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AI-generated slop is all over Facebook, and it looks like that will be continuing. In a quarterly earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said he is excited for the “opportunity for AI to help people create content that just makes people’s feed experiences better.” What might that look like? “I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated or AI summarized content or kind of existing content pulled together by AI in some way,” he explained. @404mediaco has more.

https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-the-ai-slop-will-continue-until-morale-improves/

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Yes, Texas’s abortion laws are killing women. @ProPublica reports on another case — 18-year-old Neveah Crain, who was diagnosed with sepsis but sent home because her six-month fetus had a heartbeat, and on a subsequent visit, had delayed care because the obstetrician insisted on two ultrasounds to “confirm fetal demise.” She died hours later. She and her mother, Candace Fails are both devout anti-abortion Christians, but supported it in the event of life-threatening illness. “I know it sounds selfish, and God knows I would rather have both of them, but if I had to choose,” Fails said, “I would have chosen my daughter.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala

#Texas #RoeVWade #Abortion #Healthcare #WomensRights #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

This time next week, the U.S. will have voted. Anyone else feel sick?! This is our regular #NewstodonFriday thread, which highlights the newsrooms and reporters who have an active presence in the fediverse. Inevitably, we have political stories and politics-adjacent stories, along with some lighter fare, and some that straddle the two (@TexasObserver’s story on a new Greg Abbott musical fits perfectly into that category). Please check out the stories, follow the publications, click on the stories, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can. See you on the other side.

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#Media #Journalism #News #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday

Eritrean journalist Akberet Beyene was placed under house arrest in her home country as part of a crackdown on the media, and eventually fled the country dressed in her mother’s clothes and carrying her sister’s passport. It was just the first step in her journey to Canada as an asylum seeker. She tells her story in a new book, Geographies of the Heart,
which is excerpted in @thetyee.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/10/31/Journalist-Escapes-Eritrea-Geographies-Heart/

#RefugeesWelcome #Books @bookstodon #Culture #Canada #Journalism #Media #Eritrea #AsylumSeeker #Immigration #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Museum specimens have been collected over many years — sometimes centuries — and those jars of frogs, lizards and most often, tissue samples, are used now as much as ever. “Museums provide scientists with ready access to several kinds of biological materials such as preserved specimens that can be used for molecular analysis of tissues, as well as digital images for anatomical studies, which can all be used to understand and document biodiversity, for taxonomic research, and even understanding the impact of climate change on various species,” writes Don Lyman for @thexylom.
https://www.thexylom.com/post/perspective-the-legacy-of-specimen-collections-in-modern-museums

#Science #History @histodon #Museums #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Election workers are trying their very best to ensure every eligible person can cast a ballot in the upcoming U.S. election, and some people are doing their best to thwart that. @gbhnews learned what’s going on in New Hampshire — threats, intimidation, rumors and lies that have led to resignations and retirements of election workers across the state.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2024-10-23/new-hampshire-election-workers-are-under-threat-and-theyre-standing-up

#USElections #ElectionSecurity #USPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Scientology is much more popular in Ukraine than in neighboring countries. In 2014, the country had 26 centers for the religion, while in Poland, there were none and one in each of Moldova, Georgia and Belarus. Alessandra Hay and Mariana Lastovyria write for @timkmak’s Counteroffensive about why Scientology has been able to gain a foothold in Ukraine.

https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/the-rise-of-scientology-in-ukraine

#Religion #Scientology #Ukraine #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Donald Trump says if elected, he wants to close the Department of Education. Title IX protections and early education are on the line, and Trump wants to implement universal school choice and make it easier to fire “bad teachers.” In response, educators are getting out the vote for Kamala Harris, with some also citing gun reform, union protections, and Tim Walz as reasons to support the Democratic candidate. Here’s more from @damemagazine.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/10/24/americas-teachers-dont-want-another-trump-term/

#Education #Teaching #USPolitics #DonaldTrump #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Former President Donald Trump says he’ll implement the “largest deportation in the history of our country.” This could target around 1.6 million undocumented people in Texas alone — and they’re the backbone of industries such as construction. “All this means Texas would be uniquely disrupted by Trump’s plans, with the tearing apart of mixed-status families placing a possibly massive burden on the state’s meager social services systems, and the exiling of a chunk of its workforce imperiling the economic development and affordability known as the so-called Texas Miracle.” writes Francesca D’Annunzio for @TexasObserver.

https://www.texasobserver.org/how-mass-deportations-would-devastate-texas/

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Bilinguality is a huge advantage for children and adults. Nearly 22 percent of Americans speak a language other than English at home, and many kids struggle to achieve full proficiency in two tongues. @KnowableMag spoke with Adriana Weisleder, a developmental psychologist and language scientist, about learning to speak and read two languages at the same time, and how schools, parents and caregivers can help kids.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/how-a-child-becomes-bilingual

#Parenting #Education #Children #Language #Bilinguality #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Happy #NewstodonFriday! We really really wanted to keep it light, breezy and election-free this week. But if democracy dies in darkness, we must celebrate those newsrooms and reporters that are committed to shedding light.

This week, we are featuring news on how the plastics industry would welcome a second Trump administration, but teachers would loathe one. Texas Observer has a deeply reported story on the way mass deportations would devastate their state. New Hampshire’s election workers are under threat, but they’re standing up. An overlooked item on the Arizona ballot? Policy on how the state would treat unhoused people. A tech story on everyone’s favorite online retailer and how it says it has a First Amendment right to union bust. There’s a look at why people continue to support Donald Trump, despite the… everything. And sprinkled in, find articles on how kids become bilingual, the rise of Scientology in Ukraine, specimen collections in museums, clever cats, and zombie movies. Please support these newsrooms who have an active presence in the fediverse — give money, subscribe, read, share and comment.

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Can cats understand human words? This week our @ScienceDesk shared this story about feline cognition and language comprehension. A new study showed that cats could associate human words with images — building on older research that suggested cats know their names. What could this mean for bonds with our furry friends?

https://www.earth.com/news/cats-can-associate-human-words-with-images/

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Tucson does not currently have a policy of clearing homeless encampments — instead, it allows those that don’t pose a risk to public health and safety to stay, supporting the people who live there and connecting them with services to get them into a permanent living situation. Conservatives aren’t happy, so on Arizona’s election ballot this month, there’ll be a proposition that will likely lead to more unhoused people being arrested and forced into treatment — despite resistance from police and prosecutors who say it simply won’t work. @bolts explains more.

https://boltsmag.org/arizona-prop-312-unhoused-ballot-measure/

#Arizona #Tucson #LawEnforcement #Homelessness #HumanRights #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

First, Amazon said it wasn’t an employer of delivery drivers, who are unionized with the Teamsters. The National Labor Relations Board rejected that. Now, the tech giant is arguing that union-busting statements made by its managers, including threats to terminate, are covered under the U.S. First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech. Here’s more from @404mediaco.

https://www.404media.co/amazon-says-it-has-a-first-amendment-right-to-union-bust/

#Labor #Employment #Unions #Amazon #TechIndustry #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

The oil and gas industry is increasingly dependent on the manufacture of plastics — and petrochemical lobbyists have endorsed a bill to roll back regulation and increase government assistance. Even though the bill itself is a legislative longshot, federal agencies under Donald Trump could adopt some of its most extreme provisions without congressional approval, said Daniel Rosenberg, director of federal toxics policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council told @ProPublica.

https://www.propublica.org/article/plastics-industry-wish-list-second-trump-administration

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📢 Big News!

Today, we’re announcing that Flipboard is beginning to federate our publisher partner accounts in Brazil and expanding federation in Canada, Germany and the U.K.

Now, people in the fediverse can follow 150 newly federated publisher accounts and 2,000 topically curated Magazines about everything from politics and world news to sports and travel.

Read more in our announcement here:

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-expands-federation-in-brazil-canada-germany-and-u-k/

For a full list of federated accounts to follow, visit the Flipboard directory:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU

Follow our Mastodon accounts in Brazil and Germany to discover Flipboard accounts to follow and keep up with the day's news:

@FlipboardBR

@FlipboardDE

And as always, tell us in the comments what you think!

#Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #Germany #Deutschland #Brazil #Brasil #UnitedKingom #Ireland #Media #Journalism #News #Technology #Lifestyle #Sports

“The push to get out the Native vote is strong,” @Toastie writes for @HighCountryNew. They looked into the web of dilemmas Native folks face each electoral season, from accessibility of polling stations and candidates’ attitudes to Indigenous interests to whether voting in U.S. elections is compatible with Native cultural values.

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-10/the-native-vote-dilemma/

#USElection #Politics #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #USPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

When assistive technology for people with physical disabilities is developed, the final users of it — its “pilots” — are often not involved until the very end. That’s why robotics expert Robert Riener launched the Cybathlon. The technotopian competition takes place every four years — the next tournament is this month in Switzerland and online — and involves eight events including the assistance robot race, in which pilots control a robot assistant from their wheelchairs and the brain-computer interface race, where pilots with quadriplegia use their thoughts to guide an animated avatar through an obstacle course. Here’s more from @KnowableMag.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2024/cybathlon-competition-bionic-athletes-use-assistive-tech

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We certainly remember where we were on Jan. 6 2021 — and what we saw. But has the media in general forgotten? “With Trump running for president again, editors and producers have decided to prioritize everything but his treasonous actions. Their stories reflect a run-of-the-mill campaign with two people who have differing views on taxes and civil rights,” writes @damemagazine’s Allison Hantschel. She asks why legacy media has memory-holed the attack on the Capitol.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/10/15/legacy-media-has-memory-holed-january-6/

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@ProPublica and Anchorage Daily News collaborated on this distressing story about the state of criminal prosecutions in Anchorage. Defendants in at least 930 misdemeanor cases have walked free since May 1, with crimes ranging from violating a restraining order to driving drunk with children in the backseat. The reason? The overloaded court system, and the lack of prosecutors. Here’s more.

https://www.propublica.org/article/criminal-case-dismissals-anchorage-alaska

#Alaska #Crime #CriminalProsecutions #Anchorage #USNews #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday