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Burt Herman

@burtherman.com
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Intersection of journalism, technology and community. Founder @hackshackers.com, leading conversations about the potential of AI. Former AP correspondent, co-founder Storify

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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 05/06/2026
I find this article pretty incomprehensible - what is the status of the $1.8 billion fund in the wake of the Senate vote? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...
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Senate Passes $70 Billion G.O.P. Immigration Bill
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Hacks/Hackers @hackshackers.com · 27/05/2026
We made Hacks/Hackers' site accessible to AI agents, and they're already showing up. An llms.txt file leads agents to our MCP server to search archives, and we added "Ask" AI buttons for readers to send pre-filled prompts to Claude or ChatGPT. What we did here: hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-a...
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Hacks/Hackers @hackshackers.com · 20/05/2026
Forget hotel ballrooms. Our AI x Journalism Summit was in a former warehouse, with no cushioned chairs and rooms where people sometimes sat on the floor. It fit the vibe we were going for: Not perfection, but ready to build. hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-u... hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-r...
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 19/05/2026
Confession: I have walked around odd places with my laptop open so AI agents can keep coding. Using AI is like having superpowers, but it's also keeping me up at night. I talked about it for my opening of the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit: hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-u...
Burt Herman walking around with an open laptop in an office building so AI agents can keep working on his computer
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Hacks/Hackers @hackshackers.com · 07/05/2026
What does it take for a small newsroom to ship with AI? Cohort 2 of our Newsroom AI Lab — Bellingcat, Trusting News, Prison Journalism Project — shows the pattern: define the real problem, externalize the unwritten judgment, build only what fits. hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-c...
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 29/04/2026
This is the place where anyone who has the letters "A" and "I" in their job title and works in journalism will be next month. See you there soon, and join us if you haven't yet registered!
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 22/04/2026
What does it look like when a story shapes itself based on who's reading? I built a demo that tailors summaries of new NYC mayor Mamdani's statements based on your context. Publishers need a new platform to enable experiences like this: a Context Management System: hackshackers.com/r/2026-04-co...
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The Content Management System Is Dead. Long Live the Context Management System.
Generative AI is unraveling the finished-article model. What replaces it is a system built on context: raw reporting, flagged analysis and journalism as the verification layer. Plus a proof-of-concept...
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Hacks/Hackers @hackshackers.com · 14/04/2026
12 new sessions at the AI x Journalism Summit: ProPublica on secure local models, Baltimore Banner's News Detector, WBEZ on Whisper, Boston Globe on build/buy/ignore, two Google sessions. $95 tickets end today. One month out — May 13–14. luma.com/hh-aijournalismsummit-2026
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 03/01/2026
Having been on the ground in other countries the U.S. has claimed to run in the wake of military action (Iraq, Afghanistan), having American officials actually there taking over the government and military is usually a prerequisite -- although in no way assures the U.S. actually runs anything
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 03/01/2026
Who is on the ground in Venezuela from the US to “run the country” according to Trump’s statement?
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 19/12/2025
Strava is one of the best social networking experiences - people supporting each other in athletic achievement. Nextdoor is one of the worst - neighbors griping, jumping to conclusions, bickering, bringing politics to unrelated issues, borderline or outright racism and prejudice.
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 24/09/2025
This angle from The Verge seemed missing from much of the other coverage www.theverge.com/policy/78370...
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Despite crowning himself the headliner, Trump couldn’t win over Charlie Kirk’s mourners
At Kirk’s memorial service, Christian nationalism upstaged the president’s vindictiveness.
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 09/09/2025
Apple found a new person to say “a-loo-min-ee-um”
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 02/09/2025
Spotted in the neighborhood recently, whose car could this possibly be? @semafor.com @semaforben.bsky.social
Car with a personalized license plate that reads “SEMAFOR”
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 08/08/2025
Spotted in front of the Cobble Hill funeral home. I wonder who died?
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 07/08/2025
The AI overview feature in Google is so shockingly bad, it’s amazing that the company has released it to users. It regularly confabulates and hallucinates results, mixing facts together, undermining confidence in Google altogether — and likely is driving people even more to other AI products.
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 29/07/2025
Some of the best writing about the self-sabotaging and hypocritical acts of the current US administration come from @electrek.co and specifically @jamesondow.bsky.social electrek.co/2025/07/29/e...
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EPA's chief saboteur, Lee Zeldin, announces plan to delete climate science
Zeldin announced plans to end the EPA's "endangerment finding," which is the scientific recognition that climate pollution harms humans.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A sad day for press freedom in the United States. This was a frivolous lawsuit and the payment being described as a “settlement” is more accurately labeled a payoff. Trump’s presidential library will be a permanent monument to Paramount’s surrender. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...
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Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 08/06/2025
Nothing new here that rising authoritarianism eventually leads to a clash between the regime and oligarchy -- see Russia in the early 2000s, Khodorkovsky: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail...
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Wikipedia
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 02/06/2025
After AI can do all the jobs, at least us humans will still have CAPTCHAs to keep us busy
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 29/05/2025
This looks like what Apple Intelligence should have been by now: www.macstories.net/stories/sky-...
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From the Creators of Shortcuts, Sky Extends AI Integration and Automation to Your Entire Mac
Over the course of my career, I’ve had three distinct moments in which I saw a brand-new app and immediately felt it was going to change how I used my computer – and they were all about empowering peo...
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 13/05/2025
What a tool Eric Adams is for just getting free plane tickets. Next time he should’ve just asked for the whole plane.
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 07/05/2025
We are live at the first-ever @hackshackers.com AI x Journalism Summit! Thanks to @therealnews.com for hosting us in Baltimore. Here’s our program for the next two days: bit.ly/hh-ai-journa...
A movie theater marquee showing the Hacks/Hackers AI X Journalism Summit
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 22/04/2025
The words “policy structure” are doing a lot of work here … “It’s impossible to commit capital to an economy that is unstable and unknowable because of policy structure.” stocks.apple.com/Ah5l2eW48RRu...
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Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send ‘No Confidence’ Signal — The Wall Street Journal
Few think administration’s negotiations with trade partners will yield results soon enough to ease the strain
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection... But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 10/04/2025
This is not The Onion: www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Makes America’s Showers Great Again
UNDOING THE LEFT’S WAR ON WATER PRESSURE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and make
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 09/04/2025
The only certainty is that nothing is certain. The only stability is the lack of stability. The only principle is there are no principles. The only way to make sense of things is to assume nothing makes sense. We are living in the upside down world.
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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
There's no logical or moral or strategic defense for what we're doing right now. It's an idiotic plan being implemented with a level of incompetence that has no possible explanation.
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 08/04/2025
Big win for @apnews.com for standing up for the First Amendment, a lesson for many others who bend the knee apnews.com/article/trum...
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AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists
A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 06/04/2025
National security officials … they’re clueless about tech just like your parents, clicking whatever pops up on devices without reading it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat
Internal investigation cleared the national security adviser Mike Waltz, but the mistake was months in the making
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Joanna Stern @joannastern.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Trump's tariffs could increase the cost of an iPhone 16 Pro by almost $300. Who pays for it? Us or Apple? And if we moved iPhone manufacturing to the U.S.? Let’s just say… get ready for a bajillion-dollar iPhone. We broke down the bill of materials. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 02/04/2025
Because the last month as the worst in the markets in years wasn't enough recognition of "America's renewed strength"
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 02/04/2025
I can hardly wait to be "liberated" today from my own retirement savings and investments, then pay more for everything, so that we can be "liberated" from our allies and friends across the world. The goal is clearly the opposite - to subjugate citizens and isolate the U.S.
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 01/04/2025
Heart-wrenching story that shows the real suffering by people who served their country and deserve far better, victimized by the reckless chainsaw of DOGE (also see comments with replies from reporter Eli Saslow): www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...
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After DOGE Targeted V.A., an Iraq Veteran Faced Uncertainty and Crisis
A veteran who returned from Iraq injured and transformed, Joy Marver is now facing a crisis at home.
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 31/03/2025
Does any actual news come from these White House briefings? Are any substantive questions answered or new information revealed? www.axios.com/2025/03/30/w...
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Scoop: White House to take charge of briefing-room seating chart
It's the latest effort by the White House to take a heavier hand in shaping who covers Trump.
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 30/03/2025
I get it, @nytimes.com — you’re supposed to get White House comment. But how do printing these flagrant lies and repetition of the propaganda slogan serve any journalistic purpose?
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 30/03/2025
Fight, deny, don’t cave to the media. Why push someone out, when by keeping them on board, they owe you even more and will stay more loyal. Looking at the current administration with old filters won’t help to explain things. Look to how authoritarian leaders act.
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 22/03/2025
First the billionaires caved, and I did not speak out for I was not a billionaire. Then the universities caved, and I did not speak out because I was not a university. The law firms caved, and I did not speak out because I was not a law firm. And now there’s the rest of us. We are still many.
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 21/03/2025
Just asking for a friend: Who are these random school kids in the background with Trump when he announced the dismantling of the Department of Education?
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 18/03/2025
“Don’t panic, organize” by 4th Ave Yarn Collective
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 11/03/2025
Excited to welcome @bsky.app COO @rose.bsky.team to the @hackshackers.com AI x Journalism House. She brought “Mundus Sine Caesaribus” stickers!
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 10/03/2025
Wrapping up the day with Der Spiegel at the @hackshackers.com AI x Journalism House during SXSW. We have a full day coming up tomorrow, join us: lu.ma/aj74ayou
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 10/03/2025
MAGA’s nostalgia for the past apparently includes pulling stock prices down to their previous levels as well
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 10/03/2025
All-star panel @rubinafillion.nytimes.com @aimeetwoee.bsky.social & Elin Wieslander moderated by @pcheung630.bsky.social at the @hackshackers.com AI x Journalism House during SXSW
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 10/03/2025
Kicking off our AI x Journalism House here during @sxsw.com at @texastribune.org with @cnti.bsky.social. Join us if you’re in Austin: lu.ma/aj74ayou
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 08/03/2025
I've been an Apple fan for decades, and always get the latest iPhone. But I'm starting to feel like the delays with Apple Intelligence mean I'm falling further behind the latest technology and wondering if I should switch ... daringfireball.net/2025/03/appl...
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Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features
This announcement is disappointing, but unsurprising. If it’s Apple’s general policy not to ship a product before it’s ready, that applies tenfold for a product involving LLM access to deeply private ...
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 03/03/2025
Remembering the @apnews.com win last year at the Academy Awards for telling the story of the Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol www.ap.org/media-center...
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AP, Frontline documentary ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ wins Academy Award® for ‘Best Documentary Feature Film’ | The Associated Press
A powerful, first-person view of the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, “20 Days in Mariupol” is told through the perspective of Ukrainian filmmaker and AP video journalist Mstyslav...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
18F staffers- who were summarily fired en masse overnight- issue statement expressing shock, bewilderment: "18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated."
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 19/02/2025
Stay strong, @apnews.com! The attempt to censor the AP Stylebook is against everything the U.S. Constitution and First Amendment are about.
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Burt Herman @burtherman.com · 16/02/2025
Principles don’t change based on how the political winds blow. When people do make changes, they reveal what their true principles are.
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