"Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground."
They came for the newsroom. It was ready.
"The truth is that prestige journalism is lousy with Bari Weisses, up and down the line. Ask any journalist trying to cover the genocide in Gaza or the social death of gender nonconformists."
"But these questions are framed in this way to encourage us all to aspire towards roles that enable us to do our best work, to have the biggest impact, and to live according to our values."
Things I've learned.
Building a community means looking beyond coding tests.
Looking ahead: humans are cool again.
"Instagram no longer believes it can beat AI by making more or better content. It wants to be the referee, to decide what is real and what is not, and to build systems that can do it at scale."
Simon Willison breaks down what happened in the LLM space in 2025. Some of it has the potential to transform tech forever.
This year's predictions from tech experts and decision-makers are notably pro-human.
"Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked."
A way to build a habit out of what's important.
Highlights and hopes for the new year.
Notable links
An alternative Christmas; lies we tell ourselves.
Technology
Tim's 2026 predictions are worth paying attention to - and form a great map for following where the open social web is going.
Technology
On fascism, technology, and finding the helpers.
Technology
"Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider."
Media
We don't need to educate our audiences to fit our needs. We need to educate ourselves to fit our audiences.
Notable links
Predictions for journalism; paperbacks are dead; feeling the fear.
Business
"Feeling fear goes hand-in-hand with being ambitious. Imposter syndrome is real and normal. In fact, if you aren't feeling fear in what you do, I'd argue that you aren't being ambitious enough." Here's a way to build in the fear and do it anyway.
Media
"Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in digital media what they think is coming in the year ahead. Here's what they told us." Some essays from the annual collection that caught my eye.
Future of News
Personalization is coming to journalism. The question is: who controls it?
Culture
"The format credited with making books more accessible via low prices and widespread availability will all but vanish from the publishing scene in a few weeks." With it comes a generational loss.
Democracy
"The Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials, substantially expanding its use of data sharing to expel people under deportation orders."