Sam Learner
graphics/data journalist on the @financialtimes.com visual storytelling team
work: ft.com/sam-learner
projects: samlearner.com/projects
signal: samlearner.79
- Reposted by Sam Learneras ever: archive.org/donate?origi... The Internet Archive is probably the org I've supported/urged ppl to fundraise for the most, after my own org, #MEAction. Seriously, if you won't miss $5/month, it's always a good time to support the Archive.
- Reposted by Sam LearnerCritics fear these tactics have a “chilling effect”, discouraging people from filming. The result? “These agents get to effectively be as unaccountable as any group in the history of our country,” says David Bier, of the Cato Institute. Read the full story in today’s #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/yAKlCgR
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- Reposted by Sam LearnerOver the past few months, hundreds of Americans have been pepper sprayed, threatened and detained for attempting to film on their phones the largest crackdown on undocumented migrants in recent American history. An #FTEdit video 🧵 on why ICE agents are so camera shy 👇
- ICE agents hate being filmed [🎁 gift link] as.ft.com/r/4348e0f1-4...
- in retrospect, it was probably a warning sign last tuesday when I overheard someone at the climbing gym telling their friends about all of the money they were making on gold. could have looked like a genius if I had called the top right at that moment
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- Patrick Bateman routine, without the dinner reservations
- www.ft.com/content/d0b7... No thank you.
- Reposted by Sam LearnerFootage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.
- maybe I'm in the minority here, but I've never watched a video podcast on purpose and never really intend to? I was under the impression that the point of producing video podcasts was just to cut clips/take advantage of more passive video platforms, but this and the netflix thing are throwing me off
- Reposted by Sam LearnerKeep Alphaville free* by investing in our Free** Jay Powell merch. * without cost ** not under the control of another as.ft.com/r/82db28aa-3...
- on top of everything else, have to say again that underlining/circling two publicly-available numbers is an UNBELIEVABLY LAZY form of "data journalism", regardless of how many corny, theatric hand gestures you make
- hmm, I've come across an AI-generated podcast that fully plagiarized a story of mine, slightly rephrasing it as a "conversation" between two fake hosts. not a big fan of this!
- wrote about Kalshi's business being about 5% truth machine/95% sportsbook (even if they refuse to mention it) www.ft.com/content/1ac0...
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- "everyone's mad at me, so I must be doing something right!" wow, how convenient that your mark of high quality is indistinguishable from the widely-understood mark of low quality
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- can't even take in whatever this poll is supposed to be saying because I'm getting so angry at whatever is going on with the sizes of the bars + the blue/red color scheme that is *not* mapped to party ID...
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- economists need to GET OVER THEMSELVES
- "i htink weak thoughts?"
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- Reposted by Sam LearnerNEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
- the anti-Bushwick
- definitely starting to feel like the special election results were a more reliable indicator than the polling...
- making all of my friend's parents extremely jealous
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- from 2020-2022, I put about a dozen open source projects on the web and every year since, I suffer for it with my time/money/energy long-term maintenance on this kind of thing is just impossible when it's not a full time job
- NEW: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Our story today on how storage is changing grids and extending the use of clean power ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
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- I'm just a guy with £50 of cash that I took out at the airport, wandering around London trying to find places that will accept it in exchange for the stuff that they're selling. you wouldn't believe how hard it's been
- first morning in London, thought I'd grab myself a traditional full english breakfast! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
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- the red teamers who have been doing "adversarial testing" on this thing for 18 months seem to have overlooked "framing someone for a crime". alas!
- Reposted by Sam Learner1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.
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- very complicated that interpreting the niche/dumb internet subculture references on the bullet engravings has real stakes "is this a reference to 20th century Italian anti-fascism or an ironic groyper reference?"/"which kind of pepe is this?" don't seem like questions most media can grasp well
- NEW: How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America @okr.bsky.social and I on prediction markets' entry into sports contracts under Trump's CFTC and the resulting legal fights with states, tribal groups, and the gaming industry on.ft.com/4nwVxDk
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