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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah. That was weird. Warren Beaty’s specific choices I think often vex the Left, who want to love him.

Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 10h

My red-diaper baby parents took us to that movie as a family event. The thing they didn’t like was that the interview portions didn’t say who the subjects were. I think we saw it at the ABC Cap City theater in Century City, which had a screen the size of Omaha.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 18h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 19h

It makes me wonder: What if the fed government hadn't given up on funding transit infrastructure & innovation as it did in the 1970s & early 80s?

US cities, I'm convinced, would have followed a far different path, many more with vibrant, well-used transit systems & with less car dependence.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 19h

I think what I’m saying is that a “recounting of voices” and “passive voice,” that’s not establishment of provenance.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 19h

A tricky asterisk: Interviewing someone noteworthy can be journalism, but often it’s just easy and inexpensive—and *looks* journalism-esque.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

Donald Trump's granddaughter Kai Trump just launched a YouTube series called "1 on 1 with Kai" and the first one-hour episode is her playing golf with the president.

I haven't watched the whole thing, but I think it's safe to say it's not going to be breaking any vital news.

Donald Trump in a golf cart with his granddaughter Kai and an on-screen graphic that reads "What's your favorite color?" Below that is a caption from when he asked "color?" His answer was "maybe red."

Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 19h

No, I don’t think I agree with that. Provenance is the context, and to the extent mainstream journalism is ”ineffective”—not sure I agree with that, either—it’s because it doesn’t offer that context or parrots obvious half truths (or simply avoids important stories).

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 19h

…and two is convincing yourself that getting input from “both sides” of a question makes the provenance establishment unnecessary.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 19h

Two fail modes for this philosophy. One is, just because something is published elsewhere doesn’t make it true, and just not everything true has been published. (As a Newswee fact checker the scariest attribution we used was “this is on author.”)…

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 19h

A lot of what we’d think of as the journalists’ code—tell the truth, be accurate, credit your sources—is actually about establishing provenance and chain of custody for evidence. Fact-check codifies those tracks. This is all how you know you know. It’s what marks something as journalism.

☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 20h

look i dont want to get all historian/art history/journalism posty about AI videos but we *have* ways of autheticating recorded/archival material, its chains of custody and provenance research, and you shouldn't have been trusting random videos on the internet to begin with???

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 20h

look i dont want to get all historian/art history/journalism posty about AI videos but we *have* ways of autheticating recorded/archival material, its chains of custody and provenance research, and you shouldn't have been trusting random videos on the internet to begin with???

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

We are many; they are few.

Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

Fucks sake, man. The people in charge have no sense of their duty. Come on.

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 1d

Appears the Trump admin’s reduction in force has hit housing hard this evening.

Reports that all CDFI fund staff have been let go. HUD appears to have lost 442 staff.

Yet another federal cut that will make providing affordable housing in the US all the more challenging.

Reports that all staff of CDFI Fund have been let go

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 1d

More on the CDC tonight: @jeremyfaust.bsky.social , who is impeccably sourced there (physician, Harvard faculty) has details on the divisions hit by the apparently illegal RIFS. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

This one has me spun out, pals. I have no grace for this. It’s straightahead crushing knowledge to remain in power. It’s bookburning.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 1d

It was on the short-lived "Health Information Network" which was delivered using ITT-Dialcom's text-based dialup timesharing system. We shipped VT-100 terminals to subscribers, mostly doctors. CDC would fax us a copy of MMWR a day in advance and we had to type the text into the system by hand.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

All the doctors who teamed up with this guy instead of warning about him and his team own this.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.

This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

It was a core thing every science writer had to read when I was coming up.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, Ebola response? To the outbreak in Congo that is only just now, this instant, nearly contained?

Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 1d

Seen on LinkedIn: “Staff at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention across multiple programs being fired tonight, including all current (civilian) Epidemic Intelligence Service, and several people working on the Ebola response.”

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

It’s hard to see this any other way than, public health is science that helps rich and poor alike, and rich people hate that.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case: MMWR is a key frontline indicator for outbreaks. The first subtle hint of AIDS was in that publication. This is the pale horse that Death rides.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

Well, fuck.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1d

I do suspect that beyond the moneymaking the real issue here is that he moved out of town.

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