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Dan Robitzski

@danrobitzski.bsky.social
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Editor at SpaceNews. Epee Fencer and Coach at Swordplay LA. Producer at Super Trashed TV. He/Him.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.
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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Wrote about data centers and social murder blindarchive.substack.com/p/indifferen...
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Indifference engines
Brief thoughts on AI and data centers
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"In an age where Americans are beginning to feel political outrage against a corrupt oligarchy that seems to be literally stealing from us, where everything in American life seems to be an insider-trading grift, the AI industry is a perfect and obvious villain."
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SpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Katalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboost Katalyst Space and NASA have called off plans to use the company’s Link spacecraft to raise the orbit of the agency’s Swift gamma-ray observatory, citing attitude-control problems with the spacecraft....
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Katalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboost
Katalyst Space and NASA have called off plans to use the company’s Link spacecraft to raise the orbit of the agency’s Swift gamma-ray observatory, citing attitude-control problems with the spacecraft.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/08/2026
"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...
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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)
Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Fix your hearts or die? Sure. But also: Fix your hearts and live. Fixing involves doing the work, not having work done for you. People can build the path of liberation from patriarchy, but they can't walk it for you. So, walk the path. Do the work. Be a *man.* www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...
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Fix Your Hearts or Die
It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I absolutely love this genre of story where an adult tells us that a book commonly assigned to high schoolers it too hard for them to understand, so they have to ask the hallucination bot to dumb it down for them
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/08/2026
Evil.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
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‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Usually, Google Earth is an exceptionally useful tool for ... analysts to digitally monitor areas of interest and see how they change over time, say, during a conflict or disaster. Now, Google Earth can easily be used as a tool for disinformation." @404media.co www.404media.co/google-earth...
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Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Tesla autopilot turning off right before a crash
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We can't let trivial matters like clean air and water get in the way of progress spacenews.com/proposed-rul...
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Proposed rule would exempt commercial launch licensing from environmental regulations
The Department of Transportation is proposing to exempt commercial space launch licensing from many environmental regulations.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 24/07/2026
about to engage in self-harm (watch the entire Elon Musk Economist interview)
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John R. Platt @johnrplatt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species "Cuts" is a massive understatement. "Under the rule, destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
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Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
And an ongoing reminder that ICE kidnappings have been up nationwide, including in LA, during the World Cup. LA's Immigrant Defenders Law Center received 900 calls in June, the second-highest number in a year. "These things are still happening. They're just not happening at SoFi Stadium"
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During World Cup, LA advocates have received uptick in calls for help with ICE
Despite concerns, ICE has not been conducting visible enforcement at the tournament. But immigration arrests are continuing elsewhere.
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Media day at Swordplay LA a few weeks ago! (How many workplaces have you fight your boss for content?)
me, the fencing coach mantwo epee fencerstwo epee fencers. I, on the left, miss a heartbreaking flick to the handTwo epee fencers get distracted by a professional wrestling demo
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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’m so sad to share that yesterday was my last day at Scientific American. It was an honor to work alongside my incredible colleagues and to speak with researchers across the sciences. If you’re looking to hire staff or freelance, please consider me and my other laid off coworkers (🧵)
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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com
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Springer Nature to divest its consumer media businesses | Springer Nature Group | Springer Nature
Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Springer Nature has sold Scientific American to LabX. This is genuinely terrible news for the state of science journalism.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15/06/2026
I had some thoughts on the press coverage of the SpaceX IPO
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The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster
Once again a broken U.S. press couldn't bother to convey the truth to the public when it comes to America's shittiest rich person.
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What timeline are we on where the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people becomes a trillionaire a year later? Because it’s not one I think people are going to sit back and swallow www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...
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How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People
Former USAID global health official Nicholas Enrich explains the catastrophic human toll of DOGE's cuts to the agency.
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"If it takes 75 solid minutes of poorly rendered murders to make you feel something, you may already be dead."
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Great new series of essays on the @supertrashed.bsky.social blog, where we ask: what's the first video game you owned? Super Trashed TV also asks, accidentally: how did that first tiny domino that fell in your childhood make you the person you are today? www.supertrashed.tv/news-item/fi...
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First Owned Games
The Super Trashed Crew reminiscences about the video games that shaped their sense of self and sovereignty.
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Four U.S. military "training exercises" in Pasadena, Long Beach, City of Industry, and Irvine during the last two nights. Only a few hours of notice to residents. Which lucky SoCal city is going to be kept up until 2 a.m. by gunfire and helicopters tonight?
NOTICE OF TRAINING Tonight, the US military will be conducting a training exercise in
northeast Pasadena until 1:00 a.m. During this time may hear limited helicopter activity, controlled explosions, and simulated weapons fire. Pasadena Police will be assisting with pedestrian and vehicle safety in the immediate area. This event is not open to the public or media. Should you have any concerns during the training
please contact (626) 744-4241.
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PASADENA cityofpasadena • Tonight, the US military will be conducting a training exercise in northeast Pasadena until 1:00 a.m. During this time may hear limited helicopter activity, controlled
explosions, and simulated weapons fire. Pasadena Police will be assisting with pedestrian and vehicle safety in the immediate area. This event is not open to the public or media. Should you have any concerns during
the training, please contact (626) 744-4241.
1d becksf_ Since when does the military conduct training exercises in a city full of
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Viam ronliac (EnI Liked by el_tragon_de_los_angeles• Notice Tonight, the US Military will conduct a training exercise in
east Long Beach until 2 a.m. During this time, you may see and hear helicopter activity,
controlled explosions and simulated weapons fire. Long Beach Police Department personnel will be in the area
to assist with pedestrian and vehicle safety. Although LBPD will be in the area, note that this is not a City of Long Beach training exercise. This exercise is being conducted by the US Military, and the City of Long Beach
does not have jurisdiction over operational details. To preserve operational security, we're unable to provide further information regarding the nature of the training, location, or timing. This event is not open to the public or
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Beach until 2 a.m. During this time, you may see and hear
helicopter activity, controlled
explosions, and simulated weapons fire.
Long Beach Police Department personnel will be in the area to assist
with pedestrian and vehicle safety. Although @longbeachpd.ca will be in the area, note that this is not a City of Long Beach training exercise. This exercise is being conducted by the US Military, and the City of Long Beach does not have
jurisdiction over operational details. To preserve operational security, we're
unable to provide further information
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"If you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it? It’s insulting but, more than that, it’s depressing. Writing, especially in opinion, is about individual voice." www.cityam.com/there-should...
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There should have been an op-ed here but you filed AI slop
City AM's inbox is drowning in AI pitches. Anna Moloney, who spends her days copy and pasting them into detection software, has had enough.
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
www.welcometohellworld.com/they-want-us...
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They Want Us Dead
Acclimation to mass death—and the devaluing of humanity in general—is their primary purpose
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...
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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 13/05/2026
btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Roses are red, It would cost $30 billion to give every American a home. Candy is sweet, spacenews.com/congressiona...
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Congressional Budget Office estimates $1.2 trillion price tag for Golden Dome
Congressional Budget Office estimates $1.2 trillion price tag for Golden Dome Congressional Budget Office estimates $1.2 trillion price tag for Golden Dome
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Whoops! spacenews.com/falcon-9-roc...
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Falcon 9 rocket stage projected to impact moon’s near side in August
Falcon 9 rocket stage projected to impact moon’s near side in August A spent Falcon 9 stage used to launch a pair of commercial lunar landers is projected to impact the moon Aug. 5, according to astro...
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/04/2026
I genuinely think there's something deeply wrong with anyone who finds this idea remotely appealing
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I just published this deep dive about Bruce Springsteen and America and freedom and you and me and … all this. www.findinggravity.net/bruce-spring...
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Bruce Springsteen’s Chimes of Freedom
Meet me in a dream of this hard land
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"Fallon is the court jester of the Anthropocene, a figure who invites us to watch celebrities play parlor games on stage while the air outside the studio begins to smell of tear gas and smoke." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...
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The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/04/2026
How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

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"We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree": Director Jay Bhattacharya reflects on his pandemic-era censorship experiences & outlines his commitment to open scientific communication at the NIH.
April 1, 2025A Health Department official said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya had met with the study's authors but that they had not wanted to change its design. Eric Lee for The New York Times
By Apoorva Mandavilli
April 22, 2026
The acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has canceled the publication of a study that found jthat the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter, a Health Department spokesman said.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
You belong here @kylebrandtsky.bsky.social
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The Artemis 2 crew safely splashed down! spacenews.com/orion-splash...
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Orion splashes down to successfully end Artemis 2 mission
The first human mission beyond Earth orbit in more than 50 years successfully concluded with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean April 10.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 04/04/2026
If this stands, then Trump has effectively dissolved Congress's budget authority, which is most of its authority.
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Liberating the Department of Homeland Security From the Democrat-Caused Shutdown
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET SUBJECT:       Liberating the Department of Homeland
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.
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Refusing to accept big tech's AI-poisoned 'future of journalism'
Humans, however flawed, are
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/03/2026
Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:
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"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
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Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is so embarrassing
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My resignation letter
screenshot of a resignation letter expressing sadness at leaving NASA
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Average immigration detention deaths per month from FY 2010 to FY 2024: 0.69 Average immigration detention deaths per month in FY 2025: 1.75 Average immigration detention deaths per month so far in FY 2026: 4.6 www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...
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Immigration detention on track for deadliest fiscal year since 2004
Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I took a closer look at the ProPublica union’s vote to strike, including their demand for protection from AI-related layoffs. The vote marks the first time a major U.S. newsroom has authorized a strike, at least in part, over AI protections. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/prop...
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ProPublica’s union authorizes the first U.S. newsroom strike over AI protections
The Guild has voted to walk off the job if ProPublica doesn’t agree to a ban on AI-related layoffs, as well as “just cause” for firings, seniority provisions during layoffs, and wage increases.
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