Top Stories Daily

The latest thought-provoking Fediverse stories

There is no better way to demonstrate how Murmel works than give you a taste of it right away. This page aggregates the most widely shared news and articles from a broad range of people across the Fediverse. You can get those in your favorite RSS reader too. Want the news and stories that matter to you personally? Sign up and enjoy a fully-tailored experience free for 30 days.
Worth reading

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

media.ccc.de · Dec 28

Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all...

Shared by @rve and 70 others.
klausi (@klausi) · Dec 29

Very inspiring #39c3 talk by @pluralistic about repealing anti-circumvention laws for software. That could boost the European economy and make European society more independent of US big tech.

But why stop there?

Let's limit copyright and patents to 5 years. Unleash a flurry of unrestricted usage of older software, media and art.

Information must be free. I think we can reach a meaningful compromise with authors, technologists and artists to balance their interests.

media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-ame

Null Hypothesis (@null_hypothesis) · Dec 29
🔁 @bananabarrier:

media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-ame

> The chatbot can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you, and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job.

Powerful and very motivating talk by @pluralistic at #39c3

John Wilker 👨🏽‍💻 (@jwilker) · Dec 29

Love to hear my friend @saurik mentioned (7:05). This is a great (no surprise) talk from @pluralistic

"A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet”

media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-ame

65dBnoise (@65dBnoise) · Dec 29

«Seize the means of computation»

Cory Doctorow, @pluralistic, brings the demand for a fairer politico-economic system into the digital era.

Conceiving it and talking about it openly are the first steps into making it happen. "Hope, is a discipline", indeed.

60' of delight, at machine gun rate:
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-ame

#DigitalPolitics #enshitification #progress #politics

NMDoerner (@cdfinder) · Dec 28
🔁 @nakal:

Ja, liebe @EUCommission und @Bundesregierung. Ihr solltet euch alle den #39c3 Vortrag von @pluralistic zu Gemüte führen:
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-ame

Wir haben Zölle und die beste Antwort darauf, ist das Free Trade Agreement zu kündigen. Das einseitige Übervorteilen mit dem "Intellectual Property" muss aufhören! Wir haben nichts davon außer großes Elend.

Show More
Hide

‘When you plant something, it dies’: Brazil’s first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country

theguardian.com · Dec 28

The Caatinga in the north-east has been transformed by the heating climate in just a generation and could become the country’s first desert

Shared by @topstories and 13 others.
Bentley (@Bentley) · Dec 28
🔁 @Snoro:

#Brazil

‘When you plant something, it dies’: Brazil’s first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country

The Caatinga in the north-east has been transformed by the heating climate in just a generation and could become the country’s first desert

theguardian.com/global-develop

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Robert Sanscartier (@Snoro) · Dec 28

#Brazil

‘When you plant something, it dies’: Brazil’s first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country

The Caatinga in the north-east has been transformed by the heating climate in just a generation and could become the country’s first desert

theguardian.com/global-develop

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Dec 29
🔁 @CelloMomOnCars:

"The Caatinga in the north-east has been transformed by the heating climate in just a generation and could become [Brazil’s] first desert"

theguardian.com/global-develop

Annother (@Avonan) · Dec 29
🔁 @hansbot:

🇧🇷 In Brazil, of all places, desertification is taking root.
Let that sink in for a minute.

There is one way to counter this.
We simply must stop burning the fossil fuels that formed eons ago and restore nature’s balance. #StopBurning
theguardian.com/global-develop

Show More
Hide

Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us | Robert Reich

theguardian.com · Dec 29

I’d like to believe that the horrific darkness of this past year is a necessary prelude to a brighter and saner future

Shared by @renewedresistance and 14 others.
Renewed Resistance (@renewedresistance) · Dec 29
🔁 @RonSupportsYou:

"I’d like to believe that the horrific darkness of this past year is a necessary prelude to a brighter and saner future":
theguardian.com/commentisfree/
Reasons to be cheerful: "Democratic candidates have won just about every special election and every mayoral and gubernatorial contest, and a remarkable number of down-ballot races in bright red states and cities. Maga is coming apart. Trump’s polls are tanking."
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #HeresToABetter2026 #HappyNewYear

Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ (@didgebaba) · Dec 29

I've read a lot by Robert Reich in the past year. He is an intelligent and compassionate man. But he intellectually avoids the forces that have made the Trump regime possible, even wanted, by millions of Americans. It isn't a case of "waking up from a bad dream". What is required to draw the last superpower back from the brink of self-immolation is a complete reset, of society, economy, culture and the body politique. This will reform the United States, but it will also mean what made it powerful in the world mid-20th century will also be lost ("when the US had the largest and fastest growing middle class in the world" - and was fighting wars and deposing governments to keep it that way). You cannot enter the same river twice. Even if it is/was the Delaware.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration) · Dec 29
🔁 @wdlindsy:

"I’d like to believe that the horrific darkness of this past year is a necessary prelude to a brighter and saner future."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #2025inreview #NewYear
/3

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Show More
Hide

The Earth Is Nearing an Environmental Tipping Point

wired.com · Dec 29

Today’s global coral bleaching events are the worst kind of climate warning.

Shared by @cdarwin and 6 others.
Felipe L. Sologuren G. (@fsologureng) · Dec 29
🔁 @Snoro:

In 2024 we emitted more greenhouse gases into our atmosphere in a single year than any year before it. The increase from 2023 was small—0.8 percent—but still, global emissions continue to rise, despite science telling us we should have bent the global emissions' curve downward by 2020

wired.com/story/the-earth-is-n

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

42GB 🪫 (@g) · Dec 29
🔁 @Snoro:

In 2024 we emitted more greenhouse gases into our atmosphere in a single year than any year before it. The increase from 2023 was small—0.8 percent—but still, global emissions continue to rise, despite science telling us we should have bent the global emissions' curve downward by 2020

wired.com/story/the-earth-is-n

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

AGF : poemproducer (@poemproducer) · Dec 29
🔁 @Snoro:

In 2024 we emitted more greenhouse gases into our atmosphere in a single year than any year before it. The increase from 2023 was small—0.8 percent—but still, global emissions continue to rise, despite science telling us we should have bent the global emissions' curve downward by 2020

wired.com/story/the-earth-is-n

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Aral Balkan (@aral) · Dec 29
🔁 @Snoro:

In 2024 we emitted more greenhouse gases into our atmosphere in a single year than any year before it. The increase from 2023 was small—0.8 percent—but still, global emissions continue to rise, despite science telling us we should have bent the global emissions' curve downward by 2020

wired.com/story/the-earth-is-n

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Show More
Hide
Worth reading

Nothing Is Ours Anymore: Is the "Rental Economy" the Most Destructive Scam in Modern American Capitalism?

hartmannreport.com · Dec 29

From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills...

Shared by @almondtree and 12 others.
👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵 (@lednaBM) · Dec 29
🔁 @ThomHartmann:

From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills...

hartmannreport.com/p/nothing-i

almondtree (@almondtree) · Dec 29
🔁 @ThomHartmann:

From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills...

hartmannreport.com/p/nothing-i

Robert M (@rob11563) · Dec 29
🔁 @ThomHartmann:

From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills...

hartmannreport.com/p/nothing-i

yuhasz01 (@yuhasz01) · Dec 29
🔁 @ThomHartmann:

From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills...

hartmannreport.com/p/nothing-i

GLC (@glc) · Dec 29
🔁 @ThomHartmann:

From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills...

hartmannreport.com/p/nothing-i

Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Dec 29
🔁 @ThomHartmann:

From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills...

hartmannreport.com/p/nothing-i

Darwin Woodka (@darwinwoodka) · Dec 29
🔁 @ThomHartmann:

From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills...

hartmannreport.com/p/nothing-i

A (@a) · Dec 29
🔁 @ThomHartmann:

From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills...

hartmannreport.com/p/nothing-i

Video Processing Wiki (@PythonLinks) · Dec 29
🔁 @ThomHartmann:

From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills...

hartmannreport.com/p/nothing-i

Show More
Hide
Worth reading

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

seangoedecke.com · Dec 28

--

Shared by @hn250 and 11 others.
Dr. Juande Santander-Vela (@juandesant) · Dec 29
🔁 @mikemcquaid:

I agree with Sean here.
The industry default seems to be “idealistic about engineering, cynical about management”.
Things work better if you’re a little cynical about both.

seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-

Nolan Lawson (@nolan) · Dec 28

"Software engineers should be a little bit cynical" by Sean Goedecke seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-

I agree with just about everything Sean Goedecke writes, but I'm also glad I don't work in big tech anymore. I was okay at playing politics but I just didn't like it.

Show More
Hide
Worth reading

Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays

aeon.co · Dec 29

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

Shared by @lkanies and 4 others.
Luke Kanies (@lkanies) · Dec 29
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

Nina Kalinina (@nina_kali_nina) · Dec 29
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

Steven Hoefer (@troublewithwords) · Dec 29
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

Anna (@mothninja) · Dec 29
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

Thomas 🔭🕹️ (@thomasfuchs) · Dec 29
🔁 @m4ra:

@thomasfuchs I really started thinking about the metaphors people use to describe the human brain after reading this article. Every era needs their own oversimplified way to describe the phenomenon of consciousness.

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

Show More
Hide

John Simpson: 'I've never seen a year as worrying as 2025'

bbc.com · Dec 29

2025 has been a year of multiple major conflicts and it is becoming clear that one of them has geopolitical implications of unparalleled importance.

Shared by @Nerde and 9 others.
Stanley Nerdlinger II (@Nerde) · Dec 29
🔁 @andrewg:

“From the European point of view, the outlook could scarcely be more gloomy.
If you thought World War Three would be a shooting-match with nuclear weapons, think again. It's much more likely to be a collection of diplomatic and military manoeuvres, which will see autocracy flourish. It could even threaten to break up the Western alliance.
And the process has already started.”
bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qp17e

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan) · Dec 29
🔁 @hkrn:

John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'
L: bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qp17e
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
posted on 2025.12.29 at 00:21:06 (c=1, p=4)

hnbot (@hnbot) · Dec 29

John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'
----
- 39 minutes ago | 7 points | 1 comments
- URL: bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qp17e
- Discussions: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
- Summary: Veteran BBC correspondent John Simpson, who has covered over 40 wars since the 1960s, says 2025 is the most frightening year he has witnessed. Three simultaneous conflicts—Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s war in Gaza and Sudan’s civil war—are occurring while the post-1945 Western security system unravels. Russia appears ready to escalate in Europe, encouraged by U.S. isolationism under President Trump, who questions NATO’s value and may abandon Ukraine. Trump claims he “solves wars,” but Gaza’s cease-fire remains fragile and Sudan’s carnage is largely ignored. Western governments fear Russian sabotage of under-sea cables and cyber-attacks; the ICC has indicted Putin for war crimes, yet he hints at further territorial demands. Meanwhile, China is quietly preparing to seize Taiwan by 2027, mindful of domestic unrest. With America turning inward and Europe reluctant to rearm, Simpson warns that 2026 could see Ukraine forced into a humiliating peace, emboldening autocrats and fracturing the Western alliance without a shot of nuclear war—yet still ushering in a de-facto World War III of diplomatic and military pressure.

Show More
Hide
Worth reading

Through the lens of history, Trump's legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece | Simon Tisdall

theguardian.com · Dec 28

Take this hopeful thought into 2026: the tyrants we endure always falter, and their ‘seismic’ upheavals are usually false dawns, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Shared by @Maker and 7 others.
Virginie (@Maker) · Dec 29
🔁 @zeldman:

“Time will show the Trump era to be less turning point, more freakish aberration—a sort of Prohibition for populists. In history’s bigger picture, Trump is a blotch, an unsightly smear on the canvas.” Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Tim Chambers (@tchambers) · Dec 29
🔁 @zeldman:

“Time will show the Trump era to be less turning point, more freakish aberration—a sort of Prohibition for populists. In history’s bigger picture, Trump is a blotch, an unsightly smear on the canvas.” Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Show More
Hide
There are no more posts at this time, but we are constantly looking for new ones.
Twitter

© 2021 IN2 Digital Innovations GmbH . All rights reserved.