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I want you to do these four things right now
Feb 03, 2025 | Werd I/O
Four simple steps to keep yourself safe online.
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The power of independent journalism: From her Brooklyn apartment, she 'scooped' the nation's media
Feb 02, 2025 | apnews.com
LA’s Palisades, Eaton and Hughes fires show a larger trend in wildfire speed
Feb 01, 2025 | Reuters
The Palisades, Eaton and Hughes fires were some of the fastest on record. Their destruction shows the significance of speed in wildfire preparedness.
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Critical data on disease transmission, LGBTQ+ health vanishes from government websites - The Boston Globe
Feb 01, 2025 | BostonGlobe.com
Included in the purge is information on child abuse and treatment and prevention of HIV.
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Calculating Fire Ratings with Overture Buildings and Places | Fused
Jan 27, 2025 | docs.fused.io
TL;DR Chris Amico shows how to combine Overture Maps data with fire perimeters to analyze wildfire impact on buildings and businesses.
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Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy
Jan 24, 2025 | 404 Media
The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
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Blue skies and open roads
Jan 19, 2025 | Words on the Web
Given the collapse of social media platforms, you should at least own your own domain — and put things on it!
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WordPress is in trouble
Jan 16, 2025 | anderegg.ca
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking...
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Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s face
Jan 11, 2025 | The Verge
Zuckerberg even offers Republicans another target: Apple.
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Watch Duty App Creator Says He'll Never Pull an OpenAI
Jan 11, 2025 | Gizmodo
Gizmodo spoke with the creator of the app that provides vital alerts about evacuations.
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Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White
Jan 08, 2025 | 404 Media
"Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE."
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More than 100 journalists were killed this year – over half of them in Palestine
Dec 29, 2024 | the Guardian
Fifty-five journalists were killed in Palestine this year, and nearly all have been forced from their homes, data shows
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To Log Into WordPress, You Now Have To Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good
Dec 16, 2024 | 404 Media
Longtime WordPress contributors ask: “Where are the adults in the room?”
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Using open source tools to track the biggest fight in BJJ
Dec 14, 2024 | MuckRock
What public records can reveal about a rivalry that rocked submission grappling.
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As frustration builds for Bellator fighters, answers and fights are both in short supply
Dec 13, 2024 | Yahoo Sports
Bellator fighters have taken to social media to complain of being shelved with little to no information on the company’s future plans for them. Why won't ownership address the issue?
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Sitters and Standers
Dec 09, 2024 | The Pudding
The American worker divide: Those who sit, and those who stand
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'It's a bird! It's a plane!' In Alaska, it's both, with a pilot tossing turkeys to rural homes
Nov 28, 2024 | apnews.com