#Journalism prof: emeritus at CUNY, visiting at Stony Brook, fellow at Montclair State. Author of Hot Type, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, and Magazine from Bloomsbury. Co-host of the Intelligent Machines, AI Inside, and Breaking the News podcasts.
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Last Notes npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis In Germany, the SPD, the Greens, and the Left are leaving Twitter (I wont' call it X). Der Spiegel thinks this is imprudent, leaving the space to the extremist AfD. I agree. X ist kein Ort, den man leichtfertig aufgeben sollte https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/wirverlassenx-warum-spd-gruene-und-linke-jetzt-auf-bluesky-setzen-a-3e5c850a-3b9a-4222-9d9c-a991585bc2cb npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Some hero renamed the White House on Google Maps as Epstein Island. Bless you, whoever you are. Post reporters called the White House. Their phones showed ‘Epstein Island.’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2026/03/27/white-house-google-database-epstein/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Syracuse axes nine majors including Latino-Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Modern Jewish Studies; Russian, Digital Humanities and "reenvisions" African American Studies. https://www.syracuse.com/syracuse-university/2026/03/syracuse-university-to-axe-nine-majors-as-cost-cutting-at-the-school-continues.html npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Oh, come on, Condé. Drop it. Why Is Vogue Suing a Dog Fashion Magazine? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/style/vogue-conde-nast-dogue-magazine-lawsuit.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis This is bad, B.U. Boston University Pulls Pride Flags, Raising Free Speech Worries https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/boston-university-pride-flags-free-speech.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis They bring the worst. Top US Fema official claims to have teleported to a Waffle House before https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/fema-gregg-phillips-waffle-house npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Would you introduce Brian to your friends? He might occasionally struggle with the banter and quick wit. Ouch. Blind date: ‘He said he hadn’t touched alcohol since Christmas – then downed four wines’ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/21/blind-date-brian-jeanette npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis On MSnow, Alicia Menendez just played tape of a Fox vidiot saying that boots on the ground on Kharg wouldn't count as invading Iran because it's an island. OK, good, then. Canada: Please invade Manhattan. It won't count as invading America. That'll be phase II. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis When you buy gas today, when you buy groceries, when you mourn over your depleted 401(k), when you look at mortgage rates, when you think of all the shame brought on our country, most of all when you think of the bloodshed in our name, remember: It's all Trump's fault. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis GOOGLE rolls Gemini in more apps. OK. Meanwhile, I STILL cannot get GOOGLE Gemini embedded in my GOOGLE Chrome on my GOOGLE Chromebook with a GOOGLE Workspace account. WTF, Google? Really. I'm screaming here. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/google-rolls-out-new-gemini-capabilities-to-docs-sheets-slides-and-drive/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis People are dying because of the Epstein files. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Appalling. In our name: "‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks. Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I asked Der Spiegel to share this important interview with Robert Kagan in English. @nprofile…3f68 made it happen. This is how American media should be talking: "We Are Watching a Country Fall Under Dictatorship Almost Without Resistance" https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/u-s-historian-robert-kagan-we-are-watching-a-country-fall-under-dictatorship-almost-without-resistance-a-d262290b-cca0-4c2f-945d-2ef3b64c574f?sara_ref=re-so-app-sh npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis How the Holocaust happened: A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/20/fake-ice-tip-line-viral/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I'm a clumsy oaf and idiot. Stripping the bed last Sunday to wash the sheets, I pulled too hard (or not hard enough) on the bedding I had too tightly tucked. The bedding resisted. My bare feet flew out from under me. I rose up and came down hard on my back. My thud and curse were heard throughout the house. Finally went to the doctor today, as I hobble and groan still. Who knew that socks could be such torture? CT scan showed compression fracture in my L3 and other stuff. Age and stupidity. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/901/024/594/178/069/original/5d094e874e8d9ddb.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis My fellow Americans, ours is a rogue state. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/831/647/791/406/916/original/07e66c6a6bc97eee.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Fox left out a few... https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/831/245/555/028/857/original/ccf9054788bacc2b.jpg npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis He's not even sworn in and fucking Politico is counting him out. With journalists like Politico's and the New York Times', who needs enemies? https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/814/223/660/532/442/original/4f60d24cfeb25c74.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Look at how the #BrokenPost's presentation: Next to a picture making him look at is he has a sane thought in his head, they say he's "reshaping" public health. No, he is killing people and endangering children. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/808/216/203/042/742/original/5c2cc01be8a0ab42.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis It's not The Economy, Stupid. Now It's Stupid's Economy. Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/27/corporate-bankruptcies-economy/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Oh, the credulity. Not taking sides *is* takings ides, enabling racism, white nationalism, and extremism. Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/politics/vance-republicans-trump-antisemitism.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The women are not "upset." That is sexist language, #BrokenTimes. The women are angry. And justly so. Epstein Victims Upset About Lack of Transparency in Newly Released Files https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/epstein-files-victims-reaction.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Yes. Yes. Yes. It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/19/us-supreme-court-legitimacy npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Trump's desperate. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Trump and Carr attack KCBS: How an AM radio station in California weathered the Trump administration’s assault on media https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-fcc-kcbs-5dbed5c466771d53e2c7bcc5da362bf6 npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Thank you, Joe Scarborough and Morning Joe for devoting your first half hour to condemning Trump's shocking, disgusting, inhuman, and all-too-characteristic attack on Rob Reiner at his death. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/729/107/203/428/861/original/41de37f152c8fbd5.jpg npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis My NiemanLab 'prediction' won't be popular in some quarters: It's time for a reckoning with AI as the vast ecosystem of news (not the moguls making money grabs) need to make news available where the public is, with APIs for news. https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/apis-for-news/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Wonderful story: A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251205-how-the-handheld-digital-camera-was-born?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter via @BBC_Future npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Frightening. Hegseth's cowboys will kill people. Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/jetblue-pilot-avoids-midair-collision-air-force-venezuela npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Now do our president. With an army of yes-men, how Putin’s world turned into an echo chamber https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/13/russia-putin-yes-men-trump-cabinet/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The bubble we should be talking about is the Musk bubble. These valuations are fantasy. Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $800 Billion, as It Prepares to Go Public https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/technology/elon-musk-spacex-ipo.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Y'think? Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that Fed staffers believe federal data could be overstating job creation by up to 60,000 jobs a month—which suggests the jobs market might be shrinking https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/fed-chair-jerome-powell-says-u-s-may-be-drastically-overstating-jobs-numbers-741c635d?st=pe5yuk npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Racist America. A Cinnabon Worker Was Fired for a Racist Slur. Her Supporters Have Raised $130,000. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/cinnabon-fired-worker-video-racial-slur.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Turns out sans serif is woke. At least they didn't switch to White House gilded script. At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis It is all about race. Justice Dept. kills long-time tool used to prove racial discrimination https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/09/trump-disparate-impact-justice-discrimination/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis This critical report on free speech imperiled comes from THE Free Press (NOT Bari's so-called Free Press). Chokehold: Donald Trump’s War on Free Speech & the Need for Systemic Resistance https://www.freepress.net/attack-on-free-speech#key-findings npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis There is NO more important outlet for news, analysis, & advocacy for our rights online than @nprofile…e5gd's @nprofile…7k2s. He needs our help. I'm adding Techdirt to my year-end contributions. Please join me--and get a coin marking 30 years of Section 230: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/03/support-techdirts-uncompromising-coverage-get-our-first-commemorative-coin/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Calling it nativism and calling on the history of the '20s gets closer, but it should be noted that this is reaching a Nazi pitch. Trump’s latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/07/trump-immigration-somalis-afghan-crime/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Because this isn't about immigration. It is about race. Wake up and cover the racism. The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/12/07/trump-immigration-citizens-ice-arrests/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Der Spiegel: Commander in Sleep https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/655/537/269/822/671/original/6ebe665377dcd7ee.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Cry me a river. Eric Trump’s cryptocurrency firm tumbles nearly 40% amid ‘crypto winter’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/eric-trump-american-bitcoin-stock npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Costco has bigger balls than my alma mater, Northwestern. Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/costco-sues-trump-tariff-refunds-rcna246860 npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Yes, @nprofile…myke, go hide in shame. You realize that no one will want to give you money to turn around and give it to Donald Trump. My alma mater is dead to me. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/647/677/537/888/582/original/d7a26e2c9a7fef6a.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I am deeply ashamed of my alma mater. NorthwesternU, you are dead to me. I am headed to the basement to find my diploma and rip it in two. Northwestern strikes deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/28/campus/northwestern-strikes-deal-with-trump-administration-to-restore-federal-funding/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Shils again. Substitute MAGA for xenophobic nativists, Fox et al for Dearborn Independent, and Q for Elders of Zion. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/622/458/801/733/425/original/dfaa35909a9d5067.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Edward Shils on society: From "Primordial, Personal, Sacred and Civil Ties: Some Particular Observations on the Relationships of Sociological Research and Theory," The British Journal of Sociology, June, 1957. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/622/344/304/937/830/original/2e38e0edfb306a98.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Dystopia defined: Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/fox-news-palantir-ai-newsroom-tools npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Trump may have inadvertently issued mass pardon for 2020 voter fraud, experts say https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/25/trump-voter-fraud-pardon npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Well, well, well, imagine this: Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/iowa-city-free-buses.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The #MurdochJournal tries to justify Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff taking dictation from their puppet master, Putin. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/610/130/195/179/166/original/40ecd258c447c32a.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis He spent 37 days in jail for a Facebook post. Larry Bushart’s story is a warning to us all. https://www.ms.now/opinion/tennessee-man-jail-charlie-kirk-meme-warning npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis This is published about 40 years too late. The Intellectual and Moral Decline of the American Right https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/carlson-fuentes-heritage-foundation-maga/685014/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis When they tell you who they are, listen. They are racists, white nationalists, Nazis. U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/20/coast-guard-swastika-noose/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Orbanization: Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/warner-bros-discovery-takeover-paramount-skydance-larry-ellison npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Even before Mamdani takes office, the #BrokenTimes continues its vendetta against him and his "socialist policies." The Governor Can Show Mamdani Who Has the Mandate https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/opinion/hochul-mamdani-new-york-democrats.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Authors don't design covers... Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/18/authors-dumped-from-new-zealands-top-book-prize-after-ai-used-in-cover-designs npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Imagine a life so simple that you pin blame for all ills on a single factor: a screen. That's how the moral entrepreneurs Twenge (here) & Haidt make their livings. The #BrokenTimes enables *their* addiction. The Screen That Ate Your Child’s Education https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/opinion/laptop-classroom-test-scores.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis This could not be more noxious--private restaurants and elevators to take cars to your penthouses as "the acquisitive power of the very rich is soaring." A gift link to spark the revolution: The Ultrarich Are Spending a Fortune to Live in Extreme Privacy https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/the-ultrarich-are-spending-a-fortune-to-live-in-extreme-privacy-3f400e55?st=rpzTH8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Corruption at unprecedented levels with a murderous regime, a mark of totalitarian fascism but: "Blending family and governance" makes it sound like a harmless avocation. #BrokenTimes https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/556/267/858/750/063/original/e61530b7c7d60e66.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Calling this a "gaffe" is the #BrokenTimes' way to dismiss and forgive the right-wing defense of a white supremacist. Credulity in the excuse of racism is racism. In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/in-explaining-his-gaffe-heritage-foundation-leader-pleads-ignorance.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Yeah, I'll read this after I read Fetterman's autobiography -- which is to say, never. 7 takeaways from Cheryl Hines’s memoir https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/11/12/cheryl-hines-memoir-takeaways/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis ‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bosses https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2025/nov/10/make-no-mistake-this-was-a-coup-the-extraordinary-downfall-of-the-bbcs-top-bosses npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I can only hope that Kaine has bedhead because he lost sleep fucking over millions of uninsured Americans. He caved because he wants the votes of federal workers in Virginia. He lost the last shred of respect I still held for him. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/526/027/390/445/861/original/09f29e2e7ca15648.jpg npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I've been waiting for Alan Rusbridger's voice on the mess at the BBC. Here it is: The BBC is in a fight for its survival—it’s time Keir Starmer started paying attention https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/bbc-news/71528/the-bbc-is-in-a-fight-for-its-survival npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis MTG has made health-care subsidies her issue. Could she could lead a revolt to block the Dems' shitty deal? My only joy is that the House will have to come back and the Epstein motion will get its last signature. This is the upside-down world we find ourselves in. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Please. Democrat’s Win May Upend a Conservative Push in Virginia Universities https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/politics/spanberger-democrat-virginia-higher-education.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Even Ezra opposes the deal ... and then prevaricates. Democrats Were on a Roll. Why Stop Now? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/opinion/government-shutdown-democrats-republicans.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Goddamnit, you chickenshit, turncoat Democrats. The voters gave you a mandate and a spine on Tuesday and you're about to blow it. NO!. This is your one chance to protect healthcare. Stop! npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis It's Stupid's Economy. Almost Half of U.S. Imports Now Have Steep Tariffs https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/05/business/economy/trump-tariffs-us-imports.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis #BrokenTimes just asking coy questions. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/519/878/133/706/563/original/895d95b296851027.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis German journalism, as I said recently in Germany, are doing a much better job of covering Trump and the US than American journalists. For one, they call him stupid, which inspires this lead story in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: How stupid can you be? https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/514/652/579/906/327/original/d1f43fd10ccd9897.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The first web site I created at Advance in '95 was a weather site and we did a content partnership with--strange but true--the Almanac, bringing it online. Bye now. The Farmers’ Almanac reaches the end of the road after more than 200 years https://wapo.st/3JovX51 npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Illegitmate court on speed-dial to starve Americans... Supreme Court Pauses Order for Trump Administration to Pay Full SNAP Benefits https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-pauses-order-for-trump-administration-to-pay-full-snap-benefits-aff37071?st=jz8MrZ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Der Spiegel: "Trump no longer matters." This is about climate and how China now leads, but we can hope it will be an all-purpose headline.... https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/508/285/962/249/158/original/d33ed8fc56d61238.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis It's stupid's economy. U.S. orders 10% cut in flights at several airports as shutdown drags on https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2025/11/05/flight-cuts-shutdown-duffy/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis It is time to go, Chuck. You are the past. Go into an upstate old folks' home with your bitter friend, Cuomo. Schumer Never Endorsed Mamdani https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/schumer-never-endorsed-mamdani via @TPM npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The Bezos #BrokenPost is freaking out. Good. Zohran Mamdani’s success is a warning https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/03/zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor-election/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Just when you might begin to wonder whether beneath it all there might be a small glimmer of sanity.... Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/02/marjorie-taylor-greene-real-time-bill-maher npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Until election day, the #BrokenTimes keeps stirring the pot in its #MamdaniVendetta: If Elected, How Might Mamdani Use Mayoral Power in Ways That Affect Israel? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/nyregion/mamdani-boycott-israel.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis American Gestapo. That is not hyperbole. That is our reality: people arrested and jailed for their speech. A retired policeman posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/10/31/larry-bushart-charlie-kirk-jail/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Good news from sane(r) Europe: Dutch Voters Deliver Major Setback to Far-Right Party of Geert Wilders https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/world/europe/netherlands-elections-geert-wilders.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis They fear speech. Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/28/wole-soyinka-nobel-us-visa-trump npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I am so sick of the journalistic cliché and performative neo-Luddism of giving up technology. 48 Hours Without A.I. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/style/48-hours-without-ai.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I think there's consensus that we all should call it the Epstein Ballroom. And I propose renaming the rest the Gold House. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/440/075/665/895/287/original/4956f1c84dcd9264.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis No, no, #BrokenTImes, the left does not want its own Charlie Kirk. Only your Ezra Klein wants another Charlie Kirk (plus Douthat and and Stephens). And remember what the left had to say about that? https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/437/586/846/054/920/original/16457d9379eb2495.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I'm off to Munich to speak at Medientage München. My message: American democracy is dying. American mass media are dead, and deserve to be, as they did not protect democracy. Our only hope in the US is new and independent means for voices to heard. Europe should learn from America only how to avoid our fate. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Compare/contest with The Guardian. This is journalism. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/400/595/938/824/559/original/69bd55148607bf89.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Millions march against the fascism the #BrokenTimes is blind to. It now refuses to count their numbers and it muffles their voices in small, BTW headlines. This is not journalism. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/400/594/070/945/419/original/89b52b8d49145625.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Moi. New Providence, NJ. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/396/711/098/679/090/original/586166800034ac05.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Thank you, Ron Conway Marc Benioff's call for troops in SF leads tech investor Ron Conway to leave Salesforce Foundation board https://cnb.cx/3WIZxoC npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Fuck Salesforce. Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/salesforce-benioff-ice.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Pentagon "news" will come from the Federalist, the Epoch Times and One America News.... Hundreds of people cover the Pentagon. These are the 15 who signed its new press policy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/16/more-than-100-people-cover-pentagon-only-15-signed-its-new-press-policy/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Gary Marcus is right: specialized AI is more effective than the claims of the everything machine. I'll say that the pursuit of AGI is futile and is the ruin of the field. Chatbots Are a Waste of A.I.’s Real Potential https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/opinion/ai-specialized-potential.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I hate arch support in shoes and lumbar support in chairs. It's the nanny state of design. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I begged Der Spiegel to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/ https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/trumps-crusaders-christian-nationalists-are-gaining-a-solid-foothold-in-washington-a-643ab80d-fd36-4b45-924a-20fcef6b2e03 npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era: the Committee for the First Amendment https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/01/jane-fonda-committee-first-amendment-trump npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Times front pages after Charlie Kirk and two Minnesota legislators are shot. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/188/847/026/881/976/original/3f54026c4d67c01a.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/188/847/235/499/565/original/76bc0d634ec272dd.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Got my new COVID shot Saturday. No apparent ill effect. Get it, people, before Darth Kennedy takes it away in his campaign to kill us all. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis What Bernie says! Shame on Schumer, Jeffries, Gillibrand, Hochul. Bernie Sanders Assails Democrats for Not Endorsing Mamdani https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/nyregion/bernie-sanders-zohran-mamdani.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Lovely pan of Yudkowsky's AI doom-mongering by @StephenMarche, "The book reads like a Scientology manual, the text interspersed with weird, unhelpful parables and extra notes available via QR codes.... Following their unspooling tangents evokes the feeling of being locked in a room with the most annoying students you met in college while they try mushrooms for the first time." A.I. Bots or Us: Who Will End Humanity First? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/books/review/if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies-eliezer-yudowsky-nate-soares-ai-con-emily-bender-alex-hanna.html?smid=tw-share