My amazing colleagues Dhruv Mehrotra and Tim Marchman have a banger out today on Perplexity and the bullshit behind AI magic: wired.com/story/perplexi…

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The Onion is bringing back our Writing Fellowship. This thing has produced some of the biggest names in comedy, at The Onion and elsewhere. It was a casualty of private equity. We're reviving it. A fellowship runs 6 months and includes health insurance. jobs.gusto.com/postings/the-o…

Indian authorities have authorized the prosecution of prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy, who is facing charges under India’s abusive counterterrorism law. The Indian government has routinely used the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act to silence critics.

Privately owned KTN TV station says it has received shutdown threats from the government for covering the on-going protests. bbc.in/3KVaA8x

Forbidden Stories led a coalition of 13 news organizations comprising 50 journalists who spent the last 4 months investigating the killing of more than 100 journalists in the Israel-Gaza war. 1/5 forbiddenstories.org/the-gaza-proje…

New from me: In the Murthy v. Missouri ruling, SCOTUS says that the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana couldn't prove that government agencies pressured social platforms into making content moderation decisions. WIRED wired.com/story/scotus-u…

Another important ruling out today, this one from the ICC, convicting Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz of war crimes in Mali during the 2012 jihadist takeover of Timbuktu. WIRED wired.com/story/icc-inve…

Calling it a “grave issue”, women's wing of Modi's BJP asks the National Commission for Women to launch an investigation after Reuters reported Apple supplier Foxconn rejects married women from iPhone assembly jobs. Commission doing the needful Munsif Vengattil reuters.com/world/india/wo…

"China has the world’s most sophisticated system to censor the internet when it wants to....Yet the Chinese internet is laden with hate speech toward Japanese, Americans, Jews and Africans, as well as Chinese who are critical of the government." trib.al/A17joUc

Is Silicon Valley going MAGA? Well, it might not be as simple as some VCs have made it out to be. wired.com/story/silicon-…

SCOOP from me + Paresh Dave: Arab and Muslim workers at Meta allege that its response to the crisis in Gaza is one-sided and out of hand, cracking down on employee speech internally and making it harder for employees to address real issues on the platforms wired.com/story/meta-pal…

SCOOP: Arab and Muslim workers at Meta allege that its response to the crisis in Gaza is one-sided and out of hand. “It makes me sick that I work for this company,” says one employee. wired.com/story/meta-pal…

Arab and Muslim workers at Meta detail frustrations over Meta's handling of internal discussions on the Israel-Hamas war, worrying it led to bad product choices (Wired) wired.com/story/meta-pal… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240711/p23#a24…

“It makes me sick that I work for this company.” Arab and Muslim employees spoke to WIRED about the internal issues they're facing, from watermelon cupcakes that were called "disruptive" to sources who say pro-Palestinian employees have been fired. wired.com/story/meta-pal…

Amplifying and asking my network to circulate: I'm helping @Compilerdotnews and Humane Intelligence with a workshop geared towards journalists looking to investigate large language models. Workshop is this fall! Details in @mikebfarrell's tweet about how to apply.

Elon Musk ‘Fully Endorses’ Donald Trump After Deadly Rally Shooting wired.com/story/elon-mus…