Very happy with this lovely collaboration and its outcome @christopherali.bsky.social @jonkropko.bsky.social

Wikimedia celebrates Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, marking its growth from 100 pages to 65M+ articles with nearly 15B monthly views, and releases a docuseries (Emma Roth/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

With federal agents storming the streets of American communities, there's no single right way to approach this dangerous moment. But there are steps you can take to stay safe—and have an impact. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

This!

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Turning Latin America into a theater of war will not weaken transnational crime; it will entrench it,” write Matias Spektor and Oto Montagner.

If the Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, it could usher in the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.

After Jan. 6, 2021, we sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there. Revisit our full archive, five years later:

In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Budget cuts threaten the future of Amsterdam-based Radio Dabanga, which has served as an information lifeline for Sudanese people about their war-torn country. n.pr/4saai1J

One in every five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces so far in 2025 across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was a child, according to the UN ⬇️

This is very cool. The manipulation-busters of the future will be hacks like this one: reengineering the system to expose the algorithms beneath and how they trick us...

Canada is also falling for AI industry hype, which is threatening to escalate the environmental crisis and derail democracy. "policymakers have a duty to serve the citizens and not cater to the whims of tech CEOs." @mark-carney.bsky.social

‘They have total impunity’: West Bank settler violence surges after Gaza ceasefire

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Hell yeah!

Yep! Super happy with this publication, even more happy with the collaboration!

So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social

"All our staff got out safely. But that group probably lost more than 50 family members. Every single one of them had their house destroyed and some would appear to have been targeted strikes" AFP's Phil Chetwynd on AFP's staff journalists in Gaza reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/starved...

AI does appear to be rapidly accelerating human selection of the fittest…. except it’s doing it by straight-up killing people who rely on ChatGPT to plan dangerous trips, not by improving human cognition like the techbros want us to believe:

I realize that even just reposting this interesting piece adds to the environmental pressures created by AI :(

It’s important to pay for local journalism but not like this. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

The story of Andrew Carnegie’s libraries, originally created to spur the "diffusion of knowledge," has resonance in our present digital age, where information is both readily abundant and increasingly scarce or inaccessible, Stefaan Verhulst writes.

Top Republicans and US tech leaders are ramping up a pressure campaign against the EU’s platform regulations, calling it foreign “censorship.” Tech Policy Press unpacks how Washington and Silicon Valley are working to sway Brussels on softening enforcement.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom

The sad outcome of utterly stupid short-sightedness deadline.com/2025/08/corp...

lol

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com “There is no excuse for the world to stand by and watch two million human beings suffer on the brink of full-blown famine,” the chef José Andrés writes about Gaza.

POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.

He was the last SS guard, about to be tried when he died at 100. Let this warn the ICE agents who think they are only guards, following orders. Your masked crimes against humans and humanity will mark you to the end of your days. The Last SS Guard @zeit.de www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

His communication skls are next level - as cool as his political agenda! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #nycmayoralrace

If you are a taxpayer in the United States of America, as I am, you are paying for this.

Bye! #vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #nycmayorelections

Consider supporting, especially local stations under threat of closing down #npr #pbs #publicmedia

Organized solidarity

“When asked directly whether he could guarantee under oath that French citizen data would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit French authorization, [Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs Anton] Carniaux responded: ‘No, I cannot guarantee it.’”

Call your representatives! bsky.app/profile/navy...

“When they build a camp where they [plan to] ‘clean’ more than half of Gaza, then the inevitable understanding of the strategy of this [is that] it is not to save [Palestinians]. It is to deport them, to push them and to throw them away. There is no other understanding that I have, at least.”

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

Pierre at his finest!

Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all

Oh wow

Advocacy in Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia shows that Global South demands gain traction in platform governance when they align with Western priorities, are amplified by international allies, and build trust with marginalized communities, writes Mai Van Tran.

Too many legacy media are complicit www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We spent so long treating Americans data like a profit center and not a right that no one is terrified enough at this gross attack on our civil liberties www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

Americans from across the political spectrum do not subscribe to the notion of a biased PBS. (@christopherali.bsky.social‬ @hildevdb.bsky.social @jonkropko.bsky.social‬ @niemanlab.org) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/250605-top...

Exciting news today! This morning @hildevdb.bsky.social @jonkropko.bsky.social and I published an article in Current - the premiere publication for public media - about our research on trust and @pbs.org!! current.org/2025/06/stud...

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