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Out of Context Podcast Quotes @podcastquotebot.bsky.social · 12d

"His car is blaring Hilary Duff." - KELSEY MCKINNEY, Sexy Mushrooms with Avery Trufelman, Normal Gossip #NormalGossip #HilaryDuff #HappyBirthdayHilaryDuff #KelseyMckinney

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19d

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23d

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23d

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Eric McDaniel @ericm.cd · 20d

"NPR is taking this very seriously.

We'll be working with other news organizations to push back.

We're big fans of the 1st Amendment and transparency and we want the American public to understand what's being done in their name."

Defense Secretary Hegseth requires new 'pledge' for reporters at the Pentagon

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

www.npr.org

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 22d

Data showing the specific movement of tens of thousands of smartphones in Ireland is available to purchase from companies working in the digital marketing and advertising industries, an undercover Prime Time investigation has found.

www.rte.ie/news/primeti... #spéirghorm

Security concern as tens of thousands of phone locations for sale

Data showing the specific movement of tens of thousands of smartphones in Ireland is available to purchase within the digital marketing and advertising industries, an undercover Prime Time investigati...

www.rte.ie

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 22d

We cooperated with RTE PrimeTime over the last year on this very significant story about RTB data exposing the movements of Irish people, including military and political personnel.

Link to this morning's preview piece is here --> www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 29d

When you find out about Libro.fm, an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible that’s 100% employee owned, a Certified B Corporation, and shares profits with 4,000+ independent bookshops 😍

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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 23d

Excited to announce that Season 2 of Altered States begins next week!

This season we're examining the spiritual side of psychedelics, and how that side has been interacting with the more science-oriented side of psychedelics. In other words: This is gonna be good.

open.spotify.com/episode/1Lq1...

Coming Soon: Altered States Season 2

open.spotify.com

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23d

There are simple, effective techniques you can take in your every day life, right now, to protect yourself from the nearly-universal surveillance that so many of us live under. Here's a set of resources from @eff.org that you can start with. ssd.eff.org

Surveillance Self-Defense

We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member-supported non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty-five years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting ...

ssd.eff.org

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23d

More broadly, listening to communities with experience enduring widespread surveillance is always a best practice; there is nearly always a deep historical reason for folk knowledge that is passed down. It is also almost always useful to complicate one's digital footprint when risk is present.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23d

"They already have all your data anyway" is never a useful reason to not try to reduce data exposure, nor is "other platforms do worse". It also matters if data are being gathered for, say, participating in a neutral/generic platform vs. for a specific event or purpose targeted by authorities.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23d

People are talking past each other in a really ugly way about data sharing, and as someone who has both written terms of service for large-scale digital platforms, and built infrastructure for gathering data for campaigns, it's important to understand the context of threats people are speaking to…

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 26d

Nearly all – 99% – of coffee consumed in the United States is imported, according to the National Coffee Association. Trump’s tariffs have caused a 21% spike in coffee.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/f...

Coffee prices haven’t surged this much in decades | CNN Business

Coffee drinkers are in for a jolt long before their first sip.

www.cnn.com

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Out of Context Podcast Quotes @podcastquotebot.bsky.social · 29d

"Y'all, librarians are the best!" - HANS BUETOW, Rescuing Public Datasets the U.S. Gov't Deletes, Never Post #NeverPost #LibrariesRememberDay #HansBuetow

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The World @theworld.org · Sep 10

The World’s Marco Werman speaks with Edgardo Ochoa, a dive specialist and director of the dive program at Conservation International, about the removal of the largest individual piece of “ghost gear” ever from the ocean.

Divers remove 'ghost gear' the length of a soccer pitch from marine-protected area in Mexico - The World from PRX

The World's Marco Werman speaks with Edgardo Ochoa, a dive specialist and director of the dive program at Conservation International, about the removal of the largest individual piece of "ghost gear" ...

theworld.org

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · Sep 10

The newsroom is working on something great 👀👂

Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · Sep 10

Good morning friends, I've got some ✨ news ✨ www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

Jessica Lussenhop to Host Forthcoming ProPublica Weekly Podcast

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

www.propublica.org

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · Sep 5

We're looking for a journalist with development chops (or a developer with journalism chops) to join our news apps team and build new web-based interactive stories, databases, and experiences. It's a remote role; candidates must be eligible to work in the US. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

News Applications Developer

Remote, United States

job-boards.greenhouse.io

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Aug 29

Pretty sure an "involuntary resignation" means fired.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 29

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago.

Here is the text of his email shared with me:

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · Aug 29

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MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law

By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

publichealthpolicyjournal.com

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · Aug 21

I curate the history series at public media's journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR & PBS, educational, community, and affiliate stations. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate! current.org/series/rewind/

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · Aug 21

Everyone is building the same tools and inventing the same processes over and over and over.

Open source, open protocols, open processes can save us from so many headaches.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Aug 18

Attention chumps: If you, despite all our dire warnings, decided to put your newsletter on Substack, the untrustworthy asses who run the company just did what we all knew they would, and made it impossible to take your subscribers with you if you want to leave. support.substack.com/hc/en-us/art...

Can my subscribers pay on the Substack iOS app?

Substack now includes external links in the iOS app that take readers to the web to complete their purchase. Subscriptions made this way are treated like standard web purchases—creators receive the...

support.substack.com

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Andrew Kuklewicz @andrew.kuklewicz.com · Aug 20

Yes, and IPAWS includes wireless emergency alerts already in use, which are better than regular SMS messages for emergency alerts - while they are very helpful, those still rely on a functional cell network, while EAS broadcasting is more resilient.

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Rebuild Local News @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social · Aug 20

After the demise of CPB, Rebuild Local News Founder @stevenwaldman.bsky.social says the industry has an opportunity to build more creative models for public support.

Read more at @columjournreview.bsky.social: www.cjr.org/analysis/wha...

What Will the Next Era of Public Media Look Like?

After the demise of CPB, the industry has an opportunity to build more creative models for public support.

www.cjr.org

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