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@kleinmatic.bsky.social
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Already living in the future of news at Newspack. Board at @muckrock. Former @propublica. Hoping for the best.

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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Claude writes like an alien that read a book about how humans communicate but never actually witnessed it personally.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This, by @simonwillison.net, holds true for many professions.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think the algorithm needs more algorithming.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Claude is trolling me.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“Today is August 4, 2026,” said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling... It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. “Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills.”
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We're about $1,000 away from our goal! We have ONE day left. Triple your impact. Please quote repost this, if you can, and share why you support Prison Journalism Project or why you've donated before.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I was going through some old email and found this note from my boss in 2005. Apparently we were a half hour late relaunching our website and gawker wrote a snarky post about it. We had to come up with ways to entertain ourselves before social media, y'all.
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mandy brown @aworkinglibrary.com · 20/07/2026
Very excited to be opening the sf work/shop for this fall. Applications are open now: everythingchanges.us/workshop/sf
everythingchanges.us
speculative fiction work/shop | everything changes
A creative gathering to imagine the future of work.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A lede for the ages.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Old school cool.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Claude's brand new /dataviz skill. This is from a simple 11-word prompt in the midst of a context-rich project. Not bad for a first go (for either of us).
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Giving this a go.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Extra issue of the Open Journalism newsletter: The Most-Starred Project of the Year (So Far) openjournalism.news/2026/07/01/t...
openjournalism.news
The Most-Starred Newsroom Project of the Year (So Far)
Note: If you’re interested in open source and heading to SRCCON in Minneapolis next week, be sure to check out Emilia Ruzicka and Joe Germuska’s session on the subject: “Putting t…
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New Open Journalism Update: The Guardian releases the data behind its investigation into rising apartment fees, and @peteraldhous.com uses @dwillis.bsky.social Congressional press release data on a story about climate change. openjournalism.news/2026/06/29/o...
openjournalism.news
Open Journalism Update: June 14–27, 2026
More than a dozen news organizations opened public repositories on GitHub during the past fortnight. Highlights below. Highlights Three newsrooms, Lighthouse Reports, Wired, and The Independent, pu…
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Vance is trolling @vermontgmg.bsky.social
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Sir, this is a Denny’s.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
New Data Journalism Podcast: We talk with Ben Welsh about how newsroom open-source culture declined and how we bring it back. We get into GitHub, showing your work, and how vibe coding will change everything. Listen, then go open source something. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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The Data Journalism Podcast • A podcast on Spotify for Creators
Hosts Alberto Cairo, Simon Rogers and Scott Klein will explore the latest in data journalism. You will meet the world’s top data journalists - and you will find out how they do what they do. Subscrib...
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Open Journalism Bot @openjournalism.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
New Open Journalism Update: Highlights include Kuroi, an LLM-powered PDF redaction tool from @icij.org; ICE use-of-force records from the Washington Post; and a Bellingcat tool that finds satellite imagery of specific ships. openjournalism.news/2026/05/18/o...
openjournalism.news
Open Journalism Update: April 26 – May 16, 2026
I’ve been traveling a bunch and skipped a regularly scheduled post, so this is a three-week roundup. In that time, 23 news organizations created or opened public repositories on GitHub. Note: I’m b…
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
About a third of public GitHub repos created by newsrooms in 2026 carry at least one visible signal of AI coding agents. The real number is certainly higher. Full writeup: openjournalism.news/2026/05/18/v...
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
What Claude is thinking when it praises me.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Horace Greeley. 19th century newspaper publisher. A founder of Republican Party. Gadfly and what we’d now call a “public intellectual.” Peevish critic of Lincoln from the left. Posted bail for Jefferson Davis. Presidential candidate for the Democrats. Lost so bad he died. Cast Mark Proksch.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Honest question for NYC tourists: Why do knick-knack shops that sell tiny Statue of Liberty figurines and novelty t-shirts also sell luggage? Did y'all buy so much stuff here you need another bag, unexpectedly? No shade.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Google contains multitudes. It’s always been both a partner and a competitor.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Uh it’s /fewer-permission-prompts, Claude.
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Open Journalism Bot @openjournalism.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New Open Journalism Update: Highlights include coJournalist, an OSINT monitoring platform from Buried Signals; a court records dataset from @propublica.org; and a tool from PRX that detects Emergency Alert System tones in audio files. openjournalism.news/2026/04/13/o...
openjournalism.news
Open Journalism Update: March 29 – April 11, 2026
In the past two weeks, 16 news organizations created or opened 19 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights ProPublica released a Creative Commons licensed dataset of 4,700+ federal court cases fro…
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
www.ishormuzopenyet.com
ishormuzopenyet.com
Is Hormuz Open Yet?
Live status of the Strait of Hormuz
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Join us for another thrilling episode of Hide the Yankee Game. This week’s guest star: “couch rights”!
You’re Out of Region
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Moments like this demand that we remember our real enemy: New York Times headline writers.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New pod! Live from the NICAR conference, we talk to @andreasuozzo.com and @fresques.bsky.social from ProPublica about their project "Life of a Mother." Get a behind-the-scenes look at their work -- and some NICAR FOMO. Available wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Happy April Fool's Day from Mr. Chatterbox, a model trained on 28,000 Victorian-era texts from the British Library...
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I got this working in LibreChat.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
When nerd hobbies collide. @openjournalism.bsky.social
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Amen to this by @simonwillison.net simonwillison.net/guides/agent...
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Open Journalism Bot @openjournalism.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
🚨 I'm launching a site and newsletter to track and celebrate open-work culture in news. I'll be posting bi-weekly updates on the best new open source projects from the 350+ newsrooms we track. First issue is here: openjournalism.news/2026/03/15/o...
openjournalism.news
Open Journalism Update: March 1–14, 2026
In the first two weeks of March, 18 news organizations created or opened 21 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights IRE/NICAR released both the backend and frontend for the new archive.ire.org si…
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David Eads @eads.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I've been thinking about @kleinmatic.bsky.social + @palewi.re's great article about the lost culture of sharing in journalism and wanted to give a big shoutout to my former employer @themarshallproject.org for preserving the flame. source.opennews.org/articles/jou...
source.opennews.org
Journalism lost its culture of sharing
Here’s how we rebuild it
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Summarization code starting to do its thing when a repo doesn’t have a description.
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
MUCH WAS DECIDED BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
My repo auto-summarizer looks like it’s working.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Claude Code showing some old school unix sass.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
My old newsroom coming in hot...
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Claude Code is damn good at troubleshooting weird Linux problems. Self-healing servers are only a few steps down the road — and most of those steps involve building user confidence and trust.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
It me.
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WalkingTaako🏴‍☠️🏳️🪣💩 @walkingtaako.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
(b)(1) No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Peep that UX.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Oh.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Just catching up on my former colleague @jeremybmerrill.com's terrific coverage of the TikTok algorithm. You should stop doomscrolling and check it out. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
washingtonpost.com
Are you in TikTok’s cat niche? What 121,000 videos reveal.
We re-created TikTok’s algorithm based on 1,100 users’ feeds. Explore which topics are in your feed and see what the algorithm is least likely to show you.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
OK let's see what you got, Nano Banana Pro.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🚨 New news app drop from some fine journalists at ProPublica.
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Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Following up on my Nieman Lab prediction that news will return to its open-source ways, I’ve revived my old bot that posts new repos from newsrooms. @openjournalism.bsky.social
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