• @Serinus
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    1616 hours ago

    Screenshot of Washington Post subscription scheduled to end in August

    Unfortunately I paid for a year. I’ve had newspaper subs for at least a decade primarily to support real journalism. It’s not like I couldn’t find the words for free if I really wanted them. The people and the journalism is what I was paying for, not the words.

    ProPublica.org is a great suggestion.

    • @emmy67
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      611 hours ago

      404 media does amazing work and could use another sub

  • Curious Canid
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    2520 hours ago

    Go forth and donate to real journalism outlets! When I cancelled my Post subscription I took that money and put it into ProPublica.org and a few similar sites. (I was already donating to NPR and PBS.) We don’t have to let the billionaires provide our news, but we do have to contribute if we want independent journalism.

    • @Rooty
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      I am trying to find their RSS feed, because that’s the main way I read news, but I can’t find it. The “Follow us on X” button right below a report on Musk’s shenanigans is infuriating.

  • @werefreeatlast
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    Sure! The WP (short for Washington Post) is laying off people for several reasons:

    *The boss said so

    *Strawberry has 8 R’s

    *They are not important and this is the least most amount of savings possible

    *You never sign up dude.

    • @Kbobabob
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      1116 hours ago

      WP (short for Washington Post)

      I can’t help but laugh because it would have been easier to just write Washington Post.

    • @AngryRobot
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      315 hours ago

      *Strawberry has 8 R’s

      I don’t get this reference.

        • @AngryRobot
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          17 hours ago

          Yezs I have many questions! What’s that pic from?

          • @mineralfellow
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            122 minutes ago

            It is a test that AI fails on many platforms. Can’t count letters.

      • @[email protected]
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        615 hours ago

        Many original/new LLMs (gen AI) can’t correctly answer the question due to the way they break up words into tokens. One of the many flaws in current LLMs that stop them being as magical as tech bros want to market

  • @apfelwoiSchoppen
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    1151 day ago

    I recall folks saying Bezos was saving this paper when he bought it. There is no such thing as a benevolent billionaire. They only protect their own.

  • @garretble
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    1961 day ago

    So the darkness won, eh?

    • @fluxion
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      191 day ago

      Yes democracy died inside Bezos asshole

    • andyburke
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      411 day ago

      Did it? Dropped my sub a while back as the winds clearly started to shift. We’re here reading about it. We don’t need “the news” if it’s not going to deliver the product: truth about what’s happening in the world.

      🤷‍♂️

    • JaggedRobotPubes
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      It never does. We’ll find or make real newspapers.

  • @jaybone
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    161 day ago

    How long did Besos own this paper?

  • @[email protected]
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    981 day ago

    willing to burn the fucking paper. what was once a top global newspaper, just for that shitstain in a diaper. fuck 'em.

  • Flying Squid
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    111 day ago

    I’m sorry to hear that the New York Washington Post is doing this, but I guess that’s what happens when you let a guy like Jeff Bezos buy the New York Washington Post. It becomes a much worse paper.

  • @ladicius
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    171 day ago

    Let the paper trumpet burn.