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This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst Ul on Reddit. I think the winners are (thread)🧵 1/ Enter your phone number

Map by @civixplorer shows the different signs for Metro systems in Europe. While a bit confusing, I like how in Spain for example every city has their own sign.

Μονόδρομος πια: bsky.app/profile/trobou…

I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”

Rare footage of one of the first ever MGMT gigs in 2003 🤯

This is so good it hurts

This is what the Observer team & I were doing between strikes. Please read it because it couldn’t be more relevant. I interview Asif Kapadia about his alarming new film, 2073, with its stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us.. theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/…

Dear Facebook Oversight Board, You’ve made a profoundly wrong & bad choice. For anyone else facing an ethical dilemma in these coming years, this is what Timothy Snyder says: ‘Know who you are.’

Mια αηδία 🤢 Πραγματικά αυτοί οι άνθρωποι είναι οι μπροστάριδες της silicon valley?

This is president of Google - a company accused of illegally harvesting copyrighted work - saying journalists need to learn to use AI or ‘risk missing out’. He’s just been appointed to the board of The Guardian. I hope every journalist in the org watches this & asks: why?

Bookmark it and apply!

🆘 Τέμπη: το κλιμάκιο της αρμόδιαςΔιεύθυνσης Αντιμετώπισης Εγκλημάτων Εμπρησμού ενώ αρχικά διατάχθηκε από τον αρχηγό να μεταβεί στα Τέμπη, κατά την άφιξή του στο σημείο του δυστυχήματος πήρε νέα εντολή να μην κάνει καμία ανακριτική πράξη και να επιστρέψει στην Αθήνα #Τεμπη

#Tomorrowspapertoday Greek “farmers” have raked in millions of euros for land they don't own or work.

🔎 How many people can gather at a location? iMEdD presents Map Checking, an experimental online tool that helps estimate how crowded an area is. 👉🏼 Try it here lab.imedd.org/en/crowd-count… Thanasis Troboukis Sociality

This year, I debuted three new hands-on classes at #NICAR25, the annual data journalism conference organized by Investigative Reporters & Editors. I'm happy to release them all as online textbooks where anyone can work through the material for free. 🧵

10 FREE SOURCES OF SHAPEFILE DATA 1. Geofabrik (OSM Extracts) – Free OpenStreetMap shapefile extracts categorized by continent and country. 🔗 download.geofabrik.de 🧵

18 FREE RASTER DATA SOURCES 🧵

Algorithm-driven feeds are optimized for engagement rather than enlightenment. Algorithms shape not only the newsfeed, but the news itself. Thanasis Troboukis writes about the critical juncture journalism faces today: adapt and lead, or fade away. Read the article

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