Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, medical pioneer who received the world's first experimental rat penis transplant, announced today that the social media juggernaut would stop fact checking.Matt Husser (The Hard Times)
A thoughtful piece about Ursula K. Le Guin's activism and complicated feelings, written by Julie Phillips and published on Literary Hub. I do enjoy the little glimpses into the history of my area, too.
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In the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…Literary Hub
We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Maybe in the spring. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.
▶️ Nobody Owns Our Techno-Future: dair-institute.org/blog/techno…
▶️ A Bus Model For Global, Human-Centered Education: dair-institute.org/blog/educat…
▶️ An Internet for Our Elders: dair-institute.org/blog/elders…
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The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.www.dair-institute.org
I watched #TheWarGames - in black and white!
I think it's wonderful; how the story morphs and grows as the serial progresses, how it ends its era dropping so many threads that would be picked up in #DoctorWho future by keeping things vague enough to be developed, rather than be dead ends.
Remarkably for a 10-parter it in no way drags, even the run about eps have a [sort of] point and develops that widening story.
The ending ep kills me and I love and despair at Jamie and Zoe's ending. Especially Zoe's; she grew a lot in her time and it's all gone and she knows, some part of her at the end KNOWS she's forgotten something and I hate it and love it. #DoctorWhoRewatch
This.
This. This.
This. This. This.
THIS.
Taxes not philanthropy.
Quality of jobs, not numbers of jobs.
The best 4.5 minutes on social media.
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This historian told a room full of billionaires at Davos that they need to step up and pay their fair share of taxeswww.facebook.com
Apple has big things in store for next year’s new MacBook Pro model, it could even be the biggest Mac upgrade ever. Here’s what’s coming.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
Meta seems cooked, but I’m glad we have open and federated alternatives!
Instagram -> pixelfed.org
Reels -> loops.video + vidzy.codeberg.page
Facebook -> friendi.ca + hubzilla.org
Whatsapp -> matrix.org
Spread the word!
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Capitalists hate capitalism too. Amazing read which solidifies that we are actually in a _postcapitalistic_ society now.
In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we don’t want our property values to decrease w…Locus Online
In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we don’t want our property values to decrease w…Locus Online
remove #msh3 support from #curl in six months?
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The msh3 backed for QUIC and HTTP/3 was introduced in April 2022 but has never been made to work properly. It has seen no visible traction or developer activity from the msh3 main author (or anyone...GitHub
@IzzyOnDroid has been doing an amazing job getting our repo to over 30% of apps being reproducible. Maintaining a rebuilder takes a lot of constant work. Thank you!
As I've written before:
[...] the ecosystem is constantly moving: old toolchain and dependency bugs get fixed, but new ones keep popping up. [...] Reproducible Builds are not just an item on a checklist [...] It's an ongoing process involving not just upstream app developers, but also maintainers of repositories, clients, and rebuilders; those involved in outreach and writing documentation; developers and maintainers of tooling, toolchains, and dependencies. And often requires a lot of collaborative debugging :)
See also our "Review of 2024 and Outlook for 2025: Reproducible Builds, Security Measures and more":
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#IzzyOnDroid #ReproducibleBuilds
2024 winkt zum Abschied, 2025 klopft an die Tür: Was haben wir 2024 erreicht, und was sind unsere Pläne und Hoffnungen für 2025? Werft mit uns einen Blick zurück auf die eingeführten Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, auf die Fortschritte bei Reproducible Builds …IzzyOnDroid
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Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965)
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Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few, usually free, online services and a minimal grasp of technology.OC (Openculture.com)
Meta sta terminando il suo programma di fact checking di terze parti, passando al modello Community Notes, utilizzato da siti come X.com
Ha anche aggiunto che avrebbe rimosso le restrizioni su "argomenti che fanno parte del discorso comune". Invece, avrebbe concentrato l'applicazione delle leggi su "violazioni illegali e di elevata gravità".
Infine, gli utenti saranno incoraggiati ad adottare un approccio "personalizzato" ai contenuti politici, lasciando spazio a molte più opinioni e tendenze nei feed delle persone, che si adattano a ciò che desiderano vedere.
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We're ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.Joel Kaplan, Chief Global Affairs Officer (Meta)
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We are responding to a public consultation on the European Commissions’ digitalising travel documents proposal. This proposal promises convenience in travel but could pave the way for biometric mass surveillance and automated discrimination.European Digital Rights (EDRi)
2/2 so not only does this discriminate against those not having a mobile device, or used their choice of running it "tracking free" with a custom ROM and no "store account" – it REQUIRES those using the app to have an account with a US company tracking them via their services.
Objections? Oh, you have something to hide? => stigmatized. Suspect because of valuing your privacy.
And enforcing us to give our data to an US company, outside GDPR directive. Again, violating their own laws.¹
it is important to move to a mastodon instance that does not federate with Facebook's threads.net service. it's about to get real, real ugly over there
threads.net/@zuck/post/DEhgYx4…
It's time to get back to our roots around free expression and giving people voice on our platforms. Here's what we're going to do:Threads
> the best way to defend against the trend of government overreach on censorship is with the support of the US government.
—Mark Zuckerberg
archived snapshot:
Was ist denn aktuell die go-to #Fediverse-Software für Facebook-Flüchtige, die mit dem Mastodon Interface nicht warmwerden? Firefish wurde iirc eingestellt. Was gibt's da noch? Wieder Misskey? (Frage für ein paar liebe Autoren-Kolleg:innen, die mit Mastodon nicht gut klarkommen.)
Gerne RT.
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Angehängt: 1 Bild Man muss keine Bestseller-Autorin sein oder super bekannter Influencer. Es gibt Menschen, denen gefallen unsere #Bücher, völlig egal, ob uns 50, 500, 5.000, 50.000 oder noch mehr Menschen folgen.literatur.social
How to approach accessible web interface design. Contribute to Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
We're looking for the next Fedora Project Leader. Is it you, or someone you know?
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About the job The Fedora Project Leader is accountable for the ongoing success of the Fedora Project and the health and growth of its contributor community and user base.redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
Want to know the secrets of how to run an inclusive and diverse #OpenSource and #FreeSoftware internship program?
Want to share ideas and help shape the future of @outreachy ?
Come join me and the Outreachy team for an AMA chat!
Wednesday, Jan 8:
- 6 am Pacific USA
- 9 am Eastern USA
- 14:00 UTC
- 15:00 Central Europe
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- 19:30 India
Video chat link: bbb.sfconservancy.org/b/pon-nx…
What burning questions do you have for Outreachy internship organizers?
Reply or DM to give us ideas of what to discuss!
Sie wurden zu SFC End of Year Q&A über BigBlueButton zur Teilnahme eingeladen. Um beizutreten, klicken Sie auf den obigen Link und geben Sie Ihren Namen ein.bbb.sfconservancy.org
Govee just announced their new Mini Panel lights at CES. We got some quick hands on time with these, and I was impressed!Fernando Silva (9to5Mac)
The sci-fi thriller Severance returns to Apple TV Plus with a season 2 premiere on January 17th.Andrew Webster (The Verge)
The Project Arielle mesh gaming chair features a bladeless fan system designed to keep you at a comfortable temperature regardless of what environment you’re in.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
Severance season 2 is almost here, and the first reviews say it is ‘worth the wait.‘ An official companion podcast has just launched too.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
Marcial Machado recently posted on Reddit about his “fully-featured LibreOffice Impress template for creating Jeopardy-style games.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
genuine and unironic pikashock.ico
(because i legit didn't know it could do this)
GnuPG is a superb tool though it’s a command line affair. If you’re looking for a GUI frontend, check out these tools.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
C'è qualcuno interessato a fare il tester su Google Play per due app del Fediverso?
Prima app: #RaccoonForLemmy
- Gruppo Google groups.google.com/g/raccoonfor…
- Collegamento web play.google.com/apps/testing/c…
- Link al Play Store play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Seconda app: #RaccoonForFriendica
- Gruppo Google groups.google.com/g/raccoonfor…
- Collegamento web play.google.com/apps/testing/c…
- Link al Play Store play.google.com/store/apps/det…
PS: @dieguitux8623 apprezzerà 😅
Hey guys, here’s a message from Mastodon gGmbH partner Meta from the Social Web Foundation.
Enjoy!
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#meta #mastodon #socialWebFoundation #BigTech #SiliconValley #moderation #freezePeach
Meta unveiling big changes to Threads, Instagram, and Facebook today. Zuckerberg is abandoning fact checkers in favor of an X inspired Community Notes system in a move to restore “free expression” and reduce moderation mistakesThreads
Quote from there: "Time will tell if I have to make the decision to get off the platform."
Well, if you always hop on the wrong ones, you'll have to hop and hop and hop. Might sound boring and an eternal repetition – but I cannot resist another:
"Told you so!" 🤷♂️
Techbros gonna techbro, and capitalists gonna capitalist (or fall one level deeper and become the f-word that also ends with "ist").
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TTS with kokoro and onnx runtime. Contribute to thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Sorry for sneezing so loudly.
It is just my bullshit allergy. 🤦🏻♂️
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her). • • •▶️ Closure for Families of the Missing: dair-institute.org/blog/eritre…
▶️ Decentralized, Locally-Tailored Technology: dair-institute.org/blog/decent…
Decentralized, Locally-Tailored Technology
www.dair-institute.orgTimnit Gebru (she/her).
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her). • • •DAIR Presents: Imagining Possible Futures
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