Nia Springer-Norris

And self publishing stories gives you the freedom to write what you want, but often at the expense of an income. The amount of unpaid labor that goes into building and maintaining a platform was not an option for me. I used to joke that I “can’t afford my own writing” but it’s not really a joke

I have a LOT of students that now say they want to be independent or freelance journalists. Part of the reason I am now in higher education full time and freelancing significantly less is that the gig economy is exhausting. In 2024, I wrote 40+ features. Last year it was maybe 10. It’s unsustainable

Women laughing alone with salad

I think my child is using LinkedIn, help!

I’m sorry to hear this! Can a group of you purchase the brand? There are a lot of foundation dollars for local journalism.

Apparently asbestos training is now required for university instructors per my training library.

Copilot needs to chill because dude I just want to open my OneDrive and navigate to the file that I deliberately saved in a folder called COMS-359

Do you have headshots that break the rules? I want to see them!

Seize the means of product management

Happy semester start! I got a new phone and didn’t log into bsky.

What are you teaching your webdev students this year?

My favorite thing about learning computer programming is how once you fix one thing, something else break

A normal person would probably just fix the spelling errors and make some changes to the style sheet, but no, I'm completely rebuilding the site with different frameworks

**Big Sean voice**

That ass in higher ed call it ass dean
Ass got a 20 h-index, it's ass-teemed

The student: I will do statistical regression analysis.
Me: Do you have training to do statistical regression analysis?
The student: Um, no.
Me: Then don't do a statistical regression analysis.
The student's paper opening: In this essay, I will use statistical regression analysis to...

Let me guess, you also used your "AI employees" for your responsive design.

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I love my local indie bookstore!

But there's no way to entirely block them. I show examples of hallucinations along with real world case studies — And talk explicitly about the difference between using a tool and academic dishonesty. At this point expecting people to shun LLMs is like telling them not to use the Internet

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Does interrupting people and talking down to them actually command respect?

Not me rocking this @molly.wiki shirt every time it's clean

My latest cohort of web development students wants to write code designed to deliberately piss off the user

"skiing"

PRs: Please don't manipulate your email subjects to make us think we asked you about your client or agreed to interview them. We know who we reached out to and replied to and it's a great way to NOT get media coverage.

It's a subject that's very important to me too, enough that it clearly made me very upset. And I'm happy to explain WHY I'm upset, but I've been fielding ignorant comments from angry people all day about some nonsense I didn't even write and tried to explain.

It wasn't relevant at the time.

Why would I try to defend the field as a whole when I was answering a man who thinks he's qualified to explain my field to me and also clearly never seen an American press conference? Journalists DO ask difficult questions.

Just say you only read the headline.

It's not a "direct request." It's a deliberately rude post and matched her energy. If I really had a question, there'd be a question mark.

People are rude on the internet because they can be and when they're called out, they don't like it.

But what do I know? I'm just an American journalist.

There are also so many incredible pushes for nonprofit journalism in the US that are led by passionate people who want to make a difference.

But this news cycle is exhausting, full of bad information that spreads fast, and no one seems to particularly care what's true.

I have never worked for a mainstream news outlet so I can't speak to their experiences. I am happy writing freelance features and I'm considering stepping back entirely because the gig economy is exhausting.

I replied to a snarky post about "American journalists" with the same tone as the original post and it wasn't even a question.

Then someone who did not even write the post (who appear to be in the industry, American or otherwise) I replied to responded with their list of demands.

But go off.