Meta scraps fact-checking program, brings back political content
Meta on Tuesday announced it will eliminate its third-party fact-checking program to “restore free expression” and move to a “Community Notes” model, similar to the system that exists on Elon Musk’s platform X.
The company said Community Notes will be written and rated by contributing users to provide more context to posts across its platforms, and the feature will roll out in the U.S. over the next couple of months. The announcement marks Meta’s latest attempt to smooth over relations with Republican President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office.
Meta said it will simplify its content policies by removing restrictions on subjects like immigration and gender and implement a new approach to policy enforcement that will focus on illegal and high-severity violations. The company is moving its trust and safety and content moderation teams from California, a historically Democratic state, to Texas, a historically Republican state.
Meta scraps fact-checking, brings back political content in latest Trump-friendly move
Meta announces intent to "restore free expression" on its platformsAshley Capoot (CNBC)
AI + Mass Surveillance = Human Rights violations Made in Germany
AI + Mass Surveillance = Human Rights violations Made in Germany
Germany now wants to utilize AI for the mass surveillance of their citizens. Several mass surveillance programs are currently being developed - Made in Germany.Author A (MadeInDex)
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Ukraine risks losing the war. A Trump-imposed bad deal would be worse
WaPo continues drumming up fighting till the last Ukrainian
What is Putin going to do? Put even more effort into making sure people cannot escape Ukraine? Start kidnapping even more people off the street? Or do it even more brutally then what happens now? Beat and torture even more people?
Anything is better than Zelensky's regime...
When using PPP, China's economy is already ahead of America's and growing faster.
Is China's economy 'ahead' of America's? - Asia Times
Comparing the size of countries’ economies is a popular sport, and a lot of people are very invested in the outcomes of those comparisons. For example, INoah Smith (Asia Times)
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Is there an alternative to the desktop interface beyond CLI?
I haven’t used that so you’ve given me something to read about :) I’m not sure I fully get it
Highly recommend the video when you have time. I found its point really engaging
Is the main difference that it tiles instead of floats?
Edit: oh it seems much more hotkey, terminal, and search focused watching than clicking. I think that is a much bigger difference than I originally expected.
Yes, though traditional point-and-click GUI apps will also be rendered according to the same rules.
However, a lot of fans of tiling window managers also use things like terminal-based file mangers, have relatively well developed Neovim configs, etc.
So, it’s kind a whole THING that some folks really enjoy.
Watched the first video. Interesting.
Reminds me of when I realized some twenty years ago that hierarchical filesystems are just a convention and I was daydreaming about a dynamic database-like filesystem where files are stored with meta data in tags that could be addressed according to whatever your chain of association may be. I even conceptual a bridge of how common OS like Windows or Linux could connect and interface such a file system using the familiar system of slashes transparently for the user with all the benefits and none of additional complicated learning. Of course this was way beyond any technical scope of mine and I didn't bring it to attention beyond nerdy beer conversation.
Maybe I was on to something.
Thanks for watching what I shared and sharing own thoughts :)
Your idea makes me think of my vague understanding of plan9.
Check this out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_f…
Do you imagine something like a mind map from obsidian where things are linked or unlinked by tags?
It's pretty distant now, but I did imagine it from a user perspective to be something like a folder structure except you can "tag along" as you go, so that you can find the files from your subjective chain of association rather than remembering how the project is set up. Say to reach the file;
- /project/year/keyword 1/keyword 2/file
- /keyword 2/year/project/keyword 3/file
Consequently, you could have all relevant files collected or filtered depending on how you set up your paths like searching a database rather than keep track of different data structures of different department needs and such.
So you could call it a mind map of sorts.
My entry level experiments were with just "tags" (the keywords) but I imagined a file system that would incorporate everything filesystem like permissions, creation/modification dates, and next gen like file history, integration with custom content parsing and version control systems and stuff that are partially reality today with COW filesystems.
You can do tag-based file management on Linux. Linux filesystems support "extended attributes" or "xattr". There is some software out there that uses xattr for tagging. I don't know what the best options are right now for tag-based file management, but I think it exists.
Looking at what's out there I see there are also apps that each use their own out-of-band tagging schemes. There's a CLI, tmsu, and a GUI, TagSpaces. I don't think these interoperate with each other's tags.
Of course those supplement instead of replacing hierarchical organization.
The talk of hypertext and "escaping paper" makes me think of Obsidian which embraces hyperlinking, tags, and mind mapping via its canvas feature.
When I first started using Obsidian, I used folders too much because I felt like things were "messy" if not tidied away. I already knew that one of the weaknesses of hierarchical folder systems is how it can make having an overview of the system harder, but it took a while for me to properly understand that.
As you say, it's necessary to be proactive with making links to things. I found that when I used Obsidian for journalling, I started to put square brackets around loads of stuff, because the inactive links didn't do me any harm, but they did highlight what might be useful as active pages. Something I picked up from the Zettelkasten crowd was occasionally having a "Map of Content" page, where I used it as an index of topical links. It always worked best when I allowed them to arise naturally, as needed. Once I got the trick of this, I found I was able to find things far more easily, because I was able to navigate via the links.
Tags are a tricky one to use. I never found them useful as a primary organisation method — they were worse than both hierarchical folders and link based organising in that respect. They were super useful as an augmentation to my organisation though, especially when I used them sparingly.
This is all an overlong way of saying that yes, I agree with you, using systems like Obsidian do require a switch in how you think in order to best use them. Something that I always enjoy pondering is whether pushing ourselves out of our comfort zone is something that's inherently good — something something cognitive flexibility? I don't know, but I enjoy endeavours of this sort nonetheless
If you're a fan of that principle, then consider checking out Logseq.
It's main workflow is that you use the Journal page and write down everything that's on your mind, may it be projects, research, social stuff, or whatever.
And while writing, you link that stuff with other stuff, and in the end, even when forgetting the exact search cues, you can go hunting for words mentally, and always find what you wrote months ago.
Obsidian, the competitor of it, is also great, but more similar to traditional note taking software, and therefore more hierarchical.
Logseq is FOSS too btw!
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First video has a nice edited summary of the history of guis.
But if the author had anything to say about guis other than it could be different, he would have said it. -Or at least suggested it to keep interest. The next video is a summary of every YouTube short he's watched on philosophy and physics.
It's not relevant to Linux at all.
It's relevant to linux in I think the average linux user is more open to consider alternative interfaces than a windows user.
Video is more than just a history, I thought it was eye opening for considering what could be an alternative. I also don't know but find the question interesting.
It would be interesting if he actually presented an alternative instead of 45 minutes (3 videos so far) of, "What if there was an alternative?"
The video doesn't even talk about Linux. It's Xerox Parc, Ted Nelson, Apple Macintosh, and Windows.
I think familiarity is a big part of why things catch on. If something is too different to what people know there will be only a few people who want spend their time learning it. And it would have to be revolutionary for these people to be able to convince others to also learn it.
It would have been helpful if in the video they would have discussed how an alternative could have even looked like and why it would be better. This is a demo of Project Xanadu, the system Ted Nelson envisions where he shows how it could work. He seems to propose that it would be hyper interconnected for every user of the system and every piece of media in it (). I'm not sure something like this could reliably work at a scale similar to the internet (he claims his system could have been the internet had they delivered it earlier) and also I'm not sure how it would work for what people actually want to do with the internet in addition to reading documents. Companies also want a certain control over the work they publish so I don't think they would like a system that connects their work to everything else. And you also have to keep in mind that there are people who want to actively do bad things so I am not sure how a hyper interconnected system could protect its users from bad actors.
Edit: Found another video where he describes and shows a version of how a document with paid content works. It looks interesting but I'm still not sure how this would work on the scale of the internet and if it would even be better than how things work right now.
Thanks for the links! Odd he included that video but didn't include the points you/he made beyond the criticism.
Edit: Watching the video you linked that is included in the posted video, not sure how big a deal Xanadu is. I wonder how this would compare to git history and tag maps such as Obsidian.
Brendan Howell's The Screenless Office is "a system for working with media and networks without using a pixel-based display. It is an artistic operating system."
You can "read and navigate news, web sites and social media entirely with the use of various printers for output and a barcode scanner for input".
That's funny you share this, a friend just sent it to me yesterday.
Similar to this: github.com/alibahmanyar/breakl…
This is an interesting way to receive data but I wish there was a way to do the reserve. Take handwritten/handled input into a computer. I asked this question the other day if I could somehow input my handwritten notes into programs like Trilium (or logseq whatever) and memos. OCR/HCR seems to far behind still so I am unsure. That would certainly be a cool method!
Similar to this: github.com/alibahmanyar/breakl…
Relatedly, there was a company was selling a cloud(🤡)-based product called "Little Printer" from 2012 to 2014; after their backend predictably shut down, some fans of it recreated it as tinyprinter.club/ and later nordprojects.co/projects/littl…
somehow input my handwritten notes
I've heard the reMarkable e-ink tablet's cloud service has good-enough-to-be-usable handwriting recognition, but sadly I haven't heard of anything free/libre and/or offline that is.
Relatedly, there was a company was selling a cloud(🤡)-based product called “Little Printer” from 2012 to 2014; after their backend predictably shut down, some fans of it recreated it as tinyprinter.club/ and later nordprojects.co/projects/littl…
This is super cute. Thanks for sharing!
I’ve heard the reMarkable e-ink tablet’s cloud service has good-enough-to-be-usable handwriting recognition, but sadly I haven’t heard of anything free/libre and/or offline that is.
I've eyed those for some time but I do prefer FOSS or at least only connected to my own server... That is a cool suggestion!
I asked this question the other day if I could somehow input my handwritten notes into programs like Trilium (or logseq whatever) and memos. OCR/HCR seems to far behind still so I am unsure.
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"the ship was completely black. There were black controls labelled in black, on a black background, with a little light that lit up black, which made it difficult to control the ship. The ceiling and walls of the swaying cabin were also black, as well as the seats, control panel, the instruments and the little screws that held them in place. The thin tufted nylon floor covering was black, and when a corner of the foam underlay was lifted up that was also discovered to be was black."
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"For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope."
U.S. records its first human bird flu death
U.S. records its first human bird flu death
The U.S. has recorded its first human death from bird flu, in a patient hospitalized in Louisiana. The case was considered the country’s first severe human H5N1 infection.Aria Bendix (NBC News)
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Threads and Instagram are for politics now, says Adam Mosseri
It’s been nearly a year since Instagram and Threads defaulted to blocking recommendations of “political” content from accounts you don’t already follow, but now Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says, “...we’re going to be adding political content to recommendations” on both platforms.
That’s a sharp turn from his statements in 2023laying out the goal of a “less angry place for conversations” that wouldn’t do anything to encourage politics or hard news. However, under Meta’s new approach to moderation — and new rules about what users can say on its platforms— that goal is going out the window just as the Trump administration prepares to take over.
Until now, users have had to opt-in to seeing recommendations of content deemed political, but the change rolling out this week in the US and to the rest of the world next week will turn on the recommendations and a content control setting available with options for less, standard (the default setting), and more.
In a series of Threads posts, Mosseri reiterated, “I’ve maintained very publicly and for a long time that it not our place to show people political content from accounts they don’t follow,” and that “it’s proven impractical to draw a red line around what is and is not political content.”
In a video on Instagram, he said that the push for political content — particularly from users on Threads — is “by the way, very different from the feedback we were getting only a few years ago about people feeling that they were overly exposed to political content on our platforms.” Of course, according to the Wall Street Journal, that was before Mark Zuckerberg experienced the effects of filters cutting down the reach of his post about recovering from a torn ACL and before Meta’s new and friendlier-to-Trump policy chief took over.
Threads and Instagram are for politics now, says Adam Mosseri
Adam Mosseri says that starting this week, the default settings for Instagram and Threads will allow political content recommendations from people you don’t follow.Richard Lawler (The Verge)
Not distributing your game through a publisher does that sometimes
... not in M.A.V.'s case though, redditors say the devs just use their Discord community now
I learned back in highschool through my many attempts at doing so, that you cannot convince a stupid person that they're stupid. Only smart people can know they're stupid, which means I'm smart, because I realize I'm a god damn moron, but that also means I can't be smart....
Circular logic?
What you're describing sounds like the 4 stages of competence
- Unconscious incompetence
- Conscious incompetence
- Conscious competence
- Unconscious competence
Everyone goes through these whenever you aquire a new skill
And weirdly that statement despite being VERY true also touches on a myth once believed to be legit, but has since been debunked as pseudoscience, that the Y Chromosome was the "True source of human evil", sadly this was a thing, and it was believed that people with more than one Y chromosome were "Especially dangerous"
This was also around the time they drilled holes in people's heads to cure epilepsy, and was based on "It sure is wacky that most people we put in prison are dudes. Obviously maleness in and of itself is tied to evil.", which itself was based on someone doing a bunch of self-prescribed opium while reading a newspaper.
I really wish the "Maleness = Evilness" trope was dead, but it's sadly still around and being used to justify transphobia
Congrats! It feels incredible when a " ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ worth a try!" repair turns out well; I can practically feel your astonished jubilance through the screen.
I've got to the point where I have enough experience fixing things that I feel completely confident in my ability to have an initial look at the problem (possibly opening the device), and to know whether I'm likely to break things worse by dabbling. Sometimes this means immediately closing up the device, but increasingly often I feel comfortable taking a crack at the problem, and sometimes it even works!
Meta is getting rid of factchecking. If you want to leave Instagram, what are your alternatives?
“[For] people who live in the country or in remote areas or minority groups or [who have] small businesses, that is a really good way for them to communicate and reach other people,” she says.“It’s just not possible to set up an alternative at this point in time. So, to put it bluntly, we’re in a bit of deep shit, to be honest.”
No mention of Pixelfed, but I can understand why. Will it only be seen as an alternative once a critical mass of users move there? And can that happen if they don't see it as an alternative? Chicken and egg. I'm trying out, but it's a little vapid when everyone I know is on Instagram.
Meta is getting rid of factchecking. Should you leave Instagram – and what are the alternatives?
Meta’s decision relates to just the US so far, but it may affect users in Australia who follow a lot of US-based sourcesCatie McLeod (The Guardian)
Nah, what he means by "traditional family values" is the women folk stay indoors, keep the house, pump out kids til they're a dead shriveled husk, the men get to do whatever they want, sleep around whatever. And if they feel like the wife or kids are talking back they beat the everliving fuck out of em, and that's fine because the wife and kids shouldn't have been talking back to the man of the house....
He's not a hypocrite, he just doesn't mean the same thing you think he is with the words he's using.
We need some community feedback on whether we should allow musk spam or not.
Upvote this comment if you think we should allow / keep musk spam.
Downvote this comment if you think we should remove it.
I'm just personally against musk spam because it's giving him exactly what he wants, attention.
If we as a society could all collectively ignore him and his grifts, then in a few years ppl will go, "oh yeah I remember that guy, thank goodness we don't have to see his face anymore".
it’s giving him exactly what he wants, attention.
He seems to want worship more than simply wanting attention.
all collectively ignore him
I don't think Elon is a problem you can solve by shoving fingers in ears and squeezing your eyes shut.
Most of his Carney Act is pointed at your Congressmen, not you personally. And they're happy to use him as a tool for money laundering, whether you look at him or not.
Native GeForce Now App Coming to Steam Deck
GeForce NOW CES 2025: Steam Deck and Mixed-Reality Devices
GeForce NOW announces support for Steam Deck, Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest and Pico mixed-reality devices; plus 'DOOM: The Dark Ages' and 'Avowed' are coming to the cloud.Andrew Fear (NVIDIA Blog)
AFAIK the Steam Deck doesn’t have NVIDIA hardware in it, so I don’t see how it would help.
Edit: GeForce NOW is a cloud game streaming service and doesn’t require any NVIDIA hardware.
This is actually pretty huge because it means fortnite, valorant and all those esports games with kernel-level anticheat will be playable* on the steam deck and subsequently linux.
*I don't care how awful the service may be if it helps with mainstream linux adoption.
Putin Has Options for Russian Gas After Ukraine Route Closed
Putin Has Options for Russian Gas After Ukraine Route Closed
Vladimir Putin might have lost a slice of revenue after Kyiv closed its gas pipeline to Russian supplies, but Moscow already has alternatives for shipping the fuel that stand to shield it from any serious economic hit.Bloomberg News (BNN Bloomberg)
Qatar vows to stop EU gas sales if fined under due diligence law, FT reports
Qatar vows to stop EU gas sales if fined under due diligence law, FT reports
Qatar will stop shipping gas to the EU if it strictly enforces a new law cracking down on forced labour and environmental damage, Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi told the FT.Reuters (CNBC)
" The main destination of Natural gas, liquefied exports from Qatar are: China ($10B), India ($8.54B), South Korea ($7.38B), United Kingdom ($7.31B), and Belgium ($5.37B"
(oec.world/en/profile/bilateral…)
So while it would not ruin Quatar, it certainly would put a dent into their numbers.
Israel still can't find any 7 October rape victims, prosecutor admits
Israel still can't find any 7 October rape victims, prosecutor admits
Senior prosecutor urged death penalty for Palestinians accused of stealing avocados.The Electronic Intifada
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Ben Hetar was also responsible for the area of sexual offenses. "Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to prove these offenses," she says. "In the end, we have no complainants. What was presented in the media compared to what will ultimately emerge will be completely different. Either because the victims were murdered, or because the women who [were] raped are not prepared to reveal it. We contacted women's rights organizations and asked for cooperation. They told us that they simply did not contact them. There were parents who contacted the organizations and asked what to do if something happened to their daughter, but they did not disclose the abuse
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Quick refresher on articles from last year such as TheGuardian:
Evidence points to systematic use of rape and sexual violence by Hamas in 7 October attacks
Guardian aware of sexual assaults for which multiple corroborating pieces of evidence existAt least seven women who were killed were also raped in the attack, according to Prof Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, a legal scholar and international women’s rights advocate, from her examination of evidence so far.
The New York Times and NBC have both identified more than 30 killed women and girls whose bodies bear signs of abuse, such as bloodied genitals and missing clothes, and according to the Israeli welfare ministry, five women and one man have come forward seeking help for sexual abuse over the past few months.
Israel women’s groups warn of failure to keep evidence of sexual violence in Hamas attacks
Several incidents of sexual assault and rape from 7 October have been documented by Hamas body camera footage, CCTV, material uploaded to social media, and photographs and videos taken by civilians and first responders, according to several people involved in analysing the footage. Survivor and witness testimonies, many from the Supernova rave, describe seeing women being raped before they were shot.
Defaults At Highest Level In 14 Years
This Week In Credit Card News: Defaults At Highest Level In 14 Years
What took place this week in the credit card and payment industriesBill Hardekopf (Forbes)
Trump’s return gives China and Japan ‘strong interest in building better ties’
Trump’s return gives China and Japan ‘strong interest in building better ties’
The two Asian powers are stepping up engagement but maintaining momentum could be a struggle, analysts say.Alyssa Chen (South China Morning Post)
China's top diplomat heads to Africa as West's attention dwindles
China's top diplomat heads to Africa as West's attention dwindles
BEIJING: China's top diplomat began his annual New Year tour of Africa on Sunday (Jan 5), maintaining a 35-year-long tradition, to quietly advance Beijing's already sizeable influence across the resource-rich continent as Europe's presence wanes and …CNA (Channel NewsAsia)
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