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Stop and read this deep dive on TikTok and how it's consuming much more than hours of our time.

One user: "It was harder for me to create my own opinions, it was harder for me to express my own thoughts in the day, and I think that took a toll with me."

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Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

NEW: Cops in Texas told 404 Media in May they used Flock to find a woman who self-administered an abortion out of concern for her safety.

Documents now show police were conducting a “death investigation” and discussed whether they could charge her with a crime: www.404media.co/police-said-...

🚨✨ Publication alert: How do people in 6 countries (🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇦🇷 🇩🇰 🇯🇵 ) use AI 🤖 and think about it in the context of information, news, and institutions?

Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social survey research (n ≈ 12,000) with @richardfletcher.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social explores this.

Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI’s role in journalism and society Our survey in six countries (Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the UK, and the US) explores how people use generative AI in their everyday lives, what they think its impact will be on different areas...

New study by @felixsimon.bsky.social et al.👏

One result that stood out for me, and that should reassure news organizations (for now): Getting news via an AI system has doubled but remains a minority activity. Weekly use rose from 3% to 6%. 18–24s seem to use it slightly more.

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Press Release | The Academy’s 2025 Ross Media Award Winners Announced | American Academy of Diplomacy In a statement issued on October 6, 2025, the American Academy of Diplomacy announced that the winners of the 2025 Ross Media Award for Reporting and Commentary on the Practice of American Diplomacy a...

Many congratulations to @npr.org’s Anas Baba on this wonderful, hugely deserved recognition of his “steadfast and factual coverage of the war in Gaza [that] is making a singular contribution to public understanding of the conflict at great personal risk.”

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All of the updates from OpenAI Dev Day 2025 What’s next for ChatGPT?

OpenAI's Dev Day event is underway, and we’ll be looking for updates on its project to develop consumer AI hardware with Jony Ive, potential changes for the Sora video generator and social app, its rumored browser project, and more.

Follow along with @haydenfield.bsky.social on the ground:

Elon Musk Gambles Billions in Memphis to Catch Up on AI xAI aims to win the tech arms race with its “Colossus” data centers, thrown up at lightning speed. The city is divided over the massive power and water demands.

“Musk’s data centers will probably bring in only a few hundred jobs to Memphis while consuming millions of gallons of water a day and more electricity than is needed to power all the city’s homes.”

1/2

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93 million U.S. residents are immigrants or are U.S. born and have at least one immigrant parent.

NEW: Reuters took a closer look at violent crime in D.C. after President Trump began a show of force here. Despite the big investment of federal resources, it's really hard at this point to see any dramatic changes.

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Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

1/ After a natural disaster, people often turn to FEMA for housing aid.

Income is not supposed to play a role.

A @propublica/@TheAssemblyNC analysis found in rural counties hardest-hit by Helene, the highest-income owners typically received more housing aid.

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Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

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A long, long, long time ago the @npr.org shop had temporary tattoos. I'm pretty sure mine are somewhere at my parents' house.

Here I am, once again, ordering from the NPR shop because I AM FERAL FOR THE FREE PRESS!!!!

at the post we have a small team of professional pollsters who have to review the full methodology behind any survey results before we can feature them in a story. they’re super annoying sometimes and i’m also very grateful that we have them

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

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Judge blocks release of body camera footage in fatal Hickory police shooting He said he worried about the public determining facts “without the benefit of other evidence which would be available in a trial setting.”

A mother in Hickory wanted body camera footage of police shooting and killing her son released to the public. But a judge said no yesterday.

NEW INVESTIGATION:

Investors have spent years falling in love with the 'debt service coverage ratio' loan.

The loans have allowed access to vast sums with few conditions, and now make up 40% of mortgage dollars in Baltimore.

Now they're going bad.

(Story below ⬇️)

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

not a single news org signed. that's what it takes. stand together. everywhere, every time.

Neat.

This is so cool! There's a potential for the Atlantic's hurricanes to combine (but still not threaten anybody). Here's one idea. One model, one model run, going far into the future -> very unlikely to look a lot like this, but illustrative of the potential.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media.

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A way to distance yourself from the bots -- from the NYT comments section. (www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...)

For the companies making similar decisions about how the models should act, it's a tradeoff between fun and safety.

Chart showing the decline in the number of people charged with federal drug offenses.

EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found.

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Responding To Censorship - Student Press Law Center In an ideal world, no student journalist or adviser would ever be faced with a censorship conflict. But censorship is an unfortunate reality for many; thus you need to be prepared. The following checklist provides some time-tested strategies for fighting — and winning — a censorship battle. Practice sound journalism First, nothing can help you… Continue reading Responding To Censorship

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