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code and reporting at themarkup.org and calmatters.org pfp & banner are photos I took
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Susan Rinkunas
4 days ago
NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinicâwhich doesn't even take insuranceâfought the demand in court and won. Read
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The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back.
A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDocâbut the fight may not be over.
https://www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena-patient-info-queerdoc-gender-affirming-care/
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great song, great video; I got teary when BjĂśrk started singing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=htQB...
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ROSALĂA - Berghain (Official Video) feat. BjĂśrk & Yves Tumor
YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htQBS2Ikz6c
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Laura Bassett
5 days ago
A lot of people didnât like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
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those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal â the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in âausterityâ measures
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Blue sky nice ghost
10 days ago
I may just be a simple country hooftrimming video watcher, but I think it's time we raise America's hoof, pare away the separated horn until we reach the infected area, spray it with a powerful cleansing agent, and place a salicylic acid wrap on the foot so we can begin to heal
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San Francisco, earlier today
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stop illustrating articles about AI with robots challenge
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Joseph Cox
19 days ago
PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
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How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out o...
https://www.404media.co/how-to-opt-out-of-airlines-selling-your-travel-data-to-the-government/
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Melissa Gira Grant
20 days ago
what a tremendous lossâLexâs leadership and commitment to taking risks and doing right by people with less power is so rare, and frankly, this way of working is no longer being resourced at the scale we desperately need
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Autonomy News
28 days ago
Yesterday, the Associated Press published a story about anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers that illustrates perfectly how traditional notions of journalistic objectivity and âboth sidesâ coverage fail to meet the current momentâand even facilitate the spread of disinformation.
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The Associated Press Does Free PR for Crisis Pregnancy Centers
A recent story is a glaring example of how traditional journalistic âobjectivity" is far from unbiased, and can even facilitate the spread of disinformation.
https://www.autonomynews.co/associated-press-does-free-pr-for-crisis-pregnancy-centers/
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and I made a "Vampire BBS" for the official Blade (1998) site which was just a short Perl CGI script. A couple met on that forum and got married!
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For example I made a shockwave game for the official Lost In Space (1998) site where you flew a spaceship around and killed all the cast members!
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See this July story from NPR by
@bobbyallyn.bsky.social
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; also, note that, in that article, they identified the account on the left as AI-generated, the person in the embedded video thinks it's the one on the right. Maybe it's both!
www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...
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Iâm in love with this album cover and the music is good too
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Delighted, by Joanna Duda Trio
6 track album
https://joannaduda.bandcamp.com/album/delighted
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HBD good dog
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Amanda Katz
about 2 months ago
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Muskâs aid cuts
apnews.com/article/myan...
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said âno one has died" because of his governmentâs decision to gut its foreign aid program.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0
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Mikhail Zinshteyn
about 2 months ago
BREAKING: Hours after California filed suit against the Trump administration Sunday seeking to prevent the president from sending 300 California National guard troops to Portland, Ore., a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order blocking federalized deployment from any state to Oregon.
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Trump deploys 300 California Guard troops to Portland; Newsom vows lawsuit
Gov. Gavin Newsom is vowing to sue after he says Trump sent 300 California Guard troops to Portland to quell protests
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/10/california-national-guard-portland/
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Harry Underwood
about 2 months ago
@calmatters.org
on one of Newsom's Wednesday vetoes:
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Newsom just vetoed a bill to regulate license plate readers â even as fresh evidence of misuse emerges
The measure would have required regular purges of license plate databases and regularly audited how automated readers are used.
https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/10/newsom-vetoes-license-plate-reader-regulations/
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dell cameron
about 2 months ago
NEW: By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, the Heritage Foundation is promoting a false link between transgender identity and violence in a push for the FBI to create a new category of terrorism. By me &
@couts.bsky.social
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Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification
By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, Heritage promotes a false link between transgender identity and violence in its push for the FBI to create a new terrorism category.
https://www.wired.com/story/heritage-foundation-uses-bogus-stat-to-push-a-trans-terrorism-classification/
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Deb Chachra
11 months ago
Occasional reminder that thereâs no, âitâs too late, its overâ for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesnât go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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post a photo you took on December 26, 2005
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Marie Cerda
2 months ago
Once again, 404 Media is very much worth supporting monetarily with a subscription. If you cancelled Disney+ or Hulu, maybe toss some of that money their way (and you'll still have a lot left over!)
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Weâre Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.
https://www.404media.co/were-suing-ice-for-its-2-million-spyware-contract/
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good morning earthquake đŞ
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great song, great video
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Tierra Whack - Tip Toe from HIM Official Motion Picture Soundtrack (Music Video)
YouTube video by Tierra Whack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcxgI6IM0vI
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Ryan Broderick
2 months ago
Went on PBS NewsHour last night to talk about Gen Z accelerationist violence
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s. e. smith
3 months ago
Service journalism so nice, the DMV helped itself to the idea!
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CalMatters created a tool to help you get your money back from the DMV. Now the agencyâs copied it
The agency is now allowing vehicle owners to see if the state owes them money for sales of their towed cars.
https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/09/dmv-towing-impact/
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3 months ago
CARE Court made big promises to get the sickest Californians off the street. But nearly two years after it rolled out in the first counties, it's helping far fewer people than anticipated We asked for data from every county in California. Here's what we found
@calmatters.org
tinyurl.com/bddh39c7
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Newsom promised real progress on mental health with CARE Court. Here's what the numbers show
Far fewer people are using Gov. Gavin Newsom's CARE Court than he projected when he launched the mental health program to help homeless Californians.
https://tinyurl.com/bddh39c7
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Lisa OâCarroll
3 months ago
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the âmost deliberate effort to kill and silenceâ them ever
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2025/sep/01/israel-gaza-war-media-palestinian-journalists-killed-cpj
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Dr Abeba Birhane
3 months ago
"The idea of robot/AI rights acts as a smoke screen, allowing theorists and futurists to fantasize about benevolently sentient machines with unalterable needs and desires protected by law."
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ProPublica
3 months ago
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. đ§ľ
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This is a useful and well designed resource
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Al Jazeera English
3 months ago
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital
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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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I miss Vine
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Reo Eveleth
4 months ago
Stop talking to ChatGPT, we know it makes mistakes, every single one of you talking to it to "show how wrong it is" is not necessary! Please!!!!
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This is a damning report on the state of public data about deaths in law enforcement custody
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/07/d...
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Why Doesnât the U.S. Government Know How Many People Die in Custody?
Under the Death in Custody Reporting Act, the government is supposed to track how many people die in law enforcement custody â but the data is a mess.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/07/deaths-in-custody-reporting-act-problems
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Lisa Pickoff-White
4 months ago
Weâve launched a database with about 1.5 million pages of once-secret records detailing when law enforcement officers in California seriously injured someone or an agency found an officer violated policy with
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CLEAN - KQED News
Search California public records about law enforcement violence and misconduct.
https://policerecords.kqed.org/
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Tara Garcia Mathewson
4 months ago
There are serious social capital implications of
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students. Students are already inclined to avoid asking for help. When chatbots make it even easier, they lose opportunities to build connections that lead to long-term success:
calmatters.org/education/hi...
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Chatbots help students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison
As students use chatbots for quick answers, they can lose the human connections that are key to success in college and careers.
https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/07/chatbots/
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Dr Abeba Birhane
4 months ago
PTSD is not something that can be detected from facial images/videos. this is simply scientifically bogus and a clear case of physiognomy
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á´Ęᴠɴɪɢɢá´É´á´á´
5 months ago
Yall asking Grok questions like itâs not pumping out 1000 cubic meters of poison gas into South Memphis every 15 minutes all so MFs can get a corny ass screenshot to dunk on.
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a perfect punk EP
ragdollrecords.bandcamp.com/album/demo
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demo, by eightball
4 track album
https://ragdollrecords.bandcamp.com/album/demo
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London Breedâs legacy
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evacide
5 months ago
Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.
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Tara Garcia Mathewson
5 months ago
There are so many problematic things about Turnitin use in higher education it's hard to even write a headline. Can you just read the whole story?
themarkup.org/artificial-i...
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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? â The Markup
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.
https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/06/26/ai-detector-california
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This is a good book, highly recommended!
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Hypervisible
5 months ago
âLaw enforcement agencies across Southern California violated state law more than 100 times last month by sharing information from automated license plate readers with federal agents, records show.â
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California police are illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol
LAPD and the counties of San Diego, Orange, and Riverside have repeatedly shared automated license plate reader data to federal agencies
https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/06/california-police-sharing-license-plate-reader-data/
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