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Corporation for Public Broadcasting calls it a day after US Senate panel includes no CPB funding for next fiscal year - will all but close on Sept 30

Official statement

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Front of the Prince store at the Minneapolis airport, all purple, with his symbol as a glowing sign

Well played MSP. All this and more for the Prince:

Push alert for a Nazi blog

Screenshot of the blog called NatSocToday

The Substack app apparently push alert promoted a Nazi newsletter to several users. Users have complained about it on Substack Notes but the company hasn’t responded. Generally push alert promos are for content a user is likely to interact with

Get the fuck off Substack already.

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YouTube video by TEDx Talks Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland

I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

PBS News is not going anywhere.

We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.

We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

Got a lovely write up from my hometown paper, @expressnews.com, as my new show hits public radio waves in San Antonio! Honored!!!

Sanitariums and Stigma: When TB Was Common in the U.S.

A great reminder that the U.S. TB epidemic remains within living memory: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/h...

As more becomes known about individuals more and more data about learner journeys and the alignment of courses to skills and skills to careers, Instructure will become increasingly capable of providing optimal pathways for students. Moreover, by combining learning management system, student work repository, transcripts, and credentialling services through the integration of products such as Portfolium, Parchment, Scribbles, and Concentric Sky, Instructure will be able to provide students and prospective employers with deep longitudinal insight into capabilities and qualifications. Rather than just being able to provide information about course outcomes, as with the traditional transcript, Insturcture could make available the entire student data set leading to that outcome. This would make it possible to distinguish between the student earning a “B” in a course who started rough but was a solid “A” for the last month of the course, and the “B” student who started strong but grew progressively weaker as the course progressed. One struggles to diferentiate between such students when reviewing traditional academic records, but it will become clear as more data is available.

As the data set grows, developing AI-enhanced interfaces into the data will become increasingly important to help viewers find precisely what they are looking for. One can easily imagine a world where the degrees become less valuable than the incremental steps recorded en route to the degree. This would move the ultimate stamp of approval on the finished product (students) from the supplier’s (university) quality control staff (faculty, registrar) to that of the buyer (potential employer), who could use the AI to make find exactly what they are looking for independent of the grades assigned. As this happens, students may find themselves with many more choices on how to meet a prospective employer’s requirements than simply going to a name-brand university and majoring in a pre-approved subject. The ultimate democratization of education may reside not in its universal availability but in its deinstitutionalization. If this comes to pass, we may find that the fabric of our lives is Canvas.

Out of curiosity I wanted to know how the massive LMS Instructure (company that runs Canvas) is using the massive amounts of data it collects on students.

Oh.
(This article is nominally not a press release?)
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View of the WGBH building in Boston with an electronic marquee reading “Local. Trusted. Defunded.”

WGBH building in Boston today

The defunding of public broadcasting in the United States will "really hurt Native communities," says Loris Taylor, the CEO and president of Native Public Media.

Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.

This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)

Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism Public broadcasting has long been a target of conservative Republicans.

What will defunding NPR, PBS, and public media affiliates mean for democratic media, and how will the rescission bill affect First Nations communications? I wrote a concise analysis with Allison Perlman (UC-Irvine).

A list of referrers showing Bluesky as the top referrer, by a lot, followed by "Search Engines" about 2/3 as much as Bluesky, and then it drops way down to Hacker News, Reddit, Google News, Fark, a different Reddit, and then a tiny bit from Facebook.

"Bluesky is dead, you have to go where the people are."

Counterpoint:

"the public will remember who stood with big bird and who strangled him" goddamn

Yeah, no alt txt, no job. Harsh, but they have high standards in the academy

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I genuinely, genuinely didn’t imagine this day would come. Who knows what will happen in the future. Who knows how it could all play out. But it’s already one of those moments I could never have imagined for our city, and for our community.

Dark Horse Reveals Its First Official Dungeons and Dragons Comic Series The Fallbacks [EXCLUSIVE] Game Rant gets an exclusive early look at the first-ever Dungeons and Dragons comic book series from hit publisher Dark Horse Comics.

HEY I'M WRITING A DUNGEONS & DRAGONS COMIC FOR @darkhorse.com!

Dungeons & Dragons: The Fallbacks!

Written by yours truly, penciled by Wilton Santos, inked by Edvan Alves, colored by Raul Angulo, and lettered by @blambot.bsky.social!

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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Boston showed up for No Kings Day!

No kings, only Pride in Boston today.

From Zooey and I.

Stay strong everyone.

Planned PBS, NPR cuts would overwhelmingly hit outlets in states Trump won, report finds About 60% of the hundreds of radio and TV stations that could soon suffer funding cuts are in Trump-won states, a new congressional report says.

States and communities Trump won in 2024 will be especially hard hit by looming cuts to public media

News deserts will be starved

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