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I felt a great disturbance in the force #may4th

from my link log —
Interactive HTML trees with no JavaScript and no CSS.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/interactive-html-trees-with-no-javascript/
saved 2020-08-13

Interactive HTML Trees with no JavaScript and no CSS
Many text based conversations threads can be visualised as a tree. This is a follow-up to yesterday's blog post about Twitter conversation trees. Mailing list archives often use nested

to show a conversation. That's fine, but has the major drawback of not being interactive. There's no way to collapse a branch of a tree if you're not interested in that strand of the conversation. Older…

lol a conversation I just had w/ a friend
[here's that MR: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/268 ]

Is ‘Bad Feminist’ More Relevant Than Ever? Dua Lipa In Conversation With Roxane Gay
#feminism

One important story that I feel got lost during the end of 2025 is how white-presenting "18-year old" female "AI" companions are cosplayed by 30-year old fathers in Kenyan slums. At a huge cost to their mental health.

"My sole responsibility was to keep the conversation going, no matter what it did to me."

"The challenge went beyond just switching genders; I also had to perform across different sexual identities. Sometimes I was a straight wo…

Q&A with Bryan Jacobs, creator of TomWikiAssist, a NanoClaw Clawbot built to edit and write for Wikipedia, on the mostly negative reactions of human editors (Bill Adair/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026…

“I was surprised how upset some people got”: A conversation with the creator of TomWikiAssist, the bot that edited Wikipedia
"It's almost like people were really quite disoriented and terrified by it. And to some extent I get it and I'm trying to empathize with how they're feeling."

Looking forward to this tonight at ANU. Daughter is hoping to finish work in time to meet me there. She's having a bonkers week so it could be a bit iffy.
But as it's her birthday this week and Mothers' Day on Sunday, we'll find time on the weekend to eat, drink, and be merry nonetheless.
Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf | Australian National University

Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf
Journalist and human rights advocate , Antoinette Lattouf, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.

CHAOSS, Sustainability, and the Shifting Power Dynamics of Open Source - A conversation with Dawn Foster
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chaoss-sustainability-shifting-power-dynamics-open-source-kim-mcmahon-ylwnc/

@… thank you, and at this point I'll retire from the conversation in Mastodon.
I'm blocked, which causes real wreckage in a Mastodon context (I expect NodeBB to handle things much more effectively); I'm stumbling across hidden fragments―completely out of context―days later as a direct result of the wreckage; and I'm certain that the block woul…

Internet Privacy Law and Practice – The Conversation
Recently The Conversation hosted Anne Toomey McKenna, Guy Kawasaki and Florian Schaub for a discussion of Internet privacy. This was a great overview of where Internet privacy law now stands (it is not good) as well as suggestions on how to improve your privacy. You can watch a recording of the session here:

Durant l’interview de Meredith Whittaker, Guillaume Erner s’interroge : pourquoi donc peut-il récupérer l’historique d’une conversation Signal alors que Signal affirme qu’elle ne la stocke pas ? Éléments d’explication dans cet article de janvier 2025 :
https://www.blog-nouvelles-techn…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Conversation
#DryCleaning
https://open.spotify.com/track/0MZfMBqsHdmfyIy2Ksiqoi

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SaturdayMorning
- Music and conversation for Holy Saturday morning
Tom Service introduces the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend, and meets acclaimed French conductor Raphaël Pichon.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002t99v

Just a reminder about next week's #DefendResearch webinar with PEN America. Join us on February 12th for a conversation with PEN America to discuss their important new report: "America’s Censored Campuses: Expanding the Web of Control" , focusing specifically on this new report and what it can tell us about the state of scientific research and education in the United State…

The Resistant Wall 🧱
萬仞宮牆 🧱
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Really happy with this conversation — I got a chance to drop in on The Vergecast, which is one of my favorite tech podcasts because they go deep into the systems that affect how and why we're able to innovate, and what shapes the markets we all operate in. David Pierce let me nerd out about how important it is that technologies like podcasts stay open for everyone to be able to participate without any gatekeepers. I think you're going to like this one!

Worried about election interference?
Join Sen. Chris Murphy
& Donuts Democracy
for a conversation this Tuesday.
Click to RSVP: https://donutsdem.org/l/mQs4dq

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SaturdayMorning
- Music and conversation for Easter Saturday morning
Tom Service introduces the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend, and meets acclaimed French conductor Raphaël Pichon.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002t99v

Just a reminder about next week's #DefendResearch webinar with PEN America. Join us on February 12th for a conversation with PEN America to discuss their important new report: "America’s Censored Campuses: Expanding the Web of Control" , focusing specifically on this new report and what it can tell us about the state of scientific research and education in the United State…

is frustrated by a conversation with a junior dev who keeps complaining that he can't hold down a job because "immigrants took all of the jobs," but also isn't applying for work at all because he "can't risk losing Medicare coverage."

"How Do We Make Reading Truly Accessible? A Conversation With Thomas Kahlisch"
https://blog.degruyter.com/how-do-we-make-reading-truly-accessible-a-conversation-with-thomas-kahlisch/
"Whether for pleasure o…

Interesting LLM nuance: why does using phrases like "you're a pen-tester" cause chatbots to emit substantially different predictions, and basically "follow" that instruction? Because of how LLMs work, this implies that the training data has plenty of examples where real humans told each other that they were some role and the humans just immediately jumped into that role without question or intervening dialogue. But that's not something people do in normal conversation. Even in playing-with-kids contexts if you drop that out of the blue you're probably going to get "no I want to be a robot" or "but you were the elephant last time!" rather than immediate assumption of the assigned role.
It's possible that training LLMs to predict immediate role-assumption is something the big models spent a lot of manual effort on. But what I think is more likely is: it's the legacy of role-play forums! All those reams of pages of teenagers (yes, often horny) pretending to be Captain Kirk or their own incredibly cringe "cool" character (but honestly, why call it cringe, let kids be kids and have fun)...
So next time you "tell" a chatbot "you're a..." to get it to do what you want, I'm pretty sure you have an RP forum teen from the past to thank :)
#AI #LLMs

Representative Pat Fallon (TX-04) will make a push for creating a US Cyber Force tomorrow at CSIS
https://www.csis.org/events/implementing-us-cyber-force-conversation-representative-pat-fallon

Implementing a U.S. Cyber Force: A Conversation with Representative Pat Fallon | CSIS Events
Join CSIS for a discussion with Representative Pat Fallon on the future of a U.S. Cyber Force.

It's also probably worth noting that I stole the idea of Comrade Basilisk from some other conversation long ago. If anyone recognizes it (especially if it's yours), please claim it (and link if possible) so I can give credit where credit is due.
Otherwise, it's the people's meme now.

“So you have TikTok just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza … And this is why so many of us can’t have a sane conversation with younger Jews because anything that we try to say to them, they are hearing it through this wall of carnage. So I want to give data and information and facts and arguments and they are just seeing in their minds carnage and I sound obscene.”
– Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz
“They trust their own eyes and…

Wall of Carnage Gazans, Olive Trees and Mosques
In the small town of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, where I live, during Israel’s destruction of the Gaza Strip, a Democratic Party activist hung a flag of the state of Israel across the way from the only grocery store in town -- so that almost every member of the community would see it.

To all my wonderful followers, thank you. Why? There are now 500 of you and that's more than twice the number I had when I left #x #twitter That's enough of the past. The conversation here is, as you've found, so much better, thoughtful and engaging. I particularly like the fact that we engage a…

Natter, an AI platform for large-scale video conversation insights, raised a $23M Series A led by Renegade Partners and says it grew revenue 5x in 2025 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/04/0…

Exclusive: AI conversation intel startup Natter raises $23M
Natter expects to triple its workforce by EOY.

Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf
Tue 05 May 2026, 6:00 pm
Journalist and human rights advocate , Antoinette Lattouf, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.
#Canberra

Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf
Journalist and human rights advocate , Antoinette Lattouf, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Joni Mitchell:
🎵 Conversation
#JoniMitchell
https://open.spotify.com/track/1wcbiRER4ChnikvcLc2OE6

Our talks are now the 4th and 5th most voted (out of 185). Applying the formula we’ve always to compensate for late-arriving sessions receiving fewer votes, they’re the 1st and 2nd for estimated attendance. Apparently people really, really want to talk about this — but everyone was hesitating to start the conversation.
14/

FIRST CONVERSATION AFTER CAPTIVITY! Tears of loved ones #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/05/first-conversation-after-captivity-tears.html

Trump is not well, not fit to be president, remember he is Commander-in-Chief and in control of nuclear weapons, this must stop....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/27/trump-sharpie-story/

Trump imagines negotiation with Sharpie maker for $5 signature pens
Trump told a lengthy story about negotiating over the price of Sharpie pens. The company says it has no record of any such conversation.

https://telegra.ph/Explore-DD-Geopolitics-on-Multiple-Platforms-12-04
RTVI:n uusi video Kuubasta näyttää, miltä energiasaarto näyttää oikeassa elämässä. Ihmiset seisovat tuhansien syvyisissä polttoaineletkuissa.

a conversation with claude

We recently joined Astronomers Without Borders for a live conversation during Global Astronomy Month with Andrew Fazekas and Laura Trouille, #Zooniverse Principal Investigator and VP of Science Engagement at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, highlighting the breadth and impact of Zooniverse’s astronomy projects: https://daily.zooniverse.org/2026/04/13/zooniverse-in-conversation-astronomers-without-borders/

Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/gabbard-whistleblower-complaint-based-on-intercepted-conversation-about-jared-kushner-620659e0?st=3fZm5b&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p96#a260212p96

From The Conversation
Israel wants to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. But should it have nuclear weapons itself?
Israel’s avowed goal in the Middle East war is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Yet, the double standard associated with this is hardly sustainable in the long run.
The worst-kept secret in the world of nuclear politics is that Israel possesses a formidable arsenal of nuclear weapons.

Hi, @… . Could you take a look at this conversation, please? It's me trying to troubleshoot a bridge of a friend of mine.
Is the problem something you can help with or is it a bluesky thing?

My mother is making fun of me that I'm only talking to seniors. But let's be honest, whom else would I talk to? Seniors seem to be practically the only people interested in engaging in a conversation with strangers on the train, and being able to keep it ongoing. And sometimes I feel like I'm so detached from modernity that they're the only people I have common topics with (such as travels).

Conversation on BlueSky convinced me to add the following clause to Article I, to clarify that the addition I'm considering making to Article II wouldn't be exclusive:
https://github.com/cooljeanius/w_Constitution/commit/b9c017249cb547ac4e5b3f5bf123ac18ba72fbe5

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
King Tubby:
🎵 King Tubby’s Conversation (dub)
#KingTubby
https://open.spotify.com/track/1wlI1cmH83MXgTRfq7z6v4

I love #Thunderbird but I can‘t believe how stuck in the past it seems. No conversation view (a slow plugin exists), no warning for emails that have a sender outside your company (not even a plugin?), no warning when you’re addressing somebody outside your org, no way to define which address books should not be used to auto-complete.
I know it’s free software and I don’t donate every ti…

“Instead of assuming the worst, it’s important to recognize the pain and fear that might be behind someone’s decision to stay silent or speak loudly. Honoring each other’s need for safety helps build a conversation on shared humanity rather than tension.”
—Lauren Maxwell ‘25 M.Div, ‘26 S.T.M. in this Yale News article on the university’s Cultivating Conversation program.

‘Cultivating Conversation’: Instilling skills that carry dialogue forward
More than 100 Yale students recently completed a pilot leadership development program that offered tools and skills training for engaging in meaningful dialogue with people who have different viewpoints.

Meet the author - Joshua Black, Frank Bongiorno, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu
Mon 18 May 2026, 6:00 pm
Frank Bongiorno will be in conversation with Joshua Black, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu on Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government. Edited by Frank Bongiorno, CarolynHolbrook and Joshua Black.
#Canberra #ANU

Meet the author - Joshua Black, Frank Bongiorno, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu
Frank Bongiorno will be in conversation with Joshua Black, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu on Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government. Edited by Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook and Joshua Black.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116290622362845597
My main point here is that this is completely normal.
For example it can be cathartic to set someone right and start writing a reply and basically finishing it but then you decide you don't want to have a conversation after all and instead you just ignore the post, or even mute or block.

Ex-Raider Carr NOT Ruling Out a Return https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-former-derek-carr-could-be-reentering-conversation

Join #DefendResearch on March 5th for a conversation with Nina Jankowicz, co-founder and CEO of the American Sunlight Project, where we'll explore "Censorship, Disinformation, and the Fight for Academic Freedom" and how we can resist censorship and its consequences. Register and find more information at

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Real conversation I just had.
I grabbed a mouse in the shop, I arrive at the cashier.
I put the mouse on the desk
(Perplexed, IDK what else I could want to do)
euh... yes?
OK Can I have your phone number?
I just want to pay for my mouse, why do you need my phone number for?
To send you the invoice by email
Can I just pay and go please??

Neat ideas for navigating threaded comments & new comments highlighting. I kinda thought of this but really wonder about its usefulness.
- If there's too much nesting of comments, the sidebar space won't be enough
- It shows "[INT] [NAME]" where INT = vote count. Higher count is probably more read-worthy?
- Per-day filter for new comments highlighting is probably too broad in scope if the conversation is too active.
- Sidebar won't appear on sma…

I was interviewed by Marcos Marcolin for the Brazilian #PHP community. It's a long interview, but I had fun with it. 🙂
https://www.marcosmarcolin.com.br/blog/php-30-years-la…

RE: #InternetGovernance

"Video Recordings, From Speaker Series to Open Access Repository"
https://doi.org/10.31274/joerhe.24658
"[…] the care, pace, and speakers’ perspectives on how open access and librarianship practices share stories in their collections. Based on the Western Washington University En…

Giants HC John Harbaugh isn't 'too worried' about Malik Nabers' draft comments https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-hc-john-harbaugh-isn-t-too-worried-about-malik-nabers-draft-comments

There's still time to register for the next #DefendResearch webinar! On April 8th, #DefendResearch team member and Declaration co-author Sara Rouhi will be in conversation with information studies researcher Dr. George Cooper, who will share key findings from his 6-year project o…

#JonStewart and #TrevorNoah in conversation. The Problem With Democrats. Don’t know the background, this one of a series of 10-20 minute clips where they talk about a lot of stuff.

Barron Trump wore a blue tie, (gasp)
a color traditionally associated with the Democrats
https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/barron-trump-tie-state-union-36780798#Echobox=1772061580

Barron Trump's choice of tie raises eyebrows at State of Union speech
Trump's son Barron sparked conversation with his wardrobe choice at the State of Union address

Cowboys To Make Brandon Aubrey Highest Paid Kicker in NFL History https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brandon-aubrey-highest-paid-kicker-history/

15,000 people singing to call on ICE to leave their jobs!
🎵🎵🎵
Oh-h-h, It's okay to change your mind,
Show us your courage,
Leave this behind,
It's okay to change your mind,
And you can join us,
Join us here any time
🎵🎵🎵
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVEuV1hkvjG/

Singers on Instagram: "15,000 people singing to call on ICE to: quit your jobs! Show your courage! Lay down your weapons! Leave this behind! 🧊 Singing with Brandi Carlile was awesome - but what we’re really about is taking it to the streets. Join us for our National Weekend of Action Feb. 28 / March 1 by find your local group at tinyurl.com/groupslistSR (linked in bio) and contact them directly to join an action near you. ⭐️ We sing to protect and care for our communities in the face of rising authoritarianism. Always and forever we say: ABOLISH ICE. Who in your life can you start a conversation with about abolishing ICE? Send them this video and invite them to join you at a Singing Resistance action near you! 💌 Song: Annie Schlaefer It’s okay to change your mind Show us your courage Leave this behind It’s okay to change your mind And you can join us Join us here anytime"
31K likes, 307 comments - singingresistance on February 22, 2026: "15,000 people singing to call on ICE to: quit your jobs! Show your courage! Lay down your weapons! Leave this behind! 🧊 Singing with Brandi Carlile was awesome - but what we’re really about is taking it to the streets. Join us for our National Weekend of Action Feb. 28 / March 1 by find your local group at tinyurl.com/groupslistSR (linked in bio) and contact them directly to join an action near you. ⭐️ We sing to prot…

I had a conversation with a friend who lives in Australia today. He said that his family members with teenage kids are saying that it’s ‘business as usual’ for Australian teens on social media. They find workarounds that quickly get shared amongst them. I wonder if the Australian government will do an assessment of the impact of their recent ban. It would be cynical if they didn’t.
Coincidentally, this came up in my news feed today as well:

AlanLewis Raw Conversation
I'm your host, Alan Lewis, and in each episode, we dive deep into real, unfiltered conversations with people who've lived the experience...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/alan-lewis-r…

To be clear: with these people I always look to opportunism before conspiracy to explain their actions — but when you have this kind of rapidly convergent manufactured consensus within a political group, the distinction between those two becomes blurry.
Looking for malicious premeditation is probably just pursuing a red herring. I’m more interested in how they form their response, what they’re doing to try to shape public conversation, social media, the press.

Where Will the GOP--and Where Should Democrats--Go After Trump: A Conversation with Jamelle Bouie (Shikha Dalmia/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/where-will-the-gopand-where-should
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p33#a260427p33

Wow, MTG seems to have some retrospective thoughts there.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-conversation-with-dasha-burns/id1111319839?i=1000760596138

Inside the war on Trump’s new MAGA (with Marjorie Taylor Greene)
Podcast Episode · The Conversation with Dasha Burns · April 10 · 43m

RE: https://social.freedom.press/@freedomofpress/116449031735670570
Tonight! Come join us! Will be a great conversation.

Like the rule at my wife's old student co-op (sex in public is public sex), a speakerphone conversation in public is a public speakerphone conversation. Feel free to chime in!
https://mastodon.social/@EdCates/116070076420206855

From The Conversation
Three ways Canada can navigate an increasingly erratic and belligerent United States
Charles Conteh
Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Department of Political Science, Brock University
"...the Canada-U.S. relationship is a complex picture of deep interdependence, marked by significant power imbalances, and the creative ways Canada has learned to adapt and prosper. ..."

Register now for the special event.
https://content.ctpublic.org/event/a-conversation-between-colin-mcenroe-and-christian-wiman/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Dave Holland in conversation
Soweto is joined by the ever-explorative jazz bassist Dave Holland to reflect on his career and collaborations with jazz greats like Miles Davis, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gdxb

Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says "we've achieved AGI", on running Nvidia, AI scaling laws, OpenClaw, future of coding, data centers in space, China, and more (Lex Fridman)
https://lexfridman.com/jensen-huang-transcript

It's a hacky way to end the story. Garbage and trite, but that's not the point. The point is that the system prompt explicitly says to give back the original text with improvements. Instead it finished the story from the end.
Why? Because I injected into the conversation and made it "think" that *it* had written the story and was finishing it.
That variant of the story used <start_of_turn> and <end_of_turn> (the model's tokens) instead of <|im_start|>/<|im_end|> which are (if I'm not mistaken) ChatGPT tokens.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Conversation
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/conversation
https://open.spotify.com/track/0MZfMBqsHdmfyIy2Ksiqoi

Harbaugh: Met with Nabers, cool with WR's honesty https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48594890/giants-harbaugh-no-problem-nabers-nfl-draft-comments

Feck It, No More
Every episode features a raw, unfiltered conversation with someone who hit rock bottom - and decided to rebuild...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/feck-it-no-more/

Trump said one officer was shot before authorities stopped an unidentified gunman at the White House Correspondents Assn. dinner,
“from very close distance, with a very powerful gun, and the vest did the job.”
“I just spoke to the officer, and he’s doing great,” Trump said at a press conference. “He has very high spirits, and we told him we love him and respect him.”
After thanking the officer Trump, pivoted the conversation to the ballroom,
the planned “East Wing,” …

Trump evacuated after reports of gunfire at White House Correspondents’ Assn. dinner; FBI confirms an arrest
President Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Assn. dinner on Saturday evening after reports that gunshots were fired.

Urban Illusions and Fallacies - High Contrast 🏙️
城市的幻影和谬误 - 高反差 🏙️
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🎓 Technology and the future of learning at SXSW EDU 2026
Last month, Domenico Vicinanza attended the event in Austin as a mentor and contributor.
One clear takeaway: the conversation around AI & technology in education has shifted. It's no longer about whether AI belongs in education, but how to use it thoughtfully and inclusively.
Highlights included showcasing eduMEET, CESNET's UltraGrid, and a live music demo using the GÉANT and Internet2 networks.
…

UPDATE: The kids met their fundraising goal! Looks like they’re going to Space Camp!!
Thank you, thank you to all here who supported the fundraiser. I don’t have access to the fundraising data, but based on a conversation with the lead organizers, it looks like the Mastodon contribution was a substantial one.

OpenAI plans "an autonomous AI research intern" by September and says its "North Star" is to build a fully automated multi-agent research system by 2028 (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview…

OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher
An exclusive conversation with OpenAI’s chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, about his firm's new grand challenge and the future of AI.

Four years after the massacre of nine black church goers in Charleston, South Carolina;
two years after the murder of a white anti-fascist and anti-racist activist in Charlottesville, Virginia;
and days after the racially motivated massacre of 22 people who were targeted because their murderer wanted to kill Hispanics,
America has reached a crisis point where we finally have to talk about racism in our society.
But is the media approaching this conversation in an …

Why Corporate Media Doesn’t Talk Honestly About Racism
Media conversations about racism are rarely accurate, let alone honest, facilitating the status quo and hindering systemic change. A discussion between Dylan Rodriguez, Eddie Conway, and Jaqueline Luqman

2026 NFL combine: Five players with elite speed who could challenge 40-yard dash record

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-combine-40-yard-dash-record/

In Conversation
In each episode, Simon Moore speaks to a figure in our artistic landscape, delving into all the detailed and interesting facets of their life, from the trivial to the profound...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/in-con

Should we really say that Trump and ICE are holding people in “concentration camps”?
Yes !
— because it’s both true and strategic.
It’s true because that's what they are,
as Andrea Pitzer explained in our recent conversation:
a place where people are held without due process after being rounded up based solely on what they look like and where they come from.
It’s strategic because it signals that this is an extreme circumstance that demands an urgent…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMatters
- Music on the Front Line
Clive Myrie is in conversation with news reporters. He and photojournalist Paul Conroy share stories to reveal the power of music when reporting from extreme conflict situations.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020ybb

Join #DefendResearch on March 5th for a conversation with Nina Jankowicz, co-founder and CEO of the American Sunlight Project, where we'll explore "Censorship, Disinformation, and the Fight for Academic Freedom" and how we can resist #censorship and its negative impacts.

ASMR Garden
Where intimate conversation meets immersive sound...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods

Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it "the largest and most multilingual qualitative study" (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews

What 81,000 people want from AI
Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.

Clay Parikh does not want to talk about who he is working with inside the White House.
However, in an extraordinary and extensive conversation with TPM, he had a lot to say about many other things,
including his concerns that the “deep state”
and a shadowy “cabal” is influencing our elections. 
“When they say ‘deep state,’ it’s deep and it’s everywhere,”
Parikh said in a phone call late Tuesday evening. 
Parikh, who, according to court documents unsealed th…

Meet the ‘Cabal’-Hating ‘Special Government Employee’ Involved in the Fulton County FBI Raid
Clay Parikh unloaded in a nearly two hour conversation with TPM.

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Conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson, has said he is “tormented” by his support of Donald Trump,
issuing in an extraordinary mea culpa that called for “a moment to wrestle with our own consciences”.
Carlson delivered that comment in a conversation with Buckley Carlson,
his brother and a former Trump speechwriter,
on The Tucker Carlson Show on Monday that reviewed the sidelining of traditional conservative values in a Republican party now dominated by the president.…

At Turkey’s showcase diplomatic conference in the Mediterranean resort town of Antalya over the weekend, the United States was rarely the official topic of conversation.
But coursing through the discussions among the thousands of participants
— including dozens of heads of state and other senior officials from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia
— were questions about how to respond when the United States disregards its allies and the global order it long professed to …

Artist Shepard Fairey is best known for the Obama “Hope” poster
Some of his recent artworks depict ICE agents with labels like “Domestic Terrorist,”
used by Trump administration officials to describe protesters who oppose the administration's immigration crackdown.
Fairey says that while he doesn’t think of his art as propaganda, he also doesn’t shy away from the label.
“It's meant to initiate a conversation, a counternarrative that isn’t happening in a robust…

Shepard Fairey on Art, Activism & Resisting Fascism: “It Can Happen Here, and It Is”
We speak with artist Shepard Fairey, best known for the Obama “Hope” poster, about the role of art in politics, the rise of fascism in the United States and more. Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman spoke with Fairey in Los Angeles last week and toured his studio. Some of his recent artworks depict ICE agents with labels like “Domestic Terrorist,” used by Trump administration officials to describe protesters who oppose the administration's immigration crackdown. Fairey says that while he doesn…