Burt Herman
@burtherman.com
Intersection of journalism, technology and community. Founder @hackshackers.com, leading conversations about the potential of AI. Former AP correspondent, co-founder Storify
I find this article pretty incomprehensible - what is the status of the $1.8 billion fund in the wake of the Senate vote? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...
Senate Passes $70 Billion G.O.P. Immigration Bill
www.nytimes.com
June 5, 2026 at 11:19 AM
I find this article pretty incomprehensible - what is the status of the $1.8 billion fund in the wake of the Senate vote? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...
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We made Hacks/Hackers' site accessible to AI agents, and they're already showing up.
An llms.txt file leads agents to our MCP server to search archives, and we added "Ask" AI buttons for readers to send pre-filled prompts to Claude or ChatGPT. What we did here: hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-a...
An llms.txt file leads agents to our MCP server to search archives, and we added "Ask" AI buttons for readers to send pre-filled prompts to Claude or ChatGPT. What we did here: hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-a...
May 27, 2026 at 3:59 PM
We made Hacks/Hackers' site accessible to AI agents, and they're already showing up.
An llms.txt file leads agents to our MCP server to search archives, and we added "Ask" AI buttons for readers to send pre-filled prompts to Claude or ChatGPT. What we did here: hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-a...
An llms.txt file leads agents to our MCP server to search archives, and we added "Ask" AI buttons for readers to send pre-filled prompts to Claude or ChatGPT. What we did here: hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-a...
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Forget hotel ballrooms. Our AI x Journalism Summit was in a former warehouse, with no cushioned chairs and rooms where people sometimes sat on the floor. It fit the vibe we were going for: Not perfection, but ready to build.
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May 20, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Forget hotel ballrooms. Our AI x Journalism Summit was in a former warehouse, with no cushioned chairs and rooms where people sometimes sat on the floor. It fit the vibe we were going for: Not perfection, but ready to build.
hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-u...
hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-r...
hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-u...
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Confession: I have walked around odd places with my laptop open so AI agents can keep coding. Using AI is like having superpowers, but it's also keeping me up at night. I talked about it for my opening of the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit: hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-u...
May 19, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Confession: I have walked around odd places with my laptop open so AI agents can keep coding. Using AI is like having superpowers, but it's also keeping me up at night. I talked about it for my opening of the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit: hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-u...
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What does it take for a small newsroom to ship with AI? Cohort 2 of our Newsroom AI Lab — Bellingcat, Trusting News, Prison Journalism Project — shows the pattern: define the real problem, externalize the unwritten judgment, build only what fits.
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May 7, 2026 at 8:34 PM
What does it take for a small newsroom to ship with AI? Cohort 2 of our Newsroom AI Lab — Bellingcat, Trusting News, Prison Journalism Project — shows the pattern: define the real problem, externalize the unwritten judgment, build only what fits.
hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-c...
hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-c...
This is the place where anyone who has the letters "A" and "I" in their job title and works in journalism will be next month. See you there soon, and join us if you haven't yet registered!
Two weeks to the AI x Journalism Summit in Baltimore (May 13–14). Speakers from NYT, CNN, ProPublica, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Minnesota Star Tribune, Mother Jones/Reveal, Der Spiegel and Google. Close to selling out.
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April 29, 2026 at 9:58 PM
This is the place where anyone who has the letters "A" and "I" in their job title and works in journalism will be next month. See you there soon, and join us if you haven't yet registered!
What does it look like when a story shapes itself based on who's reading? I built a demo that tailors summaries of new NYC mayor Mamdani's statements based on your context. Publishers need a new platform to enable experiences like this: a Context Management System: hackshackers.com/r/2026-04-co...
The Content Management System Is Dead. Long Live the Context Management System.
Generative AI is unraveling the finished-article model. What replaces it is a system built on context: raw reporting, flagged analysis and journalism as the verification layer. Plus a proof-of-concept...
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April 22, 2026 at 4:22 PM
What does it look like when a story shapes itself based on who's reading? I built a demo that tailors summaries of new NYC mayor Mamdani's statements based on your context. Publishers need a new platform to enable experiences like this: a Context Management System: hackshackers.com/r/2026-04-co...
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12 new sessions at the AI x Journalism Summit: ProPublica on secure local models, Baltimore Banner's News Detector, WBEZ on Whisper, Boston Globe on build/buy/ignore, two Google sessions.
$95 tickets end today. One month out — May 13–14.
luma.com/hh-aijournalismsummit-2026
$95 tickets end today. One month out — May 13–14.
luma.com/hh-aijournalismsummit-2026
April 14, 2026 at 12:53 PM
12 new sessions at the AI x Journalism Summit: ProPublica on secure local models, Baltimore Banner's News Detector, WBEZ on Whisper, Boston Globe on build/buy/ignore, two Google sessions.
$95 tickets end today. One month out — May 13–14.
luma.com/hh-aijournalismsummit-2026
$95 tickets end today. One month out — May 13–14.
luma.com/hh-aijournalismsummit-2026
Having been on the ground in other countries the U.S. has claimed to run in the wake of military action (Iraq, Afghanistan), having American officials actually there taking over the government and military is usually a prerequisite -- although in no way assures the U.S. actually runs anything
January 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Having been on the ground in other countries the U.S. has claimed to run in the wake of military action (Iraq, Afghanistan), having American officials actually there taking over the government and military is usually a prerequisite -- although in no way assures the U.S. actually runs anything
Who is on the ground in Venezuela from the US to “run the country” according to Trump’s statement?
January 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Who is on the ground in Venezuela from the US to “run the country” according to Trump’s statement?
Strava is one of the best social networking experiences - people supporting each other in athletic achievement. Nextdoor is one of the worst - neighbors griping, jumping to conclusions, bickering, bringing politics to unrelated issues, borderline or outright racism and prejudice.
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Strava is one of the best social networking experiences - people supporting each other in athletic achievement. Nextdoor is one of the worst - neighbors griping, jumping to conclusions, bickering, bringing politics to unrelated issues, borderline or outright racism and prejudice.
This angle from The Verge seemed missing from much of the other coverage
www.theverge.com/policy/78370...
www.theverge.com/policy/78370...
Despite crowning himself the headliner, Trump couldn’t win over Charlie Kirk’s mourners
At Kirk’s memorial service, Christian nationalism upstaged the president’s vindictiveness.
www.theverge.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This angle from The Verge seemed missing from much of the other coverage
www.theverge.com/policy/78370...
www.theverge.com/policy/78370...
Apple found a new person to say “a-loo-min-ee-um”
September 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Apple found a new person to say “a-loo-min-ee-um”
Spotted in the neighborhood recently, whose car could this possibly be? @semafor.com @semaforben.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Spotted in the neighborhood recently, whose car could this possibly be? @semafor.com @semaforben.bsky.social
Spotted in front of the Cobble Hill funeral home. I wonder who died?
August 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Spotted in front of the Cobble Hill funeral home. I wonder who died?
The AI overview feature in Google is so shockingly bad, it’s amazing that the company has released it to users. It regularly confabulates and hallucinates results, mixing facts together, undermining confidence in Google altogether — and likely is driving people even more to other AI products.
August 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The AI overview feature in Google is so shockingly bad, it’s amazing that the company has released it to users. It regularly confabulates and hallucinates results, mixing facts together, undermining confidence in Google altogether — and likely is driving people even more to other AI products.
Some of the best writing about the self-sabotaging and hypocritical acts of the current US administration come from @electrek.co and specifically @jamesondow.bsky.social electrek.co/2025/07/29/e...
EPA's chief saboteur, Lee Zeldin, announces plan to delete climate science
Zeldin announced plans to end the EPA's "endangerment finding," which is the scientific recognition that climate pollution harms humans.
electrek.co
July 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Some of the best writing about the self-sabotaging and hypocritical acts of the current US administration come from @electrek.co and specifically @jamesondow.bsky.social electrek.co/2025/07/29/e...
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A sad day for press freedom in the United States. This was a frivolous lawsuit and the payment being described as a “settlement” is more accurately labeled a payoff. Trump’s presidential library will be a permanent monument to Paramount’s surrender. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...
Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
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July 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A sad day for press freedom in the United States. This was a frivolous lawsuit and the payment being described as a “settlement” is more accurately labeled a payoff. Trump’s presidential library will be a permanent monument to Paramount’s surrender. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...
Nothing new here that rising authoritarianism eventually leads to a clash between the regime and oligarchy -- see Russia in the early 2000s, Khodorkovsky: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Wikipedia
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June 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Nothing new here that rising authoritarianism eventually leads to a clash between the regime and oligarchy -- see Russia in the early 2000s, Khodorkovsky: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail...
After AI can do all the jobs, at least us humans will still have CAPTCHAs to keep us busy
June 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
After AI can do all the jobs, at least us humans will still have CAPTCHAs to keep us busy
This looks like what Apple Intelligence should have been by now: www.macstories.net/stories/sky-...
From the Creators of Shortcuts, Sky Extends AI Integration and Automation to Your Entire Mac
Over the course of my career, I’ve had three distinct moments in which I saw a brand-new app and immediately felt it was going to change how I used my computer – and they were all about empowering peo...
www.macstories.net
May 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This looks like what Apple Intelligence should have been by now: www.macstories.net/stories/sky-...
What a tool Eric Adams is for just getting free plane tickets. Next time he should’ve just asked for the whole plane.
May 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
What a tool Eric Adams is for just getting free plane tickets. Next time he should’ve just asked for the whole plane.
We are live at the first-ever @hackshackers.com AI x Journalism Summit! Thanks to @therealnews.com for hosting us in Baltimore. Here’s our program for the next two days: bit.ly/hh-ai-journa...
May 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We are live at the first-ever @hackshackers.com AI x Journalism Summit! Thanks to @therealnews.com for hosting us in Baltimore. Here’s our program for the next two days: bit.ly/hh-ai-journa...
The words “policy structure” are doing a lot of work here …
“It’s impossible to commit capital to an economy that is unstable and unknowable because of policy structure.”
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“It’s impossible to commit capital to an economy that is unstable and unknowable because of policy structure.”
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Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send ‘No Confidence’ Signal — The Wall Street Journal
Few think administration’s negotiations with trade partners will yield results soon enough to ease the strain
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April 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The words “policy structure” are doing a lot of work here …
“It’s impossible to commit capital to an economy that is unstable and unknowable because of policy structure.”
stocks.apple.com/Ah5l2eW48RRu...
“It’s impossible to commit capital to an economy that is unstable and unknowable because of policy structure.”
stocks.apple.com/Ah5l2eW48RRu...
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“A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection... But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection... But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...