Tweet from Elon Musk: "*Soros Organization has taken over Hungary"
Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.
Public trust in news in has risen for the first time since records began in 2020. According to the latest Trust in News in Aotearoa New Zealand report, 37% of respondents now trust the news generally, up from just 32% last year. In the context of recent trends, that’s a fairly sizeable jump. The report also shows 50% now trust the news they personally consume, also up five percentage points from 45% in 2025. These are the first positive results about the public’s trust in news since we began researching the subject at the AUT Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy in 2020. As we have every year, we asked New Zealanders if they felt they could “trust most of the news most of the time”. We also asked about their trust in the news they personally consume, their views on particular news brands, how much they avoid the news, and to what extent they pay for it.
![A significant contributing factor to the upturn in trust, we think, is greater public awareness of disinformation, deep fakes and AI slop.
The prevalence of such poor-quality information, distributed on social media for commercial or political gain, and the growing public debate it, seems to have made people more conscious of the need for verified facts.
As one male Pākehā respondent aged 35–44, put it:
Traditional news networks and journalists will end up regaining trust, because [there] will be no way to tell whether something is AI bullshit or not.
Indeed, this year we asked respondents where they go to check news they don’t trust. More than half said they went to a news source they did trust, among other places. Only 8% checked suspicious information using a chatbot.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y5ef7ykskrf34je7djcylqwm/bafkreidu3bmnpovyr3zlfo37c6fk77t74uh3vcathow6sdvxcqiqbz6kvi)
A significant contributing factor to the upturn in trust, we think, is greater public awareness of disinformation, deep fakes and AI slop. The prevalence of such poor-quality information, distributed on social media for commercial or political gain, and the growing public debate it, seems to have made people more conscious of the need for verified facts. As one male Pākehā respondent aged 35–44, put it: Traditional news networks and journalists will end up regaining trust, because [there] will be no way to tell whether something is AI bullshit or not. Indeed, this year we asked respondents where they go to check news they don’t trust. More than half said they went to a news source they did trust, among other places. Only 8% checked suspicious information using a chatbot.
Big finding from AUT's annual JMAD survey: Trust in news rises after years of decline
And growing awareness of AI slopification is one of the candidate causes of the shift
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Coal plant retirements in the U.S. are slowing to a crawl, which is terrible news for our health and efforts to reduce climate pollution.
We're releasing new analysis next week taking a deeper look at the trends and possible implications for air quality.
www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
i think it was supposed to be an insult, not an analysis
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...
why i don’t subscribe to your substack
President Trump looking like Magda from There's something about Mary. Also, Magda.
This is still the one for me
love the shout of “duct tape!”
thank you :)
photo of a gluten-free yellow cake with chocolate frosting from trader joe's that my decorated with a picture of my goofy face
i'm 40 today. the highlight so far is that my roommate drew my face on a cake
most people in seattle are closeted centrists who are disproportionately scared of crime and visible homelessness though
in a stunning victory, Donald Trump has forced the Iranian government to profit tens of billions of dollars a year against their will
i personally had never seen something obliterated so mildly
i simply would have brought the bat
good for you
sanho
what a moron
Notable that the Seattle Times Editorial Board, railing against the idea of a larger library levy, completely sidesteps what the proposed increases would DO. I don't think most Seattleites see seismic retrofits and building upkeep as "ornaments on the tree."
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...
The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...
He is insane.
And this is an open declaration of intended genocide.
If any other world leader said this, there would be sanctions and an arrest warrant, not just for him, but for his whole regime.
1. A new study claims trans care worsens mental health. It is fatally flawed.
It didn't measure mental health—it measured psych visits.
Even visits that stemmed from mandatory checkins, surgical pre-psych evals, or pre-treatment that was classified as post.
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If I had to choose a single thought which haunts me most, it’s this. And it has animated me for years. This thing has been growing and metastasizing for almost a decade. And every passing year we’ve grown more hoarse trying to get someone to give a shit.
still does! and seems like it'll pick up again soon
it's so bizarre to see things like "don't eat more than a fish or two per week out of this wilderness mountain lake, because mercury!" like, nature used to *sustain* us. look what we did to it.
One reason for journalists to be on BlueSky is that it’s the only social media platform I’m aware of that still doesn’t downrank links to news and other sites. The corporate socials all seem to have adopted a casino approach to their users: lure in with shiny objects and *never show them an exit.*
includes Fife School District in WA
