Freedom IndexMedia & Culture
Media & Culture explores how journalism, entertainment, and creative industries influence—and are influenced by—free speech. From press freedom to artistic expression, this category highlights the cultural impact of censorship and the ongoing struggle for open dialogue.
from the fascism-is-coming-from-inside-the-(white)-house dept The authoritarianism has been out in the open pretty much since day one with this presidency.…
77-Year-Old Florida Veteran Investigated For Sending an Official a Postcard Saying ‘You Lack Values’
Public records show that high-ranking Florida officials were behind a recent threat investigation into a 77-year-old Army veteran. The reason…
In brief TeraWulf signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic for a ~401 MW AI data center campus in Hawesville, Kentucky,…
From Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Gobeil in Thursday’s Sinclair, Inc. v. Amin; note that the other two panel members…
In brief BitMine added more than $73 million in Ethereum last week, pushing it closer to 5% of the total…
Right/wrong: “A year ago, the message from many business leaders was that AI was going to wipe out jobs. For the…
In brief Strategy sold 3,588 BTC between June 29 and July 5 for $216 million, using the proceeds to fund…
On September 15, 2025, the School Board issued a letter notifying Ms. Thornton, a teacher at South Sumter Middle School,…
In brief Vitalik Buterin published an updated “Lean Ethereum” roadmap, which he calls the network’s third major iteration following 2022’s…
from the accelerated-enshittification dept Despite a lot of pretense, Meta, permanently deadbolted to Mark Zuckerberg’s outsized ego, simply isn’t an…
From Wizmann v. Simon & Schuster, LLC, decided Thursday by the California Court of Appeal Justice Stephen Goorvitch, joined by…
I brought a 510-million-year-old trilobite I’d split out of Cambrian shale four hours north of Las Vegas to show a…