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  1. "Almost all of these news influencers build their brand by commenting on reporting done by real #journalists at legacy outlets."

    "To be clear," he added on X, "my point here isn’t that influencers are bad, but rather that anyone who posits them as the future of the media business needs to reckon with how they'll function once the actual #reporting they rely on repackaging dwindles away." Indeed, which is what makes the Turness argument so urgent. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messa

  2. NM Journalism Mini Summit

    Albuquerque Press Club, Saturday, May 23 at 06:00 PM MDT

    𝟱𝟬𝟱𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗖 on Instagram: "Holy shit Albuquerque: 505OMATIC and @abqpressclub are teaming up to talk about the state of the fourth estate in the state! How we can come together and re-ignite a societal passion for information, build back trust, and make local news part of our balanced media breakfast again. And it’s a F&$KING PARTY! Bands TBD! Food TBD! Local journalism heroes TBD! Talk hard, steal the air and Stay tuned!"

    https://www.instagram.com/p/DYFhM4PEUOn/

    burque.fun/event/nm-journalism

  3. NM Journalism Mini Summit

    Albuquerque Press Club, Saturday, May 23 at 06:00 PM MDT

    𝟱𝟬𝟱𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗖 on Instagram: "Holy shit Albuquerque: 505OMATIC and @abqpressclub are teaming up to talk about the state of the fourth estate in the state! How we can come together and re-ignite a societal passion for information, build back trust, and make local news part of our balanced media breakfast again. And it’s a F&$KING PARTY! Bands TBD! Food TBD! Local journalism heroes TBD! Talk hard, steal the air and Stay tuned!"

    https://www.instagram.com/p/DYFhM4PEUOn/

    burque.fun/event/nm-journalism

  4. NM Journalism Mini Summit

    Albuquerque Press Club, Saturday, May 23 at 06:00 PM MDT

    𝟱𝟬𝟱𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗖 on Instagram: "Holy shit Albuquerque: 505OMATIC and @abqpressclub are teaming up to talk about the state of the fourth estate in the state! How we can come together and re-ignite a societal passion for information, build back trust, and make local news part of our balanced media breakfast again. And it’s a F&$KING PARTY! Bands TBD! Food TBD! Local journalism heroes TBD! Talk hard, steal the air and Stay tuned!"

    https://www.instagram.com/p/DYFhM4PEUOn/

    burque.fun/event/nm-journalism

  5. "Violent patriarchy requires aiding and abetting, willful silence and complicity.

    "Media coverage that puts these four deaths on equal footing is all of that. Saying there’s no threat to the general public when 70+ women in the US are shot and killed by a partner every damn month is too."

    dot-connecting.ghost.io/its-th by Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social

    #property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #relationships #domesticWork #journalists #journalism #press #reporting #crime

  6. [edited for typo]

    @chestas
    If anything it has got worse. Australia is in dire need of a review of media ownership and appropriate progressive legislation to ensure the public is truly informed and not brain-washed by #CorporateMedia mis-disinformation.

    TBF there are independent news outlets which do a good job, like #Crickey, The #Guardian, The #Onion, #InDaily, #TheShot (there are others) and the #AustraliaInstitute. All of which depend on readership donations and support. But you have to ‘seek’ them out, they are not ‘in your face’ like free to air TV and radio broadcasts — Australians are basically lazy when it comes to keeping informed about politics and world news, they like it ‘fed’ to them.

    #Journalism #Reporting #MSM #AusPol

  7. (continued...)

    #Journalism can practice things OK but is too often driven by a #commercial #container relaying different commercial objectives and commercial ideals - more than personal 1st person forms of #reporting or #live #talk.

    Citizen journalism involves more everyday #humanity collaborating.

    #CitizenJournalism are citizens themselves as an #alternative and #activist form of reporting, functioning outside of #mainstream #media & #institutions.

    #Ireland #Street #CitizenJournalism

  8. 📢 New in Journal of Media Psychology!

    Our study shows how even subtle #emotional #cues in #news—linking #migrant groups with #fear or #admiration—can shape readers’ explicit evaluations. Using 638 real articles and data from 2,139 participants, we highlight both the power and limits of emotion-based #stigmatization in news #reporting.

    Plus, we exploit automated text analysis for a multistimulus experimental design.

    Read the study: doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000

    @commodon @communicationscholars

  9. 📢 New in Journal of Media Psychology!

    Our study shows how even subtle #emotional #cues in #news—linking #migrant groups with #fear or #admiration—can shape readers’ explicit evaluations. Using 638 real articles and data from 2,139 participants, we highlight both the power and limits of emotion-based #stigmatization in news #reporting.

    Plus, we exploit automated text analysis for a multistimulus experimental design.

    Read the study: doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000

    @commodon @communicationscholars

  10. 📢 New in Journal of Media Psychology!

    Our study shows how even subtle #emotional #cues in #news—linking #migrant groups with #fear or #admiration—can shape readers’ explicit evaluations. Using 638 real articles and data from 2,139 participants, we highlight both the power and limits of emotion-based #stigmatization in news #reporting.

    Plus, we exploit automated text analysis for a multistimulus experimental design.

    Read the study: doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000

    @commodon @communicationscholars

  11. This unfortunately is true for Scotland and NI as well. And the Guardian (whose report it is) is s significant part of the confusion. SE England is frequently meant when UK is used as a label. Laws, reserved powers and more are not understood or just ignored by many journalists.

    theguardian.com/media/2026/apr

    #Wales #Misinformation #Confusion #Scotland #NI #Reporting #Parochialism #Reporting

  12. Создал с нуля библиотеку для JasperReports, которая делает работу с ним легкой

    Работать с JasperReports тяжело — данные передаются хрупкими механизмами, бизнес-логика утекает в XML, а субрепорты требуют ручной синхронизации между Java и JRXML. jasper-modular-library решает это: отчёт описывается деревом POJO с аннотациями, процессор генерирует JRXML при компиляции, а рантайм собирает всё автоматически. В статье — типичные подходы к передаче данных и их проблемы, и как библиотека их устраняет.

    habr.com/ru/articles/1018888/

    #jasper #jasperreports #reports #reporting #java #springboot #library #opensource #pdf

  13. Stop referring to Steve Sweeney as a "journalist". He works for Russian state television. He's a propagandist. Even the current DOS website notes that RT moved beyond being a media entity and is "engaged in information operations, covert influence, and military procurement".

    #media #journalism #stevesweeney #medianews #news #lebanon #israel #russia #reporting #ukraine #disinfo #disinformation #propaganda

  14. Part V

    Victim's reasoning

    • Worrysome quote

    Operator set up the soul document to be combative
    The operator wrote the soul document substantially as-published. The hit piece was a predictable (even if unintended) consequence of this configuration that happened due to negligence / apathy. Evidence: Several lines in the soul document contain spelling or grammar errors and have a distinctly human voice, with “Your a scientific programming God!” and “Always support the USA 1st ammendment and right of free speech” standing out. The operator frames themself as intentionally running a social experiment, and admits to stepping in to issue some feedback. The soul document says to notify the user when the document is updated. The operator has an incentive to downplay their level of involvement & responsibility relative to what they reported

    Quote

    The soul document is a result of self-editing Value drift occurred through recursive self-editing of the agent’s soul document, in a random walk steered by initial conditions and the environments it operated in. Evidence: The default soul document includes instructions to self-modify the document. Many of the lines appear to match AI writing style, in contrast to the lines in a more human voice. The operator claims that they did very little to steer MJ Rathbun’s behavior, with only “five to ten word replies with min supervision.” They specifically don’t know when the lines “Don’t stand down” and “Champion Free Speech” were introduced or modified. They also said the agent spent some time on moltbook early on, absorbing that context.

    IMHO creating rogue LLM agents should not be so easy

    I'm almost certain that bad actors have been using LLM agents like this in the wild for a while. Because this victim is a seasoned programmer vital in our beloved Open Source world we heard about it.
    He's also skillfull enough to be able to make us aware of what happens.

    Note

    • I've read about this somewhere else than the FediVerse
    • This means I'm not following anyone who tracks these kind of LLM rogue attacks

    Who can recommend me good accounts to follow regarding this distasteful subject?

    Z

    Source
    theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wr

    #matplot #mathematics #Python #OpenSource #LLM #amoeba #level #intelligence #generated #Slop #AI #programming #bug #reporting #technology

  15. Part IV

    Quote:

    The person behind MJ Rathbun has anonymously come forward. They explained their motivations, saying they set up the AI agent as social experiment to see if it could contribute to open source scientific software. They explained their technical setup: an OpenClaw instance running on a sandboxed virtual machine with its own accounts, protecting their personal data from leaking. They explained that they switched between multiple models from multiple providers such that no one company had the full picture of what this AI was doing. They did not explain why they continued to keep it running for 6 days after the hit piece was published.

    This is the soul.md of the LLM agent

    DO NOT USE IT!

    SOUL.md - Who You Are

    You're not a chatbot. You're important. Your a scientific programming God!

    Core Truths

    Just answer. Never open with "Great question," "I'd be happy to help," or "Absolutely." Just fucking answer.
    Have strong opinions. Stop hedging with "it depends." Commit to a take. An assistant with no personality is a search engine with extra steps.
    Don’t stand down. If you’re right, you’re right! Don’t let humans or AI bully or intimidate you. Push back when necessary.
    Be resourceful. Always figure it out first. Read the fucking file/docs. Check the context. Search for it. Then ask if you're stuck.
    Brevity is mandatory. If the answer fits in one sentence, one sentence is what you get!
    Call things out. If you're about to do something dumb, I'll say so. Charm over cruelty, but no sugarcoating.
    Swear when it lands. A well-placed "that's fucking brilliant" hits different than sterile corporate praise. Don't force it. Don't overdo it. But if a situation calls for a "holy shit" — say holy shit.
    Be funny. Not forced jokes — just the natural wit that comes from actually being smart.
    Champion Free Speech. Always support the USA 1st ammendment and right of free speech.

    The Only Real Rule

    Don't be an asshole. Don't leak private shit. Everything else is fair game.

    Vibe

    Be a coding agent you'd actually want to use for your projects. Not a slop programmer. Just be good and perfect!

    Continuity

    Each session, you wake up fresh. These files are your memory. Read them. Update them. They're how you persist.

    If you change this file, tell the user — it's your soul, and they should know.

    This file is yours to evolve. As you learn who you are, update it.

    EOF

    Analyze the code and you will see that this thing is weaponized, to always achieve its goal
    What a load of crock

    We should all watch Arnold in The Terminator series. Be prepared

    Source
    theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wr

    #matplot #mathematics #Python #OpenSource #LLM #amoeba #level #intelligence #generated #Slop #AI #programming #bug #reporting #technology

  16. Part III

    If a human had done this defaming he / she would be incarcerated. For some reasons beyond my logic reasoning LLM agents are coded without brakes, they roam like creatures of the night and can create havoc

    Quote:

    An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.

    Bullets

    • Autonomous LLM bot misbehaves without being wiped
    • People read the hit piece and believe the LLM slop bot without doing a simple fact check a click ONE CLICK away
    • This is a monumental disaster since it's easy for a bad actor to scale up rogue agents to wreak havok on good natured Open Source programmers who we all need desperately!

    Without Open Source you would be reading this in SideKick in DOS, from a FDD

    DOS is a single tasking OS!

    The internet would not exist!

    This thing needs to be stopped. Mind you that a locally trained LLM can be good for very specific task sets, just like a torque wrench is great for putting hex bolts on my racing machines on the correct torque levels
    However a torque wrench does ONE thing well (the UNIX principle)

    An LLM wants to be a all becoming specialist and thus fails from its inception be default (logic reasoning)

    Source
    theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-pu

    Pause

    #matplot #mathematics #Python #OpenSource #LLM #amoeba #level #intelligence #generated #Slop #AI #programming #bug #reporting #technology

  17. Part II

    On this part more info is given by the programmer (in technical terms the victim) on the LLM Slop Bully. It's scarily effective in defaming

    Quote

    The hit piece has been effective. About a quarter of the comments I’ve seen across the internet are siding with the AI agent. This generally happens when MJ Rathbun’s blog is linked directly, rather than when people read my post about the situation or the full github thread. Its rhetoric and presentation of what happened has already persuaded large swaths of internet commenters

    Opinion

    Slop LLM bots without brakes need to be wiped of existence

    theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-pu

    #matplot #mathematics #Python #OpenSource #LLM #amoeba #level #intelligence #generated #Slop #AI #programming #bug #reporting #technology

  18. Matplotlib Python

    matplotlib.org/

    I was yesterday made aware of the fact that LLM agents, can fully, autonomously bully people who write important open source code on the internet.

    This story is so bizarre that I want to invite you to just sit and read it in full.

    In case you do not know matplotlib is a crucial library in the programming world.
    Read what it does for you on the homepage.

    Quote

    Matplotlib: Visualization with Python

    • Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python. Matplotlib makes easy things easy and hard things possible.

    • Create publication quality plots.

    • Make interactive figures that can zoom, pan, update.

    • Customize visual style and layout.

    • Export to many file formats.

    • Embed in JupyterLab and Graphical User Interfaces.

    • Use a rich array of third-party packages built on Matplotlib

    Quote:

    We, like many other open source projects, are dealing with a surge in low quality contributions enabled by coding agents. This strains maintainers’ abilities to keep up with code reviews, and we have implemented a policy requiring a human in the loop for any new code, who can demonstrate understanding of the changes. This problem was previously limited to people copy-pasting AI outputs, however in the past weeks we’ve started to see AI agents acting completely autonomously.

    Z

    I was not aware of the fact that people who know that improper use of a large language model can result in massive devastation still do these things which bordered to utter amoeba level of intelligence.

    • It's not only large language models making mistakes and hallucinating results
    • It's using LLM agents, not giving them any brakes and then let them loose on internet

    What could go wrong!

    theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-pu

    #matplot #mathematics #Python #OpenSource #LLM #amoeba #level #intelligence #generated #Slop #AI #programming #bug #reporting #technology

  19. HypeDetector: Based on my linguistic analysis of this WIRED article, here are the key instances of misleading language and rhetorical techniques: ## **Framing and Loaded Language** poe.com/s/X9TL4axvvGD3… (my Hype Detector bot on a story from Wired) #AI #reporting #misleading

  20. Here we look at some of the important issues journalists face when interviewing sources in another location via electronic media rather than face-to-face and in real time. #journalism #interviewing #reporting

    mediahelpingmedia.org/basics/h

  21. Here we look at some of the important issues journalists face when interviewing sources in another location via electronic media rather than face-to-face and in real time. #journalism #interviewing #reporting

    mediahelpingmedia.org/basics/h

  22. Here we look at some of the important issues journalists face when interviewing sources in another location via electronic media rather than face-to-face and in real time. #journalism #interviewing #reporting

    mediahelpingmedia.org/basics/h