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Another tech journalist helps us figure out #USPolitics: “if anyone is not surprised, it’s tech reporters who saw, over the past decade, what these people were becoming. Musk’s behavior is emblematic of tech’s most heinous figures, who now feel emboldened to enter the analog world with the same […]

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The desperate attempts by the Washington Post to get me back as a subscriber are getting pathetic: they are now down to 3$ per month for a year. I wouldn't subscribe if you paid me, Jeff Bezos. Not until you leave this once great newspaper alone. #journalism #democracy #WaPo

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Please read this -- and ask your members of Congress to read it, too. https://thebulletin.org/2025/03/for-this-french-senator-trump-is-a-traitor-and-europe-is-now-alone/amp/

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The New York Times has compiled an uncanny list of words that US federal agencies want to eliminate because they are suspected of possible link with wokism. Do read the list, because it really helps understand the mental representation of “woke” in the new administration. GIFT LINK […]

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False news / true news, a meta-analysis onf news judgements: “to improve discernment, there is more room to increase the acceptance of true news than to reduce the acceptance of fact-checked false news” write @Sacha_Altay and Jan Pfänder in Nature […]

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Franch umbrella. “What do you say?” (By Kroll, for Le Soir.) #cartoon #EUpolitics #ukraine

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Political reporters are mostly stuck in “he said - she said” journalism. “This is why tech journalism’s perspective is so crucial right now. We’ve spent decades documenting how technology and entrepreneurship can either strengthen or undermine democratic institutions. We understand the dangers […]

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Have you realized that societal impact/outreach/science communication is important but no clue where to start? Are you a researcher who is engaging with “the public”, but could you use some support in thinking strategically about your science communication? Then, please apply to our Summer […]

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That didn't take long: Calls for boycotting US products spread in northern Europe. (@lemonde) “While tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook groups in Sweden and Denmark calling for no longer buying American, Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced that it will stop supplying […]

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Make Diseases Great Again!!!! #AgentBrainWorm #RFK #HHS #PublicHealth #Vaccines #RFKisNoKennedy #RFKPredator #RFKGrifter #USPol

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I have never used AI image generators, but if I knew how, I'd ask a picture of Vladonald Putrump.

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A cartoon for #worldbookday (coming on Thursday 6th) for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

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Why are most headlines framing this pathetic circus as a “humiliation for Zelinsky?” There was mortifying humiliation indeed, but it sure wasn't on the side of the Ukrainian president. #USPolitics #Ukraine #journalism

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We are witnessing the unthinkable triumph of the bullies. This must end immediately. #USPolitics

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I'd hate to abandon the many talented journalists doing such a vital work in the newsroom of the Washington Post. At the same time, I feel a moral duty to immediately cancel my subscription. Ironically, the personal liberties and the free markets that Bezos decided to champion so vehemently […]

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“Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post’s opinion section. That’s a death knell” writes Margaret Sullivan in @guardian. “Bezos no longer wants to own an independent news organization. He wants a megaphone and a political tool that will benefit his own commercial interests. It’s appalling […]

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By Kevin Necessary. https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/knecessary.bsky.social/post/3lihhnlievk2y

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Someone needs to make stickers to put on our Apple devices: “I bought this before Tim Cook gave 1m$ of his own money to Trump's inaugural fund (and before he invested 500 b$ in Texas).” #Apple #Ethics #CSR

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The new motto of journalism should be: |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| | Speaking truth to power; | | Restoring power to the truth. | |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (\\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / づ #journalism #politics #USPolitics #democracy #ReallyNewJournalism

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Describing the current situation in the US as a “constitutional crisis” is counter-productive because “the abstraction of constitutional crisis obscures the immediate danger, making what’s happening seem like an issue more for legal experts and policy wonks than for the everyday Americans who […]

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Data is power, and access to data is key. All it takes to gain full control on even the largest and most confidential databases, is sysadmin privileges, aka “root privileges,” aka “God view.” This massive vulnerability was known yet largely ignored for decades, as were the technologies that […]

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“Marc Andreessen attempted to portray the tech industry as embracing Donald Trump. The reality couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, Silicon Valley remains progressive on climate change and the environment, immigration, human rights, reproductive rights and social equity, and its […]

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The Murderbot series, one of my very favourite corners of @scalzi -grade #SF by @marthawells is being made into a high-budget AppleTV+ series. I know I can only be very disappointed, as I've been watching every movie and every TV series ever made with my favorite SF. Not that they don't do a […]

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Essential reading: Paul M. Barrett's meta article on fact-checking for the Tech Policy Blog. After providing a short history of the discipline, he goes on to debunk three myths, namely that ...fact-checking censors free speech... ...is biased against conservatives... ...and just doesn't work […]

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Nowhere is the new reality of X as a state media platform more obvious than on https://doge.gov/ -- the main page is a feed of posts from their X account. Expect more of this as Musk worms himself into the government, including "DM us on X" and similar nonsense (of course it won't be a human […]

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Elon Musk says the journalists at CBS 60 Minutes "deserve a long prison sentence". The reporting that has him so upset includes this line: "The world's richest man had cut off assistance to the world's poorest families." You can view it in full here (first ~15 minutes) […]

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

For years now, like every few months I have to write a variation on the same post about how Elon is not about free speech, and that he's deeply censorial. And days later I always see yet another media person or politician refer to what he's doing as "free speech absolutism." It's so stupid.

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Brilliant (as ever) take on the bigger picture by @anneapplebaum : the US is undergoing a regime change. This is a MUST READ providing an all-too-rare opportunity to rise above the organised tumult of recent weeks. GIFT LINK […]

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Janus Rose: “The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information. As the internet continues to enshittify, maybe what we really need […]

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“[T]he point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act.” writes Janus Rose. “[T]he viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media […]

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“How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.” A step-by-step guide by @TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/how-to-delete-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

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“German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk’s platform.” “The lawsuit, brought earlier this week by Democracy Reporting International (DRI) and the Society for Civil Rights (GFF), accused X of blocking efforts to track potential election interference by not granting […]

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The #NSF is scanning research projects it is currently funding (total annual budget: 9.9B$) to find those which might breach the recent flurry of presidential executive orders. This is done based on keywords such as disability, diversity, gender, female, multicultural… Full list and […]

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A sample of 50-some US governmental websites which were taken off line: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/sample-government-webpages-trump-doesnt-want-you-see #USPolitics #democracy

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Judith Butler: “If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them. To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance.(…) While there is every reason to be outraged, we cannot let […]

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Judith Butler: “The exhilarations of shameless sadism incite others to celebrate this version of manhood, one that is not only willing to defy the rules and principles that govern democratic life (freedom, equality, justice), but enact these as forms of ‘liberation’ from false ideologies and […]

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The new #Trump administration and #science, whether it be #openscience or not. An immensely valuable live thread by @petersuber. Thanks Peter ! https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113874200243958520

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The richest man in the world has made it his urgent calling to destroy the most powerful organisation helping the poorest people in the world. Why is this not the headline of every newspaper and news website in the world? #USAid #journalism #USPolitics

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After Wikipedia, it's very likely those whose interests are clashing with reality will go after the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine which proves invaluable, in so many cases, to provide evidence after websites are shut down suddenly or altered surreptitiously. Latest example: DEI at […]

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