The late Jane Goodall is the first person featured in a new Netflix series, "Famous Last Words," which shares posthumous messages from notable figures. @euronews reports that the episode was recorded in March. In it, Goodall, who died last week, shares her thoughts on the people she disliked — […]

Thirty Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned over the next few months, with proceeds going to small and rural public stations across the United States that have had their funding cut off. Congress has eliminated $1.1 billion allocated to public broadcasting, leading to many stations making […]

Hello fediverse,

The AltStore is federating! It’s time to give developers and users an open platform to directly connect with each other while drastically improving app discovery. I believe so much in this mission that I joined their board to help.

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After 29 years of being associated with NBC News, MSNBC is becoming independent, starting with breaking its relationships with correspondents and crews, and ending with a name change to MS NOW. Poynter Institute reports on the official 10 principles of reporting that were circulated to newsrooms […]

Is it true that there are 99 Irish words for rain? Author and broadcaster Manchán Magan, who died last week at age 55, wasn't sure, so he wrote a book about it, "Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun)." Here's an excerpt, which was published in the Irish Times. "The word for a sudden […]

As #fediforum starts tomorrow, this is a good time to note the updated @surf is live here: https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jvprse7ptd6b9gccy3m9g547 #surffeeds

Earlier this week, agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security surrounded and raided an apartment building in Chicago, pulling men, women and children from their beds in the middle of the night. They then posted a "highlight reel" on social media. For his Doomsday Scenario newsletter […]

@johannab @ben @quillmatiq @j12t Oh boo! We will take you out of our post, just for accuracy's sake! Unconference is like a box of chocolates...

"The days of us being able to walk on to social media], tweet something, walk away, and get people to come to our website are over…" [<a href="https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@404mediaco's Jason Koebler told Nieman Lab's Hanaa' Tameez at the iMEdD International Journalism Forum last week. "We said, if we don’t aggressively move people […]

FediForum is coming up. It's an unconference, so the agenda is set by the attendees, but we do know that it will be unmissable, featuring a keynote from @ben and sessions from people like @quillmatiq, @j12t, @johannab and more. Here's the schedule, plus some of what's on the cards […]

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U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to transfer ownership of TikTok's U.S. operation to American investors including Larry Ellison, Michael Dell and Rupert Murdoch. Details of the deal are still unknown. Here's more on the story from @WIRED. Asked by a reporter on Thursday […]

Huntington's disease, a fatal genetic condition, has been successfully treated for the first time. @BBCNews reports on a type of gene therapy developed at University College London that slows the disease by 75% in patients. It offers the first signs of hope for sufferers of this brutal and […]

The investigative newsroom I work for, @ProPublica, is raising money right now. This is the last few days of our pledge drive.

We report on abuses of power in the public interest. We reported on who works for DOGE and revealed Clarence Thomas’s conflicts of interest.

It was the first outlet to […]

For the past 120 years, the U.S. National Audubon Society has worked on bird conservation and for the past 16, it's run a contest to find the most stunning imagery of our feathered friends. @[email protected] shares some of the winning photos, from a royal tern feeding its chick a fish to a […]

Charlie Kirk's assassination didn't occur in a vacuum. It's just the latest in a long line of political murders and attacks that have targeted Americans of all political persuasions. Why is political violence rising and can anything be done to curtail it?

Our @ElectionCentral compiled a […]

I've been a founder pretty much my entire adult life and my definition of "founder mode" is more of a "founder loop" which is quite simple:

Try best to craft product for customers/users; Meet and talk with them to gather feedback; Debrief with team to strategize and sequence changes; Repeat for […]

With less than a week to go, let's see which platforms are responding to the Annual Fediverse Survey

To help make the graph readable, Mastodon, with 59 entries, is not included in the visual. Any platforms with only one response have been excluded (13 […]

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Alternative newsweeklies published articles that the mainstream media didn't — from local gossip to political corruption. But by the early aughts, many had disappeared. Coyote, a new indie site for the Bay Area, seeks to capture the same spirit. Co-founder Emma Silvers writes about what that […]

America's newsrooms are in retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion, Hanaa' Tameez writes for Nieman Lab. She reports on how news organizations have "moved on" from race reporting projects, shuttered diversity- and identity-related products, and reduced their presences at events like the […]

Recently there has been a lot of discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol which has been quite dividing and heated.

Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting (the group that maintains the ActivityPub and related specifications), I proposed releasing a statement that counters the narrative that […]

Lachlan Murdoch has won the succession battle to control his father Rupert's media empire. Anointed by Rupert, he faced opposition from his siblings, Prudence, Elisabeth and James, but on Monday, they agreed to take $1.1 billion each for their shares in the family's businesses. @npr takes a look […]

@iftas is conducting its annual needs assessment survey, inviting Fediverse moderators, administrators, and community managers to provide input on how IFTAS can help them.

In the past, this has led to the development of critical tools for CSAM detection and reporting, regulatory compliance […]

Apple just held its big iPhone 17 event. Here's @TechRadar's @Flipboard Storyboard about everything they launched, including how the new phones compare to Google and Samsung products, what to know about the AirPods Pro 3, and whether it's worth upgrading your Apple Watch […]

A new month, a new set of elections in the U.S. @bolts's @taniel breaks it down, from the election to replace the late Rep. Gerry Connolly in northern Virginia on Sept. 9 to a Georgia state Senate seat in an area that went for Trump by more than 30 percentage points last year […]