A reminder: 'The scale of local news destruction in Gannett’s markets is astonishing. It might not be as mustache-twirling a villain as Alden Global Capital, but its enormous scale has meant enormous losses for local journalism.'

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Journalism company not sold on this 'journalism' thing

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Christina McGuirk couldn't stay quiet after a school official told her and other teachers to offer 'opposing' perspectives on the Holocaust.

Speaking out about it derailed her career.

A new excerpt from 'They Came for the Schools.'
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When I was a summer intern at The Baltimore Sun, I sat next to an older man named Brownie, who each day brought a slice of pizza to his desk, doused it in garlic power, cut it into small pieces with a knife and then REMOVED HIS DENTURES before eating it.

Alternate theory: The internet is an engine for the creation of mistrust, favoring high-valence criticisms (whether true or false) over more boring institution-supportive info and offering infinite fuel for motivated reasoning

A under-appreciated part of why rich school neighborhoods/districts have more and do more (besides pure cash) is that schools in the US are set up to only function well with lots of well organized unpaid stay at home mom labor.

Welcome to our phenomenal Knight-Wallace Fellows for the 2024-25 academic year. I look forward to their journey and all that they will contemplate, conceive and create - individually and together.
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New playlist by popular demand: THE STEVE ALBINI SOUND, selections from his enormous body of work as an engineer that highlight his distinct aesthetic
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6QWwc…
Apple (more complete): music.apple.com/us/playlist/th…
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Wait, what

As of this week, only about half of cases that have been in the database previously are accessible.

If you look up an officer who was disciplined, like this officer who had an affair with a witness to a crime he was investigating, this is what the database tells you:

The NYPD has a public system that lets you look up an officer’s disciplinary history.

There’s something seriously wrong with it. Cases keep disappearing and reappearing at random.

Utah Mammoth, clearly

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Trustees overseeing the third largest school district in Texas — where I lived until a few years ago — have voted to remove textbook chapters that reference climate change, vaccines, diversity and human growth. khou.com/article/news/e…

I repeat: Least likable team in the NBA

Donald Trump is the first American presidential candidate to explicitly threaten the democratic system on which a free press depends. That ought to be the campaign issue that dwarfs all the rest

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This was probably the real goal of the bill:

SB 423 “would exempt Gov… office from releasing virtually all communications, plus info that could jeopardize [his] safety…would blanket the governor’s office in a level of secrecy not seen since Jindal.”

Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot Roger Fortson, a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone huffpost.com/entry/police-s…

What's ingenious is that this company was double-dipping: Charge media publishers to put AI-written affiliate link review slop modules on their sites, and ALSO charge Amazon sellers they link to. futurism.com/advon-ai-conte…