can't say what i want to say about swalwell without getting suspended

Egypt Upstream Gateway (64.72 GB)

Nearly 200,000 emails and files from the Egypt Upstream Gateway, which is managed by Egypt's Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.

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"cool antisemite #6 did not do hate," elon musk sneers

SF Chronicle–CNN investigations into this yesterday were terrific. believe survivors

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Unfortunately, my friend @maggiemayhem.bsky.social has resigned from DDoSecrets because of a years-long campaign of threats and harassment. Attempts to talk to him about his issues have been met with further abuse and accusations.

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Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

1/ Today we are publishing three datasets relating to the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), which has been tied to a number of scandals, including bribery, embezzlement, propaganda, and the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

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They're unsurprisingly try to equate encryption with criminality, singling out @signal.org.

From page 7 of the arrest warrant affidavit for Prairieland defendant Janette Goering prairielanddefendants.com/wp-content/u...

Kremlin Hotline: Hungary colluded with Russia to delist sanctioned oligarchs, companies and banks - VSquare.org The hotline between Péter Szijjártó and Sergey Lavrov provided Russia with strategic information on critical EU issues.

🔎NEW INVESTIGATION: The hotline between FM Péter Szijjártó and Sergey Lavrov gives Russia strategic insight into key EU matters. Evidence, including a leaked phone call recording shows Hungary’s FM acted for the Kremlin, pushing to delist sanctioned Russians, with Slovak support.

How India’s Ruling Party is Using AI to Boost Hate Speech Bellingcat found 31 posts by the BJP that appeared to feature AI-generated images, along with either anti-immigrant or anti-Muslim hate speech, in Assam and West Bengal within a month.

Bellingcat found 31 posts with AI-generated imagery shared on social media by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam and West Bengal in December that appeared to meet the United Nations’ definition of hate speech. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Who is left to cover Lebanon? A nation that helped shape modern war reporting is now treated as peripheral. In the wake of journalist killings, the consequences are clear not only for members of the press, but for how the story of...

A nation that helped shape modern war reporting is now treated as peripheral. In the wake of journalist killings, the consequences are clear, writes Zahra Hankir. www.cjr.org/feature/who-...

Bay Area Rapid Transit (149.17 GB)

Over 120,000 documents and files from the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) Police department.

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as an aside, if you care about AI ethics past buzzwordism, you'd read The AI Con by Bender and Hanna :)

also noting on a technical level that this is not the AI that the world is in a moral panic about! it's speech transcription! it's a task that's used to teach machine learning!

hugely important point here (and great thread)!

like, i and my colleagues very often have to turn around a reported story or two a day. eeeeveryone uses Otter, or iOS' call and voice memo transcription, or NVIDIA's Parakeet. if you're not, you're running behind and making quote checks harder

Over 33,000 people arrested in Bukele’s crackdown were not listed as gang members Internal intelligence documents reveal that 36% of those captured during the state of emergency were not profiled as criminals before the measure was implemented

Over 33,000 people arrested in Bukele’s crackdown were not listed as gang members

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Leaked intelligence documents reveal that 36% of those captured during the state of emergency were not profiled as criminals before the measure was implemented

local journo is huuuge for freelancers (can personally attest). +1 to all the above

SENAFRONT (283.14 GB)

Approximately 500,000 emails and more than a 100,000 file attachments from Panama's National Border Service, the Servicio Nacional de Fronteras or SENAFRONT.

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A teacher-free AI school is coming to Chicago, with tuition at $55,000 a year Alpha School, a network of AI-based private schools will open a K-8 campus in the Chicago Loop in the fall. For 55,000 per year, lessons are delivered through AI-powered software and condensed into tw...

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— A teacher-free AI school is coming to Chicago, with tuition at $55,000 a year, by the Tribune’s Kate Armanini

oh! oh

that's generally 'british style' — in journalism, 'Guardian style'

on hyphens, i was reading back Strunk & White's wonderful stylebook and came across this graf

perhaps, but i know as a reporter that you rather quickly learn to filter through bullshit, both informationally and criticism-wise, and criticism from other nonmalicious reporters usually does *not* fall into that category. it tends to get far more weight (when it's seen).

i find it "extremely cringe" that the scrutiny that holds media figures accountable — if even a little — is considered a teardown

don't let them have an inch when theyre trying to take miles. we don't concede on trans people in sports just like we wont concede on trans people anywhere else. period.

remembering nyt's "city room" fondly today :)

everyone will be

Kash Patel emails (1.1 GB)

The first tranche of emails from the mailbox of Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, which was hacked by Handala, a hacking group that is believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence.

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