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Journalist/poet/tour guide. Rachmaninoff, reggaetón, rancheras. Jacques Brel & Karel Kryl. Prague/SF. слава україні. (ona, вона, ella, elle, היא)

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Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · Nov 12

"In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror...a woman, with lips blue from the cold...asked me in a whisper: 'Can you describe this?' And I said: 'I can.' Then something like a smile passed fleetingly over what had once been her face."-Anna Akhmatova

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · 6h

Photo credit: Anthony Vazquez. Reporting by Mary Norkol, Anthony Vazquez and Kade Heather, WBEZ Chicago (public media). Thank you to this courageous photographer and news crew. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · 13h

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MrsBundrige @mrsbundrige.bsky.social · 17h

D’Angelo 🥀♥️

You Should Be Here😢

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Jamel Jackson @yallagal.bsky.social · 15h

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · 14h

There's a simple solution to this problem: Refuse to pay for AI-assisted movies, art & books. Are overwhelming numbers of people ready to do that right now? I'd say unlikely. But given enough AI débacles & the right public mood, maybe.

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 15h

“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Peggi @p2cat.bsky.social · 19h

“I worry that…young people will lose the ability to compose elegant prose, creative writing will atrophy, and literature will be reduced to a series of artless prompts, dank memes, and eggplant emojis. It doesn’t help that the AI industry is led by creepy weirdos like Altman and Elon Musk…”🎯

Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 23h

I really enjoyed my conversation with the musician, computer scientist, and generative AI pioneer Maya Ackerman, whose terrific new book, CREATIVE MACHINES: AI, ART & US, is out today.

Here is the video, along with some of the transcript and my thoughts on AI at the top:

AI, Art & Us

A discussion with the musician, computer scientist, WaveAI CEO, and AI pioneer Maya Ackerman, author of the new book "Creative Machines: AI, Art & Us"

gregolear.substack.com

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Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · 3d

“You do not become a ‘dissident’ just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with..complex..circumstances.It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jemimah Steinfeld @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social · 5d

"The Party’s tight control on historical narrative has rendered much of the pain afflicted in the name of liberation — or after liberation had ostensibly been achieved — unspeakable." Powerful from @yangyangcheng.bsky.social on voicelessness of Chinese women chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...

No Country for A Woman | China Books Review

Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...

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Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · 5d

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Le Nouvel Obs @nouvelobs.com · 5d

László Krasznahorkai, prix Nobel de littérature : « C’est un auteur qui donne le sentiment d’être happé dans son monde »

Le prix Nobel de littérature 2025 a été décerné ce jeudi à l’écrivain hongrois László Krasznahorkai. Charlotte Groult, une de ses éditrices en France, nous explique pourquoi il est incontournable.

www.nouvelobs.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

Republican Shutdown: Day 6

Via @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

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Carter Sherman @cartersherman.bsky.social · 13d

I'm watching a hearing for South Carolina SB 323, a total abortion ban. Two crying women have begged lawmakers not to pass the bill and talked about struggling to end wanted pregnancies in SC (which bans abortion past 6 weeks). Two men talked about why God requires that abortion be treated as murder

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 8d

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it.

Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion

Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

www.qasimrashid.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · 7d

"Some officers pointed handguns equipped with tactical lights at the building; others held long rifles and wore helmets equipped with cameras and lights. Helicopters hovered in the sky, and agents on the ground threw flashbang grenades.." - Fine reporting on horrific acts of inhumanity.

South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: In the weeks leading up to a massive ICE raid at a South Shore apartment building, neighbors saw drones surveilling the area, and teachers at a nearby school regularly saw agents in the neighborhood.

✍️ Jose Abonce for the Weekly and Maira Khwaja for @invisible.institute

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · 7d

Two years

Image of a Jewish yahrzeit (memorial) candle.

Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · 11d

Only in Prague: Ukrainian Heroes Street, Boris Nemtsov Square, Anna Politkovskaya Promenade, Aleksei Navalny Lookout, Skakun Bridge (united24media.com/latest-news/...) ❤️🇨🇿

www.rferl.org/a/czechia-ru...

How Czechs Trolled The Russian Embassy, Then Things Escalated

Since 2020, Czechia has renamed streets and landmarks around the Russian embassy in Prague after adversaries of the Kremlin. Then, in late September 2025 the Czech embassy in Moscow was vandalized, and Czechia banned entry for unaccredited Russian diplomats.

www.rferl.org

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 16d

2/ More details from the Chicago reporter attacked by ICE:
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

In a report filed with Broadview police, Rezaei said she was driving her truck with her driver's side window down, while approaching the 25th Avenue entrance to see if any activity was taking place, before leaving the area.

That's when she said a masked ICE agent, who saw her window down, shot a pepper ball about 50 feet from the inside of the fence, hitting her truck's driver's side panel, causing the chemical agents to engulf the inside of her truck.

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Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · 14d

Some of your favorite big-name comics are performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. David Cross is not. Here's why: officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...

My Thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival

I’ve been asked for my opinion on the Riyadh Comedy Festival and rather than answer the same question 23 times, I’ll just put this out here. Oh, and I should preface this with the fact that I was not ...

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 15d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15d

The problem with billionaires is not that they’re masters of society steering all events around them, but they’re just as gullible, stupid, misinformed, and hapless as any dummy off the street but they have massive resources to waste on pointless and destructive misadventures

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Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · 15d

"But there is a difference between inciting violence and simply describing reality. To say that someone’s conduct or philosophy bears the hallmarks of fascism is not violence; it is vigilance." - Adam Kinzinger
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/naming-fas...

Naming Fascism Is Not Violence

How a new right-wing tactic tries to silence critics—and why Americans must keep speaking plainly.

adamkinzinger.substack.com

Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · 15d

"These algorithms that have captured our..very souls. They've..captured our free agency. These dopamine hits that get our young people and our old people addicted to outrage and hate that serve us up on a regular basis are absolutely leading us down a, a very dark path." - Utah Gov. Spencer Cox

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 15d

Algorithms are "destroying us" — learning our political leanings and then attacking like a "pack of wolves," ⁦‪Utah Gov. Spencer Cox‬⁩ says.

"We have this collective problem... that we can't solve because we're all sucked in, and we don't know how to get out." www.cbsnews.com/news/charlie...

After Charlie Kirk's killing, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says we must "stop hating our fellow Americans"

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah, that state's governor, Spencer Cox, called for an end to political violence and urged healthier political discourse.

www.cbsnews.com

Lyn Davidson at Salvage Media @salvagemediasf.bsky.social · 15d

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs." - NYT. "Some"????

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 15d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were