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TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

Introducing FAIR: A federated approach to strengthen the WordPress ecosystem;
A new community-led initiative to extend WordPress distribution beyond a single point of control. @…

Introducing FAIR: A federated approach to strengthen the WordPress ecosystem | We Love Open Source - All Things Open
Last week, at AltCtrl.org, a community gathering focused on the open web, a large group of contributors from the WordPress Ecosystem introduced FAIR, a new federated approach to plugin and... Read More

Profiles of three employees at VOA's fact-checking unit, who fled Russia and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under President Trump's orders (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

The U.S. granted these journalists asylum. Then it fired them.
Three employees at Voice of America’s fact-checking unit fled Putin’s wrath and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under Trump’s orders.

'‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study"
#Oceans #Environment

Bondi fires 20 Justice Dept. employees involved in Trump prosecutions (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/12/bondi-trump-justice-fbi-firings/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUyMjkyODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUzNjc1MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTIyOTI4MDAsImp0aSI6ImUzZDc5NzZiLWQ5MDgtNDhhZi1hN2FjLTg1Y2FmODIxNzA4MiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI1LzA3LzEyL2JvbmRpLXRydW1wLWp1c3RpY2UtZmJpLWZpcmluZ3MvIn0.QW72Q4SJjYN9womUA9EMC2AcGS2k26-qp1JYMEVvxbw&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p65#a250712p65

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
For a while, there has been concern for how the ocean's #ecosystem is being modeled. Too often it is oversimplified with #phytoplankon and

‘Ticking Time Bomb’ of Ocean Acidification Has Already Crossed Planetary Boundary, Threatening Marine Ecosystems: Study https://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-acidification-planetary-boundary.html

‘Ticking Time Bomb’ of Ocean Acidification Has Already Crossed Planetary Boundary, Threatening Marine Ecosystems: Study
A new study has found that ocean acidification is not only getting worse, but crossed its “planetary boundary” roughly five years ago.

Building a Media Ecosystem Observatory from Scratch: Infrastructure, Methodology, and Insights
Zeynep Pehlivan, Saewon Park, Alexei Sisulu Abrahams, Mika Desblancs-Patel, Benjamin David Steel, Aengus Bridgman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10942

Building a Media Ecosystem Observatory from Scratch: Infrastructure, Methodology, and Insights
Understanding the flow of information across today's fragmented digital media landscape requires scalable, cross-platform infrastructure. In this paper, we present the Canadian Media Ecosystem Observatory, a national-scale infrastructure designed to monitor political and media discourse across platforms in near real time. Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) data infrastructure features custom crawlers for major platforms, a unified indexing pipeline, and a normalization layer that harmonizes he…

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

Israel strikes Iran, killing 3 commanders; Trump urges Tehran to 'make a deal' (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/12/israel-attacks-iran-tehran-explosions/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ5NzAwODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUxMDgzMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDk3MDA4MDAsImp0aSI6ImY2NzJiYTk3LTFiODUtNDMwZC1iZTgwLTA2OGRjOTk0ODA5MiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS93b3JsZC8yMDI1LzA2LzEyL2lzcmFlbC1hdHRhY2tzLWlyYW4tdGVocmFuLWV4cGxvc2lvbnMvIn0.cg3rfuJDLfOpkuqdfxc8z6W0ZgvkzELyN2LrdVCKMg0&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p25#a250613p25