From: @ProPublica
https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/115690967512358959

@debcha Have you watched Season 2 of The Rehearsal?

“AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline, according to a new survey published today”

https://www.404media.co/ai-scraping-bots-are-breaking-open-libraries-archives-and-museums/

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/mark-zuckerberg-says-social-media-is-over

Facebook has entered the final phase of enshittification in which it is just shit.

https://www.desmog.com/2025/04/16/how-77-tons-of-radioactive-waste-ended-up-in-brooklyn/

This can’t be good.

https://voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/as-bot-students-continue-to-flood-in-community-colleges-struggle-to-respond/

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@sethlombardy https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/trade-war-fallout-china-freight-ship-decline-begins-orders-plummet.html

Curious what your perspective is on all this is.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/trade-war-fallout-china-freight-ship-decline-begins-orders-plummet.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/s/5Rx2kWtT0A

Surely Trump has been made aware of this!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Jeez people.

https://www.ft.com/content/e0b28b01-3cdb-4c64-be28-93f51b4a21e6

Wall Street needs to price in the decline and fall of the American empire over the next 10 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/science/astronomy-exoplanets-habitable-k218b.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Signs of possible life on distant planet detected…by agencies losing federal funding so…

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/harvard-trump-reject-demands.html

What if Trump decides to give the $2.2 billion to Liberty or Oral Roberts?

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Trump is taking America’s exceptionalism (our legacy as a global beacon of freedom and prosperity) and throwing it around, spending it, and setting it on fire like a spoiled trust fund entitled douche.

Putting Fedifeelers out for any folks out there with experience with/enthusiasm for local news and/or community colleges, ideally in the South, who might be interested in a gig to read/score challenge applications at the end of May/early June (small paid stipend).

Hit me up!
#localnews

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