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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks to the great work/edits of the @planetmoney.bsky.social production team.

Carys Craig @caryscraig.bsky.social · Aug 30

This is a fun episode on AI art and copyright law npr.org - nicely done by @ecjacobs.bsky.social! I was pleased to be included alongside @davidfewer.bsky.social.

Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 25

Truly a delight to work with @wailinwong.bsky.social and @juliaritchey.bsky.social on this episode of @npr.org The Indicator. www.npr.org/2025/08/25/n...

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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 25

Truly a delight to work with @wailinwong.bsky.social and @juliaritchey.bsky.social on this episode of @npr.org The Indicator. www.npr.org/2025/08/25/n...

Can you copyright artwork made using AI? : The Indicator from Planet Money

Copyright is the legal system used to reward and protect creations made by humans. But with growing adoption of artificial intelligence, does copyright extend to artwork that’s made using AI? Today on...

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · Jul 29

So the greatest growth of water intensive Data Centers for AI slop is in the arid West that’s experiencing a record drought. Yep, makes perfect sense. (Data courtesy @highcountrynews.org)

A graph showing that most new data center growth is in Las Vegas and Phoenix and SLC

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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 29

Oof. Not good. Sorry.

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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 29

What an incredible project and love letter to radio. radio.garden/balloon-ride

Take a Balloon Ride on Radio Garden

Listen, look and guess where you are!

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 18

Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.

Flimmaker Ken Burns: Public broadcasting is a 'purely American expression'

Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.

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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 18

What a Quebec-style controversy in Belgium. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/w...

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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Jun 2

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew in the @theglobeandmail.com on wildfire-related evacuations in the province:

Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · May 2

This order is going to *most directly* impact your local public radio member-stations.

Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · May 2

It’s not just NPR and PBS, they’re coming to fuck with your local public radio.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The WHITE HOUSE
(b) The CPB Board shall cease indirect funding to
NPR and PBS, including by ensuring that licensees and permittees of public radio and television stations, as well as any other recipients of CP funds, do not use Federal funds for NPR and PBS. To effectuate this directive, the CPB Board shall, before June 30, 2025, revise the 2025 Television Community Service Grants General Provisions and Eligibility Criteria and the
2025 Radio Community Service Grants General
Provisions and Eligibility Criteria to prohibit direct or indirect funding of NPR and PBS. To the extent permitted by the 2024 Television community Service Grants General Provisions and Eligibility Criteria, the
2024 Radio Community Service Grants General
Provisions and Eligibility Criteria, and applicable law, the CPB Board shall also prohibit parties subject to these provisions from funding NPR or PBS after the date of this order. In addition, the CPB Board shall take all other necessary steps to minimize or eliminate its indirect funding of NPR and PBS.

Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Mar 24

I am begging the #HardFork podcast team to go read any of their own paper's reporting on environmental impacts of AI before they go uncritically repeating "good ideas" like waiving environmental regulations to power AI data centers.

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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Mar 24

We did!

Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Mar 2

If Flow does not win best animated film tonight, something has gone terribly wrong.

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · Feb 16

the change in the canadian electoral landscape since the us inauguration is really something to see

338Canada Seat Projection chart showing a precipitous drop in support for the federal conservatives and a sharp rise in support for the liberals since the us inauguration

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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Feb 16

Meanwhile, someone has x-country skied to my local coffee shop.

Noovo Info @noovo.info · Feb 16

«On demande aux gens de rester à la maison.»
www.noovo.info/nouvelle/tem...

Tempête de neige: Montréal invite ses citoyens à rester à la maison

Éviter les déplacements non essentiels: c'est ce qu'a demandé la Ville de Montréal à ses citoyens dimanche après-midi dans un point de presse visant à faire le point sur la tempête de neige qui touche...

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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Feb 9

Anecdotal signs that despite the trade war “delay”, some Canadians are still making changes, including boycotting the Superbowl.

Noovo Info @noovo.info · Feb 9

Des bagels montréalais inspirés par les drapeaux aux boycottages du Super Bowl, un évènement prisé du football américain, voici quelques-unes des façons dont les Canadiens expriment leur mécontentement du président Trump.
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Vague de patriotisme et gestes originaux face aux menaces du président Trump

Les menaces du président américain Donald Trump d’imposer des tarifs douaniers aux produits canadiens, en plus de ses réflexions répétées de la possibilité de faire du pays le 51e État américain, ont ...

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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Feb 9

Wait for it….

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · Feb 7

Even as the Los Angeles fires and a rapidly melting Arctic all but scream that climate breakdown is worsening, some of the most accomplished journalists on the climate beat have had their jobs threatened or eliminated.

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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Feb 5

Beat reporting works.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Feb 4

Musk Watch launched two weeks ago. Today our reporting was cited in a motion for a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration, seeking to shut down the servers Musk's associates are using to email federal workers and access sensitive government databases

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16. This statement is supported by recent reporting:
A new server being used to control these [OPM] databases has been placed in a
conference room that Musk’s team is using as their command center, according to
an OPM staffer. The staffer described the server as a piece of commercial hardware
they believed was not obtained through the proper federal procurement process.
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Caleb Ecarma & Judd Legum, Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of
government employees Musk Watch (Feb. 3, 2025), at https://www.muskwatch.com/p/muskassociates-given-unfettered (last accessed Feb. 3, 2025).

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Feb 4

“So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once."

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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Feb 3

And we get to do this all again in another month.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Feb 3

So Trump hurt America's relationship with Canada and made markets wobble all to "get" Canada to do things Canada had announced back in December in coordination with the Biden administration, do I have that right?

Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Feb 3

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Feb 2

This. And a thing YOU can do is to support media you care about.

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · Feb 2

There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Feb 2

Transport is the biggest source of US emissions. The US transportation secretary has ordered the removal of the words "climate change" and "greenhouse gas emissions" from all departmental material.

Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · Feb 1

Trump's Transportation Secretary calls for the purge of “all orders, directives, rules, regulations, notices, guidance documents, funding agreements, programs and policy statements” that relate “in any way to climate change, and ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions."
insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...

‘Breathtakingly Ignorant and Dangerous’: Trump’s DOT Orders Sweeping Purge of Climate, Gender, Race, Environmental Justice Initiatives - Inside Climate News

Under the Biden administration, the department had considered the current and future impacts of climate change in almost everything it did, calculating how increased heat, flooding and drought affecte...

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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Feb 2

By contrast, 4 years ago, the fact that Trudeau was Biden's first call to a foreign leader as President got covered as a sign of the return to a more normal US-Canada relationship.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

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Emma Jacobs @ecjacobs.bsky.social · Feb 2

Had exactly the same reaction to that.

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