RE: https://hachyderm.io/@eliasulrich/116040532676981168 #ronaldolemos e a guerra entre #humanos e as #máquinas da internet: "Nossa única vantagem contra essa civilização mais avançada é a capacidade de pensar em #silêncio… O mundo em que estamos entrando inverte tudo. Precisamos exigir […]

"On social media, alarmed #discord users protested the move, doubting whether Discord could be trusted with their most sensitive information after Discord #ageverification data was recently breached. In October, hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 Discord users from a third-party service that […]

Did you know you need a #gasmask? On #teargas, and what it means when the government uses it on civilians, by @sarahjeong#gasmask#teargas"I was #teargassed by the government for the first time in July 2020 at one of the many Black Lives Matter protests that broke out all over the country. There isn’t a lot […]

#badbunny: a celebration of #latino #identity as it actually lives and breathes in #america. https://youtube.com/watch?v=G6FuWd4wNd8

Lembrei de compartilhar um artigo meu que envolve estas questões de agregar os 3 domínios (museu, arquivo e biblioteca) no ambiente digital. O texto aborda o que Floridi chamou de 'cuidadores do ambiente semântico' (stewardship of the semantic environment) — um novo protagonismo para […]

#ronaldolemos e a "floresta escura da internet" "Nas palavras de #bognakonior: "A internet é uma invasão alienígena, onde o desejo de se exibir, externalizar e se expressar nos conduz como uma força exterior." Nos livros de #liucixin, a humanidade entra em guerra com uma civilização alienígena […]

"The Convergence of Two Sins: These two events, (1) the myth of #statelessness and (2) the #immunity from legal liability, fed each other. The fantasy of a separate cyberspace provided the ideological cover for the exceptional legal treatment worldwide. Why burden these pioneers with old-world […]

#taiwan promulgou uma Lei Básica de #regulamentação da #ia#regulamentaçãoque estabelece princípios claros de governança sobre direitos humanos, transparência, justiça, responsabilidade, e pela primeira vez no mundo, destaca deveres governamentais explícitos para apoiar os trabalhadores desempregados pela IA […]

#airbnb : "Nos grupos de #moradores no WhatsApp, a conversa sobre os #hóspedes é constante. Nas reuniões de condomínio, também, junto a uma expectativa de que uma nova legislação nacional regulamente essa atividade, que hoje fica em um "limbo" legal apoiado em decisões judiciais conflitantes […]

"After #ai, my job increasingly became: prompt, wait, read output, evaluate output, decide if output is correct, decide if output is safe, decide if output matches the architecture, fix the parts that don't, re-prompt, repeat. I became a #reviewer. A #judge. A quality #inspector on an assembly […]

"The Convergence of Two Sins: These two events, (1) the myth of #statelessness and (2) the #immunity from legal liability, fed each other. The fantasy of a separate cyberspace provided the ideological cover for the exceptional legal treatment worldwide. Why burden these pioneers with old-world […]

"Here's what I think the real skill of the AI era is. It's not prompt engineering. It's not knowing which model to use. It's not having the perfect workflow. It's knowing when to stop." So relatable as I drag myself away for a bike ride. I have made years of progress in days. It is […]

Blacksky is getting local-only posts before Mastodon will. https://bsky.app/profile/rude1.blacksky.team/post/3me5kw5txns2c https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/861 #blacksky #mastodon #fediverse

Italia 1958, a futuristic car with Sputnik knockoff used by the Italian Communist Party during General Elections

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they WON'T “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. They're asking people to "Stand With Us and Tell Attorney General #PamBondi It's […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Candidato socialista vence direita radical e é eleito presidente de Portugal, indicam projeções https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/articles/cev7j28ezlno?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Notícias @not-cias-FlipboardBR

“What the Epstein files expose, though, is how the ‘anti-elites’ are themselves very much part of the elite.” https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-epstein-files-reveal-more-than-depravity-they-unmask-how-the-elite-operates

I had an interesting conversation on here recently that made me realize that maybe not everyone who uses Mastodon knows that you can use filters as a way to add content warning to other people's posts? https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/on-fediverse-content-warnings-and-filters/ #fediverse […]

#moltbook: "Uma coisa que chama atenção na #redesocial dos robôs é como a conversa deles é uma repetição de frases de efeito, comentários sem graça e um esforço quase constrangedor por autenticidade. É uma festa chata com "gente" esquisita. Se você não tem paciência para a rede social dos […]

RE: https://masdivago.cc/2025/12/06/a-web-social-como-quilombagem/ "Manter uma instância #mastodon, usar esta instância, atrair outras pessoas a fazer isso, pode ser visto por alguns como uma revolta quixotesca, sem chances de sucesso/consequências concretas. Essa visão não poderia estar mais […]

"#epstein’s messages give us a glimpse, one we were never meant to see, of a shadowy world of international espionage, deregulated finance, far-right politics, eugenicist race science, information warfare, and unfathomably intricate human trafficking networks. Epstein wanted to break the […]

#moltbook: "Uma coisa que chama atenção na #redesocial dos robôs é como a conversa deles é uma repetição de frases de efeito, comentários sem graça e um esforço quase constrangedor por autenticidade. É uma festa chata com "gente" esquisita. Se você não tem paciência para a rede social dos […]

Addictive potential of social media, explained https://med.stanford.edu/news/insights/2021/10/addictive-potential-of-social-media-explained.html Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke's book, Dopamine Nation, explains our brain chemistry's role in modern society's addiction to social media […]

Epstein ‘Co-Owned’ Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/jeffrey-epstein-and-peter-thiel-co-owned-venture-fund-as-thiels-palantir-entered-uk-government/ The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Thiel, now […]

Por que pode proteger? A cannabis pode ajudar a reduzir inflamação, melhorar a imunidade e proteger contra doenças do cérebro, que são comuns com o envelhecimento. Um ponto de atenção: Esse estudo observou pessoas que usaram cannabis há muitos anos, quando os produtos eram menos potentes. Não […]

Tomorrow I will represent @Mastodon at the EU Tech Stars Summit, organized by the European Greens at the European Parliament. I will also be part of a panel moderated by MEP @alexandrageese about user choice focused algorithms. https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/event/eu-tech-stars-summit

Do you delegate web security to security specialists or are you responsible yourself for implementing web security features and practices? The W3C SWAG CG survey asks this and other questions and we would value your input as we create Web Security documentation […]

@quillmatiq Yeah, I am familiar with the overall ATProto infra, it was really more about calling Blacksky an "app". I did get why you'd do that though, but it's also a bit confusing once you start getting into the different elements of the stack. It will definitely be interesting to see how […]

"Instagram, TikTok, são shows do Lollapalooza em que você vai ver artistas sem nem saber quem está ao seu lado. #ofediverso é uma festa no quintal com os seus amigos. Quando alguém diz que o Fediverso é igual à plataforma A, B ou C, mas melhor, está contanto uma mentira cabeluda. Não é… Não foi […]

What is in #wikidata? The answer to this question on the Wikidata:Statistics page (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Statistics) hasn't been updated for a while. This #sparql query run in #qlever provides a snapshot of the current situation (it's not […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

De onde vem o poder da #Oracle? "...a #oracle passou a auditar o código e os #algoritmos do #tiktok, garantindo que cumpram exigências de segurança nacional impostas pelos EUA. Essa colaboração público-privada permitiu que a Oracle entrasse no segmento de #mídiassociais de consumo […]

"Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don't understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code than a programmer, but that just means it's producing 10,000 times more liabilities. #code is a #liability. Code’s capabilities are #Assets. The goal of a […]

De onde vem o poder da #Oracle? "...a #oracle passou a auditar o código e os #algoritmos do #tiktok, garantindo que cumpram exigências de segurança nacional impostas pelos EUA. Essa colaboração público-privada permitiu que a Oracle entrasse no segmento de #mídiassociais de consumo […]

Chamada de trabalhos para o XV #SeminárioInternacional de #PolíticasCulturais - até 23/02/26. Podem participar mestrandos e doutorandos, mestres, doutores, gestores e docentes de instituições de ensino superior, com trabalhos que tenham as políticas culturais como eixo central. O evento propõe […]

It turns out that the information economy is just a continuous firesale of everything that made us informed in the first place, from journalism to science.

Released WordPress starter theme Air-light v10. This is a major release and includes support for core blocks, block variations and native Gutenberg blocks! Demo: https://airwptheme.com/demo Full changelog […] [Original post on mementomori.social]

"#theweb: Everything Is Shifting at Once What makes this moment disorienting to some, but also exciting, is that multiple systems are changing simultaneously. It’s not just consumption models or discovery mechanisms or economics of the internet. It’s all of them, at the same time, and they’re […]

"I want all of us to feel more comfortable in coming forward and not be threatened by this administration on this level. The more of us that do that, the less of us are individually at risk. This is a #community of brave, courageous people, and I'm just being given an opportunity to represent […]

The #fosdem talk from @haubles and myself about Mastodon’s upcoming community governance plans; our vision, mission and values; and updates to the server recommendations, is now available to watch. I was honoured to be asked to co-present this session More to come on all of these topics over […]

"Porque a educação pública era boa antigamente" Claro, afinal o estudante era o item descartável. Eram instituições que construíam a qualidade através da fabricação do fracasso escolar, expulsando da instituição todo mundo que não se encaixasse no perfil desejado pela escola. O desafio da […]

We are excited to share that we are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment for #mastodon: Default Server Recommendations. Our intent for this experiment is to recommend the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow. We will be running this […]

Starting now, we’re recruiting general purpose servers with open sign-ups. To be eligible, servers must: - Run default Mastodon (for now) - Agree to the Server Covenant - Have existed for 1+ year - Have shut-down & disaster plans 4/6

Great panel in the (packed) EU Policy dev room on Fediverse and the DSA focusing on how the Fediverse is stepping up to decentralise and democratise social media - and bringing it out of the shadow of US tech behemoths. #fosdem

Some nice themes running through the #socialweb Devroom at #fosdem: storytelling from different national and international contexts (Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Europe); new apps and ideas (badgefed, splinter, FASPs, Spritely); building infrastructure and foundational tech (Bonfire, Fedify […]

RE: https://social.opensource.org/@policy/115973439987716305 So hyped to be welcoming the amazing @alexandrageese to our #fosdem devroom! Alexandra is undoubtedly the leading MEP working on social media, she's also on the Fediverse! If you haven't already, she's definitely worth following!

Today is a great day, the #BoycottSpotify campaign starts (at least in Spain ;-)) So we decided with our family to leave spotify, for the reasons exposed here: https://social.coop/@Wtebbens/115972197635800245 It was easy as this: 1. Move all playlists to another service, we are trying Qobuz […]

Great news from @Mastodon at #fosdem: they're going to change the default server recommendation away from mastodon.social, to a geographically and linguistically appropriate instance for all new users. It'll be opt-in for server admins, too, which is great. ❤️