Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product strategy at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
A market had opened up for illiberal transgressions, no matter how banal and empty. According to Marx, cultural inertia accelerated this development. “We see how this cultural stagnation has political consequences,” he writes, adding that the MAGA movement’s “rejection of liberal values” had been taking shape in a reactionary subculture that seized on a vacuum in the mainstream. “This long-term project to rebrand conservatism as cool and transgressive succeeded precisely because we removed cultural invention as a potential countervailing force.”
When the conservative town of Ogdensburg, New York, lost its paper for two years recently, leaders there rallied to revive it. Republican leader James E. Reagen of St. Lawrence County suggested that misinformation spread more rapidly when the Ogdensburg paper shut down. “Once the Journal closed down so many people were turning to social media, to... See more
How high school sports coverage can save democracy - Poynter
social.coop - a mastodon server that charges a membership fee
Local News & Information and Local Digital Social Networks
“a newsroom that empowers its audience” - in the Tenderloin, SF, CA
We are hungry for experts, sense makers and curators.
The problem, now so drastically different from a decade ago, is not what to read/buy/eat/watch/etc but what is the best thing to read/buy/eat/watch/etc.
people are hungry for curation
End User Authoring of Personalized Content Classifiers: Comparing Example Labeling, Rule Writing, and LLM Prompting
arxiv.orgIn this work, we compare three strategies—(1) example labeling, (2) rule writing, and (3) large language model (LLM) prompting—for end users to build personal content classifiers
But the presence of normies was what made social media worth tuning into. In their wake, like detritus on a once busy beach, there will be only dry corporate marketing, A.I.-generated slop, and dreck from thirsty hustlers attempting to monetize a dwindling audience of voyeurs.
