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Shared by @stephenfrancoeur and 53 others.
oldguycrusty (@oldguycrusty) · Feb 18
🔁 @anildash:

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: anildash.com/2026/02/18/threat

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva) · Feb 18
🔁 @anildash:

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: anildash.com/2026/02/18/threat

Kevin R Jones (@kevinrj) · Feb 19
🔁 @anildash:

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: anildash.com/2026/02/18/threat

Morpheus Being (@MorpheusB) · Feb 18
🔁 @anildash:

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: anildash.com/2026/02/18/threat

Katrina Katrinka :donor: (@katrinakatrinka) · Feb 18
🔁 @anildash:

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: anildash.com/2026/02/18/threat

Embrace Civil Disobedience (@PattyHanson) · Feb 18
🔁 @anildash:

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: anildash.com/2026/02/18/threat

🐕 (@jbenjamint) · Feb 18
🔁 @anildash:

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: anildash.com/2026/02/18/threat

Travis 'Nep' Smith (@nep) · Feb 19
🔁 @anildash:

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: anildash.com/2026/02/18/threat

Francisca Sinn (@fsinn) · Feb 18
🔁 @anildash:

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: anildash.com/2026/02/18/threat

Roy #EatTheRich Pardee 🇺🇸 (@rpardee) · Feb 18
🔁 @anildash:

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: anildash.com/2026/02/18/threat

Mastodon is for the people

blog.joinmastodon.org · Feb 19

How we're thinking about supporting the communities that rely on Mastodon every day.

Shared by @almondtree and 45 others.
Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Feb 19
🔁 @haubles:

Excited to share our community vision for @Mastodon today: we are for the people.

This year our focus is on ensuring everyone can have a safe and fun experience on #MastodonSocial and #MastodonOnline, and doing more to support and celebrate the diverse servers running #Mastodon, its forks, and every #Fediverse application out there.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

David Chartier (@chartier) · Feb 19
🔁 @Mastodon:

The third in our blog post series is by @haubles - sharing our work and ideas around how to grow and nurture the community, for everyone. #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

jd 🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺🚀 & 👍🇺🇦🇵🇸 (@jd) · Feb 19
🔁 @Mastodon:

The third in our blog post series is by @haubles - sharing our work and ideas around how to grow and nurture the community, for everyone. #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

Petra van Cronenburg (@NatureMC) · Feb 19
🔁 @Mastodon:

The third in our blog post series is by @haubles - sharing our work and ideas around how to grow and nurture the community, for everyone. #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration) · Feb 19
🔁 @Mastodon:

The third in our blog post series is by @haubles - sharing our work and ideas around how to grow and nurture the community, for everyone. #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 (@chris) · Feb 19
🔁 @haubles:

Excited to share our community vision for @Mastodon today: we are for the people.

This year our focus is on ensuring everyone can have a safe and fun experience on #MastodonSocial and #MastodonOnline, and doing more to support and celebrate the diverse servers running #Mastodon, its forks, and every #Fediverse application out there.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

yawnbox (@yawnbox) · Feb 19
🔁 @haubles:

Excited to share our community vision for @Mastodon today: we are for the people.

This year our focus is on ensuring everyone can have a safe and fun experience on #MastodonSocial and #MastodonOnline, and doing more to support and celebrate the diverse servers running #Mastodon, its forks, and every #Fediverse application out there.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva) · Feb 19
🔁 @Mastodon:

The third in our blog post series is by @haubles - sharing our work and ideas around how to grow and nurture the community, for everyone. #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

IFTAS (@iftas) · Feb 19
🔁 @haubles:

Excited to share our community vision for @Mastodon today: we are for the people.

This year our focus is on ensuring everyone can have a safe and fun experience on #MastodonSocial and #MastodonOnline, and doing more to support and celebrate the diverse servers running #Mastodon, its forks, and every #Fediverse application out there.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

Where Does Community Live?

connectedplaces.online · Feb 18

ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional design, and right now those institutions are being built.

Shared by @jdp23 and 19 others.
Michael Foster (@michael) · Feb 19
🔁 @fediversereport:

new from me - Where Does Community Live?

A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web

connectedplaces.online/where-d

David B. :SetouchiExplorer: (@David) · Feb 19
🔁 @fediversereport:

new from me - Where Does Community Live?

A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web

connectedplaces.online/where-d

Token Sane Person (@tokensane) · Feb 19
🔁 @fediversereport:

new from me - Where Does Community Live?

A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web

connectedplaces.online/where-d

Peter Sefton 🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@peterjsefton) · Feb 19
🔁 @stefan:

Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community outside of Bluesky.

This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.

connectedplaces.online/where-d

#SocialMedia #community #blacksky #bluesky #fediverse

Internet Rando (@mousey) · Feb 19
🔁 @stefan:

Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community outside of Bluesky.

This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.

connectedplaces.online/where-d

#SocialMedia #community #blacksky #bluesky #fediverse

Alex Chapman (@alexchapman) · Feb 18
🔁 @stefan:

Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community outside of Bluesky.

This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.

connectedplaces.online/where-d

#SocialMedia #community #blacksky #bluesky #fediverse

lashman (@lashman) · Feb 18
🔁 @stefan:

Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community outside of Bluesky.

This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.

connectedplaces.online/where-d

#SocialMedia #community #blacksky #bluesky #fediverse

Jon (@jdp23) · Feb 19
🔁 @fediversereport:

new from me - Where Does Community Live?

A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web

connectedplaces.online/where-d

Worth reading

The only taboo left is copyright infringement

garbageday.email · Feb 18

Read to the end for a magical sounding supermarket freezer aisle

Shared by @troy_s and 17 others.
Mallory Knodel (@mallory) · Feb 18
🔁 @cwebber:

Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad

Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

May Likes Toronto (@mayintoronto) · Feb 18
🔁 @cwebber:

Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad

Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

troy_s :praxis_100: (@troy_s) · Feb 19
🔁 @josemurilo:

"…a theory on #thenewcool: You have to essentially pre-#deplatform yourself.

#Culture right now is determined not by #human teams of editors & producers picking & choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the #unthinkingalgorithms that power YouTube & TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of #scarcity & #danger required to be seen as #cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms."

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

Coach Pāṇini ® (@paninid) · Feb 19
🔁 @josemurilo:

"…a theory on #thenewcool: You have to essentially pre-#deplatform yourself.

#Culture right now is determined not by #human teams of editors & producers picking & choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the #unthinkingalgorithms that power YouTube & TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of #scarcity & #danger required to be seen as #cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms."

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

Witchzilla (@msbw) · Feb 18
🔁 @cwebber:

Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad

Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva) · Feb 18
🔁 @cwebber:

Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad

Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

Carolyn (@CStamp) · Feb 18
🔁 @cwebber:

Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad

Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

dave (@dthompson) · Feb 18
🔁 @cwebber:

Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad

Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement rules

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

Sofia ☭🇧🇷☭ (@sofiav) · Feb 18
🔁 @cwebber:

Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad

Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

Chip Butty (@otfrom) · Feb 18
🔁 @cwebber:

Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad

Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome

garbageday.email/p/the-only-ta

Current is a new RSS reader that's more like a river than an inbox | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com · Feb 19

Current introduces a stress-free, totally reimagined RSS news reading app as a one-time paid download.

Shared by @thinkroot99 and 7 others.
Worth reading

They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war.

motherjones.com · Feb 17

“We are a sustainable community, but we are not a rural community.”

Shared by @rifter and 28 others.
Irene Zhang (@irene) · Feb 19
🔁 @ai6yr:

Mother Jones: They Just Wanted to Grow Food. Their Suburban Neighbors Declared War.

“We are a sustainable community, but we are not a rural community.”

motherjones.com/environment/20

#gardening #racism

Leigh Silvester (@leighms) · Feb 19
🔁 @ai6yr:

Mother Jones: They Just Wanted to Grow Food. Their Suburban Neighbors Declared War.

“We are a sustainable community, but we are not a rural community.”

motherjones.com/environment/20

#gardening #racism

Katrina Katrinka :donor: (@katrinakatrinka) · Feb 19
🔁 @ai6yr:

Mother Jones: They Just Wanted to Grow Food. Their Suburban Neighbors Declared War.

“We are a sustainable community, but we are not a rural community.”

motherjones.com/environment/20

#gardening #racism

Biggles 20X6! (@Taco_lad) · Feb 18
🔁 @CorvidCrone:

I opened this from a fedi post and then lost it ☹️

"Nguyen, a garden activist, planned to use his two-acre front yard to grow vegetables to give away. But neighbors fretted that the garden was a security issue: “I am worried about normalizing the presence of many different people in front yards during potentially all hours of the day without any kind of restrictions put on access.”"

motherjones.com/environment/20

Timo (@timo21) · Feb 19
🔁 @ai6yr:

Mother Jones: They Just Wanted to Grow Food. Their Suburban Neighbors Declared War.

“We are a sustainable community, but we are not a rural community.”

motherjones.com/environment/20

#gardening #racism

Roknrol (@roknrol) · Feb 19
🔁 @ai6yr:

Mother Jones: They Just Wanted to Grow Food. Their Suburban Neighbors Declared War.

“We are a sustainable community, but we are not a rural community.”

motherjones.com/environment/20

#gardening #racism

John :af: :60: :05: :12: :GP: (@John) · Feb 18
🔁 @ai6yr:

Mother Jones: They Just Wanted to Grow Food. Their Suburban Neighbors Declared War.

“We are a sustainable community, but we are not a rural community.”

motherjones.com/environment/20

#gardening #racism

Ron Dyck (@dyckron) · Feb 18
🔁 @ai6yr:

Mother Jones: They Just Wanted to Grow Food. Their Suburban Neighbors Declared War.

“We are a sustainable community, but we are not a rural community.”

motherjones.com/environment/20

#gardening #racism

RealGene ☣️ (@RealGene) · Feb 19
🔁 @ai6yr:

Mother Jones: They Just Wanted to Grow Food. Their Suburban Neighbors Declared War.

“We are a sustainable community, but we are not a rural community.”

motherjones.com/environment/20

#gardening #racism

Shared by @hkrn and 17 others.
Continvous Morger (@pikesley) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

Blain Smith (@blainsmith) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (@onepict) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

Shannon Prickett (@Binder) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

Aslak Raanes (@aslakr) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

Stu (@tehstu) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:​ (@mainframed767) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

Patrick H. Lauke (@patrick_h_lauke) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

AstraLuma (@astraluma) · Feb 19
🔁 @tante:

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science

theguardian.com · Feb 19

As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world

Shared by @hypebot and 13 others.
hypebot (@hypebot) · Feb 19
🔁 @davidho:

The brain drain from science in the US isn't to other countries, but from science to non-science (e.g., I know scientists driving for Uber). The one exception is that students and postdocs are choosing other countries over the US because of the lack of funding, the danger, and the uncertainty.

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲 (@cainmark) · Feb 19
🔁 @davidho:

The brain drain from science in the US isn't to other countries, but from science to non-science (e.g., I know scientists driving for Uber). The one exception is that students and postdocs are choosing other countries over the US because of the lack of funding, the danger, and the uncertainty.

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Feb 19
🔁 @davidho:

The brain drain from science in the US isn't to other countries, but from science to non-science (e.g., I know scientists driving for Uber). The one exception is that students and postdocs are choosing other countries over the US because of the lack of funding, the danger, and the uncertainty.

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

We Have Learned Nothing About Amplifying Morons

404media.co · Feb 19

“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.

Shared by @memeorandum and 13 others.
lashman (@lashman) · Feb 19
🔁 @feed:

We Have Learned Nothing About Amplifying Morons

“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.

404media.co/we-have-learned-no

Journalism & Comment Channel (@journalismandcomment) · Feb 19
🔁 @m0bi:

📰 "Nie nauczyliśmy się niczego o wzmacnianiu kretynów

Prawie dziesięć lat temu Jason i ja siedzieliśmy w ogrodzie na dachu biura VICE w Brooklynie, aby porozmawiać z Whitney Phillips, profesorką i ekspertką w dziedzinie komunikacji cyfrowej i etyki. Media, naukowcy i eksperci polityczni wciąż próbowali ogarnąć fakt, że Donald Trump wygrał swoje pierwsze wybory prezydenckie, a Phillips rozmawiała z nami na potrzeby analizy, którą pisała na temat tego, jak media w większości zawiodły w relacjonowaniu nowej, skrajnie prawicowej i niezwykle internetowej polityki, która przejęła kontrolę nad kulturą w latach poprzedzających wybory w 2016 roku.

Polityka w Stanach Zjednoczonych i na całym świecie, która w ciągu ostatnich 10 lat skręciła w kierunku skrajnej prawicy, nie jest problemem, za który można winić wyłącznie technologię, internet lub media. Jest to złożona, wieloaspektowa kwestia dotycząca wielu pokoleń, obejmująca ekonomię, geopolitykę, demografię i wiele innych dziedzin. Jednak problem, który ogólnie rzecz biorąc zidentyfikowała Phillips i od którego wzięła nazwę jej badania, dotyczył koncepcji „wzmocnienia”. "

Całość [EN]:
404media.co/we-have-learned-no

#polityka #internet #media #społeczeństwo

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