Kenny Smith
@kennysmith.bsky.social
Adventuring with @laurensmith.bsky.social. Cyclist, reader, builder.
On the side: professor of sports communication and media, professor of communication studies.
Formerly: reporter, news anchor, producer, adviser.
https://www.kennysmith.org
On the side: professor of sports communication and media, professor of communication studies.
Formerly: reporter, news anchor, producer, adviser.
https://www.kennysmith.org
Your information is worth six dollars a change a pop in this particular settlement.
Comcast will pay $1.5 million to the FCC to settle a year-long probe over the mishandling of personal information.
A vendor used by Comcast to pursue past-due bills was hacked in 2024, which exposed personal information of more than 230,000 customers.
A vendor used by Comcast to pursue past-due bills was hacked in 2024, which exposed personal information of more than 230,000 customers.
Comcast settles data breach probe for $1.5 million
November 25, 2025 - Comcast has agreed to forfeit $1.5 million to the FCC to resolve a probe over the mishandling of customer account and personal information.
thedesk.net
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Your information is worth six dollars a change a pop in this particular settlement.
Extractive socio-economic discrimination is one way to keep undesirables out of the people’s parks.
November 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Extractive socio-economic discrimination is one way to keep undesirables out of the people’s parks.
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This stupendous achievement will go up online with zero fanfare but I have to read 15 articles a week about how some chud thinks he reinvented hieroglyphics via conversation with ChatGPT
700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
Too often those in power lump thousands of years of Middle Eastern religion and culture into monolithic entities to be feared or persecuted. But at least one government institution is doing exactly th...
www.openculture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This stupendous achievement will go up online with zero fanfare but I have to read 15 articles a week about how some chud thinks he reinvented hieroglyphics via conversation with ChatGPT
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he fell victim to one of the classic blunders! the most famous of which is, ‘never answer the phone for isaac chotiner,’ but only slightly less well-known is this: ‘never behave in a manner which causes derek guy to critique your fashion choices’
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
he fell victim to one of the classic blunders! the most famous of which is, ‘never answer the phone for isaac chotiner,’ but only slightly less well-known is this: ‘never behave in a manner which causes derek guy to critique your fashion choices’
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Surveillance tech does not care who holds the keys.
In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
Texas deputy searched Spokane County Flock cameras for a woman who had an abortion– RANGE Media
Amidst nationwide and state scrutiny of the cameras, Spokane County’s Flock network was used by an out-of-state cop looking for a woman who had an abortion.
rangemedia.co
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Surveillance tech does not care who holds the keys.
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Jim Clyburn's new book, The First Eight, restores the lives of South Carolina's early Black congressmen and shows how their battles during Reconstruction offer lessons, and warnings, for politics today. n.pr/4ohnG12
In a new book, Rep. Jim Clyburn highlights the Black politicians who paved the way for him
Jim Clyburn's new book, The First Eight, restores the lives of South Carolina's early Black congressmen and shows how their battles during Reconstruction offer lessons, and warnings, for politics today.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Jim Clyburn's new book, The First Eight, restores the lives of South Carolina's early Black congressmen and shows how their battles during Reconstruction offer lessons, and warnings, for politics today. n.pr/4ohnG12
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I think we can all agree that every lake in the country should be irreversibly poisoned for this to exist
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I think we can all agree that every lake in the country should be irreversibly poisoned for this to exist
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There’s a dread in these times logging on after a few hours of living disconnected…we need a German word
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
There’s a dread in these times logging on after a few hours of living disconnected…we need a German word
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It’s sad that “soldiers shouldn’t commit crimes” is a brave position for a Republican to take.
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It’s sad that “soldiers shouldn’t commit crimes” is a brave position for a Republican to take.
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When your cat takes the family photo.
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
When your cat takes the family photo.
All of the Land, Sea and Space Grant institutions should be using this voice, and touting it regularly.
ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
In world of AI, Michigan State University Extension bets on human expertise - Bridge Michigan
For 118 years, Michigan State University Extension has existed to serve the public with programs ranging from canning classes to soil testing and financial literacy workshops. Now, it aims to bill its...
bridgemi.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
All of the Land, Sea and Space Grant institutions should be using this voice, and touting it regularly.
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Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis | Food and Environment Reporting Network
In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the grain depot where he picked up food for…
thefern.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
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My washing machine sings a little song when it is done with a load. Maybe it's time to consider whether my washing machine is your mom.
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
My washing machine sings a little song when it is done with a load. Maybe it's time to consider whether my washing machine is your mom.
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Three incorrect pie opinions all in the same skeet.
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Three incorrect pie opinions all in the same skeet.
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I don’t need any programming books (Python, JavaScript, etc.) at the moment, but all my favorites came from No Starch Press, and their current sale is 42% off everything they have. I know we’re boycotting and not buying, etc. But I honestly love this publisher. Ends Dec. 2. nostarch.com
No Starch Press
nostarch.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I don’t need any programming books (Python, JavaScript, etc.) at the moment, but all my favorites came from No Starch Press, and their current sale is 42% off everything they have. I know we’re boycotting and not buying, etc. But I honestly love this publisher. Ends Dec. 2. nostarch.com
Those recent Sphere of Influence talks are about to hit a lot different.
🧵 Grim watch for sell-out of Ukraine and/or bombing of Venezuela show we are in a new era. Welcome to the unconstrained future of world order. 1/
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Unconstrained Future of World Order: The Assault on Democratic Constraint and Implications for US Global Leadership | International Organization | Cambridge Core
The Unconstrained Future of World Order: The Assault on Democratic Constraint and Implications for US Global Leadership - Volume 79 Issue S1
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Those recent Sphere of Influence talks are about to hit a lot different.
Did you save your grandparents’ jell-o everything cookbook?
You’re going to need your grandparents’ jell-o everything cookbook.
You’re going to need your grandparents’ jell-o everything cookbook.
In interviews, 22 indie food creators say Google's AI Overviews and AI food pics on Pinterest and Facebook have decimated traffic and yielded unusable recipes (Bloomberg)
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Did you save your grandparents’ jell-o everything cookbook?
You’re going to need your grandparents’ jell-o everything cookbook.
You’re going to need your grandparents’ jell-o everything cookbook.
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"Nothing is riding on this except the First Amendment of the Constitution, freedom of the press, and quite possibly, the future of the country." -- Ben Bradlee as portrayed by Jason Robards, "All the President's Men."
53 years later...
53 years later...
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"Nothing is riding on this except the First Amendment of the Constitution, freedom of the press, and quite possibly, the future of the country." -- Ben Bradlee as portrayed by Jason Robards, "All the President's Men."
53 years later...
53 years later...
Again, whatever adviser decided to go away from “Weird!” last fall should be banished to doing nothing more than city council elections in Sausalito for the rest of their career.
Trump: "Instead of pardons, some of my more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship Gobble and Waddle straight to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador."
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Again, whatever adviser decided to go away from “Weird!” last fall should be banished to doing nothing more than city council elections in Sausalito for the rest of their career.
We talked briefly about extroverts, introverts, introverted extroverts and extroverted introverts in class today.
I feel like that was the tipping point, actually.
I feel like that was the tipping point, actually.
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We talked briefly about extroverts, introverts, introverted extroverts and extroverted introverts in class today.
I feel like that was the tipping point, actually.
I feel like that was the tipping point, actually.
The lyrics to the Enterprise theme, as aired, were something like 72 seconds, but unless you have a hypospray or the secretions from one of Phlox’s Edosian slugs, you just can’t be too careful.
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The lyrics to the Enterprise theme, as aired, were something like 72 seconds, but unless you have a hypospray or the secretions from one of Phlox’s Edosian slugs, you just can’t be too careful.
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Democracy dries with snarkness
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Democracy dries with snarkness
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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Take pride in our fellow American, Sen. Mark Kelly, vigorously standing up for the Constitution and against a violence-inciting White House occupant who is failing to intimidate this good man and honorable public servant.
Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Take pride in our fellow American, Sen. Mark Kelly, vigorously standing up for the Constitution and against a violence-inciting White House occupant who is failing to intimidate this good man and honorable public servant.