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You were never following us, but we are sorry to see you pretend to go.

To parrot that this has anything to do with something he said about Kirk is propping up the line they want out that it's looking out for decency. Kimmel said essentially nothing about him. He did show Trump and the FBI looked pretty bad in their reactions to his murder. Mostly he did emmys promo.

Watching it now (like millions of other people; streisand effect much?) This is about Kimmel showing how t***p doesn't care about k*r* at all: "He's at the fourth stage of grief: construction. This is not how an adult grieves a murdered friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish."

to recap, the Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, is about to control the following: -Paramount Skydance (CBS, Nickleodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET + Paramount and Skydance studios) -Warner Discovery (HBO, CNN, TBS and TNT, WB studios + various other TV networks) -TikTok

For a column, looking to chat with earlyish-career workers about whether you’re struggling to focus on work/job-searching amid…well, everything else happening in the world. Would love to talk to experts, including organizers, on actions we can take at work or beyond to help. DMs/inbox always open.

A DOJ study showing most domestic terrorism in the US comes from the far right is suddenly missing and replaced with a note saying DOJ is complying with Trump's executive order www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Never hire a Rich Lyons to defend the Bears

Q: Do you think you should have lowered flags when Minnesota House Speaker Hortman was gunned down? Trump: I am not familiar. Who?

UC Regents are holding an emergency meeting tomorrow re Trump DOJ situation. 150 Jewish profs of UC Berkeley, UCLA just sent a letter demanding a fight: "We recognize that anyone who rails against 'antisemitism' while gutting DEI efforts cannot have the well-being of Jews...at heart."

“.. Job finding is the risk in the labor market. According to the NY Fed SCE, .. the mean probability of finding a job if you lose one today plunged to 44.91%, a level never before seen in the history of this survey.” 👀 - RenMac

this abomination of a website shows submissions of private text messages (not dms or public posts), calls itself 'the largest firing operation in history," while arguing that it's all above board because its just doing the same thing archive.org does

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

A moment of silence at Lambeau field for the guy who said gun deaths were fine, actually... but not for the children who have been shot and killed this year while at school. Ok.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Don't sleep on the chance that the Ellisons could, in a year or two, own CBS, CNN, HBO, *and* TikTok. That'd be *literally* unprecedented media concentration in U.S. history — and all that's needed is enough Trump ass-kissing to ensure he doesn't get mad and sic Brendan Carr on him.

Sam Altman going on between two ferns to field softball questions and then getting seriously, repeatedly accused of murder

Trump says Charlie Kirk is dead

Scooplet: An Amazon engineer was promptly let go after criticizing the company's work with the Israeli government. of-interest.beehiiv.com/p/amazon-fir...

Fake photos, fake travel destinations, fake websites, fake summaries, fake writers, fake accounts, fake comments. AI is the future!

Constantly hearing how our students need to be experts in “gen AI” to compete on the job market, meanwhile the end goal of every executive is to hire absolutely no one, to pay absolutely no one else’s salary, just to let the little machine make something that they can still sell a subscription for

I searched libgen itself, and it turns out they have almost every book Iron Circus has ever published. They don't show up in the Atlantic Search because they were uploaded without author names. @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social authors could help destroy them singlehandedly.

“In their latest biweekly survey of AI adoption, the US Census Bureau found evidence of an obvious drop-off in corporate AI use — the largest since the survey began in November of 2023.”

If only Meta committed to the security they claim, we wouldn't need a whistleblower to tell the truth. Time & time again, the only way the public knows what's going on is through a whistleblower. @psst-org.bsky.social helped bring this story to the public while protecting Baig.

Everyone else who formed a coalition with the evil ring of ultimate power went mad with power but I won't be corrupted because a) I'm built different and b) the evil ring says it wants to build abundant housing

Largest settlement in all of copyright litigation, and yet, $3k to each author that had the work stolen for for profit use seems so incredibly small. And the judge sided with Anthropic on fair use, finding that the training itself was transformative. Idk if this even counts as a win

Cute to be cited in a good law review! The paper is a v good look at tech cos scraping the whole internet to train AI models, finding that any site's t&c re scraping/use *is legally enforceable* with one exception: nonprofit science research. scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcont...

-Immigration cops decide to 'investigate' a 30-minute discrepancy on a time card -Draw two firefighter crews to a 'remote' location by lying -Took those crews off an *active* fire that was barely 10% contained -Arrested two contractors working as firefighters. No one knows where they are now

If you hire someone to run your large and complicated news operation who has zero/zilch/nada experience in running a large and complicated news operation or even journalism in general it's clear you no longer intend to be a news organization.

So I’m supposed to look my students in the eye this semester and tell them that hard work, diligence, even adherence to basic journalistic principles is the right way in this field

Nunez is accused of towing the federal vehicle during the August 15 arrest of Tatiana Mafla-Martinez, a TikToker who had been documenting immigration raids in Los Angeles. He faces 10 years in federal prison. By @shoton35mm.bsky.social The full story: lataco.com/tow-truck-dr...

The key takeaway is Netflix’s bragged about algorithm that spies on every click you make gives them more data about audiences than ever existed in cinema history. But it has not led to their biggest hits. K-pop DH was made fully separate from Netflix & has crushed their $320 million Electric State.

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds - Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic impacts #climatecrisis #AMOC www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

Deforestation kills more than trees.

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I don’t like making reporting asks on here, but if there a couple of people who have teenagers with teen instagram accounts and are willing to check on some features for me… let me know via DM?

It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.

Summer of 1889: Inspired by the match girl's strike in the previous year, London's tailors and dockworkers join together in a general strike. The tailors demanded better pay, a 12 hour work day, a limit on overtime, and a 1 hour break for dinner and tea. They eventually won.

We filed FOIA requests with DHS for records—including texts—regarding the June deployment of the National Guard to LA. DHS told us it can no longer search for text messages. And it hasn’t maintained that data since April. This is unlawful and alarming. americanoversight.org/american-ove...

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

Hello! I have been laid off from my role at Splinter, after 1.5 years and ~600 posts and, I like to think, some okay reporting and writing. Because media/money/google/etc. Anyway I’m gonna try and log off for most of the weekend but fyi I’d love to hear about next steps and jobs and what have you.

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

DAILY MEMO: Agents Take a Teenager Riding His Bike and More Over 60 people were taken from Sunday through Monday at: 7 Car washes 4 Home Depots 8 Vehicle stops 3 street arrests (At least it's what we're aware of). @eltragon.bsky.social

srsly this new proposed district feels much more representative of the pop in OC, which has been gerrymandered so extremely for decades to ensure a small number of extreme gop held the local political strings

DAILY MEMO: ICE Brutalizes and Sends High-Profile Female TikToker Who Documents Raids to Hospital @eltragon.bsky.social

For at least the second time, a Bluesky user caught a federal criminal case - this time for threats against ICE and Tom Homan. There are screenshots if you want to see which user. h/t @courtwatch.bsky.social storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I think we don't talk enough about what it an absolute *heartbreak* it is to slowly watch your country's government not only voluntarily but gleefully slip free of whatever democratic restraints were still binding it. It is a different kind of pain apart from the fear and anxiety