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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Mobb Deep:
🎵 Survival of the Fittest
#MobbDeep
https://lakimisalive.bandcamp.com/track/mobb-deep-survival-of-the-fittest-lakim-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7N1Vjtzr1lmmCW9iasQ8YO

Mongolians’ winter survival food is suutei tsai — our special milk tea made with ghee, butter. - YouTube
#mongolia

Five regional newspapers in Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Seattle, Philly, and Salt Lake offer examples of sustainability for the news business, as WaPo shrinks (Dan Kennedy/The Conversation)
https://theconversation.com/as-jeff-be

As Jeff Bezos dismantles The Washington Post, 5 regional papers chart a course for survival
Other billionaires who own newspapers are doing a better job, a journalism professor explains.

@… it is optimism (conditional on Mastodon’s survival) 😅

Great call to action by Dariusz Jemielniak in Nature: academics should contribute to Wikipedia, and such work should be recognized.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00075-0

The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us | Nature
Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet. Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet.

Qesser Zuhrah has just been picked up by an ambulance seconds ago. I wish for his survival and future wellbeing. Shame on Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy for not even listening to the hunger strikers and their demands!
The silencing and criminalization of Palestine Action has seen hoards of arrests, with the hunger strikes it may even claim its first lives. We must do everything in our power to prevent this, which means at least giving all arrested a chance to a fair trial!

This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/17/europe-donald-trump-ai-bubble-us-economy-eu

"Twin infant mountain gorillas born in DRC"
#Gorillas #Animals
https://ne…

Twin infant mountain gorillas born in DRC
Rare twin mountain gorillas born in DR Congo’s Virunga National Park are raising hopes for the survival of the endangered great ape.

from my link log —
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants, and how I built a dashboard to see through it.
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?triedRedirect=true
saved…

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Gil Scott-Heron:
🎵 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
#GilScottHeron
https://kemetic7ntr.bandcamp.com/track/03-survivalofthefittest-re-style-mobbdeep-gilscottheron-therevolutionwillnotbetelevised-ras-ben-2020yearofgreatconjunctions-saturnconjunctpluto-pandemic-trapped-in-reason-ab-soul-metime-stic-coac
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ni78Vjslqo2VxiDOahYlV