Nieman Lab Monday October 7, 2024
Project 2025—the massive and much-discussed document produced by the influential Heritage Foundation laying out a conservative leadership agenda for the US—calls banning abortion pills, mass deportation and slashing climate regulations, among other proposals. Less discussed are its plans for the news media. notes Nieman Lab, which details a number of them, from making it easier to seize journalists’ emails and phone records to killing funding for NPR, PBS, and public broadcasting.
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It’s Nice That Monday October 7, 2024
During her time at graduate school, Rosie Clements was lucky enough to have access to a small Roland UV printer, and it changed her image-making process entirely. “I printed photographs on every surface I could find, including popcorn ceiling tiles, fake fur and rocks,” Clements tells It’s Nice That. Her experiments often failed, but she eventually “stumbled across a sheet of bubble wrap on the sidewalk” and decided to give it a whirl. The result is her latest series, “Pure Semblance.”
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PetaPixel Monday October 7, 2024
ProGrade Digital, known for its high-quality memory cards and storage solutions, has announced a new solid-state drive (SSD) series, the PG10, that is built for pros, notes PetaPixel: The USB 4.0 drives are fast in bursts, but their primary performance goal is sustained performance. The ProGrade Digital PG10 line comes in three capacities: 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB. While all three promise read and write speeds up to 2,500 MB/s, the two larger sizes promise sustained write speeds of around 2,000 MB/s.
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World Drone Photo Awards Monday October 7, 2024
After recently revealing the finalists of its 2024 contest, the World Drone Photo Awards winners have been announced. The Photo of the Year Award goes to Israeli photographer Gilad Topaz for his image “Drifting in Space,” which captures a scene in which Topaz and others frolick in the frigid waters of the Baltic Sea off Sweden, while cruising aboard an ice breaker (after donning protective diving suits). “To me, it felt like we were astronauts drifting in space,” Topaz says of the adventure.
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