Joshua Benton (@joshuabenton.com on Bluesky) (@jbenton) 's Twitter Profile
Joshua Benton (@joshuabenton.com on Bluesky)

@jbenton

Senior writer + founder of @NiemanLab at Harvard. I write about (a) digital journalism and (b) southern U.S. history, mostly. Cajun.

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ℜ𝔞𝔢 (@dystopiangf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I don’t think we’re prepared for the societal consequences of AI-generated rage bait. Everyone can quite literally invent “a person to get mad at,” optimized and personalized for tormenting their subconscious. Schizo-tech

Ben Golub (@ben_golub) 's Twitter Profile Photo

EXCLUSIVE: Golub has a blunt warning: Golub's network-theoretic advances may be so dazzling that they damage the eyes of innocent bystanders

Will Fritz (@fritzed_you) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I love Nathan Fielder but if I were producing a CNN show I would absolutely never in one trillion years let him anywhere near my studio

Julie O'Donoghue (@jsodonoghue) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ICYMI: Personal attorneys for Governor Jeff Landry have helped write legislation that would allow Louisiana elected officials to spend campaign/PAC money on their home mortgages, country club dues, gym memberships and Mardi Gras krewe dues. #lalege lailluminator.com/2025/05/29/mor…

Ben Golub (@ben_golub) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It seems like a really good research agenda for ambitious young economists to think about how insurance should be designed around the possibility (by no means certain) of AI displacement.

Ross Douthat (@douthatnyt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Elon would do the world and his audience on this website a great service if he made it clear that the drivers of federal spending are not unspecified "pork" but rather a distinct group of health care and retirement programs that are all extremely popular. x.com/elonmusk/statu…

Anthropic (@anthropicai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Projects on Claude now support 10x more content. When you add files beyond the existing threshold, Claude switches to a new retrieval mode to expand the functional context.

Katherine Faulders (@kfaulders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW - Ben Schrader, the former chief of the criminal division for the U.S. attorney’s office in Nashville, resigned following the office’s decision to seek an indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenly-…

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Scott said, ‘You’re a fraud. You’re a total fraud' ... Musk then rammed his shoulder into Bessent’s rib cage 'like a rugby player,' Bannon said, and Bessent hit him back." wapo.st/3TeoIxy

Sam Stein (@samstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is literally using the threat of government intervention for strictly political purposes. nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

Julia Davis (@juliadavisnews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, fed the JFK files into an AI program, asking it to see if there was anything that should remain classified. thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbard-…

Joshua Benton (@joshuabenton.com on Bluesky) (@jbenton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New by me —> What the hell is a "gentle" singularity, anyway? The robots will whisper sweet-nothings in our ears as they march us down to the cobalt mines? niemanlab.org/2025/06/has-th…

Nieman Lab (@niemanlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Has the “gentle singularity” already begun? And when did the singularity become “gentle”? niemanlab.org/2025/06/has-th…

Digital Content Next (@dcnorg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A great read. The singularity refers to the theoretical moment when humanity loses control of civilization to an artificial intelligence so advanced that gains total dominion over the world. Open AI's CEO has an, er, different take?

Debbie Hiott (@dhiott) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This eliminates funding for NPR, PBS, KUT, KUTX, Austin PBS, Marfa Public Radio, and other stations across the state and country that provide news, community information, and culture and entertainment -- all at a cost to taxpayers of less than $2 a year.

Joshua Benton (@joshuabenton.com on Bluesky) (@jbenton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For anyone else who, like me, gets irrationally angry that Anthropic doesn't allow a search across all your past Claude chats, I made a thing that lets you search across all your past chats. github.com/jbenton/claude…