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Patrick Schmiedt

@pschmiedt.bsky.social
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Journalism professor and student media adviser, Citrus College. Microfilm enthusiast.

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suhauna hussain @suhauna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gov. Newsom signed AB 2222, which would create refundable tax credits for California’s struggling journalism organizations, into law yesterday. Hard to overstate what a boon this is. It’s the biggest such package for newsrooms in the U.S. to date www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
W. T. And I cannot stress this enough: ACTUAL. F.
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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Disliking cats is disliking things that you can't control and that's a bad thing
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
America Bless God this day…
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Screenshot of a headline and quote from the Financial Times following the 2024 election. The quote reads:

“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled… it’s a new dawn.”
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m so angry that I have to admit that both the Trump DOJ and fucking OpenAI are right in this case. The NYT and every other major news outlet depends on fair use. If the NYT wins this case it will eviscerate fair use. Copyright maximalism won’t save us from AI harms. It will bake them in
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It only took until part 11 of this series for me to have an existential crisis. For your viewing pleasure, that crisis in real time IS the part 11 video: youtube.com/shorts/SztHw...
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LSU’s loss to Millsaps in 1900 raises all kinds of questions. Deep ones. #cfbembarrassing
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Storm out here looking like
Blob fish
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Now on part 9, both TikTok and YouTube. youtube.com/shorts/GkFAQ...
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Colorado State’s most embarrassing loss wasn’t to Kathie Lee or Kelly… #cfbembarrassing
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 01/09/2026
And it is cool as hell, folks
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
👀
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I’m starting a 138-part series on every college football team’s most embarrassing loss. First up: Pitt. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTD4k29b9/
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Pitt football’s most embarrassing loss in program history? A freakin’ gymnastics club! Twice! Part 1 of 138: #cfbembarrassing #cfb #pitt #collegefootball
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Bus Halen
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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There are very few universal truths, but one is that at no time in history have the book banners or book burners ever been the good guys.
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I appreciate @citruscollege.bsky.social giving this attention to our fall ‘25 EIC! youtu.be/v3PN7QU4CLE?...
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Angela Became Editor-in-Chief – So Can You
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Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Evergreen from @himself.bsky.social
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
No news coverage on MLB.com, naturally. Their Padres beat writer hasn't tweeted about it either.
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Dropping by a @citruscollege.bsky.social Board of Trustees meeting… with some sweet union swag.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.
data4democracy.substack.com
With Fear and Favor
Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
After a lifetime of perfect eyesight, I have now joined the ranks of the glasses-wearers (at least when I am reading or looking at a screen). My dreams of being a fighter pilot are officially over, but it’s worth it to be able to read books and papers and emails and such.
Me wearing glasses. Mirror selfie.
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Pineapple. Banana peppers. Kalamata olives. Put this on your next three-topping pizza and thank me later.
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Society of Professional Journalists is taking a red pencil to its ethics code, shared exclusively with CJR. Read @lizskalka.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/feature/soci...
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The Society of Professional Journalists is taking a red pencil to its ethics code, shared exclusively with CJR.
The Society of Professional Journalists is taking a red pencil to its ethics guidelines—the first update since 2014.
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I made a video. Not sure if great, or the greatest. Behold: Call Al at the Office (or, Jim and Pam's wedding, the Andy Bernard cut). (May be blocked some places, copyright, etc.) youtu.be/68wQfvJp0fs
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Call Al at the Office (or, Jim and Pam's wedding, the Andy Bernard cut)
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This cool lady does cool stuff. 🫶
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 07/08/2026
What do you call it when LA police shoot 10,000 (!) rounds at protests and press covering them? "It's inexcusable," says @adamrose.bsky.social. "It is wholesale violence against overwhelmingly innocent, peaceful civilians... (the lawsuit was) driven by the grotesque violence" by law enforcement.
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Violence against journalists during protests paints larger picture of press freedom in the US
Journalists covering 2025 immigration protests in the U.S. frequently faced violence and intimidation from law enforcement, despite existing legal protections designed to safeguard their work.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A+ caption work, @nytimes.com
caption reads: "Post Malone, at rear, on Sesame Street with Elmo, Abby Cadabby and Tango."
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The old internet was a different place. I miss it.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph  showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 30/07/2026
Zuck has been telegraphing this since before the last election. The real lesson is that as a social media platform you either die young or live long enough for your CEO to go full fascist.
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
sometimes wikipedia just says "come on, man"
A screenshot of a Wikipedia page that says, Climate
Kalawao County features a tropical climate, because it is in Hawai'i.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/07/2026
So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?
Facebook post from the U.S. Department of Education, saying "Parents know best" with a picture of a cartoon White, two-parent, heteronormative family, featuring a dad in a tie and sweater vest and a mom in a dress and pearls.
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Free, now. Join the Patreon anyway. These folks deserve it.
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Jan Adriaenssens @verbeeld.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The fact that we’ve had 10-plus years of Trump the politician and we are STILL having this conversation shows just how behind journalists (and particularly the TV kind) have been in adapting their practices to fit a changing reality. This should be a no-brainer by now.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 14/07/2026
Future historians very surprised to realize the revolution began ... here?
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College Football 27 and a rare victory for consumers (Gift Article)
Until Saturday is The Athletic's free college football newsletter.
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LAL @lindli.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Our local newspaper, The Portland Press Herald, has lifted their paywall on coverage of the ICE shooting of a man in Biddeford, Maine this morning. They have excellent reporters and will have much more accurate information than natl news as we learn more: www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...
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Live updates: King calls for transparent investigation after Biddeford man killed in ICE-involved shooting
Protests are growing after a man identified as a 26-year-old from Colombia was fatally shot. Immigration advocates say he was authorized to work in the U.S.
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"AI, you dumbass"
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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
So...next year, anyone want to team up for an empirical project on enforcement of the Take It Down Act? I think we'll have some exciting source material to work with.
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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This thread now contains more than 30 fact-checks, and only represents a fraction of the debunking and verification work our global @factcheck.afp.com team has done around World Cup misinformation.
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hard to imagine that it’s been 19 years today. Feels like we are just getting to the good stuff. I am still in love with @ohtheprofanity.com, and I am relatively sure she feels the same.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is a really moving and thoughtful interview
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Man in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded him
Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/07/2026
OK sure, great, but I don't that helps much. He's 80 years old, woefully out of shape, and probably doesn't even know the rules.
Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player’s Suspension. Now He’s Eligible to Play.
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The T-shirt I want. Anyone else feel this way? (Designed by me in like 5 minutes...)
An image of the Care Bears with text that says "Radicalized by the Care Bears."
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 02/07/2026
AI is popular with authoritarians because their truth claims are too far from reality to be otherwise depicted.
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
static.klipy.com
Digital Underground - Do The Humpty Hump
ALT: Digital Underground - Do The Humpty Hump
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father's Day to this guy -- the only guy I know whose hair got longer during chemo. He kicked cancer's ass this year. I'm excited to continue provide remote tech support for him for many years to come.
My dad and I posing for a photo on the couch, circa 1984.
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