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steve, 14 days ago to random

Fascist criminal on trial, but ... the WaPo opinions editor says the "biggest bombshell" is that Trump insists on the Oxford Comma.

Priorities.

jeffjarvis, 1 month ago to random

Jeezus fucking journalism. The hubris. The entitlement.
Is Biden afraid of reporters?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/30/biden-media-times-interviews-2024/

cdarwin, 1 month ago to random

New Hampshire’s GOP Is Taking a Stand
—Against the Polio Vaccine

The Granite State could be the first to ditch polio and measles requirements for childcare

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/new-hampshire-republicans-polio-mmr-measles-vaccine-antivax-bill/

steve, 1 month ago to random

Apparently we need legislation to force TV app developers to stop moving the closed-caption settings. Roku, clean this shit up.

JamesGleick, 1 month ago to random

Let’s do some arithmetic. A company takes in $4 million in total revenue. To accomplish this, it spends $62 million.

Net loss: $58 million.

How much would you pay to buy this company? https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112196716174826637

steve, 2 months ago to threads

So far, the only negative side effect I have seen of #threads supporting ActivityPub has been the whining and demands for preemptive censorship (from people who have more in common with the book burners than they realize).

I haven't seen a single objectionable post from Threads.

My hope is that I'll be able to delete my Threads account and follow those I care about from my Mastodon account. Mastodon gives me some decent tools for controlling what I see (lists, filters, blocks) and doesn't push me into an unwanted algorithmic feed. I have multiple UI options from both apps and the web.

I understand that any time a social space is opened up to new participants, it is disruptive. But I don't really care. If you want a private discussion space with a culture that you control, you should be using a closed forum. A federated open social network is not the best tool for all purposes.

steve, 2 months ago to random

Is the Earth's rotation speeding up or slowing?

steve, 2 months ago to random

Ronna's lack of integrity is just part of the problem. News organizations should not be siphoning off money that should be spent on journalism and using it to subsidize politicians. How did we get here? It all started with Rupert Murdoch's corruption. His damage of journalism is exceeded only by what he has done to democracy in every nation where he operates.

TonyStark, 2 months ago to random

This may initially read like a little thing but we’re talking about saving consumers $2.2 billion a year in utility costs and eliminating 71 million tons of planet-warming CO2 emissions from the environment.

Democrats get things done for you.

Washers and Dryers Are About to Get Way More Efficient:
https://gizmodo.com/washers-and-dryers-are-about-to-get-way-more-efficient-1851305637

steve, 2 months ago to random

The problem is not, as this story suggests, "high prices."

The problem is shamefully low pay in the United States.

Too many people are working multiple jobs at tipped-wage starvation scale ($2.13 US) while corporations reap the benefits of their labor.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/scary-being-america-now-south-120100270.html

steve, 2 months ago to random

Stable genius:

"Nobody can explain to me how allowing millions of people from places unknown, from countries unknown, who don't speak languages," Trump said in a fragment sentence. "They're truly foreign languages — nobody speaks them."

steve, 3 months ago to random

Putin just did what Trump claims any president should be able to do, without legal consequences.

steve, 3 months ago to journalism

"Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn is seeking $950,000 in damages from the city of Marion, its former mayor, its former police chief, its current interim police chief, the Marion County Commission, the county sheriff and a former sheriff’s deputy. The lawsuit calls them “co-conspirators” who deprived her of press and speech freedoms and the protection from unreasonable police searches guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution."
#journalism #newspapers
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/06/kansas-reporter-police-raid-lawsuit-00140032

steve, 3 months ago to journalism

Just noticed that the Associated Press is asking for donations on its website.

#journalism

https://apnews.com/donate

ernie, 3 months ago to random

If I wanted to move my self-hosted Mastodon server to something more lightweight and manageable, what would y’all recommend? It is an instance that may have at most 3-4 accounts.

steve, 4 months ago to random

I'm no Chris Christie fan but he is hitting it out of the park.

steve, 5 months ago to random

Another one bites the dust.

It was just a matter of time. Home newspaper delivery became unsustainable several years ago.

When an entire neighborhood has only one or two subscribers, it's impossible to get drivers (who are independent contractors).

The high-tech printing plant is shut down. The stately offices vacated. A skeleton news staff posts unedited copy.

https://www.savannahnow.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/12/29/savannah-morning-news-transitioning-to-postal-delivery-beginning-jan-29/72032172007/

GottaLaff, 5 months ago to oklahoma

>>"A group of activists tied to the conservative legal movement and its financial architect, #LeonardLeo, are rallying around an effort to create a public Catholic school in #Oklahoma, hoping to build a test case to change the #SupremeCourt’s interpretation of the First Amendment’s separation of church and state." #SCOTUS

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/29/oklahoma-public-christian-schools-00132534

steve, 5 months ago to random

RIP Tommy Smothers.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/tom-smothers-dead-smothers-brothers-comedy-duo-1235775301/

steve, 5 months ago to random

AI deathtraps.

Los Angeles Times: Tesla claims 1st Amendment right to call cars 'Full Self Driving' https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-11/tesla-dmv-false-advertising-charges

jrefior, 5 months ago to journalism

"More than 750 journalists and business-side staffers at The #WashingtonPost walked off the job today...

"The newspaper's acting CEO, Patty Stonesifer, announced plans in October to cut 240 jobs, about 10% of the workforce

"Union members say specific areas have been disproportionately targeted for buyouts, including metro news, copy editors and the audio team.

"'What they're doing is really going to decimate the local news desk'"
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/07/1217690720/washington-post-workers-strike
—
#media #journalism #WaPo

steve, 6 months ago to random

As political kooks work to destroy public health, there sure are a lot of horrible diseases just waiting to get back into the business of killing humans. The anti-vax crackpots don't even know what they are.