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Spotify rolls out new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada to generate scripts and voiceovers, and pitches itself to advertisers as "nutritional" (Jessica Testa/New York Times)

Mediagazer , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 2:55:00 AM

The Weekly Breif: 04.03.25

The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 2:38:56 AM

Game On: Using Gamification in Your Writing Lessons

TCEA TechNotes Blog , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 2:26:00 AM

A Lawyer Who Helped the Kushners Crack Down on Poor Tenants Now Helps Renters Fight Big Landlords

ProPublica , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 2:00:00 AM

How Spotlight PA and Resolve Philly reported ‘For the Child’

Spotlight PA , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 2:00:00 AM

Foster care agencies in Pa. took millions owed to kids in their care, often keeping them in the dark

Spotlight PA , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 2:00:00 AM

Our Freedom is Fragile: Lessons From the Jewish Children Who Fled Nazi Germany

Literary Hub , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 1:59:25 AM

The Forest For the Trees: How “Backyard Biology” Can Lead to Scientific Breakthroughs

Literary Hub , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 1:58:57 AM

More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

Literary Hub , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 1:58:14 AM

Republicans in Congress Are Going After a Free and Independent Media

Literary Hub , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 1:58:02 AM

“Because You Wished For It,” a Poem by Ahmad Almallah

Literary Hub , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 1:57:58 AM

A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate and health funding

Grist , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 1:45:00 AM

What makes middle school even worse? Climate anxiety.

Grist , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 1:15:00 AM

Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

Literary Hub , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 1:01:58 AM

Getting Through Hard Times

https://hildabastian.wordpress.com/, Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 12:59:56 AM

Photo cross-post

Very cool, if true , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 12:54:07 AM

A look at CBS' bet on its massive overhaul of the Evening News, with greater emphasis on in-depth reporting on the ground from places beyond NYC, DC, and LA (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

Mediagazer , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 12:50:01 AM

A fascist, yes, but not simply, only, or irreducibly one

MetaFilter , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 12:48:55 AM

XScreenSaver ffmpeg version skew

jwz , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 12:09:15 AM

Yours truly on the Trump tariffs at The Free Press

Marginal REVOLUTION , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 12:08:45 AM

TV Review: A.A.R.O.

nerds of a feather, flock together , Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 12:00:00 AM

Wikimedia says bandwidth usage for multimedia content grew 50% since January 2024, driven by AI training bots; 65% of resource-consuming traffic comes from bots (Wikimedia)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 11:15:01 PM

SL4, Stopping Lots

diamond geezer , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 11:00:00 PM

OTR Links 04/03/2025

doug — off the record , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 10:31:00 PM

AO3, data, and changes in fandom

MetaFilter , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 9:30:23 PM

My Conversation with the excellent Sheilagh Ogilvie

Marginal REVOLUTION , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 9:26:08 PM

Locas Heroes

MetaFilter , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 9:24:32 PM

marketing team refuses to do our projects, second thoughts about a new job, and more

Ask a Manager , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 9:03:00 PM

Tyler Cowan on “Liberation Day”: This is perhaps the worst economic...

Brad Barrish , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 9:00:11 PM

More notes on Organizing, Mutual Aid, and Activism on decentralized social networks

The Nexus Of Privacy , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 8:58:51 PM

FT: TikTok’s U.S. Business To Be Spun Off With ByteDance Retaining Nearly 20% Ownership

Pixel Envy , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 8:30:42 PM

The VCR’s Last Stand

Tedium , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 8:11:00 PM

Take-Two DMCAs Video Of GTA5 Mod To For GTA6 Map Content

Techdirt , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 8:00:38 PM

Looking to improve your public speaking skills…? This workshop — and a potential scholarship — are for you

Portland startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 7:56:44 PM

Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders

Simon Willison's Weblog , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 7:44:18 PM

Skylight Social won’t make a dent in TikTok and maybe that’s not the...

Brad Barrish , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 7:36:48 PM

Trump’s TikTok Takeover

Status , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 7:29:17 PM

Bengaluru-based Pratilipi, which runs Pratilipi Comics, podcasting studio IVM, and more, raised a $20M Series E at a $100M valuation, down from $265M in 2021 (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 7:15:00 PM

Scoreboard Pressure

MetaFilter , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 7:07:17 PM

Quoting Nolan Lawson

Simon Willison's Weblog , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 6:56:34 PM

Quick Kick75 Thoughts

Superdavey , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 6:50:37 PM

The First Footage From Wicked: For Good Just Screened—Here’s What Happened

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 6:19:09 PM

SIFT Toolkit Example: Fasting and Immunity

The End(s) of Argument , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 5:52:38 PM

A look at the ascent of true crime podcaster John Allen, known as MrBallen, and the success of Ballen Studios, which employs 70 people and produces seven shows (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 5:45:01 PM

April Fools’ Day prank on Dark Force BBS

https://breakintochat.com/blog/, Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 5:37:02 PM

The Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Trailer Promises More Animatronic Mayhem

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 5:32:53 PM

European Commission Takes Aim at End-to-End Encryption Again

Pixel Envy , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 5:04:22 PM

A How to Train Your Dragon Live-Action Sequel Is Already on the Way

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 4:34:59 PM

Google products are shit for meaningful collaboration

A Whole Lotta Nothing , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 4:19:17 PM

Day 1534: "Trump has chosen to blow up the system."

What The Fuck Just Happened Today?, Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 4:14:00 PM

Otherwise Objectionable: When Congress Ridiculously Tried Merging Censorship With Freedom

Techdirt , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 3:59:18 PM

Doctor Who‘s Eurovision Episode May Not Make It to UK TV… Because of Eurovision

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 3:45:41 PM

Supreme Court hears dispute over South Carolina’s bid to defund Planned Parenthood

SCOTUSblog , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 3:41:47 PM

What Will Elon Musk Learn From the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election?

NYT > Kate Conger , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 3:19:13 PM

Wisconsin Win, Floriduh, Cory Booker & Lisa Graves on the Nicole Sandler Show 4-2-25

The Nicole Sandler Show , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 3:15:23 PM

New Line Cinema’s Planning More Horror Sequels, but Hasn’t Given Up on Originals

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 3:15:14 PM

Divided court approves civil RICO liability for injuries from CBD product

SCOTUSblog , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 3:00:03 PM

20 events in SF this week, from a clown parade to a ‘sit club’ for people who hate to run

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 3:00:00 PM

My web, my writing

The Zuiker Chronicles , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 2:34:20 PM

Genetic data site openSNP to close and delete data over privacy concerns

BleepingComputer , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 2:09:06 PM

Suspended SF official claims she was silenced for reporting sexual assault in foster care

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 2:08:24 PM

How Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs could kill American innovation

Grist , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 2:05:33 PM

How I Met Your Algorithm

Today in Digital Marketing , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 2:00:00 PM

Introducing updates to sources for NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus

Google Workspace Updates , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:59:28 PM

Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame

Locus Online , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:49:27 PM

Trump’s Buddies At Andreesen Horowitz Want To Help Buy TikTok, Turn It Into A Right Wing Safe Space

Techdirt , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:48:06 PM

Users complain that three well-known sites that help avoid paywalls, including archive.is, redirected them to Russia's RT for at least five days as of Tuesday (Brendan Ruberry/Semafor)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:45:00 PM

M. Gessen: Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has...

kottke.org , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:43:02 PM

Barrel Aged

Braintube , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:38:21 PM

Trump-Tied Lobbying Firms Rake in Hundreds of New Clients

Sludge , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:24:52 PM

Movements

Doc Searls Weblog , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:24:29 PM

My first baseball scorecard in ages, but also my first typed scorecard wi...

Chris Aldrich , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:20:17 PM

View From A Hotel Window, 4/2/25: Chicago

Whatever , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:14:38 PM

A Minecraft Movie

Movie Mom , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:11:20 PM

Three AI x Journalism Summit Sessions I Don’t Want to Miss

Hacks/Hackers , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:10:19 PM

Pre-configure the Google Workspace apps admin setting for the Gemini app ahead of general availability

Google Workspace Updates , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:08:13 PM

Une de mes scènes de Friends préférées 😅 #LeftPhalange

rMdes - a place to write and think freely , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:04:29 PM

Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu Lift the Lid on Doctor Who‘s New Team

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 1:00:27 PM

Tunes on Tuesday: You Must Believe In Spring

Oren Levine, jazz pianist and songwriter , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 12:49:59 PM

Verizon Call Filter API flaw exposed customers' incoming call history

BleepingComputer , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 12:47:54 PM

Reproductive health clinics are losing federal funding — and conservative states will be hit hardest

The 19th , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 12:45:25 PM

Start Spreading the Cheese

MetaFilter , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 12:40:44 PM

Coinbase customer loses $35 million in bitcoin theft

Web3 is Going Just Great , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 12:37:49 PM

Brookline Travel Issues

Whatever , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 12:32:41 PM

What Cory Booker spoke about for 25 hours: the programs holding America together

The 19th , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 12:31:02 PM

The First Reactions to the Live-Action How to Train Your Dragon Are Here

io9 | We Come From the Future , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 12:30:43 PM

Nature poll of 1600 US scientists: 75% are considering leaving the country,...

kottke.org , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 12:30:12 PM

Source: President Trump plans to announce TikTok America, a company that is ~50% owned by US investors and 19.9% by ByteDance, which would license the algorithm (Kaya Yurieff/The Information)

Mediagazer , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 12:21:09 PM

Prolific shoplifter used son, 12, to steal from Saks, Walgreens, DA says

The San Francisco Standard , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 12:15:00 PM

230 Protects Users, Not Big Tech

Techdirt , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 12:11:07 PM

Legal News for Weds 4/2 - Willkie Farr Folds, Adams Case Dismissed, SCOTUS and Planned Parenthood, Mass Federal Firings Blocked and Trump Tariff Stupidity Incoming at 4pm

Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 12:01:25 PM

zkLend thief gets robbed

Web3 is Going Just Great , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 11:48:45 AM

I get back up again

ruk.ca - Peter Rukavina's Weblog , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 11:47:22 AM

Justices let FDA denial of vape flavorings stand

SCOTUSblog , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 11:46:26 AM

Dance Up Close ‘25 springs to life with Jumper Cables

'The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate,' catching up with Jaleel Shaw, and more for prime holiday times , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 11:44:00 AM

How to leak to a journalist

Nieman Lab , Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 11:38:34 AM