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more than a year ago, the lancet put this out, now seemingly lost to the collective memory: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
In 2023, @laurenleffer.bsky.social gave us one of those perfect man vs. nature New York City stories, trying to find answers regarding why a raccoon took up residence on her fire escape and, furthermore, why the raccoon would not stop masturbating. hellgatenyc.com/my-horny-rac...
Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility.
He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.”
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In an essay for VF, Rümeysa Öztürk details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent being held in a South Louisiana ICE detention center: “Even God cannot hear us here,” said one woman.
a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.
UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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screenshot of numerous outlets mindlessly hawking uninteresting amazon prime day sales
it's my favorite day of the year, when the entire U.S. "news" industry turns itself into a glorified blogspam affiliate for a single billionaire-owned retailer and nobody in any position of editorial authority thinks that's weird, tasteless, or unethical
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
Huge sleeper issue is how states will (or won’t) be able to absorb huge SNAP cuts in BBB. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
RFK Jr. is poised to use 'AI' to weaponize the CDC's critical vaccine incident reporting system, in yet another of his assaults on public health.
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
New #ACIP co-chair signals the new committee will reopen issues core to anti-vax concerns, including the notion that kids are getting too many vaccines. www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
Antivaxxers have long branded their movement as about "choice" but soon, most may not have the choice to get lifesaving immunizations for their children or themselves.
Alleging Israel has committed ‘war crimes’ suggests a recognizable event: that there is a war happening and there are some crimes in it. Gaza is different.
This is the kind of sweeping, truth-telling journalism we need more of. Good job, AP.
New: Not only would Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” ban gender-affirming care via Medicaid, it would ban insurance under the Obamacare exchanges from covering it as an essential health benefit
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
“This is the Theranos of the energy industry.”
heimildin.is/grein/24581/...
Ashamed to hold a degree from an institution that responds this way to condemnation of genocide. Withholding an academic diploma for telling a basic truth is craven and absurd.
In only two years, ChatGPT and the surge of AI-generated cheating from college students it has created have unraveled the entire academic project.
Yikes.
I wrote this so you didn't have to!
I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Lost in AGI dread and gleeful anticipation is the fact that, while the technologies driving the discussion around AGI are novel and new, the stories we're hearing about them are not. The AGI story today's elites embrace is a retelling of the AI story embraced by the elites of yesteryear and the automation story of their predecessors. It's fair to say we're in uncharted technological territory, but that is also a truism. Where else would we be? As workers or as politicians, regulators, industrialists, or members of the curious general public, we have all previously confronted technological breakthroughs and moments of political and economic uncertainty. All those moments created opportunities for narrative inver tion, too. In its more cynical deployments, AGI, like Al before it, is a marketing story masquerading as a descriptive term; it's a bid to rebrand - and narrow down and direct - our collective idea of the future.
AGI, like G-less Al, automation, and even mechanization, are indeed stories, but they're also sequels: This time, the technology isn't just inconceivable and inevitable; it's anthropomorphized and given a will of its own. If mechanization conjured images of factories, automation conjured images of factories without people, and AI conjured humanoid machine assistants, AGI and ASI conjure an economy, and a wider world, in which humans are either made limitlessly rich and powerful by superhuman machines or dominated and subjugated (or perhaps even killed) by them (Indu trial Revolution 3: The Robot Awakens). In imagining centralized machine authoritarianism in the future, AGI creates a sort of authoritarian, exclusionary discourse now. A narrative emerges in which the decisions of AGI stakeholders - Al firms, their investors, and maybe a few government leaders - are all that matter. The rest of us inhabit the roles of subject and audience but not author.
AGI is a story, not a technology nymag.com/intelligence...
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
Screenshot of an email opening like reading "Hi Lauren, I received your request for an interview on my NIH email. Our usual protocol is to send those requests to our communications office, but I think that office might have been eliminated today.
Amazing when federal agencies suddenly have no communications staff. Love it when there is no way for the public to learn about the work of their government.
"It can be hard to describe or visualize exactly what kind of country you want to live in, but it is not so hard to recognize the one you don't."
defector.com/it-is-what-i...
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
