Phil Wolff

@evanwolf
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‘US government has unilaterally disarmed in fight against falsehoods’. “If you remember 1 thing from my speech, let it be this: We do not need to reinvent ourselves,” “We did not do anything wrong. The liars of this world have spent so much time and energy and money attacking us, precisely because what we are doing is working, and because we represent a formidable challenge to their power & their profit. We need to keep fighting.” https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/2026/the-u-s-government-has-unilaterally-disarmed-in-the-fight-against-falsehoods/ #journalism #democracy #maga #politics
‘The U.S. government has unilaterally disarmed in the fight against falsehoods’ - Poynter

In GlobalFact keynote, Nina Jankowicz urges fact-checkers to keep up the fight.

Poynter

Why the Right Hates Juneteenth

Wrote this three years ago - but worth reiterating now, as America is ruled by a regime seeking to restore complete white male dominance in all spheres of life:

Today’s MAGA GOP stands in the political, ideological, and spiritual tradition of the (neo-) Confederacy.

https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/d0ccb3a5-7dec-4a2f-ab33-0604f5ef9431

Why the Right Has a Problem with Juneteenth

Reactionaries who oppose Juneteenth are the political, ideological, and spiritual descendants of those who were defeated in 1865. They dominate today’s Republican Party.

Steady

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116755073871395705

Is this the new regulatory capture? OpenAI and AWS using insider access for competitive advantage. GovRels 2026.

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/116720926227151695

I find it useful to read Iain Banks periodically. To be discomfited in ways and on matters I otherwise avoid.

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”

—Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the-final-interview

#Scottish #literature #IainBanks #IainMBanks

Iain Banks: the final interview

Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .

The Guardian

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an important aspect of Mayor Mamdani in NYC is that his deeply held belief in the possibility of government and people to do better - for solutions to be found that improve things for everyone is somewhat literally infectious. He is clearly having fun (while also being very serious) and he has appointed (and seemingly delegated well) people who believe in the institutions they are leading - and this in turn is self-reinforcing. The workers are literally acknowledged - as is the public

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bruces/116684459971636867

Hmmm. Logo alt text suggestion... "Tokens are the new oil."

Grants up to 20K for NZ journalists on:

- Accountability reporting on frontier AI companies
- AI policy and politics
- AI explainers and analysis
- AI in government and militaries
- AI labor impacts
- AI developments in China

https://www.tarbellcenter.org/grants

#NewZealand #Journalism #Grante #Writing

Grants – Tarbell Center for AI Journalism

Tarbell Center for AI Journalism