Projet politique effacé de l’information. On retiendra qu’il est un immigrant qui parle arabe. Super.

The Mysterious Rise of Cancer Among Young Adults in the Corn Belt By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Dan Keating, Jahi Chikwendiu and Luis Melgar “The complicated thing is that it’s not risk factors now. It’s our risk factors from 10, 20, 30 years ago that are causing the cancers now.” Gift link!

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People often ask what it's like behind the scenes at the world's top spy tech trade fair, ISS World. Turns out it's like this bsky.app/profile/ligh...

Ohne @lighthousereports.com und speziell ohne @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social, cr0ft0n.bsky.social, @orariccardo.bsky.social & the one and only @emmanfre.bsky.social hätte es diese Recherche einfach nicht gegeben: merci, thanks, danke to all of you! www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

I'm a regular complainer, apparently

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Fascinating read on the workers training #AI, and why tech companies recruit for thousands of jobs that don't really exist. If you've ever seen an ad to “Take part in a part-time, remote, freelance project” or “Freelance English Proofreader / AI Tutor” you'll definitely want to check this out.

Recent covers of The Atlantic, and in response the @thecontinent.org about the war in Sudan.

Kenyan police used live rounds, tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters on Wednesday, as thousands marched nationwide to mark a year since huge demonstrations against a contentious tax plan turned deadly and laid bare the growing anger at President William Ruto’s government.

‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans - www.972mag.com/hunger-games...

👀 Black Americans relocating to Kenya because of racism and police brutality in the US. Interesting on many levels. By ‪@malcolmwebb.bsky.social‬ www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUop...

Ever discovered data that just isn't collected but should be? On Thursday we'll be talking with @cecillia.com.br about @fogocruzado.org.br , a team mapping shootings in Brazil. Speaking on how the project got started, collection obstacles and data trends, join us live at: discord.gg/6W2Dcdrq?eve...

Going through airport security, apparently I had too much mustard and dignity, so I had to leave both with the agents.

THREAD: An ex-DOGE engineer with no government or medical experience used AI to identify which Veterans Affairs contracts to kill, labeling them as “MUNCHABLE.” @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social and I got the code. Here’s what it tells us 1/

Kenya's competition authority looked into animal feed market and found: - 4 vertically integrated firms control over half the market - Feed prices are up to 40% higher than international markets - This leads to lower farmer income and higher food prices www.shambacentre.org/why-competit...

New job: Tech Investigations Editor @lighthousereports.com. If you're into investigating Big Tech, AI accountability, and researching at the impact of tech on our lives, this could be the job for you. wrkbl.ink/6hIlpoY

Il s'appelait Mahmoud Isleem Al-Basos, et il a collaboré avec @forbidden-stories.bsky.social au début de ce mois. Quelques jours plus tard, il est tué par l'armée israélienne, alors que le cessez-le-feu était toujours en vigueur. ⬇️

🚨Great job : Visual Impact Producer @lighthousereports.com apply.workable.com/lighthouse-r...

Yall. 1,500+ signups and climbing. In less than 48 hours. Fifteen. Hundred.

Some interesting like from Palantir, which is a partner of the UN's World Food Program on "delivering life-saving assistance using data." www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

Can the #HHS agencies continue to function, given the deep cuts to administrative staff in the recent layoffs? Employees of these agencies are expressing deep fears that so much of the scaffolding is gone that the edifices could crumble. www.statnews.com/2025/04/11/h...

Mapping nerds request: what's the nicest way to visualise the density of people at risk based their proximity to sources of pollution? i.e. that's two datasets: population density (in km2 polygons) and sources of pollution (points). This is for a very large area with many sources.

I showed my wife, a historian, the Kristi Noem video. She said “holy shit!” It’s a lot. A brief thread on bodies. It begins in the alt text below… 1/

Pressures against Tempo, Indonesia’s leading independent news outlet. In 2022, we revealed with Tempo and @nouvelobs.com that Prabowo Subianto owned an expensive flat in Paris, #France - he hadn't mentioned it in his assets declaration when he was Minister of Defence. cpj.org/2025/03/seve...

Résultats définitifs des élections agricoles enfin disponibles. La dégringolade de la #FNSEA-JA se confirme : elle passe pour la 1ère fois de son histoire au-dessous des 50%, en recueillant seulement 46,7% des voix dans le collège "exploitants" (1/4)

A government plane of the United Arab Emirates flew to Los Angeles for a few days, just returned to Dubai. #HZMF4 #7101E9 data.dictatoralert.org/flight/26636...

Interesting read on how some environmental policies can harm animal welfare. It also raises interesting questions on how exactly to quantify animal welfare - how do we compare the happiness of 2 cows vs 2 chicken or 2 fish?

Some excellent news

Deux super postes à l'AJAR: coordination des réseaux sociaux et coordination des formations externes (1 jour par semaine).

A tough but essential read on the violence faced by East African workers in Saudi Arabia - and the politicians benefiting by labor "export" policies. Great work by @lattif.bsky.social and Justin Scheck.

Living in this country is like having the most unpleasant case of chronic deja vu 😩

Data-journos, what is the (German) word for: the feeling you get when a colleague tells you they spent a day to do something that takes a minute with a computer?

"Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk’s companies: Asset managers have been promoting tech mogul’s ties to Donald Trump to lure capital to xAI, Neuralink and SpaceX" www.ft.com/content/6685...

In 2025, you have AI making videos, telling you what to cook for dinner, writing your code, and providing relationship tips. Meanwhile, on Excel we still need to go through these questions to open a .csv file

Now that Microsoft finally laid Skype to rest (after years of torture and horrendous updates), is there another service people are using to call phones?

Impact! The Missouri PR firm that secretly profiled hundreds of food, health and environment advocates has removed the profiles from its members-only website after @lhreports.bsky.social and partners exposed their activities and potential breach of privacy laws. #PoisonPR

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social try to top this

For US friends struggling with incompetence and noise, here's a relevant extract from The Emperor (an amazing book on the fall of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia). For those who have been living outside functional democracies, this is already familiar.

On M23 in Goma, should we talk about how the "conflict minerals" laws in the US and elsewhere have strengthened smuggling from DRC via Rwanda? See e.g. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

OpenAI is furious that DeepSeek might have stolen all of the data OpenAI stole from all of us www.404media.co/openai-furio...

For the #aircraft people here: does the Air Tractor AT-502 have an #ADS-B unit by default? I'm guessing not, but want to double-check. Thanks!! newspin.com/tour/?site=1...

Looks like Starlink is down all over Kenya. I'm sure there's a subtext there but not clear what.

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, let's share introductions to the literature of our different fields. Below, I humbly submit 12 main types of scientific papers on food, agriculture, land, & natural climate solutions (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #FoodStudies 🧪

Être menacée de mise en examen pour avoir fait son travail de journaliste est relativement désagréable de bon matin... Alors faites moi rire avec vos pancartes, comme en 2023 à Paris et Marseille !

It's a bit disappointing that lots of interesting people didn't move here from Twitter, especially non-US people. E.g. for Africa/Kenya, you can search #KOT here vs Twitter to see the difference.

Danone tried to get midwifes wearing company-associated branding to give advice on baby formula in Tesco supermarket aisles in UK. www.bmj.com/content/388/...