Can't wait to see the Odyssey on an airplane like Homer intended.
Barbara Ortutay
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Technology writer for The Associated Press. bortutay@ap.org https://apnews.com/author/barbara-ortutay
AP wants to lay off 30 more U.S. journalists and move those roles to India. That’s after laying off or buying out nearly 150 U.S. staffers over the past two years.
Journalists across the United States are fighting for contracts that address AI use: “We don’t want it to be done in our name, literally.” Read @riddhisetty.bsky.social www.cjr.org/analysis/fig...
Fighting the machine.
Journalists across the United States are fighting for contracts that address AI use: “We don’t want it to be done in our name, literally.”
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AP News Guild on Instagram: "AP journalists in the U.S. are on the frontlines providing essential news coverage and documenting history each and every day. AP was there because WE were there. But ...
82 likes, 1 comments - apnewsguild on April 20, 2026: "AP journalists in the U.S. are on the frontlines providing essential news coverage and documenting history each and every day. AP was there bec...
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When she tried to stop using the platforms, she said she was often unsuccessful. “Every single day, I was on it all day long,” she said.
Young woman says she was on social media 'all day long' as a child in landmark addiction trial
A 20-year-old woman is seeking to hold social media companies responsible for harms to children who use their platforms.
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The shooting deaths of two American citizens during the Trump administration’s deportation operations in Minneapolis have upended the politics of immigration in Congress, plunging the country toward another government shutdown.
The shootings in Minneapolis are upending the politics of immigration in Congress
The shooting deaths of two American citizens at the hands of federal law enforcement in Minneapolis have upended the politics of the Trump administration’s deportation agenda.
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complaining about paywalls when so many journalists are being laid off and there are fewer market incentives to do great reporting and in-depth investigations, data analysis and features is also wild when everyone understands you need to pay for electronics, streaming services, and utilities
While the website was processing my payment for plane tickets (like the circle going around and around) I got a notification that the price increased by $70. This is insanity. Has this happened to anyone else?
We asked Roblox's CEO about child safety on the platform. It got tense www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
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Read this investigation by @byrontau.bsky.social now: apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
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"Believing that the only constant in the world was change, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus posited that no man can ever step into the same river twice. In the online world of social media, the current runs fast, too." -- Judge James Boasberg, ruling in favor of Meta.
Meta prevails in historic FTC antitrust case, won't have to break off WhatsApp, Instagram
Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly ...
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Of course women don't like the Cybertruck. Women only want one thing, and it's the Trabant 601.
lilastromech (Mischa)@mischajaye.bsky.social · 10mo agoOf course women don't like the Cybertruck. Women only want one thing, and it's Muffler from the CBS Transformers pitch
Krasznahorkai has said of his work: ‘You will never go wrong anticipating doom in my books, any more than you’ll go wrong in anticipating doom in ordinary life.’ In 2012, we recorded a 94-minute conversation with Colm Tóibín for our Bookshop podcast: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...
László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Colm Tóibín | London Review Bookshop
Our first Literary Friendships event brought together Colm Tóibín with his friend László Krasznahorkai. Described by the Guardian as a ‘visionary writer’,…
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
"Way back in 2012, the internet wasn’t yet the angry, shrieking wasteland it has become. A simple story about a no-nonsense lady in North Dakota could break through the noise." www.wsj.com/us-news/mari...
Marilyn Hagerty, Whose Column on Olive Garden Went Viral in 2012, Dies at 99
It was a simpler time online, her son recalls—and his no-nonsense mother broke through the noise for all the right reasons
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The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.
PSA: If you do not wish to mistakenly see the graphic video of Charlie Kirk getting shot and have an iPhone best to turn off video autoplay. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Motion, and then disable "Auto-Play Video Previews." This is the default setting. A per-app setting is also on the menu.
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈@jaspar.bsky.social · 11mo agowarning and fyi: there is a VERY GRAPHIC close up video of the Charlie Kirk shooting out there. It is not the one you’ve probably already seen on here. This is what the first frames look like if you want to avoid it:
“Smells Like Teen Spirit”, released as a single 34 yrs ago today “No one had any psychic foresight .. that the song would go on to do what it did,” said Grohl. “We just fuckin’ rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. .. We just thought it was another cool song for the record.”
"Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found."
US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China
U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.
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I'm seeing a social media trend where people are sneaking pics of men reading books in public and making fun of them as "performative males" And while I love a good dunk, I don't think you guys want men to be reading even less than they are now. Just saying
I have honestly many times thought about purchasing one of those bulletproof backpacks or whatever, but then I think about the burden of carrying that to school every day, putting that burden on our children, that physical and mental burden of having to remember why you are carrying that backpack.