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Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
matduggan.com · 210 people Worth reading
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased
Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
— @Ruth_Mottram · Mar 07
It’s Not Complicated
thekeymagazine.com · 21 people Worth reading
The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.
"I left my job as managing editor of the Los Angeles Times in January 2024, not long into the genocide. That decision wasn’t explicitly about Palestine — I did not want to make a career out of layoffs and managing decline. But during those last months at the paper and in the time that followed, that terrible gap between what we could see in real time on our phones and in the tortured inversions and baseline disinformation of Western media made me feel a specific kind of shame that made it impossible to imagine returning to that kind of environment.
The Times was my first real brush with legacy media — and there I understood how “it’s complicated” journalism functions. A long-standing institution can have a set way of doing things baked into its culture, which can make so much of its day-to-day operation run on autopilot. Since October 7, I have spoken to dozens of journalists across different organizations with similar constraints. Many have told me that, especially in coverage of Palestine, questioning the calcified “both sides” approach meant risking being branded a troublemaker or an “activist,” even when their reasoning was rooted in conventional journalistic standards.
One of the clearest examples arrived early on in the genocide: after Israel’s brutal attack on al-Ahli hospital in October, killing over 471 Palestinians, the phrase “Hamas-run Health Ministry” became commonplace as a part of a successful disinformation campaign to distract from the horror of the attack by questioning the death toll’s credibility. The next month, the Associated Press, whose Stylebook sets industry standards for how the vast majority of English-language newsrooms navigate sensitive-language issues, issued guidance using that phrase, and many newsrooms followed suit."
#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #SettlerColonialism #Israel #Genocide #Media #News #Journalism #Propaganda #Newspapers #Disinformation
— @remixtures · Mar 07
Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women Who Have Received EFF Awards
eff.org · 15 people
For the last hundred years, women have had pivotal and far too often unsung roles in building and shaping the technology that we now use every day. Many have heard of Ada Lovelace’s contributions to computer programming, but far fewer know Mary Allen Wilkes, a prominent modern programmer who wr...
For International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting the contributions of just a few EFF Award recipients from the last decade, whose work to protect privacy, speech, and creativity online has had a global impact.
— @eff · Mar 07
Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Five Women In Tech That EFF Admires
eff.org · 12 people Worth reading
In honor of International Women’s Day, we asked five women at EFF about women in digital rights, freedom of expression, technology, and tech activism who have inspired us. Anna Politkovskaya Jillian York, Activist This International Women’s Day, I want to honor the memory of Anna Politkovskay...
EFF’s Director of Public Interest Technology, Babette Ngene was inspired to work in tech and human rights by Ebele Okobi.
— @eff · Mar 07
😡 I don't think most Americans have ANY idea what Donald Trump did to these unarmed Iranian sailors. It was a gross mass murder thousands of miles away from Iran.
thenorthstar.com · 29 people
Of course it was an international war crime, but the world does not currently have a single force willing to apply any of these laws. They basically function as legal theories with few consequences
I don't think most Americans have ANY idea what Donald Trump did to these unarmed Iranian sailors. It was a gross mass murder thousands of miles away from Iran.
Of course it was an international war crime, but the world does not currently have a single force willing to apply any of these laws. They basically function as legal theories with few consequences
Earlier this week the United States did something truly despicable. It’s an undeniable war crime. It’s mass murder. And ultimately is going to cause ships across the world to be open targets. This is not how the American media has reported it at all.
Thousands of miles away from Iran, an Iranian ship was invited to participate in an international boat show by India. The United States was also invited to participate and was scheduled to be there until the day before when they pulled out. The Iranian ship, which was unarmed, was there for what was basically a glorified military boat parade.
The United States knew this. None of it mattered. Without warning the United States torpedoed the ship, slaughtered the crew, which was mainly young sailors, and left the survivors there to drown. The United States then filmed and watched as Iranian sailors died and drowned. Even Nazis didn’t do this when they targeted ships.
In the end, Sri Lanka recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 survivors. Dozens more are still missing. Then America’s Secretary of Defense celebrated the sinking as “quiet death” and posted the snuff film of the ship being hit and the young sailors dying all over the Internet
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Now let’s talk about what happened at sea—because this story is not a footnote. It’s a warning.
Quiet death?
That phrase is morally rotten. What does it even mean?
Because there is nothing “quiet” about bodies floating in the Indian Ocean, about families waiting for sailors who never come home, about a country forced to pull corpses out of the water while the government that fired the torpedo performs triumph on camera
— @PabloMartini · Mar 07
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
theguardian.com · 112 people
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
— @rahmstorf · Mar 06
My Resume - Alice Averlong Wiki
wiki.averlong.com · 61 people
Hello! I'm Alice Averlong (née Foone Turing), a multidisciplinary programmer living in San Leandro, CA.
Hiya! Anyone in the SF Bay Area/Remote need a cool programmer for your team? I've been messing with computers for over 30 years now, I can program anything with bits, and I've got a lot of experience with all sorts of different systems, environments, and languages.
I've done mostly CI/CD/devops/SRE stuff recently, but I also do embedded software, some hardware, primary development, tooling, etc.My resume:
— @foone · Mar 06
The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data
zmescience.com · 49 people
The harm caused by wind turbines isn't nearly as bad as you think.
The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data
— @wendinoakland · Mar 07
Tech and the Fake Market tactic - Anil Dash
anildash.com · 8 people
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Nine years ago, predicting the rise of “self-driving news”. Now, major publishers are seeing 90+% drop-offs in traffic from search engines as LLMs generate synthesized versions of news stories instead of sending readers to read original media articles.
— @anildash · Mar 07
This iceberg was once the biggest in the world. Now it has just weeks left - BBC News
bbc.co.uk · 13 people
A23a was once twice the size of Greater London but now its 40-year journey is coming to an end.
The iceberg, known as A23a, was once the largest on Earth, covering an area more than twice the size of Greater London. Now it has just weeks left.
A23a is nearly 40 years old, ancient for an iceberg, and all icebergs eventually melt.
Climate change isn’t blamed for this specific berg’s demise, though it shapes the broader environment — warmer Southern Ocean waters, more intense summer melt, shifting currents — are all influenced by a warming planet.
— @Climatehistories · Mar 07
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