
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In my own panel at the conference I made the general argument that I am making in this article, which is that none of this is going to work.
âWeâre not just competing against large-scale publications and AI slop, we are competing against the entire rest of the internet. We were publishing articles and AI was scraping and republishing them within five minutes of us publishing them,â I said. âSo many publications are leaning into âhow can we use AI to be more efficient to publish more,â and itâs not going to work. Itâs not going to work because youâre competing against a child in Romania, a child in Bangladesh who is publishing 9,000 articles a day and they donât care about facts, they donât care about accuracy, but in an SEO algorithm itâs going to perform and thatâs what youâre competing against. You have to compete on quality at this point and you have to find a real human being audience and you need to speak to them directly and treat them as though they are intelligent and not as though you are trying to feed them as much slop as possible.â
It makes sense that journalists and media execs are talking about AI because everyone is talking about AI, and because AI presents a particularly grave threat to the business models of so many media companies. Itâs fine to continue to talk about AI. But the point of this article is that âweâre going to lean into AIâ is not a business model, and itâs not even a business strategy, any more than pivoting to âvideoâ was a strategy or chasing Facebook Live views was a strategy.
In a harrowing discussion with Axios, in which he excoriates many of the deals publishers have signed with OpenAI and other AI companies, Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare, said that the AI-driven traffic apocalypse is a nightmare for people who make content online: âIf we donât figure out how to fix this, the internet is going to die,â he said.
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So AI is destroying traffic, ripping off our work, creating slop that destroys discoverability and further undermines trust, and allowing random people to create news-shaped objects that social media and search algorithms either canât or donât care to distinguish from real news. And yet media executives have decided that the only way to compete with this is to make their workers use AI to make content in a slightly more efficient way than they were already doing journalism.
This is not going to work, because âusing AIâ is not a reporting strategy or a writing strategy, and itâs definitely not a business strategy.
AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they âneedâ to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other failed business models.
The only journalism business strategy that works, and that will ever work in a sustainable way, is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else. This can mean youâre breaking news, or it can mean that you have a particularly notable voice or personality. It can mean that youâre funny or irreverent or deeply serious or useful. It can mean that you confirm peopleâs priors in a way that makes them feel good. And you have to be trustworthy, to your audience at least. But basically, to make money doing journalism, you have to publish âcontent,â relatively often, that people want to consume.
This is not rocket science, and I am of course not the only person to point this out. There have been many, many features about the success of Feed Me, Emily Sundbergâs newsletter about New York, culture, and a bunch of other stuff. As she has pointed out in many interviews, she has been successful because she writes about interesting things and treats her audience like human beings. The places that are succeeding right now are individual writers who have a perspective, news outlets like WIRED that are fearless, publications that have invested in good reporters like The Atlantic, publications that tell you something that AI canât, and worker owned, journalist-run outlets like us, Defector, Aftermath, Hellgate, Remap, Hearing Things, etc. There are also a host of personality-forward, journalism-adjacent YouTubers, TikTok influencers, and podcasters who have massive, loyal audiences, yet most of the traditional media is utterly allergic to learning anything from them.
There was a short period of time where it was possible to make money by paying human writersâsome of them journalists, perhapsâto spam blog posts onto the internet that hit specific keywords, trending topics, or things that would perform well on social media. These were the early days of Gawker, Buzzfeed, VICE, and Vox. But the days of media companies tricking people into reading their articles using SEO or hitting a trending algorithm are over.
They are over because other people are doing it better than them now, and by âbetter,â I mean, more shamelessly and with reckless abandon. As we have written many times, news outlets are no longer just competing with each other, but with everyone on social media, and Netflix, and YouTube, and TikTok, and all the other people who post things on the internet. They are not just up against the total fracturing of social media, the degrading and enshittification of the discovery mechanisms on the internet, algorithms that artificially ding links to articles, AI snippets and summaries, etc. They are also competing with sophisticated AI slop and spam factories often being run by people on the other side of the world publishing things that look like ânewsâ that is being created on a scale that even the most âefficientâ journalist leveraging AI to save some perhaps negligible amount of time cannot ever hope to measure up to.
Every day, I get emails from AI spam influencers who are selling tools that allow slop peddlers to clone any website with one click, automatically generate newsletters about any topic, or generate plausible-seeming articles that are engineered to perform well in a search algorithm. Examples: âClone any website in 9 seconds with Clonely AI,â âThe future of video creation is hereâand itâs faceless, seamless & limitless,â âjust a straightforward path to earning 6-figures with an AI-powered newsletter thatâs working right now.â These people do not care at all about truth or accuracy or our information ecosystem or anything else that a media company or a journalist would theoretically care about. If you want an example of what this looks like, consider the series of âGood Dayâ newsletters, which are AI generated and are in 355 small towns across America, many of which no longer have newspapers. These businesses are economically viable because they are being run by one person (or a very small team of people) who disproportionately live in low cost of living areas and who have essentially zero overhead.
And so becoming more âefficientâ with AI is the wrong thing to do, and itâs the wrong thing to ask any journalist to do. The only thing that media companies can do in order to survive is to lean into their humanity, to teach their journalists how to do stories that cannot be done by AI, and to help young journalists learn the skills needed to do articles that weave together complicated concepts and, again, that focus on our shared human experience, in a way that AI cannot and will never be able to.
AI as buzzword and shiny object has been here for a long time. And I actually do not think AI is fake and sucks (I also donât really believe that anyone thinks AI is âfake,â because we can see the internet collapsing around us). We report every day on the ways that AI is changing the web, in part because it is being shoved down our throats by big tech companies, spammers, etc. But I think that Princetonâs Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor are basically correct when they say that AI is ânormal technologyâ that will not change everything but that over time will lead to modest improvements in peopleâs workflows as they get integrated into existing products or as they help around the edges. Weâyes, even youâare using some version of AI, or some tools that have LLMs or machine learning in them in some way shape or form already, even if you hate such tools.
In early 2023, when I was the editor-in-chief of Motherboard, I was asked to put together a presentation for VICE executives about AI, and how I thought it would change both our journalism and the business of journalism. The reason I was asked to do this was because our team was writing a lot about AI, and there was a sense that the company could do something with AI to make money, or do better journalism, or some combination of those things. There was no sense or thought at the time, at least from what I was told, that VICE was planning to use AI as a pretext for replacing human journalists or cutting costsâit had already entered a cycle where it was constantly laying off journalistsâbut there was a sense that this was going to be the big new opportunity/threat, a new potential savior for a company that had already created a âvirtual officeâ in Decentraland, a crypto-powered metaverse that last year had 42 daily active users.
I never got to give the presentation, because the executive who asked me to put it together left the company, and the new people either didnât care or didnât have time for me to give it. The company went bankrupt almost immediately after this change, and I left VICE soon after to make 404 Media with my co-founders, who also left VICE.
But my message at the time, and my message now two years later, is that AI has already changed our world, and that we have the opportunity to report on the technology as it already exists and is already being usedâto justify layoffs, to dehumanize people, to spam the internet, etc. At the time, we had already written 840 articles that were tagged âAI,â which included articles about biased sentencing algorithms, predictive policing, facial recognition, deepfakes, AI romantic relationships, AI-powered spam and scams, etc.
The business opportunity then, as now, was to be an indispensable, very human guide to a technology that peopleâhuman beingsâare making tons of money off of, using as an excuse to lay off workers, and are doing wild shit with. There was no magic strategy in which we could use AI to quadruple our output, replace workers, rise to the top of Google rankings, etc. There was, however, great risk in attempting to do this: âPR NIGHTMARE,â one of my slides about the risks of using AI I wrote said: âCNET plagiarism scandal. Big backlash from artists and writers to generative AI. Copyright issues. Race to the bottom.â
My other thought was that any efficiencies that could be squeezed out of AI, in our day-to-day jobs, were already being done so by good reporters and video producers at the company. There could be no top-down forced pivot to AI, because research and time-saving uses of AI were already being naturally integrated into our work by people who were smart in ways that were totally reasonable and mostly helpful, if not groundbreaking. The AI-as-force-multiplier was already happening, and while, yes, this probably helped the business in some way, it helped in ways that were not then and were never going to be actually perceptible to a companyâs bottom line. AI was not a savior then, and it is not a savior now. For journalists and for media companies, there is no real âpivot to AIâ that is possible unless that pivot means firing all of the employees and putting out a shittier product (which some companies have called a strategy). This is because the pivot has already occurred and the business prospects for media companies have gotten worse, not better. If Kevin Roose is using AI so much, in such a new and groundbreaking way, why arenât his articles noticeably different than they ever were before, or why arenât there way more of them than there were before? Where are the journalists who were formerly middling who are now pumping out incredible articles thanks to efficiencies granted by AI?
To be concrete: Many journalists, including me, at least sometimes use some sort of AI transcription tool for some of their less sensitive interviews. This saves me many hours, the tools have gotten better (but are still not perfect, and absolutely require double checking and should not be used for sensitive sources or sensitive stories). YouTubeâs transcript feature is an incredible reporting tool that has allowed me to do stories that would have never been possible even a few years ago. YouTubeâs built-in translations and subtitles, and its transcript tool are some of the only reasons that I was able to do this investigation into Indian AI slop creators, which allowed me to get the gist of what was happening in a given video before we handed them to human translators to get exact translations. Most podcasts I know of now use Descript, Riverside, or a similar tool to record and edit their podcasts; these have built-in AI transcription tools, built-in AI camera switching, and built-in text-to-video editing tools. Most media outlets use captioning that is built into Adobe Premiere or CapCut for their vertical videos and their YouTube videos (and then double check them). If you want to get extremely annoying about it, various machine learning algorithms are in ProTools, Audition, CapCut, Premiere, Canva, etc for things like photo editing, sound leveling, noise reduction, etc.
There are other journalists who feel very comfortable coding and doing data analysis and analyzing huge sets of documents. There are journalists out there who are already using AI to do some of these tasks and some of the resulting articles are surely good and could not have been done without AI.
But the people doing this well are doing so in a way where they are catching and fixing AI hallucinations, because the stakes for fucking up are so incredibly high. If you are one of the people who is doing this, then, great. I have little interest in policing other peopleâs writing processes so long as they are not publishing AI fever dreams or plagiarizing, and there are writers I respect who say they have their little chats with ChatGPT to help them organize their thoughts before they do a draft or who have vibecoded their own productivity tools or data analysis tools. But again, thatâs not a business model. Itâs a tool that has enabled some reporters to do their jobs, and, using their expertise, they have produced good and valuable work. This does not mean that every news outlet or every reporter needs to learn to shove the JFK documents into ChatGPT and have it shit out an investigation.
I also know that our credibility and the trust of our audience is the only thing that separates us from anyone else. It is the only âbusiness modelâ that we have and that I am certain works: We trade good, accurate, interesting, human articles for money and attention. The risks of offloading that trust to an AI in a careless way is the biggest possible risk factor that we could have as a business. Having an article go out where someone goes âActually, a robot wrote this,â is one of the worst possible things that could ever happen to us, and so we have made the brave decision to not do that.
This is part of what is so baffling about the Chicago Sun Timesâ response to its somewhat complicated summer guide AI-generated reading list fiasco. Under its new owners, Chicago Public Media, The Sun Times has in recent years spent an incredible amount of time and effort rebuilding the image and good will that its previous private equity owners destroyed. And yet in its apology note, Melissa Bell, the CEO of Chicago Public Media, said that more AI is coming: âChicago Public Media will not back away from experimenting and learning how to properly use AI,â she wrote, adding that the team was working with a fellow paid for by the Lenfest Institute, a nonprofit funded by OpenAI and Microsoft.
Bell does realize what makes the paper stand apart, though: âWe must own our humanity,â Bell wrote. âOur humanity makes our work valuable.â
This is something that the New York Timesâs Roose recently brought up that I thought was quite smart and yet is not something that he seems to have internalized when talking about how AI is going to change everything and that its widespread adoption is inevitable and the only path forward: âI wonder if [AI is] going to catalyze some counterreaction,â he said. âIâve been thinking a lot recently about the slow-food movement and the farm-to-table movement, both of which came up in reaction to fast food. Fast food had a lot going for itâit was cheap, it was plentiful, you could get it in a hurry. But it also opened up a market for a healthier, more artisanal way of doing things. And I wonder if something similar will happen in creative industriesâa kind of creative renaissance for things that feel real and human and arenât just outputs from some A.I. companyâs slop machine.â
This has ALREAAAAADDDDYYYYYY HAPPPENEEEEEDDDDDD, and it is quite literally the only path forward for all but perhaps the most gigantic of media companies. There is no reason for an individual journalist or an individual media company to make the fast food of the internet. Itâs already being made, by spammers and the AI companies themselves. It is impossible to make it cheaper or better than them, because it is what they exist to do. The actual pivot that is needed is one to humanity. Media companies need to let their journalists be human. And they need to prove why theyâre worth reading with every article they do.
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