\n\nThese failures are the result of leaders who skipped the boring, hard, necessary work of bringing their organizations along on AI initiatives.
\n
Why can’t newsroom leaders just be normal about AI? - Poynter
\nLessons to be learned for nonprofits as well.
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\n
“Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay.” – Unsung
\nMore and more I’ve been using the terminal and markdown files to interact with my notes and GenAI. It’s changing my actual workflow for the better.
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\n
Still need to figure out where the judgement on the path forward comes from.
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\nAnd it’s atypical for federal or state authorities to step in on behalf of a nonprofit’s donors without citing any complaints from specific donors.
\n
Trump administrations indictment of the Southern Law Center Poverty Law Center breaks with norms
\nGood explanation of what is different about this case.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://crank.report/2026/04/24/its-unusual-to-be-clear.html","date_published":"2026-04-24T12:43:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Marnie Webb","url":"https://crank.report","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F12%2F1356835.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"crankreport"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 12:43","date_timestamp":1777034637,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7mw6kjtdbes5oxnyjlz4zmeu/post/3mkakm2webe2a"]}},{"id":"88896781","content_html":"\n\nThere is no sustained follow-through. No durable narrative. No accumulation of scrutiny that forces consequence. The story appears, registers, and dissolves—replaced by the next spectacle, the next outrage, the next carefully timed distraction.
\n
The Quiet That Erases | dangerousmeta!
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\n
Supply chains don’t always work
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\n
Security indeed.
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\n
AI isn’t the product, context is | HackerNoon
\nI have to think about whether I agree with this statement. However much of the article – and making the context explicit – is a lot of what I’ve been trying to think through.
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\n
A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage
\nThis is interesting. I often use the same kind of process writing. I will work on a draft with one agent and then ask another to review. I wonder if I could copy this so I could more easily do that process from the command line.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/crankreport/88631712","date_published":"2026-04-20T12:48:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Marnie Webb","url":"https://crank.report","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F12%2F1356835.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"crankreport"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-20 12:48","date_timestamp":1776689314,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88581717","content_html":"![\"Leafy](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/101504/2026/295996a58ec2418ba6890d8525c82f32-m.jpg\")
\nIn Muir Wood.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://crank.report/2026/04/19/093035.html","date_published":"2026-04-19T16:30:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Marnie Webb","url":"https://crank.report","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F12%2F1356835.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"crankreport"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-19 16:30","date_timestamp":1776616235,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7mw6kjtdbes5oxnyjlz4zmeu/post/3mjueu2jl3m2k"]}},{"id":"88578952","content_html":"\n\nI think the second organizational casualty is “the system”. When speed is the priority, there’s no incentive to improve or invest in the shared system (e.g. a design system or codebase) under a tight deadline.
\n
When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break - daverupert.com
\nAs a manager of teams of teams the balance between speed and synthesis is something I struggle with all the time. How to get people to drive forward together. Like, what the OKR or metric or magic word that makes this happen?
\n","summary":"","url":"https://crank.report/2026/04/19/i-think-the-second-organizational.html","date_published":"2026-04-19T15:44:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Marnie Webb","url":"https://crank.report","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F12%2F1356835.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"crankreport"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-19 15:44","date_timestamp":1776613495,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7mw6kjtdbes5oxnyjlz4zmeu/post/3mjucg2hblf25"]}},{"id":"88577074","content_html":"@JohnPhilpin both so good!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/crankreport/88577074","date_published":"2026-04-19T15:06:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Marnie Webb","url":"https://crank.report","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F12%2F1356835.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"crankreport"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-19 15:06","date_timestamp":1776611193,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88576933","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780593732564/cover.jpg\")
\nFinished reading: Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod 📚I was expecting a lot from this book. And it was so much more.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://crank.report/2026/04/19/finished-reading-things-become-other.html","date_published":"2026-04-19T15:03:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Marnie Webb","url":"https://crank.report","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F12%2F1356835.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"crankreport"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-19 15:03","date_timestamp":1776611030,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7mw6kjtdbes5oxnyjlz4zmeu/post/3mju7yywxs32q"]}},{"id":"88563398","content_html":"\n\nLook, although my 30 mins walk-and-talk was nonlinear and all over the place, what I asked Claude to do was highly structured: I asked it to create docs for the technical architecture, design system, goals, and ways of working, and reorganise the rest into a phased plan with specific tasks.
\n
mist: Share and edit Markdown together, quickly (new tool) (Interconnected)
\nCould a shared Obsidian vault have accomplished the same thing? Probably. But harder for everyone.
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\n
Headless everything for personal AI (Interconnected)
\nMore and more this is how I’m using AI.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://crank.report/2026/04/19/it-turns-out-that-the.html","date_published":"2026-04-19T09:05:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Marnie Webb","url":"https://crank.report","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F12%2F1356835.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"crankreport"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-19 09:05","date_timestamp":1776589503,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7mw6kjtdbes5oxnyjlz4zmeu/post/3mjtm25tqke2b"]}},{"id":"88520094","content_html":"\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://crank.report/2026/04/18/yet-as-a-historian-of.html","date_published":"2026-04-18T15:06:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Marnie Webb","url":"https://crank.report","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F12%2F1356835.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"crankreport"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 15:06","date_timestamp":1776524769,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7mw6kjtdbes5oxnyjlz4zmeu/post/3mjrpobwykj2p"]}},{"id":"88519639","content_html":"Yet as a historian of early 20th-century Latin America, I believe the Trump administration’s approach to Latin America more closely resembles an older pattern of U.S. policy. Between 1900 and the mid-1930s, U.S. forces intervened in one Latin American country after another.
\n
\n\nIn response, a growing number of practitioners are experimenting with strategies that go beyond placement and retention to ask a more fundamental question: what makes a job worth having? Job quality strategies — which address wages, benefits, scheduling, worker voice, and pathways to advancement — are increasingly finding their way into the toolkits of a range of organizations.
\n
Reimagining Workforce and Economic Development in the South - Aspen Institute
\nThe key is to match the value the organization thinks these benefits have to the benefits employees think they have.
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\n\nBrevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement. When everything around you is excessive by default, choosing fewer words takes courage. It says: I thought about this. I edited. I respected your time more than I needed to show my work.
\n
The Courage to Stop - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
\nYou need to know you did the work. Everyone else needs to see it via the brevity, clarity, even elegance of the output.
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\n
One size fits none; let communities build for themselves
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\n
Multi-agentic Software Development is a Distributed Systems Problem (AGI can’t save you from it)
\n","summary":"","url":"https://crank.report/2026/04/14/the-argument-ive-been-building.html","date_published":"2026-04-14T09:17:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Marnie Webb","url":"https://crank.report","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F12%2F1356835.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"crankreport"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-14 09:17","date_timestamp":1776158249,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7mw6kjtdbes5oxnyjlz4zmeu/post/3mjh2fvggbz2z"]}},{"id":"88109509","content_html":"\n\nPerhaps most important, philanthropy must no longer treat middle America as its proving ground to test new ideas. The success of local democracy work hinges on this question: Does it aim to extract learning for the funders, or is it a genuine effort to support local communities? We have to invest in people’s capacity to solve problems by engaging them in the work.
\n
A Second Chance to Get Rural America Right
\nGenuine engagement means giving up decision making to the people closest to the issue.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://crank.report/2026/04/12/perhaps-most-important-philanthropy-must.html","date_published":"2026-04-12T16:13:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Marnie Webb","url":"https://crank.report","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F12%2F1356835.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"crankreport"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-12 16:13","date_timestamp":1776010436,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7mw6kjtdbes5oxnyjlz4zmeu/post/3mjcqqhdwl72l"]}},{"id":"88074363","content_html":" Three very good things \n\n\nThe plan proceeds without resistance, not because there is none, but because everything connecting the plan to the real world has been stripped out.
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying | Iran | The Guardian
\nDetailed, thoughtful, and applicable todo much.
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USE IT OR LOSE IT - On the Level with Margaret Heffernan
\nI’m working on a research onboarding document for undergraduate and graduate interns. I’m trying to figure out to give them paths to AI without losing the part of sense making that writing and group sense making provide.
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France’s government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk
\nWe’ve been down this road before.
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\nNonprofits are operating in spaces where capitalism and govt have failed.
\ntheir job is to make a social, not financial, impact.
\nbusiness has crazy competition and incentives. Let’s work that out for nonprofits.
\n@numericcitizen Terrific texture.
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\nGive! Any amount helps us get to the goal -> www.every.org/techsoup/f/f…
\nShare! Repost this, write you own post, send emails.
\nActivate! Every year we vote on the funding that supports the meals. Make sure your congresspeople know how critical this is.
\n@marniewebb.bsky.social AND our funding models don’t make it easy for a small, lightweight app that doesn’t collect user data to get consistent ongoing funding.
\nWe are building an endowment to help respond to the need and provide an example of funding a product that keeps it going.
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\nThe 90K public schools that provide access to meals for students who need it close during the summer months.
\nThe ~35K places that do serve meals are open at various hours.
\nThat means the place a young person got a meal on Monday may no longer be serving on Wednesday.
\n@rubyji.bsky.social I’m with you. Especially after yesterday’s win by UCLA Women’s basketball 💪
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\nTo me one of the biggest wins of ActivityPub is the ability to create a linked network of safe spaces. One of my biggest worries is they become isolated. Islands with fragile connections.
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