Another busy week (maybe one day there’ll be a quiet one) in which independent publications have been doing sterling work on politics, science, tech, the environment and more.
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Another busy week (maybe one day there’ll be a quiet one) in which independent publications have been doing sterling work on politics, science, tech, the environment and more. Please check out these stories from newsrooms with a fediverse presence, which cover subjects from antifascism to EVs in Zimbabwe. Oh, and Canadians, there’s a special treat for you at the end.
️#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
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Another busy week (maybe one day there’ll be a quiet one) in which independent publications have been doing sterling work on politics, science, tech, the environment and more. Please check out these stories from newsrooms with a fediverse presence, which cover subjects from antifascism to EVs in Zimbabwe. Oh, and Canadians, there’s a special treat for you at the end.
️#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
Anti-fascism isn’t quick and easy — resistance is often slow, dogged, characterized by long periods of forced inactivity. @damemagazine looks at the struggle: what opposition politicians need to do, how to defend civil society, what to know about the legal system, and how to counter disinformation.
#Disinformation #Misinformation #News #NewsLiteracy #Politics #Resistance #Antifascism #USPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Anti-fascism isn’t quick and easy — resistance is often slow, dogged, characterized by long periods of forced inactivity. @damemagazine looks at the struggle: what opposition politicians need to do, how to defend civil society, what to know about the legal system, and how to counter disinformation.
#Disinformation #Misinformation #News #NewsLiteracy #Politics #Resistance #Antifascism #USPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Another day, another almighty AI error. This time, @samleecole reports for @404mediaco on what Google and Amazon AI are saying about “Mein Kampf.” “Readers describe the book as a true work of art,” apparently.
Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’
An example of AI attempting to summarizing nuanced reviewed of Hitler's Nazi manifesto turned into an example of algorithms eating themselves.
404 Media (www.404media.co)
#Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Another day, another almighty AI error. This time, @samleecole reports for @404mediaco on what Google and Amazon AI are saying about “Mein Kampf.” “Readers describe the book as a true work of art,” apparently.
Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’
An example of AI attempting to summarizing nuanced reviewed of Hitler's Nazi manifesto turned into an example of algorithms eating themselves.
404 Media (www.404media.co)
#Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area and you’re interested in the future of news, you might be interested in an event @SFPublicPress is hosting. On March 13, there’ll be a special screening of “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink,” a documentary by Academy Award-nominee Rick Goldsmith, about hedge fund Alden Global Capital, which has been gutting local papers across America.
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/film-screening-stripped-for-parts/
#SanFrancisco #BayArea #SanFranciscoBayArea #SFBA #Film #Documentary #News #Media #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area and you’re interested in the future of news, you might be interested in an event @SFPublicPress is hosting. On March 13, there’ll be a special screening of “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink,” a documentary by Academy Award-nominee Rick Goldsmith, about hedge fund Alden Global Capital, which has been gutting local papers across America.
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/film-screening-stripped-for-parts/
#SanFrancisco #BayArea #SanFranciscoBayArea #SFBA #Film #Documentary #News #Media #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
You may not know the name Steve Berger, but the archconservative evangelical pastor has influence in Washington, D.C. — so much so that several Republican party lawmakers live at his nonprofit organization’s headquarters. Berger has said his goal is to “disciple” members of Congress so what “they learn is then translated into policy.” Past and present residents of his townhouse — described by @ProPublica as “what amounts to a group house for conservative lawmakers” include Speaker Mike Johnson, Trump ally Rep. Andy Ogles and Dan Bishop, a former Congressman.
Secretive D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers
Evangelical pastor Steve Berger’s political influence campaign operates out of his D.C. townhouse. In addition to House Speaker Mike Johnson living there, a prominent Trump ally, Rep. Andy Ogles, has the keys.
ProPublica (www.propublica.org)
#Politics #GOP #RepublicanParty #MikeJohnson #EvangelicalChristianity #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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You may not know the name Steve Berger, but the archconservative evangelical pastor has influence in Washington, D.C. — so much so that several Republican party lawmakers live at his nonprofit organization’s headquarters. Berger has said his goal is to “disciple” members of Congress so what “they learn is then translated into policy.” Past and present residents of his townhouse — described by @ProPublica as “what amounts to a group house for conservative lawmakers” include Speaker Mike Johnson, Trump ally Rep. Andy Ogles and Dan Bishop, a former Congressman.
Secretive D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers
Evangelical pastor Steve Berger’s political influence campaign operates out of his D.C. townhouse. In addition to House Speaker Mike Johnson living there, a prominent Trump ally, Rep. Andy Ogles, has the keys.
ProPublica (www.propublica.org)
#Politics #GOP #RepublicanParty #MikeJohnson #EvangelicalChristianity #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Japanese car makers have sent used cars to Zimbabwe for decades — tens of thousands a year. They often end up in a landfill, in particular the electric vehicles, because of a lack of specialized mechanics to get them back on the road or safely recycle them. Zimbabweans have had enough. “Our township landfills are filled with batteries and other sophisticated elements from discarded EV cars, spewing toxic chemicals, because we don’t know how to recycle their parts, nor have the machinery or skill to do so,” garage manager Amos Gwada says. @thexylom tells the full story.
Aging Japanese EVs Are Giving Zimbabwe Fits
Due to a lack of political will and absence of specialist engineering skills, Zimbabwe’s landfills are on a trajectory to become deadlier with EVs added into the mix.
The Xylom (www.thexylom.com)
#ClimateChange #Environment #EastAfrica #IlemiTriangle #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Japanese car makers have sent used cars to Zimbabwe for decades — tens of thousands a year. They often end up in a landfill, in particular the electric vehicles, because of a lack of specialized mechanics to get them back on the road or safely recycle them. Zimbabweans have had enough. “Our township landfills are filled with batteries and other sophisticated elements from discarded EV cars, spewing toxic chemicals, because we don’t know how to recycle their parts, nor have the machinery or skill to do so,” garage manager Amos Gwada says. @thexylom tells the full story.
Aging Japanese EVs Are Giving Zimbabwe Fits
Due to a lack of political will and absence of specialist engineering skills, Zimbabwe’s landfills are on a trajectory to become deadlier with EVs added into the mix.
The Xylom (www.thexylom.com)
#ClimateChange #Environment #EastAfrica #IlemiTriangle #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “declaration of disaster,” on the border crisis, signed in 2021, allows him to ignore the usual protocol when handing out valuable contracts to private contractors and vendors. And it’s an expensive business: State agencies are paying for everything from zip ties and razor wire to helicopters and planes. Here’s @TexasObserver’s story on who have been the big winners, including some who have become Abbott’s campaign “patrons.”
Abbott’s Border Disaster Has Created a No-Bid Bonanza for Private Contractors
There is now a powerful, well-heeled constituency that has built up around Operation Lone Star.
The Texas Observer (www.texasobserver.org)
#Immigration #GregAbbott #Border #Texas #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “declaration of disaster,” on the border crisis, signed in 2021, allows him to ignore the usual protocol when handing out valuable contracts to private contractors and vendors. And it’s an expensive business: State agencies are paying for everything from zip ties and razor wire to helicopters and planes. Here’s @TexasObserver’s story on who have been the big winners, including some who have become Abbott’s campaign “patrons.”
Abbott’s Border Disaster Has Created a No-Bid Bonanza for Private Contractors
There is now a powerful, well-heeled constituency that has built up around Operation Lone Star.
The Texas Observer (www.texasobserver.org)
#Immigration #GregAbbott #Border #Texas #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
50 years ago, Tim Bliss and Terje Lømo worked in the Oslo lab of the late neuroscientist Per Andersen, where they made a momentous discovery: the fact that when a neuron signals to another neuron frequently enough, the second one will later respond more strongly to new signals for hours afterwards. The phenomenon is called long-term potentiation (LTP) and it’s fundamental to how we learn and remember. @KnowableMag talked to Bliss and Lømo about their discovery, and to other neuroscientists about how they’re applying knowledge about LTP to their research about memory disorders, chronic pain and more.
It began with a rabbit: Unraveling the mystery of memory
Half a century after the discovery of long-term potentiation, we’re still learning how the brain remembers
Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews (knowablemagazine.org)
#Science #Biology #Health #Medicine #Neuroscience #Medicine #MemoryLoss #ChronicPain #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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50 years ago, Tim Bliss and Terje Lømo worked in the Oslo lab of the late neuroscientist Per Andersen, where they made a momentous discovery: the fact that when a neuron signals to another neuron frequently enough, the second one will later respond more strongly to new signals for hours afterwards. The phenomenon is called long-term potentiation (LTP) and it’s fundamental to how we learn and remember. @KnowableMag talked to Bliss and Lømo about their discovery, and to other neuroscientists about how they’re applying knowledge about LTP to their research about memory disorders, chronic pain and more.
It began with a rabbit: Unraveling the mystery of memory
Half a century after the discovery of long-term potentiation, we’re still learning how the brain remembers
Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews (knowablemagazine.org)
#Science #Biology #Health #Medicine #Neuroscience #Medicine #MemoryLoss #ChronicPain #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
American prisons run on forced labor. For @bolts, historian Robert Chase answered reader questions about the legal basis for paying incarcerated people below minimum wage, whether the Americans with Disabilities Act applies in these circumstances, who has the authority to stop prison labor, and more.
The Past and Present of Prison Labor: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and efforts to challenge it.
Bolts (boltsmag.org)
#Prison #PrisonLabor #ModernSlavery #USNews #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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American prisons run on forced labor. For @bolts, historian Robert Chase answered reader questions about the legal basis for paying incarcerated people below minimum wage, whether the Americans with Disabilities Act applies in these circumstances, who has the authority to stop prison labor, and more.
The Past and Present of Prison Labor: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and efforts to challenge it.
Bolts (boltsmag.org)
#Prison #PrisonLabor #ModernSlavery #USNews #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Ready for some light relief in a heavy thread? Our @ArtPhotosDesk shared some beautiful animal pictures — winners of the Nature Photography Contest — including a polar bear resting in a bed of flowers, a humpback whale swimming alongside a pod of dolphins, and a desert kit fox biting a camera. The story also contains @Phoblographer’s breakdown of the gear the winning photographers got their shots.
#Photography #Photos #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Ready for some light relief in a heavy thread? Our @ArtPhotosDesk shared some beautiful animal pictures — winners of the Nature Photography Contest — including a polar bear resting in a bed of flowers, a humpback whale swimming alongside a pod of dolphins, and a desert kit fox biting a camera. The story also contains @Phoblographer’s breakdown of the gear the winning photographers got their shots.
#Photography #Photos #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Why does President Zelenskyy dress in military-style attire, and why did he get flak from certain quarters when he wore it to the White House? @timkmak, Myroslava Tanska-Vikulova and Anastasiia Kryvoruchenko dig into it for Counteroffensive.
Why Zelenskyy wore that shirt to the Oval Office
Ukraine has a wartime mentality, and so does its president. That’s why Zelenskyy chooses military style attire over a formal suit. So why does Zelenskyy get flak while others go without criticism?
(www.counteroffensive.news)
#Ukraine #UkraineRussia #Clothing #WhiteHouse #Zelenskyy #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Why does President Zelenskyy dress in military-style attire, and why did he get flak from certain quarters when he wore it to the White House? @timkmak, Myroslava Tanska-Vikulova and Anastasiia Kryvoruchenko dig into it for Counteroffensive.
Why Zelenskyy wore that shirt to the Oval Office
Ukraine has a wartime mentality, and so does its president. That’s why Zelenskyy chooses military style attire over a formal suit. So why does Zelenskyy get flak while others go without criticism?
(www.counteroffensive.news)
#Ukraine #UkraineRussia #Clothing #WhiteHouse #Zelenskyy #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
“The cost of Trump’s executive disorder is measured in lives” is the headline of this piece in @thecontinent. The team at the Africa-wide weekly newspaper break down how the U.S. government’s freeze on international aid has affected HIV and tuberculosis programs in Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “American aid to the global HIV response is channelled through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar). It is the world’s biggest HIV response fund and it supports – or supported – up to 20-million people,” they write.
The cost of Trump’s executive disorder is measured in lives
The closure of clinics is just one example of the disruption and confusion surrounding the near-total freeze on US aid and development funding ordered by US President Donald Trump
(continent.substack.com)
#Africa #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo #Uganda #Mozambique #Zimbabwe #Health #USA #USAID #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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“The cost of Trump’s executive disorder is measured in lives” is the headline of this piece in @thecontinent. The team at the Africa-wide weekly newspaper break down how the U.S. government’s freeze on international aid has affected HIV and tuberculosis programs in Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “American aid to the global HIV response is channelled through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar). It is the world’s biggest HIV response fund and it supports – or supported – up to 20-million people,” they write.
The cost of Trump’s executive disorder is measured in lives
The closure of clinics is just one example of the disruption and confusion surrounding the near-total freeze on US aid and development funding ordered by US President Donald Trump
(continent.substack.com)
#Africa #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo #Uganda #Mozambique #Zimbabwe #Health #USA #USAID #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
A new analysis shows that the U.S. has lost more than one-fifth of its butterflies in just two decades. @TheConversationUS explains what’s causing the decline, why you should care, and what you can do to help reverse it.
Butterflies declined by 22% in just 2 decades across the US – there are ways you can help save them
The causes involve more than just habitat loss, but there are steps you can take to help save these delicate creatures
The Conversation (theconversation.com)
#Butterflies #Wildlife #Conservation #Environment #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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