This time next week, the U.S. will have voted. Anyone else feel sick?! This is our regular #NewstodonFriday thread, which highlights the newsrooms and reporters who have an active presence in the fediverse. Inevitably, we have political stories and politics-adjacent stories, along with some lighter fare, and some that straddle the two (@[email protected]’s story on a new Greg Abbott musical fits perfectly into that category). Please check out the stories, follow the publications, click on the stories, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can. See you on the other side.
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Last year, New Mexico adopted House Bill 4, which establishes that those convicted of a felony can still vote, providing they are not incarcerated. A crew of people set to work registering newly eligible voters and in doing so discovered thousands of people who had been wrongfully denied their voting rights, for many years before. They’ve successfully sued the state so that those affected will be able to vote next Tuesday. It’s a victory, but some voters still feel mistrustful of the government. @[email protected] explains more.
https://boltsmag.org/voting-rights-restoration-reform-in-new-mexico/
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Eritrean journalist Akberet Beyene was placed under house arrest in her home country as part of a crackdown on the media, and eventually fled the country dressed in her mother’s clothes and carrying her sister’s passport. It was just the first step in her journey to Canada as an asylum seeker. She tells her story in a new book, Geographies of the Heart,
which is excerpted in @[email protected].
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/10/31/Journalist-Escapes-Eritrea-Geographies-Heart/
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According to a story in Popular Science that our @[email protected] shared, humans just love to physically attack robots — but not if they appear to be in emotional distress, for example, crying out or widening their eyes. Here’s a look at our history of hurting robots, and what that might mean if they become more integrated into our lives in the future.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/people-hurting-robots/
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How best to tell the story of Texas’s frustration with Gov. Greg Abbott? Through the medium of song. “Young Greg Abbott: A FuQusical” had its first two full performances on Oct. 18 in Austin. @[email protected] reviewed the show for @[email protected]. The team behind it now want to take it on the road. “We really don’t want him to have a national profile, and, if he thinks of having one, we want to be in his ear as this very annoying little pesky punk show following him around,” co-creator Brently Heilbron says.
https://www.texasobserver.org/young-greg-abbott-musical/
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Just when you thought Halloween was done, @[email protected] hit us with this true-life horror story of a parasitic fungus, Entomophthora muscae, which translates to “destroyer of insects.” “After the fungus infects the fly, it doesn’t go straight to the vital organs but starts consuming fats and other nutrients first, gradually starving the fly but keeping it alive,” writes Rohini Subrahmanyam. “Only when it runs out of non-vital organs to chomp on does it start to control the fly’s behavior, thus ensuring its continuity: By forcing the fly to seek some height and get stuck there, it ensures wide distribution of its spores.”
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/parasitic-fungus-turns-insect-into-zombie
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For @damemagazine, Parker Molloy reports on a new Pew Research Center survey that shows that only 13% of U.S. adults say they have “a lot” of trust in the information they get from national news organizations. She discusses what the media needs to do to save itself.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/10/28/can-the-media-ever-regain-our-trust-after-election-2024/
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The fast-growing, supremely dangerous sport of base-jumping is the subject of @[email protected]’s latest photo essay, which shows the nascent scene in South Africa.
https://continent.substack.com/p/photo-essay-go-jump
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AI regulation and privacy laws in Spanish-speaking Latin America are either dated or non-existent, which means that Meta users there can’t prohibit the company from using their content for training. “Artists are particularly vulnerable, as many promote their creative work on Meta’s platforms,” writes Lucila Pinto for @[email protected]. She talked to creatives about what they plan to do.
https://restofworld.org/2024/meta-is-training-its-ai-with-public-instagram-posts-artists-in-latin-america-cant-opt-out/
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When Manasvi Verma moved from India to St. Louis, Missouri, for college, her diet changed — and so did her gut microbiome. She wrote this beautiful essay, which is about food, science, sociology, and friendship, for @[email protected].
https://www.thexylom.com/post/a-journey-through-my-microbiome-an-immigrant-s-perspective-on-a-changing-gut
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