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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:

We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Maybe in the spring. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.

▶️ Nobody Owns Our Techno-Future: https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/technofuture/

▶️ A Bus Model For Global, Human-Centered Education: https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/education/

▶️ An Internet for Our Elders: https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/elders/

(continued)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Zuck: we call our interoperable ecosystem the #Metaverse now

#Fediverse: oh hey twinsies

Zuck: we launched a text based app connected to #ActivityPub

#Mastodon: yay we do that

Zuck: we believe in openness now

Openness.org: neato! This is completely out of character but we're convinced

Zuck: we copy platforms so that eventually, they die under the pressure of our competition because this has been our entire business model for a decade

Guy who invented the at sign: fascinating

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Parasite@kolektiva.social ("Auntie Oedipus 🏳️‍⚧️🌱🏴") wrote:

Here’s a summary of events of Germany in early 1933 for no reason whatsoever:

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• A timeline detailing significant events in Germany from January to March 1933, including Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the Reichstag fire, and the establishment of the first Nazi concentration camp. (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

glencoe@jorts.horse ("St Woke of Pronouns") wrote:

aggggh

https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/

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rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
https://thehardtimes.net/culture/mark-zuckerberg-recipient-of-worlds-first-rat-penis-transplant-announces-meta-will-stop-fact-checking/

#Meta #MarkZuckerberg

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Me, last night, to @hubba_hubba_revue while watching them shoot video of the show and upload it -- "Why are you still only posting these videos to Instagram? Why don't you post them to Mastodon too?"

"Because we have like no followers on Mastodon."

"Well maybe that's because you never post videos there!"

Anyway, give them a follow, try to break them out of their doom loop.

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linear@nya.social ("linear cannon") wrote:

here is your semi-irregular reminder that the bulk of material making up "microplastics" comes from car tires wearing themselves down on roads, and changing your personal purchasing, consumption and/or recycling habits will have no appreciable effect on your or anyone else's exposure to microplastics.

fixing the microplastics issue requires getting rid of cars, or finding a replacement for tires that does not wear down (which tire companies will not do because then they can't sell you new tires over and over)

jwz wrote:

Since Greenland is in the news again, let's check in on Camp Century.

A top-secret US military project and the toxic waste it conceals, thought to have been buried forever beneath the Greenland icecap, are likely to be uncovered by rising temperatures...
https://jwz.org/b/ykf1

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• Screenshot

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

anildash@threads.net ("Anil Dash") wrote:

The key thing to understand about Meta without guard rails is that, when they allowed their platform to exist without any content controls in Myanmar under an extremist leader, it was used to directly enable a genocide. Zuckerberg knows this, knows the threat, and has never acknowledged or apologized. He is going in eyes wide open to this level of threat. https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/asia-and-the-pacific/south-east-asia-and-the-pacific/myanmar/report-myanmar/

RE: https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/DEhgZJYJu5D

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MartinEscardo@mathstodon.xyz ("Martin Escardo") wrote:

The world was much better, or at least less worse, when the internet didn't exist. I lived to witness this.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

FediGarden@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Garden 🌱") wrote:

After Meta's rather disturbing actions today, would you like to move to a Fediverse server that defederates Meta and Threads?

Fedi.Garden is a directory of well-run servers that have all blocked Threads:

➡️ https://fedi.garden

All of them are compatible with the requirements listed at https://fedi.garden/about-this-site

#Fediverse #Threads #Meta #Zuckerberg

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emma@orbital.horse ("Emma Loves ☕️") wrote:

Hey @swf, why are Facebook and Automattic still allowed to be members? Both of them are run by fascists.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Folks, do you think if Threads/Meta/Mark Zuckerberg were really that bad, John Mastodon himself would partner with them? Do you think they’d even be allowed in the Social Web Foundation?

No, surely you’re mistaken.

Otherwise, what does that say about John Mastodon and the Social Web Foundation?

https://socialwebfoundation.org

#SocialWebFoundation #Threads #Meta #Mastodon #partners #JohnMastodon #MarkZuckerberg

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markwoll@universeodon.com ("Mark Wollschlager") wrote:

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• Although COVID-19 spreads mostly via the mouth and nose, scientists conclude that the greatest risk comes from assholes. (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

Hundreds of police license plate cameras are misconfigured to stream unencrypted to the open internet.

A privacy researcher took these streams and turned them into a real-time database that tracks car movements & information, highlighting how invasive this tech is

https://www.404media.co/researcher-turns-insecure-license-plate-cameras-into-open-source-surveillance-tool/

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we have a story from the bar mitzvah
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/01/07.html

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• Screenshot

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

My precious boy.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford HP5+ @ 1600
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
🐱 Jiji
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #CatsOfMastodon

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• A black and white photo of a black cat with a goofy face, wearing a striped Christmas scarf made specifically for cats. He is sitting on the floor, but leaning backwards as he looks up at something off-frame.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

freebliss@post.lurk.org ("Simon Repp") wrote:

After 6 months and about 333 commits I proudly present:

Faircamp 1.0 – A static site generator for audio producers
https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/

To recap the highlights of the past months and learn what's new in the final 1.0 release, check out the blog post: https://simonrepp.com/posts/faircamp-1.0/

Development of version 1.0 was made possible through the amazing support, funding and expertise of the @NGIZero programme and coalition, led by the @nlnet foundation and financed by the European Commission's @EC_NGI initiative – thank you so much for giving me and everyone benefitting from a better Faircamp this incredible opportunity!

Also, many thanks to all faircampers, contributors, testers, translators, bloggers, podcasters and encouraging voices for supporting this journey - for the final 1.0 release specifically to @branpos for release candidate testing, @n00q for bugreporting/testing, @limebar for the external artist page feature inspiration and @Vac for their diligent translation work.

Along with this release I've published multiple new documentation resources - from an official Linux/macOS/Windows tutorial to a 1.0 migration guide, from an overhauled reference manual to a beginner's guide to publishing faircamp (or any!) static sites - check out the website and recent posts in the #faircamp hashtag to discover them!

That's all!

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• Faircamp website header, stating in bold, large typography: "A static generator for audio producers". Below that the text says "Point Faircamp to a folder hierarchy containing your audio files. Within minutes, Faircamp builds a complete website presenting your work. The resulting site requires no database, no programming, no maintenance, and is compatible with virtually every webhost on this planet." Notably there are some now items that previously did not appear on the website: 1) "Latest release: 1.0", 2) "Migration to 1.0 (Video)", 3) In the topmost header there are now buttons saying "Download", "Resources" and "Tutorial". (remote)

jwz wrote:

Codinghorror puts his money where his mouth is:

"Stay Gold, America" We've already completed the eight $1 million donations listed above to help those most immediately in need. Within the next five years, half of our family wealth will support longer...
https://jwz.org/b/ykfx

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Now at the "is Visual Studio just still loading Chromium? Or have I taken the entire machine down?" phase of some debugging

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Back in the day on Twitter, there was (and maybe still is, dunno) an account called "scotusblog" that posted summaries of current US Supreme Court decisions. I think it was a small law firm. Their replies were completely full of angry and indignant complaints, threats, and insults from people who assumed

• that they were the Court itself and;
• that tweeting at the Court would get them to change their decisions.

I understand now a little bit what that must have been like.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

Don Jr. decided to visit Greenland because he saw that it is completely covered with white powder

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• 1fe65bc901b0e175.mp4

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

SF journalists should all be writing stories about NYC's congestion pricing and how after years of drivers whining about it, on literally the first weekday it was in effect the nearly unanimous reaction from those same drivers was 'Huh, this is actually nice. Really really nice.'

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Reblogged by jwz:

FediPact@cyberpunk.lol ("fedipact.online") wrote:

meta's really goin mask-off with the whole fascism thing now it seems

Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.

#FediPact #meta #threads

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• zuck threads: It's time to get back to our roots around free expression and giving people voice on our platforms. Here's what we're going to do: Replace fact-checkers with Community Notes, starting in the US. Simplify our content policies and remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse. Change how we enforce our policies to remove the vast majority of censorship mistakes by focusing our filters on tackling illegal and high-severity violations and requiring higher confidence for our filters to take action. Bring back civic content. We're getting feedback that people want to see this content again, so we'll phase it back into Facebook, Instagram and Threads while working to keep the communities friendly and positive. 5/ Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content. Work with President Trump to push back against foreign governments going after American companies to censor more. The US has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world and the best way to defend against the trend of government overreach on censorship is with the support of the US government. It'll take time to get this all right and these are complex systems so they'll never be perfect. But this is an important step forward and I'm looking forward to this next chapter! (remote)

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codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

Stay Gold, America https://blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-america/

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Andreesen, Musk, and Kurzweil are all lying to us, over and over again. And don't get me started on Sam Altman.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/07/when-will-we-wise-up-to-they-ai-hype-machine/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttb2BdExy38

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

mhoye wrote:

My friends at the Data Transfer Initiative have been building tools to help people migrate away from various large social networks for some time now, if that's of interest to you on this day of all days.

https://portmap.dtinit.org/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

JFC no

https://infosec.exchange/@isotopp/113763776590178939

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

ianb@well.com ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

Moving your moderation team to Texas, where women don't have abortion rights and trans people get persecuted sure seems like a good way of making sure you don't have any women or trans people on your moderation team.

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

josh@vickerson.me ("Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson") wrote:

Right, cuz the problem is that you hired Californians.

FFS, the idiocy on display.
https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/DEhga1cJGjg