Molly Stark Dean

Exclusive: Billionaire Bill Gates' foundation will spend at least $1.4 billion over the next four years to help farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia access technologies for adapting to extreme weather, the organization's CEO told Reuters reut.rs/3Ll0CAP

Bari Weiss was hired to remake CBS News. Here’s how it’s working out so far. Bari Weiss took over as editor in chief in October, launching a new era for CBS News amid layoffs, confusion and shifting expectations.

One month into Bari Weiss’s tenure as editor in chief at CBS News, staffers are weathering a flurry of layoffs, shifting resources and a cultural collision with Weiss’s ideas of how to tackle the news.

Here’s a look into the evolving TV newsroom:

When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent - Poynter Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we're still figuring out how to sustain it

When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent

Check out this story by @zenagrossa.bsky.social in @poynterinstitute.bsky.social:

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

BREAKING: RFK Jr. flees the scene after Novo Nordisk Executive Gordon Findlay collapsed in the Oval Office.

Findlay is reportedly ok.

Here are the latest neighborhood-level election results for New York City’s mayor. Take a closer look at how the city’s neighborhoods and boroughs voted here. nyti.ms/4oSFG2i

Death toll from Kentucky plane crash rises to 12, black box recovered Airport CCTV footage shows the UPS cargo plane's left engine fell off during takeoff, according to investigators.

Airport CCTV footage shows the UPS cargo plane's left engine fell off during takeoff, according to investigators.

NYC mayoral election live: Mamdani, Cuomo and Sliwa await results after polls close Democratic socialist and former New York governor face off in race to lead New York City * NYC mayoral election – live results tracker at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in midtown Manhattan There’s a couple of hundred Cuomo supporters at his watch party now. I just saw a man down a bottle of Stella Artois. No sign of Cuomo yet. Among the attenders is Suzanne Miller, a realtor who volunteered for the Cuomo campaign. She said she is “50-50” about his chances of winning. Miller said she was nervous because of Zohran Mamdani’s energetic closing few days of the campaign. Continue reading...

NYC mayoral election live: Mamdani, Cuomo and Sliwa await results after polls close

My plans for the night.

With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again | TechPolicy.Press Ryan McGrady asks, who is Grokipedia for, other than its owner?

My fellow Wikimedian @antisomniac.bsky.social wrote about Grokipedia: "All of this is ultimately subordinate to Grokipedia's unavoidable prime directive of neutrality: neutrality is whatever Elon Musk says is neutral."
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Thank you Margaret Sullivan for agreeing to do a selfie with me. I'm glad you're purse is no longer missing! #NYPCJCONF25

MR FUN | 10/28/25 YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

🤓 I was on @majorityfm today talking about @wikipedia.org . @wikimedianyc.bsky.social @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/5vEStnE...

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference - Slashdot A potential tragedy was narrowly averted at a Wikipedia conference in Manhattan when two volunteer editors tackled an armed man who stormed the stage and threatened to kill himself during a keynote speech (source paywalled; alternative source). The gunman, who claimed he was protesting Wikipedia's p...

Wikipedia editors are heroes.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/18/023257/wikipedia-volunteers-avert-tragedy-by-taking-down-gunman-at-conference

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World’s Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.

Two Wikipedia contributors averted a potential tragedy at a conference for the site’s editors on Friday in Manhattan when they jumped in to take down a man with a gun.

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

Good Guys Without Guns — Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

I already thought Richard and Andrew were heroes before they nonchalantly tackled a gunman!!!! Both have been around for >20 years, work full time on wiki stuff for museums, yet STILL seem excited about wikipedia. Richard at a wiknic (wiki picnic) last year: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ri...

Wikipedia is the best single thing the Internet has ever given us and it's not even close

I’ve seen enough, let Wikipedia volunteer editors run everything

How Wikipedia Drove Professors Crazy, Made Me Sane, and Almost Saved the Internet Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public LicenseThe open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding and s

The pic also shows Jake Orlowitz who rushed to the stage to talk the guy down. I still think about this moving piece he wrote about his personal experience with mental health and wikipedia direct.mit.edu/books/book/4...

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

new york times headline: Wikipedia volunteers avert tragedy by taking down gunman at conference

didn't post about this when it happened friday but..... heroes!

A Wikipedia Conference Took a Dark Turn. Unfortunately, It’s Not a Total Surprise. An armed man at a gathering of the website’s volunteers is just the latest reminder: Editing the internet’s encyclopedia has never been riskier.

Felt this was important to write for @slate.com to capture the experience of Wikipedia editors who were there in the room as the armed man took the stage at last weekend's Wikipedia conference.

Pharos and Fuzheado showed courage & quick thinking by taking down the gunman and averting tragedy.

A Wikipedia Conference Took a Dark Turn. Unfortunately, It’s Not a Total Surprise. An armed man at a gathering of the website’s volunteers is just the latest reminder: Editing the internet’s encyclopedia has never been riskier.

“We have so many haters on Wikipedia,” Molly Stark Dean, a Wikipedian and conference organizer who was sitting in the front row, told Slate. “I was like, Which corner of the internet is this guy from?”

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"Wikipedia is where facts go to live." @craignewmark.bsky.social #Wikipedia

NYC Wikipedia conference halted when ‘non-offending pedophile’ storms stage, points gun at own head Connor Weston had a multi-colored banner draped over his shoulders and a sign around his neck with the words “ANTI-CONTACT NON-OFFENDING PEDOPHILE.”

Wikimedia is healing now

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules apnews.com/article/pent...

ConEd is being REAL SLOW about updating what areas are having outages

A neighborhood in Queens is finally showing up but still nothing about Grand Central

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I’m not turning off my AC either if it goes out it goes out with as much cold as I can manage

Videos show apparent power outage at NYC's Grand Central Station It is unclear at this time what caused the apparent outage or if any trains were impacted.

#Breaking: There was an apparent power outage at Grand Central Station in New York City on Thursday night.