Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Mpls Emergency Mgmt Director Sayre: "I can't underscore enough how much Operation Metro Surge is impacting our city. Families with loved ones detained and those who are afraid to be in public lneed help accessing most basic necessities, like food, housing, rides to school. Businesses are shuttering"

His brother's a billionaire, so he's practically slumming it at "only" $600k. Common Sense Media should stick to their useful guides for parents, and stay out of trying to push regulations they don't understand.

Made by humans: How Pluribus Warns Against AI’s Threat to Human Individuality open.substack.com/pub/lucstein...

Big news!

@yungonion.bsky.social from @mediadiversity.bsky.social spoke at #WPFD2025 on two key panels: one on uplifting migrant voices through the MigraVoice platform, and another on rising threats to media freedom in Georgia, including FARA. Press freedom needs action now. #MediaFreedom #MigraVoice #Georgia

Miazia Schueler says "Knowing what I know, if I was to take a neutral stance on tech, I would be complicit" and urges us to further #techliteracy MDI session Open season on the oppressed: can diversity survive? @journalismfestival.com #perugia

#ICYMI: ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one.

masculine energy = less protection for your flock

bang on

One reason I have so much respect for Rachel is because she is driven by a real understanding of democracy I’ve heard Rachel talk about her time in Tunisia watching a democracy collapse in real-time before. This is something that shapes her journalism and one of the reasons she’s so fearless

Worth reading.

Workers in DC are fighting to block Musk's minions. "About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

"If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires." #FreeOurFeeds custodians @eli.bsky.social & Deepti Doshi explain why enriching & protecting the AT protocol is essential for a billionaire-proof web: www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...

pretty gross. xitter's notifications screen gives me andrew tate (whom i have never followed) updates. haven't checked it in a long time but it's time to nuke the account

Serving mega cantus www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/20...

Who thinks there'll be 50% less journalism jobs in 10 years?

As someone who has a PhD in studying misinformation, I can professionally say that this is a fucking stupid idea.

Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵

At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success. Read more: www.wired.com/story/big-in...

After living outside of Australia for quite a few years, I see it as an increasingly fearful country. This law is so shortsighted. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Mollusk never did anything quietly. Forbes is really le pire.

Brussels airport is closed because no one can find the snow plough. Brilliant! www.rtl.be/actu/belgiqu...

Musk's lawsuit against GARM was always a meritless #SLAPP suit painted as an #antitrust one www.theverge.com/2024/8/8/242...

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I'm calling this gate #gategate

This is the equivalent of your dealer saying "maybe you should try talking to someone"

This is so true of everyone I know who subscribes to conspiracy fictions: "If a story is either plausible or proved, it seems, they don’t want to know." Also the part about freeing us from civic responsibility bc they frame the problem as remote. Great read! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Here's the letter that @knightcolumbia.org just sent to President Shafik about free speech at Columbia (with corrected URL) knightcolumbia.org/blog/knight-...

Granted, it was written in a...simpler...time (2002), but man oh man did the author of this student comment get this one wrong.