Starburst by Kathryn Schulz

Kathryn Schulz’s article about scientists who study space weather is packed with great reporting and storytelling. I suspect a lot of citizens who heard a very basic description of what these scientists devote their lives to would declare it to be another example of silly government spending, which demonstrates that most of those grumbly conservatives who despise social investment are in dire need of some education. This article is published by The New Yorker.

When Facebook fails, local media matters even more for our planet’s future by Dave Kendall

Facebook apologizes for blocking Kansas Reflector, then expands crackdown to other news sites by Sherman Smith

We can slay giants by Marisa Kabas

A whole Meta mess happened this week. Dave Kendall wrote a piece for Kansas Reflector that includes relatively mild but also clear criticism of Facebook’s algorithmic suppression of posts about climate change. That led to more information suppression, and….well, the other two pieces above — another from Kansas Reflector and one for Marisa Kabas’s own newsletter, The Handbasket — spell out the craven corporate manipulation quite clearly.