The world kinda sucks but today I wrote a script that sorted files from a small oregon newspaper so it can be archived for the first time and that felt nice

WIRED@wired.com · 4w ago

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

From Dolores Huerta's statement this past March medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last mo.

this dynamic described by jenny racicot is, as i understand it, very common among progressive women in maine. they’ve been put in an impossible position and feel like they’re tanking platner’s campaign when in reality he did that on his own by being a violent and reckless person.

Nothing to sum up the vibe of digital news preservation than the page hosting the report on digital news preservation throwing an error.

AI-generated misinformation is becoming increasingly believable, making fact-checking and source verification more important than ever. www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-...

Now we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news

Did 47 Alabama newspapers die on a single day and no one noticed? (Hint: No, they didn't.)

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Reminding everyone that, before all else, this is a climate story

Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: CNN just talked about heat related ailments wt Trump’s state fair: 44 patients, 11 transported - 7 of those on advanced life support

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

VIDEO: A lobbyist for the AI military tech startup Anduril drafted a legislative amendment that effectively shut down voters' ability to challenge megaprojects via citizen referendums—a threat to their "Arsenal-1" plant. for @inkstickmedia.com on @tkbarnes.bsky.social's remarkable reporting:

Emails Show Defense Tech Lobbyist Targets Local Voters

YouTube video by Inkstick Media

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Attacks on #Science Tracker (A New Research Tool From @ucs.org) Tracker app.powerbi.com/view?ucsdf=a... Overview/Blog Post blog.ucs.org/jules-barbat... Background www.ucs.org/resources/at... #attacksonscience

I really appreciated this piece by @sammyroth.bsky.social on the disappearance of climate from the power broker discourse. It’s the kind of thoughtful, nuanced deep dive we should be seeing in journalism but is largely found in newsletters these days.

Enough climate hushing, more listening to scientists

As we celebrate July 4, let's resolve to start learning from the folks who make America great.

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VIDEO: A lobbyist for the AI military tech startup Anduril drafted a legislative amendment that effectively shut down voters' ability to challenge megaprojects via citizen referendums—a threat to their "Arsenal-1" plant. for @inkstickmedia.com on @tkbarnes.bsky.social's remarkable reporting:

Emails Show Defense Tech Lobbyist Targets Local Voters

YouTube video by Inkstick Media

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Massive, ultra-detailed report about the climate, air pollution and water disasters created by America's fossil fuelled data centre boom. There is such a huge amount of v v useful information in this report Includes a huge free table of all gas plants environmentalintegrity.org/wp-content/u...

My @inkstickmedia.com latest: Ohioans tried to vote on a weapons plant. Then the state changed the rules. We got bombshell emails from "arsenal of democracy" Anduril's lobbyist targeting the farmers behind the ballot initiatives inkstickmedia.com/in-ohio-who-... www.youtube.com/shorts/_xyNB...

Emails Show Defense Tech Lobbyist Targets Local Voters

YouTube video by Inkstick Media

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Inkstick Media@inkstickmedia.com · last mo.

Newly released emails show a lobbyist for autonomous weapons manufacturer Anduril drafted legislative language exempting the company's Ohio factory from local referendum challenges after residents repeatedly tried to force votes on real estate developments. By: @tkbarnes.bsky.social

I really enjoyed producing the video for Taylor's investigation into Anduril, check it out here:

Emails Show Defense Tech Lobbyist Targets Local Voters

YouTube video by Inkstick Media

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Inkstick Media@inkstickmedia.com · last mo.

Newly released emails show a lobbyist for autonomous weapons manufacturer Anduril drafted legislative language exempting the company's Ohio factory from local referendum challenges after residents repeatedly tried to force votes on real estate developments. By: @tkbarnes.bsky.social

Clickbait never changes (from a historic newspaper circa 1931)

Today, SCOTUS ruled that states can ban trans girls from girls' sports. To get there, it watered down the way it analyzes Constitutional protections against sex discrimination. My analysis with comments from @maryrziegler.bsky.social and @avaayers.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Supreme Court's trans athlete ruling is a threat to gender equality

Justice Brett Kavanaugh is "not only creating a bad precedent for trans people, he’s significantly lowering the protection all women get."

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Gotta love someone who claims gender is biological and then cites the journal Philosophical Studies in support of the point.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · last mo.

Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Over the past three years, I have pretty much only reported on one facet of trans healthcare: how narratives about evidence quality has been misused to fearmonger. This op-ed does a great job explaining evidence quality and contextualizing gender-affirming surgery within the larger field.

Henry Carnell@hencarnell.bsky.social · last mo.

“Using strategic language like “weak evidence” is how anti-trans groups have effectively misled a general audience. Low-quality evidence is different from saying that treatment is harmful.“

“Using strategic language like “weak evidence” is how anti-trans groups have effectively misled a general audience. Low-quality evidence is different from saying that treatment is harmful.“

Banning gender-affirming care doesn’t protect children — it makes it harder to help them

“Physician groups betraying the public’s trust out of fear of government retaliation has permanent consequences,” writes a plastic surgeon.

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“Despite little evidence that Flock cameras actually reduce crime, the company markets its products as powerful crime-stopping and deterrence tools.”

Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast - Engadget

Mounting privacy and security issues have residents and activists concerned.

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TONIGHT Several people were arrested at the end of the Trans March, the kick-off event for San Francisco Pride weekend. Police officers ran into the crowd & handcuffed people, allegedly for earlier acts of vandalism. People were heard yelling "Get off him!" & "What the fuck?!"

France recorded ~1,000 excess deaths during the record-breaking heatwave this past week, with 85% of the deaths being people aged 65 and over. The sharpest increase are people dying at home in the Île-de-France region that includes Paris and its suburbs.

France records around 1,000 excess deaths in heatwave

Public Health France said areas under red alert for heat had been particularly badly affected, and 85% of the deaths had been those aged 65 and over

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The decision could save Bayer billions of dollars and put an end to lawsuits alleging the company withheld the health risks of Roundup.

Supreme Court Delivers a Victory for Pesticide Companies in Fight Over Cancer Claims - Inside Climate News

In a 7-2 decision, the Court determined that federal law prohibits “failure to warn” lawsuits against pesticide companies for health harms not formally recognized by the EPA.

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Ummm…

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · last mo.

The US government is entering a partnership to store frozen cells and other biological samples from endangered and threatened species with Colossal, a private company best known for claiming to "de-extinct" dire wolves. Story by me & @catrineinhorn.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Rzhfw

Cutting back on beef and biofuels could help improve food security and mitigate climate emissions.

More Crops Grown for Fuel and Livestock Feed Than for People, New Study Finds

Cutting back on beef and biofuels could help improve food security and mitigate climate emissions.

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Must-read story by @drilledmedia.bsky.social and @propublica.org. Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study @themadstone.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social @katieworth.bsky.social

Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study

BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.

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I cannot believe we are STILL talking about trans mice. As I previously wrote: "As they beat the drum of “insufficient evidence,” you’d think that they would relish the chance to generate more evidence. Of course, these studies do conflict with their reality—or at least reveal a more nuanced one."

White House scared of trans mouse

Donald Trump is on one about "transgender animal experiments."

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examples of what the FBI included as evidence of "Antifa terrorism" in the Prairieland case: -Narcan spray -Anarchist tattoos -a highlighted copy of Emergent Strategy -a zine made of a 2019 review of Hereditary and Midsommar from @reproutopia.bsky.social -First Aid Kits -seeds for garden vegetables

Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

WGAE-Scientific American Union Statement on Springer Nature’s Sale and Layoffs | Press Room

The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: “Earlier today in an all-staff meeting we ...

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