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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Big Tech took control of the ad infrastructure and money, the biggest social media platforms have been consistently tightening the noose on social referrals to news orgs for years and now AI is devastating search traffic. This is not going to be a survivable environment for lots of news publishers.

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Mira Rojanasakul @rjnskl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

really appreciating the amount of petty grievance there is in the geographic file format universe switchfromshapefile.org

A big red "no" sign on top of an icon that denotes a shapefile file format.

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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible content in this thread

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 28/09/2026

Fall colors in northern MN are so vibrant right now you can see it from space

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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Big big Mapping Prejudice data update today: We have updated our Washington DC racial covenants data to include 20,000+ covenants that were previously identified by our collaborators at Mapping Segregation DC. The combined DC dataset is now at 27,600 covenanted parcels (and counting!).

A map of racial covenants in Washington DC. Covenants, marked as green polygons, cover wide swaths of the District outside the central city, most densely to the north and northeast. Other large patches are present in the southwest and southeast portions of the district.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 24/09/2026

@notalawyer.bsky.social Now that Sarah Isgur is taking over Ross Douthat's podcast, I think an Isgur episode is in order

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 22/09/2026

Only $26! That's the price of a chai latte these days!

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 17/09/2026

Kurt Vonnegut, writing in 1959

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 16/09/2026

Huge fix. I couldn't fathom why they left that two-block gap when they re-did Lake. Still can't. And the southbound Hennepin issue - a good fix for that intersection and good to finally address the delivery delivers issue, but doesn't this just move the bike path/bike lane mismatch down a block?

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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Cap Times gets at what the UW would rather you not know in this story: Scheufele was a true star of the school, offered to media to speak on big, important and accessible topics. His is a recognizable name off campus.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

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Star Tribune Going Out @stribgoingout.startribune.com · 03/09/2026

Threading the 2026 MN State Fair 4-H Llama and Alpaca costume contest contestants here because you deserve it 😇

Llama and owner dressed up in a Mamma Mia theme

Llama and owner dressed up in back to school theme

Llama and owner dressed up in curious George theme

Llama and owner dressed up as thing 1 and thing 2

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 12/08/2026

You're telling me Neil Young released a melancholy 11-minute song that sounds like it's from Harvest Moon? Fall begins TODAY.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 11/08/2026

As always, @cchurchili.bsky.social knocked it out of the park with this piece. He showed me the spreadsheet he was using to manually research the name of every major U.S. city nearly a year ago! You gotta appreciate the dedication. www.wsj.com/us-news/how-...

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How 10,000 American Cities Got Their Names

The federal government used to catalog the origins of town names nationwide. A 334-page report reveals the influences that shaped American communities as they spread across the country.

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Jordan van der Hagen @thejvandy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

City Like a Burnt Marshmallow. Minneapolis, Minnesota

A quiet downtown Minneapolis street lined with tall buildings and the historic Murray’s restaurant sign, looking toward a hazy, warmly lit skyscraper in the distance.

A busy downtown Minneapolis intersection beneath a smoky peach-colored sky, framed by the Foshay Tower, reflective office buildings, traffic, and pedestrians.

U.S. Bank Stadium viewed from a tree-lined park in downtown Minneapolis, silhouetted against a dramatic orange sky filled with smoke and morning light.

The Minneapolis skyline seen across a mostly empty surface parking lot, with the low sun and heavy haze casting a soft orange glow over the buildings.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 15/07/2026

The fires in the Boundary Waters and Canada are dumping smoke all over the Great Lakes and Minnesota this week. The AQI in Duluth this afternoon is over 500. My latest for the Strib. www.startribune.com/wildfire-smo...

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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

for as much as social media is sold to reporters as being a necessary tool for reporting, i learned that it's really not. literally just making one five minute phone call to a real person, or going to some random event of no news value, is infinitely more productive than reading posts

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 10/07/2026

Not according to a majority of the 2,000 Strib readers who submitted to our Uptown project www.startribune.com/we-asked-whe...

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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This fun shot is the exact site of "Silver Cascade", a fantastic waterfall where Tuttle's Creek once entered the river from @dinkytown.bsky.social. In 1883 the falls were cut off from their source by the railroad, then the whole creek was buried in 1899. Water still wants to go here though!

Black and white image of the majestic "silver cascade", from dry glass plate negative by Illingworth in 1868. The St Paul & Pacific rail line had already gone through just above it on a trestle. As the line was widened for the Stone Arch Bridge in 1883, the falls began to disappear.

1903 sanborne insurance map with the lost falls and creek circled in red. The quadruple track of the Great Northern transcontinental railway is just north of it, the Stone Arch Bridge is off sheet on the left.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026

When Google strips all this away by harvesting an "answer" and displaying it at the top of the page, the bargain between Google and the open web breaks down. Google is extracting 100% of the value from the websites it summarizes, and giving nothing back in return. 7/

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 29/06/2026

There's no evidence of Nicholson entering the capitol or committing any violence. He said he was there to "show my support for the greatest president of my lifetime."

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 29/06/2026

In response, Nicholson said he left the area "when things turned violent." However, our analysis shows he was well past a security barricade that had earlier been violently overtaken by Proud Boys militia members. He was there after the capitol had been breached and police issued a call to disperse.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 29/06/2026

Walker got a tip that Brian Nicholson was on the capitol grounds during the Jan. 6 attack. We analyzed over a hundred videos released in a hack of the conservative social media site Parler in 2021, and placed Nicholson near the capitol steps around 3 p.m. that day.

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Robber Fly @robber-fly.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We need more books connecting us to place. We need to learn all these ways of looking at our relationships to place. I’m keen to get my hands on this book!

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 26/06/2026

We've reached one fifth of our fundraising goal to support laid of Strib journalists. If you relied on our coverage of Operation Metro Surge this winter, please consider a donation. Many of those who lost their jobs covered the operation. workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/st...

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Support laid off Star Tribune workers! | Working Partnerships

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Star Tribune Guild @startribuneguild.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Editors, fact-checkers, designers and news assistants at the Minnesota Star Tribune are losing their jobs today. Anything you can donate to help our laid-off journalists is greatly appreciated. Can’t donate? Share this post to boost our efforts.

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Support laid off Star Tribune workers! | Working Partnerships

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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 03/06/2026

if you appreciated the reporting during the occupation of minneapolis, then you probably have someone in this room to thank for it.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 03/06/2026

Would love to see your talk if it goes online.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 03/06/2026

This comes on top of the decision last fall to move printing operations to Iowa, layoff 125 printing plant employees, and sell the printing plant building. It appears their management decisions have not sufficiently improved cashflow.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 03/06/2026

This is a direct attack on the staff that just won a Pulitzer Prize for our work and has been widely praised — including by management — for its efforts. The Guild will fight this decision."

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 03/06/2026

The argument made by Star Tribune management that these layoffs are going to improve our company in any way, shape or form lacks any foundation in reality.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 03/06/2026

from attacks on lawmakers in the middle of the night to the shooting at Annunciation Church and School and Operation Metro Surge. The impact of those stories is felt by everyone in this newsroom.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 03/06/2026

"Our union has always prided itself on covering the most difficult and beautiful stories that take place in Minnesota. That collective effort in the past year included covering events that shook the state —

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 03/06/2026

The Star Tribune will be laying off 15% of its staff, including many who worked tirelessly to cover the Hortman assassinations, the Annunciation school shooting, social services fraud and Operation Metro Surge. Here is the statement from the Star Tribune Guild that represents newsroom employees:

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Tom Dixon @twdixon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Don't be shy. Tell people where they can preorder! I'll start... Amazon and Belt Publishing

Image of preorder confirmation showing November 17 delivery date

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 02/06/2026

A personal favorite - page 1 of a 2-page spread showing the very alive Minnesota River's restless ramblings. Shoutout to @geo-coe.bsky.social for the excellent work he's done developing relative elevation models and creating tutorials so anyone can experiment with the coolest way to look at a river.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 02/06/2026

A Beacon Set on A Hill — where John Ireland's vision for a prominent symbol of faith holds true to this day: all the spots where you can see the Cathedral of Saint Paul.

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