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How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere” The daily podcast round-up is just one way the Times is adopting in-house AI transcription and summarization tools.

How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere” www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

Fresh video shows police pushing protester before fight broke out A new video filmed by a bystander and shared with ABC NEWS Verify shows the full minute before two police officers began punching a protester, shedding light on the beginning of the altercation.

A new video obtained by ABC NEWS Verify shows the full minute leading up to a man in a white business shirt being punched several times by NSW Police at Monday night’s protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

every single day

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

🔥 scoop 🔥 from @keanebernard.bsky.social: travelled overseas? your biometric data + potentially everything from your Medicare card to your drivers licence is being handed to US agencies like ICE

What a “Melania” Cinematographer Hoped to Accomplish Dante Spinotti has had a legendary Hollywood career. Why is he making propaganda for the Trump family?

i don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

Centrist imaginations A response to a bad article, a bad book, and a bad publication

"Writing this piece is a losing game. In order to criticize the Free Press’ failures, I have to do something they refuse to do with so many of the subjects they write about: I have to be interested in them."

open.substack.com/pub/internet...

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration

The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The head of Trump DOJ's Civil Rights Division boosts prediction markets placing 36% odds she'll be able to prosecute Don Lemon for his journalism, after a federal magistrate judge found no probable cause of a crime.

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry.

"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-a...

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

BREAKING:

We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing

People have had seizures. They passed out.

“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen

Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished

www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Politicising Bondi backfires for Liberals who got what they asked for Federal Liberals are discovering the price of having been so brazen in their politicisation of the Bondi terror attack and many appear to have buyers' remorse.

Federal Liberals are discovering the price of having been so brazen in their politicisation of the Bondi terror attack and many appear to have buyers' remorse.

Analysis from Clare Armstrong:

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Iran’s Internet Blackout by the Numbers How the Islamic Republic’s repressive tactics stack up against regimes around the world.

As the internet shutdown in Iran endures, FP has taken a look at how this latest bout of technological repression stacks up against other bans domestically and globally.

The man cops overlooked in Eloise Worledge disappearance As police up the reward to $1 million for information that will lead to the remains of missing school girl Eloise Worledge, questions remain about why police disregarded a known rapist in their investigation.

The man cops overlooked in Eloise Worledge disappearance: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-14/eloise-worledge-disappearance-alistair-webster-beaumaris/106221614

I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

Louise Adler has now quit as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week. She says 180 writers have now withdrawn from the 2026 festival (the 2025 festival had 231 writers on its program) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

this is good to know! thank you!

oo thank you!

Has anyone tried Eyeball? Or any good alternatives to Pocket?

It's wild that they (I assume) thought this would be a better outcome than a hyperbolic article in The Australian if they hadn't cancelled her.

A missing child, the botched case and the aunt who never stopped asking why Fifty years after Beaumaris schoolgirl Eloise Worledge vanished, could new leads solve one of Australia's most haunting cold cases?

Fifty years after schoolgirl Eloise Worledge disappeared, could new leads solve one of Australia’s most haunting cold cases?

Read Maddison Connaughton's long read: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Opinion | This Is What Venezuelans Really Want

"For years, this is what our authoritarianism has looked like: not autocratic socialism, but the worst kind of primitive capitalism. In Venezuela, we have long faced a brutal paradox: an absent yet omnipotent state. It is everywhere and nowhere."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

Political outlook 'dramatically shifted' after Bondi What are you watching in Australian politics in 2026? That's the question we put to the ABC's political journalists and columnists.

What should you be watching in 2026?

Here's what the ABC's foreign correspondents think:
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

And our political journalists: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

And our economics writers: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

'This was a wanted pregnancy': The mothers facing prosecution in Trump's America In the wake of widespread abortion bans, US prosecutors launch hundreds of cases charging people with crimes related to their pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth or birth.

Great article by Gina Rustin in @abcnewsbot.bsky.social and one of the best I have seen distilling the issues and effects of pregnancy criminalization. Really glad I got to speak with Gina and to be part of this group of people telling their stories and their fights.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Thank you so much for your time and expertise!

I declined to participate in this but I'm thrilled my recent long read is recommended in here! You can read it here: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Bari Weiss, CBS’s new editor in chief, faces widespread blowback across the media for pulling a “60 Minutes” segment she argues was not ready for publication, while a top journalist at the network contends the decision was based on political pressure and capitulation to the Trump administration.