AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

The Associated Press wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing the 1st Amendment.

random:

gmail inbox count is a fraud

you delete dozens or even hundreds of emails in your primary folder and the inbox count doesn't change

Praise Kier!

I think about this headline all of the time.

White House Limits Newswires in Press Pool Takeover The White House handpicked the first group of outlets for a new system of media access in which it chooses who is able to cover President Donald Trump in certain settings, limiting the role of the thr...

The White House limited newswires in a takeover of the press pool. The AP, Reuters and Bloomberg News released a statement objecting to the decision

had a shockingly good flying experience today: room for everyone's carry-ons, many or most rows weren't full so there was room to spread out, the wifi worked, and we landed more than 30 minutes early

credit where credit is due @alaskaairlines.bsky.social

thank you! will check it out!

Yes.

@nytimes.com hasn't yet updated their Ethical Journalism Standards or their Guidelines on Integrity to include anything about AI. No mention of "artificial intelligence" in either
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passage from George Orwell's 1984 about power and oligarchy

Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.”

Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

I listened to that one — so good. It's Paige St John - she's a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.
Thanks!

fellow #truecrime podcast junkies: what are you listening to now? I'm liking CBC's Sea of Lies and am looking for other listens while waiting for the next eps to drop

how have we not solved the cookies problem yet. why do we still need to accept or reject cookies on every. single. website.

i spent the weekend in Punxsutawney too, to see Phil make his #GroundhogDay prediction with my daughter, in homage to the Bill Murray-Andie MacDowell movie. it was goofy and corny and freezing cold and a total blast.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

how come all of a sudden the links i share on my phone (a google pixel, not an iphone, #sorrynotsorry) all start with search.app ? anyone know? i didn't change any settings

really hoping for The Washington Post to survive. i've been a Post reader since childhood and have subscribed for years. it would be a major, major loss if it failed.

Amy Carter, Thrust Into the Public Eye at a Young Age, Has Since Receded Jimmy Carter’s daughter had an extraordinary and well-documented childhood in the White House. Since then she has for the most part lived a very private life.

When Jimmy Carter became president, I was a little girl growing up in Maryland, near DC. I sent a letter to Amy Carter, who was a couple years older. She sent me a sweet handwritten postcard back saying she was glad I was her friend. Thinking of her now. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/u...

shocked by how terrible these recs are! wow @bsky.app you do not know me AT ALL yet

100 pages into one of the most celebrated and recommended books of the last few years and so far it is ... meh, SO meh, bordering on boring

not giving up. really hope it starts to grab me

Tech giants, Wall Street, and corporate elite are pouring millions into to Donald Trump’s inauguration The president-elect’s inaugural fund donors range from CEOs like Sam Altman and Ken Griffin, to Meta, Amazon, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.

in @fortune.com: the corporate world is reportedly spending millions on the Trump inauguration

Meta - $1mm
Amazon - $1mm
Perplexity - $1mm
Uber - $1mm
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi- $1mm
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman - $1mm
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin - $1mm
Robinhood - $2mm
+ more
bit.ly/40aF9j3

another day, another set of time-wasting frustrations with microsoft products

Curtis Yarvin was in my class in high school. We were on the debate team together. Even back then he was ... interesting

James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life

watched It's a Wonderful Life, possibly for the first time ever (can't recall ever seeing it before - *maybe* I saw it once as a kid?)

expected to find it underwhelming and creaky, as often happens with old beloved movies, but was pleasantly surprised. it's earnest and hokey in a good way

all the Maryland family chats are blowing up about the Mangiones

Another fun Die Hard fact that's new to me: that it was Alan Rickman's movie debut. At age 42. Insane!

I was today years old when I learned that the aunt of Macaulay and Kieran Culkin is Bonnie Bedelia, who plays Holly McClane in Die Hard (which is absolutely a Christmas movie!)

The killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO follows years of mounting fear about executive safety Companies have been spending more over the past few years to protect their top business leaders.

security for prominent executives costs major companies millions of dollars a year. i'm sure protection is on many execs' minds today after this morning's shocking slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan