Notices by Jeff Jarvis (jeffjarvis@mastodon.social)

As if polling weren't bad enough already, alienating voters from their voices, it gets worse as pollsters have AI both ask and answer (!) questions.
Pollsters are turning to AI this election season https://mainemorningstar.com/2024/09/30/pollsters-are-turning-to-ai-this-election-season/ via @mainemorninstar

U.K., home of the industrial revolution, shuts its last coal-fired power plant https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/29/uk-last-coal-power-plant/

Fascinating. Gift link.
Scientists Find First Evidence That Butterflies Crossed an Ocean https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/science/butterflies-ocean-migration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2k0.VfF4.Rr4giJolPkWa&smid=em-share

Thank you, @RepRaskin. Now if only the AG could grow a spine.
"The U.S. Department of Justice...can petition the other seven justices to require Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves not as a matter of grace but as a matter of law."
Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/alito-thomas-recuse-trump-jan-6.html?pvid=jMnlOpphfOlEr_NG_x0HLuZ6&u2g=c&smid=tw-share

Polls are poison to public discourse. Rasmussen is worse than them all and should never be quoted.
Leading pollster spreads Dominion voting machine misinformation https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/28/leading-pollster-spreads-dominion-voting-machine-misinformation/

@Gargron I had just this discussion with the new head of the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC

Internet companies attack the open web on multiple fronts: FB/IG, Twitter, now TikTok test paywalls. FB/IG, now Twitter deprecate links, the basis of the web. Thank goodness for Mastodon.

Oh, for God's sake. They're running out of things to panic about.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/well/live/screen-apnea-breathing.html