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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his WhatsApp channel…” 1/

Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil...
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 9h

Dems should be announcing plans to track everything Meta does during election and subpoena Zuckerberg the moment the gavel is theirs. Put him on notice this shit is going to come under microscope & carry consequences.

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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

CAPTCHAs are getting more difficult these days 🫪

parody of a CAPTCHA form, where the user is asked to select squares from an image of the ship of Theseus (a reference to Theseus's Paradox).

credits: unsure, i did not make this one and am unable to find it on reverse image search. it is NOT ai, as i had previously posted it back in 2022 but am resubmitting with alt text and a different caption.

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The Heart of the TARDIS @theheartofthetardis.politicalmemes.org · 08/10/2026

#meme #memes

$(N\:‘;A el Hangover & w ‘élf @PromptAlan still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept Al slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them 6:42 PM - Sep 27, 2026 - 4.3M Views O 12« |$

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Artist is Shaun Slifer. I'm glad I get to look at this print every day I'm on the office. As long as autocrats keep trying to force simple and sanitized history down our throats, this will remain a mantra. #history #histodons

Poster with tall masted shirts cruising across the ocean and a pair of mantles on the ocean floor. TEACH HISTORY FROM BELOW

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

> “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con. “I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let […]

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.

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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

"The immune system is like a memory bank. Every #vaccination or recovery from infection is a deposit that's filed away. Then when someone encounters certain pathogens in the future, the immune system remembers how to fight them off. "But #measles can wipe out that memory bank, erasing as much […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I started programming computers in 1973 and one of the very first fundamental truths I learned about software development is this: The gulf between a program that works and a program that works for other people is orders of magnitude larger than the gulf between a program that works and no […]

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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

A beautiful, angry, and important post by @anildash about how a whole generation has been brainwashed into censoring themselves. I like the actionable recommendations at the end, though I’m missing “take a big stick, and beat the billionaires to death with it.”

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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Just a quick reminder: if you’re eligible, make sure you’re registered to vote. Then, please, go out to vote this November. Democracy only works if we participate. We can’t sit this one out. Thank you.

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David O'Brien @se-davidobrien.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

“Text alternatives” is the first guideline of the first principle of WCAG 2.1. It’s literally the first thing to think about – and the reason why is pretty simple: not everyone can see images. That may be because they have a vision disability. But it could also be because the image has been […]

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is correct - personal experiences of needing social services makes people, including policymakers, more opposed to imposing administrative burdens (which is how they are breaking SNAP and Medicaid) academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

• When a policymaker has personal, firsthand experience navigating a welfare system or public service, their tolerance for administrative burden significantly drops. © Oxford Academic
• Conversely, policymakers without personal experience are much more likely to tolerate or actively support high administrative burdens, often driven by political ideology or a perception that the target population is "undeserving".
Syddansk Uni...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Democracy in America: "This Monday, House Republicans held a hearing focused on creating a closed-door commission to cut Social Security and Medicare. The hearing was for an audience of one: billionaire donor Harlan Crow."

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Amelia L. @amelialiarakos.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

For all the Game Changer fans, the internet delivers in less than 24 hours. ❤️ youtu.be/4lMJ2Epxrxs?is=dSEeBbXNC6d… #dropoutTV #gamechanger

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Amelia L. @amelialiarakos.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I just had a lovely, positive experience with my state government. Instead of being punitive, reactive compliance hawks, the state reached out to me proactively to make sure I had a needed license before an event. They made me aware of and handled everything over email over the course of one […]

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

💕 Hundreds of supporters of the John F. #KennedyCenter for the #PerformingArts gathered Friday as the sun set over the Potomac, surrounded as much of the building as they could, linked arms & chanted, “Hands off! Hands off!” For the first time in what felt to them like ages, their beloved #arts […]

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Let me make it clear: without people at the top of their game sharing their experience and knowledge—regardless of whatever ‘game changing’ technology is in place—we are pulling up the ladders and committing our industry to stagnation and death.” bell.bz/youll-miss-p...

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You’ll miss publishers when they’re gone

Ever since Piccalilli started to get traction, I’ve always seen CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine and A List Apart (among others) as peers. We all help each other behind the scenes and importantly, back…

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Amelia L. @amelialiarakos.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

ICE was in my town last week and brave, local activists stood up to them to protect our community while the police just stood by and watched. Not surprisingly, some of the protestors were beaten and injured. There is a fundraiser to support them in their recovery. Any additional money raised […]

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Amelia L. @amelialiarakos.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

One thing that working in UX has taught me about myself is that I enjoy organizing and categorizing things. It just makes my brain happy. In other news, I bought Librarian on Steam yesterday evening on a whim and I've already sunk 8 hours into it. I've shelved over 800 books so far. Pretty sure […]

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Amelia L. @amelialiarakos.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Watching #WidowsBay and we are Team Patricia all the way. You get 'em gurl.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lewandowski soliciting bribes from foreign governments comes on top of reports than he solicited bribes from DHS contractors open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Noem's alleged boyfriend/aide Corey Lewandowski was also aggressively shaking down DHS contractors while nominally serving in government as an unpaid appointee. Contractors offered him a retainer, but he declined, wanting a bigger taste. Then he told DHS officials to stop providing them contracts, and their contract success did indeed decline in the following months. Marketing firms were told they were guaranteed a contract, but they just needed to hire a consulting firm who could serve as a pass-through to paying Lewandowski. The consulting firm would get half or more of the contract.

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Sean C. @filmfreak75.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Facebook is where you realize, you don’t like the people you know. Mastodon is where you start liking people, you have never met. —Randahl Fink #InterestingWords

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@randahl/1171408348… Surely nobody wants this. There are no ads. I thought society wanted new advertising banners in every possibly spot.

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Amelia L. @amelialiarakos.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Just solved a stupid configuration error that was keeping me from getting Yamtrack set up. Troubleshooting when you know just enough to do this is super frustrating but boy is the pay-off sweet when you figure it out. Another self-hosted app added to my roster. 🤩

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/08/2026

When Elon took over Twitter he told investors he'd triple ad revenue within 5 years. It's now been almost four years... and he's wiped out 2/3rds of the ad revenue (basically revealed in footnotes to SpaceX's earnings).

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

A lot of tech is complicated by good and bad uses. Single use plastic, for example, is mostly unnecessary. But (to name just one) there are medical settings where it helps save lives by keeping things sterile. Even though we need to drastically reduce them, if we suddenly banned 100% of single […]

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The standard rule of administrative burdens: if you increase the time tax for doing something, you make it less likely that people will do it. That is what the Trump administration is trying to do with vaccines.

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Amelia L. @amelialiarakos.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

I've been slowly ripping out Big Tech from my life. I hadn't found a replacement for Google Sheets and Airtable. I started toying with #selfhosting recently. On a whim I looked up #FOSS alternatives to AT. I was pleasantly surprised to find a couple—Grist and Baserow. I tried Baserow and while I […]

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Vaccines are about freedom.

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Meta/Facebook/Instagram/etc makes a deal with Newsmax to use the latter's right-wing spewings as AI training data, thereby ensuring that anyone looking for even remotely accurate output from the Ai is on a fool's errand […]

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@npr/arts-life-qpd26j… Justice system too focused on ‘guilty and innocent,’ say the guilty.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@mwichary/116952836… The best time to drop Chrome was months ago. The second best time is now.

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Amelia L. @amelialiarakos.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

RE: toot.wales/@Walrus/1169364588519161… Good lord wtf. I am already salty that they couldn't hire a Greek actor for any of the roles. Now we're just jamming Cyrillic letters together because they look like they spell Odyssey with the Latin alphabet. 😮‍💨

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

It has been 30 years and I am still not on board with terminal UIs. GUIs are better. I don't know why we are as a profession allowing ourselves to regress.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 15/07/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@electrek/116920976… > The person who called fossil fuels “the dumbest experiment in history” chose the dirtiest, fastest option the moment it was his AI ambitions on the line — and he’s parking the emissions in low-income, majority-Black neighborhoods while […]

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

RE: ohai.social/@redsad/116885481148099… Because that is, in fact, Mitch McConnell.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The famous "Wedges" paper was used repeatedly to shut us up when we argued against the continued use of fossil fuels, and, esp, against carbon capture and storage and the mass use of bioenergy. "But these eminent scientists say ..." Now we learn BP co-authored it. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...

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How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy

BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.

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Amelia L. @amelialiarakos.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Does anyone else have days where the identify-this-object captchas just can't tell you're human and you have to do like 10 in a row before it logs you in? Am I just too good at selecting bikes and buses now?

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OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

To be shared with friends and loved ones: 1/5

On my socials, all I want is to live my best life and share it with my friends.

Character says: "Phone eats first" while taking a picture of the food on the table.

But shomehow, that's taken to mean I'm okay with my every move being tracked and turned into data.

How do I exist without selling myself to Big Tech?

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

"Marketers chose the slogan after consulting an AI tool, looking for suggestions... It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the marketing material." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/…

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

*Since October, his net worth has doubled *His net worth is now equivalent to more than 3%, 5 million times that of a typical family *Households in the top 10% of income hold less than .001% of Musk's net work

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to […]

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Zelda @zelda.zone · 19/05/2026

The maddening thing about current Gender Discourse is that motherfuckers really will say "There's a male loneliness crisis" while listening to podcasters who tell you to treat all women as objects and all men as rivals. You've just eliminated roughly 100% of the human population from the […]

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Amelia L. @amelialiarakos.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Thank Zeus for Dropout and Game Changer in these trying times. #dropouttv #GameChanger

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