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Glacier Media
Glacier Media Inc. is a people-driven, tech-enabled, diversified consumer digital information & business intelligence portfolio company.

Who owns the group chat? Building collaborative spaces on ATProto - ATmosphereConf 2026
Who Owns the Media
Who owns the 35 most powerful media companies in America? The Media Capitulation Index shows how these conglomerates came to dominate the U.S. media landscape. Using a chicken scale, Free Press rates their ability to defend democracy during a time of authoritarianism.

Alex Cui on Twitter / X
Claude's watermark probably doesn't work how you think. As the CTO of GPTZero, I'll explain how Anthropic, Google and OpenAI are building text watermarking in this brief explainer and whether it can be defeated.Almost all forms of watermarking that are fast and cheap enough for… https://t.co/3Ghcz3PTwJ— Alex Cui (@alexcdot) August 11, 2026
Melanie Hui
As CEO, Melanie leads Luminate's team to implement the organisation’s strategy. She brings over 20 years of leadership experience to the role, with a career focused on advancing the rights and well-being of people around the world.Melanie has been with Luminate for five years leading the organisation’s work in Asia and most recently implementing a global strategy review. She was previously Vice President of the Chandler Foundation, where she played a pivotal role in launching the organisation, designing its grant-making strategy, identifying high-impact development grantees, and leading strategic engagements with other funders and partners. Prior to this, Melanie was Vice President at the Clermont Group, managing corporate communications for the multibillion-dollar investment firm dedicated to building companies that harness the goodness of business to create a better world. Earlier in her career, she launched and led the CleanWater Foundation, a safe water micro-franchise serving rural communities in Bangladesh. She also worked in external affairs at the World Bank and served as the Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor of the Asian University for Women.

Mike Stabile (@mikestabile.bsky.social)
First Amendment rodeo clown. Policy Director at Free Speech Coalition, co-founder SWR Data, among other things. Personal account, all outrage / nonsense here is my own.
Beating the drums for independent press, publishers, and writers
Whose news? Whose story? Who gets to tell it?


Tyler Fisher (@tylerjfisher.com)
Founder, @euphonos.studio. Stop doomscrolling with @sill.social. Watch good NBA games with heatcheck.site. Used to work for a bunch of news orgs. Lapsed Philadelphian in 🇳🇱.
Vancouver Sun (@vancouversun.bsky.social)
Western Canada's largest news team. Send tips to VanTips@postmedia.com. Sign up for our free newsletters here: https://vancouversun.com/newsletters/
Update: Ongoing Investigation and Continued Remediation
Open Source Security Advisory Update: Wednesday, April 1, 2026 Boston, MA 10:00 AM ET Over the past week, we have nearly finalized our investigation and are now in the final stages of documentation and review. There continues to be no indication that Aqua’s commercial products have been affected. As part of this process, we identified …

the case for hydrant - ptr.pet
why should you use hydrant? how does it compare to tap?
ATProtocol Record Hydration: Building Privacy-Aware Views
ATProtocol Record Hydration: Building Privacy-Aware Views posted by @smokesignal.events on 2025-08-01 18:00 UTC
Could this be the beginning of the end for the billionaire-owned media propaganda blitz?
A campaign to free our national press from foreign billionaires like Rupert Murdoch is gaining momentum and attracting big-name support

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