Preparing for the Newspocalypse
Mind your sanity. Connect close to home. Set boundaries. Support the media you trust. Live your life. Don't feel guilty about it. There's no better advice than that.
David Moscrop's article inspires me to better organize my Mastodon feed to see less news. Does anyone have any systems that work for them?
I now follow too many indie and mainstream news profiles, and I'd instead like to view them only in lists and not my main home feed. Can I unfollow but keep them on a list? Do I mute from Home feed?
I use the Fedilab app but would be willing to switch to something else that manages this better.
You can keep following them but hide them from your main Home timeline. Lists include the option of hiding that list's accounts from your Home timeline. More info at:
fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists…
See the section marked "Can I view posts on Lists without them appearing on my Home timeline?"
How to use the Lists feature on Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
I contenuti generati dall'AI - definiti slop - stanno praticamente pervadendo il web e social, da Facebook a LinkedIn.
Studi mostrano che più della metà dei post lunghi su LinkedIn è generata da AI! Che su Facebook i feed sono invasi da contenuti AI, incluse immagini di Gesù fatto di gamberi.
Questa tendenza fa parte di un fenomeno più grande, noto come enshittification dei servizi online. Si stanno progressivamente sommergendo i contenuti autentici creati dalle persone con una miriade di materiali artificiali.
Come spesso accade, le piattaforme sembrano più interessate ai guadagni che a risolvere questo problema.
theguardian.com/global/comment…
AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?
Low-quality ‘slop’ generated by AI is crowding out genuine humans across the internet, but instead of regulating it, platforms such as Facebook are positively encouraging it. Where does this end, asks Arwa MahdawiArwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
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Attendo con pazienza il primo wannabe influencer dei miei stivali al varco.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called for calm during a Tuesday press conference - and launched the "Mexico Embraces You" welfare program - in response to President Donald Trump's litany of executive orders aimed at Mexico.
#Tucson #Arizona
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Halabat al Tawba in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Outside a historic fort stands a replica of the “tree of repentance” where criminals were publicly punished.#replicas #plaques #section-Atlas
U.S. border agents told to summarily deport migrants without granting asylum hearings under Trump edict
U.S. border agents have been instructed to summarily deport migrants crossing into the country illegally without allowing them to request legal protection.Camilo Montoya-Galvez (CBS News)
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So who will tell him? And he personally at least is immune, right?
While the federal agents in practice he can pardon for any crimes, they commit on his orders.
I finally gave Facebook and the whole Meta suite the flick. And I feel lighter!
I've been working through 'The Cyber-Cleanse' by Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra . optoutproject.net/tags/cleanse…
I started ahead in some regards, am behind in others, and some things either don't apply to me or I can't do for myriad reasons. But I like that I can easily go back to it and check things off the list. It's also really easy to follow. I highly recommend it for anyone concerned with online security, privacy, and just over being the product or feeding the monster that is AI.
I will say that this is not a small job, even for someone who is just online for personal reasons. "Sticky" in terms of the tech oligarchy is a severe understatement. Google, Microsoft, Meta are deeply rooted if you have an online presence, or think you have "just" a PC and a phone. And getting rid of them entirely is, in some cases, impossible. But with every little bit of my online self I take back, I feel better. Do it!
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At least two students were shot Wednesday at Antioch High School in #Nashville, when another student fired on them in the school cafeteria before #shooting themselves, Metro Nashville Police said. #GunViolence
Trump Actions to Undermine Drug Prices Will Cost Medicare Recipients Money (The Contrarian)
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Trump Actions to Undermine Drug Prices Will Cost Medicare Recipients Money
By Jeff Nesbit, Former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesThe Contrarian
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Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform
Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform - research.mdGist
Another casualty of Israel's war in Lebanon: Efforts to save endangered turtles
Lebanese volunteers are anxious to get back to sea turtle conservation on southern beaches that were off-limits to civilians when fighting escalated between Israel and Hezbollah.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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From Project Gutenberg:
De Vliegende Kogel
by Jan Rinke
Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/47668
De Vliegende Kogel by Jan Rinke
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
SpaceX Starship's Explosion Sparks FAA Investigation and Reports of Property Damage
https://gizmodo.com/spacex-starships-explosion-sparks-faa-investigation-and-reports-of-property-damage-2000553387?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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SpaceX Starship's Explosion Sparks FAA Investigation and Reports of Property Damage
Debris from the rocket's upper stage may have caused property damage, prompting an investigation into Starship's "rapid unscheduled disassembly."Passant Rabie (Gizmodo)
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Returning to the #FreeOurFeeds (FOF) initiative discussion (for background see links below)...
@pluralistic has a new piece (pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/cap…) that extends his "fire exit" analogy and discusses how it is not corporate ownership, VCs or profit motive alone that causes enshitification. It also requires captive users, and FOF will make it so Bluesky users are not captive. It all sounds good, but it's not realistic because the assumptions behind it are based on vaporware marketing.
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Enter Bluesky and the AT protocol. We are told it is a simple matter to make Bluesky distributed. All we need to do is make another 'relay'. Seems easy, right. But Bluesky hasn't done this yet because [insert reason here]. Enter FOF, who figures, well Bluesky won't build a second relay with their technology, we will do it!
Do you see the problem here? Maybe, building complex undeveloped, unproven, untested relays is a huge engineering challenge. Maybe it's impossible.
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Certainly seems like it will be impossible without Bluesky's active involvement and support. But, the whole reason for this effort is we imagine a day where Bluesky will be the adversary and something they actively oppose. People running to the fire escapes while Bluesky is pulling up the ladders.
FOF is untenable. It's an engineering nightmare based on vaporware marketing and even if it miraculously got built it is impossible to imagine Bluesky not able to sabotage it.
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Tough to fault that logic.
Meanwhile did you see the European Digital Rights Initiative (EDRi) report which calls for "substantial" investment in public social media and in particular Mastodon and the Fediverse to counter X and Meta
edri.org/our-work/meta-and-x-a…
Would be really good to see Europe get serious about this space.
Meta and X are going rogue. Here is what Europe should do now. - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
To solve the core problem, we have to curb the immense grip Big Tech has on our institutions and invest in independent digital alternatives.European Digital Rights (EDRi)
All federal employees in diversity, equity, and inclusion roles will be placed on paid leave by the end of Wednesday, thanks to a new mandate by President Donald Trump.
Trump Kicks Off His Culture Wars With an Employee Purge
Donald Trump is rushing to remove all traces of federal diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.The New Republic
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in reply to unusual_whales • • •Ukraine tops the list of U.S. development assistance recipients, receiving over $17 billion in economic aid in 2023 as it faces Russian aggression, official data shows.
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The Executive Order signed by US which paused all further Foreign Aid for at least 90 Days will not apply to Israel or Ukraine
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