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Entries will be accepted until December 6 for the 2023 Shaufler Prize in Journalism. The prize honors #journalism that reports on #underrepresented communities. The first-place winner in the professional media category will receive $10,000. Second and third place will receive $3,000 and $2,000, respectively. Entries must consist of work published or aired on #print, #digital, #audio or #broadcast platforms between Sept. 1, 2022, and Sept. 1, 2023. https://cronkite.asu.edu/news/2023/shaufler-prize-in-journalism-recognizing-reporting-to-advance-understanding-of-underserved-communities-now-accepting-entries/

Got an email from a respected researcher who's heard that Gannett has been quietly closing more weekly print papers in Eastern Mass. Has anyone heard anything? Any insiders have a memo? Discretion assured - dkennedy56 at gmail dot com. #LocalNews #journalism

Some folks are organizing a #Codeberg user meetup in #Dusseldorf, Germany on 2023-10-22.

Read all about it on our calendar: https://codeberg.codeberg.page/Events/events/2023/22-10-duesseldorf-user-meetup/

Our contributors are looking forward to meeting with you.

📽️ Reality Winner, a new documentary about the NSA whistleblower, premieres on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 8 pm at IFC Center in NYC.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Sonia Kennebeck.

Get your tickets here: https://tickets.ifccenter.com/websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=404485~8722a542-64c1-4c0b-af02-c3e8a239d769&_ga=2.239744074.87516370.1696956735-1461751318.1696956735

Some boycotts are hard. Some are easy.

The NHL: Your officially homophobic professional sports league.

The NHL has banned Pride Tape, creating its own ‘Don’t Say Gay’ policy
The NHL has banned Pride Tape and Pride jerseys, in addition to issuing a disaster memo regarding LGBTQ initiatives. Hockey is not for everyone.

https://www.outsports.com/2023/10/9/23907582/nhl-gay-lgbtq-pride-tape-drag-queen-national-anthem-player-boycott

Today and tomorrow are Amazon Crime Big Steal Days where the behemoth continues to bleed indies dry.

Support indies, communities, and local businesses instead.

Save 40% on all PM Press books & e-books on October 10th and 11th with coupon code CRIME at http://pmpress.org.

Reading liberal takes on Palestine rn is like being transported back to the old West, listening to my ancestors talk abt what to do about all these Indians, hand-wringing over their resistance to displacement and attempted genocide; growing morally indignant about violent responses to ethnic oppression. Seriously, I could take a number of posts from my feed, change a few words, & you would have no way of knowing if it was about Palestinians today or Native Americans circa 1870.

Vermont's Green Mountain Power is going to equip every customer with a backup battery, since that's cheaper than making their power grid more resilient. This is the first half of a good idea. The remaining half would be to provide customers with heavily-subsidized solar panels (amortized over a decade's power bills), creating a distributed power-generation system that can serve customers even when disconnected from the grid. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/business/energy-environment/green-mountain-home-batteries.html?unlocked_article_code=LeKDfU8q__Ways4PG2VyNTDvV6LLU5JNc5L7H_qb312SZnm9OaYuY573BIxiljZ3L55mi6HAWbKGEhmVrH-jIKJnEl6G6t-8FQxeMxe_HZwRtuDnLZeKjkJxgwym5CKHNMWQ23ZrHZ8Zvg3DQwG9Te1D2nLCwW7ixhHUoqUMB7Of3RMrFAS5Y80nHGWd1X8KFKIboUuhOHllGyZ7UHSNNtG6yBOAdPphYFkw1YycDthyDatHwumZki5-XcUEf4yxBv55nlOb0FrwJqhCt17gFpPXgqWUqK5dbsUOHY7eVd799Nd113qS21tX0eiIS3YWXBzfpWimAhK6PbfgbSfGVqktp52RLdkdSvnY2BkhhOzhuTHcE19JHaAG&smid=url-share

We firmly support the right of collective self-determination.

#FreePalesine #RiseuUp4Rojava

To support Kurdish movement sign here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sicioup8TW8hrAfewnx0PJEmwj3jGirLh0xZktTJ-Rk/edit

To read more about Palestinian struggle: https://democraticmodernity.com/blog/democratic-confederalism-and-the-palestinian-experience

Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targeting U.S. Postal Service (USPS) customers. Here’s a look at an extensive SMS phishing operation that tries to steal personal and financial data by spoofing the USPS, as well as postal services in at least a dozen other countries.

I like to show my work, and went pretty far down the rabbit hole with this one:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/phishers-spoof-usps-12-other-natl-postal-services/

@galena @ZekuZelalem What exactly is wrong with y'all. First its the CWs tone policing Black people, and then this shit. SMH.

Lastly, considering that journalists are by nature people who question and dig away at anything screaming a lack of transparency, I'm surprised that only a few (if any?) journalists have sounded alarms or protested.

Journalists flocked to Mastodon last year, and a year later, there's barely a whimper as one man's silent takeover/ownership of journalism platforms and even a verification tool here has him establish a monopoly, despite none of you knowing anything about him.

You shock me!

FIN.

For those of you looking for a non-paywalled version of the Haaretz op-ed about how much Netanyahu is at fault here, which is A LOT.

https://archive.ph/20231009201713/https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-10-08/ty-article-opinion/netanyahu-bears-responsibility/0000018b-0b9d-d8fc-adff-6bfd1c880000

Ok, I know that some fediverse software is lighter weight / less computationally intensive than others. Pleroma is well-known for being particularly lightweight.

But has anyone put together a list comprehensively comparing the computational intensity of the various fediverse platforms?

(boosts welcome)

Some states try to prevent social media platforms from moderating content. Others try to compel moderation. But, as we told a federal appeals court last week, any government involvement in content moderation raises First Amendment concerns. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/eff-urges-second-circuit-affirm-injunction-new-yorks-dangerous-online-hateful

300 names. 150 languages. 9 years of research involving the consultation of 100s of elders and language-keepers across the continent. We're thrilled to finally share this with the world on this Indigenous Peoples Day!

Documenting these names is vital work as many of the elders who worked on this project have since joined the ancestors. This map serves to support ongoing language revitalization efforts, acknowledge unextinguished Indigenous land tenure, and help us all better understand Indigenous history, the legacy of colonization, and our relationship with the land.

Just as this knowledge was gifted to us, the map is a gift we hope people will print and hang in schools, community centers, and anywhere it can help start a dialogue.

On our website, you can also find a list of all these names and resources to help learn the accurate pronunciations.

Check it out for yourself at decolonialatlas.com

In most U.S. media the attack on Israel is presented with perfect amnesia, not just going back decades but even just weeks. The amnesia can also apply to the analysis of the Palestinian movements, as if there were no history of political struggle within Palestine, as if Hamas = Palestine = Islamic Jihad. Manichean responses abound. Some anchors seem downright gleeful to have another war to gin up, wishing the death count were even more dramatic.

Haaretz editorial:
"The disaster that befell #Israel on the holiday of Simchat Torah is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin #Netanyahu. The prime minister… completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a government of annexation & dispossession, when appointing Bezalel #Smotrich & Itamar #Ben-Gvir to key positions, while embracing a foreign policy that openly ignored the existence & rights of Palestinians."
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-10-08/ty-article-opinion/netanyahu-bears-responsibility/0000018b-0b9d-d8fc-adff-6bfd1c880000