Happy Friday, techies! Please check out these federated Flipboard sources and Magazines. Follow them for product reviews, trends, exclusive interviews and opinion, and the latest in technology news.

Keep up to date with social media trends and news with Lifewire, https://flipboard.com/@lifewiretech/social-media-beat-p1a7jmh1z

Gamers: IGN has you covered, with news and game reviews, https://flipboard.com/@ign/gaming-news-and-reviews-s4u82mu1z

AI news overwhelming you? Gizmodo can break it down, https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/artificial-intelligence-7bv07f1uz

Engadget breaks down trends, news and deals on the newest gear, https://flipboard.com/@engadget/gear-nv6v86arz

Yahoo has sold the TechCrunch to investment company Regent for an undisclosed amount. Read more at @Variety. #TechCrunch #Journalism #Regent #Yahoo #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/t7iO9Q

So far this year @ProPublica has reported on who's working for #DOGE, the impacts of cuts on agencies like #USAID, and a lot more. Reporting on abuses of power matters more than ever before.

This is the last day of our spring member drive you can give as a member. As always, I would love the #fediverse to be represented in our member base. It matters.

If you have the means, please consider joining as a member through a gift of any amount: https://give.propublica.org/give/346423/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=ben #journalism

"The electric current that ran through my body on April 11, 2017, for articles I’d written for Radio Liberty, forces my muscles to contract. Victims’ psyches 'contract' in the same way, enabling them to endure torture: the organism musters everything it has.

Sitting in that chair at the 'Ministry of State Security' in Russian occupied Donetsk, I knew why I was there."

1/3

https://snyder.substack.com/p/225

#Gaza #journalism

'Lamyae Aharouay, de winnaar van de Anne Vondelingprijs 2024 heeft haar prijs opgedragen aan haar collega-journalisten in Gaza, van wie vele zijn vermoord, omgekomen of gewond. Zij zei dit in de afsluiting van haar toespraak, nadat zij de prijs in ontvangst had genomen.'

https://www.annevondelingprijs.nl/lamyae-aharouay-draagt-haar-prijs-op-aan-collegas-in-gaza/

https://www.annevondelingprijs.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Toespraak-L.-Aharouay.pdf

In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.

It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief writes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-russell-vought-prophetic-trump-second-term?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Access to public documents is more important than ever, with government websites and records disappearing. Wired's global editorial director explains why her publication has removed paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Read it at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. #Paywall #FOIA #DOGE #Trump #ElonMusk #Journalism #Wired #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/b4nT.0

Elon's Exploding Rockets Are 100% Wasteful Corruption

They cost taxpayers $$$ Billions.

They will never work.

It's one massive scam.

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-was-doomed-from-the-beginning

trump signed an executive order on Friday evening that shuttered the U.S. Agency for Global Media. It is an umbrella organization for federally funded news outlets like Voice of America. Grant Turner, the former chief financial officer of USAGM, called the shutdown “Bloody Saturday.” “It took decades to build this goodwill and an audience of hundreds of millions every week. Seeing arsonists just set fire to it all is awful,” he told National Public Radio. #media #journalism

Donald Trump's dismantling of Voice of America could lead to dominance of anti-American propaganda, director says.

@CBSNews reports: "VOA reports news about the U.S. in nearly 50 languages — with much of its focus trained on countries that lack a free press."

https://flip.it/6vBCdo

Mass layoffs have begun at Voice of America (VOA), the U.S.'s government-funded media network. The move came after Trump signed an executive order to effectively eliminate the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which supervises VOA, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia and six other federal agencies. Here's more from Al Jazeera. At the second link, find a @CNN story about how the news of VOA's dismantling has been received in China.

https://flip.it/Bk5AXl

https://flip.it/Lw_1Eg

LOLOL. Of course he does!!!!

Trump Praises Bezos’ Makeover of the Washington Post
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-praises-jeff-bezos-makeover-of-the-washington-post/