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evacide, 1 day ago to random

If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

evacide, 2 days ago to random

I see that everything is going fine over at the Hellsite.

taylorlorenz, 1 day ago to random

“At some point — whatever the justification — you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/army-officer-resigns-gaza-israel.html

JamesGleick, 2 days ago to random

Another crime committed in plain sight. It will never be prosecuted:

In contemptuous violation of his gag order, Trump coordinated with a team of “surrogates” (his own word)—including the House Speaker and and US Senator—to attack witnesses, the judge’s family, and the jury.

dangillmor, 2 days ago to random

Play-by-play Trump trial coverage, with so-called analysis of whether the prosecution or the defense has "scored points" -- the staple of Big Journalism right now -- is the equivalent of horse-race political coverage.

All it takes are stenographic skills and the ability to make confident-sounding guesses. It's clickbait and ratings bait, and it does nothing good for public understanding.

emptywheel, 1 day ago to random

Hunter Biden Moves to Enjoin David Weiss Under an Appropriations Argument Trump Adopted

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/05/14/hunter-biden-moves-to-enjoin-david-weiss-under-an-appropriations-argument-trump-adopted/

jamielynn, 1 day ago to random

The Wisconsin legislature was in fine form today. I should have watched today's floor session after all 😂 https://www.wispolitics.com/2024/senate-descends-into-chaos-after-republicans-abruptly-cut-off-debate-on-veto-override/

emptywheel, 2 days ago to random

David Weiss Continues to Misrepresent the Damage Keith Ablow Did to Hunter Biden's Addiction

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/05/14/david-weiss-continues-to-misrepresent-the-damage-keith-ablow-did-to-hunter-bidens-addiction/

taylorlorenz, 2 days ago to random

"The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/13/campus-gaza-protests-student-protesters-role-history

taylorlorenz, 2 days ago to random

Revealed: US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house. Guardian investigation identifies Jonathan Keeperman, a former lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, as ‘Lomez’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/far-right-twitter-identity-revealed

jamielynn, 2 days ago to random

#TeamOrca https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/travel/orcas-sink-sailing-yacht-gibraltar-intl-scli-scn/index.html

taylorlorenz, 2 days ago to random

SCOOP w/ @drewharwell: TikTok creators sue U.S. government over potential ban. The lawsuit is the second legal challenge to the new law, which creators say violates their First Amendment rights. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/14/tiktok-creators-lawsuit-ban/

taylorlorenz, 3 days ago to random

“It explains why you get pathologized and called everything from a doomer to a snowflake for caring about anything but yourself” https://www.okdoomer.io/thebadguys/

taylorlorenz, 3 days ago to random

Nearly all Gaza campus protests in the US have been peaceful, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/peaceful-pro-palestinian-campus-protests

emptywheel, 4 days ago to random

Another Maggie Haberman NYT Story Covers Up Oleg Deripaska's Role

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/05/12/another-maggie-haberman-nyt-story-covers-up-oleg-deripaskas-role/

dangillmor, 3 days ago to random

More than any other election year I can remember, the New York Times is obsessed with polling.

Then again, the organization's top editor has said explicitly that polls are driving the coverage.

taylorlorenz, 4 days ago to random

Pro-Israel counter-protesters at UCLA previously took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across Southern California.

Some of the pro-Israel counter protesters are also associated with local Proud Boy and Three Percenter militia chapters and fundamentalist Christian churches.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/college-campus-protests-far-right

GottaLaff, 4 days ago to random

Aww. #RIP Roger Corman, the Oscar-winning “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98.

https://apnews.com/article/b85b5fbc13184b5f8dab1e9d4b881645

anneapplebaum, 5 days ago to random

Huge protests in Tbilisi tonight against a law that would copy a Russian law against "foreign agents." But they are happening for a more serious reason: Georgians don't want to become part of the Russian world

tawfique, 4 days ago to Palestine

Leaflets are being dropped over Khalifah Bin Zayed school in the Beit Lahia area, urging residents to evacuate immediately. This measure indicates an imminent escalation in the area by the occupation forces, but the already displaced people have no where to go

Source: Palestine International Broadcast(https://www.facebook.com/PBIPS/videos/1171960820491846)

#palestine , #freepalestine , #free_palestine , #stand_with_palestine , #stop_genocide , #rafah , #rafah_news , #rafah _genocide , #gaza, #israelterrorist

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dangillmor, 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

EDITED: One of journalism's consistent flaws is ignoring relevant context.

Case in point is this NY Times story about a judge tossing out a new federal regulation limiting extortionate credit card late fees.

Here's the context the Times didn't care to include: The financial companies went forum shopping, and landed one of their favorite Trump-appointed judges, who (to his credit) objected to the process, but then predictably ruled against the administration.

Journalistic malpractice, IMO.

Teri_Kanefield, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

Okay, I wrote the blog post I said I'd write: A more thoughtful explanation of why I refused to answer a few questions this week.

It's here: https://terikanefield.com/beware-the-lawyers/

This blog post could have been called “Why you don’t need a lawyer to answer your questions about legal issues in the news.”

Mostly it’s about former TV pundit Peter Arenella’s piece that I posted earlier.

If you get the error message, this is why:
https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

Just wait a minute and try again.

Strandjunker, 5 days ago to random

Everyone is talking about Clarence Thomas’ blatant corruption. Let’s not forget we still don’t know who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club fees, $200,000 credit card debt, and $1.2 million mortgage.

How many SCOTUS seats have been put up for sale?

taylorlorenz, 5 days ago to random

Arms manufacturers have embedded themselves in STEM programs across the country, creating engineering degree to defense industry pipelines. In 2020, the government gave more money to Lockheed Martin than the Department of Education https://inthesetimes.com/article/lockheed-martin-recruiting-military-industrial-complex-student-debt

skry, 5 days ago to random

No-fault divorce saves lives, lots of them. In the US, women’s suicide rates went way down after it became possible to leave their abusers.

"states that adopted no-fault divorce experienced a decrease of 8 to 16 percent in wives' suicide rates and a 30 percent decline in domestic violence."

In the bad old days, you had to prove infidelity or sometimes lack of sexual ability in order to get a divorce. Being abused wasn’t sufficient unless some judge decided it was. (1/2)