Carl Sullivan
@csullivan.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy
Managing Editor, Flipboard
[bridged from https://flipboard.social/@csullivan on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[bridged from https://flipboard.social/@csullivan on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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"In automation theory, a 'centaur' is a person who is assisted by a machine. You're a human head being carried around on a tireless robot body. Driving a car makes you a centaur, and so does using autocomplete. And obviously, a reverse centaur is a machine head on a human body, a person who is […]
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flipboard.social
January 2, 2026 at 6:14 PM
"In automation theory, a 'centaur' is a person who is assisted by a machine. You're a human head being carried around on a tireless robot body. Driving a car makes you a centaur, and so does using autocomplete. And obviously, a reverse centaur is a machine head on a human body, a person who is […]
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RE: https://toot.io/@MediaOnMastodon/115691147939633040
Everyone on open social web should be grateful for #flipboard and them being a good actor for the open social web.
Everyone on open social web should be grateful for #flipboard and them being a good actor for the open social web.
toot.io
December 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
RE: https://toot.io/@MediaOnMastodon/115691147939633040
Everyone on open social web should be grateful for #flipboard and them being a good actor for the open social web.
Everyone on open social web should be grateful for #flipboard and them being a good actor for the open social web.
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The amount of work @Flipboard has done to make Mastodon awesome for news from all around the world is incredible.
December 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The amount of work @Flipboard has done to make Mastodon awesome for news from all around the world is incredible.
Beautiful fluffy snow in Sunnyside, Queens
#silentsunday
#silentsunday
December 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Beautiful fluffy snow in Sunnyside, Queens
#silentsunday
#silentsunday
Reddy hanging out on #caturday #catsofmastodon
December 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Reddy hanging out on #caturday #catsofmastodon
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Birth rates all over the world are falling. Why are so many Americans worried about the impact of that on their society? @19thnews carried out a survey to find out, and spoke to experts about how fear of falling birth rates is related to MAGA, anti-immigration policies and more […]
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flipboard.social
December 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Birth rates all over the world are falling. Why are so many Americans worried about the impact of that on their society? @19thnews carried out a survey to find out, and spoke to experts about how fear of falling birth rates is related to MAGA, anti-immigration policies and more […]
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RE: https://flipboard.social/@surf/115584100375782527
Psst, there's a new version of Surf and it's awesome!
Psst, there's a new version of Surf and it's awesome!
flipboard.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
RE: https://flipboard.social/@surf/115584100375782527
Psst, there's a new version of Surf and it's awesome!
Psst, there's a new version of Surf and it's awesome!
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Today, for Trans Day of Remembrance,
@LGBTQNation
has put together this Flipboard Storyboard. "Now more than ever, commemorating the Trans Day of Remembrance is a revolutionary act of solidarity that gives our community a memorial to honor our fallen, reflect on what we’ve endured, and advocate […]
@LGBTQNation
has put together this Flipboard Storyboard. "Now more than ever, commemorating the Trans Day of Remembrance is a revolutionary act of solidarity that gives our community a memorial to honor our fallen, reflect on what we’ve endured, and advocate […]
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flipboard.social
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today, for Trans Day of Remembrance,
@LGBTQNation
has put together this Flipboard Storyboard. "Now more than ever, commemorating the Trans Day of Remembrance is a revolutionary act of solidarity that gives our community a memorial to honor our fallen, reflect on what we’ve endured, and advocate […]
@LGBTQNation
has put together this Flipboard Storyboard. "Now more than ever, commemorating the Trans Day of Remembrance is a revolutionary act of solidarity that gives our community a memorial to honor our fallen, reflect on what we’ve endured, and advocate […]
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mellifluousbox/115569615176946969
Congrats to @Gargron, @mellifluousbox and the whole team for advancing the Mastodon org to ensure it will continue to ship great work in the years ahead while remaining funded by the people for the people.
Congrats to @Gargron, @mellifluousbox and the whole team for advancing the Mastodon org to ensure it will continue to ship great work in the years ahead while remaining funded by the people for the people.
Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @[email protected] as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the […]
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mastodon.social
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 AM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mellifluousbox/115569615176946969
Congrats to @Gargron, @mellifluousbox and the whole team for advancing the Mastodon org to ensure it will continue to ship great work in the years ahead while remaining funded by the people for the people.
Congrats to @Gargron, @mellifluousbox and the whole team for advancing the Mastodon org to ensure it will continue to ship great work in the years ahead while remaining funded by the people for the people.
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Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]
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Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston, was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by state police while protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility, Illinois. He writes for Religion News Service about why he continues to show up at Broadview, the atmosphere at […]
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flipboard.social
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston, was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by state police while protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility, Illinois. He writes for Religion News Service about why he continues to show up at Broadview, the atmosphere at […]
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Zohran Mamdani majored in Africana Studies at Bowdoin College in Maine, at the time Peter Coviello taught the subject there, though he can't remember if New York City's Mayor-elect was his student or not. For LitHub, he explains how he was approached by a New York Times reporter to speak about […]
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flipboard.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Zohran Mamdani majored in Africana Studies at Bowdoin College in Maine, at the time Peter Coviello taught the subject there, though he can't remember if New York City's Mayor-elect was his student or not. For LitHub, he explains how he was approached by a New York Times reporter to speak about […]
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In 2006, the late Dick Cheney accidentally shot his pal Harry Whittington in the face while in Texas. The following year, Texas Monthly produced its award-winning "Bum Steers" cover, which was inspired by National Lampoon and featured a photo illustration of Cheney pointing a gun toward the […]
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flipboard.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
In 2006, the late Dick Cheney accidentally shot his pal Harry Whittington in the face while in Texas. The following year, Texas Monthly produced its award-winning "Bum Steers" cover, which was inspired by National Lampoon and featured a photo illustration of Cheney pointing a gun toward the […]
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In January, Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico, and did his best to strong-arm newsrooms into using its new moniker, the Gulf of America. Nine months, and many executive orders later, how is it going? Nieman Lab's Joshua Benton says the new name hasn't stuck in […]
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flipboard.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
In January, Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico, and did his best to strong-arm newsrooms into using its new moniker, the Gulf of America. Nine months, and many executive orders later, how is it going? Nieman Lab's Joshua Benton says the new name hasn't stuck in […]
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15 years in and we're just getting started! Flipboard's CEO
@mike spoke with @forbes's Andy Meek about being digital survivors, @surf, and our role in the future of publishing […]
@mike spoke with @forbes's Andy Meek about being digital survivors, @surf, and our role in the future of publishing […]
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flipboard.social
October 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Reposted by Carl Sullivan
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Reposted by Carl Sullivan
AI slop is threatening journalism by churning out clickbaity versions of original stories, capturing web traffic, and destroying readers' trust in media. NiemanLab's Ben Paviour takes a look at how it's proliferating, with the help of Google.
https://flip.it/6VypfN
#artificialintelligence #ai […]
https://flip.it/6VypfN
#artificialintelligence #ai […]
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flipboard.social
October 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
AI slop is threatening journalism by churning out clickbaity versions of original stories, capturing web traffic, and destroying readers' trust in media. NiemanLab's Ben Paviour takes a look at how it's proliferating, with the help of Google.
https://flip.it/6VypfN
#artificialintelligence #ai […]
https://flip.it/6VypfN
#artificialintelligence #ai […]
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Missed @ben's keynote at this year's @fediforum? Here's the full transcript. "The opportunity right now isn't to build a better Twitter or to provide a nice place for people who care about Linux to chat: it's to build infrastructure that vulnerable people can actually use to organize, to […]
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flipboard.social
October 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Missed @ben's keynote at this year's @fediforum? Here's the full transcript. "The opportunity right now isn't to build a better Twitter or to provide a nice place for people who care about Linux to chat: it's to build infrastructure that vulnerable people can actually use to organize, to […]
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"The Stakes Are Real: Why the Open Social Web Matters Now."
Amazing keynote from @ben at last week's #fediforum, reminding us all that what we are building here is critical for the world at this moment in time, and also some good advice on how to solve the right problems […]
Amazing keynote from @ben at last week's #fediforum, reminding us all that what we are building here is critical for the world at this moment in time, and also some good advice on how to solve the right problems […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"The Stakes Are Real: Why the Open Social Web Matters Now."
Amazing keynote from @ben at last week's #fediforum, reminding us all that what we are building here is critical for the world at this moment in time, and also some good advice on how to solve the right problems […]
Amazing keynote from @ben at last week's #fediforum, reminding us all that what we are building here is critical for the world at this moment in time, and also some good advice on how to solve the right problems […]
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Hello fediverse,
The AltStore is federating! It’s time to give developers and users an open platform to directly connect with each other while drastically improving app discovery. I believe so much in this mission that I joined their board to help.
More here from @rileytestut […]
The AltStore is federating! It’s time to give developers and users an open platform to directly connect with each other while drastically improving app discovery. I believe so much in this mission that I joined their board to help.
More here from @rileytestut […]
Original post on flipboard.social
flipboard.social
October 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Hello fediverse,
The AltStore is federating! It’s time to give developers and users an open platform to directly connect with each other while drastically improving app discovery. I believe so much in this mission that I joined their board to help.
More here from @rileytestut […]
The AltStore is federating! It’s time to give developers and users an open platform to directly connect with each other while drastically improving app discovery. I believe so much in this mission that I joined their board to help.
More here from @rileytestut […]
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As Bari Weiss arrives at CBS News, staffers hold their breath for what comes next.
@THR reports: "The Free Press founder will become editor-in-chief of CBS News, but her role outside the formal org chart is a perplexing question mark for insiders at the network."
https://flip.it/JcUD1h […]
@THR reports: "The Free Press founder will become editor-in-chief of CBS News, but her role outside the formal org chart is a perplexing question mark for insiders at the network."
https://flip.it/JcUD1h […]
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flipboard.social
October 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
As Bari Weiss arrives at CBS News, staffers hold their breath for what comes next.
@THR reports: "The Free Press founder will become editor-in-chief of CBS News, but her role outside the formal org chart is a perplexing question mark for insiders at the network."
https://flip.it/JcUD1h […]
@THR reports: "The Free Press founder will become editor-in-chief of CBS News, but her role outside the formal org chart is a perplexing question mark for insiders at the network."
https://flip.it/JcUD1h […]
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"The days of us being able to walk on to social media], tweet something, walk away, and get people to come to our website are over…" [<a href="https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">@404mediaco's Jason Koebler told Nieman Lab's Hanaa' Tameez at the iMEdD International Journalism Forum last week. "We said, if we don’t aggressively move people […]
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flipboard.social
October 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"The days of us being able to walk on to social media], tweet something, walk away, and get people to come to our website are over…" [<a href="https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">@404mediaco's Jason Koebler told Nieman Lab's Hanaa' Tameez at the iMEdD International Journalism Forum last week. "We said, if we don’t aggressively move people […]
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From 2022 to last November, the city of Odessa, Texas, was under the government of far-right hard-liners, led by Mayor Javier Joven. During their time in government, the city council passed an ordinance declaring Odessa a "sanctuary city for the unborn," banned trans people from using bathrooms […]
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flipboard.social
September 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
From 2022 to last November, the city of Odessa, Texas, was under the government of far-right hard-liners, led by Mayor Javier Joven. During their time in government, the city council passed an ordinance declaring Odessa a "sanctuary city for the unborn," banned trans people from using bathrooms […]
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Until at least Sept. 12, the U.S. Department of Justice had on its website a study that showed white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. Now, it's gone. @404mediaco looks at what might have […]
Original post on flipboard.social
flipboard.social
September 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Until at least Sept. 12, the U.S. Department of Justice had on its website a study that showed white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. Now, it's gone. @404mediaco looks at what might have […]