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As always, @globalvoices.org is here with all the critical cultural context I need to understand this viral hit 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
The most underreported story in America today is the extent to which neo-Nazis and neo-Confederates have taken over the Republican Party.
By deleting these posts, UNC administrators have also taken a stance on political and social issues. They have declared that they tolerate bigotry and that the voices of conservative activists matter more than those of the majority of North Carolinians. Cowards!
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Rahul Bhargava
Pride month posts from both UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Greensboro have been deleted.
The World Cup is here!!! Honored to be playing at local FanFests around Boston with my Brazilian drum troop. Come and watch the games with us this week 🎉
Fri: Fan Fest Boston @ 2pm
Sat: Fan Fest Everett @ 5pm
Sun: Fan Fest Chelsea @ 12:30pm, 3pm, 6pm
I'd love to hear how usage has gone! A small team here is working on a kind of related SJ story detector project (via creating training data for a genAI-based classifier)
New in PN: A noxious orange cloud looms over the World Cup
"At the heart of the event lies a dispiriting contradiction: The Cup is supposed to unite the world in a spirit of joy, yet it’s being hosted by a xenophobic, bigoted president who has done everything he can to shut US doors to the world."
NYC data people: the @datavandals.bsky.social pop-up newsstand at 51st & Lexington looks amazing! These kinds of IRL data experiences are related to the sort of things I'm trying to do with newsrooms to bring data journalism off-screen. Check their calendar and pop by. datavandals.com/newsstand
Tech-oriented journalists are sharing reusable AI skills to help with automation tasks. @jamditis.bsky.social hosts a big collections. These intrigue me & provoke thinking about some kind of shared system for evaluating how useful they are in practice... thumbs-up/down? reviews? skills.amditis.tech
Could a genAI chatbot help train more solutions journalists? @elcolectivo506.bsky.social and Reynolds Journalism Institute are trying to find out 🤔 luzlab.org
If there's a way to spoil it, the FIFA Peace Prize winner will find it.
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Rahul Bhargava
the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!
