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Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom

Newsweek's Financial Connections to a Bona Fide Christian Cult

The Death of Newsweek

How Newsweek Collapsed

Dropshipping journalism

Newsweek and the Rise of the Zombie Magazine

SciLove — What's new and hot in science

Lea: research-oriented social media

Mastodon pilot for research and education

We appreciate the love ❤️ But limited engagement and few followers on Bsky makes some (not us!) question whether it's worth it Be sure to…

In an era where research evaluation methods are evolving, the Research Contribution Claim Network makes trustworthy tracking of non-traditional research output easy!

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TowCenter/partisan-local-news

Hundreds of hyperpartisan sites are masquerading as local news. This map shows if there’s one near you.

Conservative PACs have paid at least $1.6 million to the extended Metric Media network this election cycle, a Tow Center investigation reveals.

NPR doesn't think it's important to note that the VAST majority of these fake local paper ("pink slime") agitprop operations are run by…

Someone Is Manipulating Your AI to Swing Your Vote | VisionHeight

Websites pretending to be local news are boosting Democratic candidates

I don't enjoy the Internet any more

We Need To Rewild The Internet

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Data for Good – Vancouver | Data professionals for Non-profits

Archive Argues With Itself: public AI over Democracy's Library

Daniel Shavit · Futureproof Festival of AI

Jacob Ortiz · Futureproof Festival of AI

Archive Argues With Itself: a civic memory debugger

How Many Trans People Does The New York Times Believe There Should Be? | Defector

As I have said for years, the NYT is just Facebook. Same ratcheting effect pushing “moderates” right, same delegation of all editorial autho…

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical…

Video: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump

NYT is explicitly using 2FA as a punishment to try to upsell existing subscribers.

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at…

As INFORMS kicks off, you can use lea.ac/conferences/... to follow the conference: - Build schedules - Get paper recommendations - Share…

You & Me

ATProto for conferences (by ATProto Science) — Semble

Have you ever used a conference (networking) app? What did you like/dislike? Asking for me 👀

cblgh/lieu

my hot take is that @semble.so is on par with traditional search engines for atproto related topics (and it's only curated by people!)

Curated retrieval versus open web search in public AI information services: a coverage-trust trade-off

ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History

DHS Facial Recognition Software Used Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT

Revealed: How undercover agents spied on anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota

The movement to defend the Minneapolis 15

Right-leaning groups say MN 15 prosecution violates free speech of anti-ICE activists

Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent Comes for Minnesota Anti-ICE Organizers

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London AO Summit

Improving scientific mentorship with "Open Labs" — science better

Federating friendly spaces - Roomy

modular research multi-agent slack-like environment demo

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Vancouver Folk Music Festival announces 2026 lineup, from global icons to local heroes — Stir