Web Owl 📯

Web Owl 📯

@webowl.bsky.social

Reporting on mass media 🎙️ “Technology should serve us, not rule us.” #social #media #news

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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

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Regret to inform that, not only has Google Maps changed the label of the body of water between Mexico and Florida, it has also not enabled the "Report a data problem" function that does exist for all the labels around it.

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Maddow: If you don't have Bluesky yet, I recommend it. It is a social media network that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork

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I just deleted my Threads account, because it really wasn't - as the kids would say - a vibe. Political content supressed, zero growth absolutely rotten with bots, plus of course it's a Meta product. I need to plan on my Instagram exit next.

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This one’s for the whole world. Go to your App Store. Leave Google maps a one star review. Feel free to leave other Google products a one star review as well. Reason: ignorance of geography and colonialist sympathies. #3E

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social

So much Freedom Fries energy.

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“And we still are not doing everything possible to prevent it or reduce the impact if it hits.” I mean, Donald won't even let public health officials talk about this, so... www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/h...

cnn.comTrump administration’s halt of CDC’s weekly scientific report stalls bird flu studies | CNNThe Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across the United States.
Carolyn Barber, MD@cbarbermd.bsky.social

didn't identify any changes in the sequence data from the NV person that might impact antigenicity or susceptibility to antivirals. However, the virus will undergo further analysis & testing. Updated story:🎁Gift link: fortune.com/well/2025/02... #BlueSky  #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky #scisky #medtwitter

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1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

popular.infoThe NSA's "Big Delete"Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "...

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The closure of CFPB highlights the grand lie at the heart of DOGE. CFPB is cheap to run & delivers billions to victims of corporate scams. It’s the definition of value for money. But X & Meta hate it because it targets big tech fraud. DOGE is not about waste. It’s about enriching the oligarchy.

npr.orgMusk's team takes control of key systems at Consumer Financial Protection BureauThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest target of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

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A WIRED review of message boards, encrypted channels, social media platforms, online search trends, and public statements from influencers and lawmakers suggests that Musk and the actions of DOGE have come to dominate discussions among far-right and extremist communities.

wired.comThe Far Right Has a New Hero: Elon MuskElon Musk’s takeover of the federal government has inspired adoration from far-right communities online that used to be reserved for Donald Trump.

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In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

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The news keeps saying "accept" and "house" deportees and that's an unconscionable to deceptive way to say: El Salvador wants the US to pay them & ship them criminalized American citizens & non-citizens alike to work and die as slaves in El Salvadoran prisons, which Trump & Rubio want to make happen

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The NFL will remove its “End Racism” sign at this weekend’s Super Bowl, the first time since 2021 the message will not appear in the Super Bowl end zone. Although the game will feature two Black quarterbacks, league sources confirmed that Trump is expected to attend as well.

nytimes.comNFL to remove ‘End Racism’ messaging in end zone ahead of Super Bowl: Sources"Choose Love" and "It Takes All of Us" will be stenciled onto the back of the end zones at the Caesars Superdome.

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.