The South African government has launched a mission to bring to the surface potentially hundreds of people in an illegal mine who last year had supplies of food, water and medicine blocked by police in an attempt to force them out. The government agreed to the attempt on Friday after the sister of one of…
‘Last year is dead, they seem to say,” wrote Philip Larkin in his poem The Trees. “Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.” In the heart of the winter (both literally and metaphorically, as the world is in such turmoil), the distilled quality of poetry can work its particular kind of alchemy, as we attempt to make sense…
Lisa Bluder weighs in on Caitlin Clark’s WNBA success and current women’s NCAA season Former Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder stops by to discuss life after basketball and her new partnership with Gamechanger. A Texas man was arrested in Indianapolis this weekend on felony stalking charges related to Caitlin Clark after sending a series…
Meta appeared to be blocking links to Pixelfed, a decentralized photo-sharing platform, on Facebook, according to both users on Bluesky and 404 Media. A small group of posts that linked to “pixelfed.social” was deleted, with Facebook’s “Community Standards on spam” used as a justification. When asked to comment, a Meta spokesperson said removing the posts…
For years, Mark Zuckerberg tried to keep his social networks above the fray of partisan politics. And why not? Meta’s flagship apps — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — were rowdy nation-states unto themselves, with billions of users, fragile internal politics, skittish advertisers, perpetually aggrieved influencers and a sprawling, uneven enforcement regime (known as “content moderation”)…
