Steve HermanBBC says it’s going to continue its Mastodon trial “for at least another six months while we share our findings internally and seek more engagement from other BBC teams. We are also planning to start some technical work into investigating ways to publish BBC content more widely using ActivityPub, the underlying protocol of Mastodon and the Fediverse.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-02-extending-our-mastodon-social-media-trial
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Dan GillmorJournalists from major outlets have descended on Marion, Kansas, to expound on the war that locally powerful people declared on the newspaper. Read one of these parachute-drop feature stories, and you've basically read them all.
Instead, Big Journalism should collaborate: Dig into the affairs of the public officials who performed the blatantly illegal -- and anti free speech -- seizure of the paper's computers and phones.
Look up "Don Bolles Arizona Project" and you'll see what I mean.
August 12, 2023
In Marion, Kansas, yesterday morning, four local police officers and three sheriff’s deputies raided the office of the Marion County Record newspaper; the home of its co-owners, Eric Meyer and his 98 year old mother, Joan Meyer; and the home of Marion vice mayor Ruth Herbel, 80. They seized computers, cell phones, and other equipment. Joan Meyer was unable to eat or sleep after the raid; she collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home.
Mike HoneyInteractive genomic sequencing dataviz, code, acknowledgements and more info here:
https://github.com/Mike-Honey/covid-19-genomes#readme
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Karl Schwartz, Artist advocateWhen and how to debate vaccine science
by Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, MPH PhD—an epidemiologist,
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/when-and-how-do-we-debate-vaccine
When (and how) do we debate vaccine science?
Over the weekend, a vaccine brawl took place. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—presidential candidate and longtime spreader of old, tired vaccine rumors— had a conversation with Joe Rogan on his podcast. The conversation bled onto social media in which Rogan ultimately
DAME MagazineGov. Ron DeSantis has launched a criminal & civil investigation into Disney, today he signed a permit-less carry gun bill into law—behind closed doors with only the NRA present, and he backs a bill to ban abortions after 6-weeks.
And as we published earlier, he's working overtime to put his anti-education policies in place. Under DeSantis, Florida is a testing ground for anti-democracy extremism.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/02/20/ron-desantis-anti-democracy/
Eric TopolWhere do we stand with prevention and treatment for #LongCovid?
Reviewed here https://erictopol.substack.com/p/preventing-long-covid
Reviewed here https://erictopol.substack.com/p/preventing-long-covid
Mike 
Worth watching #neverAgain https://youtu.be/jsETTn7DehI
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a powerful message for those who have gone down a path of hate.
Anne MillerRT @dupuisj
Mandating in-office work, without mandating COVID protection, means we play Russian roulette with the virus https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0215-covid-work-return-20230214-nbskbi5jingkfospmqnx32tco4-story.html
Mandating in-office work, without mandating COVID protection, means we play Russian roulette with the virus https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0215-covid-work-return-20230214-nbskbi5jingkfospmqnx32tco4-story.html