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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…

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Cosmo Sheldrake:
🎵 Plankton
#CosmoSheldrake
https://open.spotify.com/track/231AiT9DG36myNr1uAQJb5

Still accelerating - type Ia supernova #cosmology is robust to host galaxy age evolution: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/549/3/stag797/8703725?login=false -> Universe expansion still accelerating say astronomers / 'Crisis averted' as experts confirm universe's expansion IS accelerating: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2026/06/universe-expansion-still-accelerating-say-astronomers.page / https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/crisis-averted-experts-confirm-universes-expansion-accelerating

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/

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Frank Chickens:
🎵 Sacred Marriage
#FrankChickens
https://open.spotify.com/track/5YTtRvmGPlSt7k2dBzUIbU

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

I love learning about all the activity around the Museum Data Service since it launched. Here's a great practical post on 'Checking for new museum records with the Mapping Museums Database, Excel and OpenRefine' by Haixin Huang, UCL Digital Humanities postgrad https://museumdata.uk/blog/checking-fo…

Checking for new museum records with the Mapping Museums Database, Excel and OpenRefine  - Museum Data Service
Haixin Huang, UCL Digital Humanities postgrad student, discusses how they used a combination of Excel, OpenRefine and Wikidata to find new museum records to add to MDS from the Mapping Museum Database.

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Phillip Malela:
🎵 Love Hangover
#PhillipMalela
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hg8QLcCo7xNozrtezVZYB

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching

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Helms Alee:
🎵 Spider Jar
#HelmsAlee
https://helmsalee.bandcamp.com/track/spider-jar
https://open.spotify.com/track/0C8Gw96QuonZAqYC3aY26e