Send in the Troops….. I am sure women ruined the workplace for some appalling men - but never received the recognition we deserved

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

This from @craigsilverman.bsky.social's story nails it. The companies generally do not like spam ads or need the revenue from them. They simply can't fight the spam effectively without adding friction that will result in “too much good revenue flushed out”. So they make it OUR problem. #Regulation

FT ledes with its $NVDA scoop. @financialtimes.com

WTAF is this? I guess podcasters have to hustle, but you are Britain’s biggest politics podcast and you are doing sponcon for Google’s ‘efficiency tools’ in government !!

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide: www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."

1-0 to the Arsenal

Rainy day walk in Portland’s NW Hills #Photography #Portland 📷

‘If we have a passenger named Antony Scaramucci on board will he please make himself known to the cabin crew…’ 👀

Vive la France 🇫🇷

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The @us.theguardian.com has a number of open positions, including two reporter roles focusing on organizing and movement building. Jobs are 12 month contract, full-time, union, flexible location workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e... workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

Nothing is harder to watch than the evisceration of new and successful forms of journalism . I sincerely hope the staffers laid off reassemble under their own brand on an independent platform

Aloof Wives assemble 🥷

Flying out of jfk I go to my Global Entry interview. ‘You work at Columbia??’ ‘I do’ ‘As a professor??!’ (Laughs out loud in sympathy) ‘Yes ma’am’ ‘Oh lord! …what do you teach?’ ‘It gets better , I teach …journalism’ . Actual guffaws. Then we have a nice chat about the suboptimal nature of TikTok

This is most literally the LOWEST HANGING FRUIT of AI detection: read (or maintain) the already-available metadata. Alexios' investigation shows that most of the platforms can't even do that.

I chose this post season to become overly invested in baseball, as opposed to just normal levels of passing interest once the Yankees were inevitably eliminated . And that was an incredible game among many other incredible games. (Just a shame ahem somebody had to win….)

Noooooooooooooooooo

fun day at work

The ‘Times of London’ went looking for dirt, and got exactly what it deserved - covered in ordure. So many ‘how not to…’ lessons www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We first revealed Mobile Fortify in June. It takes the CBP system usually used when people enter or exit the US, and puts it into an app to be used on American streets www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...

Student journalists in Appalachia! 🚨 PAID writing opportunity before end of the semester: 100 Days in Appalachia is assembling a series of dispatches on the biggest issues facing campuses. Pieces are short, not as heavy a lift reporting-wise. Email [email protected] & I'll share info.

Imagine if you will a world in which Silicon Valley product developers used their infinite resources to develop glasses that *improved night driving* , rather than devices that act as an unlawful surveillance device strapped to your face, or let you pretend you are skiing…

Danny Kruger just told Nick Robinson that Sarah Pochin’s remarks weren’t racist because she was “driven mad” not by seeing Black and Asian people on TV but by their “over-representation”. Robinson didn’t ask what’s so maddening about over-representation. Is there a rule adverts have to reflect life?

On Monday, former Bellingcat journalist Tristan Lee and open-source researcher Jennefer Harper will launch Decoherence Media, a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right.”

ffs

Nobody’s going home until everyone in the stadium has caught a ball

The Jays and Dodgers will break for Christmas Eve to share a drink in no man’s land, show each other photos of the family they left back home, before heading back to their respective trenches.

We’re living through a painful, unbelievable period in history …top of the 18th

Do they do rally pajamas?

it turns out you can have too much of a good thing …⚾️

"AI may not simply be 'a bubble,' or even an enormous bubble. It may be the ultimate bubble. What you might cook up in a lab if your aim was to engineer the Platonic ideal of a tech bubble. One bubble to burst them all." - @bcmerchant.bsky.social

Another case of a widely used dataset for AI training containing child sexual abuse material www.404media.co/ai-dataset-f...

Watch this. And then the whole thing. They are destroying the rule of law: www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

Saw The Mastermind this weekend, great, stylish film about personal responsibility in times political turmoil. Kelly Reichardt is that rarest of creatures - a director without a bad movie to her name

Thanks all for top tick advice… ✅

Any tick experts know what this is? Just extracted it from my back after a hike up a hill in the Catskills? Dog/deer ?

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

Celebrity Traitors : An entertainment show featuring the unjust banishment from society of black people and women by egotistical white men….

‘How’s the leg, Miss Marple?’ is in fact an unbeatable Pulp album title

Oh no. A legend of radio and relish.

The problem with writing is that it has to be done inside during nice weather

Anyone from the AI world who thinks ‘agentic AI will replace journalists’ should read this piece. Anyone who thinks ‘public service journalism is dead’ should read this piece (or revise their understanding of ‘public service’)

This reporting is so important, and also just wanted to say that I love @propublica.org's How We Did This notes. I think it does so much for transparency and context, and helping people understand how a story is told.

The full opinion on this is great for anybody interested in defemation law. This Court does a fantastic job of laying out the elements and factors and then applying the facts. law.justia.com/cases/texas/...

Interesting argument by @emilybell.bsky.social that Bari Weiss has lost influence by becoming the head of CBS News. Of course, Weiss has 150 million reasons not to care. www.cjr.org/analysis/bar...