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You made it! It’s Friday — and #NewstodonFriday, to boot. Here’s your reward for getting through the week: A thread of fascinating stories from newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. Boost, follow, donate, enjoy, and use the comments to discuss these stories and share more that you’ve discovered here.
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It’s another must-read from @TexasObserver, working with palabra, an initiative of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Cuban journalist Jesús Jank Curbelo writes about being smuggled to the U.S-Mexico border in a story called “Going to See the Volcanoes,” a synonym for exodus.
https://www.texasobserver.org/cuba-journalism-border-immigration-asylum-texas/
#Cuba #USMexicoBorder #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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In October 2023, a song called “NostalgIA” racked up nearly a million Spotify streams — and no wonder, since it was a collaboration between Justin Bieber (singing in fluent Spanish), Bad Bunny and retired old-school legend Daddy Yankee. Except of course it wasn’t: It was created using AI voice-cloning tools by a 30-year-old YouTuber, Mauricio Bustos, in Santiago, Chile — and it made Bad Bunny furious. @restofworld spoke to Bustos about whether there’s real art in what he does, and what he hopes will happen next.
https://restofworld.org/2024/ai-song-flowgpt-bad-bunny/
#Music #BadBunny #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Democrats need to figure out a strategy for containing the damage of the Supreme Court if they get a second presidential term. Court-packing is often mentioned, but @damemagazine says it may not be the answer. Instead, argues history professor Claire Bond Potter, they should look at eliminating the “zombie laws” right-wing activists use to bring their cases.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/07/09/zombie-laws-dont-have-to-be-the-last-of-u-s/
#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #USLaw #USPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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To inform the next stage of our federation, we ran a poll on this very desk about local news (more to come soon). In the meantime, we’re sharing this story from NPR about a new grant they’ve received to establish a new regional newsroom in Appalachia, hire a digital editor and journalist covering Indigenous affairs, and more.
#LocalNews #NPR #Journalism #Media #Appalachia #Indigenous #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Navigating New York’s court, health-care and other systems and institutions is tough for anyone but even more so if there’s a language barrier. @themarkup tells the story of Concejo de Pueblos Originarios, a collective set up by Indigenous migrants from Mexico and other parts of the Americas. Its goal is to educate migrants about social programs, public services and government resources in New York via livestreams in Indigenous languages such as Tlapaneco and Tu’un savi. The group also provides live interpreters at court and organizes community meetings.
#NewYork #Immigration #Indigenous #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Multinational companies have been promising to shrink their carbon footprints for years, and failing to keep those promises. @ProPublica reports on the latest: Nike, which eight years ago committed to doubling its business while halving its impact on the warming planet, and last December, laid off its sustainability team.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-layoffs-sustainability-climate-change
#ClimateChange #CSR #Nike #Sustainability #Fashion #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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