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NRC rectificeert Wijers-berichten, biedt oud-informateur en lezers excuses aan
#Wijers #NRC

Grokipedia, a Grok-powered online encyclopedia, launches with over 885K articles; Elon Musk has touted it as a less biased alternative to Wikipedia (Washington Post)

Elon Musk launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’
The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative to the world’s most widely cited online source.

Democrats had a big year of learning the new online media ecosystem, investing in it and showing up in the right places.
Now they need to grow rapidly
Donors on the left need to take the threat of the rightwing media ecosystem seriously and start investing a lot more in ways to capture that.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115…

A look at podcasts hosted by potential 2028 US presidential candidates; Senator Ted Cruz's podcast leads with 1.8M average monthly downloads and views (Dylan Wells/Washington Post)

We listened to all the podcasts from 2028 candidates. Here’s who stood out.
A guide to political podcasts from potential candidates. Not all of them are riveting.

The mysterious rise of cancer among young adults in the Corn Belt (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/10/27/young-cancer-iowa/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYxNTM3NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzYyOTIzNTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjE1Mzc2MDAsImp0aSI6Ijc4NjA5ZjBhLTcxOTUtNDNhZi1hZWRhLTdmYzMyZTUzMTIzOCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9oZWFsdGgvMjAyNS8xMC8yNy95b3VuZy1jYW5jZXItaW93YS8ifQ.ZJX4V8qMF6JnrsqMoFkeF5I6x-HK5NNEGXij6z9A7g8
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p119#a251027p119

Pandacetamol – Below The Surface
#bync

Pentagon moves to fire civilian personnel with 'speed and conviction' (Tara Copp/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/28/pentagon-firings-civilian-employees-memo/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYxNjI0MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzYzMDA5OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjE2MjQwMDAsImp0aSI6IjE0N2UxYjczLWFiNWUtNDE0NS04ODUyLTFiM2M1YWY5NGQ0YiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI1LzEwLzI4L3BlbnRhZ29uLWZpcmluZ3MtY2l2aWxpYW4tZW1wbG95ZWVzLW1lbW8vIn0.c6Ok8DHEtyGFeVsJKCs4uwpCBRV9U2_ScYMKnqZTUgM
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p127#a251028p127

A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right's campaign against it (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

A Wikipedia cofounder is fueling the right’s campaign against it
Larry Sanger’s claims of a liberal slant and mismanagement at the world’s dominant online encyclopedia are being enthusiastically embraced on the right.

Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters
act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea creatures, new observations reveal
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bizarre-ecosystem-disco…

Bizarre Ecosystem Discovered More Than Two Miles beneath Arctic Ocean
Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea creatures, new observations reveal

A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right's campaign against it (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

A Wikipedia cofounder is fueling the right’s campaign against it
Larry Sanger’s claims of a liberal slant and mismanagement at the world’s dominant online encyclopedia are being enthusiastically embraced on the right.