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Instagram now requires users to have a public account with 1,000 followers to go live, aligning with TikTok; previously, the feature was open to all users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/instagram-now-requ…

Instagram now requires users to have at least 1,000 followers to go live | TechCrunch
Until now, Instagram allowed anyone to go live, regardless of their follower count or whether their account was public or private.

"Aktive Tests": Kommt nach WhatsApp nun endlich Instagram aufs iPad?
Apple verkauft die meisten Tablets – und trotzdem fehlt ein optimiertes iPad-Instagram. Angeblich kommt es nun endlich.

Instagram now requires users to have a public account with 1,000 followers to go live, aligning with TikTok; previously, the feature was open to all users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/instagram-now-requ…

Instagram now requires users to have at least 1,000 followers to go live | TechCrunch
Until now, Instagram allowed anyone to go live, regardless of their follower count or whether their account was public or private.

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
has been a small-but-mighty source of world-changing scientific research for more than a half-century.
NASA scientists first moved into the building,
which another federal agency leases from GISS’s institutional partner, Columbia University, in 1966.
Last month, at the behest of the Trump administration,
NASA officials told GISS it had to move out before the end of May.
In response, more than 100 staffer…

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies Faces Eviction under Trump Plan
Since 1966 NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been at the forefront of Earth and planetary science from its location in upper Manhattan. Now a Trump administration directive is ejecting its scientists to parts unknown

added alpine instructions to https://glasgow-embedded.org/latest/install.html
(these assume that you run a desktop environment and not a container, like all the other options)

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Meta’s banning of two anti-Zionist comedians from Instagram is the latest example of Big Tech’s deep anti-Palestinian bias
#meta #facebook #instagram

Here’s a fascinating dive into the dissonance between the Trump admin’s “Back to petrochem! Burn ourselves alive!!” energy policy and the actual reality on the ground, which is a massive shift toward renewable energy.
Reported by @… (my old friend from college!), featured on @…:
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31072025/inside-clean-energy-solar-and-batteries-lead-us-power/

National and Political correspondent Jacob Soboroff shares his latest reporting on the fight behind the scenes to keep FEMA alive ahead of hurricane season. 
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/inside-the-scramble-to-…

Inside the scramble to keep FEMA alive ahead of hurricane season
NBC News National and Political correspondent Jacob Soboroff shares his latest reporting on the fight behind the scenes to keep FEMA alive ahead of hurricane season. 

Sources: in May 2024, Business Insider sent some staff a recommended reading list that included seemingly AI-generated books that did not appear to exist (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/01/2025

Business Insider recommended nonexistent books to staff as it leans into AI
Some titles on the list included books with extremely garbled titles and fake authors.