I say future digital cameras should include a SIM card and hands-free mode so that we loop that loop. #photography #convergence

Do you own/run a café or a bike shop? Did you know that 1000s of people rely on the Open Street Map to find facilities like yours? If YOUR shop isn't on www.openstreetmap.org then I GUARANTEE you're losing out on potential customers! Go add your business now! And please boost this?

Ever since conspiracy lunacies gained a foothold in the public sphere, then became mainstream, April fools became utterly obnoxious. #journalism #news #aprilfools

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

I'm pleased to report that I have successfully converted my 2015 iMac 27" that Apple has called obsolete a while ago into a walloping #linux powerhouse running #ubuntu. The process was much simpler and the result much more impressive than expected. That an obsolete Mac can be turned into such a […]

Since May 2025, the US State Department has publicized a visa restriction policy that targets and threatens deportation toward people who study and report on online harms. Yesterday, the @knightcolumbia & @protctdemocracy filed a lawsuit challenging this censorship policy on behalf of […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116193454417207562 “The prompt was simple: ‘Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’ ’

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fheinderyckx/116091693192421707 “Much as lawyers are guardians of the rule of law, presidents and chancellors are stewards of intellectual freedom and democratic norms. When institutional self-preservation replaces moral leadership, universities abandon their core […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116080166459760879 “For decades, [US] universities have cast themselves as guardians of free inquiry and intellectual independence. Yet when confronted with political coercion aimed squarely at those values, too many have revealed a troubling gap between […]

Can anyone tell the NYT that I'm *NOT* interested in a "Family upgrade," no matter how many times they harass me with e-mails and pop-ups? Pestering their loyal readers and subscribers for months on end will achieve nothing but annoying their last supporters. @NYTimes #marketing

Interesting take on trust, journalism and skepticism by Lydia Polgreen (@Polgreen): “In this new gilded age, maybe we should set aside trust and — as Bezos himself once urged — embrace skepticism.” #journalism #uspolitics https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/opinion/jeff-bezos-washington-post.html

RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/116059143965453211 Paging @scalzi . Any idea?

RE: https://flipboard.com/@petapixel/petapixel-t8l3kt33z/-/a-WJPzgshjTwu84yvXuqTbpA%3Aa%3A1814180069-%2F0 I think it's fair to say that AI has now gone fully metastatic (pun intended). It is spreading everywhere uncontrollably. Big Tech has taken upon itself to come up with a steady stream of […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116041242464510649 “I have spent countless hours on journalism conference panels hypothesising new business models to save what was. Now I see that instead, we need to build what can be. (…) it’s not the form that will matter; it is, of course, the […]

Authors Guild, about Ron Charles, former book critic at the WaPo who was just fired with so many others: “Charles’s departure is both a personal loss and a symbol of something larger. As he put it, newspaper book sections have long been the canaries in the journalism coal mine. (…) For readers […]

The defacing, then hollowing out of one of the greatest news organisations in the world, at the whim of a billionaire, just to appease his autocratic overlord, shows just how much lasting, structural damage a handful of rogue billionaires can inflict on all of us and everything we stand for. All […]

RE: https://flipboard.com/@petapixel/petapixel-t8l3kt33z/-/a-IgB12CbBTRyY075fNTTRuQ%3Aa%3A1814180069-%2F0 The books section is closed (I suppose books are for loosers and woke intellectuals!), international coverage is shattered (America 1st!), and then indeed, no more photo-journalists (who […]

The defacing, then hollowing out of one of the greatest news organisations in the world, at the whim of a billionaire, just to appease his autocratic overlord, shows just how much lasting, structural damage a handful of rogue billionaires can inflict on all of us and everything we stand for. All […]

THE US GOVERNMENT WANTS TO BRING ICE TO ITALY FOR THE WINTER OLYMPICS. THIS SOUNDS ALMOST BENIGN AS LONG AS YOU SPELL IT IN ALL-CAPS. #uspolitics #eupolitics #MilanoCortina2026 #olympics

”Thank you for your attention to this matter!” is the new “SAD!” #uspolitics #polcom

RE: https://flipboard.com/@theatlantic/politics-rg3mgq58z/-/a-Siu6YGQAQxCjgIAyYr3Rhw%3Aa%3A3199527-%2F0 This remarkably nuanced and contextualised account of events is Pulitzer-grade. A must-absolutely-read. #uspolitics #minneapolis

For colourblind people like me, to hear that Greenland is a red line is utterly confusing. #greenland #eu

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

At Vivaldi we continue to make choices that are different from our competitors. We have chosen to not integrate AI or crypto, but instead we integrate a wealth of other features, based on the wishes of our users. We are a European company with most of the team based in Norway and Iceland, a few […]

"According to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language – and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own." Intriguing article by Benjamin Riley (founder of […]

Apple completely lost the plot. And my business. #apple #uspolitics #os26 #gemini #creatorstudio

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JoeGermuska/115854542903593114 “Clicktatorship” is a snarky and clever neologism.

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. This is our cue to provide feedback and input to the strategy! If you are involved in the Open Source community in any way, if you benefit (or could benefit) in any way from […]

A back-to-work cartoon for @newscientist.com

Happy New Year, everyone! This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@theatlantic/all-stories-jtjms0buz/-/a-w_n6bIytT_myoQmLc1UFKg%3Aa%3A3199527-%2F0 .@anneapplebaum: “[The] rising international elite is creating (…) a society in which superstition defeats reason and logic, transparency vanishes, and the nefarious actions of political […]

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/115748127452247293 We all urgently need to walk in nature, a lot.

Update. The French 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 (#cnrs) is canceling the #webofscience and encouraging its affiliates to use #OpenAlex. It cancelled #scopus last year. https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science #clarivate #elsevier #france #opensource #wos

About attempts to embed AI in higher ed curriculum: “When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write. It’s very difficult to imagine a robust market for university graduates […]

“Repeated exposure to posts expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity ‘significantly influences’ users’ feelings of polarisation and boosts sadness and anger” study published in Science finds. Also: “while there was a slight reduction in overall engagement in terms of time spent […]

I've never been so uncomfortable clicking on “Reject all cookies.” #cookies #realcookies #gdpr

RE: https://flipboard.com/@petapixel/petapixel-t8l3kt33z/-/a-JRZu73ZgSpuiDuABSCGCdg%3Aa%3A1814180069-%2F0 We've already reached a point where anything creative that didn't involve AI is seen as exquisitely refined, deliciously archaic. An extravagance.

Proposal to rethink public subsidies to private news outlets in Denmark. 8 criteria are proposed: • Clear editorial identity and responsibility (accountable editor-in-chief). • Independence from undue commercial or political influence. • Editorial resources: at least 2 FTE. • Aimed at a Danish […]

When you see Canva regrouping all of its Affinity creative apps into one, it makes you wonder what's holding back DxO to just regroup all of its photo apps into one. 🙏 #photography

Those still using Adobe creative suite are running out of excuses: Affinity launches a new version of the graphic design suite (previously Photo/Designer/Publisher) integrated into one single app. Oh, and it's free, for everyone (if you don't need AI tools integration with Canva) […]

A big shout-out to the #ARD & #ZDF family on this platform: @3sat#ard#zdfBR24 @DasWissen @ki_und_koffein @NDR @swr3 @tagesschau @ZDF @zdfmagazin

I have now reached a point where I'm sufficiently upset with big tech, and especially with Apple (because my expectations were naively so much higher), that I will prepare to convert my older Intel-based iMac to Linux. I found plenty of very well documented support to do this in confidence. I'll […]

“No one can deny that the big tech platforms have become essential, the default infrastructure of much economic activity. But being essential should not entail an unfettered power to extract wealth from everyone else. (…) Last year, Amazon charged private sellers, on average, between 50 and 60 […]

“As we transition from the internet era to the AI era, what we’re consuming is not only ever more low-value, ultra-processed information, but more information that is essentially predigested, delivered in a way that is designed to bypass important human functions, such as assessing, filtering […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JoeGermuska/115396162774047744 No Kings Bestiary.

”We can build AI that isn't centralized under the control of a handful of giant companies. (…). But instead, we end up with the worst, most anti-social approaches because the platforms that have introduced ‘AI’ to the public imagination are run by authoritarian extremists with deeply destructive […]

Online shopping is such a hot mess. Take Amazon: the price of a product I'm looking for varies by more than *25%* betw. Amazon.nl & Amazon.fr (and every shades of grey in other countries). Same product exactly, same brand and reference. It makes every […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Headlines in French news media on Sunday night: “Who are the 18 ministers of the new government?” Edited headline on Monday morning: “Who were the 18 ministers of the new government before the prime minister resigned this morning?” (Printed papers didn't have the luxury of the editing.) […]

“the central problem is that we live not so much in a time of lies as one of stupidity” writes William Davies. “The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric phenomenon.” “In a fully platform-based world […]

The approval rating of Trump among US voters has not changed for the past 6 months at about 43%. #uspolitics https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/upshot/poll-analysis-trump-times-siena.html