Our new commentary rdcu.be/ftx6h in @natecoevo.nature.com written with folks from @inaturalist.bsky.social and @cornellbirds.bsky.social shows that use of AI to manipulate existing or create new wildlife images undermines the huge value of vast citizen science databases. 🌍🪰🪶 #Ornithology 🧵 1/10

Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

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What 20 Million Bans Reveal About The Stress On Wikipedia’s Volunteers This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. This... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/30/what-20-million-bans-reveal-about-the-stress-on-wikipedias-volunteers/

More AI agents getting blocked on Wikipedia today. Good time for reposting this from a couple months ago: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The wisdom of clawds - AI & SOCIETY

AI & SOCIETY -

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Is Alamo Drafthouse enshittifying or death spiraling?

My newest Citation Needed project made an appearance on @lastweektonight.com! It’s a work in progress, but you can see the new interactive version of my map of the Trump family’s crypto ventures at map.citationneeded.news.

Listening to the new All That We Touch podcast about Wikipedia and pleasantly surprised by its production value and general listenability (in addition to the smart takes, but that was less of a surprise given who's involved). impactstudios.edu.au/podcast/all-...

fellow millennials, let's take a second to appreciate how great it feels to be in the prime marketing demographic catered to by all of the culture. I get now why boomers wanted it to last forever

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 2w ago

Gillian Anderson has officially revealed the upcoming 1,478-piece LEGO set for THE X-FILES. The set is centered on Mulder’s office, paired with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO. Includes 8 minifigures, featuring Mulder, Scully, The Flukeman & more. August 4.

🗞️ @theathletic.com joined our Wiki Loves Fútbol watch party in NYC on July 10th, as we watched a World Cup quarterfinal + edited @wikipedia.org — part of a campaign organized by WikiLatinos.⚽ Gift link: www.nytimes.com/athletic/744... H/T to @craignewmark.bsky.social for supporting open knowledge! 🙏

Welcome to the high-stakes universe of World Cup Wikipedia editing (Gift Article)

Next time you go to Wikipedia to look up the backup centre-back on Spain, know there are people behind those pages. These are some of them.

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Nyt covered the @wikimedianyc.bsky.social Wiki Loves Futbol event last week! www.nytimes.com/athletic/744...

Welcome to the high-stakes universe of World Cup Wikipedia editing (Gift Article)

Next time you go to Wikipedia to look up the backup centre-back on Spain, know there are people behind those pages. These are some of them.

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📢 Excited to share that our paper w/, @yinizhang.bsky.social “From Mass Media and Social Media to AI: A Multilevel Framework for Understanding Trust in Generative AI," is now out in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, as part of the special issue on Trust in Generative AI.

The case for AI sovereignty is easier to make the more the Trump administration screws with Anthropic - my latest for Prospect: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

Trump’s Anthropic spat has made the case for AI sovereignty

Bans and threats against US companies will lead governments to develop their own tools, and they could use Chinese code to do it

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Operation Hail Mary is a shallow 80s-style implausible-make-friends-with-the-wacky-alien comedy wrapped in a conservative dream where you can just figure out climate catastrophe at the last minute with some good ol' fashioned American heroism and ingenuity. I resent how charming it is.

This video found its way to the main page of @wikicommons.bsky.social today :) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Ryan McGrady@antisomniac.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BlueSky is a depressing place sometimes. Can we make #foxsky ( #skyfox ?) a thing? Here are some fox kits that we saw playing at Bombay Hook in Delaware recently!

I should read more art essays in the morning. As upsetting as this essay was, it feels like a genuinely useful framing. I'd make a joke about the subject matter, but now I'd feel irresponsible for doing that. news.artnet.com/art-world/ma...

Culture Has No Name for This Cursed Vibe. It’s Everywhere | Artnet News

How the stupid and the awful collide in our distracted, digitally-fueled culture into a new and cursed vibe.

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Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · last mo.

This essay was very good.

The Trump admin is doubling down on its intention to destroy American science. Scientific expertise – not politicians – should be in charge of our science. We need everyone in this fight. Take action against the OMB proposal here:  zurl.co/k2Cj5 Article: zurl.co/F5zCu

Trump administration stands by controversial OMB proposal despite growing resistance

White House denies requests to extend public comment deadline on its plan to give political appointees control over science funding

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Not sure why I'm disappointed/surprised, but Googling the name of a Chinese journal article that advocates government influence on Wikipedia produces an AI overview that just parrots the ideas in Google's voice (as in, "here's what you'd need to do...").

Big title points for this piece in the Times by Tiffany Hsu: Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet. Different from some other similar pieces in that it foregrounds Bernadette Meehan. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...

Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet

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How did I miss this Ford, Dubois, & Puschmann paper about transparency wikibots (twitter bots that automatically report instances of Wikipedia editing by IPs tied to government, before that became impossible last year). Focus here is on Gccabot (Canada): demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

I love this, but parodying the death of parody that is InfoWars is nigh impossible. Heidecker's segment is successful insofar as it is indistinguishable from Jones, but Haggerty's "this scandal goes all the way to the almost-top" is great. youtu.be/tnz6PTSXiI0?...

ALEX JONES IS DEAD - Real InfoWars Livestream

YouTube video by InfoWars

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InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · last mo.

Tune in LIVE to be throttled by the truth. Stream wherever you want to be perceived.

⚽ Next: join us on Fri, July 10 for Wiki Loves Fútbol! Watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup Quarter-Final live while editing @wikipedia.org. 1:30pm meet-and-greet, 3–7pm watch party + edit-a-thon. 📍 Prime Produce, 424 W 54th St, NYC — all welcome! Thanks as always to @craignewmark.bsky.social!

Pair of new papers in the past week: First, a tool paper on TubeStats and TokStats for Media & Communication's special issue on open research infrastructures. www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm... [1/2]

TubeStats and TokStats: Research Tools for Random Samples of YouTube and TikTok | Article | Media and Communication

Kevin Zheng, Reagan Keeney, Ryan McGrady, Vikramaditya Jaisingh, Ethan Zuckerman

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CITR just submitted a request to intervene on behalf of technology researchers in the X v. European Commission case to explain the importance of the DSA’s data access rules to the CJEU. (⅓) independenttechresearch.org/citr-members...

“If Doctorow’s idea of platform “enshittification” is fundamentally about ruining the experience of end users for the sake of the shareholders, Wikipedia is attempting something like the opposite. The end-user experience is being preserved, and the people behind the scenes are bearing the cost.”

Ryan McGrady@antisomniac.bsky.social · last mo.

In @theconversation.com today: What 20 million bans reveal about the strain on Wikipedia's volunteers. theconversation.com/what-20-mill...

In @theconversation.com today: What 20 million bans reveal about the strain on Wikipedia's volunteers. theconversation.com/what-20-mill...

What 20 million bans reveal about the strain on Wikipedia’s volunteers

Wikipedia has grown steadily in size and importance, but a shrinking core of volunteer administrators is straining the organization.

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New one from @gizmodo.com gizmodo.com/one-of-wikip...

One of Wikipedia's Cofounders Banned From the Site Over Influence Campaigns

The longtime critic of the online encyclopedia is accused of trying to use his online followers to influence an internal Wikipedia debate.

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Ryan McGrady@antisomniac.bsky.social · last mo.

Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder and chief antagonist, has been banned. Mixed feelings, but the impending media fallout is certain. Journalists who cover Wikipedia: one corner of the news sphere has a ready-made outrage narrative to slot this into. Would be great to see some other takes.

Nod to @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social www.404media.co/wikipedia-co...

Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for ‘Canvassing’

“All he has done is try to start a right-wing/conservative pressure group within Wikipedia.”

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Ryan McGrady@antisomniac.bsky.social · last mo.

Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder and chief antagonist, has been banned. Mixed feelings, but the impending media fallout is certain. Journalists who cover Wikipedia: one corner of the news sphere has a ready-made outrage narrative to slot this into. Would be great to see some other takes.

Speaking of ready-made outrage narratives, it took the New York Post ... 45 minutes from when the ban was put in place to do their research, rigorously fact-check, copyedit, and publish a story.

Ryan McGrady@antisomniac.bsky.social · last mo.

Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder and chief antagonist, has been banned. Mixed feelings, but the impending media fallout is certain. Journalists who cover Wikipedia: one corner of the news sphere has a ready-made outrage narrative to slot this into. Would be great to see some other takes.

Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder and chief antagonist, has been banned. Mixed feelings, but the impending media fallout is certain. Journalists who cover Wikipedia: one corner of the news sphere has a ready-made outrage narrative to slot this into. Would be great to see some other takes.

Biggest IPO in history.

Hundreds (thousands?) of Grokipedia entries are just Grok having a panic attack, styled as an encyclopedia entry. Google e.g. '"task is to write" site:grokipedia.com' or similar chain of thought phrases ("tools are failing," "to comply, I'll," etc.). My favorite so far is "this is problematic."