Steve Herman"News deserts are widening. Newspaper closures continue unabated. Independent publishers are calling it quits at an alarming rate. Yet local digital-only news sites are multiplying. Many are even thriving.” https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/state-of-local-news/2025/
Chris Demmons
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Photographer, St. Petersburg College alum, reluctant Floridian. Opinions are my own, boosts are not endorsements.
Molly White"[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response."
Dan SinkerGifting your child a high-powered rifle is also an ideology. We just refuse to speak of it as such.
Joseph CoxRecently Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta was building an AI data center so large its size would be equivalent to a significant part of Manhattan. What Zuckerberg did not mention was the constructions of 3 new Meta-subsidized, gas power plants https://www.404media.co/a-black-hole-of-energy-use-metas-massive-ai-data-center-is-stressing-out-a-louisiana-community/
Texas ObserverFrom Kit @oconnell in the archives: “The reality is that gender-affirming medical care for trans youth is not controversial within mainstream medicine.”
But that consensus hasn't stopped the New York Times from treating anti-trans organizations as experts on #transgender health. https://www.texasobserver.org/emily-bazelon-transgender-healthcare-debate-new-york-times/
#NYTimes #media #journalism #trans #SCOTUS #news #politics #USpol #health #healthcare #children
Newsletter: Adversary cases from the FTX collapse further expose how crypto companies do business: with secret acquisitions of “grey area” businesses, buying influence, and creative accounting.
Desert Bus For HopeWelcome to the Desert Bus for Hope 2024 Travelogue. We whamjangled one week's worth of stats into slides!
Special thanks as always to @DB_VST for their logging, and fulfilling PJ's post-run image requests.
Plague PoemsBy now you should know
that the secret
to getting through
this pandemic
is remembering that
this pandemic
is not through with you.
that the secret
to getting through
this pandemic
is remembering that
this pandemic
is not through with you.
Dan Gillmor"Using your power to silence your opposition sounds pretty fascist to me. Will the next editor of Scientific American have the guts to challenge Trump and his minions? Will anyone?"
https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/scientific-american-loses-its-bold-leader
Scientific American Loses Its Bold Leader — John Horgan (The Science Writer)
HOBOKEN, NOVEMBER 15, 2024. Well before Scientific American ’s editor vented her despair over the election, social in justice warriors were bashing the magazine for its political views. Critics include anti-woke bros Jordan Peterson , Charles “The Bell Curve” Murray , Pinker wannabe Michael S
Gregg GonsalvesRFK Jr. championed a Samoan anti-vaxxer tied to the 2019 lethal eruption that killed scores of children. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/how-rfk-jr-falsely-denied-his-connection-to-a-deadly-measles-outbreak-in-samoa/
