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Big news: I'm stepping down as editor-in-chief of @baltimorebanner to join The Washington Post as managing editor. This decision has been difficult. I love what we've built here proving local journalism can thrive, and it's been the best job of my life. 🧵 thebaltimorebanner.com/community/kimi…

.Common Cause Maryland says Interim CE Kathy Klausmeier is creating “unnecessary chaos” in Baltimore County’s inspector general office. tinyurl.com/2vkfcwbv Statement today says her interference in the process of hiring the IG “represents a major conflict of interest.”

Generative AI is an ethical litmus test. Are you cool plagiarizing copywrited work, using a tool built on worker exploitation, contributing to climate disaster and pollution (which disproportionately impact communities of color), and speeding up illiteracy? Or not?

Small victories: Finished cutting the grass just before the storm rolled in.

Sooo what’s gonna happen when industry realizes the generative AI it sunk billions into is basically autofill for paragraphs the utility of which is outweighed by its making shit up constantly

The media throwing away tens of millions of viewers to chase a maga audience who will never watch their shows or buy their books. These are unintelligent people.

For all the talk of affirmative action, my experience at my elite college was that there were a lot of people who didn’t deserve to be there and basically all of them were white

With its strike on Russia’s strategic aviation, Ukraine has shown the world that Russia’s nuclear forces—so feared in the West—can and should be destroyed. Pro-Russian commentators rushed to write about an inevitable retaliatory strike, even a nuclear one, but do you know 1/8

The question now is will local media allow her to continue to duck questions on the decision? She's been in hiding for 3 weeks. The Baltimore Sun The Baltimore Banner WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore WJZ | CBS Baltimore WMAL News @wypr WBFF

Every word of this.

The Democratic party is asking Black ppl, who vote consistently for the Democratic party, to continue to support it, while in active discussions about throwing us under the bus for white men, who haven't voted majority for Dems since LBJ signed the CRA of 1964.

Almost 4 years since its closure, Hamilton Tavern has reopened as Hamilton Spice. But the neighborhood isn't exactly celebrating. thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food-d…

Churches and museums should ban cellphones, because tourists stand in everyone’s way taking pictures rather than looking at the things, when they could later get better photos online than anything they take themselves.

Tourists are cattle for whom no humane standard of treatment has been established.