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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 19h

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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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 2h

Tesla's Full-Self Driving software is now under federal investigation, including its behavior at train crossings, after an NBC News investigation.

In September, NBC News found that Tesla owners repeatedly complained about Teslas failing to detect oncoming trains.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents

NBC News reported last month that Tesla vehicles using Full Self-Driving software sometimes fail to stop for train tracks.

www.nbcnews.com

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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 7h

wrote about BOOTS, a show that i kinda liked—and which makes a much more coherent case about masculinity than pete hegseth did last week slate.com/culture/2025...

Pete Hegseth Would Hate Netflix’s New Show. That’s Why I Loved It.

The newly minted “secretary of war” wants to take the military back to 1990. Boots has a different vision of what that looked like.

slate.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 3h

My career is listening to people who flee places that get increasingly unsafe. A few months of "wait & see" can make a world of difference for safety & prospects. I've lived under authoritarianism myself.

Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped.

This is not okay.

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 3h

Don't miss the Hatch Act violations in the banner above the EDVA's website, either.

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Democrats have shut down the government. Department of Justice websites are not currently regularly updated. Please refer to the Department of Justice’s contingency plan for more information.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 3h

Business Insider wrote up a story on how some of their past investigative work led to a new California law. The story is strangely unbylined.

The reason perhaps? The publication recently laid off the reporter behind that investigation, Matt Drange.

www.businessinsider.com/california-e...

California enacts law to prevent sexual abuse in K-12 schools following Business Insider investigation

The new legislation comes after a 2023 Business Insider investigation into sexual misconduct at a California high school.

www.businessinsider.com

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Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 3h

"While automakers including Hyundai and Stellantis have offered cash off incentives to bridge the gap for buyers, Ford and GM took a different approach" www.reuters.com/business/aut...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

The prosecutor put in office after the president who wants vengeance against his enemies told his AG that a WH lawyer was the person for the job — despite no prosecution experience — successfully sought an indictment against one of the named enemies, the second such indictment.

And you push this?

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Federal grand jury in Virginia charges Letitia James, the New York attorney general who investigated Trump's business practices, with bank fraud

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Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 3h

having the kind of day when I've set my coffee mug down in at least six places, immediately forget where I've left it and, no, I don't think I've had a full cup of coffee yet and, yes, I've been 53 and forgetful for most of my life

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Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 3h

There are so many economic variables, too, that threaten all retail sales now that are independent of EVs. The U.S. furloughing many government workers in Q4 (maybe firing?), for example, is one curveball. Whatever "normal" is might be more quarters away

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 4h

BREAKING via @mattdpearce.com: An overwhelming majority of Los Angeles Times journalists (over 85%) have voted to authorize their union’s leaders to call a strike if such a step is necessary to reach a new contract.

www.mediaguildwest.org/news/la-time...

L.A. Times journalists vote to authorize newsroom’s first open-ended strike — Media Guild of the West

Eighty-five percent of the Los Angeles Times Guild, the union that represents reporters, editors, designers, photographers and other journalists at the West Coast’s largest newspaper, voted this week ...

www.mediaguildwest.org

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9h

lede = introductory section in journalism

bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information

Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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John Voelcker @johnvoelcker.bsky.social · 5h

An important article restates the obvious: #EV demand will not simply vanish because the federal incentives have ended. Longtime EV reporter Alysha Webb talked to Urban Science about this.

At the risk of #humblebrag, I've said this for months. Lots of headlines will get it wrong; brace yourselves.

EV demand isn’t falling off a cliff: Urban Science

Despite the end of a key tax credit, five other factors are still supporting demand for battery electric vehicles sales, per the consultancy.

www.wardsauto.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 5h

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 5h

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Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 5h

Model years are dealer lobby ploys to sell something "new" when the "new" is a price change. Don't think they're really done outside US and Canada but we now use them for recalls, safety legislation, registration...

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 7h

I don't understand why the press has not been preparing the public for this for the last six months. You can see it coming from five miles out.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11h

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 7h

been sayin for a while now that e-bikes should be counted as a key part of the "EV sector." media's car/truck bias + ignorance of the global two-wheeler boom + failure to consider the growth of other electrified transportation modes are all so grating! slate.com/technology/2...

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 7h

hopefully pivoting towards e-bikes and actually making a dent on climate emissions

Dan Gearino @dangearino.bsky.social · 8h

New from me: What's next for the US electric vehicle industry?

insideclimatenews.org/news/0910202...

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Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 7h

It can be called a MY2027 as long as it goes on sale no sooner than Jan. 1, 2026. The 2003 Cadillac CTS went on sale Jan. 2, 2002, if memory serves

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