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MuckRock@muckrock.com · 2d agoJoin The Data Liberation Project volunteers, The Marshall Project, Prison Policy Initiative and Moira Marquis of Prison Banned Books Week for a training on carceral book bans on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 1 p.m. ET. RSVP here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
I once went out on a date with a woman who said she was in favor of UBI because she believed it would usher in a new renaissance
violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · yesterdayPeople don't realize how necessary cheap rent is to the arts.
Damn, my hometown sucks.
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 6d agoMy probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...
“My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.” These titans of business. These masters of the universe.
My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.
Shane Mac, the CEO of XMTP Labs, got a rude shock when one of his AI agents posted his monthly bank audit in a company Slack channel.
businessinsider.com
Not auntie learning SZA was singing, lIfe's better on saturn.
What kind of consequences should news organizations face if they publish false information? A large majority of Americans (81%) say the news organization should publish a correction in all or most cases. Americans are more divided on other consequences. #PewKnightInitiative
People who misused Colorado court livestreams made up less than 1% of all viewers, according to @denverpost.com. But unauthorized social media videos from those proceedings prompted the state to suspend court livestreaming for three months.
People who misuse Colorado court livestreams make up less than 1% of all viewers
In 2026, 352,000 people viewed livestreamed state court proceedings on the Colorado Judicial Department’s website, spokeswoman Suzanne Karrer said.
denverpost.com
🔥 🇫🇷 FRENCH STUDENT: “More resources for education. Our demand is institutional. We want someone who changes things. A breakaway left. We want to change the system.”
This. Is. Bad.
Deborah Lynn@mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 2w agowww.dailymail.com/news/article... Three Russian hospitals and hundreds of people have been placed under quarantine following a fatal pneumonic plague outbreak, amid claims of a government cover-up. Pneumonic plague has a near-100 per cent death rate if left untreated.
One person dead. Two hundred under observation. A hospital quarantined. Here's what you need to know about the possible plague case in Russia
People Are Comparing A Possible Russian Plague To COVID. Here’s What Experts Want You To Know.
One person has died, 200 are under observation and a hospital is under quarantine. Here’s what matters most to experts.
huffpost.com
Influencers are being paid to make TikTok videos about the cost of living in Wisconsin as part of a growing campaign of political content that often comes without disclosure, report Miranda Dunlap and Natalie Yahr for Wisconsin Watch.
$4K rent? $7 gas? Inside the internet campaign insisting Green Bay is ‘more expensive than NYC’
The videos seem to be part of a growing trend of paying influencers to post on political topics, often without disclosures.
wisconsinwatch.org
Now at $10,894 - we're chugging along. thank you to everyone who has donated and shared.
Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social · 2w agoWe've raised $9424 since I started on my goal to raise $40,000 for REBUILD. Thank you. It's my birthday month. Please support and share if you can. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
My $99 struggle phone was not really not great. But, anywho, going through old videos and 11pm in #Paris in 2017. This song was my jam.
USPS is piloting cameras on mail trucks that continuously capture roads, signs, sidewalks, and other surroundings as the vehicles make their regular routes. Story via @404media.co.
USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
404media.co
I want credit for my hosting years! I participated in hosting a lot more before Covid. Now I'm a two trick pony. I'll host a fake bbq or a raclette gathering. I hate dishes. I'm rebuilding in a big city. I was not ouside post-covid until 2024ish or, perhaps, 2026.
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975
derekthompson.org
"The use of pseudonymous email addresses by government officials can undermine transparency and could be an obstacle for anyone trying to obtain government documents. The public is often unaware a political appointee is using such an email alias," writes @jasonleopold.bsky.social.
Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! Pam Bondi’s Secret DOJ Email Address Revealed The former AG used an email alias during her tenure. It’s a long-standing DOJ practice that can interfere with the public’s ability to access records through the #FOIA www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Disturbing 🧵 I work in DC, but it's part of my job that I don't speak to journalists; I prep people who do. One of the things that I've noticed is a significant deterioration in basic standards of practice, including respecting off the record communication and porting quotes from other contexts.
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 2w agoEarlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
Religion aside: There is a small (at least currently) subset of people who have sworn off AI use for religious reasons — and at least one has already gotten a work exemption from using it. www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.
Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.
businessinsider.com
Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 2w agofeels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does
As a kid, the best subs came from Jima Nina's. As an adult, I'm realizing it was probably called Jim and Nina's. Let me google. Also, the corner store spot that sold cheeseburger subs, and I don't know that I ever knew its name. My DC Grazie Grazie sub was meh.
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
So a masculinist understanding of notetaking would think a transcription app is the same as taking notes. That’s why they think an AI transcript is a time-saver. They think the notes are the thinking because when a human takes the notes, it is.
