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News Literacy Project survey: 84% of US teens describe news media negatively, and 94% think news or media literacy should be part of their education (Diane Sylvester/Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories

Teen distrust of journalism is rising — media literacy may be the industry’s best defense
When the News Literacy Project surveyed American teens last fall, the results were sobering: 84% described news media as “biased,” “boring” or “bad.” In her latest report for E&P, Diane Sylvester unpacks what’s driving that skepticism — and why it may say as much about the broader information ecosystem as it does about young people themselves. From classroom gaps to social media overload, the findings reveal a generation struggling to distinguish journalism from everything else …

The messaging coming from the White House increasingly reflects an “America, fuck yeah!” approach to international politics
– a phrase from the theme tune of "Team America: World Police",
the 2004 satire by the creators of South Park, which mocked the thrusting militarism of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
For those who don’t remember,
the film follows a crack squad of puppet soldiers as they blast their way around the world,
pursuing bad guy…

Trump’s ‘America, F**k Yeah’ doctrine and the war with Iran
Bombing the Iranian regime with little thought of what comes next suggests a foreign policy driven by pure swagger – a Team America approach to global power

A friend notes how fragmented, consumer-driven distributed energy is creating a coordination gap across the system. See his LinkedIn post:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7450505389399293952-pU-B/

Emails, texts, and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robotaxis to stop for school buses as required by law (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-school-district-…

A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses. It Didn’t Work
The incidents in Austin raise questions about how self-driving cars “learn” and adapt to their surroundings.

Scientists warn UK biodiversity report may distort evidence with security framing #UnitedKingdom

Scientists warn UK biodiversity report may distort evidence with security framing
Scientists have warned that a new UK Government report on global biodiversity loss and national security risks distorting evidence and driving ineffective policy by framing ecological degradation and its impacts on migration as a security threat. The report, "Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security," was published in early 2026 and argues that accelerating biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse pose mounting security threats to the UK.

"Why $100 Oil Isn’t Going to Spark a New Shale Boom"
"So far, nothing has changed for us...even missile strikes aren’t shaking off the lethargy in oil right now."
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Why-100-Oil-Isnt-Goi…

Why $100 Oil Isn't Going to Spark a New Shale Boom
U.S. shale producers remain cautious despite oil prices surging above $100, with operators and service companies largely ignoring the war-driven rally and avoiding new drilling commitments.

> fight the coming crises by spending, not cutting
It seems (neo)liberal democracy with its idea of running a state as a business (cutting public services by making them lean/profitable or even privatizing crucial ones such as healthcare, education) is driving the rise of populism leading to extremists/fascists governments in the future...

❓Wie können Musikwissenschaftler:innen mit einem Knowledge Graph interagieren und relevante Informationen abrufen, ohne SPARQL-Expert:innen zu sein?
🤩 Wir freuen uns diese Frage mit euch im Rahmen einer Data Challenge zu diskutieren!✨Und in Kooperation mit dem @…
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I am late to the party, but up to now I just thought: well, search is getting worse all over the place, and at least since Google became Alphabet it is only about the money. But “The men who killed Google”¹ explains how this was deliberate, how driven by (short-term) shareholder value increase they actively made search worse. Ant that there was an internal fight – and now Google is far away from “don't be evil”.
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The Man Who Killed Google Search
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search, read here for more details. This is the story