Lauren Leffer @lauren_leffer
Former Bug Scientist / Current Science Journalist/ Contributor @sciam and @PopSci / Bylines also @NatGeo @Gizmodo @AudubonMag Also (at)laurenleffer.bsky.s laurenleffer.com Joined August 2017-
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thank fucken god for @jwherrman nymag.com/intelligencer/…
"security theater" "a drop in the bucket" "more political drama than really effective legislation" Privacy policy analysts aren't mincing words when it comes to the potential TikTok ban. scientificamerican.com/article/tiktok…
Cool new OSINT tool: @internetarchive now offers a full text search of select domains. Here's a "Peter Thiel" search on the Gawker archive. web.archive.org/gawker.com/sea…
Genuinely curious: if the argument is that transit riders don’t have 4th amendment rights on MTA property, does that also apply to drivers using MTA bridges and tunnels? Would the National Guard be able to search every car going over the Whitestone without reasonable suspicion?
Genuinely curious: if the argument is that transit riders don’t have 4th amendment rights on MTA property, does that also apply to drivers using MTA bridges and tunnels? Would the National Guard be able to search every car going over the Whitestone without reasonable suspicion?
Artists are using clever new tools to thwart AIs trying to steal their work scientificamerican.com/article/art-an… by @lauren_leffer on @sciam
Israel has launched a series of strikes on Rafah, the densely populated city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip on the Egyptian border where 1.4 million Palestinians have fled. apnews.com/article/israel…
A great lesson in terrible framing.
Freelance investigative journalists take on enormous personal liability for their work, which benefits everyone. Please support, if you can.
Freelance investigative journalists take on enormous personal liability for their work, which benefits everyone. Please support, if you can.
Genetic studies don't offer a complete portrait of human sexuality and often we overinterpret them. Read all about it!
Genetic studies don't offer a complete portrait of human sexuality and often we overinterpret them. Read all about it!
This is absolutely brutal and the product of clear mismanagement.
This is absolutely brutal and the product of clear mismanagement.
Read this
Q: How easy is it to create convincing audio deepfakes at this point? A: It’s trivial. scientificamerican.com/article/ai-aud… by @lauren_leffer with Hany Farid on @sciam
My first for Hakai Magazine: Mediterranean gulls get in on "girl dinner" and shape ecosystems in the process. hakaimagazine.com/news/on-mallor…
Fun fun FUN a new video technique shows how the world looks to birds & bees & other species that can see different wavelengths of light scientificamerican.com/article/animal… by @lauren_leffer on @sciam
Amid the machine-learning boom, model developers have built an all-purpose digital oracle from a trove of big data trib.al/fM1Oepw
scientificamerican.com/article/can-th… Machine learning models are basically just statistical tools with massive data capacity. They can recognize patterns, including patterns of life and death. Wrote about it for SciAm.
Does emoji biodiversity matter? Why isn't there a starfish emoji? Read on to find out!
Does emoji biodiversity matter? Why isn't there a starfish emoji? Read on to find out!
This is a delightful analysis of all the species represented in the emoji animal kingdom & what's missing 🦁🐦🐒🦋🐞🦉scientificamerican.com/article/whats-… by @lauren_leffer on @sciam
For years, huge part of the public has believed that phones/speakers are listening in to target ads. No evidence that was the case, was more a sign of how powerful other tracking was. Now it might be a reality in some cases 404media.co/cmg-cox-media-…
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NEWS: My friends and I now own and run The Onion. I’ll be the CEO. We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and share the wealth with staff. Basically, we’re going to let them do whatever they want. Get excited. nytimes.com/2024/04/25/bus…
Today in @thenation we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it. thenation.com/article/world/…
The Society of Authors collected survey data from 800 of its members and found that 26% of illustrators and 36% of translators had already lost work due to generative AI. This tracks completely with anecdotal data from my own reporting. Not good. www2.societyofauthors.org/2024/04/11/soa…
How do you get Americans to care about a war? defector.com/how-do-you-get…
I've been wanting to do this story for years and am thrilled it's finally out: inside the surprisingly small, highly specialized industry that repairs the internet cables on the bottom of the ocean theverge.com/c/24070570/int…
Wildlife authorities have examined Manhattan's only White-tailed Deer and it seems to be healthy despite a bit of "road rash" and it has been well-behaved with respect to humans. So for now it gets to stay in Fort Washington Park. 🦌
@BirdCentralPark Saw it on my run this morning
Excited to announce that I've officially started full-time as an editor at @sciam! I'm assigning stories about all kinds of science-related news. Please do send pitches my way!
And remember that a 5 in NYC would be an 8 almost anywhere else in the country
NEW YORK (AP) — Earthquake shakes New York City area with preliminary magnitude of 4.8, officials say.
@LukePlunkett Further down the list, things get a little more ambitious aftermath.site/aftermath-2024…
@LukePlunkett For the purposes of transparency, right now we have around 2,700 paying subscribers. Here’s where we’d like to end up and what we’ll be able to offer you, our readers, when we do aftermath.site/aftermath-2024…
in awe at how quickly MD transportation authority acted to save lives - there were only 4 short minutes between the ship losing power and it hitting the bridge. they stopped all traffic and were working to get the road crews off the bridge, too. also grateful for local journalism
‘The whole bridge just fell down.’ The final minutes before the Key Bridge collapsed bit.ly/3x9atm1
Last year, the Make-a-Wish Foundation announced that kids with cystic fibrosis would no longer automatically qualify for a wish. This was, actually, a good thing—a great thing even!
Genuinely curious: if the argument is that transit riders don’t have 4th amendment rights on MTA property, does that also apply to drivers using MTA bridges and tunnels? Would the National Guard be able to search every car going over the Whitestone without reasonable suspicion?
What happens if New Yorkers do not want their bags checked by the national Guard? “Then go home,” @GovKathyHochul says on @fox5ny “You’re not taking the subway.”
As @HellGateNY continues its periodic coverage of available NYC apartments, please enjoy this absolute masterclass @adlankj puts on about how to write with flair and feeling about real estate: hellgatenyc.com/do-i-deserve-t…
i’m optimistic about this, but one thing that is hard for cooperatives to really replace is resource-heavy investigative reporting that comes with significant legal risks. the organizations that could help fill those holes aren’t stepping up to the plate. theguardian.com/media/2024/mar…
No one is asking the media to "glorify" self-immolation as a protest tactic. But when someone takes such an extreme step to draw attention to injustice, don't ignore it or deem it a topic too sensitive to cover, and above all, don't just presume mental illness was the cause.
Lots of deserved praise for 404 Media, Defector and other worker-owned outlets. It does seem like a small ray of hope. I think many of us are wondering, how do you build something like that when you don’t have an audience following you from a site like Deadspin or Motherboard?
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