@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA June ranking of the top nonprofit US news sites by traffic shows The Conversation leading by far, followed by the Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/nonprofi
@newsie@darktundra.xyzSwiss nonprofit health organization breached by Sarcoma ransomware group https://therecord.media/sarcoma-ransomware-breach-swiss-healthcare-nonprofit-radix
@cdarwin@c.imWhen Ashley Robinson and her mother took DNA tests 10 years ago and began meeting long lost cousins,
they stumbled across a surprising family history that changed their lives.
Robinson’s lineage traced back to the 272 West Africans who were enslaved by Jesuits
and sold to plantation owners in the southern US in 1838.
The sale of the enslaved Africans helped fund Georgetown University,
the oldest Jesuit higher education institution in the US,
and served a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow the Center for Investigative Reporting is handling the lawsuit against OpenAI as one of the few nonprofits with the resources to take on a yearslong suit (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/what-it-takes-to-sue-op…
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at the National Trust for Local News under new CEO Tom Wiley, who is focused on stabilizing the nonprofit and its newspapers before buying more outlets (Liam Scott/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northweste
@anneroth@systemli.social„“I think [Bluesky CEO] Jay [Graber] is great. I think the team is great,” Dorsey told Henshaw-Plath, “but the structure is what I disagree with…I want to push the energy in a different direction, which is more like Bitcoin, which is completely open and not owned by anyone from a protocol layer.“
Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media | TechCrunch
@memeorandum@universeodon.comA Pro-Israel Nonprofit is Funneling News Content Through Bari Weiss's "Free Press" (Drop Site News)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/the-free-press-israel-cbs-bari-weiss
http://www.memeorandum.com/250728/p114#a250728p114
@cdarwin@c.imBenny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, has enjoyed rare access and promotion from the Trump administration.
“Clearly we’re dealing with an administration that’s far more focused on narratives than truth,
and this conduct is consistent with that,”
said Seth Stern, director of advocacy for the Freedom of the Press Foundation,
a First Amendment nonprofit.
“It is awful that real journalists who attempt to report real news and feel constrained by the pursuit of trut…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialStaffers, including 14 full-time reporters, from three nonprofit newsrooms backed by Signal Ohio are unionizing with the Northeast Ohio NewsGuild (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/signal-ohio-joins-wave-of-nonprofit-n…
@servelan@newsie.social23andMe's Data Sold to Nonprofit Run by Its Co-Founder - 'And I Still Don't Trust It' - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/07/19/0252236/23andmes-data-sold-to-nonprofit-run-by-its-co-founder---and-i-still-dont-trust-it
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWith all due respect, fuck Jack Dorsey and every other douchebag billionaire tech bro out there.
When are we going to realise nothing good will ever come from these parasites? https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp/114869991386480834
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJack Dorsey invests $10M in "and Other Stuff", a nonprofit focused on funding open-source projects and tools built on open protocols like Nostr and ActivityPub (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/jack
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaHello, fediverse!
I'm Ena, the new PR coordinator hired by the Mastodon nonprofit (@…). I've been recruited to help bring the fediverse to a younger, sexier, more diverse, more cutting-edge audience. According to our polls, using the original creator almost like a mascot is essential to keeping things simple and familiar for how the younger crowd …
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialThis is awesome... Milwaukee (and other cities) need more of this kind of thing!
https://www.wpr.org/culture/milwaukee-walkers-point-skatepark-diy-shanahan-skateboarding
@cdarwin@c.imWhen an Alaska Native group asked state law enforcement officials in June for a list of murders investigated by state police
— one of the most fundamental pieces of data needed to understand the issue
— the state said no.
Charlene Aqpik Apok launched
"Data for Indigenous Justice"
in 2020 after trying to collect the names of missing and murdered Indigenous people to read at a rally,
only to discover no government agency had been keeping track.
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieHello!
I have a happy favour to ask.
Last year, I had a US intern working with us and she now is looking for help that you- good reader of this account- could give.
(She needs academic survey participants)
Check out her flyer below, click the link, and please RT
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@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social @cdarwin@c.imDecentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law
— the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state
— because it doesn’t have the means to do so.
The social nonprofit explains that Mastodon doesn’t track its users,
which makes it difficult to enforce such legislation.
Nor does it want to use IP address-based blocks, as those would unfairly impact people who were traveling, it says.
The statement …
@UP8@mastodon.social👾 Invasion intensifies on Karipuna Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/invasion-intensifies-on-karipuna-indigenous-land-in-the-brazilian-amazon/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzNonprofit led by 23andMe’s former CEO wins bid to acquire the company https://therecord.media/23andme-sale-to-nonprofit-ttam-wojcicki
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Commerce Department voids a Biden administration deal with the nonprofit Natcast to oversee $7.4B in semiconductor research funds, calling it illegal (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNonprofit news outlet Spotlight PA teams up with Nexstar in Pennsylvania to widen the reach of Spotlight PA's reporting, funded by a $500K Press Forward grant (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/can-nonp
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.ithttps://kolektiva.social/@susurros/114701605671238735
""A couple of unmarked vehicles were here trying to take day laborers," described Teodoro, adding that some day laborers, who are U.S. citizens, distracted the ICE agents, giving undocumented fri…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.»
It's nice to see places where community can help course correct!
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAndy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, launches the nonprofit Laude Institute, self-funded with $100M for grants to AI projects and labs (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/2…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialPFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/pfas-forever-chemicals-found-in-98-of-us-waters-tested/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Baltimore Banner, launched in 2022 as a nonprofit news outlet focused on Greater Baltimore and Maryland, gets a $200K grant from the Henry Luce Foundation (The Baltimore Banner)
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/banner-pr/henry-luce-f…
@scott@carfree.citythis looks pretty bad for Phil Ginsburg tbh
https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/phil-ginsburg-parks-alliance-drew-becher-crane-cove-port-of-s-f/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'Earmarks of a Shakedown': Congressional Black Caucus Threatens To Boycott Target After Retail Giant Stops Funding Its Nonprofit Arm (Chuck Ross/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/earmarks-of-a-shakedown-congressional-black-caucus-threatens-to-boycott-target-after-retail-giant-stops-funding-its-nonprofit-arm/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p75#a250702p75
@UP8@mastodon.social🧑🚒 California wood pellet plants canceled amid market decline & public pushback
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/california-wood-pellet-plants-canceled-amid-market-decline-public-pushback/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle, the Earth Fire Alliance, and Muon Space's Fire Sat aims to launch 52 satellites by 2029 to detect wildfires globally and will make the data accessible (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-earth-fire-alliance-sp…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI think I did only two things that really mattered to that org in the long term:
1. Stopped them from buying a really dubious CMS / web app engine that would have cost the org (a nonprofit) millions it didn’t have to be vendor-locked into a dead-end platform that would have set their site back years.
2. Selected a new developer hire who was far more dependable and mature than I was, and became their lynchpin. She wrote tons of software that did actually matter, and stayed with them for years.
Whatever dev skills I had turned out to be good for (1) saying “stop, don’t” and (2) recognizing an excellent person in a job interview. Note that neither involved the code I wrote.
2/2
@thomasrenkert@hcommons.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Laude Institute, a nonprofit that runs the K Prize multi-round AI coding challenge, says a Brazilian prompt engineer won with just 7.5% of the right answers (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/a-ne
@jake4480@c.imI'm not even putting a politics warning here, the shitheads in the U.S. government made The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS) shut down due to lack of funding and NPR will face similar cuts, etc, really making some rural areas in the USA lose access to news. I grew up loving Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, and this is beyond fucked.
I hope the useless garbage assholes who allowed this to happen are happy with themselves. Fuck everything that led to this.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow the Center for Investigative Reporting is handling the lawsuit against OpenAI as one of the few nonprofits with the resources to take on a yearslong suit (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/what-it-takes-to-sue-op…
@cdarwin@c.imTechnologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers,
increasingly using artificial intelligence,
are entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org,
a labor rights nonprofit based in New York.
Audits of more than 150 startups and regional companies based in Kenya, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and India showed
workplace surveillance is expanding in scale and sophistication, the researchers said.
While lar…
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageShaping a Profession, Building a Community: A Practitioner-Led Investigation of Public Interest Technologists in Civil Society
Mallory Knodel, Mallika Balakrishnan, Lauren M. Chambers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07230
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNoisy Creek, owner of Seattle's The Stranger and the Portland Mercury, is acquiring the Chicago Reader and also plans to expand its ticketing service to Chicago (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/noisy-cr
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn advisory board convened by OpenAI recommends that the company remain a nonprofit because AI is "too consequential" to be governed by a corporation alone (Thalia Beaty/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/openai-nonpr…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialFarm Sanctuary fights the disastrous effects of animal agriculture on animals, the environment, social justice, and public health through rescue, education, and advocacy. #AnimalRights
@arXiv_physicsedph_bot@mastoxiv.pageUnique support from identity-based groups: Professional networks of women and LGBTQ physicists analyzed and compared by career sector
Chase Hatcher, Adrienne Traxler, Lily Donis, Madison Swirtz, Camila Manni, Justin Gutzwa, Charles Henderson, Ram\'on Barthelemy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14752…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri approved the proposed purchase of all of the assets of 23andMe by TTAM Research Institute (“TTAM”) … TTAM is a nonprofit medical research organization founded by Anne Wojcicki (Co-Founder and former CEO of 23andMe).”
– 23andMe bankruptcy notice
Well this all sounds above board…
#DNA
@cdarwin@c.imIf a sitting president can direct the IRS to investigate political enemies, revoke nonprofit status from dissenting institutions, or selectively enforce tax law to reward loyalty,
the agency no longer serves the public.
It serves power.
The slow hollowing of the IRS through funding cuts, staff attrition, and the erosion of norms yields the same result:
a weakened institution unable to enforce the law, uphold equity, or hold the powerful to account.
And when th…
@servelan@newsie.socialUS based nonprofit
Many families in Uganda stuck with unhealthy dirt floors are finding an affordable alternative | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/many-families-in-uganda-stuck-with-unhealthy-dirt-floors-are-finding-an-affordable-alternative/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Yoshua Bengio on his nonprofit LawZero focusing on AI safety, its research direction, risks of increasingly capable and autonomous AI systems, and more (Sigal Samuel/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/417087/ai-safety-yoshua-bengio-lawze…
@cdarwin@c.imThe US government is blatantly misrepresenting events captured on video
in an effort to intimidate powerful officials and ordinary citizens who seek to challenge the White House’s policies.
Alec Karakatsanis, the founder of Civil Rights Corps, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, argued:
👉 “By relentlessly telling the population that ‘two plus two equals five’, it helps determine who is willing to go along with ‘two plus two equals five’ and deny basic truths.
“It’s also…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at The Examination, a nonprofit investigative news outlet with ~20 staffers launched in 2023 that focuses on Big Food, tobacco, pollution, and drugs (Sophie Endrud/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/t…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at OpenAI's campaign over the past year to secure its transition from a nonprofit, led by a team of Democratic insiders in California (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/17/sam-altman-chatgpt-california-00449492
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmerica250, the nonprofit organizing the US Semiquincentennial celebration, says it received sponsorship commitments from Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, and Palantir (Meridith McGraw/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWhy The Houston Landing failed, including the lack of a clear identity, leadership lacking fundraising and nonprofit experience, and trouble generating revenue (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what-went-wrong-at-the-houston-landing/
@cdarwin@c.imThe US Senate voted to rescind two years' worth of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB),
-- delivering a blow to public radio and television stations around the country.
The CPB is a publicly funded nonprofit corporation that supports NPR and PBS stations.
The 51-48 vote today on President Trump's rescissions package would eliminate $1.1 billion that was allocated to public broadcasting
. The $1.1 billion includes $60 million for "cos…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Anne Wojcicki is poised to regain control of 23andMe, after her nonprofit TTAM offered $305M to top Regeneron's bid for the DNA-testing company (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/biotech/anne-wojcicki-wins-bidding-for-23and…
@cdarwin@c.imAt a private event hosted by Senator Dave McCormick, Republican of Pennsylvania,
donors wandered through a sculpture hall at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh
and partied with their cowboy hats on at a dinner where each plate cost $5,000.
The aftermath was less celebratory.
Dozens of employees at the Carnegie Museums sent an open letter to trustees,
saying that the fund-raiser violated guidelines meant to safeguard the institution from partisan activities…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBay Area public radio station KQED says it is laying off 45 people and 12 are taking voluntary buyouts, a 15% staff cut; 10 vacant positions will go unfilled (Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)
https://www.kqed.org/news/12048122/kqed-to-s…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow an AI assistant developed by Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm is helping pharmacists in remote Amazon clinics process prescriptions more quickly and catch errors (Pedro Nakamura/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-amazon-ai-healthcare-prescript…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA US district court judge temporarily blocks an FTC probe into Media Matters, part of an antitrust investigation into ad boycotts, calling the probe retaliatory (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/ft…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMemo: PBS is cutting its current budget by 21% and reducing dues paid by local stations by $35M to deal with Congress' decision to eliminate ~$500M in funding (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/pbs-budget-cuts.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA US district court judge temporarily blocks an FTC probe into Media Matters, part of an antitrust investigation into ad boycotts, calling the probe retaliatory (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/ft…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPolygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal is named CEO of the Polygon Foundation after the departure of Mihailo Bjelic, and unveils changes to streamline the nonprofit (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/35…
@cdarwin@c.imGoogle is fond of saying its mission is to
"organize the world's information,"
but who gets to decide what information is worthy of organization?
A San Francisco tech CEO has spent the past several years attempting to remove unflattering information about himself from Google's search index,
and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation says he's still at it.
Most recently, an unknown bad actor used a bug in one of Google's search …
@cdarwin@c.imSome of the country’s largest law firms have declined to represent clients challenging the Trump administration,
more than a dozen attorneys and nonprofit leaders told ProPublica,
while others have sought to avoid any clients that Trump might perceive as his enemies.
That includes both clients willing to pay the firms’ steep rates,
and those who receive free representation.
Big Law firms are also refusing to take on legal work involving environmental protectio…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/eleu
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with Megan Greenwell, author of Bad Company, a book on PE firms' impact on media and other industries, on unionization efforts, nonprofit outlets, and more (Camille Bromley/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/megan-gr
@cdarwin@c.imU.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan,
who previously presided over Trump’s federal election interference case,
will now oversee a new lawsuit from Democracy Forward Foundation,
a D.C.-based nonprofit,
requesting the Department of Justice and the FBI release any communications between Trump officials on the Epstein matter,
any communication between Trump and Epstein himself,
and Epstein’s so-called client list that Attorney General Pam Bondi previously acknowl…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft announces a $4B commitment in cash and tech to support AI education in schools and more, and starts Elevate Academy, an AI training program for adults (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/business/microsoft-ai-educati…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Orlando Sentinel got a cease-and-desist from Florida's DCF that claims its reporter coerced families for a story on a foundation tied to Gov. DeSantis' wife (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/orlando-sen
@cdarwin@c.imCapital & Main
is an award-winning nonprofit publication that reports from California
on the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues of our time
https://capitalandmain.com/about-capital-and-main
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised $30M in donations, including from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2b3ce320-2451-45c4-a15c-757461624585
@cdarwin@c.imInsurer Blue Shield of California's new parent company alarms consumer advocates
Blue Shield of California accrued a surplus of more than $4 billion over the decades as it benefited from its former tax-exempt status, according to a regulatory filing.
Last year, regulators approved a request by 💥Blue Shield of California,
the state's third-largest health insurer, to restructure and establish a new parent corporation in Delaware.
The Oakland-based nonprofit go…
@cdarwin@c.imThe closure of CPB represents the loss of a major institution and decades of knowledge and expertise -- an immediate consequence of the passage of H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025.
We're grateful to CPB staff for their many years of service to public media.
As an independent, nonprofit news organization, ⭐️NPR remains resolute in our pursuit of our mission:
to create an informed and inspired public in partnership with our Member stations.
We will continue to res…
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