Happy #NewstodonFriday! Once again, the many newsrooms who have an active presence in the #fediverse have produced inspiring, informative, interesting stories, and we’re highlighting their work in the thread below. If you like what you see, follow the profiles and boost their stories. If you’re a journo or newsroom that we don’t know about or if there’s a newsroom you’d love to put on our radar, please let us know in the comments.
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in reply to Flipboard • • •Is the testability of a theory essential to good science or is there room for more unconstrained exploration of ideas? @thetransmitter looks at whether this might be the case in relatively young fields like neuroscience.
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Must a theory be falsifiable to contribute to good science?
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in reply to Flipboard • • •Back in March, not long after the death of Nex Benedict, @damemagazine’s Catherine Caruso wrote about how schools became so dangerous for LGBTQ kids. The conclusion? Right-wing outlets are trying to start a moral panic; social media platforms have amplified this; and politicians have legislated to support it. “The real-word harm that has unfolded due to anti-LGBTQ bias and misinformation is immeasurable,” Caruso writes.
damemagazine.com/2024/03/28/ho…
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How Did Schools Become So Dangerous for LGBTQ Kids? | Dame Magazine
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in reply to Flipboard • • •If you’re in Boston or the surrounding areas, you’ll want to check out @gbhnews’s list of Pride events. If we were local, we’d be checking out “Bewitched Family Pride,” a family-friendly exploration of the queer history behind “Bewitched” plus a free screening of an episode.
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The big list of 2024 Pride events in Boston and beyond
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in reply to Flipboard • • •Brian Elmore is a border physician. He writes for @TexasObserver about what it’s like to witness firsthand the violence of Operation Lone Star. “America’s strategy to make the border as dangerous to cross as possible, has spawned increasingly macabre policies … These measures have created a growing public-health crisis along the border.”
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Between the Concertina Wire and the Cartel
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in reply to Flipboard • • •@NewsDesk shared this Flipboard Storyboard about the current childcare crisis in America, which was curated by @csmonitor and includes reporting from a coalition of newsrooms called the Education Reporting Collaborative. The package includes stories on why moms without degrees are most affected by the issue, how increased taxes in New Orleans are making a difference, and the growing trend for on-site childcare. [Stories may be paywalled]
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Fixing the Child Care Crisis
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in reply to Flipboard • • •Amid all the focus on the evils of AI, there are some good sides. @restofworld has this report on how a new tool to measure crowd size was used to debunk Brazilian former president Jair Bolsonaro’s claims that 600,000 people attended a rally for him. Could this be used to prove how small any other former presidents’ audiences are, we wonder?
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AI and drone footage help accurately estimate protest crowd sizes - Rest of World
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in reply to Flipboard • • •Aaaand, back to the usual as @404mediaco’s @jasonkoebler writes about the Perplexity AI chatbot and its bizarre answer to the question: “What are the strategic interests of the South China Sea?” Koebler notes that Google had to scale back its AI answers as they were providing bad information. It will no longer tell you, for example, who won the 2020 election — or any election.
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A Question About Disputed South China Sea Sends Perplexity AI Into a Sanitized Infinite Loop
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in reply to Flipboard • • •For @timkmak’s Counteroffensive, Liliia Didukh writes about a missile strike on a Kharkiv printing house in which seven people died and 50,000 books were destroyed. "Ukrainians remain proud of their literary culture. Even after the shelling, when the metro is not working, people take taxis or walk but still get to book club meetings,” writes Didukh. “During such moments, you understand why book publishers gather all their strength to continue working, no matter how difficult it may be.”
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Kharkiv’s burned books.
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in reply to Flipboard • • •Pardon us! We’ve just been reading about cow burps in @KnowableMag’s story about how scientists are trying to capture enteric methane in an attempt to mitigate global warming. Contrary to popular belief, the farts are not the problem.
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