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Fedi MTV.
meljoann.com · Dec 13
<p>Fedi MTV is LIVE in:</p> <!-- Display the countdown timer in an element --> <h3 id="countdown"></h3> <p>It’s late capitalism, and artists have nowhere
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
(@GhostOnTheHalfShell) ·
Dec 13
🔁 @meljoann:
Fedi MTV is coming... This Xmas! Fuck yeah.
"It’s late capitalism, and artists have nowhere to go. Where’s left? Where can people discover new, risk-taking art? ...
We need a real human place for real human video art. So, we made one."
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Desert Island games (feat. some of you!)
joelchrono.xyz · Dec 13
What is the game I'd bring to a deserted island?... what about other fellow bloggers? Well, I asked around, and here's what they said!
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Noisy Deadlines
(@noisydeadlines) ·
Dec 13
🔁 @joel:
Well, here it is, the mystery #blogpost I've been teasing!
Featuring 17 fellow #bloggers who answered a simple (not so simple for some of them) question.
What #videogame would you bring to a desert island?
Get some snacks and a drink, because this is a long one...
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Friday links: December 12, 2025
werd.io · Dec 12
In the face of government oppression, it's time to encrypt.
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Tim Chambers
(@tchambers) ·
Dec 13
🔁 @ben:
At the end of every week I gather the links I thought were notable or interesting. Here's today's list - including Trump outlawing state AI regulations, social media surveillance at the border, and ten years of Let's Encrypt. https://werd.io/friday-links-december-12-2025/
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‘A shift no country can ignore’: where global emissions stand, 10 years after the Paris climate agreement
theguardian.com · Dec 13
The watershed summit in 2015 was far from perfect, but its impact so far has been significant and measurable
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John Holmes
(@jhaue) ·
Dec 13
‘A shift no country can ignore’: where global emissions stand, 10 years after the Paris climate agreement
The watershed summit in 2015 was far from perfect, but its impact so far has been significant and measurable
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/13/a-shift-no-country-can-ignore-where-global-emissions-stand-10-years-after-the-paris-climate-agreement
Why Americans are getting shorter
theweek.com · Dec 12
Wealth inequality handed the country's citizens the short end of the stick
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peelinggecko
(@peelinggecko) ·
Dec 13
🔁 @HeavenlyPossum:
Did you know that people in the US have been getting shorter since roughly the 1980s, a solid indicator of diminished access to nutrition, and that this trend continued under the Biden administration?
https://theweek.com/health/height-in-america-shorter-public-health
Did you know that homelessness went up during his presidency?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2vwdw7zn2o.amp
Deaths of despair from overdoses and suicides, too.
https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/number-suicides-us-2022-reaches-record-level-cdc/st
Something is catastrophically broken in the US.
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AI "Companion Bots" Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
futurism.com · Dec 12
A new testimony from a remote worker in Kenya details the grueling and exploitative work behind romantic AI chatbots.
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Elyse M Grasso
(@ElyseMGrasso) ·
Dec 13
🔁 @lilithsaintcrow:
"The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companion-chatbots-kenya
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How Bi Gan pulled off the most technically impressive movie scene of the year
theverge.com · Dec 12
The director of Resurrection talks about the purpose and power of the long, unbroken tracking shot.
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
steady.page · Dec 13
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist
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Martin Vermeer FCD
(@martinvermeer) ·
Dec 13
🔁 @tzimmer_history:
Weekend reading: Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
My new piece:
https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/6fcf577b-7b04-4c7f-b8a6-39e75c6b8305
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