# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

I’m seeing a lot of videos focused on how to spot a deep fake. Over time, these “tells” will disappear. In addition to (rather than?) interrogating the content itself we must critically examine our urge to engage with it AND ask ourselves who benefits if we act on those urges. #tlskychat

Notice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

BREAKING: Deadly H5N1 Mutation Detected in U.S. Dairy Herds Experts Warn of Rising Pandemic Risk

Scientists are alarmed by a newly identified H5N1 mutation found in four U.S. dairy cow herds, raising concerns about its potential spread.

For the audio engineers and film sound scholars out there: happy to announce that the Ray Dolby Papers are processed and ready for researchers! tinyurl.com/27dqcwv3

You can check out digitized elements from these papers here: searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000...

"Drawing from their experiences working with collections documenting the lives and creativity of incarcerated individuals, the authors reflect on how traditional archival methods often fall short of providing respectful access to these materials."

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.

Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.

A thread.

Listen to @leahstokes.bsky.social , our southern-California climate genius, frame the problems and solutions in her usual brisk, humorous, and exceedingly informed way.....

You know it's some bullshit when UCLA won't close for a damn inferno but will close because of protests. Utterly ridiculous.

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

An "anonymous media executive" predicts Fox will acquire most of Warner Bros. Discovery’s assets in 2025 —  which would make Rupert Murdoch the owner of TCM.

NOTE: I think this is unlikely. But if it did happen, it would certainly be the worst of all possible outcomes.

www.cnbc.com/2024/12/23/2...

so if I'm understanding the tech-bro position correctly, it's this

"What is distinctive about our time is that its monsters consist not only of political extremists of all kinds, but also of weather events that could not have been conceived of in Gramsci’s lifetime: supercharged storms, megadroughts, catastrophic rain-bombs and the like."

Oops! Warning ahead:

Please support bookshops.

Independent bookshops.

They are so wonderful. Yes you pay a little more.

But I think of it as paying for the experience.

The experience of browsing.

And that oh-so-important bookshop smell. 🖖
Fu** big corporations.