Alex Ip 葉清霖

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Really excited about this two-part copublication with @dialogueearth.bsky.social where we produced the Guatemala USAID feature, and Dialogue Earth produced the coral dispatch with bylines from *four* different countries, including our contributor @jreingold.bsky.social!

I’m a longtime supporter of this publication. For me, the sweet spot is not too many emails in my inbox, and consistently excellent journalism with stories I am both interested in, and don’t find anywhere else. Its unique stories carry the pulse of what is happening everywhere.

"The Supreme Court's decision, issued as a brief, one-sentence order, did not offer any explanation, as is common when it handles emergency requests. None of the justices publicly dissented from [the] decision."

I also don't think Rest of World made the case why they needed their readers strongly enough. And our world will all suffer as a result: the people who most benefit from their impending demise are Musk, Zuckerberg, Altman, Thiel, and the various bad actors in the AI-EV-military-industrial complex.

On the other hand, in my experience, Rest of World has been one of the more tedious news outlets to republish with. I don't think they have figured out a sustainable model other than "Sophie will bail us out", and relying on readership figures to make decisions in this AI age is frankly misguided.

Two things that Rest of World figured out very early on: financial backing from Sophie Schmidt, the daughter of the former Google CEO, and excellent journalism (The Xylom has syndicated a number of their stories) But I couldn't help but notice something was amiss with them in the past couple years:

Attention mail-in voters: TODAY (Tuesday, Oct. 27) is the U.S. Postal Service's recommended deadline for mailing back ballots in states where they must be received by Election Day. You can also consider returning your ballot at your local election office or any available drop box instead.

How about no

Using Black people’s likenesses for AI-generated ads where you cast them as stereotypes isn’t just incredibly unethical, it should be illegal www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/hou...

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

You have to admit that the entire Bolsonaro family under house arrest in the same house would be a hell of a sitcom.

The NBA has reached deals with Kalshi and Polymarket to make them the league's preferred prediction markets partners. The companies can now use NBA IP on their platforms, while the NBA gets right of approval on markets that they offer. That and more: www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...

When pro-AI and pro-surveillance candidates lose in a landslide next week, Garrett Langley will inevitably turn to overthrowing democracy to keep the contracts flowing. These people are incapable of introspection or taking "no" as an answer.

a little too on the nose but anyways, one week until Election Day apnews.com/article/ss-u...

A PSA for the Asian crowd: I will be in Chiang Mai, Thailand, late November for Splice Beta 2026; if you're around, please say hi! www.splicebetaforkit.com

God bless Etobiwoke, home of the Doug Ford/Olivia Chow/Mark Carney voter

reposting this today in light of more unfortunate news: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

And now there are no masked lesbian bars in the Pioneer Valley.

Look, not all Hong Kong emigrants who go into politics are insane

reposting this today in light of more unfortunate news: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

They don't call themselves NPCs for no reason

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

Given that The New York Times is still the world's newspaper of record after what they did with the actual Nazis, I do not have hope that there will be any reckoning or accountability. You can only hope to contain its damage

FL Republicans believe Desantis may have Dummymandered them, per CNN

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Angie Nixon is who Jasmine Crockett thinks she is

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the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

The cruelty is the point

Angie Nixon is who Jasmine Crockett thinks she is

Yes well it does require things like “empathy” and possessing a basic understanding that all of our lives are interconnected

LFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG (there are a number of folks on this app that would be a perfect fit for The 19th)

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