"UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/16/uk-public-paid-200bn-to-shareholders-of-key-industries-since-privatisation-study…
Chicago Public Media partners with alt-weekly Chicago Reader for a six-month pilot to sell ads and sponsorships; CPM brought in $13.1M in ads in 2024 (Austin Fuller/Current)
https://current.org/2025/11/chicago-public-medi…
Filing: the Internet Archive and major music labels settle a copyright infringement lawsuit against IA over its project to preserve early music recordings (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202…
I knew I was cranky about AI, but I guess I didn't realize just how cranky until I filled out this obnoxious and wildly boosterish questionnaire from the government of Canada.
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-co…
Netherlands Scientific Climate Council warns: under pressure from climate change, forests and soils are now taking up less CO2 from the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.
https://www.wkr.nl/adviezen/overige-publicaties/bossen-en-bodems
Pristine ices in a planet-forming disk revealed by heavy water: #PlanetForming disk: https://public.nrao.edu/news/first-ever-detection-of-heavy-water-in-a-planet-forming-disk/ - new ALMA data traces water found in comets, and planet formation, back to the dawn of the cosmos / How old is our water? https://www.eso.org/public/blog/water-origin/
Turkish hackers call Defense Minister Katz on video, he answers — and they publish his photo
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/syzoddgjxe
So I've been spending some time with @… going through the public timeline and muting bots & low quality posters. The goal is to publish an export of this for others to use if they want. Currently, I mute:
• News bots
• Sports bots
• RSS repeaters
• Flipbook crap
• Hourly photo bots (no alt-text)
•…
The Italian federation of newspaper publishers submits a complaint to Italy's communication watchdog calling for an investigation into Google's AI Overviews (Angela Giuffrida/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
An Alaska fund has raised $3.5M from 80 donors in its first two months to help public radio and TV stations partially offset the ~$15M federal funding cuts (Iris Samuels/Anchorage Daily News)
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2025/09/14…