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Killing the story: Journalists speak on Palestine in U.S. newsrooms October 7 Panelists Aline Batarseh Abdallah Fayyad Eman Mohammed Sana Saeed Hosted by Laura Albast

📢Join us for Killing the Story, a virtual event on Oct. 7, 1pm PT/4pm ET!

Palestinian, Arab, & Muslim journalists give firsthand accounts about how media manufactures consent & silences dissent as we approach 2 years of the Israeli-imposed & U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza.
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Call for Applications: 2026 Tech Policy Press Fellowship Program | TechPolicy.Press The deadline for applications is October 15th, 2025.

2026 Tech Policy Press Fellowship Program @techpolicypress.bsky.social applications due Oct 15!

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The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

The thirty-five fossil gas turbines that power the supercomputer that runs the company’s AI chatbot, Grok, emit 1,200 to 2,000 tons of nitrogen oxides a year.

The Costs of the Cloud: Stellar piece by @ashdawson.bsky.social
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Mine are not all worker owned but some you may find of interest
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How to Leak to Us The Center for Investigative Reporting—home to Mother Jones and Reveal—has a long track record of fairly and responsibly reporting sensitive stories and breaking high-impact news that changes the…

The Center for Investigative Reporting—home to Mother Jones and Reveal—has a long track record of responsibly reporting sensitive stories and breaking high-impact news. We fact-check the hell out of our reporting, and we respect and protect our sources.

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Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Free Radicals | Sammy Feldblum Though José Mujica did not publish much writing, his views on life and politics live on through the corpus of interviews.

José Mujica, the former president of Uruguay, died in May. “Suviving the 21st Century” collects his conversations with Noam Chomsky about empire, the environment, political economy, and the battle ahead.

America is now one big bet on AI It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

"The World," from Remedios Varo's collection, features a fantastical figure with orange-red hair and peculiar headgear composed of a textured, mountainous form adorned with a flying fish. This surrealistic artwork captures Varo's unique blending of mythical elements with human-like creatures, evoking both otherworldly and introspective themes.

The World
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Hey man I get what you're saying but what if you were saying something different

The basic problem with social media platforms is the same basic problem with all forms of publishing tbh. If you want to do it at scale, you have to have the kind of resources that only the worst people in the world have.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

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.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Very much worth reading parts of Judge William G. Young's ruling taking on the Trump admin's assault on the First Amendment.

Notable that a decision from a Reagan appointee is filled with paragraphs like this one.

Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

Tried to get an online quote from the state of California for health insurance yesterday, and now my phone won’t stop ringing from spam callers? Not taking any of these calls, so I guess that’s a wash.

0/10 would not recommend!

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai

"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

Lo de EEUU es una biblia de proporciones delirantes.

Lo de Estados Unidos es un delirio de proporciones bíblicas.

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living the dream.

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

from Assata: An Autobiography

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went to the friends of the library sale, dangerous move. left with two bags of books.

Bravo to every person organizing in Sonoma to protect their neighbors, and to the new worker-owned media collective @coyotemedia.org for reporting on it. 🤝

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

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tech is political. community management is political. human needs are political.

you can’t build for humans and avoid politics.