"Today, at its second annual upfront to advertisers, [Netflix] announced that it has created interactive mid-roll ads and pause ads that incorporate generative AI."
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In what could be a major escalation of U.S. pressure on Mexico, the Trump administration has begun to impose travel restrictions and other sanctions on prominent Mexican politicians whom it believes are linked to drug corruption, U.S. officials said.
#News #Mexico #Trump #Drug #Corruption #Sheinbaum #Travel #Sanctions #Politics
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“No one is watching, no one will hold them accountable, so they can just do what they want,” said one HUD attorney. “The civil rights laws that people marched for and fought for, ... it’s not happening. And people are really being harmed by it.”
#News #Housing #Discrimination #CivilRights #Law #Government #Trump #DOGE
"A lawyer representing [an AI startup company] Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday."
An Agency Tasked With Protecting Immigrant Children Is Becoming an Enforcement Arm, Current and Former Staffers Say
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s welfare mission appears to be undergoing a stark transformation as President Donald Trump seeks to ramp up deportation numbers, current and former officials told ProPublica and The Texas Tribune.
https://www.propublica.org/article/office-of-refugee-resettlement-immigration-enforcement-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #ICE #Immigrants #Children #Trump #Deportation #Migrants
He Became the Face of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement. Now He’s Fed Up With It.
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A 54-year-old mechanic called Pathways to Coverage a “great program” at the governor’s press conference. But after getting kicked off the health insurance program for low-income Georgians twice, bureaucratic red tape has him at his wit’s end.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-pathways-brian-kemp-luke-seaborn-testimonial-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Georgia #Medicaid #Healthcare #Health #Government #Insurance
For anyone still wondering whether technology or "AI" are neutral:
"Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a number of people, Grok focused on debunking claims of white genocide in South Africa – even when tagged into a post about totally unrelated topics."
https://www.theverge.com/news/667179/x-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims
The Firm Running Georgia’s Struggling Medicaid Experiment Was Also Paid Millions to Sell It to the Public
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Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to build, manage and market Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program. Yet only 3% of eligible residents have enrolled.
https://www.propublica.org/article/deloitte-georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-campaign?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Georgia #Medicaid #Health #Healthcare #Marketing #Consultant
🛜This Week In Global Museum:
World's Most Beautiful Museum Stuns Internet | Goering's Art Dealer Plundered The World | Vampire Reconstructions | Science Museum Monitoring US Bribery Case | $6 Million Banana Collector Buying 100,000 More | The Museum Man With A Plan | More Museum News .
http://www.globalmuseum.org #globalmuseum #museums #news #museumnews #Museumjobs #artgallery #jobs
in the #arXiv
A New Strategy for the Exploration of Venus
by the VEXAG Exploration Strategy Study Analysis Workgroup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06830
#Venus #PlanetaryScience #Astrodon #Science #STEM #planet #planets #solarsystem #engineering #news
Connecticut Towing Companies Use Belongings Left in Cars as Leverage to Collect Fees, Drivers Say
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The Connecticut DMV allows owners to get back into towed cars to retrieve items that are essential to their health and welfare. But people have lost work equipment, car seats, important documents and priceless mementos.
https://www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-towing-dmv-lost-belongings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Texas Lawmakers Push to Enforce Election Transparency Law After Newsrooms Found School Districts Failed to Comply
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ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found nearly three dozen school districts were missing required campaign finance reports online. Now lawmakers are pushing to impose steep penalties on local governments that fail to abide by the law.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-lawmakers-campaign-finance-posting-rules?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Democrats Won a North Carolina Supreme Court Seat. But They Lost Control Over the Board That Sets Election Rules.
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Republican Jefferson Griffin conceded after a monthslong legal battle. But Democrats suffered a defeat that may be more consequential: losing control of the state board that sets voting rules and adjudicates election disputes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-democrats-elections-board-jefferson-griffin?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
🎄Screaming Museum Workers | Top Archaeologist Accused of Faking Discoveries | 350,000 Artefacts Discovered In Storage | Magnificent Stuffed Rhinos | Antiquities Theft Expert Challenges British Museum's Marbles Claim | More Museum News.
http://www.globalmuseum.org #globalmuseum #museums #museumnews #news #museumjobs #jobs #artgallery
Yeah, not great. Hope the public rejects this!
"Under the [UK government] proposals, tech companies will be allowed to freely use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models unless creative professionals and companies opt out of the process."
Is it us, or do Friday the Thirteenths seem to come around more often these days? Fittingly, we have some scary stuff this #NewstodonFriday, including stories about Medicare, media obeying in advance, and AI movies that aren’t technically supposed to be horror — but they gave us a fright. All the newsrooms featured here are independent and have their own active fediverse accounts. Please follow them, click on the stories, boost them, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can.
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We've been publishing stories all year related to our 70th anniversary, but today marks the actual date that the Texas Observer published its first issue in 1954, with the top story dedicated to a retail workers' #strike in Port Arthur: https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1954/12/13#page=1
#journalism #history #media #nonprofit #news #Texas #politics #USpol
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If, like us, you’re donning your holiday gear (it’s sweatpants!) and bidding farewell to work till 2025, then here’s a collection of stories to entertain you through the fortnight. And if you’re deskbound, well, hopefully this #NewstodonFriday thread offers some distraction from the humdrum. All the newsrooms featured here are independent and have their own active fediverse accounts. Please follow them, click on the stories, boost them, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can. We’ll be around through the festive season but taking a break from Newstodon — and hopefully, the news. Happy holidays, and tidings of comfort and joy.
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The January/February 2025 issue is coming soon for members of the Texas Observer.
Want to be among the first to read the great reporting in every issue? Join us today: https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/join/
#journalism #nonprofit #Texas #politics #news #culture #border
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of Trump Media stock the same day Trump unveiled new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according to records obtained by ProPublica.
#News #Trump #StockMarket #Stocks #Tariffs #Economy #USPolitics
Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show
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A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trump’s executive orders.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nih-cuts-transgender-research-grants?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NIH #Science #Research #Funding #Trump #Law #Transgender
The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff.
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For years, the Education Department was the only agency that could ensure states would improve conditions for disabled children. Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight.
https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-idaho-students-disabilities-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Idaho #Parents #Children #School #Disability #Trump
AI Video of Trump Kissing Elon Musk's Feet Plays in HUD Office
Good morning/afternoon/evening/night to you, depending on where you are, and when you see this #NewstodonFriday thread! Here’s our weekly selection of stories from indie media outlets on everything from a holier-than-thou Texas legislator to an incredible scientific treatment that may have cured a little boy of a genetic illness. Plus, housing scams, Grok’s obsession with South Africa, and a word from The Boss. We love independent media, and we hope you’ll share these stories far and wide, comment (we’d love to see your recommendations for the best things you’ve read/watched/heard this week). And if you can afford to, please donate your money to these brilliant sites.⤵️
#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
Today, we're beginning to federate publisher accounts in Italy, France and Spain, and expanding in Brazil, Germany and the U.K.
You can now follow even more of your favorite news, lifestyle, tech and sports sources from Flipboard on the open social web. Read more about it here. See the spreadsheet at the second link for the full list of federated profiles.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU/edit
#Federation #Flipboard #Fediverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Germany #Deutschland #France #Spain #España #Italy #Italie #Brazil #Brasil #News #Media #Journalism #Publishers
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