“Just as we now try to control atom-bomb fallout, so we will one day try to control media fallout. Education will become recognized as civil defense against media fallout.” — Marshall McLuhan (1964)

💥 @ghost.org 6.0 is now available and my blog bastianlab.pl already working on it thanks to @jannis.jannis.io.ap.brid.gy who created magicpages.co.

Co za paranoja.

Przypadkiem trafiłem na recenzję wideo jakiegoś produktu kupionego w Chinach. Naprawdę musimy kupować badziewia (taki wniosek z recenzji) na drugim końcu świata, bo jesteśmy tak próżni, że chwytamy się nawet takiego absurdu, żeby drapnąć kilka odsłon na YT? Serio tak źle już jest z nami?

Przejrzałem na Bluesky ok. 100 profili osób, które chciałbym obserwować. Nie publikują od kilku miesięcy. Przejrzałem profile osób, które obserwuję. Duża część nie publikuje od kilku miesięcy.

Nadeszła zmiana. www.bastianlab.pl/dlaczego-zam...

Bluesky in ‘OnlyPosts’ tab showing me posts from person who I don’t follow but who follows me. Looks like bug. Or maybe I don’t understand something in this functionality.

Two years ago someone killed Twitter and put ‘X’ on his grave.

Training the Bluesky algorithm to display content that interests me in the “Discover” tab is probably nothing short of a miracle.

I’m following 90 accounts on Bluesky. During three hours they published 16 posts. And this is not a one-off occurrence. I have the impression that activity on Bluesky is declining during last months.

"If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking." leslie lamport

my nine-year-old kid is on a 700+ day streak on Duolingo and he knows how to order both beer and wine in German, so I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that perhaps we still actually need schools.

Suzanne Bearne on BBC in article “The people refusing to use AI”: "While it’s difficult to quantify the electricity used by AI, a report by Goldman Sachs estimated that a ChatGPT query uses nearly 10 times as much electricity as a Google search query."

Excellent diagnosis.

Football is massively complex, perhaps impossible to understand, and we probably should recognise that. jonawils.substack.com/p/nobody-kno...

Meta is collecting your #WhatsApp metadata 👉 Protect your communications with these European alternatives to WhatsApp! WhatsApp shares: ✅ Your location ✅ Your device ✅ Who you're writing ✅ When you write them ✅ How often you write them ✅ Whether they reply Are you already using one of these?🔒

Yes, delegating cognitive & creative tasks to AI may affect our critical thinking & creative skills. But we're also outsourcing empathy, which may affect our social skills & wellbeing.

In the latest episode of the OII podcast, we're tackling misinformation and polarization on social media. What's the real-world impact? How are governments responding? And what about AI and deepfakes? Listen here: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/why-social-m...

Newspapers: What I want from you as a news reader, is the election results presented in a clear and informative way. What I do NOT want is clickbait headlines, emotional drama, and wild speculations. If you focus on the first part, I will subscribe. But if you focus on the 2nd, I will avoid you!

Bunch of history. www.macrumors.com/2025/02/14/a...

Paul Graham on ‘The Age of Essay': "Just as inviting people over forces you to clean up your apartment, writing something that other people will read forces you to think well." The old truth about what is so important when you write. Whether for pleasure or for profit.

What the f**k! 🤯

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Inspiring story. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

I just realized that I have been using RSS for about 20 years.

Hmm... I'm old I think. I was here earlier. 😅

Freeform is the most underrated Apple app.

Meta wants to spend $65 billion this year to expand its AI infrastructure and fight with OpenAI and Google in the race to dominate the technology. What the company wants to do? Among other things will build a more than 2-gigawatt data center. www.reuters.com/technology/m...

Article from 2017. And this graphic says more than 1000 words. Still up to date. comyan.com/2017/09/20/h...

Just a reminder in these crazy times: it is not good for you to doom-scroll on the news. Nor, for that matter, is it good for publishers, because it leads to news burnout and news avoidance. Reading the news once or twice per day is enough!

This is what we should do: reedybear.bearblog.dev/ive-been-adv... And you 🫵🏼 use RSS reader?

I wish I wasn’t right, but it seems to me that whoever abandons X in an ostentatious way (elections, #ElectionsDay etc.) and then ends up on Bluesky, they longingly write here about what is happening on X. My tip: if you’re already throwing X, throw it and don’t cry. Or don’t throw and don’t cry.

So it happened. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Substack becames a social media platform. Is it bad? I don’t know. I just say it in case you didn’t notice.

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

If someone want to compare browsers and check which is the best for privacy. privacytests.org/archive/issu...

Lary Page and Sergey Brin's in 1998 in paper, "Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine": "Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers". About "enshittification": 🔗 pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/p...

About 40% of Americans read and watch news, which suggests them Chinese algorithm. source: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

“Leaders who focus solely on AI without understanding its intersections with these two other technologies risk missing a wave of disruption already forming”. hbr.org/2025/01/why-...

It may have been a beautiful story, but the one with which it could have been written, kills the symbol and legend of this industry.

The age of Internet proves that lack of knowledge and stupidity are not synonymous.

In Fediverse the most difficult will be building strong alternative of YT.

Another social platform putting in atproto. Fediverse grows in strength.

Be careful! www.france24.com/en/live-news...

I like comparison of social media to public roads by @robin.berjon.com.

Digital war. Free people vs hypocrites.

Journalists' newsletters, or Substack vs Beehiiv. www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/beeh...

Fantastic news about future of social media. Alternatives independent of billionaires are much needed. But whether social media are usable is already up to the users, not the owners or signboards of these sites.

Conversations between bloggers. This is what I really like in blogging. Jatan asked a question: "If I was born and brought up in the time of modern social media, would I even blog?" and answered journal.jatan.space/would-you-bl.... Manu did it on his own site. Who's next? Everyone can join in!

Yes! Social media doesn’t have to belong exclusively to billionaires.