Just reposting because I've come across this three times just today.

The “Censorship Industrial Complex” was all projection. Someone tell Michael Shellenberger lol. Someone tell Jacob Siegel! 😂

NGOs call for immediate release of ​Saudi Wikipedian Osama Khalid, whose 14-year sentence was upheld - Gulf Centre for Human Rights We, the undersigned organisations, express deep concern over the continued arbitrary detention of the Saudi Wikipedian Osama Khalid, whose 14-year prison sentence was recently upheld. We call for his ...

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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Why is pro-AI still posturing as anti-AI, and why is the general public still willing to believe the charade?

2016 report: "Twitter drove little traffic to most news sites [but] 'Twitter excels at both conversational and breaking news.'" "Ten years later, the site formerly known as Twitter still drives very little traffic to news sites. But it’s also bad for conversational and breaking news."

@ethanz.bsky.social & @antisomniac.bsky.social reach into obscure parts of YouTube to present a methodologically rich exploration of what they call the "accidental archive" of online life and culture

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Caruana A chess study by antisomniac

Looks like I won't get my "remember when I beat the chess world champion" moment this year, as Caruana falls behind in the Candidates Tournament. Nonetheless, I suppose I can dust off this old nugget: Caruana-McGrady from 2001 (he was, um, 9). lichess.org/study/FVj5ElX7

World's oldest known tortoise, Jonathan, still alive despite reports of death A widely circulated social media post purporting to belong to the tortoise's vet has been revealed to be a hoax.

The headline: Journalists continue to rely on X for news tips despite well known proliferation of imposters and crypto scammers; falls for a crypto scamming imposter. www.bbc.com/news/article...

How is active defined here? Presumably more than a like, right?

Love this trend in Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn): people leave sticks for statues of dogs. It started with one good dog named Rex with a gravestone and statue, and now every dog statue has a pile of sticks at all times.

While Washington wages war on science, NASA just sent humans to the Moon's vicinity for the first time since 1972. Bravo #TeamNASA — proof that public science, when it's funded and trusted, still does extraordinary things.

Ryan McGrady (@antisomniac.bsky.social) and I just published a new paper about exploring the outer reaches of YouTube - randomly selected videos with only a few views - and the idea that these videos constitute an "accidental archive", a picture of online life and culture: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Weekend Update: Tucker Carlson on Liberal Politics and the 2026 Oscars - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

I realized I was trying to open a bag of coffee the wrong way (don't ask), and all of a sudden found myself channeling Jeremy Culhane's Tucker Carlson impression: "what are we doing? what's going on?" Hate and respect for making that happen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cssP...

This is bound to be controversial, as it's not like every Wikinews edition was wholly inactive, and I feel terrible for those volunteers who devoted their time/effort to make Wikinews work -- it's not their fault it has a massive sibling eating its lunch.

The closure reflects broad long-term stagnation across nearly all language versions, an effort to consolidate volunteers, and probably a heightened sensitivity to Wikipedia's infrastructural position (which Wikinews just doesn't adequately match).

Wikinews has just been shuttered. The news-based sister project to Wikipedia has long struggled to find a place in relation to the bigger project, which has turned into a global resource for current events. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimed...

Wikipedia is probably ride or die with traditional institutional sources of knowledge, for better or worse. I do like the idea of trying harder to get its content filtered through the perspectives of various personality-driven and/or independent creators.

Jill Connelly on Instagram: "#nokings protest in LA for @apnews LA City Hall, Grand Park, Metropolitan Detention Center" 686 likes, 28 comments - jillconnellyphotography on March 29, 2026: "#nokings protest in LA for @apnews LA City Hall, Grand Park, Metropolitan Detention Center".

This photo by Jill Connelly has to be the best image from yesterday's protests that I've seen so far. www.instagram.com/p/DWdlYczFVa...

Really happy with how this turned out. Not exactly a manifesto, but it's gratifying to have all in one place the research agenda we've been developing at @idpiumass.bsky.social for the past few years and the thinking behind it.

The paper begins with two other accidental archives: a collection of discarded late-20th century photos from a Hungarian photo lab, and the preserved ruins of Pompeii. Then a mixed-methods approach to researching quotidian video.

New publication: The Quotidian Web and the Accidental Archive in IJOC. @ethanz.bsky.social and I argue that video platforms function as "accidental archives," hosting vast quantities of everyday life - valuable, but hard to study. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Yessss @blackforager.bsky.social shouting out oak trees -- protectors of their communities, neighborhood champs, biodiversity paradises -- at #wikipediaday2026 :)

Would love it if someone would pilot the idea of an optional Protest Sign Peer Review Table along protest routes.

Wikipedia Day NYC 2026 YouTube video by Wikimedia NYC

Alexis Nikole Nelson ( @blackforager.bsky.social ) is the next featured guest at #wikipediadaynyc - another great get by the @wikimedianyc.bsky.social organizers. www.youtube.com/live/G1sIj89...

Volunteers Thanked Thousands of Wikipedia Editors to Learn the Effects of Receiving Thanks Can saying "thank you" make online communities stronger & more inclusive? Here's what we learned by sending thousands of thank-you notes to Wikipedians.

A link to the study of "thanks" on Wikipedia that @natematias.bsky.social and Sarah Gilbert talked about in their #wikipediadaynyc session: citizensandtech.org/2020/06/effe...

Best tangential takeaway from #wikipediadaynyc so far is learning about Tamara Broderick's distrosaurs tamarabroderick.com/img/dino_rel... tamarabroderick.com/misc.html via @natematias.bsky.social and Sarah GIlbert's presentation :)

Wikipedia Day NYC 2026 YouTube video by Wikimedia NYC

Now on the #wikipediadaynyc stage are @natematias.bsky.social and Sarah Gilbert on Wikipedia and the Human Potential for Cooperation. www.youtube.com/live/G1sIj89...

Tempting, as a Wikipedian, to gesture at the reliable sourcing guideline, but there's something to be said for thinking about the downstream effects of the shifting landscape of traditional journalism.

Q from @micahloewinger.bsky.social : Why is Wikipedia not drawing on the new wave of independent journalists (like Megalag's expose on Honey), and just depending on legacy media writeups of that journalism. #wikipediadaynyc