"The order to assassinate Anas Al Sharif, one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, and his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza."
Local newspapers are going out of business across the world — but when Illinois-based News Media Corporation closed last week, shuttering dozens of publications across the Midwest, some communities fought back. WyoFile reports on the Wyoming towns where journalists are continuing to report as they seek backing to keep their papers alive, while their community members and neighbors raise money to ensure they keep getting paid. "We’ve got big city issues in small towns. So this is really very tragic timing,” says Marie Hamilton, managing editor of the Platte County Record-Times.
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452 were active today.
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https://t.me/warriorsukrainian/60393
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A new poll of MAGA Trump voters overwhelmingly see Russia as a threat and support sanctions against the Kremlin - TargetPoint
87% of the US president's supporters surveyed called Russia a threat to American security (more) #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
"There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics," is often attributed to Mark Twain, who claimed it came from British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. Nobody knows which is accurate, or if it originated with someone else. So it goes with much information we pass along without healthy skepticism. Never truer than in frequently bogus surveys and polls that circulate widely. I explain how to spot the good from the bad.
https://medium.com/wise-well/survey-says-polls-can-be-wildly-misleading-59ef4b7acf10 #media #journalism #writing
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Trump’s tariffs working: Russian oil tankers idle off India as US and EU increase sanctions pressure – Bloomberg (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/08/1/7524384/ #Ukraine #Brussels #Denmark #EC #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#India #Brazil #Slovakia #Hungary #Turkey #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
40 Years ago, Andy Warhol helped debut the #Commodore #Amiga Computer.
That's right, it's 40 years to this days that the Amiga 1000 was launched. The Amiga’s cultural impact was bolstered by its flashy public debut celebration, which emerged as one of the most surreal moments in #tech #history. [included a live art session with #Andy #Warhol]….
![[ImageSource: GenerationXVideoArchive]
Warhol was fascinated with the artistic implications of digital computers. Although believed lost for decades, in 2014 the Andy Warhol Museum announced the rediscovery of multiple experimental Amiga projects stored on floppy disks in the museum’s archives.
<https://press.warhol.org/press/the-andy-warhol-museum-announces-newly-discovered-amiga-experiments/>
“In the images, we see a mature artist who had spent about 50 years developing a specific hand-to-eye coordination now suddenly grappling with the bizarre new sensation of a mouse in his palm held several inches from the screen,” the museum’s chief archivist Matt Wrbican said at the time. “No doubt he resisted the urge to physically touch the screen–it had to be enormously frustrating, but it also marked a huge transformation in our culture.”
“Do you think it will push the artists? Do you think that people will be inclined to use all the different components of the art, music, video, etc.?” Amiga World editor-in-chief Guy Wright asked during the 1986 interview.
“That’s the best part about it. I guess you can… An artist can really do the whole thing,” Warhol responded. “Actually, he can make a film with everything on it, music and sound and art… everything.”](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/947/827/914/782/127/original/40d91ac9def65ba3.jpeg "[ImageSource: GenerationXVideoArchive]
Warhol was fascinated with the artistic implications of digital computers. Although believed lost for decades, in 2014 the Andy Warhol Museum announced the rediscovery of multiple experimental Amiga projects stored on floppy disks in the museum’s archives.
<https://press.warhol.org/press/the-andy-warhol-museum-announces-newly-discovered-amiga-experiments/>
“In the images, we see a mature artist who had spent about 50 years developing a specific hand-to-eye coordination now suddenly grappling with the bizarre new sensation of a mouse in his palm held several inches from the screen,” the museum’s chief archivist Matt Wrbican said at the time. “No doubt he resisted the urge to physically touch the screen–it had to be enormously frustrating, but it also marked a huge transformation in our culture.”
“Do you think it will push the artists? Do you think that people will be inclined to use all the different components of the art, music, video, etc.?” Amiga World editor-in-chief Guy Wright asked during the 1986 interview.
“That’s the best part about it. I guess you can… An artist can really do the whole thing,” Warhol responded. “Actually, he can make a film with everything on it, music and sound and art… everything.”")
![[ImageSource: Generationamiga]
The Amiga 1000, released in 1985 July by Commodore International, was a groundbreaking machine that pushed the boundaries of what was possible in terms of graphics, multimedia capabilities and multitasking. This was a game-changer for artists, designers and anyone working with visual media. The Amiga’s graphics capabilities were so advanced that it found its way into professional video editing studios and even Hollywood special effects production.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000>
Processor:
• 68000 @ 7-14 MHz
• 68020 @ 7-20 MHz
• 68030 @ 14-50 MHz
The A1000 has a socketed 68000 @ 7.09 MHz [PAL] or 7.16 MHz [NTSC]. Upgrading the processor requires the use of a processor board. Many boards designed for the A500 works perfectly in the A1000, either connected to the side expansion port or to the 68000 socket.
Memory:
• 256 kB Kickstart RAM (Writable Control Store)
• up to 1 MB Chip RAM
• up to 32 MB Fast RAM on processor cards
• up to 8 MB Fast RAM on side expansion cards
The A1000 has 256 kB Chip RAM soldered to its motherboard which can be expanded to 512 kB with a memory expansion card. Chip RAM can be expanded to 1 MB with third party expansions such as the Rejuvenator. Fast RAM can be added either via the side expansion connector or via processor boards.
Custom chips:
• Agnus - OCS display controller
• Denise - OCS graphics coprocessor
• Paula - audio and I/O controller
• Gary - system address decoder](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/947/828/529/031/155/original/203b09d75f2727da.jpeg "[ImageSource: Generationamiga]
The Amiga 1000, released in 1985 July by Commodore International, was a groundbreaking machine that pushed the boundaries of what was possible in terms of graphics, multimedia capabilities and multitasking. This was a game-changer for artists, designers and anyone working with visual media. The Amiga’s graphics capabilities were so advanced that it found its way into professional video editing studios and even Hollywood special effects production.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000>
Processor:
• 68000 @ 7-14 MHz
• 68020 @ 7-20 MHz
• 68030 @ 14-50 MHz
The A1000 has a socketed 68000 @ 7.09 MHz [PAL] or 7.16 MHz [NTSC]. Upgrading the processor requires the use of a processor board. Many boards designed for the A500 works perfectly in the A1000, either connected to the side expansion port or to the 68000 socket.
Memory:
• 256 kB Kickstart RAM (Writable Control Store)
• up to 1 MB Chip RAM
• up to 32 MB Fast RAM on processor cards
• up to 8 MB Fast RAM on side expansion cards
The A1000 has 256 kB Chip RAM soldered to its motherboard which can be expanded to 512 kB with a memory expansion card. Chip RAM can be expanded to 1 MB with third party expansions such as the Rejuvenator. Fast RAM can be added either via the side expansion connector or via processor boards.
Custom chips:
• Agnus - OCS display controller
• Denise - OCS graphics coprocessor
• Paula - audio and I/O controller
• Gary - system address decoder")
Report: Amazon to pay at least $20M a year in AI content deal with New York Times - The New York Times building in Manhattan, left, and Amazon headquarters in Seattl... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/report-amazon-to-pay-at-least-20m-a-year-in-ai-content-deal-with-new-york-times/ #thenewyorktimes #amazon #media #ai
How do you measure editorial independence in 2025? The advocacy group Free Press has created a Media Capitulation Index, ranking commercial media and tech companies on a scale from one to five chickens, and giving a star to just a couple of organizations. Here's Nieman Lab's story; find the full ranking at the second link. “These corporations exist because of public policy,” Tim Karr, the author of a supplementary report on the ranking, told journalist Margaret Sullivan. “There is a genuine popular movement to create a more democratic media system. People should get engaged in this debate.”
Programming Like It’s 1986, For Fun and Zero Profit.
Some people slander #retrocomputing as an old man’s game, just because most of those involved are more ancient than the hardware they’re playing with. But there are veritable children involved too — take the [ComputerSmith], who is recreating Conway’s game of life on a Macintosh Plus that could very well be as old as his parents.
![If there’s any nostalgia here, it’s at least a generation removed — thus proving for the haters that there’s more than a misplaced desire to relive one’s youth in exploring these ancient machines.
Apparently [ComputerSmith] brought this project to VCS Southwest, so anyone who was there doesn’t have to wait for Part 2 of the video to show up to see how this turns out, or to snag a copy of the code [which was apparently available on diskette]. If you were there, let me know if you spotted the youngest Macintosh Plus programmer, and if you scored a disk from him.](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/924/686/137/672/581/original/fce489fca4b2d411.jpeg "If there’s any nostalgia here, it’s at least a generation removed — thus proving for the haters that there’s more than a misplaced desire to relive one’s youth in exploring these ancient machines.
Apparently [ComputerSmith] brought this project to VCS Southwest, so anyone who was there doesn’t have to wait for Part 2 of the video to show up to see how this turns out, or to snag a copy of the code [which was apparently available on diskette]. If you were there, let me know if you spotted the youngest Macintosh Plus programmer, and if you scored a disk from him.")
![[ImageSource: ComputerSmith]
So what does a young person get out of programming on a 1980s Mac?
Well, aside from internet clout, and possible YouTube monetization, there’s the sheer intellectual challenge of the thing. You cant go sniffing around StackExchange or LLMs for code to copy-paste when writing C for a 1986 machine, not if you’re going to be fully authentic. ANSI C only dates to 1987, after all, and figuring out the quirks and foibles of the specific C implementation is both half the fun, and not easily outsourced.
👾Object Pascal would also have been an option [and quite likely more straightforward — at least the language was clearly-defined], but [ComputerSmith] seems to think the exercise will improve his chops with C, and he’s likely to be right.👾](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/924/687/284/624/745/original/bb9eb12cc4f1229e.jpeg "[ImageSource: ComputerSmith]
So what does a young person get out of programming on a 1980s Mac?
Well, aside from internet clout, and possible YouTube monetization, there’s the sheer intellectual challenge of the thing. You cant go sniffing around StackExchange or LLMs for code to copy-paste when writing C for a 1986 machine, not if you’re going to be fully authentic. ANSI C only dates to 1987, after all, and figuring out the quirks and foibles of the specific C implementation is both half the fun, and not easily outsourced.
👾Object Pascal would also have been an option [and quite likely more straightforward — at least the language was clearly-defined], but [ComputerSmith] seems to think the exercise will improve his chops with C, and he’s likely to be right.👾")
Good news! You can now find @Defector on Flipboard and in the fediverse, thanks to their federated account. Follow them for coverage of sports, pop culture, and more.
In the U.S., some publishers worry about "Google Zero," when they cease to get any web traffic from the search engine giant.
@arstechnica reports: "Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks."
Files can’t be blackmailed.
Files can’t be extorted.
Files can’t be pardoned.
Files can’t be bribed.
Edit: And it’s too late. Since Republicans blocked the full release of the Epstein files and released a doctored jailhouse video, falsely claiming it was raw original footage, nothing from this regime is legitimate.
Remember this guy is Trump's personal criminal lawyer. He shouldn't be anywhere near this case representing the government. Rampant corruption. It's another part of the cover-up.
"Trump got to Ghislaine Maxwell. Watch for a deal in exchange for her silence on Trump. DO NOT FORGET: Trump is in the Epstein files. I’ve confirmed it."
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-the-universe-of-those-with
What if public networks became a platform for communities to create their own local media, not just consume it? After devastating federal funding cuts, here's one idea for rebuilding NPR and PBS around community co-creation, open platforms, and human-centered, prototype-driven design. https://werd.io/if-i-ran-npr-and-pbs/ #media #journalism
Should CBS keep airing Stephen Colbert?
(Please boost for a better cross section)
We’re proud to welcome to the Observer masthead @candicequestions and Mary Tuma as special investigative correspondents, joining @stevanzetti as freelance reporters helping us tackle the #environment, reproductive rights, and #extremism respectively: https://www.texasobserver.org/home/staff/
https://youtu.be/xRSPxuptLd8?
2000 Meters To Andriivka - Official Documentary Trailer - Coming in August (Dogwoof VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #Brussels #SHAPE #Andriivka #Kyiv #WashingtonDC #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
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564 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
485 were active today.
Some accounts, that were active today are
@NewYorker
@thecollector
@WEF
@t3n
@InformationWeek
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With social and search traffic declining, publishers need new ways to connect with readers.
In this #DotSocial episode, @mike talks with @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler and @ProPublica's @ben about the benefits of decentralization.
"I think what's really missing is the human-to-human connection and the human curation ... Our informal tagline is 'by humans for humans.' We really just want someone to look at our stuff and send it to their friends in a group text or talk about it out loud or add it to a stream on the fediverse," Jason says.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/
