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Duke Reporters' Lab reports a global drop in fact-checking projects from 464 in 2024 to 441 in 2025; US projects fell from 65 in 2024 to 61 in 2025 (Erica Ryan/Reporters' Lab)
https://reporterslab.org/2026/06/12/20

2026 census: Fact-checking losses continue amid funding pressure, but most projects persist - Reporters' Lab
For the first time in the Duke Reporters’ Lab count, three-times as many fact-checkers closed their doors as opened them last year. Our tally shows…

Swiss vote against proposal to cap population at 10 million by cutting migration, projections say - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20ygjem17zo

Swiss vote against proposal to cap population at 10 million by cutting migration, projections say
Not all votes have been counted, but the current trend suggests 55% of participants voted against the proposal.

Rum’s Dazzling Dark Skies, funded by a grant from the Royal Astronomical Society, reveals the journey of how the #IsleOfRum became the first place in #Scotland to achieve #DarkSky Sanctuary status: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5uXMnVKhvY - see also https://darksky.org/places/isle-of-rum/ and https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/watch-new-film-explores-how-rum-became-uks-second-dark-sky-sanctuary and https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/oct/24/stargazing-isle-of-rum-scotland-hebrides-dark-sky-sanctuary

buildcache lua plugins are a superpower. i keep finding ad-hoc ways to use them. I’ve probably saved at least a day’s worth of build time with each plugin i wrote
https://blog.farre.se/posts/2026/04/10/caching-webidl-codegen/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Frankie Cosmos:
🎵 One of Each
#FrankieCosmos
https://ingridsuperstar.bandcamp.com/track/one-of-each
https://open.spotify.com/track/12eWiYEblFgedfDE46en5r

When will Fernando Mendoza start? Projecting Raiders rookie QB's debut with Kirk Cousins in mix https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/when-fernando-mendoza-start-raiders-debut-kirk-c…

Slightly obsessing over this song. I want to use it as source music in a movie or TV show at 1:14.
#music

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Helms Alee:
🎵 Spider Jar
#HelmsAlee
https://helmsalee.bandcamp.com/track/spider-jar
https://open.spotify.com/track/0C8Gw96QuonZAqYC3aY26e

Development of Electroformed X-Ray Optics Bridging Synchrotron Radiation Technology and Space Astronomy: #FOXSI mission, a US-Japan rocket program to observe the Sun: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/articles/japan-delivers-its-sharpest-x-ray-telescope-for-the-foxsi-mission-a-us-japan-rocket-program-to-observe-the-sun/

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching