Powderhorn @ Powderhorn @beehaw.org

Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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All theatre. "We care about our customers more than money" is not in any corporate lexicon.

Just to be clear, for anyone reading this story, looking at the graphics and trying to figure out how the hell one gets to that hed with the data provided, don't bother. Neither conflicting dataset backs up the main claim.

So, it's either 20% of adult U.S. TikTok users (which, notably, is not "all Americans") per the graphic, or it's 55% of the same cohort per the copy.

This is shockingly poor QC for Pew.

There are several examples of successful independent journalism ventures.

The point the story is making is the situation for journalists striking out on their own is that work ends up being way more on the back end, such that the reporting itself is a fraction of the time as cultivating the site and keeping subscribers happy with your interaction level, lest they bolt.

What legacy media provided was a premade audience, legal cover and no pay reduction with each lost subscriber. Slim offerings, to be sure, but we're really learning as we go that as shitty as working conditions were, you could be doing all of that and having to moonlight in marketing.

Perhaps the thinking goes that because of the company name, they are entitled to the full annual discharge of the Amazon basin.

That's an interesting -- if wildly incorrect -- summary.

Feels like I'm seeing a suspiciously high number of these heds of late.

[COMPANY_NAME] cutting [NUMBER] jobs in/around/across [LOCALITY], raising concerns about broader economic slowdown

Given that ludicrous LLM spending is literally the only thing keeping the U.S. out of recession, concerns aren't being "raised" so much are blared and sent from mountaintop to mountaintop via semaphore.

This is Paxton throwing meat ahead of the 2026 Senate primary. Gotta stay relevant somehow!

I might make an exception for publishers of religious texts. Seems solid otherwise.

Chats?

Ah hah hah hah hah ha hah hah.

I don't interact via chats. I don't want to read chats. If people wish to interact, I'm fine with that as on here, but I'm not willing to cultivate a parasocial network.

What is the difference between "pay for it and drop your email" and "subscribing"?

No doubt being built to compute how much energy we're wasting on LLMs.

To ask this question is to be unaware of where the NYT has been going for years -- probably over a decade by now in the open, and behind the scenes before that. This media situation didn't spring forth fully formed.

That's really the pressing question of the next week. I don't think Trump has sufficient advisors to explain to him that this situation could easily turn into the sort of cliff Coyote falls off of after the Roadrunner stops for a second or two and watches him go by. I'm not sure he's still touching ground, but he hasn't looked down at the canyon yet, so as with anyone lacking object permanence, it doesn't exist.

I don't do multiplayer, but I fucking bow down to this pun. Though I'm now wincing at the idea of kids in the cargo area.

There's no way I'm getting into streaming (face for radio, voice for print). I'm talking a text newsletter. No images, no video, just links and thoughts. And I will not sign up for something gamified. You pay, you get; not some sort of raffle.

I get that seems odd to many, but streaming is not a newsletter.

Oh, I guarantee we'll see something happen.

🎶 What it is ain't exactly clear. 🎶

And accounting, having no idea what the going price of maotai is and what the markup might be in a service setting, just goes "yeah, that seems reasonable." The perfect crime.

Oh, shit ... that's fucking hilarious. Oops!

The five-year contract with government technology middleman Carahsoft Technology, made public in September, provides Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) licenses for a product called Zignal Labs, a social media monitoring platform used by the Israeli military and the Pentagon.

Surely, Palantir fits in here somewhere ...

That ink's not free.

Investigators estimated the total damage at $125-150,000, with damage to the exterior siding of the home and “complete destruction” of the carport and two cars.

Gotts love the rigour of TV writers! That lower bound of $125 isn't realistic for two cars being destroyed.