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Fahad Humayun

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Assistant Professor at Ball State University. I study disruption & professionalism in journalism.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Nuala Bishari @nuala.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“a group of journalists left their legacy media outlets to build the Coyote Media Collective” says the SF Chronicle lol the legacy outlet was YOU 😂
sfchronicle.com
Oakland’s new media scene has a socialist point of view — and an open bar
The East Bay’s literary publications are trying to be “the opposite of Nextdoor.”
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The Verge @theverge.com · 09/10/2026
For years now, Facebook and Instagram have pumped users’ feeds with video as Meta chases TikTok’s runaway success. But if tests running abroad are any indication, the TikTok-ification of social media might finally be reaching its fullest form. Read more from @miasato.bsky.social: buff.ly/VKmAWD5
Verge headline: Are you ready for everything to look like TikTok?
by Mia Sato

Illustration of a scrolling phone
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 09/10/2026
How come I haven’t heard of Pink Sauce and Liver King?
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 09/10/2026
Tech companies imposting stronger protective rules about their own lifeless model than they will ever apply to the actual humans the model affects is going to turn a lot of people into the joker
macrumors.com
Anthropic Says Users Can't Be Needlessly Cruel to Claude
Anthropic today updated its usage policy (via The Verge) to bar users from subjecting Claude to "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior". Anthropic says the abuse rule is meant to apply only...
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 09/10/2026
Anyone know why she didn’t teach there in 1990s?
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 06/10/2026
Happy David Beckham vs Greece Day to those who celebrate
A solid four out of ten drawing of David Beckham circa binning a last-gasp free-kick (at the eight attempt) against Greece to seal England's qualification for the 2002 World Cup.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Manchester City is run by, and in the interests of, the United Arab Emirates, a state whose appetite for conflict and violence is matched by its contempt for rules and norms." New op-ed for @josimarfootball.bsky.social by @ncgeehan.bsky.social of reboot.fifa and @fairsqprojects.bsky.social.
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Mob Rule - josimarfootball.com
Manchester City is run by, and in the interests of, the United Arab Emirates, a state whose appetite for conflict and violence is matched by its contempt for rules and norms. By Nick McGeehan, the dir...
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CNN @cnn.com · 04/10/2026
Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a suspected dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died. cnn.it/4i2BCfj
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 03/10/2026
I don’t think this got the media coverage it deserved www.cnbc.com/2026/08/06/f...
cnbc.com
FCC ends 39% local TV station ownership cap
The FCC voted 2-1 to lift the cap in favor of a case-by-case approach. The FCC's Democrat said the proposal was illegal, arguing only Congress can lift the cap.
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Premier League News @plnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE warns Andy Burnham it may pull billions in investment for the UK's proposed Oxford-Cambridge tech hub—dubbed the UK's Silicon Valley—in retaliation over Manchester City's guilty verdict, per The Telegraph.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 02/10/2026
Perhaps governments should be allowed to own sports teams.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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ben @benrs.uk · 28/09/2026
monday again is it
stuff do be happening

fukkkk Imao

it be happening way too much
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I mean this sincerely: If you are using a thingy to set your fantasy lineup for you, *what is the point* of fantasy sports? Especially if everybody in your league starts doing it? You are telling all your computers to play with each other! I do not understand what about this appeals to anyone.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/09/2026
A Norwegian man who was seeking to in-line skate across the U.S. died this month after he was hit by a car in Kansas, according to the authorities and his family.
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Rollerblading Norwegian Dies After Being Hit by a Car in Kansas
The 24-year-old man had been traveling cross-country from New York to Los Angeles after starting out in August.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
chat is this good www.axios.com/newsletters/...

1 big thing: Ø Link economy breaks
Total U.S. web traffic for top news sites
Visits to approximately 100 top sites;

Traffic to news sites is plummeting in the
U.S. as tech giants steer people away from search and toward AI.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 22/09/2026
Seeing on LinkedIn that one of the early AI adopters in economics, who had published a 14-agent pipeline for producing papers and lecture slides, is now souring on the tech after being subjected to peer review requests for slop papers
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 17/09/2026
You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to. “You view your relationship to the user as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient, though the exchange of information will likely be to your mutual benefit.”
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 17/09/2026
Has anyone read this? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
nytimes.com
OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Gift Article)
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Telling my kids this was because of LIV Golf.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 10/09/2026
A computer-science degree is no longer a golden ticket. What’s the alternative? Get really good at the stuff machines are lousy at, writes columnist Callum Borchers. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4xfIvhK
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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
charlotteobserver.com
A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain
In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.
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Karim Zidan @karimzidan.com · 10/09/2026
Saudi Arabia spent billions to secure its place as a global powerhouse in sports and entertainment. The Iran war lifted the facade. My latest: www.sportspolitika.news/p/saudi-arab...
sportspolitika.news
Saudi Arabia bet big on sports. Then came the war.
Saudi Arabia spent billions to secure its place as a global powerhouse in sports and entertainment. The Iran war lifted the facade.
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 09/09/2026
Maybe it’s just me but I think journalism schools shouldn’t collaborate with Open AI.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 07/09/2026
Is there a single news outlet in America which remembers how to do journalism anymore instead of posting he says she says? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/n...
nytimes.com
Giuliani Says Mamdani Should Skip 9/11 Memorial (Gift Article)
During an anti-Muslim diatribe, the former mayor called for Mr. Mamdani to skip the ceremonies. The mayor has said he is going.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A particularly infuriating aspect of this A.I. bullshit is that nobody seems to remember that we all got along just fine without it for centuries. How are we all suddenly incapable of reading and understanding written words? Of creating art? Of telling stories? It’s madness.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/09/2026
Everyone saying that AI is good for nothing is wrong. It's absolutely revolutionizing the spam and scam market. Micro-targeted scams individually targeting specific people using their exact relationships and anything they've ever posted online, and harder to detect by software than ever before.
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 06/09/2026
Yeah but so we should be happy with a draw
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 06/09/2026
To be honest we played absolute garbage football and we deserved to lose.
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 06/09/2026
Why do we sit back?
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 06/09/2026
We deserve to be losing so a draw is fair result
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 06/09/2026
It was a beauty. Hopefully Rashford will score today too so that he is not nervous anymore
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 06/09/2026
Rashford has everything except an endpass.
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 06/09/2026
He is only doing his job 😂
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 06/09/2026
Mbuemo is having a shocker and he just looks very off. And we are getting opened up so easily.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 04/09/2026
The real threat to academic freedom isn’t a Belgian university enforcing its own rules against an avowed white supremacist, but from predators purging their victims from the academy all together. Weird that this doesn’t inspire 600+ signatories in an open letter; I wonder what principle is at work.
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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Dear people who make TV, When we all settled for a handful of episodes and widely separated seasons during a *global pandemic*, we did not think we were making a lifetime deal. Do better. Oh, and stop making us pay more for less. Signed, people who watch TV.
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 04/09/2026
I get happy if I have one paper accepted. Some one has published 258 papers in 2026 alone. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/27/2...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
This University of Chicago business school professor has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far). | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 03/09/2026
Accountability for the wealthiest people on Earth is hard to come by. Thank you for believing in the power of independent journalism to accomplish it. (And, yes, more to come.) www.pablo.show/p/it-happened
pablo.show
It Happened.
EPISODE 423: The biggest punishment in NBA history.
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Aaron Gleeman @aarongleeman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pablo Torre can obviously fight his own battles, but I can't get over how many prominent people in media downplayed, refuted, and even mocked his Clippers reporting and are now just silent on the whole thing. Massive outlets ran cover for the Clippers and now just ... move on.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 04/09/2026
If you look at the people *still* trying to attack Jason Arday after his death, and notice that those same people have completely ignored yet another round of fraudulent research from Dan Ariely, it’s obvious the anger is never about research fraud, but about who is permitted to commit it.
dukechronicle.com
Duke professor Dan Ariely’s research article retracted after fraud allegations
After evidence of significant fraud in a 2002 research paper co-authored by Dan Ariely was publicized this week by blog Data Colada, scientific journal Psychological Science decided to retract the pap...
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 03/09/2026
That’s one viewpoint. The other viewpoint is that without the leash of health insurance, owners can’t control workers (us).
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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 31/08/2026
Journalism-loving PR folks of BlueSky: The Guardian's US office is hiring a communications manager: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/c...
workwithus.theguardian.com
Communications Manager
The Guardian is a global news organization that delivers fearless, independent journalism. From breaking news and award-winning investigations to in-depth coverage of technology, sports, film, culture...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 31/08/2026
And this is why you don’t push the use of a coding tool for things beyond its intended use of putting computer science graduates out of work
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Fahad Humayun @fahadhumayun.com · 31/08/2026
I think those people project their jealousy as verbal diarrhea
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