Got a more direct link for FF? This one just goes in circles, with the download link in the instructions bringing up the page that links to the download instructions.
EDIT: That was a NoScript problem. I was able to grab the .xpi once I allowed the Russian domain.
The rest of the Fediverse runs off ActivityPub.
It's a chess game at this point. We sadly have someone great at somehow running casinos into the ground, but here we are.
We're a bit more widespread than most think.
Speak for yourself! Each time I've started a garden, I've gotten divorced. Not because of starting a garden; it's just correlation.
I mean, we're already seeing the danglers. To fix the whole system? Got a spare planet?
You have got to be fucking kidding me. Some 54% of U.S. adults read at a sixth-grade level or less? We all saw this coming from the '80s on, but I forgot that it's been 40 years, and education has been properly gutted.
Sadly, "you'll never work in this city again" has been true for my entire career. What are you going to do? Walk across Main Street to the other paper?
But it has never been an editor's job to "push back on the folks who write articles," which I thought would be the worst part of that sentence; literally, rewriting is what editors do. We don't push back on staff, we push back on copy. A minor omission here, a glaring hole there, and -- as a last resort -- spiking a story until questions are answered.
No one has felt any job security in this industry for at least 15 years. "You can't say that" probably cuts both ways at this point.
Ports including in Saudi Arabia and the US projected to be seriously damaged by a metre of sea level rise
Well, well, well ...
You've seen his age and diet, no?
This really isn't all that surprising.
I do want to set the record straight that Reed headed GateHouse before the reverse merger with Gannett (GH parent New Media Investment Group bought Gannett and took the name). I've worked for some inspiring leaders. I also worked for Mike Reed.
Without getting too deep into the Reeds, consolidation was always going to come for the AP. Fewer members, lower dues; we touched on this just past the election with the layoff thread. But the structure of the AP is such that while most of what you're running comes from dedicated national beat reporters (I'm looking at you, Marcia Dunn [who's likely retired by now]) and state bureaus, when someone goes on a rampage and holes himself up in a department store in Bumfuck, Wash., the Bumfuck Daily Bugle sends copy and art to Seattle, where it then gets moved along to members while a reporter heads to the scene.
You're not getting that from Reuters. They'll eventually get there should the story blow up.
This is a stupid optics decision for shareholders. What Gannett should really be doing is ripping off the Band-Aid and ceasing to run wire copy decided on in Austin on dead trees nationwide.
Essentially, the belief that we were doing the right things for the right reasons was thoroughly disabused. Even with corporate ownership, things didn't look nearly as dire 20 years ago. Maybe the arrogance of youth, maybe the still-extant ethical practices of the day.
Writ small, every day I walked into the newsroom from early in my college days to running a paper a few years later, each day presented itself as an opportunity to do the best work I ever had. A very small chance, but nonzero.
By the time I got to the hub here in Texas, that had ceased to be the case. We weren't doing anything useful, just moving rectangles around as prescribed by the assigning papers.
My mom would make offhand references to "come the revolution" when I was growing up. I'm not going to say she went out of her way to suggest that would yet skip a generation, but if she knew it would hit me, she was hiding it well.
She was a Democrat, to the point of being part of a few campaigns for congressmen and senators. My dad, on the other hand, was fully on board with the Thatcher/Reagan trickle-down mindset. Why Thatcher first? We didn't have a portrait of Reagan in the office.
We were nonetheless a family that got invited to things. The Christmas party with Sandra Day O'Connor every year. Gubernatorial candidates from both parties would show up on off years.
When you grow up like this, it's very easy to believe the system is working for everyone. College was paid for, even though I never finished. The experience of going into debt would wait a few years. And then, the layoffs.
At this point, the only reasons I'm not totally fucked are I work freelance and can't be found. I've not talked with the friend whose address I use in months on account of creditors showing up at 9 p.m. attempting to serve papers. His kids go to bed at 8, so I get it.
But what has sprung from this is a drastic shift without a clutch (ask your parents) from thinking being part of the system was the best outlet to effect change to having zero belief the system can be changed. Sure, it can be, but we'll get the same results, just slightly less lemon.
I don't think you can get much more establishment than aspiring to The Washington Post. I still have an April 2003 A1 where I moved a hed after the AME/News came down to review my redesign, 18 months out of college and without a degree, and invited me up for a night on the desk. It sounded a lot more impressive at 23, I'll grant.
He'd then tell me in Savannah, Ga., over a beer at the hotel bar that he thought I was Post material, but I needed to get the immature shit out of my system, first. Ahead of the Post contingent and me piling into a car where the main topic was "what bullshit did Woodward pull today?" Seriously, consider hearing this conversation less than a year into your career in journalism.
I believed in it back then. I can't now. And to be honest, it's broken me of having a full eight hours to devote to the craft. I'm lucky to have four hours before by brain says no.
What the Post and L.A. Times have done may look bad externally; internally, I assure you it looks worse. NYT thankfully showed its true colours quite some time back, so this was more waiting for shoes to drop.
I did not join Beehaw to change the world. I joined my school paper to do that.
And, well, now Gannett owns everything. You can't even sell efficiencies to managers there, since they need bad data to justify their jobs.
There is no solution here within the scope of the current economic model. So, congratulations, deregulated capitalism, you fucking turned someone raised to accept you. I suspect many others have something to say.
And you have the military in the middle. Historically, they've been loyal to country sted president. This is the experiment we've not yet seen.
What's exciting here is this is a door opening into empirically exploring what sparked complex life. It could be bacteria insinuating themselves into cells and unintentionally ending up in a symbiotic relationship, or not, or a combination of evolutionary factors. This is nonetheless new data we didn't have, and I'm always for that. Maybe it'll be ruled out, or maybe it'll create a new realm of science.
So often today, it feels like we've hit the end of science, and I'd argue that what we need to move forward are new data and forms of measurement. This feels like that.
I didn't see the title as clickbait ... did they recreate the circumstances of a known symbiotic relationship? Yes, with a bike pump.
But this does seem to open the door to a new area of scientific discovery, which is always cool and always comes with unforeseen risk.
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
2025 didn't exactly open as the most vehicle-friendly year.
That is a weird bit to me as well. I'm used to atheists being the group most likely to follow Jesus' teachings.
You put forth some profound questions well above my pay grade.
I prefer to view it as "what can I do to help myself and others?" I started out in journalism wanting to change the world. Then I hit my 20s. Then the buyouts accelerated.
And I can't change the world by rewriting press releases. It keeps my belly full, and I believe in what I do, but Jan. 20 looms large.
Here's the thing: The education system was intentionally gutted starting in the '80s to make critical thinking feel too hard, leading to where you're at. If you want to screw the man, put in the effort to cultivate your own selection of news sources. It's some upfront time, but then like a minute to add or remove sources.
I've never really lived anywhere my vote counted at the federal level, but downballot races are important because that state rep starts up the ladder. Whether your presidential pick matters is relevant and perhaps feeling fruitless now, but 10, 20, 30 years down the line, who you picked for school board could be running in a federal election because you supported them, alongside those in your community.
What can we do right now? This is going to be a dark period with some oncoming trains presenting as the light at the end of the tunnel. What we can do is vote people in at the bottom so they can eventually rise to the top.
Not that there's anything good about this, but hearing that both Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins "resigned" from whatever honorary positions they had with the FFRF rather made my heart sink.
I was a linguistics student for a time, and Pinker's books always had a sociolinguistic aspect to them, but I never saw transphobia. It was admittedly a while back, so it really wasn't yet settling into the national consciousness.
I also admired Dawkins' writing style; again, I saw nothing transphobic.
So for both of these guys to be like "nope, you should have totally kept a piece up that says transwomen should have fewer rights and options" is, maybe, the final insult of 2024.
Not saying you're among them, but I think a lot of people neglect the ability of RSS to essentially roll your own morning paper from several disparate sources. Most of what I post on here is just waiting for me in a tab each morning ... I have sections broken down into tech, news, politics, science and more.
When a source stops being useful, I remove it. Anytime I run into a good piece from a new source, I attempt to subscribe (usually with success). This keeps my feed from calcifying, and Beehaw is often how I run into new things.
The problems inherent to the system could be effectively papered over for a few decades by paying wages that outstripped inflation without layoff threats, allowed single-earner households to afford to own a house and two cars, take vacations, provide for several kids if they so chose, and then pensions.
The bootstrap group seems to forget what they had. Health insurance is certainly a major component, but single-payer on its own solves none of the other devolvements.
Colorado man arrested on suspicion of bias-motivated crimes and assault as hostility to journalists rises
... and so it begins. Not that this is the first example, but what's somewhat scary here is that people feel this emboldened before he even uses an oath to dismantle everything the oath requires him to uphold.
And the FDA is supposed to ... do what again? Oh, that's right, avoid shit like this. Enjoy the regulatory capture; tip your ag company, avoid the veal.
This could change the game.
It's almost like financial services exist to shaft the poor.
I should have known better than to have something delivered just before Christmas. While a DC-DC charger from the alternator was delivered, it was not the right one and utterly useless in a chassis that cannot serve as ground.
In the past, this sort of error has been fixed by returning the errant item to the locker and having a replacement on its way. That's apparently no longer an option. I have to go through the replacement process, wait for the money to be refunded to my credit card, and then wait for the thrill of being allowed to order again. I sent the requested photographic proof, showing I'd received the box for a nonisolated version, and the rep said he was an electrician and immediately saw the problem on an aluminum chassis, but his hands were tied.
Earliest I can now attempt to receive the correct item is Dec. 30. Because it's cloudy often this time of year, this charger is the baseline needed for solar to consistently be reliable; last year at this time, I had two mains options to plug into.
It's beginning to look a lot like a shit Christmas. There's nowhere in town that sells what I need. On the plus side, at least I can't work without reliable internet, and it looks like T-Mobile just decided it doesn't like my 5G SIM card for that.
It's difficult to know whether sharing mine would seem self-serving or inviting.
It was election night, 2000. I was newly 21, as was my editor at the college paper. She got to go to an election party where the mood turned out sombre, and I'm left to figure out just how much we blow deadline by. Then call an editorial cartoonist at 3 a.m. to draw up a recreation of the Dewey hed. Which took up half the page above the fold (you don't call someone at 3 a.m. and then bury the art) under a hed of "Florida Holds the Keys."
Once we'd gotten the flats to the printer (due by midnight), USA Today was already on the rack on the Ave. when we got back. The first dek on the A1 election story was "Florida holds the key." This is where I start thinking I might be capable of pulling this off as a career.
That night was a crazy outlier. Goddamn Aaron Sorkin scene writ large. We weren't just short presidential results, but I think there was a congressional district too close to call. There was, of course, attrition as the hours got so late they became early, but with those who remained, there was a bond.
And, frankly, I'd take that night again over an orgasm any day. Or night.
Party aides are confident in US vice-president’s ability to bounce back, including a bid for California governor
Dear god, no. This is an abjectly terrible idea. Dems aren't going to win until they stop being the other party of billionaires who are centre-right at best yet claiming to be for the working man. Come on, learn something from this election. We want a Sanders or AOC, not this milquetoast rejection of the full scope of the Overton window.
This is going to be a crazy four years, and to suggest we come out on the other side wanting a return to the same bullshit that held wages and lifestyles back for, by then, 50 years, is a failure to read the room. No one wants what the Democratic party currently offers, and I don't see her suddenly becoming progressive. We don't need another president on the cusp of getting Social Security when elected.
We want that for ourselves after paying into the system for so long, but that's not going to happen. Find a new standard-bearer or die. Learn. Adapt. Run on real change, not the incremental shit that was resoundingly rejected and so generously provided us with the shitshow we're about to endure. Voters stay home when you do that, and here we are.
I mean, how many CEOs need to be killed before anyone gets the message that what they're offering has the current panache of liver and onions? Doesn't matter how well it's prepared; the world has moved on, and whoever gets the nomination in '28 needs to as well. Harris is not that candidate.
Here we go again.
(edited title to revise death toll down per latest reporting; we'll see if it stays that way)
0027CST update: The shooter has been identified as a 15-year-old girl, whom I won't name given standard journalistic practice for minors. That's available in the link, alongside an inexplicable reference to her sometimes using another name, as though this is somehow relevant. The good news is two have been released from hospital, but two remain in critical condition.
There's a big push underway to increase the lifespan of lithium-ion batteries powering EVs on the road today. By law, in the US, these cells must be able to hold 80% of their original full charge after eight years of operation.
The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed his dystopian vision
It was difficult to choose where to throw this.
Network and anchor agree to settlement in defamation lawsuit Trump filed against network earlier this year
What the actual fuck? He wasn't found "liable for rape," he was found guilty of it. But I think we all knew this would come in some form. As societal norms are somewhat irritating to rapists, this isn't really a surprise.
What I now posit is: Why should anyone else follow the law? It clearly doesn't matter, so what system of government do we have at this point?
We have Luigi, and I'm sure there'll be a Mario. But I'm sorry ... look, I'm not a fan of Stephanopoulos, yet forcing a network to pay millions for accurate reporting is direct Nazi shit. If you are not afraid of who we are becoming, well, you aren't paying attention.
The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial intelligence.
As the former news editor of the Tidings, this is just a bizarre turn of events. It was at the time Oregon's smallest daily, with a circulation in the 3,000s, and we sure as fuck didn't cover anything outside of the Rogue Valley (with the notable exception of a story about weed legalization causing complications, being some 15 miles north of the California border).
All of which is to say, this was an obscure outlet 20 years ago, so how much cachet it holds for shadow owners to throw a bunch of AI shit at the wall is unclear. That's not to say this is a good development.
Gen Z can’t stand inequality. Why so many of its men voted Republican is a lesson in understanding male identity
Quelle surprise. Societal dictates are pushing them to the right.
The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the power to punish perceived foes.
Pete Hahnloser @beehaw.org Green energy/tech reporter, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.