Well played @fctulsa.bsky.social 😢

English Premier League votes to preserve the free market in professional sports salaries, rejects the top down control model of American sports www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

File under "the past is much stranger than we think."

Of the twelve humans who have walked on the moon, four are still alive. The youngest of them is 90 years old.

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Indiana Jones voice: "That belongs in a museum!" apnews.com/article/loui...

Fair to have different views about Democrats' difficult strategic choices in this moment, but people who are big mad about a vote to reopen the government for less than 3 months are missing some perspective.

Love to see a disclaimer about what my new toaster oven may or may not remember.

AI is failing the test when it comes to factual accuracy; the decline of news and journalism won't help. It serves the financial interest of AI companies—and the mission of the OpenAI nonprofit—to invest in reviving local news, says Rebuild Local News President Steven Waldman. buff.ly/gLr76Lz

A thing about authoritarianism is that the country has to be made small enough to fit in one greedy man's hand. Let's keep America big. #NoKings

Me in @thepickupdotcom.bsky.social: Supporting local news and information isn't a partisan issue—it's a community issue. What we do next will determine whether we're still a community that knows itself, or a collection of strangers who happen to live in the same place. thepickup.com/tulsa-doesnt...

Someday America will have a President who can leave the public eye for three consecutive days without creating speculation that they're dead.

How is the U.S. Supreme Court majority planning to spin their rediscovery of the rule of law next time there's a Democratic President?

PBS KIDS programming is genuinely higher quality than the kids shows on commercial networks, most of which is built to sell toys. Weather Hunters launched just on this month on PBS, and it's already the 6 year old's favorite.

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I know we're all supposed to skate past ridiculous lies by people in power nowadays, but think about the logic of being able to choose which state you will live on the streets in and choosing Oklahoma. The weather alone!

Imagine loving a corporate merger so much that you would trade the United States of America for one.

My take on political violence is that Donald Trump is an unpopular president with no ideas about how to become popular. Instead he's desperately trying to provoke violence by his political opponents in order to:

Forever asking everyone not to describe stuff as "Oklahoma is trying to..." when it's one guy sending out a press release who doesn't actually have the power to do the thing.

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It's interesting that of all the extremist ideologies floating around right now, memelord nihilism is the one that most reliably produces actual shooters. I hope our takeaway is to not spend so much time on the Internet and not let our kids disappear into it either.

The bad news is the University of Central Oklahoma appears to have turned its back on its mission to "empower students to become ethical, creative and engaged citizens and leaders." The good news is the students have raised the funds to put the show on anyway www.erininthemorning.com/p/oklahoma-s...

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Thankful for this reminder to not eat my computer.

I don't know about AI killing us all, but I do think a significant part of AI's kill count will be due to tech, financial and political elites abandoning solvable global problems to chase scifi fantasies.

I want the animated feature film about this spider.

Not my field, but the previous resident's HIV Specialist magazine subscription still comes to my house. This month, every article is about the same thing.

First day in weeks without a heat advisory! Enjoy this flood advisory, as a treat.

Taking up smoking so I can get a vaccine.

WHERE'S THE MONEY? Tribal radio stations wait on $9.4 million they were promised in a congressional handshake deal to pass the bill defunding public media -- excellent story from @jennifershutt.bsky.social @statesnewsroom.com DC www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trib...

Let's advance the conversation about banning phones in schools to how we can get phones banned in more places. Airplanes are nice but even that one's starting to get leaky. How about no phones day at the museum, restaurant, library, ballpark...

Rule of Law Degradation Watch: It's weird how we're all just pretending that TikTok wasn't banned.

After the demise of CPB, Rebuild Local News Founder @stevenwaldman.bsky.social says the industry has an opportunity to build more creative models for public support. Read more at @columjournreview.bsky.social: www.cjr.org/analysis/wha...

Remembering that despite their best efforts, most of us will outlive Trump and RFK Jr.

At a certain age, junk mail gets hardcore.

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it's obviously venal & self-defeating to fire the head of the BLS bc you don't like the jobs numbers. reliable, objective economic underlines all econ and financial decisions. but it's even worse to think about all the other people who bring Trump info each day. Military, intel. What will they do?

Farewell to a real one. He's poisoning pigeons in heaven now.

Cool remote job alert! @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social is looking for a dynamic researcher to investigate the crisis in journalism and evaluate First Amendment-friendly efforts to strengthen local news. As the newest member of this team, I can vouch for it being a great decision to join us.

The original Jungle Book story is public domain and while Disney IP is notoriously not I bet some creative author could walk that line of retelling it set in generic Florida theme park.

Experienced developers estimated AI had increased their productivity 20 percent. Their productivity actually decreased 19 percent compared to developers not using AI. secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-coding-...

Welcome to the post-DEI era?

As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)

New from @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social and @muckrack.com: The U.S. has lost roughly three quarters of its local journalists since 2002. This report shows the number of full-time equivalent journalists serving every county in the U.S. Some Oklahoma-specific analysis in the thread:

After serving in the Coast Guard and Army, two veterans found new purpose through @npr.org internships, continuing their commitment to public service. They say federal cuts to public media risk the local reporting that communities rely on across the country. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

"Private equity did not cause the fundamental problems in the news industry. They came in and capitalized on existing problems to benefit themselves, at the particular expense of local publications... There was no attempt at innovation, at creative solutions."

Em dash discourse is emblematic of why we're so vulnerable to AI deception. It promises a shortcut to identifying AI — one that doesn't work but still gets more attention than the slower, more subjective tools that do work: reading comprehension, source checking, & critical engagement with ideas.

What started as a search for some of my first publications has led me to reading through the San Diego Reader of the early 1990s. It is, overall, astonishingly good. But then, there were alt-weeklies like it across the U.S. Almost all gone or hollowed out. Nothing has replaced them.

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The great thing about science is there are people who've spent whole careers debating whether these are the world's oldest rocks or just really old rocks and now we're able to say maybe yeah these are dang old and probably the oldest and this process is genuinely how all human knowledge came to be.