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What happened to February? The shortest month seemed shorter than ever this year — even though January feels very long ago. This #NewstodonFriday, to counter the doom and the gloom, we’re watching Jane Fonda’s SAG Awards acceptance speech on repeat (it’s the last item in this thread). Please do read and boost the whole thread of stories from newsrooms with a presence in the fediverse. It makes a difference to our brave independent media friends.

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#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday #Fediverse
#news #fediverse #journalism #newstodon #media #followfriday #mastodonmigration #newstodonfriday

@TheConversationUS created a Flipboard Storyboard this week featuring some of the less-well-known figures from Black history. Here are the stories of Charles Henry Turner, a high-school science teacher who revolutionized the study of insects, Mary McLeod Bethune, the “first lady of Negro America,” Wyatt Tee Walker, chief strategist for Martin Luther King Jr., and more.

https://flipboard.com/@conversationus/black-history-month-profiles-h9a2mdf8mttr0ei8

#BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

6 people to know for Black History Month

Some well-known Black Americans, as well as people you should know about, from the academic authors of The Conversation (republished by our friends at Yahoo! News).
The Conversation US (Flipboard)
#newstodon #BlackMastodon #BlackHistory #followfriday #BlackHistoryMonth #newstodonfriday @The Conversation U.S. @blackmastodon group

Ngwi Ndem, an 82cm Cameroonian sculpture known by Europeans as the Bangwa Queen, was supposedly given or sold by Chief Fontem Asonganyi in the 1890s to Gustav Conrau, a German trader and colonial agent. It changed hands several times before being purchased by the Dapper Foundation in Paris in 1999 for $3.8M. Since 2017, Chief Charles Taku, a great grandson of Asonganyi and lead counsel at the International Criminal Court, says that Ngwi Ndem was stolen, and he wants it back. @thecontinent reports on the case as part of its Museum of Stolen History series.

https://continent.substack.com/p/the-museum-of-stolen-history-part

#History @histodons #Africa #Art #Sculpture #Cameroon #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

The Museum of Stolen History: Part I

Things can be taken. Their stories must still be told.
The Continent
#art #history #newstodon #Africa #sculpture #followfriday #newstodonfriday #cameroon @The Continent @histodons group

Why is Saudi Arabia involved in the negotiations to end the Russian occupation of Ukraine? “The Kingdom has great ambitions to take on the role of an indispensable intermediary,” writes @timkmak for the Counteroffensive. “And to do that, you must forget all their past and ongoing transgressions: their repression of women, their murder of Khashoggi, their torture, their executions and their silencing of the free press.” On their position in general, Mak and his team say: “The Counteroffensive will speak with moral clarity in these trying, dizzying times. We will call out hypocrisy. We will bear witness to America’s betrayal if or when it happens. And we will hold to account those who are responsible for the lives lost in the days to come.”

https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/the-suckerpunch-in-saudi

#Ukraine #UkraineRussia #Trump #Putin #Zelenskyy #SaudiArabia #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

The Suckerpunch in Saudi

Trump elevates the Saudis to a central role in negotiations with Russia. We explore the Gulf country’s desire to whitewash its authoritarianism through diplomatic showmanship.
Tim Mak (The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak)
#ukraine #trump #putin #newstodon #followfriday #saudiarabia #newstodonfriday #zelenskyy #ukrainerussia @Tim Mak

Two years ago, Wisconsin liberals flipped the state Supreme Court, leading to expanded voter access. On April 1, control of the court is on the line again with the retirement of a longtime liberal justice, Ann Walsh Bradley. @bolts looks at the contest between local judge Susan Crawford, who as an attorney, helped lead the challenge to the state’s voter ID law, and Brad Schimel, the former Republican attorney general of Wisconsin.

https://boltsmag.org/wisconsin-2025-supreme-court-election-democracy/

#Wisconsin #WisconsinSupremeCourt #StatePolitics #USPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

A Supreme Court Race May Shuffle the Rules of Wisconsin's Democracy, Again - Bolts

Two years after liberals flipped this supreme court, ushering in a new era on election issues from gerrymandering to drop boxes, conservatives hope to win it back in April.
Daniel Nichanian (Bolts)
#newstodon #followfriday #uspolitics #wisconsin #newstodonfriday #wisconsinsupremecourt #statepolitics @BoltsMag.org

Primatologist Susan Perry has been studying capuchin monkeys for decades. Tim Vernimmen of @KnowableMag spoke to her about how that came to be, the challenges of observing animals that seem to move in fast forward, and what she’s learned about the similarities between humans and monkeys.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/meet-the-capuchin-monkey

#Science #Ecology #Biology #Nature #Monkeys #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
#science #ecology #Nature #newstodon #biology #followfriday #monkeys #newstodonfriday @KnowableMag

@stevanzetti’s story for @TexasObserver on the ICE prosecutor who seems to be running a white supremacist X account isn’t only impressive because of what he’s revealed. It’s a remarkable piece of research that takes into account publicly available documents, social media activity, and even visits to the courtroom. “During the January court hearing the Observer attended, Rodden repeatedly used his phone at moments that corresponded to times GlomarResponder made posts. At the February hearing, the Observer saw Rodden scrolling through the X app on his phone and drafting a post at 1:14 p.m. The profile photo that appeared while Rodden drafted the post resembled that of GlomarResponder, which posted at 1:15pm.”

https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/

#Immigration #ICE #TrumpAdministration #Texas #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account

The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, …
Steven Monacelli (The Texas Observer)
#newstodon #ice #immigration #followfriday #texas #newstodonfriday #trumpadministration @Texas Observer @stevanzetti

The Ilemi Triangle is a disputed region that straddles the north of Kenya, southern Ethiopia and South Sudan. “Controversy over the Ilemi’s ownership can be traced back to colonial meddling,” writes Kang-Chun Cheng for @thexylom. The main employment for people who live in the region is herding livestock, but a new project aims to introduce climate-smart agriculture. Here’s how it’s going, and the challenges it faces.

https://www.thexylom.com/post/can-the-ilemi-triangle-s-forgotten-pastoralists-trade-arms-for-peace

#ClimateChange #Environment #EastAfrica #IlemiTriangle #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Climate change is Driving Gun Violence in East Africa's Disputed Ilemi Triangle

Locals in the disputed and increasingly resource-starved East African region are taking tentative steps to embrace climate-smart agriculture. But that requires reckoning with their way of life. 
Kang-Chun Cheng (The Xylom)
#environment #climatechange #newstodon #followfriday #newstodonfriday #eastafrica #ilemitriangle @The Xylom

Hoopla, which provides U.S. public libraries with ebooks, says it will do more to prevent their distribution after @404mediaco showed they were common on the platform. An AI-generated book about Elon Musk and a cookbook about fatty liver by an author who does not appear to exist were highlighted in the original report by @emanuelmaiberg. Some librarians say that Hoopla’s “light on details” statement avoids accountability.

https://www.404media.co/public-library-ebook-service-to-cull-ai-slop-after-404-media-investigation-3/

#Books @bookstodon #Libraries #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Public Library Ebook Service to Cull AI Slop After 404 Media Investigation

Hoopla has emailed librarians saying it’s removing AI-generated books from the platform people use to borrow ebooks from public libraries.
Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
#ai #books #libraries #newstodon #artificialintelligence #followfriday #newstodonfriday #aislop @404 Media @bookstodon group @emanuelmaiberg

This NBC story on how mRNA vaccines might show promise in addressing pancreatic cancer was so good, our @ScienceDesk shared it twice. And we’re sharing it a third time because vaccines work, and mRNA vaccines are a phenomenal scientific achievement that should be celebrated.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pancreatic-cancer-vaccine-mrna-treatment-trial-rcna192702

#Science #Health #Vaccines #MRNA #PancreaticCancer #CancerResearch #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

mRNA vaccines show promise against pancreatic cancer in early trial  

Personalized mRNA vaccines show promise as a pancreatic cancer treatment, according to a small, early stage trial published Wednesday.
Kaitlin Sullivan (NBC News)
#science #health #newstodon #followfriday #vaccines #newstodonfriday #mrna #pancreaticcancer #cancerresearch @Flipboard Science Desk

“Mississippi, a state known for its rich culture and strong heritage, also faces some of the nation’s most glaring health disparities. Among them is the inequity in cervical-cancer prevention and treatment, which is often shaped by racism and systemic discrimination in health care,” writes Barbara Rose Brooks for @msfreepress. The solutions: Investments in community health clinics and cultural competency training, which would allow all Mississippians equal access to preventative health care.

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-cervical-cancer-claims-black-womens-lives-at-disproportionate-rates-due-to-inequity-of-care/

#Health #Race #Gender #CervicalCancer #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Opinion | Cervical Cancer Claims Black Women’s Lives at Disproportionate Rates Due to Inequity of Care

Barbara Brooks writes on disparities in health care that Black women face such as being disproportionately diagnosed with late-stage cervical cancer.
Barbara Rose Brooks (Mississippi Free Press)
#health #newstodon #gender #followfriday #race #newstodonfriday #cervicalcancer @Mississippi Free Press

A Vancouver, B.C.-based Conservative TikTok creator called Robin Skies is also a former party staffer for the B.C. Conservative Party called Adam Beattie, @thetyee’s @jenstden reports. “Skies” mostly talks about immigration in his videos, claiming that immigrants push up housing costs, are scamming the system, and make women feel unsafe. His main focus is on people of South Asian descent, and he’s having an impact, with some of his videos breaking one million views.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/20/Anti-Immigration-TikToker-BC-Conservative-Staffer/

#CaPoli #CanadianPolitics #Canada #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
#canada #newstodon #followfriday #newstodonfriday #canadianpolitics #capoli @The Tyee @jenstden

Since Texas brought its near-total abortion ban, no one has studied the statewide effect on people undergoing pregnancy complications. So @ProPublica did it, purchasing and analyzing seven years of hospital discharge data. The findings: The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50 percent for those hospitalized in the second trimester of pregnancy. “This is exactly what we predicted would happen and exactly what we were afraid would happen,” said Dr. Lorie Harper, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Austin.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis

#Health #Healthcare #Texas #WomensHealth #Abortion #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
ProPublica
#abortion #healthcare #health #newstodon #followfriday #texas #womenshealth #newstodonfriday @ProPublica

“The Stepford Wives” was a horror film, not a blueprint for modern living. But @damemagazine sees it today in the rise of the misogynist tech bros and the use of technology to move the world backwards, not forwards. “Whatever tools and electronics we have lying around, we can use them to make a future of equality and freedom for everyone, or we can use them to make a future of slavery and death,” writes Noah Berlatsky. “For better and worse, those choices are the same now as when Joanna first traveled to Stepford. And they’re the same now as when, against her will, she was bloodily removed from it.”

https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/19/prophetic-stepford-wives/

#StepfordWives #PopCulture #Movies #TradWives #Feminism #Politics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

The Disturbingly Prophetic Message of ‘The Stepford Wives’ | Dame Magazine

Since The Stepford Wives was first shown on movie screens 50 years ago, its title has become shorthand for women in thrall to a throwback domesticized femininity.
Noah Berlatsky (Dame Magazine)
#feminism #politics #newstodon #movies #followfriday #popculture #newstodonfriday #tradwives #stepfordwives @damemagazine

No humans were harmed in the making of the True Crime Case Files YouTube channel. Why? Because all the murder victims and storylines in 150 videos with names like “Sheriff Murdered After Affair With His Secretary Got Exposed” and “Wife Secret Affair with Neighbor’s Teenage Daughter Ends in Grisly Murder” were AI-generated. @404mediaco spoke to the founder of the channel, which had millions of views before it was taken down, about where he got the idea, and what he was trying to achieve (he claims a noble goal).

https://www.404media.co/a-true-crime-documentary-series-has-millions-of-views-the-murders-are-all-ai-generated/

#Tech #Technology #TrueCrime #Television #Entertainment #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

A ‘True Crime’ Documentary Series Has Millions of Views. The Murders Are All AI-Generated

The creator of a viral "true crime" series where the murders were all invented by AI explains how he did it.
Henry Larson (404 Media)
#tech #newstodon #entertainment #technology #followfriday #television #newstodonfriday #truecrime @404 Media

Could spooky floating lights in South Carolina be earthquake farts? Our @ScienceDesk shared this story from Science News about Earth’s gassy problem.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earthquake-lights-spooky-south-carolina

#Science #Geology #EarthSciences #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Spooky floating lights in South Carolina could be earthquake farts

Gases that rise from the earth during earthquakes could explain strange sightings of floating balls of light.
Nikk Ogasa (Science News)
#science #newstodon #geology #followfriday #newstodonfriday #earthsciences @Flipboard Science Desk

In an editorial for @msfreepress, Kiden-Aloyse Smith discusses “Hood Feminism” by Mikki Kendall, and why its messaging around race and intersectionality is particularly resonant right now. “Despite Black folks making up 14% of the U.S. population, we make up 40% of missing-person cases for people under age 18,” she writes. “Black women’s and children’s cases are left untouched for decades — marked as runaways, marked as unworthy, marked as the ‘imperfect victim.’ When little Black girls go missing, it’s a deafening silence with a reminder that maybe if we were ‘good’ girls or white girls, we’d be found.”

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-little-black-girls-are-not-fast-why-intersectional-feminism-is-the-only-true-feminism/

#Race #Gender #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #Crime #Feminism #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Editor’s Note | Little Black Girls Are Not ‘Fast’: Why Intersectional Feminism Is the Only True Feminism 

Kiden-Aloyse Smith writes about Na’Ziyah Harris, the adultification of Black girls, and other feminist and racial issues. 
Kiden-Aloyse Smith (Mississippi Free Press)
#feminism #newstodon #BlackMastodon #crime #gender #followfriday #race #newstodonfriday @Mississippi Free Press @blackmastodon group

Canada’s getting a fentanyl czar, and thank goodness for that — after all, who else will deal with the massive flood that enters the U.S. through its northern border. (Last year it was 43 pounds, less than the weight limit for a single suitcase on Air Canada.) For @thetyee, Dr. Steve Burgess (not a real doctor) ponders what kind of uniform such an official might wear (shiny buttons), and why the role of fentanyl czar is appealing. “A lot of people were interested in the job because it seemed it would mostly consist of sitting around, eating Canadian-style Cheezies, bingeing ‘Letterkenny’ and occasionally yelling out the window, ‘I better not see any fentanyl heading south! Don’t make me put on my shiny uniform and come out there!’” he writes.

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/02/12/Please-Advise-Fentanyl-Czar/

#Canada #Tariffs #Fentanyl #FentanylCzar #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
#canada #newstodon #followfriday #fentanyl #tariffs #newstodonfriday #fentanylczar @The Tyee

Are the people being held at Guantanamo the “worst of the worst?” It’s hard to tell, since officials are not releasing details either about who they are, or what they’re supposed to have done. Luckily, @ProPublica and Texas Tribune are on the case. So far, their reporters have spoken to the families of two Venezuelan detainees whose only crime is illegal entry, and one who picked up a charge during detention. Those being held have not been able to speak to their families, nor to attorneys. “Never before have people been taken from U.S. soil and sent to Guantanamo, and then denied access to lawyers and the outside world,” said Lee Gelernt, the lead attorney in the ACLU case. “It is difficult to think of anything so flagrantly at odds with the fundamental principles on which our country was built.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-migrants-guantanamo-bay

#Guantanamo #Gitmo #Immigration #Venezuela #TrumpAdministration #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
#newstodon #immigration #venezuela #followfriday #newstodonfriday #trumpadministration #guantanamo #gitmo @ProPublica

Less than a month into the Trump administration, how is everyone feeling? Shay Stewart-Bouley writes for @damemagazine about how she is not scared, but angry. “Trump’s attacks on DEI represent a clear desire to take us back to the time when uppity Black folks like me were put in our place,” she writes. “He wants white men to be our rulers again and that doesn’t sadden me. It fills me with rage.”

https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/12/i-am-not-scared-of-this-administration-i-am-angry/

#BlackHistory @blackmastodon #TrumpAdministration #History @histodons #Politics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

I Am Not Scared of This Administration. I Am Angry | Dame Magazine

We are not even a month into President Trump’s second term, and it is safe to say that he has turned our collective lives upside down. There were his Week No.
Shay Stewart-Bouley (Dame Magazine)
#politics #history #newstodon #BlackHistory #followfriday #newstodonfriday #trumpadministration @damemagazine @histodons group @blackmastodon group

It’s Valentine’s Day, and we love the fediverse — especially all the indie newsrooms that we feature in our #NewstodonFriday thread. If there are any you’d like to put on our radar, please tell us in the comments — and don’t forget to read and boost the stories in this thread, donate to publishers, and support independent media.

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#Media #Journalism #News #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
#news #journalism #media #followfriday #mastodonmigration #newstodonfriday

It’s #NewstodonFriday again, where we share a thread of stories from the independent newsrooms that have a presence in the fediverse, plus a couple of articles that our own editorial desks shared. This week we discovered yet another brilliant publication is here: @msfreepress. If there are any newsrooms or journos you’d like to put on our radar, please tell us in the comments — and don’t forget to read and boost the stories in this thread, donate to publishers, and support independent media doing incredible, brave, important work.

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#Media #Journalism #News #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
#news #journalism #media #followfriday #mastodonmigration #newstodonfriday @Mississippi Free Press

It’s been a week. Oh boy, has it been a week. Here’s our #NewstodonFriday thread of stories from the independent newsrooms that have made a home for themselves in the fediverse, plus a couple of important stories that our own desks shared. As always, please read and boost the stories in this thread, and support the brilliant newsrooms that produce them. And do share in the comments any stories or moments that have brought you joy in the past week. Or dog photos — those would be good too!

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On Monday, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States, and the news will come at us thick and fast. So for today’s #NewstodonFriday, we’re trying our level best to avoid stories that are directly about Trump. That doesn’t mean it’s all unicorns and rainbows — we’re still in this timeline, after all — but there’s some lighter fare in there to bring a smile before the weekend. The stories here come from newsrooms that have an active presence in the fediverse, plus a couple of our own desks. We encourage you to support independent media by following the accounts here, boosting their stories, and donating money and subscribing if you can. Buckle up, folks!

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Wow! We've hit 10,000 followers! Thanks to all who have joined us for our eclectic mix of company updates, fediverse news, media and journalism stuff, random boosting and #NewstodonFriday posts. We so enjoy being part of this community. Tell us in the comments what kind of posts you'd like to see from us in the future!

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#fediverse #journalism #media #flipboard #newstodonfriday

Not a real #NewstodonFriday post from us this week because we're still getting back up to speed after the holidays (yes, we're relaxed, no, we don't expect it to last!). Instead, here's a list of independent publishers we love and that have an active presence in the fediverse. Please follow, boost, donate and support however you can. Below the list is our spreadsheet of federated Flipboard accounts, all of which are followable here.

@bolts
@damemagazine
@gbhnews
@KnowableMag
@ProPublica
@restofworld
@SFPublicPress
@TexasObserver
@thecontinent
@TheConversationUS
@themarkup
@thetyee
@thexylom
@timkmak
@TucsonSentinel

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU/edit

#Newstodon #News #Media #Journalism #LocalNews #IndependentMedia #IndependentNews #Flipboard #FollowFriday

Flipboard Federated Accounts

Google Docs
#news #journalism #newstodon #media #flipboard #followfriday #independentmedia #newstodonfriday #localnews #independentnews @gbhnews @Texas Observer @Tim Mak @The Tyee @ProPublica @The Markup @The Conversation U.S. @Tucson Sentinel @BoltsMag.org @The Xylom @The Continent @SFPublicPress @damemagazine @KnowableMag @restofworld

If, like us, you’re donning your holiday gear (it’s sweatpants!) and bidding farewell to work till 2025, then here’s a collection of stories to entertain you through the fortnight. And if you’re deskbound, well, hopefully this #NewstodonFriday thread offers some distraction from the humdrum. All the newsrooms featured here are independent and have their own active fediverse accounts. Please follow them, click on the stories, boost them, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can. We’ll be around through the festive season but taking a break from Newstodon — and hopefully, the news. Happy holidays, and tidings of comfort and joy.

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#news #journalism #media #followfriday #mastodonmigration #newstodonfriday

In theory, every American is required to contribute to Medicare. In practice, @ProPublica says, billionaires including Steve Cohen, owner of the New York Mets, and hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman, are paying diddly-squat. Here’s how they do it.

https://www.propublica.org/article/medicare-tax-loophole-steve-cohen

#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #USConstitution #USCongress #News #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
#news #donaldtrump #newstodon #followfriday #uspolitics #uscongress #newstodonfriday #usconstitution @ProPublica

What would a world without modern medicine look like? We don’t have to wonder because it happened. @TheConversationUS looks at how Victorian novels showcase the reality and devastating grief of large-scale child mortality.

https://theconversation.com/infectious-diseases-killed-victorian-children-at-alarming-rates-their-novels-highlight-the-fragility-of-public-health-today-242273

#Books @bookstodon #Lifestyle #Health #PublicHealth #DiseasePrevention #Vaccination #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
The Conversation
#publichealth #books #health #newstodon #followfriday #vaccination #newstodonfriday #lifestyle #diseaseprevention @The Conversation U.S. @bookstodon group

@jasonkoebler of @404mediaco went to a screening of AI movies made for TCL, the largest TV manufacturer on Earth. He breaks down why TCL is doing this, what the movies are like, and how the company is navigating the AI backlash.

https://www.404media.co/i-went-to-the-premiere-of-tcls-first-commercially-streaming-ai-movies/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Movies #Cinema #PopCulture #Lifestyle #PopCulture #Technology #Tech #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies

“With premium original content, precise ad-targeting capability, and an AI-powered, innovative engaging viewing experience, TCL’s content service will continue its double-digit growth next year.”
Jason Koebler (404 Media)
#ai #tech #newstodon #movies #cinema #technology #artificialintelligence #followfriday #popculture #newstodonfriday #lifestyle @Jason Koebler @404 Media

Alas, we've not had time to pull together our usual #NewstodonFriday thread this week (sometimes you've just got to prioritize watching a group of seven-year-olds wave paper plates to the "Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy"). Instead, we're going to re-share our list of the brilliant indie publishers with an active presence on Mastodon, all of whom would love your support. The spreadsheet below shows all the Flipboard publisher accounts we've federated, many of which are also small independent publishers that would appreciate your cash and/or clicks.

@bolts

@damemagazine

@gbhnews

@KnowableMag

@ProPublica

@restofworld

@SFPublicPress

@TexasObserver

@thecontinent
@themarkup

@thetyee

@thexylom

@timkmak

@TucsonSentinel

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU/edit

#Newstodon #News #Media #Journalism #LocalNews #IndependentMedia #IndependentNews #Flipboard

Flipboard Federated Accounts

Google Docs
#news #journalism #newstodon #media #flipboard #independentmedia #newstodonfriday #localnews #independentnews @gbhnews @Texas Observer @Tim Mak @The Tyee @ProPublica @The Markup @Tucson Sentinel @BoltsMag.org @The Xylom @The Continent @damemagazine @KnowableMag @restofworld @SFPublicPress

Hooray! It’s Friday! We made it! And we made this #NewstodonFriday thread too, with a dash of science, a soupçon of tech, the inevitable slug of politics, and a spoonful of sweet stories to make the medicine go down. All the newsrooms featured here are independent and have their own active fediverse accounts. Please follow them, click on the stories, boost them, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can.

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#Media #Journalism #News #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
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Another Friday, another #NewstodonFriday thread, with our usual mix of tech, politics, books and culture (if you haven’t heard of prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, check out @TheConversationUS’s story about her). All the newsrooms featured here are independent and have invested time and energy in establishing a presence in the fediverse. Please follow them, click on the stories, boost them, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can.

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#Media #Journalism #News #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
#news #journalism #media #followfriday #mastodonmigration #newstodonfriday @The Conversation U.S.

And finally, the most chucklesome story in a week that’s been light on laughs: Our @NewsDesk reported on The Onion’s acquisition of Infowars, which its founder was forced to sell after being successfully sued by the families of Sandy Hook victims. “They are a true unicorn, capable of simultaneously inspiring public support for billionaires and stoking outrage at an inept federal state that can assassinate JFK but can’t even put a man on the Moon,” said CEO Bryce P. Tetraeder in a statement.

Here’s @AssociatedPress’s story on the takeover, which includes not just the site, but the social media presence, video archives, trademarks, and even Jones’ studio in Austin, Texas.

https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9

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Satire slinger The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families

Families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims say the satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction. They made the announcement Thursday.
DAVE COLLINS (AP News)
#journalism #satire #newstodon #media #followfriday #infowars #newstodonfriday #alexjones #theonion @Flipboard News Desk @Associated Press

A curious theme emerged when we were compiling this week’s #NewstodonFriday — the importance of down-ballot elections in the U.S. School choice, state judicial elections, and school boards don’t get a lot of attention, but can have a long-lasting, outsized impact on people’s lives. If you’re motivated to run for something and don’t know how, it’s worth following @amandalitm, who founded the Run For Something organization. But we digress.

Also in this week’s selection, find stories about alternatives to loss and damage funds for climate disasters, going incognito, Infowars, earwigs, and, of course, Elon Musk. Please check out the stories, follow the publications, click on the stories, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can.

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#news #journalism #newstodon #media #followfriday #mastodonmigration #newstodonfriday @amandalitm

Last year, the Indian government announced they had found a huge reserve of lithium in Kashmir. Now, @restofworld reports that extraction plans have been halted as industry experts say government info on the land is “misleading and quite inadequate.”

https://restofworld.org/2024/india-lithium-reserves-halted/

#LithiumBatteries #CleanEnergy #EnergyTransition #India #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

India’s lithium mining plans in Kashmir halted due to lack of bidders, expert warnings - Rest of World

India’s first lithium discovery positions it as the holder of the world’s fifth-largest reserve, but experts say optimism around the discovery was overblown.
Itika Sharma Punit (Rest of World)
#newstodon #India #followfriday #energytransition #cleanenergy #newstodonfriday #lithiumbatteries @restofworld

People in Ukraine are worried about how Trump’s victory might affect them. The team at @timkmak’s Counter Offensive talked to people on the ground about their concerns. “If we get discouraged because an election has taken place in another country and we don't like the president elected, we will never have independence and autonomy,” says 21-year-old Yelyzaveta Kanievska.

https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/the-street-level-view-from-kyiv-on

#Ukraine #Kyiv #USElection #DonaldTrump #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

The street-level view from Kyiv on Trump's election

We went back to old sources and new friends in Ukraine to get a readout on how they're responding to the seismic news that Trump will be returning to the White House.
Myroslava Tanska-Vikulova (The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak)
#ukraine #donaldtrump #newstodon #uselection #kyiv #followfriday #newstodonfriday @Tim Mak

Humans spend a lot of time moving in crowds. Matthew R. Francis and Maki Naro collaborate on this comic for @KnowableMag, which demonstrates how tools from fluid dynamics can help model crowd behavior and smooth the flow of crowds, potentially making us safer.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/using-physics-to-understand-behavior-of-human-crowds

#Science #Physics #FluidDynamics #CrowdBehavior #ThinkingFluids #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
#science #physics #newstodon #followfriday #fluiddynamics #newstodonfriday #crowdbehavior #thinkingfluids @KnowableMag

Democrats in Texas were thrashed in last week’s election. It wasn’t supposed to go like this. For @TexasObserver, Gus Bova looks at how it happened, and offers a couple of things to think about.

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-democrats-lost-decade-2024/

#Texas #TexasDemocrats #ColinAllred #BetoORourke #BernieSanders #USElection #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

For Texas Democrats, a Lost Decade

Or, how to lose in every way, all at once.
Gus Bova (The Texas Observer)
#newstodon #uselection #followfriday #texas #berniesanders #newstodonfriday #texasdemocrats #colinallred #betoorourke @Texas Observer

Political polarization is making us sick, according to new research from a team at New York University. @thetyee’s Crawford Kilian writes about how COVID-19 epitomizes this and whether there’s a possibility of repair.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/06/Political-Polarization-Making-Us-Sick/

#Health #COVID #Polarization #Politics #Canada #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
#canada #politics #health #newstodon #COVID #followfriday #polarization #newstodonfriday @The Tyee

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