Emma Jacobs
@ecjacobs.bsky.social
Journalist, etc. Sometimes @npr. Alum @whyy, @wnyc. Summer & Montreal enthusiast.
Thanks to the great work/edits of the @planetmoney.bsky.social production team.
This is a fun episode on AI art and copyright law npr.org - nicely done by @ecjacobs.bsky.social! I was pleased to be included alongside @davidfewer.bsky.social.
Truly a delight to work with @wailinwong.bsky.social and @juliaritchey.bsky.social on this episode of @npr.org The Indicator. www.npr.org/2025/08/25/n...
September 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Thanks to the great work/edits of the @planetmoney.bsky.social production team.
Truly a delight to work with @wailinwong.bsky.social and @juliaritchey.bsky.social on this episode of @npr.org The Indicator. www.npr.org/2025/08/25/n...
Can you copyright artwork made using AI? : The Indicator from Planet Money
Copyright is the legal system used to reward and protect creations made by humans. But with growing adoption of artificial intelligence, does copyright extend to artwork that’s made using AI? Today on...
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August 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Truly a delight to work with @wailinwong.bsky.social and @juliaritchey.bsky.social on this episode of @npr.org The Indicator. www.npr.org/2025/08/25/n...
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So the greatest growth of water intensive Data Centers for AI slop is in the arid West that’s experiencing a record drought. Yep, makes perfect sense. (Data courtesy @highcountrynews.org)
July 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
So the greatest growth of water intensive Data Centers for AI slop is in the arid West that’s experiencing a record drought. Yep, makes perfect sense. (Data courtesy @highcountrynews.org)
What an incredible project and love letter to radio. radio.garden/balloon-ride
Take a Balloon Ride on Radio Garden
Listen, look and guess where you are!
radio.garden
July 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What an incredible project and love letter to radio. radio.garden/balloon-ride
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Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.
Flimmaker Ken Burns: Public broadcasting is a 'purely American expression'
Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.
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July 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.
What a Quebec-style controversy in Belgium. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/w...
July 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What a Quebec-style controversy in Belgium. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/w...
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew in the @theglobeandmail.com on wildfire-related evacuations in the province:
June 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew in the @theglobeandmail.com on wildfire-related evacuations in the province:
This order is going to *most directly* impact your local public radio member-stations.
It’s not just NPR and PBS, they’re coming to fuck with your local public radio.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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May 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This order is going to *most directly* impact your local public radio member-stations.
I am begging the #HardFork podcast team to go read any of their own paper's reporting on environmental impacts of AI before they go uncritically repeating "good ideas" like waiving environmental regulations to power AI data centers.
March 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I am begging the #HardFork podcast team to go read any of their own paper's reporting on environmental impacts of AI before they go uncritically repeating "good ideas" like waiving environmental regulations to power AI data centers.
If Flow does not win best animated film tonight, something has gone terribly wrong.
March 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If Flow does not win best animated film tonight, something has gone terribly wrong.
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the change in the canadian electoral landscape since the us inauguration is really something to see
February 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
the change in the canadian electoral landscape since the us inauguration is really something to see
Meanwhile, someone has x-country skied to my local coffee shop.
«On demande aux gens de rester à la maison.»
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Tempête de neige: Montréal invite ses citoyens à rester à la maison
Éviter les déplacements non essentiels: c'est ce qu'a demandé la Ville de Montréal à ses citoyens dimanche après-midi dans un point de presse visant à faire le point sur la tempête de neige qui touche...
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February 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Meanwhile, someone has x-country skied to my local coffee shop.
Anecdotal signs that despite the trade war “delay”, some Canadians are still making changes, including boycotting the Superbowl.
Des bagels montréalais inspirés par les drapeaux aux boycottages du Super Bowl, un évènement prisé du football américain, voici quelques-unes des façons dont les Canadiens expriment leur mécontentement du président Trump.
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Vague de patriotisme et gestes originaux face aux menaces du président Trump
Les menaces du président américain Donald Trump d’imposer des tarifs douaniers aux produits canadiens, en plus de ses réflexions répétées de la possibilité de faire du pays le 51e État américain, ont ...
www.noovo.info
February 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Anecdotal signs that despite the trade war “delay”, some Canadians are still making changes, including boycotting the Superbowl.
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Even as the Los Angeles fires and a rapidly melting Arctic all but scream that climate breakdown is worsening, some of the most accomplished journalists on the climate beat have had their jobs threatened or eliminated.
February 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Even as the Los Angeles fires and a rapidly melting Arctic all but scream that climate breakdown is worsening, some of the most accomplished journalists on the climate beat have had their jobs threatened or eliminated.
Beat reporting works.
Musk Watch launched two weeks ago. Today our reporting was cited in a motion for a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration, seeking to shut down the servers Musk's associates are using to email federal workers and access sensitive government databases
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![16. This statement is supported by recent reporting:
A new server being used to control these [OPM] databases has been placed in a
conference room that Musk’s team is using as their command center, according to
an OPM staffer. The staffer described the server as a piece of commercial hardware
they believed was not obtained through the proper federal procurement process.
Case 1:25-cv-00234-UNA Document 4 Filed 02/04/25 Page 9 of 22
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Caleb Ecarma & Judd Legum, Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of
government employees Musk Watch (Feb. 3, 2025), at https://www.muskwatch.com/p/muskassociates-given-unfettered (last accessed Feb. 3, 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7prh6raya2ntwnpyzte5u5hc/bafkreidfrazsjvefpjskubyagnpoep7zac7odqcchfrzxc26sunv6lujhm@jpeg)
February 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Beat reporting works.
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“So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once."
February 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once."
And we get to do this all again in another month.
So Trump hurt America's relationship with Canada and made markets wobble all to "get" Canada to do things Canada had announced back in December in coordination with the Biden administration, do I have that right?
February 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
And we get to do this all again in another month.
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This. And a thing YOU can do is to support media you care about.
There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This. And a thing YOU can do is to support media you care about.
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Transport is the biggest source of US emissions. The US transportation secretary has ordered the removal of the words "climate change" and "greenhouse gas emissions" from all departmental material.
Trump's Transportation Secretary calls for the purge of “all orders, directives, rules, regulations, notices, guidance documents, funding agreements, programs and policy statements” that relate “in any way to climate change, and ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions."
insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...
‘Breathtakingly Ignorant and Dangerous’: Trump’s DOT Orders Sweeping Purge of Climate, Gender, Race, Environmental Justice Initiatives - Inside Climate News
Under the Biden administration, the department had considered the current and future impacts of climate change in almost everything it did, calculating how increased heat, flooding and drought affecte...
insideclimatenews.org
February 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Transport is the biggest source of US emissions. The US transportation secretary has ordered the removal of the words "climate change" and "greenhouse gas emissions" from all departmental material.
Wow, Trudeau just said in his press conference he's been trying to speak with Trump since the inauguration, but hopes to speak with him soon.
February 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Wow, Trudeau just said in his press conference he's been trying to speak with Trump since the inauguration, but hopes to speak with him soon.
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February 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Meanwhile, in Canada ...
Very audible booing of the US national anthem at the Ottawa Senators arena tonight, ahead of their game with Minnesota
February 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Meanwhile, in Canada ...
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Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
www.ft.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment
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Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
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Explore digital books on Bookshop.org
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January 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
bookshop.org/ebooks
bookshop.org/ebooks