Tessa 🇨🇦

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Some of them may have joined for protection but in my experience most have joined because they want to fix things. And I’m for that.

Thank you for your service. Truth to power 💕

FWIW, Nancy Drew would have already destroyed the non evidence.

Indiana Public Broadcasting will eliminate its reporting team. It will affect WVXU's coverage Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations, which has 17 public radio and television stations throughout the state, is eliminating its entire team of reporters and editors at the end of the year.

What a tragedy:
Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations, which has 17 public radio & television stations, is eliminating its entire team of reporters and editors at the end of the year. The move comes after the IN General Assembly removed state funding for the organization
www.wvxu.org/local-news/2...

All about the masks.

A photograph of a young gril standing on a fur rug, wearing a light-colored dress with a button and sandals.

18 June 1936 | German Jewish girl, Ursula Gerson, was born in Munich. She emigrated to the Netherlands in June 1939.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 5 September 1944 in a transport of 1,019 Jews deported from #Westerbork. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

Everyone has their own way of learning. I’m excited by some tools (NotebookLM) and worried by others (SynthID) [both by Google — hopefully their product teams are mingling].

GenAI systems are vulnerable to people, owners, putting their thumb on the scale. They are not independent machines.Amplifying ‘white genocide’ was clearly intentional, but this time the customer (us) caught the trick. We must be critical skeptics — now the thumb will more carefully deployed.

On CBC, David Common reports from a Kitchener, Ont., hockey rink where there's a polling station and people can vote and pick up a hot dog between periods. Making me miss home

Photo of the girl's face. She has a fringe cut evenly over her eyebrows and hair in a semicircle falling to the sides of her head. Her mouth is slightly open.

25 April 1925 | French Jewish girl, Marthe Suzanne Tepfer, was born in Luneville.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 8 November 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She did not survive.

Jesus, take the wheel?

I hope this piques people’s engagement with how political debate happens. As a population, we all need to help citizens appreciate how democracy works in Canada 🇨🇦

Facebook is being flooded with deepfake news reports about Mark Carney - The Logic A network of scam accounts are running Facebook ads featuring an AI-generated prime minister at a time when all news is blocked on the Meta-owned platform in Canada.

“25 per cent of Canadians say they’ve seen content on Facebook from sources mimicking legitimate news sources in the last month.”

This, at a time when Meta refuses to distribute actual news on its platforms in Canada.

thelogic.co/news/faceboo...

Now comes a real test of law and order in the U.S.A.

"Like Amazon, but with human beings."

White House says it's 'case closed' on the Signal group chat review Last week, the White House said the National Security Council, the White House counsel office and President Trump adviser Elon Musk were all looking into the mishap. But now, that probe has wrapped

Last week, the White House said the National Security Council, the White House counsel office and President Trump adviser Elon Musk were all looking into the mishap. But now, that probe has wrapped.

Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

Academic freedom is … worthless?

"That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on." Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Do not rely on the unreliable and overly confident responses of a machine to make any decisions about your personal health. Talk to your doctor.

What Happens if the Internet Archive Goes Dark? | KQED For decades, the Internet Archive has preserved our digital history. Lately, journalists and ordinary citizens have been turning to it more than ever, as the Trump administration undertakes an ideolog...

🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark?

From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.

🎧 Listen now ⤵️
www.kqed.org/news/1203198...

Fact check: Nine Trump false claims about Canada | CNN Politics President Donald Trump keeps saying he wants Canada to become the 51st US state. To support his pitch, he keeps making false claims about Canada.

Tried (but failed) to find a Kids in the Hall “It’s a fact!” gif to put here…

www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

Metadata matters

Homer can eat my buttercup. And I don’t mean that in a good way.

Metadata matters.

NEW: I helped Brian Krebs trace the background of one of Elon Musk's top loyalists, Branden Spikes, head of IT at X, who spent 2 mo at DOGE. Spikes and his ex-wife were involved with Russian diaspora websites and groups linked to pro-Kremlin KSORS players, Russian state media while he was at SpaceX.

Though this time it’s not the newspapers. It’s the algorithms.

Flaccid