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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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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Some of us may be checking our screens a little more often than usual over the next few days, weeks, or (god help us) months. @[email protected] has a great article on overcoming device dependency and digitally detoxing, with tips that go beyond the usual “just put your phone in another room.”
https://theconversation.com/how-to-overcome-your-device-dependency-and-manage-a-successful-digital-detox-240613
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“In some cases, it was women who were fiercest in the fight” was the headline that grabbed us in the final story in this thread, which was shared by our @[email protected]. The Haitian Revolution was the only known uprising of enslaved people that led to the founding of a slavery-free state. Many women fought alongside men, but few are remembered. An upcoming exhibition in London seeks to redress the balance with portraits of some of the female revolutionary fighters. @BBCNews’s Emi Eleode writes about the women, and the show.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240827-the-forgotten-female-freedom-fighters-of-the-haitian-revolution
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