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As backlogs grow, staffing shrinks and requests languish for years, journalists say Freedom of Information records often arrive too late to hold anyone accountable
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2026/public-records-requests-wait-times-to…

Is the Freedom of Information Act becoming too slow to matter? - Poynter
As backlogs grow, staffing shrinks and requests languish for years, journalists say records often arrive too late to hold anyone accountable

Great Mastodon improvements
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

Mastodon 4.6
In Mastodon 4.6, we are introducing a way to create and share curated collections of profiles. We've also reworked profiles and the profile editing experience, added some institutional features, and fixed many accessibility issues.

I thought I've read that #hashtags can't be found via "follow hashtag" of posts that did not have the hashtag in its initial version. Therefore, editing a post for adding hashtags doesn't work.
This does seem to confirm: https://

Mastodon 4.6 - Mastodon Blog
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

🎥 I've just wrapped up a whole morning of recording new videos for a course I'm developing. A ton of bloopers, lots of eye-rolling, and lots of editing required! But I'm glad to have the raw materials sorted.
#Psychologist #PsychologistAtWork

Apple unveils new editing tools for the Photos app as part of Apple Intelligence, including an upgraded Cleanup tool, and new Extend and Spatial Reframing tools (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-ai-reframing-and-editi…

Apple to Bring AI Reframing and Editing Tools to Photos App
Apple today announced new AI-powered photo editing tools coming to the Photos app as part of Apple Intelligence, including an upgraded Cleanup tool,...

#Affinity

I hope all mastodon instances quickly install Mastodon 4.6 so i can add people from their servers to my "Collections".
#Mastodon46

Mastodon 4.6
In Mastodon 4.6, we are introducing a way to create and share curated collections of profiles. We've also reworked profiles and the profile editing experience, added some institutional features, and fixed many accessibility issues.

Dev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software, stoking fears of unstoppable ads — delivers 360p video at 30 FPS and acts as a ‘bridge for AI’
A new and unique ASCII video streaming solution has been released under the MIT license. ASCILINE Engine by YusufB5 is pitched as a “high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine” that can be used to broadcast “an unblockable video stream.”
📺

Dev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software — delivers 360p video at 30 FPS and acts as a ‘bridge for AI’
Some commenters are worried that this development could precipitate unblockable ads.

The $16 Million Question: If Editing Harris Was 'Election Interference,' What Was Editing Trump? (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/04/the-16-million-question-if-editing-harris-was-election-interference-what-was-editing-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p90#a260504p90

@… gaan jullie ook Mastodon 4.6 implementeren, "collecties" lijken me erg handig en ook de nieuwsbrief faciliteit biedt kansen, https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/

Mastodon 4.6
In Mastodon 4.6, we are introducing a way to create and share curated collections of profiles. We've also reworked profiles and the profile editing experience, added some institutional features, and fixed many accessibility issues.

Kodak DC120 (kind of 1MP*, 1997)
*The camera has an extremely odd sensor size of 850x984 (non-square pixels??!), and only RawTherapee (open source photo editing app) opened it up in the full stored resolution of 840x968 (sensors usually have a few more pixels than the highest resolution a camera can store, it's complicated).
I converted to TIFF and stretched in Photoshop to proper aspect ratio; then edited with CameraRaw.
#ShittyCameraChallenge

i am SO fucking SMART (taking advantage of the fact that bsky doesn't support post editing and also that the bridge puts a link to the original post below if you exceed the character limit so that my pinned post on bsky tells people to follow the bridge with a link to the intro post while the one on fedi is an actual intro post

Furbland's Very Cool Account™ (@groupnebula563.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy)
ATTENTION BSKY/ATPROTO USER: In order for me to see your profile or any of your interactions with me or my posts (or vice versa) you MUST follow @ap.brid.gy first! I promise there's nothing sketchy going on, let me know if you have questions! Click the button below to see my full intro post! […] https://mastodon.social/@GroupNebula563/116581943546396472

Google updates its AI video editor Vids with Gemini Omni and a feature that lets users create custom digital avatars using a selfie and voice recording (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/google-vids-now-lets-you-star-in-your-own-…

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos | TechCrunch
Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.

any loop that allows an LLM to modify its own behavior is necessarily going to result in undesirable emergent behavior. this includes editing tests, agent/soul files, and any other context, input, and prompt.

from my link log —
A new suite of modern tools for editing and publishing IETF RFCs.
https://www.ietf.org/blog/new-tools-coming-for-editing-and-publishing-rfcs/
saved 2026-05-23

A new suite of modern tools coming for editing and publishing RFCs
After a number of years of work, the initial rollout of a modern suite of tools for editing and publishing RFCs, including an entirely new rfc-editor.org website, will take place in May 2026.

2026 Pulitzer Prize winners: NYT for Investigative Reporting, the AP for International Reporting, and WaPo for Public Service for its DOGE coverage (Ren LaForme/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2026/2026-pulitzer-prize-winners-list/…

Here are the winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes - Poynter
Details and links to this year’s recipients of American journalism’s highest honor

My goodness. I’ll not post examples here because I don’t want to traumatize anyone, but the new, and rather good, ML image editing in Photos in the iOS 27 beta can produce some truly disturbing images. Just try erasing parts of faces of friends or pets and you’ll see…

i see apple still hasn't fixed the bug in keynote where the d key randomly stops working when editing speaker notes in rehearsal mode 🫠

If you write family stories with multiple characters whose lives interveave, this post has some useful tips whether you are a Scrivener user or not. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/compile-multiple-timelines-or-p…

Compile Multiple Timelines or Point-of-View Character Arcs in Your Scrivener Projects - Literature & Latte
Learn how to use Scrivener's compile filter and labels to isolate individual timelines or POV character arcs for editing and consistency checks.

Event: Wikipedia as Pedagogy: How faculty and students are shaping public scholarship in the field of religion
Hosted by WikiEducation and the AAR Teaching & Learning Committee In this webinAAR, you will hear from three faculty who have incorporated Wikipedia editing into their pedagogy. During this roundtable session, faculty will discuss why they decided to adopt the Wikipedia assignment and how it has affected their teaching. We’ll explore what Wikipedia can offer…

Hussein RashidEvent: Wikipedia as Pedagogy: How faculty and students are shaping public scholarship in the field of religion
Hosted by WikiEducation and the AAR Teaching & Learning Committee In this webinAAR, you will hear from three faculty who have incorporated Wikipedia editing into their pedagogy. During this rou…

Spotify: Playlist-Ordner jetzt auch in der mobilen App verfügbar
Spotify verteilt mehrere Verbesserungen: Playlist-Ordner kommen auf Mobilgeräte, Bulk-Editing wird ausgebaut.
https://www.

Spotify: Playlist-Ordner jetzt auch in der mobilen App verfügbar
Spotify verteilt mehrere Verbesserungen: Playlist-Ordner kommen auf Mobilgeräte, Bulk-Editing wird ausgebaut.

Omni Tools has thousands of user friendly utilities for editing images, text, lists, and data, all in your browser. It's pretty damn cool: #design

Going to stream in about 10m to show off three Build Awesome Pro editing demos, come hang out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr-NLgVrsMQ

Welp, I guess I won’t be editing #OpenStreetMap for a bit. 🤷‍♂️
(Note: this appears to be an intermittent error.)
#HTTP503

Being an author in 2026 means having to answer questions like this… (About a book written in 2018. And whose prose is *obviously* no, suggesting this person hasn't really cracked open the book much.)

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
"Delegation requires trust - the expectation that the LLM will faithfully execute the task without introducing errors into documents. We introduce DELEGATE-52 to study the readiness of AI systems in delegated workflows. DELEGATE-52 simulates long delegated workflows that require in-depth document editing across 52 professional domains, such as coding, crystallography, and music notation. Our large-scale experiment with 19 LLMs reveals …

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation that the LLM will faithfully execute the task without introducing errors into documents. We introduce DELEGATE-52 to study the readiness of AI systems in delegated workflows. DELEGATE-52 simulates long delegated workflows that require in-depth document editing across 52 professional domains, such as…

Adding files to notes in @… is now live! Now I'm adding bulk editing. So many new features. I can't wait to write about them.

Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creator-focused video-editing tools to Android 17, expand AirDrop connectivity, and more (Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-android-17-tempts-an-iphone-user/

I'm a devoted iPhone user but Android 17 is tempting me with its new video and social features
Android 17 just made it easier to switch from an iPhone or exist alongside a group of iOS users with new features and capabilities.

I’m wondering who these “AI” image editing features are for, I mean besides object removal and “make skin look nicer”.
For example “the plebs” don’t know how to frame photos and don’t see they’re bad, so they won’t know that they should be framed differently; but people into photography will frame photos right from the beginning and don’t want to add any generative stuff.

The paper I'm editing right now is fantastic. When submitted it was OK but flawed in several important ways. The author put in the work through rounds of review and produced a model of historical scholarship. I can't wait for people to read it.

Lee Enterprises, which owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and more, told its newspapers to run a three-story package on new chairman David Hoffmann on front pages (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/rep…

Lee Enterprises tells its papers to run front-page profile of chairman and billionaire David Hoffmann this weekend - Poynter
Some at the company say the unusual request raises questions about editorial independence

Really great walkthrough! Thoughts that came to me while watching:
⁃ This is exactly how I dial in guitar sounds – move the knob to the extremes to see exactly what it's giving me, then find the spot where it feels the best
⁃ It's a feel thing, and less is often more
⁃ Which tool you use matters less than you think
⁃ Pros understand/use subtlety @…

Ewen Bell 📸 (@ewen@social.ewenbell.com)
New on the Tubes - "Processing RAW Photos with the Tone Curve" My simple secrets to editing RAW photos that can help any photographer improve their skills. I call it "Ewen's Bell Curve" :) In this...

I'll take this moment to remind you that @… is free and open
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-office…

Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac Will Soon Stop Letting You Edit Documents
Microsoft will prevent Office 2019 for Mac owners from editing their documents from July 13, a restriction the company is attributing to the...

Some thoughts on extending lexicons https://amybunny.offprint.app/a/3mnzodqsmxc23-some-thoughts-on-extending-lexicons

Some thoughts on extending lexicons | Offprint
And editing posts on bluesky, apparently.

@… 's #PeerTube instance fair.tube got three external runners. They speed up encoding of videos, live streaming and video editing.
Kudos to @…

Yes, #Emacs. You can render SVG. Very clever. But I actually want to *edit the text* of the file (you know, in a text editor. Like... oh, $DEITY, never mind).
Yes, Emacs, you almost certainly do have some weird key combination to switch back to ACTUALLY BEING A TEXT EDITOR, but I don't know it, and, being Emacs, you're too damned arrogant to make it discoverable.
Typing `<esc&…

Pt. 2 of the Gentoo install report.
There was a bit of functionality lacking, so i decided to switch profile (from barebone to desktop OpenRC), which is pretty straightforward. My 6.8 of dwm was pretty vanilla, only all required patches were there, so i've started on editing the config.def.h, also good. And the first kernel update arrived, testing ugrd and automatic initramfs update. Well, it didn't, obviously 🤣
I could, eventually, through my carefully written-down instal…

“In this work, we conduct a large-scale simulation of how users might delegate work to LLMs across 52 professional domains. We find that current LLMs are unreliable delegates: even frontier models corrupt an average of 25% of document content over long workflows, with sparse but severe errors that silently compound over time.”
Good to see the issue addressed explicitly, even though the results aren’t surprising—why would anyone expect LLMs to be reliable!?

Keith Kelly, the former NY Post media reporter, is now editing a group of Straus Media-owned hyperlocal weeklies covering NY neighborhoods (Gary Baum/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-new…

How Keith Kelly Went From Media Reporter to Local (News) Legend
The former New York Post columnist is reviving neighborhood journalism with a stable of neighborhood papers like The West Side Spirit and Chelsea News.

I'm supposed to proof read a report today. But the author forgot to close the document, so I'm locked out from editing. Guess I'll be here a lot today. Now I'm thinking about what else needs my attention (a lot of things, should I have said - what I'm willing to do?)

Eli Lilly is preparing a phase 2 trial for VERVE-102, a one-time gene editor acquired from Verve Therapeutics. The highest dose cut LDL cholesterol by 62% in patients, a reduction sustained for up to 18 months across 35 participants.
The treatment permanently switches off PCSK9, a cholesterol-producing gene, using base editing that flips a single DNA letter without breaking the double helix.
#news

Sources: Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo editing in iOS 27, including using on-device AI models to extend, enhance, and reframe photos (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

@… Thanks for the quick response! This was indeed the issue.
IMHO, the main issue is that you can't use any images without editing config.yml, not even remote ones. Even when only using URLs, you still have to set images_origin to something, as it can't be empty. And the error message isn't very helpful.
What would kinda make…

@… Thanks for the quick response! This was indeed the issue.
IMHO, the main issue is that you can't use any images without editing config.yml, not even remote ones. Even when only using URLs, you still have to set images_origin to something, as it can't be empty. And the error message isn't very helpful.
What would kinda make…

狐 CalliMaster: Mastering Page-level Chinese Calligraphy via Layout-guided Spatial Planning
#cs

CalliMaster: Mastering Page-level Chinese Calligraphy via Layout-guided Spatial Planning
Page-level calligraphy synthesis requires balancing glyph precision with layout composition. Existing character models lack spatial context, while page-level methods often compromise brushwork detail. In this paper, we present \textbf{CalliMaster}, a unified framework for controllable generation and editing that resolves this conflict by decoupling spatial planning from content synthesis. Inspired by the human cognitive process of ``planning before writing'', we introduce a coarse-to-fine pipel…

🔧 Code quality:
• tdd — full test-driven dev workflow
• scaffold-exercises — builds coding exercises from spe cs
• edit-article — structured editing with context transfer
🛡️ Safety rails:
• git-guardrails-claude-code — blocks push, reset --hard & clean before #AI executes them
• setup-pre-commit — configures

Hmmm, you want me to put in tags for my documents. OK...
1. What are the standards, don't just tell me to put in tags.
2. Do you want me to put it in English or French? I can do that, but tell me.
3. Is there a list of phrases and acronyms I can use when adding tags? I have a small one, but it is specific for one system.
And NO, there is zero chance of me editing 20k documents that goes back decades. If I edit it then I can add tags.

I'm this week's guest on @… ! We talk early '80s video game cartoons. Thanks to Kevin for a) providing the surreal experience of hearing myself on it and b) making me sound less rambling through good editing.
https://

I'm sorting my own #music files and #exfalso is the best for me to incrust front covers and editing metadata. Much love to this app seriously.
#linux

Today in unanticipated editing work I had to point out that a transcription of a French-language text was obviously incorrect since, first, it made no grammatical sense and, second, retargeting shit ("remire la merde") doesn't make it worse ("plus ça pire" - see pt 1). Stirring it, though, might make it smell worse ("plus on remue la merde, plus ça pue”). Oh the places a PhD will take you.

This afternoon, I made my way back to Richmond. I met my wife for a lunchtime coffee ( she’s not got time to order a meal, and she wasn’t hungry). I saw her back into work and then spent the afternoon in the pub opposite editing all the photographs I had taken, and enjoying a couple of beers.

A little appalled at how the Jules agent is editing my code. Instead of editing the file, it is writing Python programs to rewrite the file with a silly little state machine. Honestly it sort of makes sense given LLM's limitations, but it's still awful.

for line in lines:
    if line == "    # Connect to SQLite database":
        new_lines.append(line)
    elif line == "    conn = sqlite3.connect(db_path)":
        new_lines.append("    with contextlib.closing(sqlite3.connect(db_path)) as conn:")
        in_with = True
    elif line == "    conn.close()":
        in_with = False
        continue
    elif in_with:
        if line == "":
            new_lines.append("")
        elif line.startswith("    "):
            new_lines.append("    "   line)
        else:
            new_lines.append(line)
    else:
        new_lines.append(line)

Wikipedia editors vote to bar co-founder Larry Sanger from editing articles for canvassing outside users to sway internal votes, per the Wikipedia Foundation (Adeel Hassan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/business/media/wikipedia-larry-s…

Larry Sanger, a Wikipedia Founder, Is Barred From Editing on the Site
A vote to bar Larry Sanger indefinitely from the volunteer community of Wikipedia came days after he submitted a proposal on “intellectual diversity.”

Sources: Apple plans to let users choose from multiple third-party AI models to perform tasks like generating and editing text and images in iOS 27 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Video: WebinAAR Wikipedia as Pedagogy
In this webinAAR, you will hear from three faculty who have incorporated Wikipedia editing into their pedagogy. During this roundtable session, faculty discuss why they decided to adopt the Wikipedia assignment and how it has affected their teaching. The panelists explore what Wikipedia can offer students and how students can help shape public understanding of religion by contributing to Wikipedia. They discuss how AI has reframed…

Trump's CBS 60 Minutes Interview: What Aired and What Was Cut. By excessively editing Trump’s answers the network made the president seem far more reasonable and controlled.
https://decodingfoxnews.substack.com/p/trumps-cbs-60-minutes-interview-w…

Trump's CBS 60 Minutes Interview: What Aired and What Was Cut
On Sunday April 26 President Donald J.

I'm reading a new book that's smart and ably written but full of minor grammatical errors. Have major university presses in the states decided that copy-editing is no longer necessary?

Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices, and AI Edge Eloquent, an on-device voice dictation app (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/brin

Bringing Gemma 4 12B to your Laptop: Unlocking Local, Agentic Workflows with Google AI Edge- Google Developers Blog
Google DeepMind’s Gemma 4 12B model brings agentic, multimodal AI capabilities to everyday laptops with 16GB of RAM, enabling local data processing and visual insight generation. Users can leverage this model on macOS through the Google AI Edge Gallery for dynamic Python code execution and visualization, as well as via Google AI Edge Eloquent for completely offline voice dictation and text editing. Additionally, developer workflows are enhanced by the LiteRT-LM CLI's new serve command, which …

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini…

Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash
Scale your ideas with Nano Banana 2 Lite, our fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini Image model, and Gemini Omni Flash for high-quality video generation and conversational editing.

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini…

Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash
Scale your ideas with Nano Banana 2 Lite, our fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini Image model, and Gemini Omni Flash for high-quality video and conversational editing.

Ford government denies editing Ford Fest photo, says it corrected 'orange hue' | CBC News
Colour Correction just happened to turn opsu
protest purple to pc blue?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/opposition-slams-ford-government-fan-fest-photo-9.7245177

Adobe, Canva, and CapCut announce Gemini integrations to let users access the companies' image and video editing tools within the Gemini app (James Peckham/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/adobe-canva-capcut-are-coming-to-gemini-to-help-y…