Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 4hYeah, it is shopping, work from home, social media and probably 5 other things? The pandemic created an incentive for specific services and behaviors and some have stuck. 110
Reposted by Damon KiesowCarrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 7hVery cool - shared services for media cooperatives - things like bookkeeping, HR, graphic design, business analysis, ad operations, legal support. defector.com/shared-servi... May we see more cooperatives bloom!defector.comStart.coop's Shared Media Services Project | DefectorThe Challenge: Facing job loss and declining wages, more journalists are launching local, independent media organizations. They often get bogged down in building operational infrastructure, distractin... 033
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 8hBuzzword bingo, from 2006: kiesow.net/the-new-new-...kiesow.netThe (New) New Media Buzzwords of 2006It was twenty years ago today... that a bunch of us sat in a meeting room of the Westin Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island to talk about what on the Internet newspapers needed to pay attention to. It ... 010
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 21hIs it? Should have looked deeper on basic cable. LiveSoccerTv showed me this and hid TNT after the ad. 110
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 21hSo where are the USMNT on air? Basic cable, right? No, FS2 has Aruba v Anguilla Ah ha. Peacock has it. No, that is en Espanol. ESPN? No. Oh of course HBO Max. Obviously. 130
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 22hstatic.klipy.comBelieve It Or Not, Jail (Parks and Rec)ALT: Believe It Or Not, Jail (Parks and Rec) 020
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 28/09/2026How does one achieve such numbers and still persist in posting? 300
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 28/09/2026Everything not published on your owned-and-operated platform is marketing with either a temporary or non-existent ROI. And only web, newsletters and maybe apps are owned-and-operated. So that is the foundational truth of where content has to live if it is going to be subsidized by ads or readers. 021
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 27/09/2026Swarming is the right word here. Out-of-state companies imposing beta tests in the form of unrequested and unneeded services with costs on local communities that occur only at the scale required by digital profit seeking. 1104
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 26/09/2026So you are telling me the stories we make up in our heads about strangers we see on TV or social media are not a reliable and objective validation of my click-for-hire worldview? themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...themomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 061
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 25/09/2026Fascinatingly - it is an AI slop content farm living on a subdomain of www.stellantis.com/en 110
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 25/09/2026Holy fabricated footnotes, Batman! How much of this garbage does it take to actually destroy the average person's digital footprint? 130
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 25/09/2026EPL champions since 2018: Liverpool Liverpool Man United Liverpool Arsenal Arsenal Liverpool Arsenal 2101
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 25/09/2026Spokesman enters stage left as the Harley roars off. “This tech is too powerful to be left to just ANY tech company, especially those foreigners. But common sense moats I mean regulations will keep America safe and profitable.” 010
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 25/09/2026*Screen fades in to an OpenAI logo* Man smoking a cigarette, riding a Harley, wearing a cowboy hat rides into scene. “Our models are so advanced that standard human controls can barely contain it. You think you are man enough?” 110
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 24/09/2026Like - I don't believe in 'user error' but some people do threaten my beliefs. 110
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 24/09/2026If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a noise? If a newsroom publishes a daily report no one reads it, does it make a news desert? 010
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 24/09/2026Insert Yosemite Park joke about “the overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bear and dumbest tourist.” 120
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 24/09/2026This is direct path to businesses blocking incoming calls and requiring an online appointment and security deposit for a call back. 252
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 24/09/2026I have not done the math and it varies greatly but overall the meters are a lot lower than they used to be and there are more “none free” than 5 years ago. I don’t think I have seen a study on that and the balance of profit/public good that results. 020
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 24/09/2026And one assumes the solution to the subscription-access asymmetry is the same as it was in print - assuring the barrier is porous enough to allow casual and pass-along readership. Some are going too far to try and drive direct revenues and not considering the harms. 120
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 24/09/2026Are we being Punk’d here? Did Ashton Kutcher write this? www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgCan an AI feel pain? It can at least act like it doesStudy reignites debate over what, if anything, machines can feel 110
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 24/09/2026This is a news story not a history piece but worth noting both the canal and railroad boom led to massive fraud and stock market crashes. Famously so. 052
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 24/09/2026More on “cutting to profitability” from @dicktofel.bsky.social dicktofel.substack.com/p/mcclatchy-... 032
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 23/09/2026Can you imagine actually believing this and still going back in the office the next morning? 173
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 23/09/2026And AWS is people. Not like in the Soylent Green sense, one assumes. 010
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 23/09/2026Literally they have recreated the mechanical Turk www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...404media.coMeta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch." 1114
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 22/09/2026At this point arguing about micropayments for news is like arguing for flying unicorns. Sure, a few people might want them, but the laws of physics and nature and economics don’t care what you want. 190
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 22/09/2026AI promises to do for the Web what autodial and mail merge did for phone calls and phone calls: make it socially permissible to avoid and ignore. 031
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 22/09/2026The consolidation of local/regional newsrooms was a solution for “how do we increase revenues to prop up our stock price.” Unsurprisingly the solution has failed to improve local outcomes and so doubling down on tech and centralization is to rename that path and call it “change.” 010
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 22/09/2026There was a “golden age of profits” not a “golden age of journalism. “You glorify the past when the future dries up.” - Bono 130
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 22/09/2026What was the confusing part? That it is just the latest in a series of disasters? Sure, ture. But "dead for 15+ years" is hyperbole. There have been journalists in all of those markets doing good work the entire time - with few/any local options for locals to turn to in many cases. 100
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 22/09/2026Two primary mistakes above all the others here: 1) Believing that scale “outside our local markets” is the path to save journalism. 2) Believing that the wholesale use of AI to create slop is the path to compete with the overabundance of AI slop on the internet. 173
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 22/09/2026What a disaster: san.com/cc/inside-a-...san.comInside a newspaper chain’s transformation from local news to AI-generated ‘content’McClatchy Media didn’t wait a week after firing journalists before announcing hires for its new AI-powered “Content Innovation Lab.” 42714
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 22/09/2026Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hahaha ha ha ha ha hahahahahaha a a a 011
Reposted by Damon KiesowTony Elkins @tonyelkins.com · 21/09/2026Who needs real Indigenous voices when you can just have AI create them? This is truly, truly, fucked. I don't have a better way to say it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.ca‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC NewsThe website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t... 48536