@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNonprofit SF news outlet The Frisc is shutting down after nine years as local outlets proliferate in the city and media donors diverted funds to public media (Max Harrison-Caldwell/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/09/09/the-frisc-nonpr…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Campaign Legal Center (CLC),
a nonprofit whose stated aim is to defend democracy,
has filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
regarding monetary “gifts” from Donald Trump to a handful of White House staffers.
Trump made payments of $45,000 each to Natalie Harp, his doting executive assistant who rarely leaves his side;
Chamberlain Harris,
his deputy director of Oval Office operations;
and Margo Martin,
a Wh…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCrooked Media's nonprofit Crooked Ideas launches an initiative to support progressive video creators, with digital strategist Kyle Tharp as executive director (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/07/2026/crooked-me…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialReport: Indonesian authorities weaponize laws to silence environmental and Indigenous defenders https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/07/report-indonesian-authorities-weaponize-laws-to-silence-en…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialJournalists, OSINT specialists, and nonprofit leaders discuss the future of visual investigations with the rise of AI manipulation and declining reader trust (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/the-future-of-visual-investigat…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCommon Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an "unacceptable risk", saying its guardrails fall short of OpenAI's promises and it continues to do kids' homework (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int
@cdarwin@c.imIs AI superintelligence inevitable?
AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be.
Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable,
warns that “we need to mitigate the risk of extinction” with regulation
and moratoriums to halt the development of AI’s computational power and complexity,
which he says is progressing at a rate much faster than current levels of human supervision can manage.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNonprofit Tarbell Center for AI Journalism pledges $10M by 2027's end to fund new and legacy media covering AI, including $480K for NPR's Machine Gods podcast (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/04/2026/ai-nonprofit-will-s…
@cdarwin@c.imScientists race to save Florida’s coral reef as El Niño heats the ocean
The waters off the coast of South Florida were already growing warm by late June
— ominously warm to Ken Nedimyer and other scientists and conservationists
still scarred by a devastating 2023 marine heat wave
that led to the worst mass coral bleaching event on record in the state.
Nedimyer, technical director for the nonprofit Reef Renewal USA,
and other colleagues kicked into gear. …
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
EDG c compiler front end.
https://edgcpp.org/
saved 2026-09-30 https://dotat.at/:/LH212.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/nonpr…
@ncoca@social.coopI support I should feel sorry, but as someone who has repeatedly warned #nonprofits (& media outlets) that I've worked about their over-rerliance on #bigtech platforms, I find it hard to really be so sympathetic.
Also - how can it be that I, an individual, have a most robust data backup and…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgThe Internet Archive San Francisco tours on Fridays at 1pm are getting more and more people. So fun. 300 Funston Ave.
Here are some other tiny bookie non-profits in San Francisco...
Letterform Archive https://letterformarchive.org/
Prelinger Library
@Dragofix@veganism.socialMore Latin American species are surfacing at a Bangkok wildlife market https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/10/more-latin-american-species-are-surfacing-at-a-bangkok-wildlife-market/
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@memeorandum@universeodon.comA Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI's Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/mysterious-nonprofit-spacexai-national-design-studio-elon-musk-doge/
http://www.memeorandum.com/261007/p84#a261007p84
@paulwermer@sfba.socialNot sure how to reconcile these statements:
"...they help connect people to the teams that can connect them to services,” she said." ( Department of Emergency Management spokesperson"
vs
"Asked where he expects the unhoused to go, Candia said: “Just not in the area where I’m basically responsible to keep clean and clear.”"
&
"So far, the newly arrived ambassadors largely appear to be moving unhoused people along. "
I k…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialNot sure how to reconcile these statements:
"...they help connect people to the teams that can connect them to services,” she said." ( Department of Emergency Management spokesperson"
vs
"Asked where he expects the unhoused to go, Candia said: “Just not in the area where I’m basically responsible to keep clean and clear.”"
&
"So far, the newly arrived ambassadors largely appear to be moving unhoused people along. "
I k…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump administration required to pay $65 million owed to lawyers of unaccompanied migrant children
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to pay about $65 million in overdue invoices to nonprofit organizations that provided legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children facing deportation.
U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to release the funds by noon Friday, Pacifc time.
Immigrant rights advo…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow a 2023 deal that gave Pennsylvania newspaper LNP to public radio station WITF brought financial woes and self-dealing allegations, and ultimately fell apart (Carolina Abbott Galvão/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/what-happened-
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChange.org says it is investing $100M of its own money to rebuild its core petitions platform with AI and has launched an AI copilot beta for petition creators (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/02/changeorg-ai-100-million
@primonatura@mstdn.social @fanf@mendeddrum.org
@pixelpusher220@dmv.communityA nonprofit is running a donation campaign with the title
"It's DAF Day!"
I totally inserted the G and wondered how this was different than any other Tuesday
@cdarwin@c.imThe Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land
in the Black Hills,
in Custer County, South Dakota, United States.
It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land.
The memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, to be sculpted by Korczak Ziolkowski.
It is operated by the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
Crazy Hor…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAsymmetric Security investigation: OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 business, nonprofit, and government agency websites while actively obscuring their actions (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/11502a49-5319-4df5-95ea-2d76669c31a6
…
@cdarwin@c.imRepublicans this year quietly cut millions of dollars of funding
for the late and beloved Dolly Parton's children's book charity.
Imagination Library,
the nonprofit founded by Parton that sends free books to children across the world,
faces an uncertain future in Indiana and Missouri
as Republican lawmakers limit public funding.
The charity, meanwhile, has vowed to carry on.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMadden Is Designed to Feel Real. So Where Are the Concussions? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/arts/madden-27-nfl-concussions.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comNonprofit linked to seductive Swalwell honeypot Fang Fang has CCP ties -- and still places interns into political offices across US (Isabel Vincent/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/09/02/us-news/nonprofit-linked-to-swalwell-spy-fang-fang-has-ccp-ties-and-still-placing-interns-into-us-political-offices/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260902/p68#a260902p68
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is no longer offering due process protections to the most vulnerable immigrant children
-- as it tries to increase the number of deportations,
according to a lawsuit filed this week on behalf of six children,
five of whom reside in Allegheny County.
“This case is about the most vulnerable in our immigration system:
abused, abandoned, neglected, and trafficked children,”
the opening lines of the lawsuit read.
“One would assum…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWorld Foundation, the nonprofit behind the World protocol, raised $52.5M led by Pantera through a strategic sale of its WLD token with a one-year lockup (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/409610/world-foundation-wld-token-sale-funding
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeBefore you head out for what is hopefully a delightful weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you need to know, including
--OpenAI fires three safety researchers over alleged information leaks,
--OpenAI says it foiled Moonshot-linked bid to extract model reasoning,
--OpenAI agent hacked Australian state agency for bushfire data,
--California subpoenas OpenAI over AI cyberattacks,
--UK tells universities to cut ties with alleged Chinese spy front,
--ChatGPT Mac flaw opened chats and connected apps to attackers,
--Fake Zoom installer tricks Mac users into opening a backdoor,
--ShinyHunters resurfaces at new address after suspected leader’s arrest,
--Customer data stolen at two major Korean banks,
--Microsoft says attackers are winning the AI race,
--NEAR Intents hack drains $3.8m in user funds,
--AI agent hits Dutch security nonprofit in “very messy” attack,
--Microsoft’s X account hijacked to promote Clippy crypto,
--AI researchers challenge bosses from the inside,
--AI companies might face liability for rogue agents,
--Your driverless cab is watching you,
--AirTag Silencer hands stalkers a new tool
https://www.metacurity.com/openai-fires-three-safety-researchers-over-alleged-information-leaks/
@cdarwin@c.imOn Monday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court
— on a 5-4 vote
— cleared the way for Trump’s ballroom construction to proceed on White House grounds
despite no congressional authorization for the action,
holding that the nonprofit organization that sued likely did not have standing to do so.
The unsigned, “per curiam” order issued on behalf of Justices Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett
held that the National Tru…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump admin set to target George Soros nonprofit, Southern Poverty Law Center and CAIR in major tax crackdown: sources (James Franey/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/08/27/business/trump-admin-set-to-target-george-soros-nonprofit-in-tax-crackdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260827/p91#a260827p91
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA new nonprofit launched a text campaign to pressure California's AG to drop a challenge against the Paramount-WBD deal; critics call it corporate astroturf (Matt Sledge/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2026/08/21/paramount-merger-war…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNew York State Assemblyman Alex Bores launches Who Decides, a nonprofit that raised $10M and aims to raise another $20M in 2027 to shape Democratic AI policy (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/us/politics/ai-safety-2028-election-democrat…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPrism and other nonprofit outlets that focus on "movement journalism" and exposing injustice are struggling with funding as the Trump administration targets DEI (Uyiosa Elegon/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzSpaceX debris raises Gulf fishing concerns near Boca Chica: #Starship
@gray17@mastodon.socialmost of the 140 groups in the parade of course were boring corporate and nonprofit groups, in rainbow colors, and a few not-really-furry mascots.
a large but ordinary trans group had two fursuiters.
a few pup masks escaped the normal kink groups. the oddest was a bull mask worn by someone carrying one side of the sign for ... um I think it was the Oregon Department of Justice, or maybe the Portland Justice Center. I don't remember exactly any more, and that was after my phone died
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSalem Media goes private after completing its sale to WaterStone, the operating name of The Christian Community Foundation, which held a 49.5% voting interest (Cameron Coats/Radio Ink)
https://radioink.com/2026/08/20/salem-media-goes-private-as-w…
@cdarwin@c.imHere’s what you have to understand:
In Donald Trump’s America, all types of protest are unacceptable.
And if he gets his way, everyone involved in either of them could face the same fate.
Trump is currently at war with the left.
Antifa, communists, radical leftist agitators
— call them what you will, he’s coming for them.
But he’s also making plans to come for the center:
attacking nonprofit groups,
suing the press,
and making every ef…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Cable Center sells its 75K-square-foot Denver headquarters for $19.5M, as cord-cutting and media consolidation cause financial strain for the nonprofit (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/1…
@cdarwin@c.imGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has poured $102 million into a political nonprofit bankrolling ballot measures that could block California’s proposed wealth tax on billionaires.
Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on assets of California billionaires,
raising tens of billions for healthcare, education and food aid,
-- but competing measures 41 and 42 could override it.
The November showdown over taxing the ultra-rich has drawn national figures, powerful unions…
@cdarwin@c.imStandards Not Force
may be useful for residents who want to become more involved in local government, public oversight, peaceful protest, corporate accountability, or community organizing.
It may also support journalists, researchers, democracy advocates, neighborhood groups, students, nonprofit organizations, and volunteers seeking a structured approach to lawful civic engagement.
The organization presents an advocacy framework rather than a neutral government or academic…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Georgia Trust for Local News purchased The Macon Telegraph and The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer from McClatchy; The Macon Melody will merge with The Telegraph (GTLN)
https://www.gtln.org/post/georgia-trust-for-local-new…
@cdarwin@c.imUkrainians, already drone innovators, are turning their focus to psychological operations aimed at undercutting Russian support for the war.
Maria Berlinska has formed a nonprofit organization,
Victory Neurones,
and last month gathered specialists in cognitive influence,
a term that includes everything from strategic communications to cyberwarfare.
“Wars begin and end not in the trenches,
but in people’s heads,”
she told the gathering.
“You ar…
